Category: Career Development

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Kepro-WI is excited to invite you to participate in our upcoming session on Creating a Great Place to Work in Ten Easy Steps delivered by subject matter expert, Diane Pulleyblank, a sought-after professional with years of experience in this topic. Diane Pulleyblank will give you the opportunity to engage directly with all of your questions and comments will be responded to in a manner which is appropriate for this session. We are excited to bring you this session and are confident that you will find it well worth your time.

Session Description:
This seminar will teach participants a vision of the ten steps needed to create a great place to work, because who doesn’t want to come to work every day and love where they are and what they do? Participants will come out of this class with a clear vision of not only what a healthy work environment looks like but also how to create it in their workplace. This will be a step-by-step process. To make it work, an investment must be made by each and every person.

Topic: Creating a Great Place to Work in Ten Easy Steps
Client: State of WI – UW Green Bay
Date/Time: 11/9/2022 10:00 AM, America/Chicago
ID: KEPRO100406

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Audio conference:
United States Toll: +1-408-418-9388
Access Code: 26344557308

Password: WETfd652rXM

Meet your Facilitator: Diane Pulleyblank

Diane has been actively working in the health and wellness industry for over 25 years. For 10 years she was General Manager of a large multi-sport health club, (10,000 members, 170,000 square feet, 300 staff) and was responsible for all aspects of running and managing a successful multi-million dollar business. She was an Associate Professor at Barnard College as well as a continuing education provider for the American Council on Exercise.

Diane has presented a multitude of webinars, seminars and workshops on a wide variety of health, wellness and managerial development topics, a few of which are Resilience, Stress Management, Creating a Healthy Workplace, Managing Difficult People, Coping with Organizational Change, Conquering Fear and Anxiety, Healthy Aging and How to Talk to Your Physician. Her multi-day workshops include Leadership: Mentoring and Coaching, Senior Fitness, and Exercise Analysis and Design.

She is the author of the YMCA Canada Walking Program and is a contributing author to the Journal of Alternative Cancer Care. Diane also developed and implemented a cancer wellness program for a major hospital.  Currently, she is the owner of a company providing wellness consulting, coaching and leadership training to employees, managers and executives. Her love of life and commitment to helping make the world a better place shines through in her trainings.

Get inspired and start learning today! Here are a few courses that will help you hone essential skills to navigate through uncertainty, improve your relationships, communicate effectively, and create positive change.

NAVIGATE THROUGH UNCERTAINTY

• Building Resilience
• Embracing Unexpected Change
• How to be Adaptable

IMPROVE YOUR RELATIONSHIPS

• Developing Your Emotional Intelligence
• Why Trust Matters
• Teamwork Foundations
• Effective Listening 

COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY

• Communication Foundations
• Persuading Others
• Writing in Plain Language

CREATE POSITIVE CHANGE

• Critical thinking for Better Judgement and Decision-Making
• Banish Your Inner Critic to Unleash Creativity 

We encourage you to watch at least one training from every category by the end of the month. Happy learning!

Are you a new supervisor? Perhaps you are an experienced supervisor looking to better hone your skills. As a leader, you are a crucial part of the employee experience and have the power to influence and help develop others to achieve their highest potential. Check out these LinkedIn Learning courses that aim to help you navigate new and important topics while growing your leadership skillset.

All employees have access to over 16,000 courses with LinkedIn Learning available on your schedule, anytime, anywhere.

The Division of Continuing Education and Community Engagement is pleased to offer the Supervisory Leadership Certificate Program to any UW-Green Bay supervisor who is seeking professional development. The next cohort for this program begins on September 8, 2022!

Build your leadership skills, fulfill your potential and enhance the capabilities of your department with a program designed to advance careers. Supervisors can complete this program with only $299 in expenses for materials and other items charged to their departmental funds. Supervisors are encouraged to discuss the cost with Division Heads/Area Leaders if funding is a barrier to participation. There is no limit to the amount of supervisors who are able to enroll.

