Leadership Workshops and Executive Coaching
Offerings
Inclusive Leadership Workshops
This sessions aims to educate, enlighten, and deepen individual and organizational awareness of conscious inclusion, unconscious bias, and its impact on employee engagement, retention, innovation and bottom-line performance. Through interactive exercises, self-reflection, and discussion, we explore how our blind spots can limit our impact. We discuss key terminology and specific ways to be an ally. This practical workshop provides needed tools for everyone to create a workplace culture where all feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work.
GOALS
Align leadership on the business case and the expected impact that a renewed focus on diversity, equity and inclusion will have to their broader business and/or talent agenda.
Develop a better awareness of the different types of unconscious and systemic biases and how they might show up in the workplace and undermine DE&I efforts.
Identify the KPIs and metrics that will accelerate progress and drive the desired behaviors and outcomes.
Recruitment and Interview Training
Our hiring manager training addresses the importance of diversity, with the goal of identifying and addressing unconscious bias in the hiring and promotion process. We discuss the importance of structured interviews and performance evaluations to reduce bias toward underrepresented groups. We present FAQ’s, guidelines for uncovering and addressing unconscious bias, interview questions, and sample situational interview scenarios.
Apply a Growth Mindset to Up your Confidence, Risk-taking, and Impact
Do you always play it safe? Worry about failing? Cringe when receiving constructive feedback? Would you prefer to take your life and career to the next level, expand your possibilities, increase your comfort taking risks, and elevate your performance at work? Find out how shifting your mindset to one of growth can reap huge rewards, both in work and in life. A growth mindset is the belief that you can constantly learn, grow, and improve. Discover six roadblocks that may be keeping you from having a growth mindset, along with proven strategies to overcome these. By becoming comfortable taking risks, receiving feedback, learning from experience, and reframing "failure," you're on your way to a growth mindset and a happier, more fulfilling life.
Professional Presence and Strategies to Build Confidence & Influence
Have you realized your presence potential? A powerful presence helps one to get noticed, facilitates one’s ability to build trusting relationships and is essential for inspiring others. Learn about the role intentionality plays in developing your personal presence and using presence to your advantage in specific situations, like meetings with senior leaders or one-on-ones with a goal of improving an employee’s performance. Find out how your actions can either enhance or undermine your personal presence. Learn strategies and tools for countering negative talk and the problems of perfectionism, and to develop the trusting relationships necessary for you to motivate, influence and inspire others.
Communicating with Confidence
There is power in language and far too often tentative language patterns compromise how we communicate and are perceived by others. This session highlights the power of “positive language” and offers 15 ways to ‘up one’s language game’ to increase impact and confidence. Words such as “just,” “does this make sense?” and excessive apologizing can diminish one’s effectiveness in the workplace. We share strategies for identifying speech patterns worth changing, along with tips for success.
Having Difficult Conversations
This workshop provides new ways to think about WHY having courageous conversations augments one’s business impact, and HOW to have them in ways that are compassionate, objective, and effective. We provide a 5-step framework for entering these conversations with confidence and impact.
Apply Design Thinking to Tackle Workplace Challenges
Design thinking is a methodology used by today’s forward-thinking companies. Its principles can be applied to most challenges one faces. At its core, design thinking is a problem solving approach that is solution-focused rather than problem-focused which puts humans at the center of the design process. This session will share the five pillars of Design Thinking and provide participants with an understanding of how to apply design thinking to most any workplace problem they face.
Productivity Tips for Maximum Efficiency and Career Fulfillment
With all the information surrounding us today, focusing on what’s important can be a continual workplace challenge. We will provide insights to save time and maximize impact, along with tips for managing email, using time blocking to get “deep work” done, and dealing with “infobesity.” The session explores habits for goal-setting and ‘best practice’ strategies for prioritizing work, so employees can focus on the important and not just the urgent. We discuss KPI’s, OKR’s, and 90-day plans as goal-setting strategies to consider.
Network with Purpose
Do you bristle when you hear the word “networking?” Does networking fall to the bottom of your priority list? Networking is critical for professional success and advancement, yet many don’t enjoy it. This session will cover the importance of networking and give participants strategies to develop a networking style within the office and beyond that is productive and authentic. Participants will develop and practice a 30-second story that can flex and be used with confidence in a variety of social venues.
Leadership Coaching
We coach individuals one-on-one or in groups to help them reach their maximum potential, enhance their impact as leaders and role models, find joy and fulfillment in their work, and get the right work done. With a focus on leadership, executive presence, and results, we help high-potential employees gain self-awareness and unlock their potential.