Dr. Levine offers an array of leadership development workshops and can provide custom-tailored programs to suit your specific needs. Individually designed workshops and staff retreats are available upon request and can be held at your worksite, other locations or virtually.
Don’t Ask, Don’t Get:
Effective Negotiation Techniques
You have opportunities to negotiate every day in your professional and personal life. Whether it is, “Where do you want to have dinner tonight?” or “I’d like to discuss my salary,” if you don’t ask for what you want and deserve, you’ll never get it. You will learn how to prepare, build your case, present your request, and clinch the deal.
The Essential Steps to Leadership
In order to be effective at work, you must manage things and lead people – so how can you be a successful leader? Utilizing concepts from the book, Making Managers Into Leaders, improve your results working with people and teams. Learn how to shift from problem focus to a solution orientation by creating a communicative and collaborative environment.
Use Your Whole Brain to Understand Yourself and Others!
Each of us has a unique thinking and communication style. How can we best appreciate ourselves and each other, work well together and value diversity? Understanding your preferred style and that of others can improve interpersonal effectiveness and facilitate collaborations. This highly interactive, non-threatening and fun workshop facilitates team building and gives people the ability to effectively communicate with others.
Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
Employees today have an expectation that leadership will be more mindful of their needs, which in turn elevates job satisfaction, increases productivity and creates higher performance. You will gain knowledge and skills to develop emotional intelligence and apply tools that will help you to build harmonious relationships in the workplace.
Navigating Unconscious Bias
Even the most well-meaning of us have unconscious bias. We will focus on developing awareness of our biases and learning practical solutions to prevent them from negatively impacting workplace relationships. Learn ways to respond to instances of bias and discuss practical steps to move beyond assumptions to maximize the effectiveness of a diverse workplace.
How to Sing Your Praises
Without Going Off Key
Prepare for success by advocating for yourself with confidence and assertiveness. What do you want people to know about you? That you’re humble, self-effacing and lack ambition, or that you’re self-assured and have what it takes to be a leader? Learn how to put your best foot forward and honestly convey your accomplishments with grace and poise.
Managing Up
The world is filled with challenging bosses – from micromanagers and critics to those who may be neglectful and disengaged. Learn how to build a better relationship with your supervisor. If you can learn to “read” your boss, you can develop a custom-tailored approach to positively engage your supervisor to have a more satisfying career. Managing up is the best tactic for getting more interesting work, more responsibility and turning your supervisor into a mentor.
Women in the Workplace
Women have made great strides in the workplace, but inequality persists. On average in 2018, women made approximately 80 cents to every dollar a man earned. We will explore what holds women back from achieving parity and what we can do to advance our careers.
Speak Easy:
Effective Public Speaking
Public speaking is one of the most essential skills needed for leadership. Whether an inexperienced public speaker or a seasoned presenter, it’s important to hone your skills. You will learn how to control anxiety, structure a presentation and speak with authority.