Your workforce is both your biggest challenge and your most valuable asset.

Developing the team you already have, helping them grow, stay engaged, and build new skills, is not only the smartest way to reduce turnover, it’s far more cost-effective than constant hiring.

This six-week program is offered in person, on Thursdays from 8:30am to 12:30pm in Watertown at the Fairfield Inn & Suites.

This series includes six modules:

The Fundamentals of Managing Others: Core skills that help you coach effectively and build high-performing teams.

Improving Interpersonal and Communication Skills: Practical strategies to collaborate better and create a positive work environment.

Coaching and Motivating for Performance: Learn to coach rather than direct and understand what drives employees to excel.

Addressing Difficult Employees and Managing Conflict: Tools to handle challenging behavior and resolve workplace conflict.

Understanding Key Employment Laws: A practical overview of essential employment laws to help managers mitigate risk and lead effectively.

Putting It All Together: Build a performance management process that aligns teams with organizational goals.

This Exclusive WISER IUCRC Webinar led by our Industry Advisory Board co-chairs, Kyle Bentley (National Grid) and Adam Helman (Avangrid) welcomes North American WISER Energy & Electric Power Industry prospective members, to learn about the WISER Program and the 2026 launch of the WISER Center’s North American Forecasting Weather, Outage, Load and Damage Initiative. 

During the webinar, the WISER IUCRC Industry Advisory Board co-chairs will share WISER’s impactful Member Benefits package, how WISER has impacted their respective organizations, and will discuss the high-impact ROI and market shaping opportunity the WISER Center is set to launch in 2026, the North American Forecasting Weather, Outage, Load and Damage Initiative, which will leverage a collaborative technical approach and research capabilities powered by WISER’s two University R&D Centers located at the University of Connecticut and the University at Albany, which will deliver modular and scalable Weather, Outage, Load Forecasting and Damage models with a central goal of growing Return on Investment and Business Impact for WISER membership. 

This opportunity will be offered exclusively to WISER Industry Members starting in 2026.