POWERFUL TOPICS FOR CORPORATE WORKSHOPS AND RETREATS
BUILDING A COOPERATIVE TEAM
Goal: Improve team communication and productivity
Apply Maxwell’s 11 principles of leadership and the 5 principles of the win/win agreement. Handle dissension with clarity and class. Increase cooperative planning. Learn how to develop “buy-in” when team unity is lacking.
LISTEN, DIALOGUE, AND MANAGE CONFLICT
Goal: Increase the skills to resolve conflict effectively
Know the difference between managing conflict and resolving it. Learn how to handle confrontation and survive the fallout. Learn how to move a problem from constructive venting into dialogue and toward a mutually beneficial solution.
BUILD A BIGGER BOX
Goal: Build self-confidence and break through barriers
What’s in your box? What’s outside your box? What ‘s outside that you want to bring inside to expand and grow, but are afraid? It’s not about thinking outside the box; it’s how to build a bigger box with everything to be all you can become.
POWER: HOW TO GAIN IT, SHARE IT, AND GIVE IT AWAY!
Goal: Recognize the power position
In communication, we tend to move between two polar positions—power and victim. One brings self confidence; the other, the potential for abuse. How do we move from victim to the power position? How is not knowing affecting your bottom line? Gain new awareness and totally transform your relationships with associates and clients.
Tackling Tough Communication
Goal: Use embarrassing and threatening communication to strengthen a relationship
HOW TO SAY “NO” – and maintain your self respect. CONFRONTATION WITH CONFIDENCE – Engage in constructive confrontation. HOW TO APOLOGIZE – Know when to apologize and when never to apologize. Learn to use COMMUNICATION KILLERS AND POWER IMBALANCES to build, not break a relationship. Learn how communication debacles—especially when you make them—provide a golden opportunity to increase the quality of your relationships exponentially!
MAKE THE COMMITMENT
Goal: Develop a consciousness for commitment and increase collaboration among organization staff
“We are all committed to something—either excellence or mediocrity”- Les Brown. Do you have members of your staff showing poor attendance or taking too much time off? Is your staff working for the organization or a paycheck? If so, perhaps it would be wise to re-visit the meaning of commitment, and see the benefits transform every area of living.
TIME OUT FOR TIME AND STRESS MANAGEMENT
Goal: Acquire strategies for effective planning across multiple disciplines
Do you have members of your staff who do not meet deadlines? What factors kill effective use of their time? Do you offer an assessment of how your staff is using their time? This seminar explores some styles of business planning and provides measurable strategies for staying on course.
THE DIVERSITY CHALLENGE
Goal: Utilizes the benefits and defuse tension created by the convergeance of diverse cultures in the work place
“I am a Muslim and I pray at 3 pm each day.” “In the middle of a staff meeting? I don’t think so!” What kinds of issues arise in the increasingly diverse work environment of today? How do you handle them tactfully? How can the knowledge and application of cultural protocol increase your bottom line? Explore the challenges and the advantages of increased diversity in the work place.
What other topics interest you? To design your next workshop or staff retreat, contact Ann Hosmer at 410-752-3437 or email annhosmer@powerexcel.net with STAFF DEVELOPMENT in the subject line.
FINANCIAL INVESTMENT
Seminars are held at your place of business or at a facility convenient to your place of business
Prices for up to 30 people
Full day seminars begin @ $1,975.00
Multiple sessions customized relative to size and length