An assessment-based session (DISC) which helps leaders and managers understand style differences and how to work with them.
Essential Leadership Skills
A customized program based on an assessment of essential leadership competencies, designed around self-assessment or 360-degree assessments, including individual leadership development planning.
When You’re Not In Charge: Leading through Influence
A session focused on influence, teaching participants about sources and uses of influence, and techniques to become more influential and persuasive.
Coaching and Mentoring
A session that enables leaders to become more effective coaches and mentors, focusing on developing the next generation of leaders.
Teambuilding Skills for Leaders
A session that covers the stages of team development, handling conflict, and techniques for fostering collaboration, problem-solving, and synergy in high-performing teams.
Managing Conflict and Difficult Conversations
A session designed to help participants understand their conflict management style and develop techniques for handling workplace conflicts and sensitive conversations.
Leading Across Generations
A session designed to help leaders understand different generations in today’s organizations, focusing on values, beliefs, attitudes, and expectations to effectively lead a multi-generational workforce.
Leading with Emotional Intelligence
This session includes an Emotional Intelligence Assessment and explores the four domains of emotional intelligence: self-knowledge, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management.
Thinking and Leading Strategically
A session that develops strategic thinking skills, guiding participants through strategic planning components with hands-on practice through case studies and group activities. A condensed version can be combined with a strategic planning retreat.
Thinking About Thinking
A session that explores strategic, critical, and creative thinking through hands-on activities and real-world examples, helping leaders understand and improve their thought processes while addressing common thinking biases.
Leading and Managing Project Teams
A customized two-day session focused on leading project teams and the technical aspects of project management, with an optional computer simulation for hands-on application. Sessions may also be offered separately in 1-day formats.
Time, Energy and Stress Management
A session that helps leaders plan and organize their time, monitor energy levels, and implement techniques to reduce stress, with the goal of increasing productivity, focus, and wellbeing.
Talent Management for Leaders
A session focused on selecting and nurturing talent, providing growth opportunities, and strategies for employee engagement, retention, and succession planning to build agile, high-performing teams.
Communication Skills for Leaders
A session focused on leadership communication, including verbal and non-verbal communication, active listening, and an assessment to help participants adapt their communication style to their listeners.
Sales Training Workshops
Achieving Sales Mastery
A comprehensive sales training program covering buying and selling psychology, sales strategies, solution messaging, objection handling, negotiation, and closing. The program is highly customized and offered in one or two-day formats.
Top-Tier Selling
An advanced program focused on selling complex products or services to sophisticated clients, featuring best practices from top salespeople, complex sales techniques, customer relationship management, and strategies for managing difficult customers.
Virtual Selling
A session focused on adapting traditional selling techniques for virtual environments, teaching heightened listening and selling skills to engage customers, uncover needs, and personalize value propositions without face-to-face contact.
The Skilled Negotiator
A session that teaches the characteristics of effective negotiation, providing participants with skills, strategies, and tactics to navigate the five phases of the negotiation process: preparation, information exchange, bargaining, concluding, and following through.
Building and Maintaining Client Relationships
A one-day session focused on relationship management skills, including expectation management, handling difficult clients, and building rapport with different personality types. Optional topics include account development, retention, and referral generation.
Leading for Sales Results
A session that covers the characteristics of high-performing sales managers, including sales strategy, planning, goal setting, conducting powerful meetings, applying coaching methods for accountability, training and motivating salespeople, and creating a high-performance sales culture.
Customized Sales Meeting Guides
A set of 12 custom-designed, turn-key sales meetings for monthly skill-building and reinforcement, with content tailored to each client’s sales culture, products, and priorities. Each packet includes a leader’s guide, PowerPoint slides, worksheets, and discussion guides, covering topics like prospecting, sales planning, overcoming objections, and generating referrals.
Standalone Training Workshops
It Takes All Kinds - Managing Today’s Workforce
A session focused on managing today’s diverse workforce, addressing topics such as behavioral interviewing, performance reviews, and legal issues in managing people.
Behavioral Interviewing
A session that teaches effective behavioral interviewing techniques to help identify the right candidates for the job.
Conducting Effective Performance Reviews
A session on conducting impactful performance reviews, providing clear feedback, and creating development plans.
Train-the-Trainer - Facilitation Skills for Trainers
A session aimed at developing facilitation skills for trainers to ensure engaging, effective learning experiences.
You Be the Judge - Legal Issues in Managing People
A session focusing on legal issues in managing employees, helping leaders understand employment laws and regulations.
HR 101 for Non-HR Professionals
A foundational session for non-HR professionals, covering key HR concepts to help managers understand essential HR functions.
Internal Consulting Skills for Finance and/or HR Professionals
A session designed for finance and HR professionals to develop internal consulting skills for driving business success.
We’ve Got to Stop Meeting Like This – Conducting Effective Meetings
A session that teaches techniques for running efficient and productive meetings, minimizing time-wasting and maximizing outcomes.
De-Escalation Techniques for Dealing with Angry People
A session focused on techniques for managing and de-escalating conflicts with angry individuals in the workplace.
A Matter of Respect – Eliminating Workplace Harassment and Bullying
A session aimed at addressing workplace harassment and bullying, fostering a respectful and inclusive environment.
The Six Pillars of Teamwork
A session that covers the essential elements of teamwork, helping teams improve collaboration, communication, and performance.
Keynote Presentations
Lead ‘Em or Lose ‘Em
A high-energy presentation on the critical importance of leadership in employee engagement and retention.
Managing Boomers, Zoomers and Everyone In Between
A session addressing the challenges and rewards of leading a multi-generational workforce, covering different communication and leadership styles.
Why They Don’t Want To (and What Leaders Can Do About It)
A session focused on understanding and managing employee resistance to change, with strategies for overcoming barriers to engagement.
Curiosity: The Sales Superpower
A session exploring the power of questioning and listening skills in driving sales success.
Feed the Horses, Treat the Wounded and Keep the Herd Together
A session on fostering collaboration, accountability, and teamwork among employees to enhance overall performance.
Don’t Blame the Frontline
A session explaining why poor sales or service performance is often a result of ineffective leadership, not just frontline workers.
When You’d Rather Have a Root Canal
A session offering an introvert’s guide to business networking, focusing on strategies to build connections and relationships.
Paying it Forward: The Power of Mentoring
A session exploring the importance of mentoring, with one version for mixed audiences and another focused specifically on women mentoring women.
The Real Management Challenge: Managing Yourself
A session addressing the challenges and rewards of self-management, including strategies for self-motivation, self-confidence, and self-discipline.
HR and the Bottom Line
A session for HR professionals to educate "hard-nosed financial types" (HNFTs) about the contribution HR makes to the bottom line.
The “Death Wish Paradox”
A session discussing the consequences of focusing too much on acquiring new customers while neglecting the existing ones, leading to lost opportunities and higher costs.
Perception and the Pygmalion Effect
A session exploring how leaders’ perceptions and expectations can significantly influence employee success or failure, and how to manage these perceptions effectively.
If You’re Not at the Table, You Might Be on the Menu
A session offering tips for gaining influence and navigating workplace politics to ensure you have a seat at the decision-making table.