This two-day program addresses issues, practices, and conditions that help and hinder the building and maintenance of strong, interdependent, supportive workplace environments.
Core Concepts
- Interpersonal Relationship Building
- Cultural Conditioning
- Climate Change
- Infrastructure Management
Skill Sets
Engage in individual and community accountability practices which ensure vision & values clarification and integration
Develop and support meaningful relationship building practices and activities
Understand and manage personalities
Assess and mitigate politics
Create expectations and avenues for servant leadership
Address cultural practices and environmental factors that separate and segregate work groups
Develop climate change strategies to ensure safety and security
Create cross-boundary communication and decision-making opportunities
Building Spirit at Work
This one-day inspirational and practical program help employees and managers build self-awareness and find meaning and motivation in their work. Skill development and attitudinal adjustment strategies focus on seven core areas of practice.
Core Concepts
- Becoming Purpose & Principle-Centered
- Becoming Service-Centered
- Becoming Other-Centered
Skill Sets
Discern views of self, work, others, and purpose
Engage in servant-leadership practices throughout workday and promote servant-leadership across boundaries and throughout the culture
Behavioralize and operationalize values within daily activities and throughout processes and procedures
Engage in meaningful motivation and morale building activities
Provide appropriate recognition and rewards
Engage in self-care and stress management activities
Effectively assess and deal with burnout, set-backs, backsliding and compassion fatigue
Creation 101: Creative Thinking, Problem Solving, and Strategic Planning
This program can be tailored to be a one-day training program which reviews the concepts, core competencies, tools and methods for creative thinking and strategic planning, or is can be an all-encompassing three-day facilitated process with an output of an actual strategic plan and resolutions to multiple problems faced by managers, teams and the organization itself. With either choice participants engage in practical, interactive, activities and processes designed to make creative thinking, problem solving and planning fun while delivering concrete results. Using multiple models including our Planning Tree ® Model, B.A.S.K. ® Model, A.M.E.N. ® Model and Edward DeBono's D.A.T.T. Model participants gain new knowledge in the use of structured models and approaches which unleash creative ideas and integrate them into strategic action plans.
Core Concepts
- Systemic Assessment
- Opportunity and Critical Thinking
- Present, Short-Term and Long-Term Planning
Skill Sets
Stretch the mind to tap into right brain and left brain abilities
Understand and apply directed attention thinking tools
View and assess problems, situations and conditions from a systems perspective
Understand and engage in outcome-based planning
Determine right now, short-term and long-term objectives
Assess consequences and objectively evaluate ideas and plans
Use opportunity thinking methods for multi-faceted problem resolution
Identify stakeholders who must be involved
Delineate tasks and task groups which involve all stakeholders
Engage in resource assessment and management
Inspired Leadership: Leading with the Head, Heart and Hands
This one-day program uses our Leadership Star ® to address four conceptual areas of leadership as well as seven specific skill sets that all leaders need in order to succeed.
Core Concepts
- Spirit-Centered Leadership
- Servant Leadership
- Situational Leadership
- Strategic Leadership
Skill Sets
- Paradigm Shifts
- Purpose Discernment
- Passion Fulfillment
- Principle Identification
- Presence Practices
- People Development
- Planning Processes
Managers on a Mission
This two-day program, uses interactive large and small group work activities to build skills & knowledge and changes behaviors & attitudes related to 12 core competencies that managers and supervisors must be able to demonstrate in order to be effective. This program features our B.A.S.K. ® Model and our A.M.E.N. ® Model, both of which highlight essential practices and processes associated with each core competency.
Core Concepts
- Mission Management
- Performance Management
- Personnel Management
- Organizational Management
Skill Sets
Discernment of personal and positional mission
Personality assessment and management
Ability to set and manage great expectations
Engage in performance management
Create optimal conditions for success
Ability to get others to take risks and initiative for learning, leadership and growth
Understand coaching concepts and strategies
Delegate to, and empowerment of, others
Individual and organizational conflict management
Ability to give, receive, and act upon, feedback
Understand motivation and morale builders and busters
Develop effective time and task management practices
Navigating through a Sea of Change : Change Management Paradigms, Processes and Practices
This one-day program provides participants with an overview of multiple perspectives, practices and processes for managing change in individuals and teams, of projects and programs, and throughout the organization. Participants learn how to make change happen in a positive way through the review and integration of multiple models including William Bridge's model depicting Three Phases of Change , the Emotional Roller Coaster , the 360vu Model for Organizational Change , our A.M.E.N. ® Model and our OCD ® Model for Cultural Change.
