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Leadership & Team Development

We offer professional development training and coaching for leaders and teams that focus on improving workplace performance through more productive human interactions.

For further information on Leadership & Team Development, please contact Linda Racine, Darrell Rogers, or Richard Wolin.

Training & Research Course Offerings

 

Conflict Management

Improve effectiveness in preventing, managing, and resolving conflict. [Details...]

Consensus Decision Making

Make better group decisions by sharing relevant information, gathering input from a variety of perspectives, and using tools to build consensus. [Details...]

Customer Service Skills

Learn the essential skills of providing superior customer service as well as effectively handling even the most difficult customer service situations. [Details...]

Decision Making

Learn a systematic process for decision-making that will ensure greater staff commitment and more effective outcomes. [Details...]

Delegating

Successful delegation not only streamlines workload while increasing time for essential leadership tasks, it also serves as an important employee development tool, building confidence and motivation in staff. [Details...]

Leadership & Team Development

Effective Meetings

Enhance the team or work group’s productivity through more focused and effective use of meeting time. Learn tools to effectively plan, conduct, and evaluate meetings for continuous improvement. [Details...]

Facilitator Skills for Boards

Increase the effectiveness of board meetings as well as build consensus within the organization and community. [Details...]

Feedback Skills

Learn tools to give and receive open and honest feedback effectively. [Details...]

Introductory Project Management

Learn effective strategies and tools for initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing a project. [Details...]

Leadership Skills

Develop personal leadership strengths and build a highly motivated, high-performance work group. [Details...]

Listening Skills

Effective listening is essential for clear communication. Learn active listening techniques that help you understand what the speaker is really saying. [Details...]

Motivation: Getting the Best from Others

Learn the basic concepts of motivation and how to maximize the performance of all employees. [Details...]

Myers Briggs Type Indicator

Improve the productivity and communication in the work group by gaining a better insight into one’s own work style and an appreciation for others’ styles. [Details...]

Facilitator Skills

Participants will learn the tools to effectively plan, facilitate, and evaluate meetings for continuous improvement that can help reduce the length and number of meetings attended. [Details...]

Facilitated Team Building

Improve team effectiveness by clarifying your team’s core purpose, customer focus, understanding and accountability. Identify team strengths and where to focus professional development activities. [Details...]

Advanced Facilitator Tools

Enhance your ability to facilitate problem solving by learning some key tools: flowcharts, cause-and-effect analysis, check sheets, and pareto analysis. [Details...]

Coaching for Improved Performance

Increase employee performance through effective coaching. This training introduces a five-step coaching model that includes developing rapport, making objective observations, assessing, providing effective feedback, and identifying other support essential to employee success. [Details...]

Presentation Skills

Sharpen skills to prepare and deliver engaging, well organized presentations. [Details...]

Setting and Implementing Goals

Increase the productivity of the team or work group by learning a variety of tools to effectively set, implement, and monitor goals. [Details...]

Supervisory Skills

Learn the essential communication skills for effective supervision: active listening, giving and receiving feedback, coaching, motivating, addressing conflicts, and dealing with problem behaviors. [Details...]

Team Skills

Learn the essential skills for effective team participation, by improving interpersonal skills as well as gaining tools for making team meetings more effective. [Details...]

Telephone Skills

Develop an engaging voice tone and learn strategies for providing a better phone experience for the customer. [Details...]

Time Management

Improve personal efficiency and effectiveness with tools to help set priorities and manage time, goals, and tasks. [Details...]

Train the On-the-Job Trainer

Increase the effectiveness of on-the-job training by applying a six-step Active Learning Model™. [Details...]

Train-the-Trainer

Learn practical methods for developing high-energy, wellplanned training sessions through the Active Learning Model™, that meet the organization’s goals. [Details...]

 

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