Workshops & Programs
Building High Value Relationships™
Refresh and Renew: A Leadership Retreat
Powering Up Your High Performance Team
Coaching Skills for Leaders and Managers
Pedal to the Floor: Strategic Planning for Breakthrough Results
Making Time for Success
Building High Value Relationships™
The program:
Learn the simple yet profound process for becoming a key strategic resource for your internal and external clients. Building High Value Relationships™ (BHVR) changes not only the “rules of engagement” for working with others; it changes the game itself. The BHVR process separates you from the pack of well-meaning yet exhausted “nice guys” and moves you into the inner circle of trusted and valued partners.
In this very experiential program, participants work through customized business simulations while practicing the core principles. They walk away with the ability to immediately begin introducing highly effective principles and perspectives to current business opportunities and challenges.
Designed for:
- Executives and Managers who struggle with the challenge of getting better results—faster and with fewer resources
- Professional Experts who recognize that the quality of their relationships—not the extent of their technical expertise—will ultimately determine how successful and effective they will be
- Internal Support Groups that need to get more done—with less—and who want to transform the organization’s perception of their role from “cost center” to “key strategic partner”
- Sales Professionals who want to compete on value instead of on price
Time:
This program normally runs 2 days.
Follow Up:
Competence comes with practice. We offer one-on-one follow-up coaching to support and ensure that every participant successfully applies his new learning in real life situations.
More Information:
For examples of Building High Value Relationships™ success stories, click here. For more information about the program, visit the website of our business partner, Koanetic Consulting (formerly Success Dynamics, LLC)
Refresh and Renew: A Leadership Retreat
The Program:
Step away from the mechanics of running a business to
- reconnect with the passion that got you going,
- renew connections with business partners and other members of your leadership team, and
- jointly recommit to your future path.
Each group of leaders has unique history, opportunities, and challenges. Based on pre-retreat meetings with each individual participant, we will customize a program to move you powerfully forward with energy, high-level teamwork, and commitment.
Designed for:
Business owners, leaders, and leadership teams
Time:
1-2 days, depending on the final agenda
Follow Up:
Follow up coaching can be included to focus on specific issues or developmental opportunities.
Powering Up Your High-Performance Team
The Program
While emphasis will shift from engagement to engagement, all of our team-building programs include:
- discussion and engagement around five fundamental team values: trust, diversity, respect, accountability, results.
- alignment around a specific purpose, which can be determined either externally before the workshop or as part of the program
- creation of goals, priorities, accountabilities
- creation of “working rules” that govern interaction among team members and the commitments they make to each other
- self-managed mechanisms for maintaining focus and momentum
- team behavioral style assessment and analysis with focus on leveraging each person’s strengths
Designed for:
- existing teams that want to refocus their energy and collectively redefine opportunities and priorities
- existing teams that are not delivering high-value results
- new teams being formed to support growth and/or new initiatives, i.e., new leadership teams, new management teams, new project teams
- colleagues who would benefit from sharing a common sense of purpose
Time:
The program itself runs 1-2 days. Depending on the target outcome, pre-meetings with team members may be appropriate.
Follow Up:
Our goal is to have the team self-manage. In some cases, clients find it helpful to regularly revisit the purpose, goals, and milestones with the help of an outside facilitator.
Coaching Skills for Leaders and Managers
The Program
Firms that recognize the value in developing and retaining employees appreciate the importance of adding “coaching” skills to the manager’s repertoire. For some managers, coaching at work comes as easily as coaching the pee-wee soccer team. For others, it’s challenging to combine the necessary discipline of a management point of view with a supportive “coaching” mentality.
The “Coaching Skills for Leaders and Managers” program gives managers at all “coaching” skill levels a safe place to get new perspective and test new approaches.
Designed for:
Managers and leaders
Time:
1-2 days
Follow Up:
Competence comes with practice. We offer one-on-one follow-up coaching to support and ensure that every participant successfully applies his new learning in real life situations.
Pedal to the Floor: Strategic Planning for Breakthrough Results
The program:
We combine traditional strategic planning principles with a team-building approach that engages and energizes participants to think big and then make it happen.
We will address and define all of the following key elements:
Vision: Where’s the company going—what is the compelling future that calls the group to action?
Values: What’s most important about achieving that particular vision and why was it chosen over other possibilities?
Guiding Principles: What value-based criteria will be used in making decisions on how and where to move towards the bigger vision?
Goals: What specific measurement(s) will be used to track progress and allow the team to make necessary in-course corrections?
Strategies: What, specifically, will be done (by whom and by when) in order to move the team towards its goals?
Accountability: What process is needed to assure continued focus on the vision, goals, and strategies even when setbacks occur?
Designed for:
Leaders and managers responsible for guiding the company
Time:
This depends on whether or not the firm’s mission, values, and guiding principles need to be created, revisited, or reaffirmed. In general, the time frame will be 1-2 days.
Follow Up:
When companies fail to achieve their goals, it is often the result of poor follow through on action plans. The group can best determine what follow up is appropriate—internal or external. We are happy to support whatever plan is designed.
Making Time for Success
The Program
In this interactive program, you will:
- Define, from a C-level perspective, the mission-critical function that you provide in your current role;
- Discover the extent to which your current every-day activities enhance your value to the organization and support your career objectives;
- Discover or reconnect with the factors that determine the level of satisfaction and fulfillment you experience in your career;
- Identify resources and opportunities to increase your effectiveness in your current role and support your professional development and advancement;
- Develop a prioritized action plan for enhancing performance in your current role and for moving towards the next career objective,
Each participant receives a customized behavioral assessment to support the learning in the program.
Designed for:
This workshop is designed for those who want to increase their value to the organization which they currently serve and plan for future advancement. Attend this program if you:
- Are a high performer committed to advancing to the next level of achievement and success;
- Seek clearer focus on your most important priorities for personal and organizational fulfillment;
- Feel unfulfilled and/or underutilized in your current role;
- Want to identify resources and opportunities to advance in your career;
- Want a strong framework for discussing priorities, resources, and career issues with your boss.
Time:
Half Day
Follow Up:
Registration fee includes two follow-up hour coaching sessions to assist in integrating the learning.