Secrets of the Most Productive People

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Secrets of the Most Productive People

Identify ways to improve your and your team members’ productivity. Participants will start by taking a productivity quiz to assess your strengths and weaknesses before diving into the top 10 secrets of highly productive people. And trust us, these are not your run of the mill tips and tricks! Come prepared to share what helps keep you motivated. (60 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Assess baseline level of productivity
  • Identify and incorporate the best practices of highly productive people

Resilience Workshop: Pattern Interrupt

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Resilience Workshop: Pattern Interrupt

Gain an understanding of building individual resilience; its approaches and specific tactics. Viewing your resilience through the lens of an “energy continuum,” you will identify which activities contribute to your energy destruction, depletion, regeneration, and renewal. Participants will uncover ways to continue to incorporate energy regenerating and renewing work into your day and ultimately contribute to your overall resilience. (60 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Assess how periods of sustained stress may affect your habits and patterns
  • Define tools and frameworks that help maintain mindfulness and equilibrium in sustained periods of stress

Recognizing the Value and Types of Rest

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Recognizing the Value and Types of Rest

All rest is not created equal. Having an awareness of various kinds of rest helps individuals
and groups understand its importance. Studies show that rest is critical to your professional growth, including “If you take 11 or more of your vacation days, you are more than 30% more likely to receive a raise” (Achor & Gielan, “The Data-Driven Case for Vacation,” Harvard Business Review, July 2016). Participants will evaluate which types of rest are needed in different working contexts and your personal rest habits and preferences. (60 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Define different types of rest
  • Identify signals that indicate you are drained or feeling “burnt out”
  • Recognize which different types of rest practices and methods to employ in different situations

Polishing Your Virtual Presentation Skills

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Polishing Your Virtual Presentation Skills

Discover how to powerfully convey key messages in a virtual setting. Participants will learn essential presentation principles, how to define presentation outcomes, and avoid common presentation pitfalls. You will understand how to successfully convey your message using visuals and apply virtual presentation skills to ensure your message is heard.

Learning Objectives

  • Recognize the fundamentals of stellar presentation design skills
  • Distinguish the most effective presentation speaking skills to employ based on desired outcomes
  • Determine and apply your individual approach and preferences for virtual presentations

Organizing Your Team: Project Management and Leading Others

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Organizing Your Team: Project Management and Leading Others

Participants will review the operator to manager roadmap and explore how it enables rising leaders to create and sustain high-performing teams. Effective management extends beyond managing processes (making things better, faster, cheaper) to uniting, inspiring, and mobilizing others for change. Participants delve into how to scale your leadership capabilities by exploring situational leadership styles and the role interpersonal dynamics and motivation play in rallying a team towards a common goal.

Learning Objectives

  • Apply a tactical set of tools to scale participants’ personal impact
  • Integrate how your strengths coalesce into a distinct leadership style for uniting and mobilizing high-performing teams

Organizing and Leading Remote Meetings (aka Facilitating Virtual Meetings)

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Organizing and Leading Remote Meetings (aka Facilitating Virtual Meetings)

Whether you are new to telework or not, learning how to plan for and lead effective virtual meetings is a key skill that will allow you to drive meaningful, engaging, and high-impact remote meetings. You will discover expert facilitation skills that will ensure engagement of meeting participants, techniques to employ to enable virtual collaboration, and tips on addressing conflicts constructively (90 minutes).

Learning Objectives

  • Use best practices to manage time and virtual participant engagement in remote meetings
  • Leverage technology tools to increase collaboration
  • Identify key components to design and facilitate effective virtual meetings

Mastering Delegation: Making Others Part of the Solution

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Mastering Delegation: Making Others Part of the Solution

How can you spark others’ wisdom and infuse their unique value into the work while fostering a network of relationships, and producing a greater scale and quality of work? Delegation is more than getting stuff off your plate. Participants will explore ways to scale personal impact by shifting from a high-performing, single operator mindset to that of a skilled manager of high performing teams.

Learning Objectives

  • Develop a tactical toolkit for delegating and the mindset to do so powerfully
  • Identify and apply the principles and tactics to harness others’ talents in order to achieve shared goals

Managing High Performing Teams

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Managing High Performing Teams

Driving effective team performance is no secret, accessible only to leader-savants, cabinet members, and Fortune 100 CEOs. Participants will explore and apply the Drexler-Sibbet Team Performance ModelTM to untangle the elements of team performance and identify tactics to apply across diverse operating environments. This powerful tool helps explain the predictable stages involved in both creating and sustaining teams. You will learn how to use the model to develop and sustain your team while also creating a common language for supporting cultures that are both high-performance and people-centric.

Learning Objectives

  • Explore elements of the Drexler-Sibbet Team Performance ModelTM
  • Create tactics to explicitly address current opportunities and challenges your team is facing

Managing a Mobile Workforce

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Managing a Mobile Workforce

Organizations have embraced telework and workplace flexibility, and it is important to equip managers to lead a more mobile and distributed workforce. Participants will learn techniques and best practices for increased team collaboration and work-life integration to use while navigating a mobile environment.

Learning Objectives

  • Determine the shifts needed to manage a remote workforce
  • Use tips, tricks, and tools for virtual communications and working norms in a mobile environment
  • Identify success factors for making mobile work effective

Leaning Into the Clearing: Advanced Facilitation

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Leaning Into the Clearing: Advanced Facilitation

Deepen your ability to achieve meaningful outcomes and increase performance within and across your organization with this immersive and experiential practicum. Participants will learn how to leverage your unique talents, knowledge, and experiences to facilitate powerful sessions. Discover and practice skill-building activities around active listening, navigating group dynamics, and facilitating conflict.

Learning Objectives

  • Enhance awareness of self to increase objectivity and the ability to address a wide range of behaviors and dynamics
  • Expand and apply a repertoire of tools, techniques, and frameworks for leading groups to achieve outcomes