Developing Teams
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Whether you are a team leader or an individual contributor, managing and engaging conflict is one of the most difficult challenges you face. The best leaders are skilled at conflict engagement and resolution that otherwise can be stressful, uncomfortable, and awkward.
This highly interactive workshop provides very practical techniques, language, and tools to proactively work through conflict and remove the stress. Each participant will take a conflict assessment that will be their foundation for understanding their conflict style, the tendencies they favor, and how to identify those they need to use more. This impactful workshop is 2.5 hours of intense training followed up with one-on-one coaching from one of our consultants on how to better manage conflict using their assessment results.
If you want to finally understand how to effectively manage conflict and learn the language and approach to make it less stressful, click the “Register Today” or call us @ 413-237-9891.
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Effectively influencing and leading requires courage, self-awareness, and the ability to use different behaviors and approaches based on the audience and circumstances. Whether you are an individual contributor or a people leader, we are all influencers in our organization, and we all play a role in growing talent, giving feedback, and managing work through people. The most influential leaders are those who use different methods of influence to drive value, create expectations, and get results through people.
Our workshop offers intuitive, practical, and easy-to-implement influencing tools and techniques that flat out work. It also provides insight into your behavioral influencing strengths, weaknesses, influencing gaps, and how to improve. Each participant will take an influencing assessment which will be the foundation for understanding your influencing style, the tendencies you tend to favor, and how to identity those that you need to use more. This impactful workshop is 2.5 hours of intense training followed up with one-on-one coaching from one of our consultants.
If you want to understand how to more effectively lead and influence, as well as develop some methods to apply, call 413-237-9891 to learn more!
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As a natural follow-up to the improving conflict and influencing workshops, this training workshop helps leaders understand how to adjust their behaviors and implement a system of accountability. The participants learn how to create touchpoints and give accountability feedback to support the success of others as they meet expectations. We also teach the participants how to provide accountability feedback and how to make constructive feedback a positive tool of performance management in this 2.5-hour workshop.
If you would like to see performance improve with greater accountability in your organization, call us for more details at 413-237-9891.
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We have all heard the saying, “If you don’t know where you are going, then any place will do.” This is not a good strategy for setting expectations, managing performance, and driving value. The foundation of accountability lives in the expectations that are set, the follow-up process, and the coaching and support provided. In this workshop, the participants will learn how to set detailed, specific, and time-bounded expectations that will change the way they get work done through others. This 2-hour workshop fits naturally after the improving accountability workshop.
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Our “It’s Okay to Be the Boss” book workshop program has successfully developed leaders at all levels: team leaders, supervisors, managers, senior executives, presidents, and business owners. This training experience offers a very personalized leadership growth experience, and each participant will be held accountable to apply and share their learnings with the class. The program is spread out over nine, 1.5 – 2-hour sessions and includes the completion of the TKI Conflict and PBI Influencing assessments by each participant. The assessment profiles will be linked to the learnings, discussed in each session, and will help the participants learn how to be the boss in an effective and practical way.
Specifically, the participants will learn how to:
Take the stress out of leading and driving accountability.
Implement a “system” of leadership.
Coach, motivate, and inspire their team.
Set expectations, follow up, and coach to improve performance of their team.
Provide constructive feedback that inspires, not demotivates.
Become a more effective team leader.
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This extended 4-to-5-hour workshop is a deep dive on the specific behaviors of your team as it relates to building and maintaining teamwork and trust within the group. Our philosophy is that for teams to improve, individual behaviors need to be understood and addressed. People need to work on themselves by first learning and growing and translate to new habits and behaviors to improved teamwork and trust. Therefore, each participant will complete the TKI and PBI leadership profiles to understand and self-reflect on how their tendencies contribute, or not, to teamwork and trust. This engagement includes a team-climate survey, interviews with each participant, a comprehensive discussion around the elements of teamwork and trust, specific barriers to teamwork and trust within the group, and an analysis of the behavioral assessments which are integrated in the workshop. The goal of this engaging workshop is to identify the gaps in teamwork and trust and create an action plan for visible and sustainable team growth.
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Traditional leadership, by default, is a byproduct of the chain of command, and it is both positional and authority based. Servant leadership shifts the traditional mindset to defining the role of the team leader as a temporary act of service in support of the success of people. Servant leaders see their job as working for their team, while leaders with traditional mindsets operate as the boss. This 2-hour workshop will transform the participant’s mindset to supporting the success of others. Learnings will include the language of servant leadership, how leadership-leader-standard work can be effective, and how to be more of a transformational leader. Every team member has available discretionary effort, and servant leaders inspire and motivate to activate that untapped effort. This workshop will help you understand how.
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Understanding how to manage emotions and reactions through self-awareness should be a professional and personal goal of every evolving leader. Our experience suggests that emotional intelligence is a key attribute of the most effective leaders. By learning or elevating your emotional intelligence, you can unlock available leadership capability that will improve your relationships, coaching ability, feedback delivery, improve your ability to manage stressful situations, and ultimately drive significant value to the organization. In our 2-hour workshop, we break down the key components of emotional intelligence and provide practical ways to become more self-aware, so you can influence as a leader at a higher level. You should walk away with the techniques and concepts to better self-regulate in any given situation by understanding your tendencies and behavior and how to leverage different behaviors for different circumstances.
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The game has changed when it comes to recruiting and retaining talent. Organizations and leaders are up against a whole new set of challenges, both culturally and competitively, that is forcing companies to change the way they attract and retain talent. However, no matter how many incentives and wage increases are in play, the one thing that doesn’t change is an employee’s emotional need to feel they are part of a team, a mission, and having a genuine connection with their team leader.
In this powerful, interactive 2-hour workshop, we teach leaders how to be more connected to their employees and the employee experience. Each participant will discover just how much power and control they have for improving the employee experience and how that plays a big role in employee retention. Our goal is to create more self-awareness around the leader as a retention coach and helps each participant realize that new behaviors and techniques are necessary to retain talent in the current marketplace.
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Is your organization going through or planning a significant change? Has there been a lot of leadership or organizational changes? Are you going through a major system upgrade? Will changes challenge the way people think, act, and do their jobs daily? If the answer is yes to any or all these questions, then this 2-hour workshop will support your change mission. It is designed to ready your leaders for change, from the front line to senior leadership, help them manage through it, teach them how to set the right example for others during the change, and show themhow to maintain a positive mindset.
