Courses and Workshops

Courses and workshops range in length from one to three days, depending upon size of group, prerequisite skills and desired outcomes.  All offerings can be customized to meet the specific needs of your organization.

All offerings can earn PDUs towards maintaining PMP certification.

Program offerings are grouped by the following:

• Organization and Leadership Development
  • Strategic planning
  • Power of Partnership and Integration, The Organization Workshop
  • Leading and Influencing from the Middle
• Project and Process Management
  • Project Management Essentials Made Easy
  • Process Improvement and Management
  • Power of Partnership and Integration, The Organization Workshop
  • Solving What Matters with Critical Thinking
• Team Development
  • Powerful Teams
  • Power of Partnership and Integration, The Organization Workshop
  • Solving What Matters with Critical Thinking

Within the arena of project management, all knowledge areas for professional certification are handled by network of partners.  These are highly professional consultants and trainers who are sought after and respected. 

Organization and Leadership Development

Strategic Planning

Does your organization choose and design its future or is it a simply   at the mercy of what happens?   Are people unsure or unable to see the big picture of how their work fits into the overall organization?  Is it hard to prioritize the work within your finite resources?   You can change this.  What if your organization operated with full clear understanding of its vision and purpose?  People knew what mattered most?  Might empowering your work place with strong vision of what matters the most and a strategic plan help people work committed together?

Utilize this program as a retreat or training to develop a strategic plan.  Starting  with key questions and reflections about the collective vision and mission you will  construct your strategies from a state of appreciation from what is already great.  From there move on to dreaming beyond what is to discover new possibilities.  Learn to design your strategies with a possibility of nimbleness for new uncharted ways in the emerging world.  You will prepare a multi-year strategic plan and break it down to  a one year business plan.

Intended audience:  Leaders and management.

Organization Workshop Results

Power of Partnership and Integration: The Organization Workshop

Is there something getting in the way of partnership in action in your organization?    Does partnership break down across parts of your organization?  What if you had an organization where partnership permeated throughout? What if all understood the pressures and stress experienced by others around them, and committed to powerful interactions and support together?  What if all had a systems level perspective of how things happen in the organization including the customers in the system?

This powerful seminar develops system intelligence, accountability, and partnership strategies for successful results.  In this action packed workshop, the participants become part of an organization and will explore the unseen complex organization system.  They will experience and understand the barriers to effective partnerships and productive work.  As a result, the participants will learn to overcome the invisible barriers, taking proactive measures with effective results.  Direct application yields immediate action back at work with results.

On Day 1, the participants will experience the organization simulation and will begin to explore and practice strategies for effective communication. Day 2 develops information from the framework of the individuals and their motivations, and adds how each person handles conflict. They will focus on partnership and handling conflict to create opportunities for the greater good of the system

Day 1 utilizes Barry Oshry’s, Organization Workshop, by the certified facilitator Day 2 includes Strength Deployment Inventory® with certificated facilitator.

Intended audience:  Leaders, managers, workers, supply chain participants inside and outside the organization, all levels of the organization. 

 

 

Leading and Influencing from the Middle

Are you a middle manager or just someone caught in the middle? Regardless of your position in the organization, nearly everyone is “in the middle” at least some of the time.  Learn the predictable behavior patterns that occur and how to successfully navigate being in the middle.

We are all in the middle at some time and need to develop coping skills, strategies and understanding of how to make this a successful place.  The seminar series focuses on the middle space in organizations to help middle managers create a more productive system through great relationships.  The powerful seminar is a great follow up to the seminar, Creating Partnership and Integration, or as a standalone  seminar.

Module 1:  Series launch

• Organizational workshop to establish proactive strategies for series and practical application
• Applicable theory and methodology for leading change and projects
• Leadership development plan
• Assignment for leading real life project in their workplace

Module 2:

• Project case studies – discussion, lessons, and next steps
• Applicable theory for managing and leading stakeholder groups and teams in real time change

Module 3:

• Project case studies – discussion, lessons and next steps
• Implementing change and producing organizational results

Module 4:

• Project case studies – discussion, lessons and next steps
• Closing projects
• Celebration and series lessons learned

Intended audience:  program managers, functional managers, line managers, fast track group, those in positions who find themselves in the middle of others. 

Project Management and Process Management

Project Management Essentials Made Easy

Organizing and carrying out projects successfully is now a work place competency most organizations need.  Do you have people managing projects? Want better results in the projects? Do you need them to develop their skills?  This course is for them!

 This interactive course provides a flexible model of project management that works well with simple, short projects or longer, more complex ones..  Course content covers core concepts and terminology, the project life cycle and activities associated with each phase (including best practices for starting a project), helpful tools and techniques for successful project management, and practical tips on working with cross-functional project teams. Course will include discussion and examples of projects of varying length and complexity.

