Open Training
The buttons below take you to the next public offerings of live classes or online, self-paced video training. However, all of the below classes are available to customize for a company or group for online or at your site live training. Just reach out and email me, or book a free no-obligation meeting to discuss!
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:
An understanding how the human brain functions and processes information
Potential areas where misunderstandings occur and how to bridge them
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
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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Recruiting 101:
Basics of Recruiting
Many leaders are expected to recruit with little or no training, which unfortunately can lead to poor recruitment. Poor recruitments cost companies in many ways, through bad team spirit, retention and performance issues, wasted time and energy, etc.
This is a three-section class on performing a recruitment process, from defining the advertisement, through CV (resume) screening, the interview (including behavioral based questions), and finally, candidate selection. It is available either live (full day interactive) or through a self-paced video program.
I share the philosophy and approach that I have used as I have been a significant contributor to building two major engineering organizations.
In this course, you will learn the main skills that you need to successfully recruit your team members and solve your recruiting puzzle from an engineering leader who has successful built two engineering organizations. The specific skills that you will take away from the class include:
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How to describe your role and company
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Efficient ways to screen CV’s and cover letters
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How to perform behavioral based interviews
You will also receive a handout with interview questions to use in your own interviews going forward, as well as one year of video access to training in how to interpret answers.
Be Your Best Self for a Better Team
This class is for anyone who works in teams!
Each of us has a unique role to bring to our team and company. The more we understand that role and our impact on others (emotional intelligence) the better we will perform. In this class, you will learn to:
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1) Identify your strengths and weaknesses to be able to communicate about and contribute with your best self through increased emotional intelligence
2) Understand how groups become high-performing teams and what you can do to positively impact your 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.
Be Your Best Leader For A Better Team
You are a new leader, or an experienced one who wants to be a more inclusive leader. You have domain competence and experience to bring to your role, but need some confidence in your new responsibility to lead authentically and enable others to perform and achieve your company’s goals, objectives, and values. You would like to meet others, like you, who are driven to improve and lead well. You need a safe place to experiment and grow your skills.
This is what this class does. 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 you 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
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, it is also available on its own, either for an initial or an updated assessment.
Guided Interpretation: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
If you are looking for a personal and professional transformation journey, this class is a guided interpretation to the book, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey.
It is a combination of live lectures (recorded on video and available afterwards in the portal), where I share my interpretations of the key concepts of each chapter with stories of my own experiences, and live discussion sessions where you have a chance to discuss and share your own thoughts and experiences.
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The community formed from the group discussions is a tremendous benefit of the class, as you can experiment in grow in a safe environment.
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This class is taught live twice annually, fall and spring, with discussion participation groups limited for optimal sharing.
