Workshops
We offer several workshops that cover a variety of communication topics including interpersonal communication, team effectiveness, presence, presenting, listening, and leading.
Listed below is a sampling of our offerings. Interested in discussing a custom workshop for your team? Let’s talk.
Special Event - July 22, 2023!
Breaking into Biotech
A Workshop to Help Leaders from
Large Healthcare Companies
Build the Next Chapter of Their Careers
Are you ready to take proactive steps in building the next chapter of your career?
Whether you are feeling stuck in what was once an exciting career path, or find yourself worrying about what the next major change initiative at your company will mean for you, our program will help you be more confident in your future career plans and help you Break into Biotech.
Program Features
- Individualized career assessment and clarification of career goals
- Insight into Biotech opportunities outside of large healthcare companies
- Develop career planning steps and activities to build and refine your personal brand
- Proven action plan and support to expand career opportunities to Break into Biotech
Workshops
Today’s leaders must be expert communicators. From building leadership and executive presence to fostering healthy team cultures and retaining top talent, leaders who don’t master the art of communication are limited in their ability to inspire, influence, and engage.
This interactive learning experience addresses the key communication challenges leaders face every day — and will give you practical skills and approaches to deftly manage them. Topics include:
- Leadership Presence
- Inclusive Leadership: Making People Feel Seen and Heard
- Communicating Up and Down
- Identifying and Addressing Blind Spots
- High Stakes Conversations and Interactions
- Relationship & Emotional Intelligence (RQ & EQ)
- Speaking, Facilitating, and Managing Q&A as a Leader
- And more…
Results Through Relationships
Strengthen Your Team Through the Power of Communication
Learn to communicate with people across a diverse spectrum of personalities, motivations, and experiences.
This leadership development workshop teaches high-potential people and existing managers to lead in a way that fosters connection and builds relationships. Because strong relationships are the foundation of strong business performance.
You’ll learn how to:
- Understand your own motives and strengths
- Better assess the motives and strengths of others
- Use that knowledge to adjust your communication approach with each person
- Close the gap between what you said and what they heard
- Minimize and manage conflict
- Lay the groundwork for a culture of mutual understanding, support, and respect
This workshop helps leaders learn to communicate in authentic ways that will build relationships and allow them to inspire, persuade, and influence. This program will also teach them to use their communications toolkit well, and essential best practices for showing up well when it matters most.
After this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Define the concept of presence and explain its importance in communication.
- Identify the key elements of effective communication, including body language, eye contact, voice projection, vocal variety, listening, and empathy.
- Develop strategies for building rapport with others and creating a positive first impression.
- Practice techniques for crafting and delivering speeches and presentations with confidence and impact.
- Apply the principles of presence to their professional lives and achieve their goals.
Every member of your team brings unique talents to the organization — and teams that rally around each other’s strengths and clearly communicate with each other are unstoppable.
This workshop will help you continue to improve your team culture, and your communication and collaboration skills, so you can support each other, your clients or partners, and the organization at an even higher level.
Participants in this workshop will learn how to set each other up for success every day through:
- Active listening skills that ensure each team member feels heard and valued
- Understanding your audience or counterpart, addressing their needs
- Best practices for voice, email, and text-based communications
- Strategies for dealing with difficult or aggressive people
- Planning and facilitating meetings that work, in person or remote
- Honoring and leveraging individual talents and strengths to improve internal communication, and team culture
We all know that we need to listen well. Yet it’s a skill that is rarely taught, let alone practiced. During this workshop, we’ll review the common barriers to effective listening, raise awareness of your individual listening habits, and share tips for improving your listening skills. We’ll also teach you facilitation skills that help engage and empower stakeholders.
During this workshop, attendees will learn:
- How to raise awareness of the components of active listening
- Effective listening habits, including removing common barriers
- Active listening tips to improve day-to-day communications
- How to effectively facilitate and use the power of listening to encourage, empower, and engage
From your script to your slides to your delivery, there are many things you need to do to ensure your presentation or speech is clear and effective. Whether you’re presenting to a crowd or to a small group in a conference room, this workshop will help you plan and create presentations that work — and deliver them with confidence.