Intended audience:  Those new to project management or without extensive training in project management.

Process Improvement and Management

Do your customer satisfaction levels have room for improvement?  Are people confused about the best way to produce the product or service?  Need to deliver to your customer faster and better? Need to eliminate waste in your processes?

Using a proven, multi-step process improvement cycle, participants will learn how to improve work processes in your organization to achieve results.  In this engaging workshop, participants will determine the players who need to be involved, the steps to take, the tools to use, and how to turn their learning into continuous improvement for the organization.

Intended audience:  Process owners, task forces, those performing with the processes or impacted by the processes.  This can be customized for an intact group working to improve specific processes.

Power of Partnership and Integration: The Organization Workshop

Is there something getting in the way of partnership in action in your organization?    Does partnership break down across parts of the organization?  What if you had an organization where partnership permeated throughout? What if everyone understood the pressures and stress experienced by others around them, and committed to powerful interactions and support together?  What if you had a systems level perspective of how things happen in the organization including the customers in the system?

This powerful seminar develops system intelligence, accountability, and partnership strategies for successful results.  Participants in this action packed workshop, where participants become part of an organization, will explore the unseen complex organization system with its barriers to effective partnerships and productive work.  Learn to shift from the invisible barriers to overcoming them, and taking proactive action with effective strategies.  Direct application yields immediate action back at work with results.

Experience the organization simulation during day 1 along with exploring strategies and practicing action.  Day 2 develops information from the framework of in the individuals and their motivations, then adds how each handles conflict.  Partnership is merged with handling warranted conflict that creates opportunities for the greater good of the system.

Day 1 utilizes The Organization Workshop with facilitator certified with Barry Oshry to conduct The Organization Workshop.  Day 2 includes Strength Deployment Inventory® with certificated facilitator.

Intended audience:  Leaders, managers, workers, supply chain participants inside and outside the organization, all levels of the organization.

Solving What Matters with Critical Thinking

Is your organization in response mode – wasting time responding to crisis after crisis?  Or is it actively solving problems, making choices and decisions and moving forward?  Do people leverage a common process to obtain solutions?  Need a way for people to manage stressful problems in a new emerging work world?  What if your people were able to thoughtfully work through a problem while doing it with greater speed because they can all use a common approach that works?

You know the difference between a problem and an opportunity. But does your organization know how to respond to them?  Problems and opportunities are two different things.  A problem requires a response.  An opportunity can be passed over without a response and the opportunity is missed. Or, a solution can be designed bringing a benefit into your organizations future reality.

Workplaces dealing economics, complex situations and emergence of new ways of operating need to ensure the best decisions are made with problems and choosing which opportunities to seize.  Better decisions and implementation are a result of a deliberate process of thinking, analyzing and bringing forth solutions.

This highly interactive seminar will provide the participants with the fundamentals and principles of critical thinking as well as practical skills and tools for application to current real world problems and decisions.  They will develop an understanding of the  varying thinking styles and the strength of each as it relates to solving problems. Finally, they will practice a multistep problem solving method which can be used in work groups to utilize the strengths of appropriate thinking styles.

The seminar develops leaders and workers, improving their problem solving skills and teaching them to seizing opportunities.  Stay ahead of the competition.  Learn to map the system and take a system approach to problem solving.  Gain tools and techniques to improve the results to satisfy clients and end users.

The quality of your thinking determines the outcomes in your work.  Working harder has not been an effective option for years. Get excited about “thinking critically” to create successful outcomes in our complex work world!  Tricking your mind is not necessary.  Take control of your mind to make better decisions and achieve desired results.

Intended Audience:  Management, program managers, staff, those who confronted with work problems

Team Development

Powerful Teams

Do you have teams or groups? Confused about the difference? What if people in your organization operated interdependently to accomplish what matters most? What if you were able to reduce the cost of conflict and instead increase the benefit of conflict?  Trust involves being open and sharing communication, but what about all of today’s ambiguity, confusion and chaos? Make your rock stars successful as well as your teams.

The majority of work is accomplished by a group of people organized to perform with synergy of a team.  It takes effective leadership, teamwork, and relationships with good communications to organize and plan to gain commitments, establish and effectively implement a plan.  This seminar integrates the elements of team development, relationships based on values and motivation, communication, and trust with organizing and carrying out work.

People need effective relationship skills because people are the ones who get the work done together.

Participants will:

• Develop an understanding of skills required to build effective and productive relationships with stakeholders.
• Explore strategies for communication and effective conflict management.
• Explore behaviors that reduce and build trust in relationships.
• Identify stages of team development and appropriate actions to turn individuals into teams.
• Distinguish the difference between the roles of team leaders and members.
• Learn when to focus on the work vs. the relationships in the team to accomplish what needs to be done.

Intended audience:  All who find themselves as part of a group with need for interaction to perform work with people in the group.