Management Tradecraft Workshops
Help your members hone their management skills with our interactive series of workshops.
It's easy as 1 -2 -3:
1) Choose the time: What day works best for your members? Do they prefer a half- or full-day?
2) Pick workshops: 1-2 workshop topics for a half-day, or 3-4 workshop topics for a full day
** Add a 60-minute brown-bag luncheon to cultivate additional skills **
3) Schedule your session: Contact us today to set up your training
All sessions are facilitated by industry and practice experts.
Each workshop topic is offered in various lengths: 60 minutes, 90-120 minutes, or 3-4 hours
Workshops are interactive with discussion questions, exercises, and case studies
Additional topics are available upon request
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Building the Right Team
Explore best practices in designing an effective hiring process. Better understand the financial, operational, and performance impacts of poor hiring decisions.
Fostering Cohesion, Collaboration & Performance
Identify different elements and barriers of team cohesion and collaboration and their impact on the way teams accomplish their goals.
Strengthening Interpersonal Communication
Recognize and practice components of effective supervisory communication. Explore conflict management styles and when each style is more appropriate.
Leading During Challenge
Compare various organizational challenges and aspects of organizational learning. Propose processes for developing growth mindsets in today's organizations. Learn leadership techniques to manage change.
Strategic Planning for your People
Explore the purpose of succession planning at all levels of the organization. Introduce a succession planning model to implement in organizations.
Overcoming Quiet Quitting
Assess your organization’s talent and experience. Understand the steps in the employee continuum. Learn how to build your internal and external talent pipelines.
Meet our Workshop Facilitators:
Charity Boyette
TSP Co-Founder and COO, Charity has over two decades of experience in managing teams and programs, with a particular focus in team leadership, engagement, and development. She currently is a student at Virginia Tech, pursuing a Ph.D. in Public Administration. From 2009-2018, she was a management-focused Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State. Outside of her federal service, Charity worked in leadership development, operations, and finance in the U.S. defense industry, and as an administrator in strategic management at Virginia Tech.
Charity holds an MBA, with a focus in strategic development, from the Mason School of Business at the College of William & Mary and a bachelor’s in business administration from Averett University.
Kimberly Carlson
TSP Co-Founder and CEO, Kimberly has over 20 years of experience in managing nonprofit organizations and helping leaders develop their leadership competencies. She currently is the Director of Programs for the Principal Partnerships Office in Virginia Tech Advancement. She is also an Associate Professor of Practice in Management at Virginia Tech. Her research and teaching experiences include leadership, organizational and workforce development, and succession planning.
Kimberly earned a B.S. in psychology and a B.A. in theatre from Virginia Tech; an MSW in clinical social work from Florida State University; and a Ph.D. in policy and public administration with a focus on organizational leadership from Virginia Tech.
Jennifer Havens
Jennifer Havens is an accomplished entrepreneur, intrapreneur, thought partner, and trailblazer with a career spanning healthcare, biotech, manufacturing, and tech startups. She founded and led two businesses of her own, in addition to starting departmental functions within organizations.
Jennifer is a tenured Executive Coach, a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and Mentor Coach through the International Coaching Federation, and an expert in leadership development, strategy development and execution, and business consulting. She is also a Certified Return on Investment Professional, Six Sigma Greenbelt, and Professional Behaviors Analyst.
