We offer onsite training for teams, leaders and/or facilitators. Here is a sampling of some of the more frequently requested workshops:
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Understanding Yourself and Others through the Enneagram—we use the Enneagram personality profile to increase self-awareness and improve working relationships with others. Unlike most other personality systems that are behavioral based, Enneagrams are motivation based. When you understand someone's motivation, you’re in a much better position to influence that person than when you merely understand their behaviors (which are driven by that motivation). This is a great course on teamwork (and diversity) that goes WAY beyond race, gender and religion. Includes professional workbook/reference book for each participant.
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Feedback: How to Give it/How to Get it—This is our hallmark course on the 4 basic types of feedback; when, why and how to use each type, as well as how to receive better feedback from those who are not skilled at giving it!
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Motivating through Recognition—similar to the Feedback class, but with a focus on giving positive recognition and reinforcement without sounding phony or condescending.
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Setting SMART Goals—Participants learn how to set goals using the SMART acronym (specific, measurable, action oriented, realistic, time-bound) for better focus, and better accountability.
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Accountability: Keeping the Responsibility Where it Belongs—Team leaders learn how to apply "positive" discipline using "reminders" rather than "warnings" and documenting agreements to change, rather than doing "write-ups." Learn how to keep improvement responsibility on the employee where it belongs—not on the leader.
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Getting Your Ideas Across: Communicating with Impact—Whether formal presentations behind a podium or informal tailgate meetings, as leaders or team members, participants learn how to get communicate their ideas, influence and persuade effectively by considering their audience's needs, organizing their content, and being deliberate about their use of delivery techniques.
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How to Run Effective Teambuilding Activities—based on Brian's book "Quick Teambuilding Activities for Busy Managers"—learn how to run activities to get the most out of the effort. Sure, almost anyone can run an activity, but it takes skill to run one in a way that participants learn and grow from the experience (and still have a good time doing it!).
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Making Meetings Work—Leaders and team members alike learn how to plan and then conduct team meetings for maximum results in minimum time.
In addition to team training, we offer a myriad of teambuilding exercises that can be customized and tailored to fit your meeting time constraints and team development objectives. Some of our more popular activities are:
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LEGO-Man—teams form to plan and prepare to build LEGO-Man sculpture in record time, while learning about planning, roles, resources, and out-of-the box thinking. (90 minutes)
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Puzzel—teams get 16 clues to help them solve a physical movement problem that can only be solved with everyone's active involvement and participation. (60 minutes)
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Survival—based on the popular TV show but with a few twists that help teams learn teamwork while competing, and that the only constant is change. (1-7 hours)
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Recycle—teams learn about process improvement as they take over a playing card recycling plant with antiquated policies and procedures; they must be innovative as well as creative in finding ways to remain a viable operation. (60 minutes)
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The New Game—teams compete in various activities and then select who is the best team player of all, learning about how competition enhances or destroys teamwork depending on how it's leveraged. (1-3 hours)
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Dots—several activities all using dots to emphasize how a competitive environment can get in the way of teams when they start to compete against each other unnecessarily, rather than with the real competition. (60 minutes)
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Airplanes—teams build competing paper airplanes in an effort to win customers, and learn critical lessons about customer focus v. inward focus. (90 minutes)
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Sabotage—teams compete to be the first to perform certain tasks with some knowing and others not knowing of saboteurs planted in their midst (and some only thinking there is a saboteur on their team!). (60 minutes)
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Original design—we can design, develop and deliver a completely original, customized teambuilding session that will meet your team's learning needs perfectly!
