giving feedback
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Secrets to Giving and Receiving Feedback

If you really want to help others grow and develop, learn strategies to represent your thoughts accurately without placing blame or judgement. Implement methods to increase the likelihood of receiving more effective feedback that you can use for your own development. Secrets to Giving and Receiving Feedback teaches you how to: Share feedback in a way…

communicating effectively
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Communicating Effectively

This workshop focuses on communicating effectively as a leader in an organization. According to the American Psychological Association, a perception gap exists between leadership and employees in regard to workplace dynamics (communication, value, etc.). This gap, on average, is 20 percentage points. Everything one does and says sets the cultural tone for the organization. Participants…

career development
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Coaching and Career Development Secrets

Mentoring and coaching individuals is a critical skill to ensure bench strength for the long-term health of your team and organization. Coaching and Career Development Secrets provides: A toolbox full of approaches you can use to develop experience-based skills A roadmap for career development Tips for identifying skill gaps Compensating strategies to fill common developmental…

Workplace-trust
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Secrets to Building Trust with Others

If you are ready to develop a more effective, cohesive work team and a more positive work environment, then Secrets to Building Trust with Others is the workshop for you! Since trust is an integral part of every interaction you have, it is critical that you know the: 17 habits that are imperative for building…

developing high performance teams
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Proven Strategies for Developing High-Performance Teams

Are you are looking for ways to foster, facilitate, and challenge your team? Proven Strategies for Developing High-Performance Teams can help you take your team to the next level with: Team Player Survey A checklist of what the five most common types of teams need 10 key components of High Performance Teams 12 causes of…

leading change
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Keys to Motivating Others When Leading Change

Have you ever noticed that change causes a wide range of reactions, regardless of how small the change may be? The reaction of many is not positive. Keys to Motivating Others When Leading Change provides: A checklist of things you can do to help ensure sustainable change occurs 10 things you can do to motivate…

Critical Thinking
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Critical Thinking: Problem Solving and Decision Making

In this workshop, Critical Thinking: Problem Solving and Decision Making, leaders will gain an appreciation for the standards of critical thinking to include clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, logic, and fairness. They will also discuss the importance of dialogue and decision-making factors such as decision quality, subordinate commitment and time constraints. Decision-making approaches and…

Identify Your Key Strengths
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Leading from the Core: Identify Your Key Strengths

As a leader, knowing your strengths and those of your team members is critical. Negative team experiences often occur due to limited understanding and appreciation of differences. Positive experiences occur when everyone on the team understands and values the unique contributions each member can provide. The Leading from the Core: Identify Your Key Strengths workshop…

noncognitive skills
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Leveraging Noncognitive Skills

Colleges and universities are finally starting to realize that there is a lot more to a student’s potential than just one’s math and language test scores. I’ve known plenty of individuals who don’t do well on standardized tests yet they always seem to thrive in life when faced with challenges. Why? Because they aren’t afraid to…

long-term success
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Persistence or Perfect Test Scores – Which Better Predicts Long-Term Success?

lan Boyle recently wrote a great article that talks about how many organizations are no longer just gauging success on test scores and academic excellence. Instead, they are also looking at noncognitive skills (things like grit, drive, or persistence) which actually may do a better job of predicting individuals’ long-term success. I encourage you to take a few minutes…