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DAVIS Ombuds Resource

DAVIS Ombuds Workshops

Interactive workshops that help DAVIS employees navigate conflict, strengthen communication, and build practical skills for productive working relationships.

Workshops make conflict management more accessible while reinforcing the Ombuds Team as a confidential, independent, impartial, and informal resource for employees.

Upcoming Sessions

Upcoming Workshops

Join the DAVIS Ombuds Team for interactive workshops featuring practical tools for navigating workplace communication and conflict.

October 7, 2026 12:00–1:00 p.m.

Giving and Receiving Feedback for Positive Change

Explore how to give and receive feedback in ways that strengthen communication and lead to positive change. Participants will learn to recognize different types of feedback, manage common reactions and triggers, respond constructively to critical feedback, and offer feedback with clarity, curiosity, and care.

Space is limited to 26 participants
November 3, 2026 12:00–12:45 p.m.

Meet Your Ombuds Team

Meet the DAVIS Ombuds Team and learn how this confidential, impartial, independent, and informal resource supports employees. The Ombuds will explain how they help employees explore workplace concerns, understand available options, prepare for difficult conversations, and identify constructive paths forward.

December 2, 2026 12:00–1:00 p.m.

Finding Alignment on Different Perspectives

Explore why people can interpret the same information in different ways and how those differences can affect collaboration and decision-making. Participants will build awareness of their own assumptions and approaches while gaining practical tools for understanding other viewpoints, identifying shared interests, and finding alignment.

Space is limited to 26 participants
Workshop Archive

Past Workshops

Previous sessions have addressed common workplace communication, collaboration, and conflict-management challenges.

June and February 2026

Introduction to Your Ombuds Team and Services

Introduced the DAVIS Ombuds Team, the Ombuds role, when employees may want to reach out, and how to connect.

June 2026 and October 2025

Giving and Receiving Feedback

Built skills for giving and receiving feedback with clarity and respect, including a framework for turning feedback into action.

May 2026

Skillful Collaboration

Explored practical approaches for strengthening communication, coordination, and working relationships.

October–November 2025 and April 2026

Navigating Difficult Conversations

Offered practical tools for preparing for and engaging in challenging workplace conversations.

January and March 2026

Tone in Email

Examined how tone can be interpreted in written communication and how to reduce misunderstandings.

February 2026

Advocating for Yourself in Uncertain Times

Shared constructive approaches for communicating needs, interests, and concerns during periods of change.

Your Facilitators

Workshop Presenters

Workshops are led by members of the DAVIS Ombuds Team.

Nnena Odim

Nnena Odim

DAVIS Ombuds Team Member

Nnena is an ombuds, mediator, attorney, trainer, and consultant with MWI.

Josh Hoch

Josh Hoch

DAVIS Ombuds Team Member

Josh is an ombuds, mediator, and instructor with MWI and directs MWI’s Ombuds and Mediation Services.

Confidential Support

Have a concern or want to talk something through?

Contact a member of the DAVIS Ombuds Team to discuss a workplace concern, explore available options, or prepare for a difficult conversation.

The MWI Ombuds resource is independent, impartial, informal, and confidential. Communication with an Ombuds Team member does not constitute formal notice to DAVIS Construction.

Contact a DAVIS Ombuds

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