SEMINARS / WORKSHOPS
Linda Newton & Associates offers half day and full day seminars and workshops. Workshops are tailored to the client’s needs and context.
Our Strategic Facilitation process is developed with the client’s needs in mind and laid out to fit the client’s timeframe and constraints. This may be a two day update all the way to several months worth of work to create the plan needed to implement change.
HOW TO GREEN YOUR BUSINESS PRACTICES
This seminar has been prepared to assist businesses providing healthier materials and workspaces for employees and visitors. This full day workshop will address among other things:
Carbon foot print
Indoor air quality
Employee comfort and
reduced absenteeism
Indoor environmental quality and efficiency
Resource conservation
and
efficiency
“This seminar will offer ways for your company to be safer, healthier, and more cost effective.” — Linda Newton
PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR A SUCCESSFUL SOLUTION
This seminar has been prepared to assist Staff in managing the many details and participants of a project.
In the two hour session participants will learn the essential skills and many roles of a Project Manager.
In the full day workshop, we will learn how the three parts to project management work in harmony, and will use various sample projects to understand the solutions.
From this understanding we will address the various ways to manage cohesively all these parts while keeping the client happy.
“The expected outcome of good project management is a more profitable project.” — Linda Newton
EFFECTIVE TEAMING
How to lead a successful team.
Effective Teaming is a full day seminar expressly delivered to assist those who are already working in teams move to the level of leading successful teams. We will learn and work with the five most important aspects of successful teams, employing techniques to turn ineffective teams into bonded, motivated teams.
By working through several small team scenarios, the attendees will have the opportunity to understand the differences between managing individuals and managing teams. They will practice and take away with them skills needed to be successful team leaders.
Team dynamics versus individual work
Managing teams versus individuals
Types of teams
Communication
Setting goals
Conflict resolution
Changing direction
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN PROCESS
How to integrate new philosophies and procedures into your
design practice.
This seminar is intended to be a starting point for Design Professionals to learn how to build in a sustainable manner.
We will give practicing Design Professionals a quick insight into the Principals of Sustainable Design. We will learn how our work in the built environment affects the inhabitants of our buildings and our planet, and identify several fundamental ways in which the traditional design process should change to allow for new products and ideas to be applied.
Through discussion and examples, the participants will begin to make those changes.
“The expected outcome of this seminar is a strong format for managing a sustainable design.” — Linda Newton
STRATEGIC FACILITATION PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
We provide a clear way for small to medium sized organizations to hone in on specific objectives and strategies to meet the company’s goals.
We may use visioning sessions, brainstorming sessions, company review, surveys, town hall meetings; all or any of the above.
Each session is prepared specifically for the client.
"Linda Newton has been a focused, energetic and articulate leader. Linda has been a dynamic and fully-prepared presenter at our life skills seminars on Conflict Resolution. She was working with several teens recently aged out of foster care who typically were not the easiest to engage in workshops, yet they did not hesitate to participate in her interactive sessions and reported they got a lot out of her seminars."
— Kim Golter,
Executive Director,
Jeremiah's Promise
"In my seven years with ASID, I have worked with Linda Newton on multiple CEU programs and witnessed her delivery of several others at venues including Interiors and NeoCon. She is equally effective in small groups and large lectures. Her presentations are thorough and well-prepared and showcase her mastery of her subject matter. Her programs are well-organized and tailored to the level of her audience."
— Deanna Waldron, Former ASID Director of Government and Public Affairs