To earn the UW-Green Bay Supervisory Leadership Certificate participants must complete eight courses:

Sept 8 – Core Course: Understanding Your Strengths and the Strengths of Others (8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.)

Sept 30 – Topic Course: Developing an Adaptive Leadership Mindset

Oct 13 – Topic Course: Helping Your Team Achieve Organizational Management 

Nov 3 – Topic Course: The Roadmap to High Performing Teams 

Nov 17 – Conflict Resolution Rather than Toxic Drama

Dec 1 – Capstone Course:  Developing an Action Plan

Classes will be held on Zoom from 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM unless otherwise noted.

Full course descriptions can be found at this link: https://www.uwgb.edu/certificate-programs/supervisory-leadership/

If you have questions about the Supervisory Leadership Certificate Program or would like to enroll, please contact Christopher Ledvina at ledvinch@uwgb.edu or (920) 465-2164.

Please visit the Supervisor Toolkit for more information regarding professional development opportunities for supervisors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

LinkedIn Learning August Challenge: Upskill to Advance Your Career

Identify and prioritize the skills that’ll take your career to the next level.

This month, we invite you to participate in LinkedIn Learning’s August Challenge which is self paced.

Challenge yourself to participate every day – each one takes ~5 minutes or less. To keep yourself on track, try keeping a journal or print the calendar and initial each day when you’ve completed it. Happy learning!

Follow these steps to participate:

• Print or save the LinkedIn Learning August 2022 Challenge
• Complete each day’s short LIL learning (~5 mins or less)
• Initial each day’s box once you’ve watched the daily video
• Share your biggest takeaway to hr@uwgb.edu by August 31, 2022

LinkedIn Learning July Challenge: Masters of Change

If there’s one thing you can always rely on, it’s change. From your personal and professional life, to broader changes to the world at large, dealing with change can be challenging even in the best of times. The good news? We can control how we deal with change by learning how to put it in proper context, create perspective, and ultimately become more resilient.

This month, we invite you to participate in LinkedIn Learning’s July Challenge, kicking off July 12th.

Challenge yourself to participate every day – each one takes ~5 minutes or less. To keep yourself on track, try keeping a journal or print the calendar and initial each day when you’ve completed it. Happy learning!

Follow these steps to participate:

• Print or save the Linkedin Learning July 2022 Challenge
• Complete each day’s short LIL learning (~5 mins or less)
• Initial each day’s box once you’ve watched the daily video
• Share your biggest takeaway to hr@uwgb.edu by August 1, 2022

 

 

 

Save the Date!

Kepro-WI is excited to invite you to participate on May 18 at 10:00 a.m. in our upcoming session on EQ Making It Work for You delivered by subject matter expert, Dena Moscola, a sought-after professional with years of experience in this topic. Dena Moscola will give you the opportunity to engage directly with all of your questions and comments will be responded to in a manner which is appropriate for this session. We are excited to bring you this session and are confident that you will find it well worth your time.

Session Description:
This seminar is meant to follow the Emotional Intelligence course (being held on the same date at 9:00 a.m.), although that is not a pre- requisite. This is an in-depth class focusing on what an emotion is and how understanding our emotions can help make or break situations. It’s an interactive tool- based seminar that dives deeper into the amazing world of emotional intelligence.

Topic: EQ Making It Work for You
Client: (State of WI) University of WI – Green Bay
Date/Time: 5/18/2022 10:00 AM, America/Chicago
ID: KEPRO100257

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Audio conference:
United States Toll: +1-408-418-9388
Access Code: 26344103535

Password: 1b8u2aT6xY7

Meet your Facilitator: Dena Moscola

With a passion to help, Dena spent her early career in human services. Rising quickly to management, she helped adults with special needs reach higher potentials professionally. This provided her with direct experience in multiple industries as she assisted leaders and teams in working with a variety of personalities and styles.

