Workshops and Training

Defining your organization’s core brand values

This workshop is an uplifting and motivating approach to creating your organization’s culture that extends beyond your internal aspirations. When you align your team and agree on what you stand for, you establish enduring principles that become the cornerstone of both your internal culture and external identity.

To arrive at the core brand values, we start by asking: why do people come to work every day at your organization? We consider what makes your organization different from others (that do similar work), what problem you solve or benefit your organization provides, and then why should people care?

If your company culture is aligned and integrated with your brand identity, you can be completely authentic and stakeholders will trust your communication, decisions, and actions.

Leading Through Change

Leading through organizational change is difficult, especially when organizations neglect to prepare for the human side of change. Because change produces anxiety (for even the most seasoned employees), you can support your organization through change when you are clear, transparent, and define the vision for where the organization is going. Effective leaders communicate and listen leading up to and through change. We will talk about how to express your organization’s values and vision, include people in the process, and engage others and share decision-making to strengthen the commitment to change.

Action Planning Workshop

While a strategic plan outlines your vision for the future, key initiatives, and often key performance indicators, the action plan is where the rubber hits the road. The action plan allows everyone at the organization the opportunity to show how their day-to-day activities bring the vision to life. Sometimes it is difficult for everyone in an organization to understand how to go from strategy to implementation. In this workshop, we’ll talk about an approach to translating the strategy into action and successful outcomes.

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Assessment and Workshop

The Myers-Briggs Type Assessment (MBTI), supported by more than 70 years of science-based, research-based insight, is a robust tool for self-awareness and improvement. It provides positive language for understanding and valuing individual differences and preferences that often dictate how we interact, make decisions, gather information, and approach our work. The purpose of the assessment and this interactive workshop (virtually or in-person) is to help employees understand themselves and how they operate in the world.

Leadership Competencies and Understanding People and their Motivations

In this workshop, we will discuss the many core competencies of leadership and how to develop your own leadership capabilities. We start by recognizing that we can each build on our strengths and become aware of our blind spots. We will discuss what is meant by emotional intelligence and why it is important for leaders. We’ll explore how to earn trust, build relationships, and understand differences in how people learn, think, and work. When we realize there is variation, we can learn how to understand and motivate others. Can be delivered with or without MBTI foundation.

Team Building Workshop based on the MBTI

We can use the knowledge learned with the MBTI to raise the understanding and appreciation of colleagues and improve team relationships and cohesion. The MBTI assessment opens the door to learning about ourselves and how we impact others we work with. In this interactive workshop, we will explore how to apply our awareness of diverse personalities and preferences to real-life team challenges. The team will see immediate positive impacts of understanding each other, reducing conflict, and increasing morale.

Communications and Conflict Resolution

Good communication skills are some of the most important skills to develop at the workplace. While everyone doesn’t have to use the same communication style, there are some key principles for effective communication, including clarity, listening, and testing our assumptions. In this session, we’ll explore how to build communications skills and practice effective communication techniques.

Having difficult conversations or resolving conflicts may be the hardest part of our jobs. Exploring how to approach disagreement in ways that build trust and relationships will increase your comfort with initiating or responding to difficult conversations.

Giving and Receiving Feedback

Giving and receiving feedback are important parts of our work lives, and it helps quite a bit to have comfort with this type of communication. We will start with the idea of when it is important to give feedback. We’ll then explore tactics and practice how to give and hear feedback. We will provide tips for delivering difficult messages. This is a workshop that will have broad and long-lasting results.

Decision-making in the Workplace

We make decisions every day at work and many of our decisions impact time, costs, and relationships. How decisions are made can motivate or deflate individual commitment and investments at work. We will discuss different methods and approaches to decision-making.

When we communicate with colleagues at work it helps to establish agreements or team guidelines that provide clarity on how to make decisions. Each team can take the helpful step to establish norms and processes that they can rely on for predictability. A couple of examples of processes include establishing successful meetings or an editorial process for writing efforts. Creating a process for decision making is a worthwhile investment of time that will pay off in the long run.

Supervisor Expectations, Agreements and Coaching

Managers are effective when they set expectations about the work that needs to happen but stop short of explaining how it should happen. Employees are effective when they are clear about their roles and expectations. Therefore, communicating expectations is a win-win for supervisors and supervisees. We will talk about how to set expectations and what it means to be a partner or coach. Becoming a good supervisor doesn’t just happen in most instances so we’ll discuss some tried and true methods that managers can apply to enable employees to fully engage, contribute, and thrive.

Time Management and Avoiding Burnout Workshop

In this workshop, we will explore time management developing strategies for improving time management. Let’s face it, this is something we all struggle with. We’ll use a specific tool to figure out where individual challenges are and how to improve effectiveness. We will also discuss the concept of burnout, understanding that burnout is not necessarily about volume of work, lack of money or time, or poor time management. We will do some interesting exercises to narrow in on how we can avoid burnout.