Bridging Gaps: Skillfully Managing Uncertainty and Intergenerational Influence at Work

Description

Deepening our understanding of the complexities of power and workplace patterns. Learn a new approach to recognizing our generationally specific differences, explore our own individual relationships to our ages at work, and go through multiple ways of noticing and navigating power.

Learning Outcomes

• Better understand the ways power impacts collaboration, communication, and conflict
• Cultivate self-awareness and adaptability around age and generational experience
• Increase capacity to bridge cultural differences increasing productive communication and constructive problem-solving
• Deepen the ability to intentionally leverage a greater diversity of perspectives

Levi’s Approach

Provide self-reflection, illuminate bias, move through defensiveness to transformation.

Link learning to goals centered on bridging cultural differences, thus increasing productive communication, constructive problem-solving, and creative pursuits through a greater diversity of perspectives.

Build capacity through skills-development and opportunities to try new skills out in order to achieve goals.

Increase your ability to use new learning in real-time practical application, indicating a level of both comfort and mastery of their new skills.

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Cost:
UNA Members: $50 (Using the discount code found in the Info Hub under Partner Training Discount Codes)
Not-Yet-Members: $70

Event Details

This event is hosted in partnership with Minnesota Council of Nonprofits. This virtual event will take place on the Zoom platform. Your access link will be emailed to you the day before the event after 12 p.m.

This session will be recorded. The recording will be made available to registrants after the live event.

Captioning is provided automatically through Zoom. For information on requesting CART, ASL, or another accommodation, please visit our Registration Policies page.

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Speaker Information

Levi Weinhagen (he/they) is dedicated and enthusiastic leader, facilitator, trainer, coach, and licensed therapist. Born and raised in St Paul, he is committed to supporting people with an emphasis on the intersection of justice, kindness, and creativity.

Prior to founding Routine Maintenance, Levi served as Senior Strategist and Special Projects Director for a national strategy firm and prior to that he was a Program Manager for the Minnesota Council on Foundations. He also works as a teaching artist on the COMPAS artist roster and serves on the advisory board of the Funny Asian Women’s Kollective (FAWK).

Levi earned a Master of Social Work from Augsburg University’s anti-oppressive, anti-racist graduate program. He is currently a licensed, practicing mental health professional. He is a Qualified Administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) and the Intercultural Conflict Styles Inventory (ICS). In 2016 he completed HOPE Community’s Sustainable Progress Through Engaging Active Citizens (SPEAC) program. And he completed the Center for Performance and Civic Practice Summer Institute in 2017.