Communicating with Others - the next step to emerging as a leader is to develop your communication skills and learn how to adapt to the communication (or learning) styles of others. You will develop a style of communication that will lead to a greater understanding of yourself and those around you. Clear understanding and communication is essential to successfully leading others.
Communication Styles
The next step in the evolution of an exceptional leader is to understand how to communicate effectively with others. Ever think that people have completely understood what you've asked of them only to get totally different results from what you expected? Did you ever think you knew exactly what someone wanted from you only to find that not only were you wrong, but they think you weren't in the same meeting? We will share with you the difference in communication styles and how to be certain you get the results you're expecting each and every time. We will look to better understand human behavior and discuss barriers to communication. You will learn to be a better leader by learning how we each process information and how to better listen to others and be heard.
Hiring, Training & Retaining Quality People
Many leaders face the often-difficult task of finding, training, and keeping the people who make up their organization. Wouldn't it be great if we could all hire ambitious, committed learners who have integrity, judgement, energy, balance and the drive to get things done in our organization? But how can we tell that they are before we hire them? If we are so lucky as to find them, how do we keep them? And lastly, how do we build upon their talents and harness their energy to further develop them and our businesses? This session will take you through the hiring process, help you identify those quality performers, give you techniques to use to retain them and discuss the importance of training them to further develop their talents.
Leading Others - rising in your knowledge of leadership you will begin to lead others in a manner that has been redefined. It begins with an understanding of others and transcends into an understanding of human nature and behavior that will allow you to share your passion and insights with others and learn as much from that interaction as you give.
Leading & Managing Successful Teams
Many companies understand the need to work in teams, but many find it difficult to make teams work. This session will give you the insight to develop team members to be better team players, develop leadership skills as a team, and learn to communicate within the team structure and achieve real results. You will learn the stages to a performing team and how to lead your team through each stage. During this session you will determine the potential of your team's success or failure, learn to use appropriate recognition of achievements, and understand the impact of morale. You'll take away planning tools to use in your work team.
Coaching & Mentoring
Do you know the difference between coaching & mentoring? Many people don't have a clear understanding. That is because they are very similar but different. During this session we will discuss the differences, learn about the importance of shadowing and testing, and how to make them most effective in the workplace. We will also set the stage for coaching including setting goals and expectations to make the coaching relationship an outstanding one.
Leading Organizations - learning to lead an organization can be frightening if you expect to know all the answers. Learning to develop those around you will enable you to lead your organization into the future with the confidence that you are going in the right direction and taking others with you. Developing them to become the future leaders of the organization.
Bringing Creativity into the WorkPlace
Are you taking advantage of your workforce's collective creativity? This workshop will explore methods for gaining the creative input from all your staff. It will discuss the physical, cultural and supporting structures that are needed to support and stimulate creativity. There are billions of possibilities out there - your job is to selectively bring them to market before your competition does. You will learn the stimulants needed to increase the number of possibilities your team recognizes. You will also learn how to use isolation to bring it all together.
Knowledge Management - How do You Capitalize on it?
Every organization has collective knowledge in all aspects of its existence yet most organizations let that knowledge dissipate when the employees who created it leave the organization. As organizational knowledge has become more and more of a prized commodity it is imperative that you learn how to capture and utilize it. You will learn the various definitions of knowledge management, the history of it and tools to begin to manage the knowledge in your company. Come learn how to set up the structures and procedures necessary to capitalize on this very important asset.
Stress Management
We have all experienced stress and felt its effects on us. We have the power to not only reduce the amount of stress we have in our lives, but can also minimize its effects. We will look at the different types of stress and the importance of balancing our lives in combating stress. We will review workplace stress, the stages of stress, detecting the signs of stress, and include tips for helping ourselves and others manage stress. We will look at how we self inflict stress and leave you with tips to reduce your stress levels.
Personal Development - Developing Yourself and Others
This session is focused on helping you to continuously seek to improve yourself both personally and professionally. You will learn how to select and seek out mentors, and how to become a mentor yourself. You will learn to be a coach and to be coachable. You will learn to set your personal mission and vision and set goals that are in alignment with them. You will discover the importance of planning your long-term development along with the long-term development of others. You will walk away with the tools you need to review your progress and commitment on a regular basis.
Leading Organizations that Continuously Teach Their People to Lead - Lastly you will learn what it takes to lead change instead of having it lead you. You will engage those around you to embrace the change and create a better workplace environment because of it. You will learn what it takes to be a leader in the new century; to lead your organization to be more profitable; among the best in its industry and in the world; one that retains the best people; and one that continuously develops leaders at all levels of the organization.
Leading Change
Why is change so painful? Can we control it? Can we lead it? Come learn the answers to these questions and how to do it! You'll learn the "Rules of the Road to Change", "Eight Common Mistakes in Trying to Cope with Change", an "Eight Stage Process for Leading Change", and how to begin a change process with confidence and competence. Experience the change process 1st hand in a project simulation that holds a few surprises. See how you hold up when the tables are "turned" and you still have to deliver the goods. You'll leave this session with the confidence that you have the tools you need to lead change effectively and come out ahead of the competition.
Uniting - The Engagement Process
Have you ever heard of Joel Barker's Possibilities Cone? It is an explanation of the fact that we all have "screens" which block out possibilities and a process of bringing future possibilities into today and capitalizing on them before everyone else does. WorkPlace Dynamics' "Uniting - The Engagement Process" does this and more. We help organizations engage their workforce in the mission and vision of the organization and increase the "possibilities" they collectively see to move the organization towards its vision. Learn how leadership in the twenty-first century must be different in order to not only survive this turbulent business climate, but thrive in it. Learn why environment is so important in this process and how your corporate structure might be holding you back.
