Workshops and Facilitation
Investing In People
The foundation of a healthy organization is continuous and meaningful development of both you and your team. By investing in people, you’re investing in the future of your business.
We’ll partner with your organization to create interactive workshops to up-level your people and build connective tissue within your team. As experienced facilitators, our workshops are collaborative and insightful, sparking discussions and actively engaging participants. All workshops are done either in-person or virtually.
Current workshop offerings are listed below and we’re happy to discuss customization (or co-create content) based on your needs.
You’ve likely heard the terms executive presence, or leadership embodiment. What do these terms really mean and, more importantly, how do we demonstrate them?
In this session, we’ll reflect on what influences your personal behaviors, identify how the various ways you “show up” impacts the success of your collaboration with others, and what extraordinary results you can achieve through shifting mindsets. You will learn to recognize common reactive strategies that can diminish personal power, as well as practices to evoke a more impactful presence, including strategies for projecting credibility and confidence in tough meetings and uncomfortable conversations.
Stepping Into Being the Leader You Want To Be
Effectively Engaging in Feedback
Feedback is a cornerstone of our development. People who actively seek out have higher job satisfaction, adapt more quickly, and prevent feeling stagnant. And for those offering feedback, doing it effectively supports others to create change and unlock potential.
Even though we know this, feedback phobia abounds. It can be uncomfortable, anxiety-inducing, and hard to do well. As a result, we often approach feedback awkwardly, get emotionally charged, or avoid it all together.
This workshop shifts your relationship with feedback — allowing you to uncover what’s getting in the way of requesting or sharing it. We’ll tap into the art and neuroscience of feedback: where (and why) you tend to get hooked, how to recognize unproductive feedback patterns, and ways to use feedback as a learning opportunity. Key takeaways from this session include techniques to confidently (and effectively) engage in feedback conversations, and communication tips to build stronger relationships in the process.
Our lives have become increasingly demanding, presenting us with ever more complex challenges at a near-relentless pace. It’s easy to take on additional work instead of delegating, fall prey to perfectionist tendencies, and feel overwhelmed.
This session provides a longer-term solution – not a band-aid – that allows you to do your best work while prioritizing well-being and effectiveness. Suzanne will cover ways to recognize the patterns that are holding you back, how to adopt smarter daily practices to prioritize to help guide decision-making, and techniques to draw clear and respectful boundaries that reclaim your time while effectively empowering team members.
Your Professional Reset: Effectively Managing Your Time, Energy, and Attention
Courageous Conversations
Sometimes unlocking what’s possible comes down to having a courageous conversation. When the stakes are high – and emotions tend to be as well – courageous conversations can transform what’s awkward into empowering, mutually beneficial exchanges.
This workshop empowers you to get more comfortable with having hard conversations through insightful content, real-time conversation, and experimentation.
You will learn ways to move away from pre-conversation dread, practice ways to tap into your courage, and leave this session with the confidence (and an initial plan) to successfully engage in an upcoming courageous conversation.
Navigating Through Change and Complexity
Change is constantly courting our organizations, environments, and lives – with the change horizon becoming shorter (and more rapid) each year. It leads to increased complexity, which can feel daunting as we navigate the labyrinth of the systems, multifaceted business processes, and intricate environments. As a result, we must forge a future-focused culture: building capabilities to respond to and bring about change in new, smarter ways.
This workshop supports you in cultivating an innovative mindset as you traverse through change and complexity effectively. We’ll guide you through discussions covering change-averse mindsets, polarity thinking, and building an agility toolkit – giving you an increased understanding of the people side of change as you grow confidence in facing short- and long-term challenges, organizational changes, and larger systemic complexities.
Upping Your Communication Game
If you’re looking to communicate more effectively, generate buy-in, and creatively influence and collaborate with others — this workshop is a great solution.
During this interactive session, we’ll walk you through techniques to create conversations that are both compelling and impactful. We discuss what great communication looks like, how to avoid conversational landmines, and ways to project confidence through a style that generates credibility and draws in the audience. Each person will have the opportunity to practice, workshop, and receive feedback on techniques that build confidence, connection, and improve listening skills.
As leaders, how do we adapt our style to effectively cultivate deeper relationships with and drive our team’s performance in a virtual (or hybrid) environment?
In this workshop, we’ll guide you through simple methods that build and strengthen trust with your virtual team, communicate effectively, and close the physical gap. You will gain an understanding of the role that tone, energy, and pace play in getting your message across and draw in your team, techniques for improved listening and how to be more present, and the value of co-creating our team’s digital “rules of engagement.”
Leading in a Virtual World
Innovation Through a Coaching Mindset
The process of coaching often unlocks previously untapped sources of imagination, productivity and leadership.
Our workshop offers a coaching toolkit for colleagues to support each other; empowering you to partner in a thought-provoking and creative process to maximize each other’s potential. We’ll model and guide you through exercises in real-time, surfacing an opportunity to experience the impact of their behaviors in the group setting.
This session enhances valuable leadership skills including listening, getting comfortable with others’ perspectives and emotions, asking insightful questions, and helping colleagues find their own solutions.