Leadership & Management

Leadership & Management: Butch Ward
Seminar Dates Application Deadline Seminar Title
12/6 - 12/11 11/5/2009 Leadership for Today's New Managers (II) (M406B-09)
What a time to be a new manager--when there’s change all around you!  Understand how to get the best out of your team members, whether they are learning new skills, working with new technology or processes, dealing with a restructured newsroom--or just doing business as usual.

2/22 - 2/26 1/22/2010 Digital Media Entrepreneurship (PN411-10)
Have and idea for a Web-based business?  Whatever your passion you can turn that interest into an online media venture. Learn strategies for creating content, engaging an audience and finding revenue to support your enterprise. People who live or work in Pinellas County could qualify for free tuition, thanks to a grant from WorkNet Pinellas. Click here for details: www.poynter.org/entrepreneur

2/22 - 2/26 1/11/2010 Editing 2010: How to Wear Five Hats & Succeed (W421-10)
Editors, learn how to effectively manage your ever-growing number of responsibilities — and produce better stories. Make better decisions about coverage. Brainstorm better ideas. Coach reporters to ask better questions. Distinguish between good video opportunities and bad ones. Write shorter — or longer — and edit faster. And develop a leadership style that works — even in these challenging times.

3/7 - 3/12 1/25/2010 Leading the New Newsroom: Digital Skills and Strategies for Today's Managers (M407-10)
Unleash the latest digital tools and social media strategies for your newsroom. We'll help you build the best of it into your systems, workflow and culture — and develop your own approach to leading your newsroom's continuous change.


5/3 - 5/7 3/22/2010 Making Your Opinion Matter (W401B-10)
Push your opinion writing to a higher level with tips and strategies drawn from award-winning columnists, editorial writers and bloggers. You'll strengthen your writing muscles, try on different styles and writing voices, and produce work that can be published while you're here.

6/7 - 6/11 4/26/2010 Essential Skills for New Managers (M406-10)
You're a new manager and you need tools. Let Poynter teach you skills for improving your team's performance, developing their journalistic potential and meeting your organization's goals in these changing times.

10/10 - 10/15 8/30/2010 Poynter Leadership Academy (MACAD-10)
Get the latest on how to keep your newsroom innovative, and your staff engaged and successful. This is Poynter's signature leadership event.


11/15 - 11/19 10/4/2010 Editing 2010: How to Wear 5 Hats & Succeed (W421B-10)
Editors, learn how to effectively manage your ever-growing number of responsibilities — and produce better stories. Make better decisions about coverage. Brainstorm better ideas. Coach reporters to ask better questions. Distinguish between good video opportunities and bad ones. Write shorter — or longer — and edit faster. And develop a leadership style that works — even in these challenging times.




JACQUELINE BANASZYNSKI
Knight Chair Professor
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JILL GEISLER
Leadership and Management Group Leader
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BILL MITCHELL
Leader, News Transformation & Int'l Programs
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BUTCH WARD
Managing Director
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KEITH WOODS
Dean of Faculty
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