The new year usually focuses on keeping (or getting!) our bodies into the best shape but what about our brains? As a coach, I’m focused on providing my clients with strategies to keep their operating system–their brain–in optimal condition. This is why in December 2023, I completed a 16-week certificate course that took a deep dive into the science behind motivation, goal-setting, emotion and yes, optimal physical health. Ever heard of the mind-body connection? Well, it’s real and there are practical ways to make the most of every effort to achieve ‘whole-self’ health. Through my training at The Neuroscience School & Dr. Irena O’Brien, a cognitive neuroscientist who has dedicated almost 30 years to the study of psychology and neuroscience, I learned proven-by-research pathways I can share with my clients as together we navigate their desire to become better, different and happier/more satisfied in life. If you’re skeptical about coaching, know that I dispense with ‘woo-woo’ techniques and get to work with what works!

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One more opportunity this spring to make your leadership shine!

Gallup Organization research indicates that an employee joins an organization, but leaves a supervisor. When an individual contributor is promoted to supervisor, the transition can be a difficult one. This certificate will provide the new supervisor with the foundational skills needed for the job.

Article: Great Organizations Develop Great Leaders (features the Supervision Certificate Series)

Register for this certificate for $400 (a savings of $100). Classes may also be taken on an individual basis.

Location:  Normandale Community College, Edina

Click here for more information and to register.

Module 1: Making the Transition to Leadership

Module 2: Coaching Performance

Module 3: Managing Perfomance Problems

Module 4: Developing Your Leadership Style

Instructor:  Julie A. Berg

Julie will be facilitating!

Assess Training Needs

Part of the Professional Trainer Certificate, University of Minnesota Continuing Education

Identifying training needs and deciding on solutions is a challenge virtually every training professional experiences. Using various assessment tools and best practices enables you to identify the knowledge and skills gaps of your training audiences. This course will focus on uncovering root causes of performance problems and linking needs analysis results to specific performance improvement solutions. You will learn not only what to ask, buthow to ask it.

Following the course you will be able to:

• Ensure success by gaining commitment from senior leadership
• Assess training needs at the individual, group, and organization level
• Develop assessment instruments such as surveys, and conduct focus groups
• Link needs assessment to organization strategy and competency profiles/models
• Determine when training is an appropriate performance improvement solution

To register, click here.

Next session:  August 20-21, 2014.

Julie Berg, M.A. is a training and OD consultant and leadership coach, and has more than 20 years of experience across industries. At HealthPartners and Ceridian, she provided leadership assessment and development, team coaching, training design, and facilitation. She also managed a corporate training function.

Normandale Community College features in its cover story the Supervision Certificate Series and some of its recent participants in their Winter/Spring 2014 course catalog.  Julie has been the facilitator of the 4-session series for the past four years.  She also designed the content that is taught.

Great Organizations Develop Great Leaders

Gallup Organization research indicates that an employee joins an organization, but leaves a supervisor. When an individual contributor is promoted to supervisor, the transition can be a difficult one. This certificate will provide the new supervisor with the foundational skills needed for the job.

Article: Great Organizations Develop Great Leaders (features the Supervision Certificate Series)

Register for this certificate for $400 (a savings of $100). Classes may also be taken on an individual basis.

Location:  Normandale Community College, Edina

Click here for more information and to register.

Module 1: Making the Transition to Leadership

Module 2: Coaching Performance

Module 3: Managing Perfomance Problems

Module 4: Developing Your Leadership Style

I am honored to be the moderator of this panel discussion!

To register, click here.

Performance improvement initiatives—the introduction of new methods, processes, tools and/or skills—mean change. But often people resist change or have difficulty changing old habits, causing them to revert soon after the training session ends. This session offers you the opportunity to learn from a panel of L&D professionals who use change management principles and tools to help drive performance improvement within their organizations or as consultants. This session will have opportunities for listening, discussing and asking questions of the experts.

Panelists:

	Dawne Carlson is Senior DirectorOrganizational Effectiveness for Target, responsible for the Enterprise Organizational Effectiveness teams including Human Resources OE, Target Technology Services OE, Canada OE, OE Operations, Process Improvement and Sigma Operations. Dawne has been with Target for 27 years, and served in roles in Stores HR and Merchandising. She joined the OE senior leadership team in 2007 as the Director of Field OE and moved to her role leading Enterprise OE in 2012.
	Steve Nguyen helps some of the world’s top companies be more successful through their implementation of Yammer. He has a passion for emerging technologies, social collaboration, and helping to make people’s lives more productive. Prior to coming to Yammer/Microsoft, Steve was a Technology Research Analyst at Cargill.
	Tony Loyd, Vice President, Organization & Team Effectiveness for Buffalo Wild Wings, has extensive experience working public, private and government organizations to direct global initiatives that align learning solutions to corporate goals. Through his innovative approaches, he has enabled his clients to achieve significant improvements in processes, productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction while reducing costs and improving bottom line results. Before joining Buffalo Wild Wings, Tony worked with organizations including Medtronic, Diversey, John Deere, US Department of Energy, AT&T, Alcoa and the State of Colorado.
	Dr. James Bohn is considered a ‘designated hitter’ for repairing broken teams. Dr. Bohn was the Global Director of Change Management for Johnson Controls prior to his retirement in 2013 after 33 years of service. Jim led significant change management projects including IT implementations, mergers and reorganizations. He has served in roles ranging from the shop floor, design, engineering, sales and service. “I consider my early operations experience to be invaluable for understanding change problems.” Jim has taught Organization Development at University of Wisconsin’s LUBAR School of Business, Business Ethics and Strategy at Concordia University and Leadership at Marquette University.