Using one of the world’s most widely used leadership model and assessment, the Leadership Challenge® Workshop is designed to help aspiring and accomplished leaders alike achieve their personal best and improve their effectiveness in a leadership role. The workshop is based on the Five Practices of Exemplary Leaders described in the bestseller “The Leadership Challenge” by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner. Through a series of exercises, the workshop enables leaders to identify their strengths and development needs, clearly communicate values, inspire others to achieve a shared vision, search out opportunities to innovate, build collaboration and teamwork, and recognize the accomplishments of others. Participant materials are purchased through The Leadership Challenge organization

This workshops is designed to help people build more effective leadership and working relationships based on an understanding of different behavioral styles. The FIRO-B workshop is based on the Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation (FIRO) theory of personality and leadership style and its research-validated model. Similarities and overlap with the Myers-Briggs (MBTI) typology are discussed and participants are encouraged to become familiar and comfortable with use of the instrument and its perspective. Duration: Half-day (FM)

The Everything DiSC® Workshops are designed to help people build more effective working relationships based on an understanding of different behavioral styles. The DiSC workshops are based on the Everything DiSC personality assessment, a researchvalidated model. Using the assessment, the workshops: Provides a common language to help teams understand one another and work better together Acts as a springboard for conversation and team building Improve employee and workplace communication Reduces conflict and avoids misunderstandings.

We offer the following DiSC® workshops:

Everything DiSC Workplace®

Can be used with everyone in an organization, regardless of title or role, to build more effective relationships, and improve the quality of the workplace.

Everything DiSC® Management

Teaches managers how to bring out the best in each employee. They learn how to read employee styles and adapt their own styles to manage more effectively.

Everything DiSC 363® for Leaders

Combines the best of 360s with the simplicity and power of DiSC®, plus three personalized strategies for improving leadership effectiveness. For anyone who wants to use 360° feedback as part of their leadership development, whether an emerging leader or an experienced executive.

Everything DiSC Work of Leaders®

The Work of Leaders made simple: Vision, Alignment, and Execution. Based on best practices, Work of Leaders connects to real-world demands, generating powerful conversations that provide a clear path for action.

Each person has their source of power. There are certain practices that draw this power to the surface, and into everyday practical life. This course will cover the fundamentals of these critical practices and will allow you to experience your own personal power, as well as invite and synergize with the power of others:

Topics Include:

1. Take charge and be proactive, not reactive:

2. Plan your moves by starting with the goal

3. Prioritize the important things ahead of the trivial ones

4. Find solutions that benefit everyone

5. Listen before you tell

6. Create synergy with others

7. Constantly make yourself better:

Duration: Half-day (RM)

Strategic thinkers are able to see “the bigger picture” and not get caught up in the tactical or operational mindset. This course is designed for people who want to be able to move beyond dayto-day, reactionary thinking to a more long-term and future-focused perspective.

Topics include:

Definitions of operational, tactical, and strategic thinking Obstacles to strategic thinking Methods for gaining a strategic perspective Identifying the strategic elements of an organization Strategic leverage points Decision making from a strategic perspective    Strategic forecasting Duration: Half-day (FM)

The goal of this half day workshop is to enable participants to prioritize work, complete critical work and manage email in order to increase productivity and daily efficiency. This workshop is based on the best seller, “Master Your Workday Now!” by productivity expert Michael Linenberger. The course offers a revolutionary yet simple system that automatically eliminates the feeling of being overwhelmed with daily tasks, boosts focus and concentration, and increases personal productivity. The course features a paper based system which can be easily adapted for use with Outlook or other business software applications. 

Duration: Half-day (MAK)

The goal of this half-day workshop is to provide participants with an understanding of competencies necessary for success as a new supervisor. The emphasis is on the new behaviors individuals need to demonstrate for a successful transition from peer to supervisor. This course will include the video, “Would I Follow Me?” which contrasts ineffective and effective supervisory behaviors. Participants learn six effective leadership behaviors and the impact those behaviors have in getting the new supervisor off to a successful start. The course will also include group exercises and discussions which will enable the participants to apply concepts to situations they encounter as a new supervisor.

Duration: Half-day (MAK)

Many highly capable scientists and technical professionals enter leadership and managerial roles unprepared for their new positions and possibly unmotivated to undertake the roles. This seminar clarifies why such professionals could make great leaders of other similar specialists or conversely be horrible ones, and what can be done through training, mentorship and screening. Issues such as micromanaging, the role of empathy, and the question of whether to ally with a non-technical coleader are discussed.

