Consulting & Coaching
For Organizations
Customized
Training
My programs are completely customizable with the focus of creating a diverse, inclusive and compassionate high-performance workplace
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Training options start from short inspirational speeches (20-30 minutes) up to multiple day workshops, depending on the specific needs of your organization.
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Read about the various course templates that I offer below (of course available customized to meet your needs) or if you just want to talk together to come up with the best solution, book me for a complimentary discussion.
Be A Better Team
The majority of teams in industry do not perform to their full capability, as time and energy are lost in conflict and safety issues. This class, based on Susan Wheelan’s Integrated Model of Group Development, starts with a team assessment and specifically addresses the needs of the team to reach high-performance through aligned goals, stakeholder value analysis, and psychological safety. The goal with this class is to specifically meet the needs of your team in its current state.
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The course builds on the team assessment and includes activities specifically to address improvement areas.
Typical activities include:
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The Integrated Model of Group Development Training and Group Development Questionnaire Assessment
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Team Charter (values, measurements, value proposition, stakeholders, purpose, goals) activities
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Feedback training and practice
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(Optional) Belbin Team Roles, including individual self and observer assessment with individual coaching, as well as team activities
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(Optional) Intercultural Awareness Training and Team Mapping
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(Optional) Trust assessment, training and activities
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(Optional) Experiential team learning through Miki Island, a survival game designed for Agile high-performing teams
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(Optional) Myers-Briggs Type Assessments and team building activities
Be Your Best Self For A Better Team
Perhaps you are a consultant company who would like to invest in your team members, but they aren’t working in the same team?
Or you are a company with individual performers and too rapidly changing team configurations where Be a Better Team isn’t practical?
You can still invest in your colleagues and help them improve their self-awareness and team performance with Be Your Best Self for a Better Team.
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Each person has a unique role to bring to their team and company. The more one understands that role and their impact on others (emotional intelligence) the better the performance. In this class, one will learn to:
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1) Identify their strengths and weaknesses to be able to communicate about and contribute with their best self through increased emotional intelligence
2) Understand how groups become high-performing teams and what they can do to positively impact their team
3) Give and receive feedback
4) Navigate different human behavior, including influences from culture, personality, and other aspects of diversity
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It is offered publicly twice annually (fall and spring) with theory taught through live in-person or online training, group discussion and case study work, self and observer assessment using Belbin Team Roles, and 45 minutes of individual coaching.
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I am also am happy to work with you to schedule an internal class to meet your own scheduling needs.
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Be Your Best Leader For A Better Team
You are a growing company. You need more leaders than you can find. You want to develop your new leaders and help them to succeed. You want to give your leaders the tools and confidence to lead with their best selves. You want an inclusive and compassionate workforce.
But you don’t have time, you don’t know how to get there. Your developing leaders need a safe place to experiment and grow their skills where you are assured complete confidentiality for your business.
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This is what this class does and the in-house option gives more freedom for open discussion and sharing. It combines my own learning from 25 years of leadership around the world with research on what the best leaders do, focusing on: Adapting into Delegation, Emotional Intelligence, and Leading with Equity not Equality. After completing this course, leaders will have increased emotional intelligence and be able to successfully lead diverse teams of individuals.
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After completing this class your leaders will know:
1) How groups develop and how the leader can create and enable high performing teams
2) Your own unique role, strengths, and weaknesses, through Belbin Team Roles (self and observer assessment with individual coaching), how best to lead with authenticity, and how to lead others who are different from you
3) How to give and receive feedback
4) How to effectively communicate across culture, personality, and other aspects of diversity, and expectations on leaders differ across cultures
How & Why We Misunderstand Each Other
Many workplaces today include diverse (competence, functional area, culture, personality, gender, etc) teams of people. When we come together with differences, communication misunderstandings often occur and the teams don’t perform as well as they could.
There may be conflict, frustration, and requirements for management support. All often occur in teams of great individuals who come together with differing expectations and definitions of good work.
Many participants have said the course is an eye-opener, helping them to understand there are many different ways of approaching business and doing a good job.
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This class helps individuals understand how our differences contribute to misunderstandings, and how to solve them. The class will include a practice case study to apply the knowledge.
Participants in the class will leave with:
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An understanding how the human brain functions and processes information
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Potential areas where misunderstandings occur and how to bridge them
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Knowledge on how cultures may differ, how to apply to work situations, and how to map themselves and cultures on their own after the class
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A tool for working with interpersonal understandings
The default cultures included in the course are Sweden, Germany, the United States, India, and China, but we will always work with you to include the countries that are relevant for your team.
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We can also map individual preferences rather than countries if that would better suit your team.
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Belbin Team Roles Assessment & Training
The Belbin Team Role Assessment, which includes an opportunity for both self-perception and observer input, is a core component of the Be a Better... and Be Your Best... classes.
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There are multiple reasons for this:
1) As it is a less-permanent and personal assessment, engineers are more open to it and find it a helpful tool to discuss work roles and tasks
2) It has an opportunity for observer input
3) It changes with our interests and roles
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While it is part of core classes, I am also happy to work with you to perform Belbin assessments only for your team. Please note that I do require coaching sessions with the report as I believe that the interpretation and discussion around the report is as important as the report itself.
Most clients prefer either a 30 or 60 min coaching session per person, but I will be flexible to work with you at a minimum of 30 min.
Custom Consulting, Coaching or Task Force Leadership
Sometimes you are so stuck in a situation or conflict that you can’t see a way forward. You doubt that a class will help. You want things to be different, but you don’t know where to start or what to do. Why not bring in an outside perspective? Someone who has been in a lot of messes and tough situations herself…. Someone to listen, understand, and give advice on your specific situation…. Someone to shine a light into a dark situation and provide you with a way out.
Book me for an initial free consultation to see if I am that right “someone” for you right now. Even if we don’t engage, whatever you share is held in complete confidence, and maybe I might know someone else who is right for you.