The "I" in Team: How Developing Individual Strength, Builds

About the Program

Being a manager does not mean you can lead a team. Managers are often not properly trained for the responsibility of becoming a leader. True leadership is a never-ending experience of personal and professional evolution and does not happen overnight. Even when the desire to lead and help others exists, it can take decades to develop a methodology that works for you and those you lead.

Join our esteemed speaker, Tom Wilk, as he walks through his journey to becoming an effective leader of individuals and building better teams. In this session, Tom will share his experiences and insight through real-world challenges and pitfalls stemming from the shortcomings of poor leadership and then share the realizations, renewed perspectives, and profound changes he embraced that eventually led him to improvement and success in his own experience as a manager.

He will share ways to help struggling members of your team, have tough conversations with a positive focus, helping create the professional “rock star” by harnessing their individuality, and helping employees advance by creating a unique career plan. We will also discuss the SMART method and how to customize and implement it to create solid individual goals that will complement the team. Finally, we will discuss ways individuals can truly become part of a collective, moving forward as a team and not just people who work together.

In sharing his own experiences and having an honest conversation about how to re-approach who we are as leaders, attendees will walk away with:

• New tools that you can use in your day-to-day management of teams
• A perspective on individual development as the essential foundation of a great team

Presented by: Tom Wilk

Tom Wilk is the principal consultant for Wilk Consulting Group and the IT Engineering Manager at 84 Lumber. Over the past 25 years he has evolved as a leader focusing on performance improvement and helping employees find their way along their career path. Tom has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and earned his master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University in Public Management in 2020. He was named as one of HDI’s Top 25 Thought Leaders of 2021 and 2022.

Tom holds several positions in HDI Local Chapters including VP of Sponsorship in the Steel City Chapter in Pittsburgh, Regional Vice President and host of the HDI Local Chapters LiveStream Show.

Agenda

12:00 Noon to 12:30 PM – Networking and Introduction
12:30 PM to 1:45 PM – Program
1:45 PM to 2:00 PM – Survey, Prize Drawing
2:00 PM – Event Ends

Date/Time

May 13, 2022 | 12:00 - 2:00 PM EDT

This event is free for everyone, but our work is funded by our members. Not a member yet? Join here.