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Join leadership expert, Rhett Laubach, for the next Tribal RoadStar Class
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Tribal Safety Champions Workshop in OKC in November
Oklahoma Group Plans Towing
Erosion Control class held in Stillwater
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Contact:

Karla Sisco, Program Manager
karla.sisco@okstate.edu

Tabatha Harris, Tribal Safety Circuit Rider
tabatha.harris@okstate.edu
Serving tribes in Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Texas. 

October 9, 2015

Leadership Principles for Difficult Conversations - 
A Southern Plains TTAP Tribal RoadStar class
Tuesday, October 20
Stillwater, OK
 

Join leadership expert, Rhett Laubach, for this interactive program designed to improve the effectiveness of your conversation skills in difficult situations. Any leader who is seeking strategies and tips on managing critical situations with your team will benefit from this content.

Situations examined include: informing potential hires they have not been selected, performance reviews, and allowing a current team member to pursue other career opportunities. 


LEARNING OBJECTIVES 
1. Prepare effectively for difficult conversations. 
2. Identify conversation types you are either avoiding or mis-handling . 
3. A step-by-step process to follow through a difficult conversation. 
4. Handle the moments when the conversation doesn't go as planned (which is normal). 




Rhett Laubach works with associations, corporations and student organizations interested in developing leadership potential. Rhett is a professional keynote speaker and trainer, author, leadership expert, owner of YourNextSpeaker, LLC and 
PLI, Inc.and a 2014 brain tumor survivor. This experience has added a multitude of profound and powerful lessons that few presenters have the opportunity to share. (Learn more here.)
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Tribal Safety Champions Workshop
Join us at the Aloft Hotel in 
Oklahoma City-Bricktown
November 17-18, 2015

TOPICS ON THE AGENDA:
  • Smarter WorkZones
  • Tribal Data Collection
  • Data Driven Analysis of Bridge Safety
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • MUTCD
  • Low Cost Safety Measures
  • Cost Benefit Analysis (Successful Grants)

ROOM BLOCK IS FILLING QUICKLY!

(Government Rate of $94 until October 16!)


There are still a few Thunder tickets left for Workshop participants!
Please contact Carla Edwards at carla.edwards@crosstimbersconsulting.com
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Oklahoma Group Plans Towing
Industry Training
An Oklahoma work group on Traffic Incident Management (TIM) responder training discussed developing a low- or no-cost training program for towing industry and transportation workers at its September 18 meeting. A draft of the training program includes hazardous materials response, vehicle extraction and fire extinguisher use. Meeting participants represented the Eastern Oklahoma County Technology Center, Oklahoma Wrecker Owners Association, Oklahoma Department of Public Safety,Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Local Technical Assistance Program, fire departments and FHWA.

The Southern Plains TTAP will be offering an overview of Traffic Incident Management training at its upcoming Tribal Safety Champions Workshop in Oklahoma City, on Tuesday, November 17.  FHWA Operations Engineer, Richard Jurey will provide an overview of the Oklahoma SHRP2 TIM emergency responder training program.  He will also provide some basic information on how emergency responders can be prepared traffic issues at a crash scene.
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Daniel Tallbear, Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, and Samuel Riffel, Wichita Tribe, dig a trench to lay the erosion control materials.
Erosion Control training offers hands-on activities 
for participants
An Erosion Control class (Tribal RoadStar Program - Course 10) class was held for 35 tribal, county, and municipal workers at the Center for Local Government Technology in Stillwater, OK on Wednesday, October 7. The course, a cooperative effort of the Southern Plains TTAP and Oklahoma LTAP, was instructed by Jason R. Vogel, Ph.D., P.E, Associate Professor & Stormwater Specialist, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Oklahoma State University. Vogel gave an overview of the principles of erosion and sediment control, along with a discussion on low impact development. He also shared many erosion control examples and a recent video of a construction project captured by a drone at the City of Hot Springs, Arkansas. 

Vendors from Triangle Silt Dike and American Excelsior were also on hand to discuss the specific properties of their products and let class participants work with their erosion control materials. 

"This was a good opportunity for me to get a roads perspective of tribal transportation," said Denise Smith, Citizen Potawatomi Nation Transit Director. "I learned a lot!"

Denise is working on her Tribal RoadStar certification from Southern Plains TTAP, so she can have a better understanding of the many aspects of tribal transportation. 

The next Tribal RoadStar class will be held on October 20 in Stillwater, when leadership expert
Rhett Laubach shares an engaging and interactive presentation on handling difficult conversations.
You won't want to miss this one!

This material is based upon work supported by the U. S. Department of Transportation under Agreement No. DTFH61-12-H-00004.  Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the Author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the Federal Highway Administration.