Leadership
Leadership Training
We help leaders focus on critical thinking, communication and facilitation skills. The goal is to educate, train, and coach leaders to take advantage of their full potential. Leaders move on from these experiences and are able to develop a culture of engagement, innovation and productivity within their teams.
Critically Creative Thinking
Critically Creative Thinking: Generating Ideas, Problem Solutions and Looking at Them Differently
Seminar Target Audience:
Leaders at all Levels
Seminar Outcomes:
This Critically Creative Thinking Course will:
- Explain how Critical and Creative Thinking work together
- Introduce dozens of Critically Creative Thinking Tools
- Explore the Osborne-Parnes problem-solving method
- Develop better thinkers and problem solvers
Seminar Overview:
The more ways individuals and organizations understand to how solve problems and accomplish tasks, the better. We can agree on that, but how do we know we are looking at things correctly or working towards the correct set of goals? This hands-on Critically Creative Thinking seminar outlines the processes and tools for determining how to ask the right questions in order to solve the right problems. This seminar is tailorable to an organization's current workplace issues and problem sets.
At the conclusion of the Seminar:
Participants should be able to:
- Discuss options for Critically Creative Thinking solutions to problems
- Recognize left and right- brain thinking and the value of each
- Demonstrate multiple Critically Creative Thinking methodologies
Science and Art of Facilitation
The Science and Art of Facilitation: Getting the most from Organizational Discussions
Seminar Target Audience:
Leaders at all Levels
Seminar Outcomes:
This Science and Art of Facilitation Seminar will:
- Explain how facilitation differs from presenting and what it is
- Develop the ability to recognize individual communication skills
- Expand skills and methods to manage conversations for consensus
- Develop the ability to manage group dynamics
Seminar Overview:
This Seminar provides participants with skills and group techniques that separate great facilitators from good ones. With a focus on critical skills, such as consensus building, keeping the group focused, generating energy, managing dysfunction, and gaining agreement. This is done using practical methodology for immediate application. We use high-energy instructors, interactive exercises, and practical exercises to empower leaders with the skills needed to facilitate organizational success at all levels.
At the conclusion of the Seminar:
Participants should be able to:
- Explain the value of facilitation to them as leaders
- Understand how to manage different types of audiences
- Strategize how to how to use group dynamics and motivations
- Handle disruptive personalities within a group