Employee Engagement
Empowering Leaders to Engage and Inspire Teams
In order for teams to grow together and deliver great results, leaders must effectively engage their employee workforce. By taking a closer look at behaviors and motivations, employers can foster a workplace marked by satisfaction and success.
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What Motivates Me® Training
While most leaders know their true competitive advantage comes from their people, few know how to get their teams performing at full productivity, move the needle on engagement and help their teammates truly root for each other.
Topics Covered:
- Why motivation is important and how it drives engagement
- The specific motivators that drive you and each of your team members
- The motivator biases that shape the way we view teammates
- How to evaluate and build upon our team’s motivational diversity
- How to align team member’s responsibilities with the driving motivators to unleash positive energy and creative power
- Simple but powerful job‐sculpting strategies to enhance your value, increase fulfillment and accomplish more in your career.
The Five Behaviors Personal Development
The goal is to completely redefine teamwork and collaboration. Personal Development was designed specifically to work for individuals; participants do not all need to be part of the same team. Rather, participants can carry the takeaways of this program from one team to the next, enabling a culture of teamwork. Learners at all levels of an organization can benefit from this program and adopt its powerful message.
Topics Covered:
- Trust One Another – When team members are genuinely transparent and honest with one another, they are able to build vulnerability‐based trust.
- Engage in Conflict Around Ideas – When there is trust, team members are able to engage in unfiltered, constructive debate of ideas.
- Commit to Decisions – When team members are able to offer opinions and debate ideas, they will be more likely to commit to decisions.
- Hold One Another Accountable – When everyone is committed to a clear plan of action, they will be more willing to hold one another accountable.
- Focus on Achieving Collective Results – The ultimate goal of building greater trust, conflict, commitment, and accountability is one thing: the achievement of results.
The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team
The Five Behaviors is based on New York Times best‐selling author Patrick Lencioni’s groundbreaking model for developing cohesive teams through five key behaviors: Trust, Conflict, Commitment, Accountability, and Results. With more than 3.2 million copies in print, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is a cornerstone methodology for teamwork and organizational development.
Topics Covered:
- Trust One Another – When team members are genuinely transparent and honest with one another, they are able to build vulnerability‐based trust.
- Engage in Conflict Around Ideas – When there is trust, team members are able to engage in unfiltered, constructive debate of ideas.
- Commit to Decisions – When team members are able to offer opinions and debate ideas, they will be more likely to commit to decisions.
- Hold One Another Accountable – When everyone is committed to a clear plan of action, they will be more willing to hold one another accountable.
- Focus on Achieving Collective Results – The ultimate goal of building greater trust, conflict, commitment, and accountability is one thing: the achievement of results.
High-Performance Teams Workshop
High Performance Teams are organizations, teams or groups working in a officed or virtual environment that are focused on achieving the same goals. Bringing team members together physically or virtually can be a challenging task. This workshop identifies these challenges and helps participants push through to success.
With our High-Performance Teams workshop, participants will begin to see how important it is to develop a core set of high-performance skills while working remotely. By knowing and managing the way people interact in a remote environment, you will be setting up your high-performance teams to accomplish any task.
Workshop Objectives:
- Define high-performance teams.
- Define remote workforce.
- Understand the characteristics of a high-performance team.
- Understand how to create teamwork.
- Understand the importance of communication.
- Understand how to train your high-performance team of remote employees.
- Learn how to manage a high-performance team.
- Learn the techniques of an effective team meeting.
Team Building
This two‐day course shows how working together as a team improves the quality of your work and your work life. This training helps employees feel engaged, involved, and have more open, honest two‐way communications. Team Building improves teams’ abilities to set goals, reduce
barriers, embrace change, take appropriate initiative, hold others accountable, make decisions, come up with creative ideas and improve team meetings.
Topics Covered:
- Teamwork: How to improve our work and our work life together.
- Meeting Stakeholder Expectations: How to clarify and accomplish our work.
- Reducing Barriers: How to turn obstacles into opportunities.
- Improving Processes: How to manage our work more efficiently.
- Embracing Change: How to NOT keep doing what we’re doing.
- Making and Using Ground Rules: How to act and interact as a team.
- Increasing Our Accountability: How to improve our commitment to team ground rules.
- Acting in Empowered Ways: How to increase our own empowerment.
- Taking Appropriate Initiative: How to do our work and make proposals.
- Being Creative Together: How to get out of mental ruts.
- Making Decisions Together: How and when to make the decisions we can.
- Creating Awful Meetings: And how to fix them.
Coaching and Mentoring Workshop/Coaching for Success
You are in your office looking over your performance report and it happened again. Your low performing employee failed to meet quota this month, even after you spoke with them about the importance of meeting goals. This employee has a great attitude and you know they can do better. You just do not know how to motivate them to reach the goal. Money used to work, but that has worn off. You are baffled and you know being frustrated makes matters worse. What do you do?
Coaching and Mentoring focuses on how to better coach your employees to higher performance. Coaching is a process of relationship building and Goal setting. How well you coach is related directly to how well you are able to foster a great working relationship with your employees through understanding them, and strategic goal setting.
Workshop Objectives:
- Define coaching, mentoring and the GROW model.
- Identify and set appropriate goals using the SMART technique of goal setting.
- Identify the steps necessary in defining the current state or reality of your employee’s situation.
- Identify the steps in developing a finalized plan or wrapping it up and getting your employee motivated to accomplish those plans.
- Identify the benefits of building and fostering trust with your employee.
- Identify the steps in giving effective feedback while maintaining trust.
- Identify and overcoming common obstacles.
- Identify when the coaching is at an end, and transition your employee to other growth opportunities.
- Identify the difference between mentoring and coaching.
Coaching & Mentoring Workshop
1-day Agenda
- Module One: Getting Started
- Module Two: Defining Coaching and Mentoring
- Module Three: Setting Goals
- Module Four: Understanding the Realities
- Module Five: Developing Options
- Module Six: Wrapping it All Up
- Module Seven: The Importance of Trust
- Module Eight: Providing Feedback
- Module Nine: Overcoming Roadblocks
- Module Ten: Reaching the End
- Module Eleven: How Mentoring Differs from Coaching
- Module Twelve: Wrapping it Up
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