Training and Workshops

Is it positive? Is it true? Is it possible? The answer to a new training concept, process or skill must be yes, to each of these questions, in order for the training to be truly useful.

Our training is innovative and is grounded in best practices from a variety of sources. The concepts, models and activities are made clear and practical through outstanding learning materials and resourceful trainers. The result is a powerful, eye-opening learning experience that will be carried back to the workplace. Click on the bold titles for more information.

Performance and Balance: Develop Corporate Athletes Corporate athletes are capable of sustained, outstanding performance. To get this level of elite performance, a balance of exertion and recovery is essential. This not only strengthens endurance but also prevents damage. Balance isn’t found by creating more time. It comes about by generating more energy and skillfully managing the cycle of exertion and recovery. This workshop builds on a behavior-based work-life balance assessment and provides a streamlined process that ends with a clear action plan for personal change and accountability. Click for more information.

Precision Communication: Building a High Performance Communication Culture Businesses thrive when a sustainable communication culture is in place. Too often, valuable resources are wasted through needless miscommunication. This workshop helps prevent fragmented, ambiguous or contradictory communication so that teams can perform optimally. When people are communicating clearly, concisely, and respectfully, work gets done! This provides the skills necessary to be more effective in cross-functional teams, across sites and with different cultures. Click for more information.

Say It! Finding the Words for Difficult Conversations Difficult conversations are often necessary and often avoided. This half-day workshop asks each participant to focus on one difficult conversation that they currently face. They are given guidelines for how to say what needs to be said, create a script and then receive feedback. Special emphasis is placed on communicating with respect for self and others in order to optimize productive ongoing communication. Click for more information.

The Contact-Zone™: Power and Influence When managers rely less on position power and more on personal power, they have greater capacity to influence others. This workshop shows participants how to develop their personal power and relational intelligence in order to generate higher performing teams and greater productivity. Participants learn about 4 limiting power patterns and 4 corresponding antidotes that support greater personal power and leadership effectiveness. New skills are anchored by playing the interactive Contact-Zone™ Board Game, which provides intensive skill-based feedback. Click for more information.

Any of the previous workshops or programs can be sampled through a short presentation. Each of them can also be customized as needed.

Return on Investment

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"The Contact Zone™: Power & Influence training has caused me to be more conscious of how I act or react and to identify what I didn't even see before. I now know how to respond in a positive way even when the other person is reactive."

--Senior Director, Forbes International Top 100, Electronics Company