Session 1: Leading with Emotional Intelligence
Strong leadership starts with self-awareness. This session explores how emotions influence communication, trust, and decision-making. Participants learn ways to stay steady under pressure, show empathy while keeping boundaries, and respond instead of react. These skills lay the foundation for effective feedback, coaching, and accountability throughout the leadership series.
Session 2: Recognizing Stress and Burnout in the Workplace
Everyone experiences stress; it’s part of being human. But when pressure becomes constant, it can quietly drain focus, connection, and morale. This session helps employees and managers recognize the early signs of burnout and reset before exhaustion sets in.
Session 3: Adapting Your Leadership Style
Every team, task, and moment calls for a slightly different kind of leadership. This session helps you recognize your natural style, flex it when needed, and strengthen the emotional intelligence that builds trust and engagement.
Session 4: Finding Paths through Conflict
Conflict is inevitable, but it doesn’t have to divide your team. This session explores how stress and threat responses shape conflict and how leaders can use tension as a tool for clarity, trust, and accountability.
Session 5: Coaching and Correcting – Supporting Growth and Accountability
Every leader has to balance care with candor. This session shows how to give feedback that builds trust, not tension, helping employees grow while maintaining clear standards. Through practical frameworks and real examples, participants learn to coach for development, correct with confidence, and deliver feedback that motivates lasting change.
Session 6: Building Belonging in the Workplace
Belonging in the workplace grows from clarity, contribution, and connection. This session helps leaders understand what shapes employees’ work styles, what motivates them, and how to align strengths and expectations so teams perform at their best.
Session 7: Navigating Change and Transition
Change is constant, but transition takes time. This session helps leaders understand how people adapt to change and what teams need to stay steady through uncertainty. Participants learn how to guide their teams through endings, resistance, and new beginnings with empathy and clarity.
Fall Series
September 22 to November 3, 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Springfield City Hall, Council Chambers Meeting Rm, 225 5th Street, Springfield.
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SESSION #1 : 9/22/26
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SESSION #2 : 9/29/26
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SESSION #3 : 10/6/26
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SESSION #4 : 10/13/26
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SESSION #5 : 10/20/26
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SESSION #6 : 10/27/26
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SESSION #7 : 11/3/26
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The series is typically offered three times per year — winter, spring and fall.