Core Concepts
- Individual Change
- Group Change
- Project and Program Change
- Paradigm and Cultural Change
- Organizational Change
Skill Sets
- Understand change management paradigms
- Create a culture and climate that supports continual change
- Identify behaviors, attitudes, red flags and risk factors that enable a leader to know when change is needed
- Understand why individuals and group resist change
- Identify resistance factors and develop strategies to overcome resistance within individuals and groups
- Apply models to current organizational structures and circumstances to identify missing links in the individual, paradigm and organizational change management process presently occurring within the work unit
- Identify and role model appropriate leadership behaviors and practices which facilitate adaptability, flexibility and focus
- Develop a comprehensive plan for change inclusive identifying objectives, milestones, monitoring, and mitigating practices
- Design a process and plan for stakeholder group involvement in planning, monitoring, evaluation, and redesign of changing processes, products and procedures
- Engage in succession planning
Open Minds, Open Doors: Effective Communication Skills and Strategies
This two-day, high energy, interactive program focuses on practicing the art of effective communication. Using our A.M.E.N. Model, participants are in continuous, structured assessment and practice modes which enable them to learn and practice new skills, assess behaviors and conditions that block open mindedness and open communication, and plan for the inception of strategies and methods that foster an open exchange of communication.
Core Concepts
- Interpersonal Communication Styles
- Team Based Communication
- Cross Cultural Communication
- Cross Boundary Communication
Skill Sets
Deal effectively with fear factors that limit openness
Understand 3 types of communication
Solicit and reward diverse points of view
Objectively assess and respond to input
Understand social styles and how to manage each style
Read and monitor body language
Understand listener types and engage in effective listening
Know how to give and receive feedback
Delineate structures, methods and processes for information sharing and decision-making
Create processes and tools for cross-cultural communication
Raising the Bar: Ethics and Values Integration at Work
Dealing with ethics and values can be as dry as dirt and feel like just another warm-fuzzy process at work. This thought provoking one-day program, however, is anything but dry. This program is designed to bring to life the values and ethics within an organization so that they can be defined, behavioralized, measured, practiced and integrated in processes and practices across the system.
Core Concepts
- The power of the word
- The power of positions
- The power of individuals in action
- The power of integration into processes, policies, and protocols
- The power of practice
Skill Sets
Discern key values that promote respect and success
Understand how to behavioralize and measure values
Develop practices for insuring that values are infused into communication, decision-making, problem solving and other processes
Delineate and differentiate ethical vs. legal vs. policy guidelines
Design monitoring and mediation processes for ethical compliance
Understand practices which prevent ethical sabotage and counter-act myths and misperceptions
Identify leadership and organizational practices which blur ethical codes and compliance standards, and determine appropriate interventions
Team Up
This fun, interactive, high energy, two-day program is chock-full of activities which are designed to build team spirit, create cohesive-synergistic behaviors, enable a complimentary blending of personalities, build trust, facilitate group work and planning, reinforce team infrastructures, and promote productive processes for communication, decision-making and meeting management.
Core Concepts
- Team and Group Work
- Team Cohesion
- Team Leadership
- Team Management Practices
Skill Sets
- Engage in initiatives and activities that build trust and integrate values
- Conduct a team audit assessing past and present dynamics which form the foundation for synergy and success of highly effective teams
- Create appropriate vision and mission statements, and team agreements
- Build a team with complimentary personalities, understand group work stages and principles, and be able to assess learning styles
- Understand and be able to mediate conflict between team members
- Assess and revise communication, decision-making, leadership, problem solving, and planning processes
- Determine and offer meaningful team rewards while differentiating them from individual recognition
- Engage in effective meeting planning and management
- Share leadership and delegate responsibilities to team members
- Create multi-disciplinary, cross-functional teams
What you Need to Know to Help Others Grow: Training of Trainers
This in-depth two-day intensive program is designed to provide experiential practice opportunities to managers, HR professionals, trainers and any other person who is responsible for facilitating orientations, training programs, meeting presentations or delivering public addresses. Using a combination of techniques including meta-training, experiential group work activities, interactive discussions and teach-back sessions participants build their knowledge base, analyze methods-tools-models, and practice essential skills.
Core Concepts
- Training and Teaching
- Facilitating and Group Coaching
- Presenting and Public Speaking
- Instructional Design
Skill Sets
TRAINING FOR BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS
TRAINING FOR GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS
TRAINING FOR FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS
TRAINING FOR NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS AND CNCS ORGANIZATIONS
TRAINING FOR PERSONAL GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT
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