How effective are your meetings? The common approach to improving meetings is a focus on clarifying the meeting purpose, using an agenda, keeping track of time and assigning roles. All of these are important, but these items are not often the major cause of meeting ineffectiveness. The key is group dynamics. How do people interact? Who speaks to whom? Who's heard? Who isn't? Who has influence? How does the group handle conflict, decision making and problem solving? As your Group Process Consultant, I will participate in your meetings and bring to the group's attention my observations on how it's operating and make suggestions of ways to interact better and improve meeting productivity and satisfaction.
Designing a retreat agenda so that key topics are covered, people feel engaged, and useful output is created can be a challenge. Keeping the day flowing and on schedule can often be even more of a challenge. I will work with you to design a session that meets your objectives and then facilitate the day so that you can focus on the content and your role. I will design and run an appropriate opening activity to get people immediately involved and connected to each other. I can also provide tips and tools to inspire creativity.
I provide one-on-one coaching, in person or by telephone with a variety of people, including executives, managers, supervisors and trainers. Each coaching relationship is customized based on the needs of the person needing the coaching. Options include observation and feedback, assessment, problem solving, etc. See Specialties for more detail and examples.
Selecting and implementing a 360 Assessment is more involved than often realized. I have worked with 360 style assessments since 1989. My expertise includes:
Training isn't always the most effective way for employees to learn skills or build their career. In many organizations, mentoring happens ad-hoc. Capitalizing on the knowledge, experience and skills of your employees requires a good approach to mentoring. I will work with you to design and implement a mentoring program that matches the needs of your organization.
Who will you be moving into leadership and management roles in the organization? I will work with you to design a program to identify and build the skills of these individuals. By looking at their talents, skills, values, attitude and style, individuals will understand themselves and their motivations for leadership. Focus on understanding styles of others and on communication skills will prepare participants to be more effective immediately in their current role as well as in future leadership roles.
When you and your team have problems to solve or decisions to make, it is often most effective to use a meeting facilitator . This allows all members to focus on the content while as your facilitator, I focus on the meeting process, paying attention to both the task and the relationships.
Since the best predictor of a job applicant's future work behavior is their past work behavior, the session focuses on the behavioral approach to interviewing. Participants will learn how to use a structured approach to interviewing, including preparation, the interview itself, and follow up. A video will demonstrate key interviewing techniques and illustrate how to deal with common interview situations. Workshop discussions and exercises will provide clarity on the value of developing good interviewing skills. Learning will be reinforced in role play exercises.
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Do you ever feel misunderstood by others, or at times feel perplexed understanding them?
Many of our relationship challenges are simply a lack of knowing how the marked differences between personality types impact our interactions. Likewise, our own life is much more rewarding when our personal choices come from an understanding of what drives our own unique personality type.
In this dynamic, interactive 2-day workshop, you will learn how to:
In addition to improving relationship skills, you will GAIN…