Effective Coaching Skills For Peak Performance

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This workshop is designed to help Managers and Supervisors practice and enhance important behavior coaching skills that can enable them to further develop their human resources and gain more of their commitment.

Audience:

Managers and supervisors who wish to strengthen their ability to develop their people individually and collectively with a more consistent coaching leadership style.  Group size: from 10 to 20 people. This course is very good for helping those in supervisory roles to encourage, correct and bring out the best in their staff or team members.

Proven Objectives and Content:

• Identify styles of management and their consequences
• Recognize what it takes to be a great coach/manager consistently
• Prove why coaching is so important to valuable skill development
• Incorporate an easy to remember and use, four-step coaching process
• Communicate expectations in a way that makes others want to follow through
• Practice how to provide reinforcing, skill-building and corrective feedback
• Use worksheets to help you conduct effective coaching/counseling sessions now and in the future

Participant Benefits:

• Inviting better responses and results from coworkers and customers
• Approaches for greater communication confidence, clarity and consistency
• Options for improving one and two-way communication and trust
• Listening approaches to practice beyond the workshop
• Relationship and mutual respect enhancement reminders
• Proven tools for enhancing departmental or organizational information sharing

Tangible Results:

This program has been very popular with our clients for several years for good reason.  It is very helpful, interactive and provides real world approaches that managers and supervisors can use every day. Your leaders can help facilitate improvements in workplace communication, accountability and teamwork.

Accountability & Measurement:

This single-day workshop includes self-assessments and a follow-up email reminder after sessions to accelerate and reinforce application after the training. These follow-up approaches (and optional compatible training modules) help boost sustainability and daily practice by more of your people. 

This workshop works best when combined within a leadership series or by scheduling follow-up assessments and reinforcement training to accelerate and reinforce application of behavior principles.

Program Delivery Includes: 

• Interactive on-site workshop and useful reference workbook
• In session individual leadership improvement plan
• Helpful leadership assessments and group hands-on practice
• Executive summary of all participant feedback

Great Returns on Your Skill-Building Investment!

Contact us for greater saivngs when combining multiple training services.

Target Growth Areas:

• Practice with employee interactions
• Shared understanding & motivation
• Self-knowledge & self-management
• Relationship improvement tools
• Listening skill improvement practices
• Supervisory feedback tools
• Employee morale
• Greater cooperation/team trust

“All coaching is, is taking a player where he can’t take himself.”
         – Bill McCartney, Defense Coordinator, Sand Francisco ’49ers

” Selecting the right person for the right job  is the largest part of coaching.”
        – Philip Crosby,  Reflections on Quality

When asked: “would you recommend this workshop to others?”  Out of the last 10 workshops we conducted,

100% of attendees said “YES”.

When asked to “who” or “why?” some of the many participant comments were: 

• Anyone in a leadership position or hopes to be one.
• I found this very valuable content!
• Good for every organization.
• The templates will be useful when speaking with employees.
• To all Supervisors.
• Great technique!  I generally hate these things.  This was excellent.
• Others in my group and my boss.
• Colleagues I work closely with.
• I liked the worksheets and templates.
• Informative entertaining and able to get everyone to fully participate is real talent!
• Working level leaders in the company.

Making Meetings More Effective

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This workshop is designed to help both meeting leaders and participants maximize their skills to accomplish more in less time at meetings.  It is also designed to encourage better consensus building and decision-making through effective facilitation techniques.

Audience:

Because we spend more time in meetings than ever before…this training is ideal for managers, supervisors, and employees who wish to strengthen their ability to lead or assist in making meetings more productive or effective.  Group size: from 8 to 16 people. This course will pay for itself in practical tips tools and practices that can be used right away to improve existing or future meetings. It also helps with meeting behavior consistency within departments and company-wide.

Proven Objectives and Content:

• Identify present meeting strengths and improvement needs
• Clarify the best type of meeting for achieving your objectives
• Measure your meetings against successful meeting ingredients
• Practice building a results-getting agenda
• Identify when it is better to lead or facilitate a meeting
• Discover ways you can be a more productive participant at meetings
• Confirm ways to get the meeting focused and keep it focused
• Learn techniques for encouraging helpful participation and avoiding negative behavior issues

Participant Benefits:

• Discover ways to invite better meeting prep and results from all participants
• Approaches for greater communication confidence, clarity and consistency
• Options for productive information and decision making meetings
• Hands-on practice and templates to utilize
• Trust and mutual respect enhancement reminders
• Proven tools for enhancing departmental or organizational accountability

Accountability & Measurement:

This one-day workshop works best when combined within a leadership series or by scheduling meeting facilitation training to accelerate and reinforce application of behavior principles.

