Article archive / November 1, 2012
Originally published: . Volume 4, No. 3. Source pages: 13.
Dr. Kerry Sauley, IO psychology professor with the LSU Executive Education program presented a training workshop for managers and executives titled, “Art of Effective Feedback and Communication.”
Dr. Kerry Sauley is the Marjory B. Ourso Excellence in Teaching Professor in the Rucks Department of Management at LSU. According to the LSU Media press release, Dr. Sauley focused on instructing participants on the benefits of feedback for work teams, including all levels of an organization.
Sauley helped managers understand how to give effective feedback that helps improve performance, and how to give feedback in a way that it is more likely to be accepted. He also demonstrated and taught methods for dealing with defensiveness and issues related to poor performance.
Also, he described methods for making negative feedback more useful and apt to elicit positive changes in performance, according to the press release. Dr. Sauley is a regular instructor in psychological methods for LSU Executive Education, part of the Stephenson Entrepreneurship Institute at the E. J. Ourso College of Business. The program has played a role in developing managers and supervisors, and their organizations, to meet the demands of the modern business and industrial environment, including global economic changes.
Dr. Sauley and colleague, Dr. Courtland Chaney, have, over the years, lead the flagship course, “Fundamentals of Supervision” (FOS).
The FOS course, first offered over 45 years ago, is a core part of the Management and Leadership Institute, a program of LSU Continuing Education.
FOS focuses on supervisory and general management skills needed for success in managing people.
For information about the program and Dr. Sauley, go to
http://business.lsu.edu/ex ecutive-education/
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