Teambuilding Workshops

According to MSCEIT, emotions are informational data that is constantly collected. This workshop explores why collecting the correct data is important and factors that influence the ‘collection process’.

This workshop is ideal for all Kent State faculty and staff. 

Through Emotional Intelligence - Identify, you will:

• Discover factors that allow or prevent the emotional data collection
• Explore and identify characteristics of the six basic emotions
• Define your ability to accurately read and express emotions

Now that you can link emotions to thinking, what do I do with it? Enrich your understanding of emotions by examining the root causes of emotions, predicting emotional chains and blends, and describing accurately the subtle differences between emotions. 

This workshop is ideal for all Kent State faculty and staff.

Through Emotional Intelligence - Understand, you will:

• Describe what you feel by increasing your emotional vocabulary
• Tackle a self-awareness method to determine the root cause of specific emotions in you
• Forecast what emotion and/or event produces what type of emotional outcome
• Explore how emotions transition from one state to another

Understanding personal listening approaches is essential to productive communication. Good communication skills in the workplace are one of the most important factors leading to successful teams, groups and organizations. Effective listening skills are crucial to communicating productively both inside and outside the organization. This workshop will help you become an active, purposeful listener in a wide variety of situations for more powerful communication. Learners will complete an online self-evaluation to learn about their preferred listening style and receive feedback on strengths and opportunities for improvement.

This workshop is ideal for all Kent State faculty and staff.

As a result of Listening with Purpose, you will:

• Explore factors that influence our listening abilities
• Learn the five approaches to listening
• Practice recognizing and using effective approaches for different listening situations
• Discover your own listening approaches
• Create action plan to help apply listening skills

This workshop utilizes the popular and proven DiSC methodology for understanding human behavior. Based on the work of behavior psychologist William Moulton Marston, DiSC has shown tremendous success in improving communication skills and directly improving the employee/supervisor relationship. Learners will complete an online assessment before the first workshop. DiSC results are reviewed during the classroom session. Discussion includes a general overview of DiSC management styles and their impact in the workplace.

This workshop is ideal for managers and experienced supervisors.

We face change on a daily basis, whether at work or home. It can be one of the most difficult situations to handle, especially if we resist the change. This workshop provides an assessment and model that addresses concerns learners have while moving through the four phases (denial, resistance, exploration and commitment) of change. Learners will explore the four phases of change, pinpoint their current stage in the transition process and develop an action plan for managing change transitions.

This workshop is ideal for managers and experienced supervisors.

This workshop is by appointment and is intended for intact work teams. Kent State University relies more and more on teams to innovate, problem solve, and continuously improve performance. Understanding and capitalizing on individual strengths and approaches to group processes is crucial to creating high performance teams. Participants complete an online self-assessment to learn to work from their strengths by identifying their most natural team role, while giving them added appreciation for the contributions of others. As a result, team innovation and productivity increase as conflict and project-cycle time decrease. Participants will receive a customized report on their strengths and opportunities and an aggregate group report indicating overall team strengths and team opportunities for improvement. Contact Training and Development for further information at 330-672-2100 or hrd@kent.edu