Featured Program

Myers Briggs Type Indicator

When a group has a clear picture of the personalities of its members and harnesses the potential, you can radically improve team dynamics.

What our clients say:

“Thank you very much for organizing this course for us. The instructor was terrific, her exercises/activities were useful and demonstrative, and she had a good presentation style… the course was terrific and I look forward to learning more about my colleagues.”

Sirtris, a GSK Company

TeamTraining Programs

We offer our clients a full spectrum of training and team building services. We can now handle all your meeting or conference needs with the best in Team and Leadership Development Training plus the best in Team building.

Conflict Resolution Workshop

Edward Deming, the father of quality management, has said that people can face almost any problem except the problem of people. They can work long hours, face declining business, even the loss of a job, but they can’t deal with the difficult people in their lives. When individuals work together closely on difficult projects or to meet tight deadlines, it is only natural for conflict to develop. However, managing conflict appropriately can be the difference between a simple “bump in the road” or lost productivity and long-term animosity.

From conflict to connectedness, The Thomas Kilmann Inventory conflict resolution workshops assess styles of conflict in the workplace. Using the results of this inventory, the facilitator will show how natural conflict-handling styles can be refined. Conflict resolution strategies are introduced and honed to engender a workplace culture equipped to handle conflict.

The Conflict Resolution Workshop WILL:

• Initiate dialogue to prevent conflicts from peaking
• Encourage individuals to address rather than avoid conflict
• Show the progressive steps that most conflicts follow and demonstrate how individuals can identify these steps
• Provide detailed information about when a natural conflict-handling style is beneficial or inappropriate
• Identify proven conflict resolution strategies and methods
• Alleviate the fear, anger, and frustration associated with conflict
• Illustrate how to manage differences quickly and effectively

DiSC Profile

Learning how to understand and respond to co-workers’ habits is essential to the success of a team. The DiSC Model provides non-judgmental language for exploring behavioral patterns across four primary dimensions. Having diverse traits within an organization is invaluable. The most prolific and efficient groups are comprised of individuals possessing a range of assorted behavioral styles; however, this does not often come naturally. Learning how to understand and respond to co-workers’ habits is essential to the success of a diverse group.

The DiSC Model provides non-judgmental language for exploring behavioral issues across four primary dimensions. This program, designed to evoke self-discovery, serves as a vehicle for open discussion and conversations that will transcend participants’ professional life. This program gives participants a guiding framework for understanding the behaviors of others and how to best utilize these relevant differences in the workplace.

DiSC will:

• Identify the strengths of the group and explore avenues for diminishing weaknesses
• Teach individuals to identify and appreciate the traits of their peers
• Show how it is possible to adapt our behaviors in the workplace
• Minimize unproductive conflict
• Show participants how a strength overplayed can be a weaknesses and how to work on finding a balance in their lives
• Replace poor habits and patterns with empowering strategies for communicating openly, honestly, and directly to get positive results
• Explain why you react to particular styles the way you do, and why others react to you in certain ways
• Reinforce the positive foundation of the group

Understanding Personality Traits: Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to Enhance Teamwork

Having diverse personalities within an organization can be a tremendous asset. Often times we see that the most prolific groups are comprised of individuals possessing assorted traits. Understanding and capitalizing on the types of personalities in your group can enhance productivity, efficiency, and creativity while decreasing unproductive conflict. When a group has a clear picture of the personalities of its members and harnesses the potential, you can radically improve team dynamics.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) begins with an assessment which indicates various personality types. It will determine the big picture composition of your group and highlight how different people react to the circumstances around them.

The Understanding Personality Traits (MBTI) Workshop will:

• Increase awareness of the types of personalities that make up your group
• Demonstrate how awareness of personality styles can translate into positive behavior and better understanding
• Show how a group is more successful if there is balance among members
• Clearly define personality types so that the terminology can be implemented regularly in the workplace, allowing individuals to address differences respectfully and productively
• Explain thinking, processing, organization, and decision making associated with each personality style
• Describe how self-knowledge of an individuals’ learning style and communication preferences can affect others

Negotiating with Impact

Tired of not getting what you want? Do you or your employees shy away from conflict or disagreement? Can you effectively negotiate with others to secure your personal and professional success? Negotiating with impact will have you engaged and practicing solid negotiation skills and techniques. Walking away with cold, hard, cash, participants will never forget this training or the skills they acquired as they learned to negotiate with impact!

The Negotiating with Impact workshop WILL:

• Alleviate the fear of negotiating with others
• Explore the elements of conflict and “natural” responses to it
• Teach the “Two Path” model for effective negotiation
• Clarify and help you understand both YOUR and THEIR goals
• Help identify the “Obstacle” that stands between you and what you want or need
• Differentiate between stated positions and underlying interests
• Identify common negotiation “influencers” and how to incorporate them for success

Power Presentations

It’s no secret that the ability to speak effectively in front of groups is imperative to success in the corporate world. In fact, research shows that doing it well can be the difference maker pertaining to promotions and upward movement. A successful presenter opens doors to countless opportunities.

Our Power Presentation workshop uses innovative techniques to instill confidence in even the most timid of presenters while honing the skills of the most experienced. Anyone who needs to stand up in front of crowd to share information, compel others to action, or to be persuasive will benefit infinitely from this workshop.

The Power Presentation workshop will:

• Teach you the specific skills vital to powerful and compelling presentations
• Establish the difference between “sharing” information and “presenting” it
• Demonstrate how you can deliver an action-provoking presentation on even the toughest of topics
• Use video as a tool for understanding how your audience perceives you
• Show how you can asses your audience and tailor your presentation accordingly
• Allow participants to define individual style and delivery
• Recommend the most effective audio visuals including PowerPoint, hand outs and more, and illustrate how these can be customized to your presentation goals
• Address the use of “special touches” including analogies, statistics, quotations, and more
• Offer tips for maintaining composure and staying on track when the unexpected occurs
• Identify and define the keys to keeping your audience involved

Time Flies!

Do you regularly find yourself saying “there are just not enough hours in the day”? Do you find yourself torn between the demands of work and your personal life? You’re not alone. People feel busier now more than ever before. Advanced technologies create new challenges by allowing us to be contacted 24 hours per day, seven days per week via PD, email, and cell phones. Shorter deadlines, competing priorities, and global business exacerbate the problem. There are, however, steps you can take to regain control of your “to do” list.

Our Time Flies workshop was developed after years of researching and studying the techniques and strategies of successful individuals and corporations. We provide the tools and resources necessary to place control back into the hands of even the busiest and overwhelmed individual.

The Time Flies workshop will:

• Define “efficient” and “effective” and discuss the importance of each
• Ask participants to ponder the question “Is this the best use of my time?”
• Show how to manage interruptions such as phone calls, visitors, and emails
• Reveal the remarkable impact of a proactive approach to time management
• Accentuate the benefits of long-term planning
• Provide insight for determining whether or not something is “important” or “urgent”