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Workshops
Transformations in Leadership Workshop
Looking for a better way to influence lasting change and increased performance in your team, organization or community? Extraordinary accomplishments and contributions are not the product of the latest innovative approach, tool, or method. They come from the inside out. Leaders must be able to effectively lead themselves before they will have any amount of success in doing the same for others. This two-day workshop allows participants to differentiate their true source of strength as leaders from erroneous ideas of what they need to do to be successful.
Along the way, participants learn to utilize a process for identifying and addressing underlying assumptions that have kept them from doing their best work. They learn to recognize and harness the power of their thoughts and intentions to create lasting change and apply this knowledge to addressing real business challenges they currently face. Additionally, participants address the obstacles that keep them from carving out the time necessary to maximize their energy, make effective decisions, and accomplish more with less effort. This workshop includes two follow-up group coaching meetings, to help participants anchor and integrate their learnings.
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DISC Behavioral Style Workshop
Ever wonder why it seems so much easier to communicate, work with, influence, or sell to some people and not others? Treating others they way you’d like to be treated works great when they have the same style you do. But when those you interact with prefer different ways of doing things, this approach falls short. The key to establishing strong partnerships with coworkers, peers, subordinates, bosses, customers, and anyone else you might deal with is in understanding and appreciating their unique styles and leveraging your differences to work together. The four-hour DISC assessment-based workshop allows you to do just that. This workshop is widely used in teams to improve working relationships, and can also be utilized by professionals in any line of work to assist them in establishing and maintaining strong connections with those they wish to influence.
Also available is a day-long train-the-trainer workshop as well as licensing of the workshop, which includes unlimited use of the power point presentation and permission to reproduce facilitator and participant materials for one year.
Strategic Planning
Achieving and sustaining high levels of success in an organization requires that the intentions and actions of its members be aligned with the emerging needs of those it serves and that the challenges of its internal and external environment have been anticipated and addressed. During this workshop, participants work together to create a one to five year strategic plan for their organization/department. Day one of the process involves clarifying and aligning values, confirming the mission and creating a compelling vision, identifying the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT), and determining strategic business thrusts and related initiatives necessary to carry out the vision and mission. Day two is dedicated to creating an implementation plan, complete with accountabilities, time frames and measures as well as establishing a process for monitoring progress.
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Executive Coaching
The mark of a truly successful executive is an unwavering commitment to excellence. Extraordinary leaders know that before they can improve the world around them, they must first start with themselves. Courses, workshops and literature can provide assistance to this end, but all too often professionals find themselves returning to their offices drawn right back into the very habits, patterns and ways of doing things they were seeking to rise above. Executive coaching is an ongoing, custom-tailored leadership development process that allows individuals to achieve higher performance and satisfaction by becoming focused on their goals and taking steps to create alignment with their desired results.
The process allows leaders to identify and overcome limiting assumptions and patterns and take steps to address challenges and opportunities as they emerge. As a result, clients gain a heightened self awareness that allows them to build better relationships, gain greater influence, make better decisions, increase creativity, communicate more effectively, and achieve longer lasting, more significant results with less effort. The process consists of two 50-minute meetings each month, and can be greatly enhanced with the use of Performance Assessments and 360 Degree Feedback (see below). Six and twelve month packages are available, and all services are fully customizable. Click here for more information about Executive Coaching.
Follow-up Coaching Sessions
Research has shown that the success of training and development efforts is greatly enhanced through follow-up coaching. Follow-up coaching helps participants take the steps necessary to apply what they have learned and overcome any obstacles they may encounter along the way, and differs from Executive Coaching in that it involves only one to three 50-minute meetings, rather than a series of regular meetings over a sustained period of time.
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Performance Assessments
Performance assessments can be utilized to help clients increase awareness and knowledge to improve their understanding of their behavior, styles, motivations and perceived effectiveness. As a result, they are able to improve their working relationships, take action to address their blind spots, and leverage their own unique way of doing things to achieve better results.
DISC Behavioral Style Assessment
This on-line assessment instrument provides clients with an in-depth report designed to help them become more aware of their own behavioral style, as well as to learn methods for working more effectively with people who have different behavioral styles. With this new found awareness and appreciation, individuals can improve their relationships and influence with colleagues, customers, bosses, and direct reports, as well as significantly improve levels of teamwork in their organizations.
Workplace Motivators
This on-line assessment allows clients to understand and appreciate the attitudes that drive their actions, as well as the attitudes of others and how they differ. With this knowledge, individuals will immediately be able to understand the causes of conflict, as well as heighten their awareness of the kind of work that will bring the greatest satisfaction and ultimately the highest level of motivation to succeed. When paired with the DISC Behavioral Style Assessment, the Workplace Motivators Assessment gives people an in-depth understanding of not only why they do the things they do, but how those values get expressed through their behavior.
