Webinar Description

Working together with colleagues, co-workers, community partners and other stakeholders is essential to the work of prevention.  This webinar will help participants develop skills and strategies to more effectively in group settings, plan and lead productive meeting, and efficiently facilitate work groups, community groups, coalitions, and collaborations. Training will include both virtual and in-person techniques and skills.

Key Learning Objectives:

• Learn strategies to create collaborative relationships.
• Develop plans to design meetings using best practices.
• Identify behaviors that hinder and help a group process.
• Strengthen participatory and interpersonal skills.
• Learn options for managing group conflict.

Webinar Instructor

Crystal Tyler-Mackey is a Community Viability Specialist at Virginia Tech; Extension Leader, Inclusion and Diversity. Her academic career began at Virginia Tech where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Family and Child Development and  later earned a master’s and doctorate in Family Studies at the University of Maryland at Park College.

Before accepting her current position as a Community Viable Area Specialist for the Southeast District, she worked as an educator and researcher at the University of Maryland and then as a 4-H agent and unit coordinator for Virginia Cooperative Extension’s Richmond City office.

In her current role, she emphasizes family and community strengthening. She partners with local extension units, community agencies, and other groups to address social and health related issues that impact communities and families.