October 16, 2023

Seats remain for leadership training workshops for staff

Seats remain for free leadership training workshops — The Roles of a Leader — being offered in November by the Staff Advisory Committee for the SIU System. 

The 4 1/2 hour in-person, interactive workshops are appropriate for all staff and will involve individual, small group and large group activities. The workshops follow a similar workshop offered in fall 2022 to all interested non-faculty employees at SIU Carbondale, SIU Edwardsville and the School of Medicine in Springfield. Participant ratings for the workshops average 4.9 out of 5. 

It is hoped that employees take advantage of this opportunity to improve leadership skills, increase confidence, build relationships and have fun. 

The facilitator will again be Dave Heth, who retired after 24 years as finance director at SIU Edwardsville and who has broad training experience. 

As with the previous trainings, this workshop is supported by the system president, SIU Carbondale and SIU Edwardsville chancellors, and the dean and provost of the School of Medicine. The administration encourages supervisors to allow their employees to attend this professional development opportunity, as operations permit. Staff should seek approval to attend from their supervisors as early as possible. 

Staff are not required to take vacation, personal time or lose their lunch hour to attend this event. 

The workshop schedule for SIU Carbondale for November where seats remain, with registration links, is: 

Participants need only to sign up for one session. Each of the sessions is from 10:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Student Services Building, Room 150/160. Participants are responsible for their own lunch. The Nov. 2 session, Unleash Initiative and Enhance Decisions, is filled. 

For more information, contact Heth at dheth@siue.edu.