This interactive webinar offers a refreshing look at the everyday challenges facing public works professionals and how they can be turned into opportunities for progress. Rather than focusing on frustration, the session emphasizes constructive solutions, shared learning, and practical strategies that can be applied immediately in your organization.
Participants will explore ways to strengthen communication with leadership, councils, staff, and constituents, and practice approaches that foster clarity, respect, and impact. We’ll also dive into common organizational issues—including workforce dynamics, succession planning, mentoring, coaching, mental health, and innovation—and highlight tools and techniques to navigate them with confidence.
With a focus on collaboration and creativity, this session creates space for professionals at all levels to exchange ideas, sharpen problem-solving skills, and leave with renewed energy to make positive change in their workplace.
The Florida LTAP Center is pleased to partner with the American Public Works Association Florida Chapter (APWA-FL) to bring you this webinar.
Learning Objectives:
- Diagnose common hurdles, challenges, and obstacles within organizations and develop strategies for addressing them with confidence.
- Recognize the complexities of communicating with key stakeholders, such as leadership, councils, staff, and constituents, and practice doing so more effectively, directly, and tactfully.
- Identify shared organizational issues, including workforce dynamics, mental health, succession planning, mentoring, coaching, and innovation, and apply fresh approaches to navigate them constructively.
Panelists
◾ Jim Proce, City Manager, Lewisville, Texas
◾ Addie Javed, Ph.D., P.E., CFM, APWA FL Leadership & Management Committee Chair, Public Works Director
RECORDING
To earn Professional Development Hours (PDHs) or a Certificate of Completion for each recorded webinar, you must view the entire webinar. After viewing, please fill out the web form at the link below to request your certificate. The Florida LTAP Center will follow-up within 2-3 weeks.
This webinar will award 1.5 PDHs.
Click the link below to view the recorded webinar.
From Workplace Challenges to Breakthroughs: Celebrating Solutions in Public Works