Short, tailored workshops focused on improving team engagement, using coach-like skills, tools, and concepts grounded in neuroscience and human development theory. These workshops help individuals and teams improve awareness of the dynamics of meetings and interactions and use skills and tools to improve those dynamics and reach better outcomes.
Most teams focus heavily on business fundamentals like growth, profitability, and strategy, yet overlook factors like team dynamics and grounded leaders that contribute to sustained high performance.
Engagement Skills Workshops strengthen these often-missing dimensions by helping individuals enhance self-awareness, alignment, and meaning (grounded leaders), while improving trust, culture, and engagement (team dynamics).
By bringing greater awareness to team interactions and providing practical tools for better communication, these workshops create the conditions for sustained performance and deeper team effectiveness.
Key Concepts
Depending on your team’s needs, we tailor our workshops to incorporate some or all of these key concepts:
Mentoring vs. Coaching: Exploring the distinctions between mentoring and coaching and when to apply each approach for maximum team development. Leaders will distinguish between coaching and mentoring/problem-solving, and other forms of support, and when and how to “shift gears” into the type of leadership called for in a given moment.
Mindsets: Building awareness of certain ways that we think, or “lenses” our mind views the world through. Exploring and practicing four mindsets that set the stage for more in-depth, insightful engagement with others.
Co-Create the Relationship (CTR): A structured approach to designing the optimal team relationship. Establishes norms of behavior and expectations for how the team communicates, interacts, and relates to each other.
Managing Self - Above & Below the Line: This model illustrates the shift from a reactive mindset—where individuals are driven by fear and conditioning – to a creative mindset, where individuals are purpose-driven, self-aware, and empowering, greatly impacting our effectiveness.
Foundational Five Engagement Skills: Five foundational skills for shifting the impact of your interactions. Skills that sound simple, yet take conscious effort to truly implement, and can open the door to more in-depth, collaborative and insightful discussions, leading to better engagement and performance.
Advanced Engagement Skills: Introduce foundational engagement skills and concepts that are grounded in developmental psychology, neuroscience, and research in leadership effectiveness.
Managing Self - Values & Inner/Outer Game: A shared commitment to what is important to the team about how it works, so the team has their own internal measure of how they are functioning. A team that operates through their Values means living in the Creative dimension.
Crucial Conversations: How to navigate high-stakes, emotionally charged conversations with clarity, composure, and effectiveness, leading to better team alignment and decision-making.
Powerful Relationship Factors: Key elements that foster strong, trust-based relationships within teams, improving collaboration and resilience in the face of challenges.
The Leader as Coach: Equipping leaders with coach-like skills to enhance engagement, empower their teams, and drive performance through inquiry, feedback, and active listening.
Leader as Team Coach: Expanding coach-like skills to incorporate Team Coaching concepts for team development, enabling leaders to strengthen their team foundations, bring more attention to group dynamics, and expand stronger engagement skills into their own teams.
Key Outcomes:
Greater awareness of team engagement dynamics and communication patterns
Improved ability to navigate complex interactions and crucial conversations
Strengthened trust, alignment, and collaboration within teams
Practical tools for leaders to coach and develop their teams more effectively
By strengthening both individual and team engagement skills, these workshops help create an environment where people feel heard, valued, and empowered to perform at their best.