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AGENDA ITEM MEMORANDUM DATE: September 16, 2013 TO: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers Patrick Klaers, City Administrator FROM: Sue Iverson , Director of Finance and Administrative Services SUBJECT: Continuation of Respectful Workplace Training Discussion Background In July we did a follow-up session of the May/June Council-Staff training on sexual harassment and hostile work environment. One result of this session was Council consensus that they would like to continue the work on team building and respectful work place with Sheila Krejci using a this new assessment tool, there would be no cost to us for the profiles. Council had expressed interest in having a retreat and working on this in a full or half day approach. The results from the profiles of the Leadership Team (Council, City Administrator, and Directors) have shown low scores for all areas of the five behaviors (trust, conflict, commitment, accountability, and results). Discussion Given the results of the scores and the desire of the Council to work on this area (as it is listed as one of our goals), we need to have a discussion on how the Council would like to structure this retreat. Originally, Shelia suggested having a couple of sessions two weeks apart, but she did say that she feels that we could see some positive results in a full day retreat. We could do something similar to what we have done in the past where we start out with breakfast, breakout for lunch, and then finish up our work with maybe a small break in the afternoon. This would be interactive and not lecturing, so there will be a lot of activity to demonstrate the five behaviour areas. It would also facilitate and help if each member could read the book as pre-work so we would not have to spend a lot of time on context, but actually on the work we need to do. The result would be to end up with a collective team action plan and create accountabilities and rules of engagement for success. 12 Page of