Participants in this workshop will learn:
- How to plan a presentation that will tell a story and engage your audience
- Best practices for creating PowerPoint slides
- Tactics for dealing with nervousness and anxiety when speaking in public
- Tips for delivering your presentation masterfully, whether in person or remote
This workshop is designed to help leaders improve communications, speak with confidence while tailoring communications to different audiences, and boost leadership and executive presence.
Participants will learn how to set the organization and its clients up for success every day through:
- Active listening skills that make stakeholders feel heard
- Understanding your audience or counterpart, addressing their needs
- Best practices for everyday communications at all levels (internal and external)
- Strategies for dealing with difficult or aggressive people
- Creating and delivering presentations with confidence
- Establishing leadership/executive presence to inspire and influence
Whether you are new to virtual team leadership or are simply looking for tips to improve your remote team leadership skills, this workshop is for you. Topics include leading through technology, running more effective virtual meetings, ensuring the lines of communication are clear and appropriate, and ensuring we keep the personal in interpersonal communication when we are geographically dispersed.
Participants in this workshop will learn:
- The extra communication steps that remote leadership requires
- How to actively facilitate communications with your remote team
- How to run effective virtual meetings
- Tactics for building a winning culture in remote work
Remote Leadership Presence
Bringing Your Best When Leading & Meeting Virtually
Remote meetings are here to stay. This workshop will help you bring your best when participating in, or leading, a remote or virtual meeting. You’ll learn:
- How to look and sound your remote best.
- Virtual room video and audio dos and don’ts.
- Best practices for facilitating and leading remote meetings.
- Tips for using technology like Zoom and Teams to make virtual meetings more engaging
Whether you are regularly conducing team meetings remotely or participating in a virtual meeting or interview, this workshop will give you tips you can use right away to improve your remote leadership presence.
Mastering Hybrid and Remote Work
Effective Communication for Team Success
Thriving and innovating in a hybrid or remote working environment requires extra care. Teams must communicate and collaborate in ways that make others feel understood, valued, included and motivated to grow. In this workshop you’ll learn to:
- Drive alignment in hybrid and remote environments
- Facilitate inclusive and effective meetings that get results
- Leverage the right communication approach and tools at the right times
- Minimize and manage conflict
- Cultivate a culture of mutual understanding, support, and respect
This interactive and engaging workshop will help your team get aligned and effectively communicate. Because good communication builds strong relationships, which are critical to elevated organizational performance.
Your personal brand is the essence of who you are — your passions, what you value, the value you bring to others, and your authentic purpose. And yes, ultimately how you choose to show it to the world. In this highly interactive workshop, you’ll learn:
- What the foundation of a purposeful personal brand looks and sounds like
- A proven process for exploring your unique passions, values, and authentic purpose
- How to develop your own foundation for a purposeful personal brand and how to communicate it to different stakeholders
- The importance of purpose in remaining relevant and more comfortable with change in challenging times
At the end of the workshop, you will have a foundation for building your purposeful personal brand and tools to help clearly communicate it to others (and to evolve it over time).
Good communication is the key to success for every leader. Yet most people never receive any formal communication coaching or training. Without the communications toolkit that every leader needs to be effective, how can we expect them to be the inspiring and influential leaders we need?
This workshop will position new or soon-to-be leaders for success by ensuring they are equipped to look, sound, and perform like the leader their teams need — and do it in their own authentic way. From building leadership and executive presence to fostering healthy team cultures and retaining top talent, this workshop will lay the communication foundation that every leader needs to achieve their full potential.
This program is designed for professionals who have recently been, or are on track to be, elevated to a leadership role.
Topics include:
- The Skills Required for Inspiring and Influential Leadership
- Your Leadership Communication Style
- Listening and Facilitating
- Running Effective Meetings
- Cultivating Winning Cultures: In-person and Remote
- Leadership/Executive Presence