Programs for Managers and Leaders

Programs For leaders and managers

Live or Live Online  |  90 Minutes  |  Can be stacked together or extended for a customized sequence

• Coach Approach: Having a Coaching Mindset

  Build your coaching skillset to help your team grow one great conversation at a time.

  • Understand how coaching is different from ‘managing’ or just giving feedback

  • Create a trusting space for coaching conversations

  • Break down coaching into key components aligned with behavior change

  • Model skills in listening and inquiry

  • Recognize what a great coaching conversation looks like and when to take a coaching approach

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• Giving and Receiving Feedback

  The art and science of giving and receiving impactful feedback so you and your teams can grow and level up together.

  • Learn to understand your audience better so your feedback is tailored, thoughtful, actionable, and empathy-driven. 

  • Begin to see feedback as a reward instead of a threat.

  • Break out of the “one size fits all” style of feedback that leaves most people cold

  • Understand the brain science behind how humans react to perceived criticism, and learn to craft a message that excites instead of ejects a person from the conversation.

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• Leading Inclusive Collaboration 101

  Discover your role in leading team collaboration that gets everyone into the boat- and rowing in the same direction!

  • Explain the business case for inclusive collaboration 

  • List key roles in collaborative work (Owner, Performer, Stakeholder, SME)

  • Demonstrate key ways that leadership supports collaboration 

  • Recognize signs of successful collaboration

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• Leading Teams to Successful Collaboration 201

  Take a closer look at your team’s collaborative preferences and learn how to balance individual strengths to create a fabulous symphony- rather than a stage full of soloists. 

  • Identify team collaborative preferences and describe their impact on team collaboration

  • Form collaborative teams to maximize diversity of skills/preferences

  • Describe strategies to help team members flex into different collaborative styles/preferences as needed

  • Develop a plan for using collaboration to drive performance

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• Make or Break Inclusion Moments

  Move beyond using “inclusion” as a buzzword and learn to instill it as a practice and value.

  • Recognize what inclusion looks like - and what it doesn’t look like

  • Identify dominant identities within their organization

  • Demonstrate effective techniques for promoting inclusion

  • Practice strategies that promote curiosity and discourse

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• Psychological Safety

  Even in a culture that encourages folks to ‘Speak up’ to share ideas, concerns and perspectives, there are unseen barriers that may get in the way. This session will give leaders tactics for ‘holding space’  by creating a psychologically safe climate where everyone feels valued and heard. 

  • Understand the business impact of psychological safety 

  • Examine norms and common practices and how they feed an experience of safety – or fear - and their ties to diversity, equity, and inclusion practices

  • Know actions you can take with your team to find gaps in psychological safety and take steps to repair

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• Unlocking an Enterprise Mindset: A Structured Approach to Making Every Team Member a Champion of the Business

  Break down silos and amplify the strength and talents of your business by building ‘systems intelligence’ across your team. Better understand how the many moving parts of your business work together and establish a common goal to unite individuals and teams. 

  • Describe an enterprise mindset and its benefits 

  • Explain how each department’s purpose supports the overall business goal

  • Practice strategies that build situational awareness of team roles and goals within the entire business

  • Demonstrate collaborative techniques that unite teams with competing priorities 

  • Examine current processes for assigning team goals and timelines

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