SESSION HIGHLIGHTS
EMBRACING TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE Session Highlights
A VIRTUAL SERIES FEBRUARY 16-19, 2021
TPI’s 2021 Virtual Series educational sessions were all about “Embracing Transformational Change” as the pandemic- altered year of 2020 came to a close, allowing the process of Growing Forward in 2021 to begin. All the great content attendees have come to expect from TPI was transitioned to the virtual experience.
Tough all sessions were conducted online, the “Chat” feature gave participants the ability to post their questions during the presentations and follow up with a live, interactive Question and Answer segment at the close of each session.
In addition, all the speakers provided their contact information for any follow-up questions.
Margaret Considine established her management consulting firm, EQuita, in 2001 following years of national and international positions in consulting, service and manufacturing organization. Skilled in assisting both private and public sector clients in the strategies of negotiations, her four-day Negotiations Workshop was highly interactive, with participants frequently working in small breakout groups to tackle a pre-assigned case requiring complex negotiations and reconvening as a group to dissect their actions and learn new negotiating strategies.
Dr. Bill Withers’ second session, “XYZ: Better Understanding the Marketplace of our Youngest Generations,” compared the attitudes and expectations of five generations, all of which could be interacting within a company’s workforce. He provided strategies for effectively meeting the expectations of the youngest generations who are part of the “Relationship Era,” and are driving “Te Experience Economy.”
Dr. Bill Withers has nearly three decades of management and leadership experience in both business and education and was a contributing writer to three books in the areas of leadership and customer service. His first session, “Shift Happens,” dug into strategies to navigate times of change and disruption.
Dr. Marco Palma is a professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University and the director of the Human Behavior Laboratory, a transdisciplinary facility the integrates technology to measure the biometric and neurophysiological responses of human decision making. His session focused on the developing economic outlook and marketing trends as they impact the green industry.
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