Registration

Empowering Employee
Problem-Solving: Soliciting Group Input & Team Decision-Making (2-part)

Tuesdays, March 3 & 10, 2026

9:30 am to 12:00 CT (both days)

PLEASE NOTE: We request that you participate from your own computer, and use a webcam. This will allow you to participate in the breakout group discussions that are an important part of the learning experience.

Registration deadline is February 10^th

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Fee:

RWHC Member & Affiliate Member:
$220 per person

Non-RWHC Member:
$265 per person

Fee includes program materials. 
 

Instructor:

Corrie Searles, MPT, Leadership Development Educator, Manager  With her 20+ years of experience in leadership both in and out of healthcare, her past roles have included leadership for therapy teams in hospitals, long term care, outpatient, and home health, as well as Cardiac Rehab, Occupational Health, Fitness Centers, and Stress Testing. Corrie has extensive experience in continuous improvement methodology and a passion for leadership development training. She has a Master ’s in Physical Therapy, a Certificate in Organizational Leadership, and a Certificate in Customer Service & Leadership training with Achieve Global. She is certified to teach Crucial Conversations through Vital Smarts in addition to being a certified coach for Shift Positive 360. csearles@rwhc.com   608-643-1057

Target Audience:

Project managers or committee team leads

Program Description:

Today’s leadership environment requires an increasing shift towards employee empowerment and inclusion. What better way to foster a team’s motivation for and buy-in to needed changes and problem resolution than inviting their input and then involving them in determining solutions and decision-making.

In this workshop, we’ll explore 3 primary leadership decision-making styles—from “I’ll make all the decisions” to “The team can call the shots.” We’ll walk through a multitude of ways you as a leader can draw out the ideas and input of your team for problem-solving and action planning. Then we’ll practice several methods of coming to agreed-upon consensus for which actions to take to implement change, improve processes, and make decisions. You won’t want to miss this. The uses of these tools and methods are countless!

Program Objectives - Participants will learn to:

1. Understand the 3 styles of leadership decision-making
2. Identify 10+ creative ways to gather input from teams
3. Learn & practice >4 methods for generating team decisions
4. Recognize the importance of leader communication & loop closure for team input & decision-making efforts

Consider taking this workshop if the following are mostly true for you:

• You ask for input from employees and all you hear are crickets.
• Ideas consistently come from only a few key members of your team.  You don’t know how to get everyone involved.
• You’re unclear about how to establish a middle ground between you making all the decisions and employees calling the shots instead.
• You’re not sure when you should be the one to make the decision and when to allow staff to help (and to what degree they should be involved).
• You attempt to implement changes and are met with resistance.
• You want to encourage staff to be involved in decision-making but you’re not sure how to establish guidelines so that the outcomes meet the intended result.
• Once you’re able to get ideas for solutions to problems, it’s hard to facilitate the team to make any final decisions on which ideas to implement.
• There may be lots of ideas but they don’t lead to decisions made.  Problem-solving efforts often feel scattered and don’t result in a clear action plan.
• You consider the input from everyone who offers it, yet it seems as though staff continue to feel their opinions are never taken into account.