In 1997, Dena expanded her services to both private and public sectors. She successfully blends a diverse background from multi-industry leadership experience plus strong personal development, resulting in accelerated long lasting habit change.  Dena services are customized to include strategic planning/implementation; communication; team building; prioritization; conflict resolution; employee engagement; succession training; change management; influence; empowerment; performance management; work/life balance and more.  Today, Dena works with leaders and teams who are ready to get better results.  She also provides content creation and leadership train-the-trainer programs.  Her approach is a partnership that is flexible and centered around her clients’ agendas. Results driven, her passion is fueled daily as she witnesses the transformations in people that started with an enthusiastic seed of desire to be better.

Dena has been coaching and training for >30 years and is a published author of books, articles and audio programs. Her unique style is due to her professional leadership experience combined with a diverse background in personal development. This brings her clients a special balance of fresh proven approaches to everyday challenges at work. Her dynamic and engaging nature combined with a vibrant energy and genuine love for life, brings a refreshing delivery of strategic solutions to strengthen leadership in any organization.  Dena is often called upon for Keynote events.

Community Service Interests:

• Founding partner of MD2: A business networking group raising money for local charities
• Volunteer for Salvation Army and Anthony Robbins Research
• Supporter of National MS Society, ALS Foundation, Big Brothers/Big Sisters
• Leadership Morris Alumni Council Member

 Credentials

• Graduate and facilitator for the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (IPEC) 300-hour professional coaching certification programs, credentialed by the ICF (International Coaching Federation)
• Former Director of Corporate Services for IPEC
• Certified Employment Training Specialist by The University at California at San Francisco
• Certified Emotional Intelligence 360 Assessment Facilitator by Swinburne University, Australia
• Train-the-Trainer accreditation for the Genos Emotional Intelligence Development Program by Swinburne University, Australia
• Certified Performance Enhancement Specialist by The National Federation of NeuroLinguistic Psychology (NLP), Florida
• Advanced Mind Reconditioning Practitioner by The Institute for Advanced Neuro-Research & Education

• Certified Corporate Stress Management Consultant
  • International Association for Counselors & Therapist Association, Florida
• Certified Integrated Hypnotherapist
  • International Association for Counselors & Therapist Association, Florida
• Certified Diabetes Motivational Coach by Diabetes Research Association of America,  Minneapolis
• Graduate Leadership Morris
• Continuing student with Tony Robbins on Leadership Mastery and Personal Excellence

 

 

Save the Date!

Kepro-WI is excited to invite you to participate on May 18th at 9:00 a.m. in our upcoming session on Emotional Intelligence delivered by subject matter expert, Dena Moscola, a sought-after professional with years of experience in this topic. Dena Moscola will give you the opportunity to engage directly with all of your questions and comments will be responded to in a manner which is appropriate for this session. We are excited to bring you this session and are confident that you will find it well worth your time. Immediately following this session (at 10:00 a.m.), you are encouraged to participate in the complementary course: EQ Making it Work for You.

Session Description:
Many of us know that getting along with others is the key to success. Our ability to “play nicely in the sandbox” is fundamental to both our career and our health. We will discuss what an emotion is, why you are having it and understand how our feelings can affect our moods in our daily life and the people that surround us.

Topic: Emotional Intelligence
Client: (State of WI) University of WI – Green Bay
Date/Time: 5/18/2022 9:00 AM, America/Chicago
ID: KEPRO100256

Click here to register and attend

Audio conference:
United States Toll: +1-408-418-9388
Access Code: 26341333728

Password: XXR8XcVU9b2

Meet your Facilitator: Dena Moscola

With a passion to help, Dena spent her early career in human services. Rising quickly to management, she helped adults with special needs reach higher potentials professionally. This provided her with direct experience in multiple industries as she assisted leaders and teams in working with a variety of personalities and styles.

