Workshop and Seminar Overview

Taking Control of your Career - 1 day (may be conducted as two 1/2 day sessions), $349 per person

In the hustle-bustle of day-to-day work, we rarely take time to look at ourselves and understand who we are and where we are going. This session is designed to help participants do just that. Questions that participants will answer include: What are your strengths? What are your interests? What are your values and are you living them? Does your attitude need a checkup? What is your style and how does that serve you? And, how do the answers to these questions impact your career. Participants will leave this session with a clearer picture of themselves and an action plan for moving forward in their career.

Course Objectives:

Broaden your perspective of yourself
Increase your understanding of your personal values, strengths and attitude
Consider how you are seen by others
Identify your Interaction Style
Define and clarify your personal and career goals
Create an approach for managing your career plan

Developing Your Own Mentoring Environment - Customizable duration, Custom bid

This workshop is typically a preface to a consulting engagement to develop an in-house mentoring program.

Topics include:

Why its important to help yourself before helping others
Identifying potential mentors and proteges
Who makes the best mentors?
How to build a mentoring relationship
How to get the most out of the relationship
How to serve as a mentor to others

Mastering Business Networking - 1/2 day, $149 per person

Networking is one of the most powerful tools in business. It’s a critical skill for anyone who wants to have a successful career. Yet many of us don’t network as well or as consistently as we need to. A key to effective networking is building and maintaining mutually beneficial relationships. So, how do you do that? This session will provide tips and techniques as well as practice in a number of networking skills. Participants will leave the workshop with a plan for expanding their network.

Course Objectives:

Clarify the value of networking
Craft your personal introduction
Identify key networking techniques
Learn how to prepare for and engage in networking meetings
Create an action plan to expand your current network

Creating an Inclusive environment - Customizable duration, Custom bid

Topics Include:

Gender differences (how YOU think is not necessarily how others think)
Men and women as Colleagues
Mentoring men
Mentoring women
Developing internal mentors
Generational differences
Multi-generational leadership

The Art of Negotiating and Influencing - 1/2 day, $149 per person

To accomplish our jobs we need to influence others. We can influence using positive approaches or negative strategies. In this session, participants will assess and identify the influence strategies they tend to use most. A model for influence planning will be introduced. Participants will use the planning model to prepare for an upcoming situation where they need to influence someone. Participants will leave the workshop with a tool kit of strategies for influencing as well as a plan of action for becoming a better influencer.

Objectives:

Clarify the differences between power and influence
Identify your preferred influence strategies
Examine the styles and behaviors associated with influencing
Learn an influencing planning process and prepare for an upcoming situation
Create a personal action plan to become a more effective influencer

Engaging and Retaining Top Talent - 2/3 day, $275 per person

Losing talented personnel can be enormously expensive. Depending on the employee’s skill level, some experts estimate replacement costs range from 150% to 300% of the departing person’s annual salary. Factoring in the many other impacts on the business, it’s clear that engaging and retaining top talent can be critical to the success of the organization. This workshop is designed to explore the concept of employee engagement and the vital connection to retention.

Objectives:

Discover the importance and potential of employee engagement
Discuss various approaches to developing employee engagement
Understand the importance of the leader’s role in creating and supporting engagement
Explore reasons why employees leave their companies
Learn effective strategies to retain key employees
Determine what you can do to retain your top talent

Difficult Conversations - 2/3 day, $275 per person

Many of us find ourselves in situations where we need to have a difficult conversation with someone, and rather than have the conversation, we avoid it. Somehow, avoiding the conversation seems to be better than what we imagine it will be like to have the conversation. This session is designed to help participants understand why they avoid difficult conversations and then to learn strategies to hold a productive conversation to gain a desired outcome. Participants will leave the workshop with an action plan to use specific tools and techniques to handle difficult conversations successfully.

Objectives:

Explore how and why you avoid difficult conversations
Understand the dynamics of a difficult conversation
Learn the key elements in preparing for a difficult conversation
Mindset, planning, rehearsal, setting
Learn how to have a difficult conversation
Plan for and practice having a difficult conversation
Create an action plan to improve your skill at having difficult conversations

Managing Up - 1/2 day session, $149 per person

One’s relationship with his/her manager is important to success. It’s important for individuals to think about their manager's perspective and his/her needs and priorities, as well the impact their manager has on them as an employee. In this session, exercises and discussion provide tips and ideas on how to work more effectively with one's manager. Participants will leave the workshop with a personal plan to manage up more effectively.

Objectives:

Learn the keys to managing up
Examine how you respond to developmental feedback
Learn approaches to help you respond effectively to feedback from your manager
Practice giving feedback “up”
Consider how your attitude impacts others and the environment
Determine what you will do to more effectively manage up

Managing Conflict - 1/2 day, $149 per person

The work environment inevitably creates conflict situations. The conflicts can be about the work (e.g. my approach versus yours, schedules, priorities) or about the relationships (e.g. I don’t trust you, your style is different than mine). Conflict can be a source of creative solutions, but only if people understand both the value of conflict and how to resolve it. This workshop is designed to help participants understand how they naturally respond to conflict and to provide options to use for future conflicts. Participants will leave with specific strategies for managing conflict.

Objectives:

Consider how you influence conflict
Learn five response styles to conflict
Identify your response style to conflict and learn how to flex as needed
Learn approaches for resolving conflict
Determine what you can do to deal with conflict effectively

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Managing the Dynamics of Time - 1/2 day, $149 per person

Where does the time go? It seems there are never enough hours in the day. We all have the same 24 hours each day, yet some people seem to use that time better than others. Many workshops on time management teach everyone the same strategies for managing time. In this session, participants will identify approaches that best match their time style. Exercises and discussion will help identify a variety of time tips. Participants will leave the workshop with specific tips for how they can use their time more effectively and reduce their stress.

Objectives:

Identify your time challenges and your time goals
Identify your time style
Explore the 4 dynamics of time (Time in relation to people, Time Boundaries, Priorities, Informed Choices)
Learn tips for dealing more effectively with time
Create a plan to increase your effective use of time

Understanding How Technological Changes Can Impact Revenue - Customizable duration, Custom Bid

This workshop is essential to any business that needs to stay one step ahead of the competition and wants to remain successful in a rapidly changing environment.

Topics include:

Three technology trends every leader needs to know
Why generational diversity is directly connected to technological success drivers
Connecting technological and demographic changes to business goals
Identifying challenges and obstacles to technological changes before they impact productivity
How to maximize technology and minimize interpersonal friction
Keys to successfully transforming your business in an increasingly dynamic technologically and demographically driven environment

Generational Diversity - What it REALLY Means - Customizable duration, Custom Bid

There is a lot of talk these days about generational diversity and the four-generation workplace. But what does all the talk really mean to business leaders?

This workshop explores:

Demographic birth curves and basic generational differences
Benefits and limitations to a generational perspective on human capital
Generational cohorts as customers
How generational engagement drives business innovation and success
Organizational transformation that meets generational and business needs NOW