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Workshop #1

millennials in the workplace: FACT vs. fiction

This workshop separates fact from fiction about the cohort and makes specific recommendations for maximizing their strengths in the workplace. Myriad consultants purport to offer how to motivate and manage Millennials on the premise that they are fundamentally different than previous generations. Drawing upon my colleagues’ and my thorough review of the academic literature on Millennials, we disentangle falsehoods from reality and create action plans for engaging Millennials and maximizing their potential in the workplace.

Workshop #2

leveraging managerial coaching to enhance the bottom line

Studies suggest that when managers coach the members of their teams, employees are more motivated, productive, and stay longer. But most managers could be much better coaches. Many managers do not understand the essence of coaching and its power to engage employees. This workshop helps participants become capable coaches by building fundamental coaching skills, leveraging a coaching process, and applying their new knowledge by actually coaching each other during the session. The session identifies ways to nurture a coaching culture and provides real-world examples of organizations that are utilizing coaching effectively to enhance profitability.

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Workshop #3

building your board of advisors and social capital to advance your career

Want to reach the C-Suite or more generally advance to senior management? Scientific studies show us that strong mentoring and work networks improve organizations' financial performance and help employees learn and advance in their careers. This session enables participants to understand how to build and nurture a mentoring network and leverage single mentoring conversations, as well how to shape a high performer social network. Emphases will be placed on having participants assess both their mentoring and work networks and consider the relative effectiveness of both networks in assisting their learning and broader career goals. In addition, the session illuminates how networks heighten an organization's financial performance.

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Workshop #4

leading change in organizations

This workshop engages participants in considering changes they can make or are currently spearheading in their organizations and how to ensure those changes will be more effective and lasting over time. In essence, the workshop enhances participants’ ability to lead. Leadership is fundamentally about taking an organization or group from Point A to Point B. Research by John Kotter and others provides substantive guidance to executives and mid-level managers on the change process, criticality of a compelling vision, political and emotional considerations, and commonly encountered barriers that stall change.

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Workshop #5

Achieving peak-Performing management

The management science literature offers significant practical guidance to maximize employee productivity, engagement, and build strong teams that achieve relevant organizational goals. This session harnesses science to fine-tune participants’ managerial and leadership capabilities toward organizational, team and individual career aims. 

Workshop #6

making negotiation a career strength

Being able to negotiate by leveraging your relationships, anchoring when appropriate, and creatively bringing value into situations where a stalemate has occurred can make your career. Yet most people aren’t all that good at negotiating. Consider the idea that salespeople who can boost their corporate sales by even 10 percent by utilizing negotiating techniques can add millions to the bottom line. Or that a person who effectively negotiates their compensation package over their career can make tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation and additional benefits than their counterparts who don’t. This workshop provides participants with foundational and more advanced negotiation skills. The content of the workshop can be tailored to the needs of the participants. 

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Workshop #7

managing conflict

How a person manages conflict and conducts difficult conversations can make or break their career, help or hurt the teams they lead, and strengthen or weaken their relationships at work. There’s a science and art to managing conflict and people can become significantly better at having difficult conversations through learning dozens of tactics that the conflict management literature has to offer. 

Workshop #8

building a high-performance team

Building a high-performing team is a fairly simple endeavor if you can put six to eight motivated people with positive attitudes together, right? Wrong. Teams can flourish or flounder depending upon a number of factors, most of which are directly impacted by the manager’s actions. This workshop outlines key tactics for lower-and entry-level managers whose teams interface with an organization’s customers.

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Workshop #9

building business acumen

Want to make a greater contribution to your organization’s bottom line? Want to be considered for senior management? Want to continue to be promoted? This workshop packs a punch in heightening the understanding of how your organization creates and delivers value. The workshop delves into key ways that organizations measure their health (e.g., growth, profitability, and cash), the concept that a business model is the core to effective business functioning, and how different functions manage and integrate their activities to create value. Importantly, participants will consider how they can better manage their interdependences with colleagues (internal customers) and customers. 

Workshop #10

leading an integrative, meaningful life

This workshop emphasizes how participants can integrate their careers into a meaningful life. Studies clearly demonstrate the negative effects of employee burnout and lack of purpose, including health and psychological problems, turnover, and lack of productivity. High achievers tend to experience greater burnout and overemphasize short-term wins such as the next big project and underemphasize their families and broader life aims. This workshop emphasizes self assessments and experiential activities that illuminate participants’ degree of life balance and integration and lead into a discussion around how participants ensure overall health and happiness.

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Workshop #11

mastering your next career or job transition

There’s an art to transitioning effectively between jobs and careers. From writing a cover letter that’s not immediately discarded, to networking with would-be employers, and interviewing effectively, there are many hiccups that sabatoge people’s best intentions.  As a former recruiter and a career development researcher, I am steeped in the process and finer details of transitioning.