• We offer a number of tried-and-true workshops on a variety of leadership topics.
  • Workshops vary in length from half a day to two days.
  • All workshops can be delivered in person or virtually.
  • Workshops can be customized to suit your unique needs.
  • Some workshops can be purchased and delivered in-house by your facilitators.
  • All workshops include micro-learning lessons that participants complete prior to the session. (Microlearning is a short burst of training, usually 5 minutes or less, delivered on a free app.) This allows us to spend less time teaching content and more time for application activities and meaningful conversations during precious face-to-face time.
  • Workshops include a toolkit with relevant content, frameworks, and tools covered in the class.

Workshop Topics

1) High Impact Collaboration

Research shows that partnering across organizational boundaries is critical to a company’s success, yet there is a significant gap in leaders’ abilities to do so effectively. Many don’t realize there is a research-based, structured approach to effective collaboration. This process respects and leverages an organization’s diversity and results in innovation, increased engagement, commitment, trust, and respect.

In this half-day interactive and experiential-based workshop, participants will:
  • Explore the five critical boundaries needed for effective collaboration and how they manifest in their organization: Vertical, Horizontal, Geographic, Demographic, and Stakeholder
  • Learn and practice the art and science of collaboration
  • Participate in a challenging and fun experiential activity to experience high impact collaboration in action
  • Identify a key collaboration challenge and apply tools to improve it
  • Create an action plan for applying tools to address their key collaboration challenge

21st Century leaders are constantly managing complexity in their industry and organization. Wise leaders recognize the Tyranny of the OR and embrace the Genius of the AND. We tend to waste energy and resources trying to solve problems that have no one right answer. Rather the issue at hand is a polarity….it is ongoing, has multiple right answers, and involves seemingly opposite, yet interdependent ideas. Common polarities include Centralization AND Decentralization, Stability AND Growth, Task AND Relationship, Control AND Empowerment. Polarity Management is both a mindset and concrete tool for identifying and effectively dealing with key polarities within an organization.

In this half-day workshop participants will:
  • Differentiate between a problem and polarity
  • Identify key polarities they currently wrestle within their organizations
  • Use the Polarity Map tool to recognize upsides and downsides of each pole
  • Identify action steps to maintain the positive energy of managing a polarity
  • Spot early warning signs that suggest moving into the downside of a pole
  • Learn and practice how to facilitate conversations that result in mutual understanding and respect of differing perspectives

Constant and rapid change are the new normal for 21st-century leaders, yet difficulty changing and adapting is one of the primary reasons leaders derail. Whereas many leaders are adept at managing the technical side of change, they must remember leading people through change is also critical to success.

In this half-day program, participants will:
  • Differentiate change management from change leadership
  • Explore and apply various frameworks for leading people through change
  • Assess their personal preference and alternate styles for dealing with change using the Change Style Indicator (CSI) assessment
  • Participate in a challenging and fun experiential activity to experience the pros and cons of their change style in action
  • Apply learning to a current change initiative they are leading

Most of today’s leaders recognize the essential need to influence others beyond the traditional chain of command. The changing nature of work demands leaders partner with a diverse population of stakeholders—internal and external to their own organization. Virtual teams are more prevalent than ever before. Leaders of all levels know they must rely on relational power rather than positional power to get things done.

In this half-day workshop, participants will:
  • Discuss key fundamental truths about effective and authentic influence
  • Use the Influence Style Indicator assessment to assess their most-preferred and least-preferred influence styles
  • Practice using different styles to influence different people and different situations effectively
  • Participate in a complex experiential exercise to exert influence and receive feedback on their effectiveness (this portion can be video recorded for optimal feedback opportunities)
  • Identify a current work situation that requires them to be more influential and apply learning to that situation

Some decisions are simple, but in today’s environment many decisions are complex, involve conflicting and ambiguous data, and rely on the expertise of multiple stakeholders. Risks can be high and consequences compelling.

In this half-day workshop, participants will:
  • Explore different approaches to decision making
  • Assess their current effectiveness and confidence with decision making, focusing on Clarity, Information, Commitment, Alignment, and Time
  • Use the Decision Style Profile to understand the most effective decision-making style for different situations.
  • Use the Cynefin framework to identify the most appropriate decision-making strategy complex environments
  • Practice making decisions under various conditions and with varying scenarios
  • Apply their learning to a current work challenge that requires more rigorous and deliberate decision making

Leaders at all levels have the opportunity and responsibility to build commitment to the organization’s purpose and goals. Helping others see and understand their role in the organization’s success is key to that commitment. Therefore, developing and communicating a compelling and inspirational vision for the future is a key skill for today’s leaders.

In this half-day workshop, participants will:
  • Describe the essential components of vision
  • Explore the neuroscience involved in the effective communication of vision
  • Utilize left and right brain techniques to create their own organizational vision
  • Formulate a Rocket Pitch to communicate that vision
  • Practice story telling for the communication of vision
  • Give and receive feedback on their effectiveness in communicating vision (this portion can be video recorded for optimal feedback opportunities)

Marketers understand the significance of a powerful brand. The most influential leaders also realize the importance of cultivating their personal brand. It represents what makes them unique and worth following. Choosing to be deliberate with your Leadership Brand allows you to broaden and deepen your impact, accelerate achievement of your most important goals, while being authentic and taking charge of your own career.

In this two-hour workshop, participants will:
  • Assess their current leadership brand and identify opportunities for creating the brand they want
  • Develop their leadership point-of-view and how they want others to experience their leadership
  • Utilize left and right brain techniques for their leadership brand creation
  • Learn tools to help them craft their most effective leadership brand
  • Receive feedback on the impact of their leadership brand

It goes without saying that creativity and innovation are essential for any organization to remain competitive in its marketplace, differentiate itself from the competition, and drive sustainable business results. It takes deliberate action on the part of leadership to build the type of organizational culture that fuels creativity and innovation. It requires science and art to succeed.

In this half-day to full-day workshop, participants will:
  • Differentiate creativity from innovation
  • Examine how they currently treat new ideas in their organization
  • Play with Improv Comedy skills to practice creativity techniques
  • Explore different types of innovation
  • Utilize the FourSight assessment to discover their natural creative skills and how to best leverage them
  • Learn and practice strategies for championing ideas within their organization
  • Identify a current work challenge that requires innovation and/or creativity to apply learning