Time to Lead: Employee Engagement Strategies 

A Half day Management Development Workshop at Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center, 2-18-2011

                                                     Presented by Michael H. Cohen

8:30 am to 8:45 am::

Brief  Summary of Previous Workshop on Accountability Strategies

 Objectives: Participants will be able to:

Explain how you can be a demanding manager and remain a decent human being.

Share  how they applied accountability principles  since last program

Content:

 Develop Stand Fors and passionately communicate them

Convert Stand Fors into standards

Model the behaviors expected of employees

Confront and when necessary discipline in an ethical/legal manner

Instructor:

Michael H. Cohen

Methodology:

Lecture

Q/A

8:45 to 10:30 am: How to establish personal/professional credibility as precondition for successful employee engagement

Objectives: Participants will be able to:

Explain how to establish leadership credibility

Examine their own leadership practices

Make commitment for positive change

Content:

Presentation of Logos, Pathos and Ethos as modes of influence

Provide list of credible leadership characteristics

Managers assess themselves relative to best leadership characteristics

Participants examine their priorities

Instructor:

Michael H. Cohen

Methodology:

Lecture and Group Discussion

10:30 to 10:45 am: Break

10:45 to noon: Empathy Exercise

Objectives: Participants will be able to:

Negotiate expectations with another manager:

Advance commitments for positive change

Appreciate the power of Empathy

Content:

Explanation of Empathy and role negotiation

Facilitate an exercise which calls for immediate application of principles

Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Care Center Clinical Education Department is an approved provider of continuing education by the Illinois Nurses Association, and accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. This program has received no commercial support.