Workforce Development and
Employee Training Courses

Description

Stress is a normal part of everyday life. A person’s ability to understand and manage their stress has a direct correlation to effective performance in the workplace. In this course, participants will learn how stress works, recognize personal sources of stress, understand the effects of stress, develop resilience strategies, and create an action plan to reduce stress and improve productivity.

Outcomes

• Apply a three-step process to manage your stress
• Define stress
• Discuss how stress works
• Identify personal sources of stress
• Apply effective strategies to increase resilience
• Implement an action plan to reduce stress and improve personal productivity

Description

In most regions of the world, only one in three employees is fully engaged. The challenge for organizations: No one can “make” people engaged. Individuals need to understand what meaningful work looks like for them and their organization—and then take action to achieve it. This learning experience provides the insights and tools for employees at all levels to manage their own engagement.

Outcomes

• Understand what engagement is—and what influences it
• Assess your own engagement level
• Clarify the personal values and job conditions that influence your satisfaction at work
• Align your interests and talents with the goals of the organization
• Identify actions you can take to increase your satisfaction and contribution

Description

High employee engagement drives discretionary effort, innovation, quality, profitability, and retention of top talent. But engagement is a personal equation, reflecting an individual’s unique values, aspirations, and job fit. This course provides the concepts, skills, and discussion framework managers need to make engagement a daily priority rather than an annual planning exercise.

Outcomes

• Articulate the definition, drivers, and owners of engagement
• Establish trust, unleash potential, and build confidence in others
• Conduct discussions with team members to understand and act on their unique engagement drivers

Other Details

A workbook for learners provides post-workshop tips and tools for actionable takeaways.

Description

Businesses easily get stuck in using the same strategic approaches, when in fact, unleashing creative solutions that push beyond the obvious creates a Fourth Option® not previously considered. Individuals and teams working through The Outthinker Process discover Fourth Options® for breakthrough solutions to challenges of any size. Throughout this one or one-and-a-half-day program, participants first work through a business case to master the process, habits, and core tools. Participants then deepen their skills by applying what they have learned to a real-life, immediate business challenge. By immediately practicing what they learn, participants build their comfort level by designing innovative strategies to create breakthrough solutions to their business challenges.

Outcomes

• Learn and gain command over a set of strategic and innovative thinking tools
• Apply these tools to real-world challenges
• Create Fourth Option® solutions for a current initiative or problem

Description

In today’s business climate, every member of the organization is challenged to accomplish more in a given day. This can be difficult and lead to increased stress for employees. In this course, participants will learn many time management tools and techniques that not only help them complete their projects and tasks more efficiently, but also help them manage their stress load.

Outcomes

• Define time management
• Develop an effective planning process
• Identify time wasters and what to do about them
• Create an action plan for future development

Description

The first step in adopting an inclusive mindset is to understand and combat your own personal, unconscious bias so you can lead, and be a part of, an inclusive team. In this program, learners build critical self-awareness by uncovering potential blind bias, learn practical, easy-to-apply tools that combat bias, and create an action plan to sustain bias awareness across the organization.

Outcomes

• Determine the role and value of inclusion at your organization
• Evaluate the impact of bas at the individual, team, and organizational level
• Increase self-awareness of bias within yourself and how you experience bias
• Implement tools to address bias through practice and long-term learning enablement

Description

Leadership is a relationship between leaders and followers. It, like all relationships, is a somewhat fragile condition and needs to be carefully, constantly cultivated. Successful leaders modify their behavior to respond to the needs of their followers and the circumstances they encounter—while simultaneously remaining true to who they are. They produce results by being crystal clear on their unique differentiators and by addressing the four critical needs of their followers:

• Community
• Authenticity
• Significance
• Excitement

Outcomes

• Assess the needs of your followers and modify your leadership approach appropriately
• Deploy your personal values, strengths, and even weaknesses to maximize your effectiveness
• Understand and integrate the inherent tensions of leadership
• Build a thriving community of aligned, engaged team members
• Communicate more effectively by considering not only your authentic point of view but also considering your followers’ readiness for change
• Tap into a peer leadership community and expand your influence beyond your teams

Description

Careers don’t result from 10-year plans and organizational career ladders. Careers are fluid and are happening now. This program reflects up-to-date research on career trends and provides practical insights for career exploration today, planning for tomorrow, and anticipating the unexpected in three main topics: what’s now; what’s next; what if.

Outcomes

• Clarity on what’s important to you, what you’re good at, and what you like to do—plus how you show up at work
• Actions for aligning your identity and reputation
• A workable career vision and actions for making it happen
• Ideas for building a vibrant, mutually beneficial “career community”
• Strategies for responding to inevitable career disruptions