Leadership Development Half-Day Course with Sara Jeckovich - Giving Feedback

Tuesday, November 12, 8:00 - 11:45 AM
**Preregistration required with $124 additional fee - Simply add the course to your Convention/Expo registration**
Have you ever received feedback that felt more like a personal attack than helpful guidance? Or maybe you struggled with giving feedback because you feared hurting someone’s feelings? Let’s be honest: both giving and receiving feedback can be awkward. Effective feedback is a superpower for any leader. Done well, it can inspire growth and improvement and create stronger working relationships. Sadly, many managers struggle with this. Roughly 4 out of 10 employees are actively disengaged because they feel they don’t receive enough meaningful feedback. In fact, one survey found that 64 percent of employees wanted their supervisor to check in with them at least every two weeks. Giving and receiving feedback skillfully is a core leadership competency. It builds trust, improves performance, and promotes a more peaceful and productive workplace. Filled with real-life examples, discussion and roleplay practice, “Giving Feedback” will transform the way you offer feedback to your team.
Learning Objectives
  • Set clear expectations and hold people accountable peacefully
  • How to initiate and effectively lead a difficult conversation
  • How to peacefully give feedback on challenging ideas
  • How to give effective feedback on troubling behavior or language
  • Increase rapport and collaboration across people and departments

About Sara Jeckovich

Program Director, Pollack Peacebuilding Systems
Sara has over 10 years of experience working in the field of Peacebuilding. Her experiences working in trauma-informed care and with multicultural groups are drivers of her work, which has equipped her with a broad range of social-emotional skills. Sara guides others through the process of looking beyond their positions and toward the deeper underlying interests, which promotes clients to uncover practical methods of building peace. Through creativity and collaboration, Sara’s work as a Peacebuilder focuses on combining individual methods with structural initiatives to create effective and constructive practices that lay the foundation for the building of peace. Working as a consultant, Sara has coached and facilitated individuals and teams from various industries, helping to enhance their effective communication skills to mitigate destructive conflict and increase efficiency.