Results

• Helping youth navigate appropriate approaches to conflict

  Published on February 26, 2015
  Conflict is unavoidable in life, but skills can be developed in youth to help them manage conflict in more productive ways.

• How to effectively manage the talkative and silent members of a group

  Published on December 18, 2018
  How to effectively manage the talkative and silent members of a group.

• Successfully involving volunteers

  Published on March 5, 2013
  Volunteers are vital to the success of many organizations. Quality of volunteer experience is more important than quantity of hours volunteered.

• Communication maze: Take two

  Published on December 8, 2017
  This version of the communication maze activity can be used when space is not limited or if there is a small group.

• Ice breaker reveals team talents

  Published on December 13, 2013
  Use this tool when forming a new team, group, cohort or committee.

• Work through difficult decision-making with compromise

  Published on December 31, 2013
  Compromise can be vital to success, especially when conflict has rendered efforts stagnant. While agreeing to a compromise can take some time and effort and may be difficult to accept, doing so often is the only viable path to success.

• Dealing with conflict: What’s your approach?

  Published on August 17, 2012
  MSU Extension’s Community Engagement and Leadership Development team provides education and information on dealing with conflict in your own back yard.

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  Communication across generations – Part 1: Serve up an easy return

  Published on March 7, 2016
  Generational differences in the workplace can be a problem. Good communication skills can be helpful.

• Members play an essential role in effective meetings.

  Published on December 16, 2014
  It’s critical for members to understand their authority when making decisions for the organization.

• Positive thinking makes a difference

  Published on August 24, 2012
  Regular positive thinking will help you develop inner peace, success, improved relationships, better health, happiness and personal satisfaction. Positive thinking can be your key to success!

• Are you hosting effective meetings? Part 1

  Published on December 15, 2015
  Understanding the difference between tangible and intangible objectives can help your meeting outcome.

• Steps to building a successful team: Part 4

  Published on October 17, 2013
  The fourth step: embracing accountability.

• Sticky Wall can help groups brainstorm

  Published on December 11, 2018
  Sticky Wall is a facilitation tool that groups can use in various ways to develop many ideas.

• Simple steps to a strategic plan: Part 1

  Published on December 18, 2015
  As the saying goes, it is like eating an elephant, one bite at a time.

• Businesses with multiple owners should have an operating agreement and valuation tactic

  Published on January 20, 2014
  Problems arise when times are tough.

• How to be successful with your New Year’s Resolution

  Published on December 18, 2012
  Forget willpower – reaching your goal means retraining your brain to form new habits.

• Employee review techniques yield increased productivity: Part 1

  Published on December 18, 2013
  As workplace productivity increases, the need for ever greater management skills to both maintain and further enhance human capital’s contribution to organizational success.

• Why didn’t I say anything?

  Published on April 7, 2014
  Program teaches strategies for managing difficult multicultural discussions to victims of offensive behavior.

• Being open to feedback

  Published on March 18, 2015
  Feedback is important to be successful in relationships and in the workplace.

• What makes a really good meeting?

  Published on December 31, 2013
  A strategic board agenda can make the fundamental difference between having a highly successful board meeting and wasting an opportunity to get things done.