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How Self-Awareness Helps Great Leaders Coach Employees Better

Today's employees need more than direction; they need leaders who know how to coach, develop, and inspire their growth.

The most effective leaders don't simply solve problems or provide answers; they ask better questions, listen with intention, and create an environment where employees can think, learn, and perform at their best.

In this webinar, leaders & managers will learn how to:

• Differentiate between self-perception & self-awareness
• Increase self-awareness to become a more effective and intentional leader
• Use EI to build trust and improve coaching conversations
• Recognize emotional triggers and respond more effectively in difficult conversations
• Shift from directing employees to effective coaching

Attendees can earn SHRM and HRCI recertification credits.

Presenter Bio:

Douglas (Doug) Bender, SPHR, is an executive coach, leadership consultant, author, and Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Southern California's Bovard College. He has coached leaders at every level, helping them build stronger teams, navigate change, and create workplace cultures where people thrive. Before becoming a full-time coach, Doug held senior HR leadership roles with several Fortune 500 organizations, giving him firsthand insight into the real challenges leaders face every day.

Known for blending practical experience with thoughtful leadership insights, Doug specializes in executive coaching, organizational culture, emotional intelligence, and leadership development. He is the award-winning author of The ABCs of Leadership and has spent more than three decades helping managers discover that the most powerful coaching tool isn't a technique, it's the leader in the mirror.

People don't just want to know what they're paid. They want to understand how compensation decisions are made, why they're made, and what opportunities lie ahead.

The challenge is that compensation decisions rarely reside in a single place. They often span job descriptions, salary surveys, spreadsheets, board discussions, and institutional knowledge that somehow lives with one person who's been there for years. If that sounds familiar, you're not alone.

Many nonprofits approach job descriptions, market benchmarking, compensation, executive pay, transparency, and governance as separate conversations. In reality, they're all connected.

Here's the surprising part: compensation doesn't actually begin with pay. It begins with understanding how work is organized, how roles relate to one another, and how responsibilities are defined.

A clear job structure provides the foundation for fair, consistent, and transparent compensation decisions while supporting recruitment, retention, employee development, succession planning, and regulatory requirements.

Join Larry F. Beers, Director of Consulting, JER HR Group, and Mahesh Kumar, Managing Director of CompBldr®, for a practical discussion grounded in decades of nonprofit consulting experience. Together, they'll connect the dots and show how leading nonprofit organizations are transforming compensation from an annual task into a connected workforce strategy that strengthens organizational trust. You'll also see these concepts in action through a live demonstration of CompBldr®.

Learning Objectives

• Identify the foundational elements of a connected nonprofit compensation strategy.
• Explore how connected compensation practices strengthen pay equity, transparency, employee development, retention, and organizational trust.
• Understand how to create a consistent, transparent, and defensible compensation program that supports nonprofit governance and regulatory compliance.

Attendees can earn SHRM and HRCI recertification credits.

AI is transforming the way learning content is created, helping organizations develop training faster, scale content production, and deliver more personalized learning experiences than ever before. Today’s AI-powered authoring tools can generate course outlines, lesson content, quizzes, assessments, scenarios, and assets in minutes, dramatically reducing the time and effort required to build effective training.

In this webinar, you will discover how AI is transforming the learning lifecycle from course creation and content curation to personalized learning experiences and rapid deployment.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how AI accelerates learning creation, personalization, and workforce upskilling at scale
• Identify opportunities to improve learning effectiveness with an AI course creator, content analysis, assessment generation, and more
• Explore how AI streamlines learning deployment across LMS, coaching, training, and credential management through a live TraineryXchange™ demo

Attendees can earn SHRM and HRCI recertification credits.

Strong teams don’t happen by accident. Today’s leaders must foster clear communication, strong purpose, effective working relationships, and high productivity – helping individuals perform at their best and function together as a Constructive Whole.

In this practical session, you’ll discover how the field of Positive Psychology can be useful to leaders in providing models that enhance team functioning. The webinar is an introductory guide, including tips and tools, to the growing and fascinating field of Positive Psychology in the workplace.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the core principles of Positive Psychology
• Explore practical Positive Psychology tools for the workplace
• Identify strategies to strengthen team performance & effectiveness
• Develop one Positive Psychology intervention for your team

Attendees can earn SHRM and HRCI recertification credits.

Performance reviews often end with a completed form, but little follow-through. When feedback isn’t connected to clear goals, development plans, accountability, and ongoing coaching, opportunities for employee growth and business impact are lost.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how to build a performance management playbook that turns reviews into meaningful action. Discover practical strategies for connecting feedback, coaching, goal alignment, development planning, and accountability to create a continuous performance culture that drives employee growth and business results.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how your performance management program can drive continuous, sustainable growth
• Learn how to align review cycles & styles to business needs, improving individual performance outcomes
• Discover how connected workforce data builds better workforce assessment and forecasts
• Explore how to implement a playbook that aligns reviews, coaching, goals, development, recognition, and compensation to drive employee growth and accountability – includes PerformSpark™ demo

Attendees can earn SHRM and HRCI recertification credits.

The workplace continues to evolve as HR navigates changing regulations and emerging workforce risks.

Join us for a briefing on the key HR trends, employment law updates, and workplace developments expected to shape 2027. You'll gain practical insights and strategies to help your organization stay compliant, adaptable, and prepared for what's ahead.

Learning Objectives

• Explore employment laws and regulations impacting employers next year
• Understand how HR technology and AI utilization are driving change
• Apply practical skills and HR solutions that boost organizational resilience and adaptability in a rapidly evolving environment

Attendees can earn SHRM and HRCI recertification credits.