THIS SESSION IS CANCELLED.

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 1 | 3:30 - 4:00PM

Speaker: Mike Terrell, Michael Terrell Landscape Architecture, PLLC

Category: Leadership/Personnel

Description: Establishing a consistent and sustainable organizational culture is uniquely challenging for park and recreation organizations. Comprised of full time and seasonal employees that frequently operate independently and with great responsibility, you may be frequently challenged with establishing clear organizational communications, fostering an atmosphere of integrity and creating a foundation for individual and organizational trust. Landscape architect Mike Terrell draws upon his naval experience to identify where culture can be a barrier to operational excellence, create potential hazards and increase employee and organizational risk. Learn and discuss how communication, trust, and integrity affect an organization’s life cycle and how to achieve organizational excellence.

Learning Objectives:

• Introduction to fundamentals of organizational culture.
  
  
• Gain insight into organizational culture and introspective ways to individually assess your organization's culture to identify barriers to organizational excellence and risk.
  
  
• Identify the attributes of organizationally excellent agencies.

Speaker: Mike Terrell has over 29 years of experience as a landscape architect and planner working with private developers, cities and counties on the design of parks, trails and recreation facilities. In addition to this experience, he recently retired from the United States Navy with 30 years of service most recently as the lead facilitator for culture workshops aboard US Navy ships. His facilitation of culture workshops included working with all levels of a ship's organization from the most junior sailors to the senior leadership to identify barriers to operational excellence and potential safety hazards. Mike’s military experience coupled with his management and design experience working with management, maintenance personnel, and user groups gives him a unique perspective to observe the factors that create and sustain organizational: culture, communication, trust and integrity.