Duration: Half-day (FM)

Telecommuting continues to grow in popularity as an alternative to commuting to work and as a way to design and maintain virtual teams. Despite its clear benefits, telecommuting is not without problems and may not be for everybody. This seminar describes the potential advantages for the employee and the organization, the pitfalls to be addressed, the individual situations and personalities for whom telecommuting can be especially problematic and constructing and evaluating telecommuting program.

Duration: Half-day (FM)

Much of the role of a manager and leader is to guide, direct, and advise subordinates, including guiding them in their role as supervisors. This seminar differentiates between the roles of coaching, mentoring, and advising. It provides an overview of the specific roles the leader may take in coaching subordinates, including socialization, goal setting, fostering openness to change, role modeling, and sponsorship. The role of advising and listening is described, including the nine pitfalls of giving advice.

Duration: Half-day (FM)

Employee loyalty and commitment is an elusive and still important quality and employee retention has many benefits. This seminar explains why people identify with work and other organizations, how an organization can capitalize on the identification of employees, alumni, and (in the case of non-profits) members and volunteers. It also examines what managerial behavior can increase and decrease retention.

Duration: Half-day (FM)

Many professionals find themselves overwhelmed by the numerous and sometimes conflicting demands of career, marriage and other family connections, health maintenance, communal responsibilities and other undertakings. This interactive seminar describes the elusive concept of work-life balance and provides a step-by-step approach to working toward that goal.

Duration: Half-day (FM)

Boredom is associated with numerous psychological, physical, and communal problems, yet it is often seen as trivial. This seminar discusses the range of feelings and perceptions called boredom, the causes and consequences of boredom, and differences between transient and chronic boredom. It differentiates between “traditional boredom” and “new boredom”. Traditional boredom derives from personal proneness to boredom and/or limitations of certain jobs such as routine and repetitive work. By contrast, the new boredom stems from societal problems such as inability to concentrate and the need for constant stimulation that then seep into the workplace, making even interesting work potentially boring. Potential solutions to traditional and new boredom are presented.

Duration: Half-day (FM)

This half day workshop provides team leaders with a practical model to build and sustain high performance teams. Through the use of a hands-on, interactive exercise, team leaders and team members will be introduced to a model of team development and experience the phases of team development in the process of accomplishing a task as a team. Participants will discuss the three types of teams and their functions, the actions to take to create a high performance team, and how to diagnose issues impacting team performance.

Duration: Half-day (MAK)

This half day workshop provides a practical approach to conducting coaching conversations. Through the use of a structured coaching process, participants learn to develop the competence of those they lead or, when necessary, use the coaching process to address performance or behavioral issues. Participants demonstrate the coaching process in customized skill practices developed for each client organization that reflect common issues facing supervisors. The process is designed to help supervisors focus on identifying specific areas for performance improvement and through dialogue with the employee, develop an action plan to address performance needs and monitor progress.

Duration: Half-day (MAK)

The objective of this two day workshop is to enable participants to efficiently prepare and effectively deliver presentations that meet the presenter’s objectives for the audience. Three videotaped presentations are made by each participant during the two days. After each presentation, participants will receive feedback and they will also be able to view their presentations on their individual DVD. Workshop size is limited to no more than 10 participants to provide for individual coaching and feedback.

Duration: 2-day (MAK)

This half day workshop provides participants with an understanding of the Performance Management process, the performance conversations that are held at different stages in the process and how to hold productive conversations that result in improved performance and learning. Participants will review the purpose and outcomes for each type of performance conversation and the conditions and behaviors that can result in a productive conversation about performance. Participants will practice three types of performance conversations: Performance Planning (setting objectives and expectations), the Mid Year Check In Conversation and the Annual Appraisal meeting.

Duration: Half-day (MAK)

This half day workshop will provide participants with an understanding of the various strategies for resolving conflict, how to use the strategies to effectively resolve conflict and how to plan for and conduct a conflict resolution meeting. The half-day workshop includes the use of the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Strategies Inventory, a conflict strategy selfassessment, explanation of the five conflict strategies, application of strategies to case studies drawn from the organization, and skill practices in which participants apply strategies to resolve workplace conflicts.

Duration: Half-day (MAK)