Improve Productivity by Training with Your Team
How would your performance improve if everyone on your team could replicate the results of your top performers?
You really can do more with the resources that you have now.
You and Your Team Need a Trainer
Training your business muscle allows you to gain new skill and condition automatic responses so that you do the right thing more often and more quickly. Trainers and coaches design exercises that allow athletes to isolate and develop particular muscles or skills. We provide our clients with exercises to fine tune their performance as individuals and teams.
Training does three things:
1) It provides new skills for solving problems and resolving issues
2) It provides new stretch for moving beyond success plateaus
3) It provides new perspective for identifying new opportunities.
You are already using all the skills you have to be the best that you can be. When you find the right trainer, you leverage your best.
Programs for teams that are relaxed and ready for better performance
Have you ever wondered how your results would change if only you and your team were more:
* focused on opportunities than problems?
* flexible in connecting with difficult people?
* effective at choosing the right words to get results?
* resilient in response to challenge and disruption?
* accountable for your results and your impact?
All of these qualities are learned behaviours: you can learn to do them better. Our programs will lead you to use your most efficient natural learning processes. In programs that range from 90 minutes to 1 day in length, you will make effective change in the automatic processes that drive your responses and your results.
Quick Tips for Quick Improvement
Read these short articles for quick tips and insights to boost your performance today.
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* Exercises and methods for developing more consistent focus
* Practices to build focus over time
Have you ever known that you need to make a change but not been sure how to do it? Have you been reluctant to work with others because you're not sure that their focus is the same as yours? Have you ever led a team that seemed to be pulling in different directions? You have experienced the need for focus.
Focus is the difference between sort of knowing and knowing. Focus is the difference between using every resource to move forward and being stuck. Focus works.
We provide individuals and teams with a process for focus. It's the same process that has allowed so many of our clients to go from needing a change to having the job they want - in weeks and months. It's the same process that allowed one woman to find exactly the house she wanted - before she even finished the program. It's the same process that has taken entrepreneurs from frazzled to determined.
90 minutes: Focus on Opportunity
3 hours: Maintaining Focus through Disruption
1 day: Building Stronger Focus in Yourself and Others
How to Connect with (Difficult) People
* Identify multi-layered patterns of communication
* Maintain your state within difficult connections
Whether you meet many people every week or just a few every year, it's hard to keep track of so many unique characteristics (like names) while thinking about your own stuff. It's even harder when the people you meet seem to be deliberately aggravating.
I once had a group that was subject to lots of organizational change and technical mishaps. They grew more and more frustrated - and more and more eager to find someone to blame. Emotions ran high. Two months later that group was enthusiastic, energized and - most amazing of all - friendly.
The group changed because I wanted them to change and I had a deliberate process for meeting them in their experience, isolating their frustration, and moving them toward their underlying goals. It took energy and discipline: but it did not take luck.
Human beings have evolved to learn from one another. Although it does not always seem true, we are all gifted communicators capable of connecting effectively through a variety of channels. When connection is difficult, it is a signal to gather more information and to strengthen both your practices and your goals.
Maintain your own state and move toward your goals as you make the connections you really need. Learn to see difficult people as leverage points that can accelerate your progress towards results you will like.
90 minutes: How to Connect with Anyone
3 hours: From Difficulty to Connection: Patterns for Building Rapport
Full Day: Moving Ahead: Making and Maintaining Connection in Dynamic Situations
Thinking to Change Your Results
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Using Language that Gets Results
* Tell powerful stories for positive change
* Combine multiple communication channels to get results
Some groups don't know how to talk to each other. They know what all the words mean, but the story gets lost in static. They send emails that raise anxiety, have phone conversations that end without resolution and have meetings that seem to go on forever.
Other groups use many fewer words to get much better results. They instinctively choose the words that set them all on the same path.
I am thinking of a client team who were on shaky ground: many of them were in danger of losing their jobs. Their managers wanted to protect them and knew that they couldn't. The structure of their situation overwhelmed their words: they simply stopped talking.
