First Friday

Join us on the First Friday of the month this fall for programming to feed you personally and professionally. 

For more information, contact conted@uwosh.edu or call (920) 424-1129.

November: Handling Difficult Conversations – How to Say the Thing

Date:   Friday, Nov. 5, 2021
Time:   10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Cost:    $49
Location:  Virtual, materials will be emailed to you in advance
Presenter:  Allison Garner, CPC, PCC, MBA

Learn the tools you need to have the tough conversations with your family, friends or teammates. Practice those skills so you may put them to work today! Delve into real-life topics so that you may tackle the problems that are brought to your attention, deal with strong personalities and create accountability.  You will leave with three tools to:

1. learn to empower your family/team to handle difficult situations.
2. establish how to set appropriate boundaries.
3. obtain the skills to have the difficult conversations.

Presenter Bio

Allison Garner runs a Leadership Experience Boutique for stoic leaders who are visionaries and challengers of the status quo. Their experiences with Allison illuminate their blindpsots, interrupt their repeated patterns, and open a new pathway for forward progression. For 20 years prior to establishing Align Coaching, Allison was a chemical engineer and vice president of a small engineering firm designing oil refineries domestically and internationally. On the personal side, she has been married for 23 years and has two wonderful kids. In addition to serving on several Boards of Directors, including being elected to the Oshkosh School Board for 10 years, she was a selected TedX Oshkosh speaker in 2019 and published author of “Think Possible: The Light and Dark Side of Never Running Out of Ideas” and “Unconditional: Learning How to Navigate and Reframe Mental Illness – Together”.

Allison Garner

www.aligncoachingllc.com
Speaker, TedX Talk.
Author, “Think Possible” and “Unconditional”.