What would your workplace be like if you had a management team that felt confident in their skills, connected to their colleagues and clear in their decision-making and communication?

From September 2019 to June 2021, real@work, comprised of Angie Shirey and Christy Stuber, coached 46 directors, managers and supervisors at the Center for Community Resources and Alliance for Nonprofit Resources in a hybrid training/coaching model designed to help these levels of leadership to develop self-awareness.  The program was designed with mental health and social work at its core resulting in participants reporting tangible improvement in emotional regulation, skills to move from reactivity to a more functional responsiveness and an overall improvement in organizational communication.

This workshop will highlight the importance of self-awareness in organizational leadership, demonstrate how leaders can learn self-awareness and the benefits of these new skills to the organizations as a whole, especially in post-covid times. 

Key takeaways include:

1. Self-awareness is a key component of emotional intelligence and is a skill that anyone can learn.  Attendees will walk away with 2 new tools they can immediately start using in their workplace.
2. Providing a combination of self-awareness training and coaching helps leaders increase confidence, improve communication skills, autonomy and relationships at all levels.
3. Psychological safety, created through self-aware leadership, is needed even more in the post-pandemic workplace when people are feeling more socially isolated and sensitive to health concerns for themselves and their communities. This self-awareness is also negatively related to burnout and positively related to job satisfaction. 

This session is appropriate for nonprofit professionals of all skill levels that work for organizations of all sizes. Track: Operations