Workshops & Training

Workshops and training both provide an interactive approach to learning and applying new skills and knowledge.  Knowing which one is needed makes all the difference!  And sometimes both workshops and training are useful when addressing specific issues, needs or situations, such as a change initiative or getting the whole organization working together toward a common goal.  The training usually comes first, so everyone has a grasp of the basics, and then the workshop to practice and ground the skills while doing real work.

These are some of the needs we most frequently hear:

• How can we get the whole organization working together toward a common goal?
• How do we successfully roll out our upcoming critical change initiative?
• How can we keep our strategic plan relevant and still clear enough that people know how to support it?

When workshops / When training?

• Training is appropriate when you want to learn new skills like how to delegate, or give redirecting feedback, or manage conflict better.  It usually involves a trainer with specialized skills in the topic being covered.
• A Workshop is appropriate when you want to apply skills and knowledge to your workplace or situation in the session itself or apply theory or model in practical terms to your situation.
• (See Facilitation and Retreats)

Some powerful Workshops and Trainings

To meet your needs we offer the following workshops that can be offered “off the shelf” or customized to better address your specific requirements:

• Adaptive Work/Polarities or Managing Unsolvable Problems gives participants the skills to effectively handle many of the problems facing today’s organizations.  These complex problems don’t have solutions (aka technical fixes), but are are ongoing dilemmas that need to be managed, which requires a certain set of leadership skills.
• Building Teams – A Systems Approach – Creating and maintaining effective teams has become more important, and more challenging, in our VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex & Ambiguous) world.  The challenges range from being engaged members of teams, to leading productive teams, to inspiring the organization to support those teams.  Participants learn what quality is as applied to teamwork, and how to identify and correct teamwork problems.
• Managing Organizational Transitions or Riding the “Red Line” of Change prepares organizations to effectively lead change initiatives so they go smoothly from start to finish. We take William Bridges’ work on Transitions and place it in a VUCA context.
• The Organization Workshop helps create more powerful, productive and collaborative partnerships throughout an organization – up, down and across organizational lines – as well as with customers and suppliers. According to Barry Oshry, trust issues, silos and poor communication….
• Supervisory Basics is a highly experiential workshop that provides participants with the basic skills and knowledge to lead and manage people in this VUCA world.