Meeting Facilitation (16 hours)
- In this intensive two-day workshop, you’ll learn key concepts,
skills, tools, and techniques for facilitating meetings. Through
experiential activities and feedback, you’ll have extensive
opportunities to practice and build your facilitation skills. You will
complete the course with an understanding of the value of facilitation
and how to do it effectively. (An abbreviated version of this course
can also be delivered in 12 hours)
Delivering Presentations (8 hours)
- While all elements of effective presentations are covered, emphasis,
practice, and feedback in this one-day course focuses on presentation
delivery. Through the use of videotape and one-on-one feedback, you
will improve your physical delivery skills to help you maximize the
impact of your message. (This course can also be combined with Creating
Presentations – 16 hours)
Creating Presentations (8 hours)
- All elements of effective presentations are covered in this course.
The emphasis, practice, and feedback all focus on creating and
organizing presentations. You’ll learn how to focus the scope based on
your audience, determine the desired outcome and central idea of your
presentation, effectively organize your presentations, and maximize the
impact of message delivery by using the right supporting media. (This
course can also be combined with Delivering Presentations – 16 hours)
Coaching (8 hours)
- In this course you’ll learn how to diagnose the developmental needs
of others, develop coaching plans, effectively coach job-specific
skills, and create a positive, open, and trusting relationship with
your coworkers. Through feedback, self-assessments, real-life coaching
situations, and reflection sessions you will identify your own coaching
strengths and areas for improvement.
Strategic Planning (4 hours)
- In this practical hands on workshop you will learn about and create a
mission, vision and a strategic plan to help make your goals a reality. | Building Teams (time varies depending on need) - Through
interaction and experience you will gain a solid understanding of
successful teambuilding strategies, basic concepts of high performing
teams, and practical tools for increasing team effectiveness.
Experiential Team Building Workshops (time varies depending on need)
- Designed for intact teams, this fully customized workshop will focus
specifically on your team’s needs. We will work with you to
customize experiential activities specifically designed to help with
the challenges facing your team.
Listening (8 hours)
- In this course, you will learn how to use your listening skills to
accomplish your tasks and build better relationships. The course is
organized around a 3-part model for listening 1) focus – getting ready
to listen, 2) reflect – analyzing the whole message, and 3) respond –
communicating your response and initiating dialogue.
Change Management (4 hours)
- In this course you will differentiate between change and transitions,
discuss individuals’ responses to change, and use the William Bridges
model to examine transitions in your personal and professional lives.
Through personal reflection, experiential group activities, and
discovery learning you will learn strategies that guide you and others
through transitions.
Delegating (4 hours)
- If done correctly delegating can be an empowering tool to motivate
employees. If done incorrectly it can turn your employees against
you.In this course you'll learn the 3 steps to effective delegation:
determing the task, determining the person, determining the approach.
Succession Planning (4 hours)
- Are you ready for the future? Are you developing the next generation
of leaders? In this facilitated work session you will indentify key
positions for succession; determine how to identify and recruit
candidates; and create strategies to develop, support and evaluate progress. | Instructor skills (4 to 12 hours)
- Being an effective instructor involves practice. It may also include
changing some old habits. This day and a half workshop provides
opportunities for both. You will participate in group activities, give
individual presentations, observe others, and give and receive
feedback. Workshop topics include: creating an interesting and
motivating learning environment, delivery skills, working with media,
running activities and discussions, and dealing with difficult
classroom situations.
Instructional Design (8 hours)
- In this course you will learn the fundamentals of designing,
developing, delivering learning programs. The course is organized
around a 3-part model for instructional design 1) Analyze the learning
need, 2) Design and develop learning programs, and 3) Deliver and
evaluate learning programs. Topics include: needs analysis, writing
learning objectives, choosing instructional methods, developing
participant and instructor materials, and evaluation strategies.
Performance Evaluation and Coaching
(8 hours)
- In this course you will learn a comprehensive process to
objectively evaluate employees. Topics include: gathering data,
assessing employee performance, conducting performance reviews, goal
setting, determing who and how to coach.
Motivation (4 hours)
- Designed specifically for sales environments, this course will help
you create motivation and incentive programs that really work. Using
time tested psychological research you learn the three C's of any
effective motivation program: competency, control and community.
Professional Skills - Shorter (2 to 4 hour) topics can also be
delivered on the following professional skills or could be combined to
create a longer professional skills workshop. Short topics include:
- Delegation
- Motivation
- Feedback
- Goal Setting | - Time management
- Succession Planning
- Strategy /Visioning |
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