WWU’s Small Business Development Center to Host Leadership Development Sessions Oct. 3, 10 and 17

Western Washington University’s Small Business Development Center (SBDC) is bringing a series of Leadership Development Workshops to Bellingham on Oct. 3, 10 and 17.

These training programs will give attendees insights on what it takes to become a better communicator and succeed as a leader of teams. Attendance is free but space is limited and registration is required. You may register for one, two or all three events.

There will be three sessions:

Session #1:  Happy Employees: Secrets to Staff Retention (Oct. 3) Recruiting, hiring, and training new employees is expensive and time-consuming. How much better to be able to keep great employees around! In this session, you’ll learn 5 components of a workplace that retains happy employees and how to implement those success factors for your team.

Session #2:  The Magic Combination of Support and Accountability (Oct. 10) teams healthy. This session will give you practical skills for embodying and implementing that winning combination.

Session #3: The Tricky Team: Supervising Friends or Family (Oct. 17) In a smaller marketplace like Whatcom County and with so many family businesses, it’s very common that you’re supervising someone you have a personal relationship with—an acquaintance, friend, or family member. This can be wonderful, and it can also be very tricky. This session will focus on how you can design your relationships with those folks to maximize both parts of your relationship—your friendship/family connection AND your professional roles.

The sessions will be led by Laura Todd and Sarah Murphy-Kangas. Laura Todd has over 25 years of experience in leadership development, coaching and training in large companies, non-profit organizations, and entrepreneurial organizations. Sarah Murphy-Kangas is an organizational development practitioner, providing coaching, mediation, and group facilitation services to clients. Sarah specializes in helping caregiving organizations find resilience and wholeness in the midst of difficult work.

When:  
Oct. 3, 10 and 17  from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Where: 

Dorothy Haggen Conference Room

2211 Rimland Dr. #106

Bellingham 

Cost: Attendance is free but space is limited and registration is required. You may register for one, two or all three events.
*Please bring your own lunch and beverage.

For more information on how to register, please call the SBDC office at (360) 778-1762 or email sbdc@wwu.edu 

Since 1983, the Small Business Development Center has enabled Western Washington University to give back to the business community and has helped to shape the economic future of Whatcom County. The SBDC provides free, confidential advising, technical assistance, and research to business owners and managers in an effort to help businesses thrive throughout Whatcom County. For more information, please visit http://sbdc.wwu.edu.