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GET EVERYONE IN YOUR ORGANIZATION ON THE SAME PAGE

Geared toward leadership teams or front-line employees - or both, the Positive Workplace Culture series is about getting everyone in your organization on the same page around best practice skills that promote a culture of high morale, collaboration, accountability and engagement. With a range of topics to choose from, your team members will leave this workshop with practical skills that promote a healthy, effective, authentic, respectful workplace and high functioning teams.

While the series is built to be three parts, we will work with you to customize modules that will be most helpful to your organization.

PART 1: THE TEAM MINDSET
VOLUNTEERING YOUR HEART AND YOUR BRAIN

You can’t pay employees to contribute to a positive workplace culture—each person ultimately makes that choice for themselves. This workshop helps team members see their part in creating an excellent workplace and taps into their personal “why” in bringing their best self to work every day.

Topics and Skill-Building:

• Workplace morale – what it is, why it matters, and your part in creating it

• Adaptive skills and emotional IQ – building trust and respect

• Learn to listen so others feel heard

• Giving and receiving feedback with clarity and non-defensiveness

• Discover the five healthy ways to deal with workplace triangulation and negativity

PART 2: UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE
AND THE ART OF PERSONAL GROWTH

This fun, interactive workshop explores the four spectrums of human behavior for the purpose of increasing trust, respect, and morale in the workplace...as well as improving our own effectiveness as team members.

Topics and Skill-Building:

• Discover and gain an appreciation for your own behavior style (why you're so awesome)

• Understand your impact on others (when others don't recognize your awesomeness)

• Learn the importance of adjusting your style to better meet the needs of others

• Use Behavior Styles theory to enhance meetings, decision-making, and communication

PART 3: COMMON COMMITMENTS
BECOMING A HIGHLY EFFECTIVE TEAM

Highly engaged teams can be the difference between a thriving organization and one that's stuck in less effective methods and mindsets. An important key to engagement and effectiveness is a positive team environment where deep trust and mutual respect are part of the culture's DNA. 

One of our favorite strategies for building a healthy team is our Common Commitments exercise. This process results in a set of guidelines that support the practices of accountability, decision-making, teamwork, respect, trust, attention to results, and more.

The focus and content will vary depending on the needs of the group, but typical topics include:

• Team and trust building (Note: This is not a “touchy-feely” process involving trust falls or hugging. It’s about real commitments to and training in authenticity and trust)

• Brainstorming the ingredients of highly effective teams - the behaviors we want to see as part of our team and those we don’t

• Work on “disagreement styles” and training in how to discuss, debate, compromise, and decide

• A deeper dive into Adaptive Skills and emotional IQ, focusing on the ways we “show up” and our impact on others

• Theory and practice in how to hold an excellent team meeting, including decision-making, supporting decisions after the fact, facilitation, authenticity, “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team,” trust, conflict, and much more

• Discussion of “group elasticity" (The ability to let go, forgive, and move forward)

• Commitments around avoiding triangulation and negativity in the workplace, and the five healthier ways to deal with workplace angst.

This training module culminates in a group consensus on a shared set of commitments and a discussion about sustainability to help avoid the flavor-of-the-year syndrome.