Learning & Development
When it comes to learning and development, the goal of our workshops and assessments is to help each client reach their goals and full potential. One size does not fit all. So while I have a number of existing programs to leverage, I don’t offer pre-determined, cookie-cutter training programs. Instead, I partner with you to create the best plan based on your learning and business goals to ensure we address the core area you need to develop. See our newest program, People & Performance Conversations, PPC, which can be adapted to address your needs for better conversations to deliver better results.
Change happens through conversation. First, I ask to hear about your challenges, what you think you need, and what you’ve already tried. From there, I tap into my toolkit to assemble a simple, human approach to meet your learning and development goals. The L&D programs are aligned to address the challenge you’re trying to solve.
All of our work can be done virtually, in person, or a blend.
“Old ways won’t open new doors.”
WORKSHOPS
I bring significant experience in blending real-life learning with virtual learning maximizing each participant’s time and experience during our workshops, in addition to creating tools and offering follow-up coaching to ensure the participants excel beyond the workshop experience.
Workshops often take a group-coaching approach, where the common goal of the group is the content and skills they are there to learn and develop. This is different from team coaching where the common goal is the business results the intact team is expected to achieve.
I put together the best facilitation team based on the learning goals and subject matter. A few specific areas of learning and development that we focus on:
Facilitation Skills / Making Meetings Work
Consulting Skills
Team Building
Leading Virtual Teams - via partnership with colleagues
Strategic Planning - via partnership with colleagues
Innovation and Creative Thinking - via partnership with colleagues
Colleagues within our network offer a variety of other programs. We might just have exactly what you’re looking for, so let’s talk and see who we can bring and what we can do to meet your needs.
Together we can decide if your program is a half, full, or multi-day experiential workshop form. Workshops are fully maximized when individual coaching support is included in the lead up and/or follow up.
Assessments
Where it helps achieve the client’s goals, assessments can be valuable to increase awareness and understanding of individuals and teams. Assessments can be used within any of our service offerings as needed, including workshops. Our collaborative team is skilled in most widely used team and individual assessments, and we most frequently utilize:
Core Strengths and the Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI)
Enneagram
The Leadership Circle
MBTI – Myers Briggs Type Indicator
StrengthsFinder
Team Diagnostic
Our extended team of collaborators is certified in most widely used organizational assessments - if you don’t see one that your organization typically relies upon, we probably have someone who can work with you who does.
“If you understand others,
you are smart.
If you understand yourself,
you are illuminated.”
My commitment is to make any L&D Experience:
Engaging – participants lose track of time because they’re having fun while they learn
Deliver – do what we say they will do
Interactive – it’s hard to learn from programs that make you sit back and watch, so we make sure you participate and learn as much or more from your colleagues as from your facilitator
Real World – use your own real, everyday situations and scenarios to evaluate & grow
Real Time Feedback & Coaching – you’ll learn how you’re doing along the way and how you can improve as you practice with your peers
Straight Talk – honest, authentic, call-it-like-it-is discussions between your people about your issues and organization
Not Left in Vegas – what happens in the workshop won’t stay in the workshop. You’ll take with you tools and skills you can use the very next day
Current & Relevant – we have access to cutting-edge research and trends which we tap into via our network and university connections
Contact me to discuss your learning and development goals and together we can customize the right approach, team and format to fit your needs.