Training Design Capabilities - Commercial Offerings
The practice has gained experience in developing training programs and materials, that are designed to conform to the specifications of the client agency, and includes supporting materials such as the trainer’s guide, evaluation forms, slides, and other educational handouts. Using the best practices in instructional design, our approach to this requirement begins with the assessment of training need. The design of training applications includes research into evidence-based practices that represent requisite outcomes, and the development of curriculum that provides skill enhancement and results in performance-related behavior change. The implementation of these training applications uses methodologies that correspond to adult learning styles and includes an action planning component designed to focus the training recipient to conceptualize how to adapt or adopt principles and practices to their work environment. Further, during the action planning cycle of training implementation, recipients set performance milestones and a timeline for implementation. Evaluation of training delivery includes an assessment in formative, summative, and impact levels.
The Leadership Challenge Workshop®
If people are to become leaders, they must believe that they can be a positive force in the world. But some management scholars claim that leaders have little impact on organizations, that other forces—internal or external to the organization—are the determinants of success. Our evidence strongly demonstrates quite the contrary. Managers, individual contributors, volunteers, pastors, government administrators, teachers, school principals, students, and other leaders who use The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® more frequently are seen by others as better leaders. They possess high degrees of personal credibility. In addition, people working with leaders who demonstrate The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® are significantly more satisfied with the actions and strategies of their leaders, and they feel more committed, excited, energized, influential, and powerful. In other words, the more people engage in the practices of exemplary leaders, the more likely it is that they'll have a positive influence on others in the organization. The Leadership Challenge® Workshop is a unique, intensive, and highly interactive program that serves as a catalyst for profound leadership transformations in organizations of all sizes and in all industries. Participants experience and apply The Five Practices leadership model through video cases, workbook exercises, group problem-solving tasks, lectures, and, if desired, outdoor action learning.
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Workshop
Teach your managers the skills, disciplines and requirements for effective teamwork from the revolutionary model: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Since its publication in 2002, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team has become the world’s most definitive source of practical information for building teams. Developed in a business fiction format, the model’s impact extends beyond business to schools, churches, non-profit organizations and the military. From the executive suite to the factory floor, the Five Dysfunctions model has become the standard for eliminating the natural human tendencies which derail teamwork and create costly, painful problems at work. Outcome: The team will make substantial progress toward becoming more cohesive – improving trust and their ability to engage in unfiltered, productive conflict. This will result in the team ultimately making better, faster decisions and eliminating any lingering politics that may exist. Additionally, the team will resolve any structural challenges that may inhibit the group’s ability to work together. Team members will walk away with a clear sense for what they can do differently – both behaviorally and operationally – that will have meaningful impact on the team’s ability to succeed.
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The Coaching for Commitment Workshop
Coaching for Commitment is about taking care of people; by taking care of people, you take care of the bottom line. The return on investment for coaching is multiple times the initial investment, and the payoffs are tangible: sustained superior performance and commitment to self, organization, and goals. The more coaching happens, the more high performing individuals and teams become. Just imagine an entire organization in which the majority of teams are high performing. . . .
The four modules in the Coaching for Commitment workshop are split between two workbooks:
Module One introduces them to the Coaching for Commitment concept; Module Two shows them how to better respond to the needs of their co-workers through counseling, mentoring, and tutoring conversations; Module Three shows your participants how to use coaching interactions to challenge coworkers to improve performance or take on more responsibility; and Module Four teaches your participants the special skills they'll need to coach teams effectively. Coaching Skills Inventory (CSI): Self and Observer The Coaching Skills Inventory (CSI): Self enables your participants to gauge their coaching performance. When they use the CSI Self in conjunction with Observer instruments, they'll get a comprehensive 360-degree view of their coaching skills.
Now there’s a value proposition for coaching! From assessing your coaching skills to learning new ways to coach and teach coaching to others Coaching for Commitment Program is designed to help you achieve better results as a manager, a business owner, as an employee, a parent, etc.
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Bridging the Leadership Divide
​Generational differences in organizations are creating significant relational and leadership dynamics that organizations are finding increasingly difficult to address. With a significant number of leaders planning to retire, there is an urgent need within organizations to develop emerging leaders. It is essential for organizations to bring emerging leaders together with incumbent leaders to create a dynamic leadership development and knowledge transfer program. This workshop will invite leaders of multiple generations to practical conversations that help remove the inherent barriers to productive relationships between incumbent and emerging leaders. While there is much information available on generational demographics, the focus of this program is on the relational aspects of generational dynamics. Based on research within organizations, scholars have identified six patterns that distinguish distressed relationships from powerful relationships between incumbent leaders and emerging leaders. The patterns are indicated as: rank, meaningful conversation, inclusion and engagement, dreaming, generosity, and gratitude. The workshop will explain and assess these patterns as well as explore how these patterns promote or hinder cross-generational relationships. The workshop includes case studies, role plays, journaling exercises, and action planning tools.
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Life Design Workshop (or Retreat)
​Discover opportunities for creating an extraordinary life through the power of Life Entrepreneurship! Life Entrepreneurs are ordinary people who integrate their life, work, and purpose through distinctively entrepreneurial behavior, and thus create extraordinary lives of signficance. This learning event will provide the tools for life design using vivid examples, frameworks, and strategies for creating a life of service and fulfillment. This offering provides an opportunity for radical life change for emerging leaders, entrepreneurs, and community practitioners who desire to create their lives in alignment with their purpose.