Online Workshops for Teams
The Center for Transforming Culture provides a number of highly-interactive online workshops online for organizational teams. This could include leadership teams, groups of managers across divisions, or whole office teams. The workshops are designed to get managers and leaders up to speed quickly on the most cutting edge techniques for building a foundation of trust, mutual-support and effective collaboration at the office. We tailor the workshops to meet your organization's specific team contexts, and use realistic examples from your own community to support effective knowledge-building and skills development.
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Conflict Resolution and Trust-Building with the EVAPIT! System
Does it sometimes feel like there is more frustration than joy in the workplace? Is conflict or gossip derailing your team’s focus on producing high quality work? If so, you are not alone. This often stems from a temporary loss of trust – which can be regained quickly with the right approach. This course offers an evidence-based six-step system for helping managers reduce potential conflict and build trust with their team in 10 seconds or less.
Giving Effective Feedback that Leads to Action
Have you noticed that the feedback you give others doesn’t always get implemented fully? Do you ever receive pushback when you offer guidance that you know is helpful? Offering insights to help someone improve is not typically straightforward. Traditional methods of feedback can often lead to feelings of defensiveness, apathy and feet-dragging. This course offers a user-friendly protocol to ensure team members are receptive to your feedback, enthusiastic about implementing it, and have what they need to be successful in their efforts.
Research shows that psychological safety is one of the most critical factors of highly successful teams. Yet most workplace environments don’t know what psychological safety actually means, nor how to create it. This session focuses on helping managers become experts at fostering psychologically safe environments. In doing so they will learn how to develop sustainable trust with their team members, inspire higher levels of innovation, support solutions-orientation around problems, foster a growth mindset among employees and permanently remove the Blame-Game from their community.
Creating Psychologically Safe Environments
Helping Employees Take Initiative & Leadership
Employees often have great ideas to solve hard problems on the team, but don't feel they have the skills, knowledge or confidence to take action. Participants in this course learn methods for taking initiative while getting buy-in on their ideas from senior leaders so they can develop the confidence to move big ideas forward. This workshop incorporates the development of a project idea that employees take on to make improvement on the team. Participants also learn and practice: effective communication skills, collecting meaningful data, the art of storytelling, building influential partnerships and more.
Bridge-Builders Workshop 1: Equity and Fairness Through 360 Empathy
Many efforts to talk about equity and inclusion can create rifts in the community that can distract from the work of supporting the mission of the organization. CTC has designed a four step system to support one-on-one conversations about racial justice and anti-bias work in ways that foster deep listening, reflection and genuine shifts in thinking, without surfacing feelings of defensiveness or conflict. The focus is on using empathy and human connection to move hearts, rather than using facts and figures to try and change minds.
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Bridge-Builders Workshop 2: Community Healing Through Collective Action
When multiple teams or groups of constituents are in conflict, it can quickly take workplace initiatives off the rails. Leaders rarely have the knowledge or skills for how to create bridges across the communities in ways that heal the rifts and get initiatives back on track. This workshop will teach leaders a quick, user-friendly way to bring communities back together, and get them back on track by focusing on a collective vision and plan for positive change.
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Creating a Strategic Plan with Full Staff Buy-in (in less than 3 hours)
Organizations sometimes spend several months and tens of thousands of dollars on strategic plans, and then have trouble operationalizing them because of lack of time, buy-in or capacity. This workshop provides leaders with a user-friendly process to create a strategic plan in less than three hours that integrates full staff buy-in and an implementation plan that tracks progress on the plan over time. Employees say they love the process because they feel a deep sense of ownership around the plan – and often get ‘lit on fire’ to support implementation. Leaders enjoy the Strategic Planning process because it gives them solid metrics to show how quickly change is taking place. And the best news is the most critical part of the process can be done in 3 hours or less.
Facilitating Effective Meetings (Online)
Facilitating meetings online is new for many leaders. It's hard to keep people engaged when competing with email and Facebook windows just a tab away. Yet, there are few key strategies that when used will not only keep participants engaged, but will also improve employee wellness, support innovative thinking, improve collaboration and get many members of the team lit on fire to take initiative to address critical team issues.
Habits for Effective Communication
Communication is one of the most important factors in successful work relationships. Yet, when time is tight, it becomes difficult to communicate in ways that support the best results. This session will focus on helping managers develop habits for effective communication that will support a smoother exchange of information, easier collaboration, better quality work, and a more joyful space -- even in fast-paced communities. As part of the course, participants will learn the key elements of Nonviolent Communication as well as how to avoid 10 manager mistakes that reduce employee engagement.