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Often, the problems begin with the fact that we never mastered (or we got complacent and abandoned) many of the basic fundamentals of effective communication. These small habits and/or disciplines contribute greatly to other people’s perceptions of you both personally and professionally. This presentation delivers simple but important mechanics and tools to help you to become a better communicator, which will increase your influence with others.

Attendee Takeaways:

1. Learn the 3 components of any communication, the pitfalls they can present, and how to defend against breakdowns that often occur even in the most basic communication
2. Discover ways to ensure peripheral contributors (or distractors) don’t take away from effective communication
3. See how 5 simple steps you can take will not only help you but also the other person or people with whom you’re communicating

The presenter will also provide the worst and best practices for managing and minimizing these risks. 

Attendee Takeaways:

1. A framework for understanding diversity and inclusion
2. A definition of diversity and inclusion
3. Worst and best practices for managing interpersonal relations in the workplace

1. Encourages the attendee to honestly assess your entity’s exposures 
2. Provides an objective best practices and data-driven evaluation of a public entity’s risk issues 
3. Provides a short “punch-list” of solutions to dramatically improve an entity’s loss experience.

Join PRIMA’s COVID-19 Reopening Task Force as they discuss PRIMA’s recent coronavirus white paper.

Task Force members will share information regarding the creation of return-to-work policies that address: PPE guidelines, social distancing, fleet management, cleaning protocol, and employee travel. Attendees are encouraged to participate in an interactive Q&A with the presenters.

Panelists:

Robin Flint, ARM, CSP, CEAS I, Senior Risk Management Advisor, Association of California Water Agency Joint Powers Insurance Authority

Dan Hurley, CSP, ARM-P, MS, Risk Manager, City of Chesapeake, VA

Amy Larson, JD, ARM, Risk and Litigation Manager, City of Bloomington, MN

Mike Payne, ARM, HEM, Risk Manager, City of Fresno, CA

Public risk managers are leading the effort to design effective and efficient reopening policies. 

This webinar will share information to assist public risk managers as they implement reopening plans to best meet the needs of their employees and more broadly, the public. The speakers will discuss the impact of this public health emergency and strategies to reopen while managing the risks associated with COVID-19.

• • Cooperative agreements with other entities
  • Public/private partnerships
  • Communication methods/messaging
  • Specific strategies being used to flatten the curve
  • Ways to mitigate the (negative) financial impact on the community
  • Steps taken to protect essential employees who are required to work
• Implications for future policy/procedure changes and the creation of new policies/procedures