TRAININGS & WORKSHOPS

As a leader, managing change is nothing new. So, why does it feel so much harder now? Because change has changed. It’s no longer an event to prepare for, but a constant reality to cope with. With this unrelenting pace and intensity, your employees don’t have a chance to recover from the last initiative before moving on to the next one. Over time, even the best employees will either stop caring and check out or try so hard they eventually burn out. 

While you can’t stop the tsunami of change, as a leader, you have more power than you think to create calm within the storm. In this program, you will learn how to: 

• focus employees’ attention so you can inspire high performance even in the midst of significant change and competing priorities. 
• shift your mindset and language to help you manage emotions and move your team through resistance and drama rather than getting stuck in it.
• develop your own resilience, so you have the energy, patience, and endurance to be there for your employees over the long haul. 

Although we’ve made huge strides in technology and enabling systems, our productivity isn’t skyrocketing like you might expect. What’s going on? Should we blame it on lazy, unproductive people? Definitely not. In most cases, it’s not a matter of dead wood, but instead, dead work. Even the most talented teams are drowning in tasks that add little value while consuming huge time and energy. Not only is that unproductive, it’s also demoralizing. And you can’t just work harder and faster because the torrent of tasks is unrelenting. In this program, you will learn to: 

• Spot the difference between high-value and lower value work
• Reduce the time and effort you’re spending on low value activities by triaging whether they are important, urgent, unique, and essential
• Say ‘no’ to low value work in a way that strengthens your team

The days when members of a team are all together in an office are long gone but your responsibilities as a manager haven’t changed. You still need to ensure your team members have clear direction, have the skills to succeed, and the motivation to perform, even when the tried and true approaches aren’t available or won’t work. In this program, you will learn to: 

• Set team members up for success by understanding the factors that contribute to effective remote work
• Strengthen team dynamics by fostering trust and mastering virtual collaboration methods
• Find novel ways to productively engage a remote or hybrid workforce and to address the common challenges the emerge 

With the rise in matrix organizational structures and cross-functional teams, leaders increasingly need to get things done through influence, rather than direct control. That style often doesn’t come naturally. Most people have been taught to make a good case with strong evidence or sound logic. Unfortunately, that’s not how humans make decisions. Using a barrage of evidence can even make things worse. In this program, you will learn to:  

• Use multiple different levers of influence to persuade with strong credibility, tight logic, and compelling emotion
• Structure your arguments differently depending on the situation and the individuals you need to influence
• Develop the mindset, skillset, and deliberate practices that will take you from influencing people to becoming an influential person

There are few things more excruciating than a bad meeting. Why, then, do we continue to invest hundreds of hours in this futile effort? Because there are few things more gratifying than a great meeting. Why does the formula for a good meeting remain elusive? How do we get more efficient, effective, breakthrough meetings and fewer terrible ones? In this program, you will learn to:

• Learn the three primary meeting structures and how to choose the right structure for the purpose
• Answer the 5 preparation questions to set any meeting up for success 
• Use a variety of techniques to generate insight, increase accountability, and drive action