Vampires @ Work: Handling Difficult People and Conflict
Track: Business Administration

Friday, May 1st | 10:30 - 11:45am
Speaker: Kostas Voutsas
Room: 405


Description:

Get past the drama of difficult people, improve work relationships, reduce stress, and keep calm when kittens become tigers at work. Explore solutions to managing workplace conflict. Discuss how to influence skills to get buy-in, and implement change initiatives to align around core employee cultural values to achieve a real corporate culture win. 


Speaker Bio: Kostas Voutsas

Kostas Voutsas has been teaching Management and Human Resource courses for over 17 years. He is a tenured Assistant Professor of Business at Dickinson State University (DSU) in the Bismarck campus. He is also an author, a corporate trainer, and motivational speaker.

Kostas received the 2013 educator of the year award from Bismarck's Chamber, the distinguished teacher of the year award from DSU, the outstanding teacher of the year award from DSU, as well as the TRIO outstanding faculty award from DSU. He also received two outstanding presenter awards from Eastern Michigan University and the Clute Institute of Academic  Research.

Kostas delivers humorous dynamic presentations at national and state conferences and publishes his research in scholarly journals.  He also serves as a consultant conducting individualized training/professional development seminars.