Program Delivery Includes: 

• Interactive workshop and useful reference workbook
• In session individual leadership improvement plan
• Helpful meeting assessments and group hands-on practice
• Executive summary of all participant feedback

Great Returns on Your Skill-Building Investment!

Contact us for greater saivngs when combining multiple training services.

Target Growth Areas:

• Ingredients for successful meetings
• Setting effective meeting objectives
• Creating agendas that work for you
• Meeting facilitation best practices
• Balancing meeting input and control
• Helpful communication tools
• Meeting evaluations for improvement
• Facilitating participant accountability

“When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a lousy meeting.”
– Herbert C. Hoover, 31st US President 1929-1933

 “Any single problem can be made unsolvable if enought meetings are held to discuss it.”
 – Unknown

When asked: “would you recommend this workshop to others?”  Out of the last 19 workshops we conducted,

100% of attendees said “YES”.

When asked to “who” or “why?” some of the many participant comments were: 

• All of my peers and clients.
• It will improve our productivity.
• Tools to help improve any meeting.
• I found this specific training very useful.
• Good reinforcement of best practices.
• To all who need to run or participate in meetings.
• Time saved in meetings will help.
• Others in my group and my boss.
• Colleagues I work closely with.
• Good tips and takeaways.
• Creating better agendas for meetings with clients and co-workers.
• Training is extremely valuable.
• Good ideas on how to deal with meetings.
• Practice meetings and preparing agenda.

Organizational Teamwork

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This one-day interactive workshop is designed to help your organization’s departments and individuals work together better and function more as a cohesive team.

Audience:

Managers, supervisors, and employees who wish/need to strengthen their ability to work together with others more effectively and with better results.  Group size: from 6 to 18 people. This course is ideal for greater team consistency within/between departments or even company-wide training.

Participant Benefits:

• Inviting better responses and results from coworkers and customers
• Approaches for greater communication confidence, clarity and consistency
• Options for improving one and two-way communication and trust
• Practical approaches to continue practicing beyond the workshop
• Relationship and mutual respect enhancement reminders
• Proven tools for enhancing departmental or organizational information sharing

Tangible Results:

This solid program has been a best seller for over twelve years for good reason.  It is highly  interactive, provides practical approaches for every day use and it invites noticeable improvements in workplace communication and teamwork. Many of our clients have had us come back several times to train more employees or even their entire staff due to the welcomed results.

Accountability & Measurement

This proven program has been a best seller for over twelve years for good reason.  It is highly interactive, provides practical approaches for everyday use and it invites noticeable improvements in workplace teamwork. Many of our clients have had us come back several times to train more employees or even their entire staff due to the welcomed results.

Program Delivery Includes:

• Interactive workshop and useful reference workbook
• In session individual personal communication improvement plan
• Quick and helpful self-assessment
• Hands-on team applicatoin practices
• Executive summary of all participant feedback

Program Length/Commitment:

Standard program structure is:  One full-day, with up to an email reminder within 4 weeks to support application and practice time and to help reinforce positive team behavior improvements.

Proven Program Content:

During the workshop goal, we will accomplish the following objectives:

• Identify the key shared characteristics of successful teams and team members
• Refine and communicate the vision for your functional area or project team
• Clarify and recommit to shared values employees want to support
• Identify areas you like most about your team or department and (magic wand) areas you would change or improve and how
• Assess each team member’s behavioral strengths and weaknesses
• Understand different behavior styles and how they affect yourself and your team interactions
• Practice techniques to improve interpersonal relations with team members, supervisors, co-workers and clients
• Develop a personal action plan to increase your own professionalism as a productive team player
• Explore team development stages and ways to maximize team effectiveness

Target Growth Areas:

• Shared understanding & teamwork
• Self-knowledge & self-management
• Relationship improvement tools
• Greater team accountability & results
• Interpersonal communication tools
• Interdepartmental communication
• Greater cooperation/team trust

“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”
        –  Henry Ford

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”
        – Michael Jordan 

When asked: “would you recommend this workshop to others?”  Out of the last 10 workshops we conducted,

95% of attendees said “YES”.

When asked to who would you recommend this training for? Some of the many participant comments were:

•  All of our company!
• Good for every organization.
• Gives some very realistic and life situations for communication.
• Everyone has room for improvement.
• To all Supervisors.
• Co-workers, so they can be better listeners.
• Others in my group and my boss.
• Colleagues I work closely with.
• Co-workers – we all can use some help in communicating with others.
• All engineers to better communicate with customers.
• Other co-workers.
• Working level leaders in the company.
• The whole company.