Training: how to empower your team?

How can we empower team members in a fast-changing and uncertain world? How do we avoid collective anxiety and improve communication, job satisfaction and performance in the team?

In the training we learn research-based empowering communication techniques that help increase team members’ sense of belonging, job satisfaction and performance, and reduce work stress and the risk of burnout.

The latest research confirms that general uncertainty around us has reduced employees’ satisfaction, sense of belonging, communication with each other and the meaningfulness of their work.

The training covers how team members can be empowered by both leaders and team members themselves, and how empowerment can improve communication, collegiality, job satisfaction and performance.

Training information

Time: 28 January, 10:00–15:30

Venue: Tartu University Pärnu College, Ringi 35, Pärnu

Trainer: Katrin Aava, PhD

Fee: €29 (VAT included)

Registration: until 21 January.

NB! If you want an e-invoice, choose “invoice bank transfer” as the payment method in Fienta, fill in the invoice recipient details and tick the box for an e-invoice via an e-invoice operator in addition to the PDF invoice.

Who is it for?

Teams of organisations (teams, departments, units).

Aim of the training

To learn research-based empowerment techniques and, through them, to improve communication, collegiality, job satisfaction and performance.

Content of the training

How to increase the collegiality, job satisfaction, communication and performance of a team as a social network, based on research.

What are the empowerment techniques?

D. Cooperrider’s four-step appreciative inquiry model and how it can be applied.

Building a positive self-image and a strong identity for the team.

Increasing team members’ influence, expertise and job satisfaction, and reducing work stress and the risk of burnout.

Summary of the training.

Trainer

Katrin Aava, PhD

Long-standing associate professor of communication at Tallinn University, trainer, supervisor, work counsellor, expert in developing teaching staff, and author of several communication textbooks.

Important information for participants

The exact timetable, the trainer’s instructions and other requirements will be sent to registrants before the training.

The training is part of the Tallinn University leadership communication training series, brought to Pärnu County by personaliKOBAR / Tartu University Pärnu College within the project “Further development of the KOBAR Pärnumaa Innovation Centre”, under the measure “Attractive regional business and living environment”.