Do you encounter power struggles, taboo topics, disagreement, and conflict with difficult people that at times are hostile, downers, ‘better thans’, passive, and bossy? Most of us encounter unreasonable people in our lives. We may be “stuck” with a difficult individual at work or at home. Often, we ourselves, become the difficult one. It’s easy to let a challenging person affect us and ruin our day. Learning to deal with difficult people is like learning a foreign language. This one day highly interactive and fun workshop will offer concise models on how to deal and dialogue with difficult people and offer the skills for communication when the stakes are high, opinions vary and emotions run strong at all levels of your organization. You will practice the skills that will help you to determine when and how to communicate to reach alignment and agreement on important matters, how to influence behavior change to improve productivity, and how to build trusting and respectful relationships. You will leave with communication models and a Guidance Document.

Boost your facilitation skills and practices to create and deliver relevant, immediate, and useful meetings that will have your meeting participants saying, “Wow. Finally, a meeting I can stay fully engaged in!” You will be introduced to the value of dialogue, safety, and respect in a meeting environment. You will learn the 8 Steps to Design an interactive, engaging, and powerful meeting and leave this workshop with 20 advanced facilitation skills to put to use immediately resulting in highly purposeful, positive engagement and participation and well thought out agendas. Learn how to work together to make clear decisions at meetings. This workshop provides a Facilitation Guidebook to use back at work.

Too many colleagues and managers are seen as untrustworthy, unreliable, and downright disrespectful. As non-management, we feel powerless to effect change. This workshop will build your confidence and power of influence. Coaching is the quickest and most effective method for peers to effect change with others and yes even your managers and supervisors.

Coaching is a co-creative process, steeped in relationship building and positive reinforcement while also requiring guidance and limit-setting and is key to a productive, collegial, and a pleasant work environment. You will come away with the knowledge, tools, and methods to coach yourself and others to make a change and get what you want. You will leave with the tools and highest thinking to be a strong leader on your team who coaches your peers, clients, and communities to untapped potential in ways that may have seemed previously unavailable.

The outcomes for using coaching principles and practices include greater self-awareness, new skills for communicating, personal fulfillment, and improved professional performance. These tools are transformative. To do this work effectively it is helpful to revisit our approaches; examining what is working well and how we know it; what needs improvement and the intent of our work; assessing our approach to effective communication while.

David Cooperrider, Founder of Appreciative Inquiry (AI), tell us

“It is a time for re-thinking human organization and change. Deficit based modalities are increasingly falling short. “And cynicism, about the very idea of planned change, is rampant.”

Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a change management approach that focuses on identifying what is working well, analyzing why it is working well, and then doing more of that. This one-day workshop will provide an overview of Appreciative Inquiry, what it is, and how it works. It will guide prevention, treatment, and recovery professionals and all working along the Continuum of Care to consciously and deliberately shift your way of being and seeing to an appreciative approach to focus on what’s right in their organization, group or community, rather than on what’s wrong so that they can deeply inquire into what best looks like and do more of that.

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Life is like a combination lock. If you know the combination to the lock, it doesn’t matter who you are, the lock has to open. Orrin Hudson
Learn how to go further and faster with less effort. If you use these principles and strategies, you can easily… double your results, double the amount of your free time, and have more balance and fun at work and home.

Whatever you think about, talk about, fantasize about, or give your attention to, you are going to attract more of into your life.
This workshop is based on the best selling book. 60 Principles of Success by Jack Canfield. The principles discovered are transformative.

Now more than ever, both women and men are exercising more economic control over their lives in the family and the workplace. Entrepreneurs are leading the way in business and doing it holistically. Striking that elusive balance of family, work, and community is a top priority.

Let’s face it. You know you are excellent at what you do, but you also want to celebrate and plan your family, careers, and business with intention and focus. In short, you want to live and work yourself happy!

