Title: Making Change: Achieving Balance and Contributing Constructively During Transitions
Event: City of Portland, Professional Development Training
Date: November 19, 2015, 8:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.
Speaker: Christopher Dennis
Feeling overwhelmed by a pile of new duties and responsibilities? Dizzy from the pace of change? Worried because IT is replacing your comfortable tool set with something new? Got a new issue in your life outside of work that’s distracting you when you’re on the clock?
We’re getting wiser about handling the change and challenges of the modern workplace. Participants in this seminar first ground their efforts by better understanding their unique change environments. With context established, we will differentiate the emotional realities of change from the behavioral necessities of work. Next we learn ways to express the unavoidable emotions in a way that doesn’t counteract our efforts to make real and valuable change. We will also focus on how to make change easier for ourselves, and by so doing, reduce the peaks and valleys our emotional roller coasters.