"Let's Talk!" - Keys to Communicating in your Professional Life: Contracts, performance review and mentoring
This workshop will address the importance of establishing and maintaining healthy lines of communication in the workplace. Understanding just what you expect from your employer and what is expected of you is codified in the foundation agreement of your employment, whether verbal agreement, job description or formal contract. The developing, ongoing nature of the relationship should be revisited on a regular basis by some form of review. When needed, it is important to know where to look for help.
We will have a chance to look at some sample contracts and annual review forms, as well as the guidelines suggested by the national organization. Attendees are encouraged to bring questions, concerns, and "tales from the trenches" for airing, comment, and commiseration!
Edwin Lawrence, workshop leader, has been the Professional Development coordinator for Region I for the past six years. In this capacity, he has met with Region I Deans, spoken at events for several chapters about employment issues, and has handled many grievance cases. He is Minister of Music at the First Congregational Church of Williamstown, MA and an adjunct instructor of keyboard instruments and music theory at Williams College. He has conducted the Bennington County Choral Society for more than 30 years and was a founding member of the Consortium of Vermont Composers. His contributions to the vitality of the arts in the Green Mountain State were recognized by a citation from the Vermont Council of the Arts in 1991.
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