Our Workshops

Leading with PRIDE

Our PRIDE Model is based on 30 years of experience observing five key elements that create the environment for healthy and high performing teams. Together we walk the wheel of the PRIDE model to identify strengths and opportunities in each area. As a result, you will create a plan to elevate your team effectiveness back on the job. This session is best suited for intact teams. The PRIDE Assessment may be administered and compiled in advance to inform the focus of the workshop.

The Enterprise Leader

Leadership is not just about leading your function, but rather being a steward of the organization and seeing the interdependencies between your function and all other aspects of the system. Through the facilitation of a realistic simulation relevant to your industry/business, your leaders will gain a systems view of how their decisions and actions impact the whole of the operations. Leaning into the PRIDE model, participants will play out the scenario and elevate their thinking to an enterprise level.

The Interplay Business Simulation

Throughout this day-long workshop, teams launch and run simulated businesses that compete against each other. Participants take on senior leadership roles within each of the companies and make numerous strategic and tactical decisions throughout the day. Learning occurs as they explore options, discuss strategies and tactics, experience consequences of their decisions and actions and present and debrief results.  The simulation gives professionals the crucial perspectives they need to elevate to a more senior level and can be customized to reflect particular company challenges and dynamics.

The Mind-Body Leader

Leadership in today’s environment is getting more or more complex. In order to be most successful as a leader, one must be mindful of their own internal dialogue and the external world around them. Practicing mindfulness and mind-body awareness will exercise your brain’s neuroplasticity and increase your agility and effectiveness as a leader.

The Power of Emotional Intelligence

According to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report, emotional intelligence is one of the top qualities valued by employers today. Individuals who display high levels of emotional intelligence show an enhanced ability to adapt to change, manage their emotions, and work well with a diverse range of people. Simply stated, they are more successful. Learn how you can elevate your level of Emotional Intelligence and improve your effectiveness at work and across all aspects of your life.

Leading Change

Change is a constant in our world today. As a leader in your organization you have a dual role when it comes to change. You must be adept at managing change for yourself, while also leading change for others. Utilizing proven methods of change management and understanding the normal human response to change, you will be able to mobilize your team forward more rapidly and effectively as a result of this session. 

Coaching For Excellence

Coaching skills are essential for leaders today. In an environment where employees are looking for purpose and self-actualization, coaching can unleash the greatness of your team and dramatically increase employee engagement, which is the leading indicator of financial success. This workshop will distinguish between coaching, leading, managing, and counseling with hands on practice exercising our signature coaching process and proven coaching skills.  

The Power of Conflict

Conflict is the origin of possibilities. When embraced and respectfully engaged in, conflict can result in extreme growth, creativity, and collaboration. During this session you will identify the root causes of conflict in the workplace and utilize proven tools and techniques to harness the power of conflict toward new solutions.

Developing Your Mission and Vision               

Having a clear mission and vision allows your team to ground into something that is greater then themselves. It provides the team purpose in their day-to-day activities, makes decision-making more effortless, and helps to focus attention and energy toward what is most important. This workshop is delivered to intact teams resulting in a mission and vision statement by the end.  

Team Integration

For newly formed teams or teams in transition due to leadership or staff changes, restructuring, or mergers and acquisitions, this process accelerates the team through the phases of team development. You and your team will experience a direct impact on employee engagement, productivity, and bottom-line results. A Discovery Process with the team lead and select team members may precede the session.   

New Leader Integration

60% of new leaders fail within their first 24 months in a new leadership role largely due to a miss in building relationships quickly enough with their staff and not gaining an understanding of the team’s history, hopes, fears, values, and dynamics up front. This session is for new leaders and their team to accelerate through the phases of team development. A Discovery Process with the new leader and their manager will precede the session.    

Leadership Purpose and Point of View

Having a solid Leadership Purpose and Point of View provides the foundation for decision-making, courage, and action as a leader. During this session we will explore your strengths, values, passions, leadership style, defining moments in your life, expectations, aspirations, and goals to arrive at a powerful statement that will guide you through all leadership scenarios you may face in your career. 

Empowered Decision Making

Empowered decision-making is where team members are empowered to make decisions at the right level and function within the organization. Elevate leadership capabilities and build greater ownership for the outcomes of decisions across all operations by creating systems and processes where decisions are clearly tied to the mission, vision, values, and goals of the organization are made most effectively and in a timely fashion reducing confusion, blame, and energy drain.

Creating a Culture of Innovation and Agility

This workshop examines a proven process for creating a culture of innovation and agility. Explore how organizational culture directly impacts innovation and the ability to move quickly to meet market demands. Assess your organization on the innovation and agility scale and reflect on your role as a leader, identifying your individual innovation and agility strengths and weaknesses.  Develop strategies and management systems to build a culture of innovation from where you sit in the organization.

Developing Team Norms

Every team has norms. The question is whether they are functional or dysfunction and if they are deliberate or by default. Developing Team Norms is a powerful way of establishing shared behavioral expectations and a unified team culture grounded in purpose. This workshop is delivered to intact teams resulting in agreed upon, actionable team norms and a ‘keep it alive’ plan.  

Influencing in a Matrixed Environment

Working in a matrixed environment can be challenging. Explore the difference between power by authority vs power by influence. In this workshop we will share proven methods and tools to enable you to more effectively achieve desired outcomes in a matrix environment, that may also be highly siloed. You will improve your ability to discern when to manage and when to lead, understanding the difference and why it's important. Learn proven techniques to influence, motivate, and inspire without having direct authority. Learn communication approaches to increase trust and ensure cross-team communication and accountability.  

The Inclusive Leader: Maximizing the Mix 

This workshop is a provocative, interactive and highly applicable learning experience that brings to life what it means to be an Inclusive Leader.  It creates awareness of what it means to have an inclusive mindset, makes the business case for inclusion, applies inclusion and diversity principles to day-to-day management challenges and opportunities, increases productivity and performance by helping leaders create work environments where all employees are able to contribute and achieve their goals, and focuses on simple things that managers can do to be more inclusive.

The Art of Receiving Feedback

What do you do when you receive feedback? The power in feedback resides with the receiver. While most workshops focus heavily on giving feedback, this one will focus more on the art of receiving feedback. In this session you will explore your tendencies toward feedback and experience a transformational shift in how you see, hear and respond to feedback regardless of its delivery. You will also gain skill and confidence in conducting candid conversations with your team.