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Developing Key Essential Skills for Leaders: Mastering Your Guidance Power

Maryella Marie, Matthew Reynolds
May 3, 2023 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET Virtual Free to attend
Developing Key Essential Skills for Leaders: Mastering Your Guidance Power

About this session

As the workplace evolves, mindful leadership development plays a major role in surviving and thriving in this ever-changing landscape. If you’re a leader who is afraid of failing, it’s time to flip the script and lean into your risk-taking spirit in pursuit of happiness, productivity, and sustainability.

What stories are you embracing as a leader to anchor and inspire your employees? How can you foster trust and develop equity among your employees to keep the next wave of leadership engaged and productive?

During this workshop — Part 3 in a three-part series dedicated to developing key essential skills for leaders — we’ll redefine productivity and unleash collective trust by mastering your power to guide others. We’ll work on identifying the most essential people skills for leaders to master. We’ll also tap into the importance of visual communication at work and learn how to promote key essential skills among your employees in turn.

In this series, you’ll learn:

  • Best practices to become an influential leader by focusing on your people skills
  • How to foster a positive leadership approach in your organization’s development
  • How to encourage an ownership mentality in your own team
Participants who attend all three training sessions will be granted a Mindful Leadership Badge. If you haven't been able to join the first two sessions live, we got you covered! View the events' recordings and complete their short work forms:

Emotional Intelligence: recording + work form
Equitable Communication: recording + work form

Meet the speakers

Maryella Marie

Maryella Marie

Liberation Facilitator & Multimedia Producer

Maryella Marie [she/they] is a liberation facilitator, multimedia producer, & Master of Ceremony who has spent over a decade working with diverse technologists, independent artists, and divergent innovators across the globe to deepen their audiences’ emotional intelligence.

You can find her work and offerings on Grow Dialogue and The Positive Force Team where she curates and produces multimedia projects centered around emotional intelligence, belonging, and creative leadership; as well as facilitates collaborations between artists and organizations in the Americas in order to build bridges and inspire positive social impact.

Matthew Reynolds

Matthew Reynolds

Owner & Director of Matthew Reynolds Consulting

Matthew Reynolds has over 35 years of experience as a performer and instructor in the Theater Arts and Dance. Matthew helped create the Crater Renaissance Academy of Arts and Sciences in Southern Oregon right out of his Masters of Arts Teaching program.

He spent 12 years in the classroom where he built equity in his program, with his students, guided by the mission of "Creating Community through the Arts." Matthew now finds himself advocating for equity within the arts and education spaces. He has recently published his first book, BIGGEST FULLEST BRIGHTEST- shifting the consciousness of humanity.

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