Description
Hey, managers: Need a shot of confidence? It’s time to let Poynter help you jumpstart your management career.
Maybe you’re an inexperienced manager just starting your new role. Or maybe you’ve got managerial experience but have had little training. In either case, you could use some tools — along with that dose of confidence.
Essential Skills for Rising Newsroom Leaders will give you both: the tools and the confidence to lead and grow a staff of high-performing journalists.
You’ll receive personalized feedback — from your newsroom — about your strengths and challenges. You’ll get help for leading your staff through the transition of becoming digital-first. You’ll get customized advice for addressing your most pressing concerns with coaching from Poynter faculty, one-on-one.
You’ll return home with confidence and management tools that will begin paying dividends immediately.
Due to increased newsroom demand, this is the second edition of Essential Skills for Rising Newsroom Leaders in 2018.
Cost
The tuition is $1,395
What Will I Learn?
- Establish your credibility as a leader, even if you are new in your role
- Manage people who were once your peers, friends or bosses
- Provide feedback and coaching that will help your staff improve
- Conduct difficult conversations that get results
- Use your time more effectively
- Build trusting relationships with your staff, your peers — and your boss
- Focus your staff’s work on the audiences you serve
- Understand how analytics can help inform your coverage and improve your staff’s work
- Organize teams that collaborate to get important stuff done
Who Should Attend?
New managers from digital, broadcast and print organizations. This seminar is also beneficial to experienced managers who have had little or no management training. Employees who are about to be promoted will also be considered for acceptance.
Schedule
This schedule is tentative and subject to change.
Sunday, December 9
4:00 p.m. ~ “The Real Me” and the Road Ahead
7:00 p.m. ~ Group Dinner
Monday, December 10
9:00 a.m. ~ What’s Your Leadership Style? (And How’s It Working for You?)
10:45 p.m. ~ Your ViewPoynt Feedback: How Others See Your Leadership
12:30 p.m. ~ Lunch
1:30 p.m. ~ Why Can’t We Do Things My Way? ~ Myers-Briggs® and Management
3:15 p.m. ~ Leadership Lessons I Wish Someone Had Taught Me
4:45 p.m. ~ Wrap-up
5:00 p.m. ~ Adjourn
Tuesday, December 11
9:00 a.m. ~ The Power of Teams
10:45 p.m. ~ Becoming a Two-Track Coach: It’s All About Relationships
12:30 p.m. ~ Lunch
2:00 p.m. ~ Speaking of Important Relationships, How About Your Boss?
3:45 p.m. ~ Three Strategies for Telling More Meaningful Stories
5:15 p.m. ~ Adjourn (Evening on your own)
Wednesday, December 12
9:00 a.m. ~ Tools for Improving Your Multimedia Storytelling
11:00 p.m. ~ New Managers and New Ethics: The Power of the Process
12:30 p.m. ~ Lunch
2:00 p.m. ~ Retooling Your Newsroom for Digital-First
4:00 p.m. ~ Who’s Missing in Our Coverage—and Why?
5:15 p.m. ~ Adjourn (Evening on your own)
Thursday, December 13
9:00 a.m. ~ Difficult Conversations: Getting Smarter about Conflict
10:30 p.m. ~ Difficult Conversation Boot Camp: Let’s Practice!
12:00 p.m. ~ Lunch
1:30 p.m. ~ Time’s Up: What Are Your Priorities?
3:00 p.m. ~ 1-on-1 Coaching, Writing Personal Development Plans
7:00 p.m. ~ Group Dinner
Friday, December 14
9:00 a.m. ~ Your Personal Development Plans
12:00 p.m. ~ Lunch
1:15 p.m. ~ Taking It Home
1:45 p.m. ~ Graduation and closing remarks
2:30 p.m. ~ Seminar Ends
Instructors
Cheryl Carpenter
Leadership Faculty
The Poynter Institute
Butch Ward
Poynter Affiliate
The Poynter Institute
Tom Kent
Columbia University
Ren LaForme
Digital Tools Reporter
The Poynter Institute
Liz Roldan
News Director
WFOR-TV/CBS4
Questions?
We’d love to hear from you. Email us at seminars@poynter.org.
