Building the Foundation for Career Advancement

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

9:15 am to 12:00 pm

Facilitator: Sabrina Woods

Bryant University, Academic Hall, Rm MRC3

When do you find yourself in flow state, that work mode where you are challenged, engaged, and lose all track of time? When do you feel a strong sense of accomplishment or satisfaction at work? Do you want more of that? Wouldn’t it be great to understand your “sweet spots” so you can look for the opportunities in your department in which you know you will flourish? Together, we're going to explore what underpins these experiences, so you can build a solid foundation on which to accept new responsibilities, seek promotion or simply enjoy working at your best more often. Let's see if we can help you identify the work you most enjoy and the talents that go along with it.

This session will:

• Enable you to identify when you are in flow state and/or feel a strong sense of satisfaction

• Help you to clarify which skills you most enjoy using, for charting your career progression

• Allow you to have more productive conversations during annual reviews

• Give you tangible examples of your top performance to share when seeking advancement and leadership roles

• Provide you with tools to increase self-efficacy and self-confidence

Join us for this interactive session to start building your own personal foundation for meaningful career growth.

9:15 – 9:30 Coffee & Connection

9:30 – 12:00 Program

Facilitator: Sabrina Woods is a holistic career coach and international trainer with 20 years in the higher education field within career services at universities including Northeastern, Harvard and the University of London. In her private practice, her joy comes from tapping holistic and mindfulness-based practices while helping people with major career and life transitions. Sabrina also facilitates workshops, staff retreats and train-the-trainer sessions ranging from the Myers Briggs to Mindfulness to Building the Foundations for Career Advancement. Her workshops combine her insights, enthusiasm and infectious energy. Sessions have been taught in the US, UK and Middle East for organizations ranging from MIT and Princeton to Cook County Health and Vanguard.

Program Fee: A fee of $90.00 per participant will be billed to each institution.

Creating A Civil Workplace Culture

Wednesday April 9, 2025

9:00 am to 12:00 pm

Facilitators: Tricia Driscoll and Stephanie Manzi

Rhode Island College, Gaige Hall Rm 200

Overall Goal

Participants will identify their perspective on values, civility and “appropriate” workplace culture. They will learn key areas of focus and develop strategies for creating a workplace that is positive and productive.

Learning Objectives

1. Identify personal values that impact perspective in the workplace.

2. Identify emotional intelligence factors that lead to productive workplaces.

3. Learn what makes employees unique (experience, age, race, gender, marital status)

4. Learn what are “sticking points” where employees/management may not agree on expectations: communication, decision-making process, meetings, policies, work ethic, fun at work, schedules, etc.)

5. Develop skills and strategies for identifying what elements of a civil workplace might look like and how an individual can effect change.

Key Topics

Why focus on civility in the workplace? Research by Deloitte shows 94% of executives and 88% of employees believe a distinct corporate culture is important to business success.

Identify personal values

The lines between work and outside of work are blurring. Knowing what your values are helps individuals to understand that impact on their workplace culture.

Define work culture

Ensuring everyone understands the elements of workplace culture and the definition of civility and appropriate is the basis for creating an environment where everyone thrives.

Assess Emotional Intelligence

Employees who are aware of their emotional intelligence and work to improve it can be more successful in participating and leading teams to greater success.

Identify Sticking Points

Understanding where the gaps in understanding are will help individuals and managers to find the path to civility.

First, Break All the Rules

This groundbreaking book identified 12 questions to ask of employees in order to determine whether a company/organization will be successful

Facilitators: Tricia Driscoll and Stephanie Manzi

Tricia Driscoll B.A., M.A.T. In her 25+ years of non-profit experience, Tricia has worked to help individuals and group develop positive communication and leadership skills. She has a B.A. in Sociology-based Human Relations from Connecticut College and a M.A.T. from RI College. She is a trained mediator, also certified in Workplace Mediation. Tricia facilitates basic mediation training, peer mediation, leadership development, conflict resolution and communication training.

Stephanie P. Manzi, Ph.D.is a professor of criminal justice at Roger Williams University teaching courses in policing and criminology. She earned a Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland, College Park. Stephanie was trained in facilitative mediation by CMCRI in 2016. She facilitates trainings in basic mediation, implicit bias, generational diversity, conflict resolution, navigating change and communication.

Program Fee: A fee of $90.00 per participant will be billed to each institution.