Human Skills In An AI World: Building Interpersonal Relationships Master Class
Learn leadership, communication, teamwork, resilience, critical-thinking.
Event Details
This Master Class Series with meet on September 14th, 16th, 21st, and 23rd from 2-4PM ET each session.
During this four-part professional development series, participants will learn valuable workplace and leadership skills designed to improve communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and personal effectiveness. Topics will include working with people of different generations, setting goals, improving time and task management skills, strengthening teamwork, and learning how to manage difficult personalities and build successful teams. Participants will also explore workplace conflict resolution strategies, setting healthy boundaries, having brave conversations, avoiding burnout, maintaining work/life balance, and building resilience in challenging situations. In addition, the series will focus on developing critical thinking skills through inductive and deductive reasoning, problem identification, data gathering and analysis, overcoming biases, and applying critical thinking techniques to real-world workplace situations.
About the Speaker:
Carrie Root
Carrie Root, Ph.D., HKN, Founder and CEO of Alpha UMi, spent over two decades as a high-level trouble shooter in the DoD sector. Today, she is bringing innovative professional development curricula to tomorrow’s workforce. She is committed to providing the opportunity for human skill development to all who desire it. Her company, Alpha UMi, develops and delivers relevant, engaging, and transformative learning experiences in topics such as leading without authority, generational intelligence, leadership, emotional intelligence and interpersonal communication.
Dr. Root was recognized as a Commander's National Award Winner for Science and Technology. Her work bringing leadership training to IEEE’s Women in Engineering as well as to engineering students resulted in an invitation to join HKE, IEEE’s honor society. She is an engaging speaker and recently published “The Other Soft Skill: How to Solve Workplace Challenges with Generational Intelligence.” She has been interviewed, has articles and a podcast on topics related to ageism, generations in the workplace, and other topics related to interpersonal relationships at work.