Coaching allows for those positive, lasting changes to happen both at home and in the meeting room. This powerful collaborative process will help to engineer holistic and strength-based solutions and to clarify, set, and achieve personal and professional goals while nimbly balancing career, family, and business.

Participants will discover the advanced and key coaching principles, practices, and tools to self-coach, and will leave with a Blueprint for Success template to guide their personal and professional endeavors to succeed. This workshop is hands-on, highly interactive, fun, and highlights a balanced life for success.

Are you a manager responsible for the development of others?

Do you have team leaders and supervisors who want to get the best out of their people?

As a Line manager, do you want a structured and effective system to hold short, respectful, and powerful weekly and monthly meetings with staff?

Are you ready to transform the way you work as a manager and have your staff asking for more of your expertise?

If you answered yes to even one of these questions, then I invite you to a fun, highly participative and practical 1-day workshop designed to provide you with the tools and skills necessary to become an outstanding coach.

Coaching is the quickest and most effective method of developing your staff.

Here’s What Will You Gain From the Course:

• A thorough understanding of coaching and top management styles
• A meaningful and relevant coaching model to immediately put into action
• A greater understanding of the importance of serving and finding your employee happiness factor
• Knowledge of “What to say” and “How to say it” when having those difficult conversations and providing feedback

You will also discover:

• The importance of non-verbal and non-violent communication when supervising staff
• How to prepare, deliver and review coaching sessions so that they continually improve
• All the secrets and sure-fire techniques I have learned from the masters
• How to keep your employees loyal and performing with excellence and enthusiasm.

You’ll have a good time with like-minded professionals sharing their expertise in a powerful learning community. This is a must-attend workshop for anyone who wants to inject the power of coaching into his or her management style!

This workshop will assist the supervisor, manager, director, and team leader to celebrate and build on what they do well and create a plan for fostering a coaching culture in their organization.

Coaching is a leading management style that keeps employees motivated, happy, and producing successful outcomes. Corporations and private and non-profit organizations are utilizing coaching principles, competencies, and tools for meaningful, relevant, and helpful communication, preserving the integrity and creativity of the individual and the team.

We are in the midst of one of the most exciting yet turbulent times in history. The leaders in companies and agencies who can keep talent from jumping ship will be those who take the time to respect, trust, and develop their employees. It’s just that simple! 

This workshop will address solid strategies to 7 common questions and challenges on leaders’ minds and plates today. From decision-making, risk-taking, innovation, change to relevancy, retaining talent, staying current, keeping to the mission.

This workshop is for top, middle, and front line managers who see that success in their company requires a new way to lead, one that works in tandem with employees and promotes truth, accountability, and respect in the workplace. Calling all leaders who want to make a difference in their personal and professional lives and the lives of those they serve as a leader!

Learning Objective: Determine strategies to the modern-day leaders’ top 7 challenges, including:

Challenge 1: Decision Making: How do leaders avoid analysis by paralysis and make timely and quick decisions in a chaotic work environment and trust that the decision they have made can be trusted?

Challenge 2: Innovation: How do leaders master risk-taking and innovation and move the company forward without losing the shirts off their backs?

Challenge 3: How do you get employees engaged, motivated, and staying true to the mission you are trying to accomplish?

Challenge 4: How do you stay an authentic leader without destroying your credibility?

Challenge 5:  Change: How do leaders navigate the rocky roads of change without destroying the team and the company?

Challenge 6: Knowledge and skills: How do leaders prevent employees from getting recruited and jumping ship with the knowledge they have invested in and empowered them with?

Challenge 7:  Relevance: How do leaders create an environment so that their top employees’ contributions are keeping the company relevant in today’s world?

Today’s workplace is dynamic, jam-packed with ‘hot spots’ that can either make or break the success of your organization–and your sanity.
Now more than ever it’s time to sharpen your management vision and skills identify your leadership challenges and become the Coach that your employees have been waiting for.

In this workshop, you will learn how to create instant rapport with your employees, clients, and customers and not only keep them loyal, but wanting to contribute to your success.