We opened up options, partly by teaching a process for noticing that language can always be used to open up options. It is hard work to close down language - it's easier to understand that the right choice of words can open up options that seemed invisible or impossible.
Several weeks after our program we checked back: meetings had changed. There was now a flow of language to support the work - and the hard choices - that the team required.
Become aware of how language works most effectively. Learn to combine sensory information with abstract content to increase understanding and create messages that "stick."
You'll learn to build impact through sensory-based words, to develop agreement through patterns and content and to use new combinations of words to create new opportunities.
Choose words that bridge the way it is and the way you want it to be: use words that stimulate action and get results.
90 minutes - Language Patterns for Impact
Half Day - Powerful Stories for Positive Change
Full day - Multi-Channel Communication Gets Results
Bouncing Back in Difficult Times
* Develop relationships that support your focus and progress
* Connect resilience to the results you want
Did you ever get results without overcoming challenges and distractions?
Resilience is the quality that allows individuals and teams to keep it together and keep moving through challenges, conflict and distractions. You can build your resilience so that you and your team can move forward with confidence - even when the world is getting in your way.
Being an entrepreneur frequently means believing in your work enough to do it even on the days when you're not going to get paid. Entrepreneurs succeed when they are able to sustain their vision of success through tough times. Teams within larger businesses succeed when they are able to support each other's vision through tough times.
Resilience is not a gift- it's a challenge to be overcome through discipline, process and commitment. It's a challenge that can be met through training. Like many sports teams, your own team can work through adversity to overcome your adversaries.
Use your personal model of achievement and the experience of models of excellence to generate the habits, practices and structures that build strength and flexibility.
90 minutes: Increase Your Personal Resilience
Half day: Building Resilient Teams
Full day: The Resilient Organization
You can build resilience to get the results you want.
Fresh and Challenging: Tweak Your Thinking
- Rotman Executive Programs | Executive Education | Toronto, Canada
- Rotman's Executive Programs are offer open-enrolment and custom Executive Education Programs in downtown Toronto, the centre of corporate Canada.
- Henry Mintzberg
- One of the world's top business thinkers offers perspectives to provoke change.
- FastCompany.com - Where ideas and people meet | Fast Company
- Meet people who are passionate about making business work better.
- Malcolm Gladwell
- He's not always right; he's always fresh and useful and challenging.
- Daniel Goleman - Author of Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence
- The source for thinking about whole minds at work.
Building personal accountability
* Structuring accountability in teams
* Accountability through Purpose
Would you like your team to be more accountable for what they do and the impact they have on other team members?
We get people to tell their own stories: stories of success and stories of survival. As they give an account of what happened - and what drove what happened - people become accountable for their strengths, their influence, and the power of their commitment to the sustaining goals and principles. Giving accounts of what actually happened moves past procedures and truisms to get to the leverage points that drive change.
One of our toughest and most rewarding training challenges has been to work with people who had a life-and-death commitment to procedures - and to allow their own stories to challenge "official" versions and get to the bedrock truths they needed. Becoming accountable for the difference between lived experience and the rule book allowed them access to all of the strengths they already had.
This was a team that was already accountable for the performance of other teams - a team that was used to evaluating its own success by the results of other people. In many ways, that's a tough job. It's hard when it's not enough to be accountable for one's own actions - hard to be accountable for what someone else does or decides.
It's hard and it's important. Accountability is more than doing one job right - it's doing a job in a way that makes the whole organization better. That requires the other kind of accounting: the evaluation of costs and benefits that demonstrates the value of one action within a system of actions.
Accountability happens when individuals and teams commit to a process of telling their stories and recognizing their impact. Training - attentive practice - can make those processes both inevitable and desirable.
90 minutes: Recognizing Your Personal Impact
Half Day: Building an Accountable Team
Full Day: Generating Accountability in a Team with Purpose
A few of our clients
- CIBC
- We worked with project managers and business analysts.
- The Calgary Police Service - Home
- The Calgary Police Service, located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is made up of more than 1,600 police officers and 855 civilian members. In concert wit
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