Ways of Wellbeing: Team Resilience and Wellbeing

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Ways of Wellbeing: Team Resilience and Wellbeing

As leaders, it is important to your team’s wellness to recognize how stress manifests itself. Participants will learn tactics and strategies to build a strong foundation for your team and better understand how to keep connected. You will review developing a team charter which will help to define your team’s goals, core values, deliverables, and name the roles, skills, and capabilities that will help your team succeed. Participants will review communication styles, social contracting, and discuss ideas for connecting and celebrating with your team. (60 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Define the foundations of a strong team and importance of social contracting
  • Apply templates and best practices to support team cohesion, good health, and connectedness

Taking Feedback to the Next Level: Establishing a Community of Learning

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Taking Feedback to the Next Level: Establishing a Community of Learning

Share and discuss ways to build and foster a community of learning. Participants learn how mentors and staff create a culture of learning and feedback within their organizations. You will discover ways to successfully nurture and foster a strong, welcoming community. Additionally, through the exploration of mentoring tools and frameworks you will better understand how to enable more effective communication and active listening that creates a rich community. (90 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Determine ways to create a community of learning
  • Identify commitments and key actions in service of fostering a community of learning at your organization
  • Define tools and techniques to foster growth and development

Sources of Power

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Sources of Power

Power is often thought of as a four-letter word. Learn how to use your influence to increase your power. Identify your “default” sources of power and understand how to flex other “power” muscles to build trust and accomplish important goals and enact meaningful change. (60 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Recognize the seven different types of power
  • Distinguish your preferred types of power
  • Determine which types of power to leverage to achieve your desired goals

Setting Direction in Your Federal Career

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Setting Direction in Your Federal Career

Setting goals is an important part of determining how you can advance in your career, and helps provide framing for formal or informal mentoring relationships. Discover how, as new mentors and/or mentees, it is important to develop and understand short- and long-term goal setting. You will learn frameworks, including Agile Goals and Career Journey mapping to use as powerful tools in establishing trust and a strong mentoring relationship. Designed as the inaugural session for the Training Pathway: Starting Your Leadership Journey. (90 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Understand how to manage and advance your federal career
  • Determine initial goals

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