Communication Mastery - A Virtual Workshop

Communication Mastery - A Virtual Workshop

Thursday, August 1, 2024:

8:00 AM - 4:00 PM

30 minute lunch break

$30 for Support Staff

$50 for NASA Members

$75 for Non-NASA Members

Workshop Description:

Ever feel like you are speaking the same language with students or team members but something is getting lost in translation? You aren’t alone! Diversity of age, belief, culture, disability, gender, identity, language, and/or socioeconomic can create a variety of challenges in getting your message across. What if you could skip those challenges and tap into your greatest motivations to dramatically improve your relationships and accelerate personal, student, and school results?

Effective communication is the way to elevate student engagement, behavior, and outcomes as well as faculty/staff collaboration and satisfaction. This workshop helps you use the power of the Law of Awareness to tap into your strengths and address opportunities to build relationships based on trust, acceptance, and understanding. Doing so increases learning and creates a collaborative environment where everyone can thrive.

What You’ll Learn:

• Your communication strengths and opportunities.
• How others are different and how to work with each personality.
• What your students need to increase comprehension and optimize results.
• A 5-part model for building trust and safety in any relationship.
• Effective strategies for handling conflict and personality clashes.

Furthermore, when you communicate effectively, you are modeling positive interactions for all those around you. Not only will you increase learning outcomes, but you will also create a space that appreciates the style of others and helps students grow socially and emotionally. These “soft” skills are a positive investment in helping them reach their full potential well into the future.

Linda Zelnik

Author & Leadership Coach

Linda Zelnik is a leadership coach and coach educator on a mission to cultivate effective and compassionate leadership. She is also a speaker and author of Burnout to Boom!, an action guide for more energy and less stress starting TODAY. Named one of Nashville’s Top 15 Coaches, she specializes in helping high achieving, purpose-driven leaders gain more focus, energy and freedom to ignite their goals and thrive personally and professionally.

Zelnik helps those seeking to develop effective leadership skills and consistent success through leadership development and work-life harmony coaching and training. Linda’s coaching framework is designed to help you close the gap between where you are and where you want to be. As a Coach, she sees herself as your thinking partner so that you can lead from strengths and values and set your team up for success.

Linda has over 20 years of experience in cross-cultural business, nonprofit organizations, and higher education. She's taught and trained on five continents and launched programs across a variety of industries. Linda speaks Mandarin and Spanish and enjoys exploring culture’s role in her client’s relationships, organizations, and leadership styles.

Zelnik holds an MBA in leadership, is ICF ACC-certified, and is a member of the Maxwell Leadership Certified Team and a Maxwell DISC Consultant. She is also earned designations by Lipscomb University as an evaluator, administrator, and trainer for the Polaris Competency Model, Online Teaching by the Online Learning Consortium, and Thunderbird's Global Mindset Inventory.

Linda lives in Nashville, TN with her husband and their two children. She is a foodie and outdoor enthusiast and enjoys hiking and gardening with her family. Zelnik is an avid supporter of The Living Water Project, an organization that raises funds for clean water projects in developing nations.

ALL are welcome, including anyone in a non-administrative position!

NASA IS NOT A UNION. NASA is Nevada's PreK-12 Professional Development Organization for ALL Nevada Educators!

Participants will earn .5 credit (7.5 hours) toward license renewal!

This workshop ALSO counts for step advancement in Clark and most Nevada School Districts!

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In CCSD, those in non-administrative licensed positions may count this workshop for license renewal AND ALSO 2.5 CUs - THOSE IN NON-ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS EARN BOTH!

In CCSD, administrators and professional-technical administrators may count this workshop for license renewal OR 2.5 hours toward step-advancement - not both for administrators.

Washoe County participants will be required to also register for this course in "MyPGS" in order to receive in-service credit toward salary advancement.

Washoe County School District (WCSD) participants are required to submit a 300-word essay on how they will implement this professional learning to increase student achievement before a certificate is issued.