360 Degree Feedback
This process allows leaders to gain a better understanding of how they are perceived by others, including their boss, peers, customers, and direct reports. Feedback around the client’s areas of strength and opportunity can be gathered via an on line instrument or through personal interviews. Our custom designed on line instrument measures the degree to which leaders exemplify the Seven Secrets of Extraordinary Leaders™ and also allows respondents to enter written comments. The personal interview process results in a feedback report which consolidates data gathered via eight to ten one-on-one interviews into the most prevalent themes. These services can be complemented and enhanced with ongoing Executive Coaching, or one to three follow-up coaching sessions.
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Keynote Presentations, Briefings and Seminars/Workshops
One of a kind programs can be designed and/or customized to meet the needs of your audience. The following are examples of what we have done before.
Relationships Redefined
Ever find yourself wishing you just didn’t have to work with certain people? This workshop will give you concrete tools for improving the effectiveness of significant working relationships by:
- transforming the ways in which you think about and perceive others, yourself, and the experiences you find yourself in, and
- aligning your behavior with desired results. The workshop is interactive, providing you an opportunity to directly apply concepts and tools to your own difficult relationships and emerge with a new approach for relating to people who are critical to your success.
The Paradox of Productivity
Do you find yourself running around trying to get everything done and feeling like you just aren’t getting any traction? This workshop will help you understand why doing more doesn’t always result in achieving more and to give you some ideas and tools to help master the art of balance to powerfully impact performance. Objectives include:
- identifying the hidden pitfalls in people’s most common approaches to getting things done,
- learning to reframe your biggest, most daunting challenges in ways that set you up for success,
- reviewing powerful strategies for effectively and efficiently approaching, organizing and completing your work,
- identifying simple methods for increasing your energy, clarity and focus, and
- working through assumptions that keep you from getting more done with less effort.
Now We’re Talking
Are your conversations moving you forward or backward? If you dread talking to people about sensitive or highly charged issues, you aren’t alone. This workshop will help you minimize the obstacles that get in the way of honest, open communication. Objectives include:
- recognizing the most common pitfalls to effective communication,
- identifying and working through assumptions that are keeping you from communicating effectively,
- applying a three step process for reframing a communication challenge you are currently faced with, and
- practicing two simple approaches to communication that will sidestep the majority of pitfalls most people fall into.
Communicating with Style
Ever wonder why it seems so much easier to communicate, work with, influence, or sell to some people and not others? The four-hour DISC assessment-based workshop allows you to understand and appreciate your own and others’ unique styles and to leverage your differences to work together. This workshop is widely used in teams to improve working relationships, and can also be utilized by professionals in any line of work to assist them in establishing and maintaining strong connections with those they wish to influence.
Also available is a day-long train-the-trainer workshop as well as licensing of the workshop, which includes unlimited use of the power point presentation and permission to reproduce facilitator and participant materials for one year.
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Consulting
Facilitation
The definition of facilitate is to make easier. Facilitation services can be utilized in any meeting to help participants stay focused, address difficult issues in a constructive manner, ensure that everyone is heard, and establish accountability for action. Most people want to minimize the time they spend in meetings. Facilitation enables groups to achieve high quality results in less time, through a level of participation that generates long-term commitment.
Teaming for Success
Most teams are capable of performing at much higher levels than they have become accustomed to. The secret to unlocking their unrealized potential often lies with the team members themselves. The Teaming for Success process involves tapping those individuals via data gathering interviews to identify areas of strength and opportunities for improvement. Questions are asked around the topics of mission, vision, goals, level of excitement within the team, work processes, information sharing, reinforcement, leadership, and customers. Data is then summarized into the main emerging themes.
Feedback is first reviewed with the leader, who takes the opportunity to identify potential development areas for him/herself and prepares for the team feedback and action planning session. During the team session, feedback is reviewed with the team in the first part of the eight hour session. In the remainder of the session, the team collectively identifies their most significant opportunities and creates a plan for taking their performance to a new level. In addition, one-on-one coaching is available to the leader to help address areas identified by the team (see Executive Coaching and Follow-up Coaching.)
New Leader Assimilation
Since leaders, by definition, are those who inspire others to be and perform at their best, the first challenge of a new leader is to establish strong, trusting relationships through which a true partnership can take root. This workshop facilitates the rapid development of a shared understanding and knowledge between a leader and his/her staff via two way communications. The three to four hour process facilitates the exploration of mutual expectations, concerns, unanswered questions about the leader’s background or vision, upcoming challenges for the organization/department, and ideas for action. After the session, leaders can schedule a follow-up, or potentially begin an ongoing coaching process (see Executive Coaching and Follow-Up Coaching.)
Customized Services
Consulting time can be dedicated to creating custom tailored initiatives to address emerging needs of your organization or to help anchor the success of projects already in progress.
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