Offered online or in-person, this two-day workshop provides attendees with the regulatory insights necessary to make smarter business decisions in management and leadership in the animal health industry. It provides an overview of essential regulatory guidelines, terminology and applications in the day-to-day animal health business management.

The workshop will provide a practical approach to getting pesticide products approved and keeping them in the market post approval, while avoiding common pitfalls and challenges faced along the way. The workshop is designed to be interactive with case studies, and an opportunity for participant interaction and networking.

Exceptional leaders listen well and handle difficult conversations with grace and dignity. In this interactive workshop, experiential activities and real-life scenarios will help emerging and current leaders become more mindful listeners and learn techniques and methods that will enable them to handle difficult conversation and conflict more effectively.

Building high performance teams is the cornerstone of becoming an influential leader. Leaders develop and participate in teams to improve organizational results, grow professionally, and develop others. This workshop will distinguish the difference between effective work groups and high performing teams. Participants will develop techniques to establish trust, communicate clarity, and improve performance using teams to move an organization forward and add value to all stakeholders.

Successful leaders are able to work with and lead others in a culturally diverse workforce. Diversity crosses cultural, global and generational issues. This interactive workshop will provide ways to understand and collaborate with your colleagues by examining workplace flexibility, teamwork, feedback and leadership. This two-part workshop at K-State Olathe will assist emerging and current leaders to become more understanding and inclusive of cultural and generational differences, as well as the methods to successfully lead in a globalized environment.

Feedback is essential to help us all grow and improve. Giving feedback and improving performance can be difficult for the leader and the employees. There are numerous studies on the negative reactions of employees to their performance evaluations. However, most employees want fair and constructive performance feedback. This workshop will address giving and receiving performance related feedback, communicating roles and responsibilities, coaching for growth, developing corrective action plans, as well as building and maintaining rapport.

"A problem well defined is half solved" is the starting point for this workshop. Using tools such as the Problem-Solving Model, Strategic Planning, RASCI, and Lean Thinking participants will come away with tools to add value to their organization or the groups they lead. Much of a person's success is leading others in a direction they are hesitant to go. This workshop will hone your skills and leading strategically so others will follow and support the organizational efforts.