Building Next-Gen Leadership Series
Human Resources has introduced a new limited series, Building Next-Gen Leadership, for any employee across the institution who aspires to lead, regardless of position or title. Participants will learn leadership concepts and develop community, especially around the university's Next-Gen K-State strategic plan. This series is the first phase of leadership development efforts.
Upcoming workshops
Conflict: How to Make It Productive
When the word “conflict” gets brought up, it can produce images filled with fighting, drama, and quite frankly, cause our stomachs to tighten up. But what if we were able to view conflict as a productive, and maybe even necessary, part of interacting with others to make progress on the things we care about? What if rather than looking for how we might get rid of conflict, we could work toward building the capacity to handle conflict? This workshop aims to help us better understand conflict and give us practical tools to engage with it, so we can keep showing up and stay on purpose.
October's Sessions - Registration is required.
Session 1: Monday, October 21, 2024 from 2:30-4:00 p.m. |
Throckmorton Hall, Room 1018 Snacks provided. |
Session 2: Wednesday, October 23, 2024 from 8:30-10:00 a.m. |
Virtually via Zoom |
Session 3: Thursday, October 24, 2024 from 12:15-1:45 p.m. |
K-State Student Union, Wildcat Chamber Lunch provided. |
Meet our facilitator
Amanda Cebula has a passion for working with people, organizations and businesses seeking to create change. She has been connected to leadership development throughout most of her life whether as a person pursuing change herself or teaching and coaching others. Amanda began her career in higher education serving as an Admissions Representative for Kansas State University and then continued in higher ed as the Community Relations Coordinator for Webster University’s Ocala, Florida campus. Upon making it back to Kansas she worked at the Kansas Leadership Center where she co-authored the book “Your Leadership Edge: Tools and Strategies for When Everyone Leads” with Ed O’Malley.
After leaving her full-time role at KLC in 2017, Amanda continued her work in leadership development by serving as an Instructor with the Staley School of Leadership at K-State. Today, you can find her raising her family and running her own consulting company, teaching the occasional leadership course, facilitating programs, participating in various church and community activities and even teaching a couple of piano lessons. Amanda is a communication studies graduate from K-State with minors in music and leadership studies. She also earned a master’s degree in management and leadership from Webster University.