In 1997, Dena expanded her services to both private and public sectors. She successfully blends a diverse background from multi-industry leadership experience plus strong personal development, resulting in accelerated long lasting habit change.  Dena services are customized to include strategic planning/implementation; communication; team building; prioritization; conflict resolution; employee engagement; succession training; change management; influence; empowerment; performance management; work/life balance and more.  Today, Dena works with leaders and teams who are ready to get better results.  She also provides content creation and leadership train-the-trainer programs.  Her approach is a partnership that is flexible and centered around her clients’ agendas. Results driven, her passion is fueled daily as she witnesses the transformations in people that started with an enthusiastic seed of desire to be better.

Dena has been coaching and training for >30 years and is a published author of books, articles and audio programs. Her unique style is due to her professional leadership experience combined with a diverse background in personal development. This brings her clients a special balance of fresh proven approaches to everyday challenges at work. Her dynamic and engaging nature combined with a vibrant energy and genuine love for life, brings a refreshing delivery of strategic solutions to strengthen leadership in any organization.  Dena is often called upon for Keynote events.

Community Service Interests:

• Founding partner of MD2: A business networking group raising money for local charities
• Volunteer for Salvation Army and Anthony Robbins Research
• Supporter of National MS Society, ALS Foundation, Big Brothers/Big Sisters
• Leadership Morris Alumni Council Member

 Credentials

• Graduate and facilitator for the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (IPEC) 300-hour professional coaching certification programs, credentialed by the ICF (International Coaching Federation)
• Former Director of Corporate Services for IPEC
• Certified Employment Training Specialist by The University at California at San Francisco
• Certified Emotional Intelligence 360 Assessment Facilitator by Swinburne University, Australia
• Train-the-Trainer accreditation for the Genos Emotional Intelligence Development Program by Swinburne University, Australia
• Certified Performance Enhancement Specialist by The National Federation of NeuroLinguistic Psychology (NLP), Florida
• Advanced Mind Reconditioning Practitioner by The Institute for Advanced Neuro-Research & Education

• Certified Corporate Stress Management Consultant
  • International Association for Counselors & Therapist Association, Florida
• Certified Integrated Hypnotherapist
  • International Association for Counselors & Therapist Association, Florida
• Certified Diabetes Motivational Coach by Diabetes Research Association of America,  Minneapolis
• Graduate Leadership Morris
• Continuing student with Tony Robbins on Leadership Mastery and Personal Excellence

 

 

Save the Date!

Kepro-WI is excited to invite you to participate in our upcoming session on Creating Positive Work Environments delivered by subject matter expert, Theresa Francois, a sought-after professional with years of experience in this topic. Theresa Francois will give you the opportunity to engage directly with all of your questions and comments will be responded to in a manner which is appropriate for this session. We are excited to bring you this session and are confident that you will find it well worth your time.

Session Description:
Topics covered in this seminar will be building trust, creating positive communication, setting expectations and needs, creative ideas for recognition and rewards, building teamwork, finding meaning in your work, and accepting responsibility and humor in the workplace. All of these areas help foster a positive work environment.

Topic: Creating Positive Work Environments
Client: (State of WI) University of WI – Green Bay
Date/Time: 4/13/2022 10:00 AM, America/Chicago
ID: KEPRO100224

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Audio conference:
United States Toll: +1-408-418-9388
Access Code: 2631 171 5634

Password: q15ta7Q25BJ

Meet Your Facilitator:

Theresa Francois is an innovative and versatile speaker. She uses her background as an educator and entertainer to bring interactive and inspiring trainings to her audiences.

Using humor, audience participation and real-life anecdotes Theresa facilitates trainings on stress management, goal setting, parenting, caring for the caregiver, sexual harassment prevention, the sandwich generation, suicide prevention, drug use prevention and many other topics.

Theresa has a Bachelor’s degree in psychology and a Master’s degree in elementary and special education. She also holds 2 permanent NYS teaching licenses in Nusery-6 grade and Special Education and a School Administrator’s license. Theresa holds certificates in Mental Health First Aid for children and adults, Substance Abuse Prevention and Opioid Overdose and Brain Injury.

Some of the agencies Theresa has provided trainings for include several Fortune 500 companies as well as St. John’s University, Hofstra University, and NYU Langone.