Workforce Development and
Employee Training Courses

Description

Allyship is a relationship between two people working together toward the shared goal of fairness, equity, and social justice. You will learn tools to promote diversity and inclusion at your organization and to best partner with others to address inequality and achieve your shared goals.

Outcomes

• Define allyship and sponsorship as it relates to inclusion and leadership
• Learn ways to make allyship actionable
• Understand the value and concept of an Employee Resource Group (ERG)
• Identify partnership opportunities across department leadership and peer teams
• Create an allyship mission statement
• Develop a next steps action plan to implement allyship and sponsorship opportunities

Description

Any leader’s success depends on placing the right people to deliver the right results. But many hiring managers improvise their way through job interviews, chasing the arbitrary notion of “fit.” In this course, learners collaboratively explore the more objective and efficient process of behavioral interviewing for optimal hiring—leading to a workforce with the right skills and expertise.

Outcomes

• Demonstrably more equitable hiring
• Increased new-hire retention
• Improved employer branding

Description

Supporting career development is great in theory but can be difficult in practice. Some managers may even dread these conversations. Career Conversations facilitates honest dialogue about what it is that employees want out of their careers, what is actually expected of managers in the career development process, and how managers can best prepare to talk about their team members’ careers.

Outcomes

• Understand what employees want out of careers and from their managers
• Apply insights and tools for understanding the needs of individual team members, providing useful perspective, and creating connections to opportunities and people
• Plan a career conversation with at least one team member
• Be prepared to handle common career coaching challenges
• Create a team strategy for talking about career development

Description

Every function and activity that takes place in an organization involves some form of direct or indirect communication. The success of these functions and activities directly depends on the ability of the people in the organization to communicate effectively. This course focuses on the process of creating open communication that increases rapport and productivity. Most people in organizations take steps to work toward “being a better communicator.” In this course, participants will identify concrete steps and processes that will truly help them improve their communications skills.

Outcomes

• Describe the five steps to creating open communication
• Assess communication skills and identify areas of strength and development
• Determine the most appropriate method for sharing messages
• Demonstrate the appropriate nonverbal skills to enhance communication with others
• Create assertive statements
• Apply open-ended questioning techniques to increase two-way communication
• Use active listening skills to improve rapport and productivity in the working environment
• Respond effectively when receiving feedback

Description

A leadership role demands not only continual personal development, but the ability to connect with others, inspire high performing teams, and drive enterprise accountability. This course is designed to help learners realize their capacity for exceptional senior leadership and includes an interactive experience, executive coaching, and ongoing peer cohort coaching.

Outcomes

• Support a culture of growth, inclusion, agility, and resilience
• Facilitate a candid and open environment for collaboration
• Instill a sense of ownership and accountability

Description

Research has proven that our emotional intelligence (EQ) is more reliable in predicting success than our intelligence quotient (IQ). In this course, we explore the topic of EQ and how to develop our own EQ; thereby increasing our success with our career and relationships both inside and outside of the workplace.

Outcomes

• Define emotional intelligence and how it relates to personal and organizational success
• Apply tools to increase personal skills: self-awareness and self-management of personal emotions
• Analyze and interpret online assessment results from the EQ-I Inventory
• Apply tools to increase social skills: recognizing the emotions in others and responding to those emotions

Description

Good coaches help employees find their own paths to success. Yet formalized coaching can be an onerous task that’s often neglected amid more immediate concerns. This course helps leaders identify and make the most of everyday coachable moments—eschewing more complicated models in favor of a simple framework that makes coaching meaningful and accessible for novice and experienced coaches alike.

Outcomes

• Identify how individual employees may differ in coaching needs
• Employ the behaviors associated with effective listening
• Learn how best to approach challenging conversations

Description

The GP Strategies executive coaching process is designed to deliver measurable results for the organization, and is customized for each individual. Our coaches all have wide business experience and are well versed in the seven-step GP Strategies executive coaching process. They’ll work with each leader to clarify individual leadership themes, leverage personal convictions, and create a new standard for constructive dialogue and leadership integrity. Through diagnostic tools and candid interviews with the leader and appropriate stakeholders, we will assess the individual’s leadership capabilities and help prioritize the most significant areas for focused development.

Outcomes

• Increased effectiveness and retention of key leaders, their direct reports, and colleagues
• Increased senior team effectiveness, cross-functional collaboration, and credibility
• Improved business results
• Increased employee engagement