Juggling Elephants

Balancing our work and home lives can often be likened to Juggling Elephants ©.  This workshop will help you to determine the priorities in your life and define the various circus rings involved in your life.  We will look at strategies and skills to manage your own circus with authenticity and ease.

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Digging Deeper into Your Personality Preferences (Myers Briggs Type Indicator Step 2)

The MBTI Step II personality inventory provides you with a report detailing the sub-categories (facets) that make up the four MBTI dichotomies. Step II often clarifies out of preference modalities that results in a deeper understanding of personality

Step II is particularly useful for those who have experienced an MBTI workshop and intact teams to get a clear understanding of self and others.

DiSC

DiSC is and easy to decipher tool that helps individuals understand their own behaivours in their personal and professional lives and helps to appreciate others’ behaviours. The DiSC model is divided into four “styles” with the possibility of having a dominant and secondary style. Excellent for team building, leadership, management, sales, customer service, and various other facets. A key premise of DiSC is that it is based on behaviour and we can always choose our behaviours.

True Colors

True Colors is a model of personality identification that is easy to understand, remember and apply. With the colors of Blue, Gold, Green and Orange – True Colors distils the elaborate concepts of personality theory into a user-friendly, practical tool used to foster healthy productive relationships.

Output: Keys to Personal Success workbook

Suggested workshop timing: Minimum 3.5

Strength Deployment Inventory

The Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) examines our Motivational Values System (MVS) in good times as well as how our MVS changes in conflict. There are predictable, observable traits that align with each of the 7 MVS and predictable patterns associated with the 13 conflict sequences. Used in group settings the SDI helps us understand ourselves, our motivations and where we go in conflict bringing a deeper understanding of our behaviours.

Output: Strength Deployment Inventory interpretive report and personalized SDI Map charting MVS and Conflict Sequence.

Optional Output: Group MVS/Conflict Sequence Map

Suggested workshop timing: Minimum 3.5

Strength deployment Inventory – Portrait of Personal Strength/Portrait of Overdone Strengths

Our Personal Strengths typically align with our Motivational Values System. This tool helps individuals to articulate what they feel are strengths that come naturally to them, those traits that are a little more difficult to exhibit and finally those that feel very unnatural to us that we find difficult to exhibit.

We also know that strengths, when overused in frequency, duration, intensity or out of context can be perceived by others as weaknesses. The Portrait of Personal Strengths and Overdone Strengths gives us insights into how others may be perceiving us and how this may impact relationship and contribute to conflict.

Output: Personal Strengths and Strengths Overdone map

Emotional and Social Intelligence

Research has shown that IQ is no longer the primary determinant of success or failure as we grow and evolve in our careers. Success goes much deeper to our primal, emotional level. Daniel Goleman discusses this fact in his work on Emotional Intelligence. In this workshop, we will examine the concepts of emotional and social intelligence using various tools to help identify our own blind spots. We will also examine how to bring emotional intelligence into the workplace.

Output: Participant worksheets & Bradenbery & Greaves Emotional Intelligence 2.0

Suggested Workshop Timing: 3.5 hours

Presenting with Panache

You never know when you will be called upon to make a presentation. Inevitably in our careers, we will be asked to informally update a staff member, or give a formal presentation to the board. This workshop will examine the keys to effective presentations from the design components, to the delivery including how to overcome stage fright.

Output:Student Workbook

Duration:Minimum 6 hours

Advanced Presentation Skills

Advanced Presentation Skills is an opportunity to showcase your talent as a presenter. The assumption is that you are already comfortable with presenting, and/or have taken Leadership Development Level 1, Day 3, as such, this half day workshop will hone existing presentation skills with explicit peer and instructor feedback. You will also be provided with the unique opportunity to hone your “spontaneous” presentation skills which is an often neglected presentation concept.

As part of the workshop, you will be provided with a pre-work package a minimum of one week prior to the face to face session. The task assigned in the pre-work is to build a 5 minute presentation which you will deliver during the workshop. You will be required to submit an outline of your presentation and any supporting handout materials to your facilitator by a specified date.

The workshop will commence with each participant giving their presentations. These presentations will be videotaped for future reference and review. You will receive specific and targeted feedback on your platform skills, your presentation format and your accompanying visual support. This will help to solidify your personal learning.

Once you have been given feedback and we have covered content on how to make the best presentations for your audience, you will be responsible for preparing an impromptu presentation that will be delivered to a specific audience. The goal of this presentation will be to incorporate “lessons learned” from the first presentation and translate that into a masterful presentation in a potentially high pressure situation.

Output: Individualized feedback on presentation media and platform skills

Suggested Workshop Timing: Dependent on number of participants – allot 20 minutes per participant

Teambuilding

The objective of any teambuilding event is to build trust and respect among team members. We can customize a teambuilding event for your organization utilizing tools and topics from those listed here.

Emotional and Social Intelligence

Research has shown that IQ is no longer the primary determinant of success or failure as we grow and evolve in our careers. Success goes much deeper to our primal, emotional level. Daniel Goleman discusses this fact in his work on Emotional Intelligence.

In this workshop, we will examine the concepts of emotional and social intelligence using various tools to help identify our own blind spots. We will also examine how to bring emotional intelligence into the workplace.

Output: Participant worksheets & Bradenbery & Greaves Emotional Intelligence 2.0

Suggested Workshop Timing: 3.5 hours

Employee Engagement

An engaged employee is a person who is fully involved in, and enthusiastic about his or her work. They also care about the future of the company and are willing to invest the discretionary effort to see the organization succeeds. It is a proven fact that organizations with engaged employees are more productive and more profitable.

A compelling question is this: “How much more productive is an engaged workforce compared to a non-engaged workforce?” There are a number of aspects that make up engagement including motivation, organizational structure and leadership.

In this day and age where employees seemingly will “jump ship” for the smallest pay increase, employee engagement has never been more important. Understanding what engagement is, what components make employees engage and understanding our potential for impact in this area is crucial. Engaged employees don’t leave for an additional dollar per hour, they are committed rationally and emotionally to their organizations. These engaged employees are the organizations best advocates because they share their enthusiasm with others. This module will explore these topics breaking down the components of engagement and highlighting how team leaders and managers can have a direct impact on the level of engagement their employees have.

Confident Conflict Management

It is a fact that conflict is a healthy part of any relationship. A conflict becomes unhealthy when it is poorly resolved or unresolved. In this workshop, we will explore the true cost of conflict in an organization in quantifiable and unquantifiable terms. We will also examine preferred conflict handling styles; when to use each and when each style is inappropriate.

Output: Understanding of Conflict Modes/Workbook

Suggested workshop timing: 3 hours

Strength Deployment Inventory

The Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) examines our Motivational Values System (MVS) in good times as well as how our MVS changes in conflict. There are predictable, observable traits that align with each of the 7 MVS and predictable patterns associated with the 13 conflict sequences. Used in group settings the SDI helps us understand ourselves, our motivations and where we go in conflict bringing a deeper understanding of our behaivours.

Executive Coaching Services

We provide Executive Coaching Services for clients based on the premise that each individual is whole and capable. Our goal is to make the implicit explicit through the role of thinking partner and coach. For more information on coaching services please see our site at Link to Wilton Coaching (coming soon!).

Creating a Coaching Culture

magine an organization where all employees felt seen, heard and understood. How would this impact productivity? How would this impact engagement? How would this impact the bottom line of the organization? How would it impact your life as a leader? Coaching is the vehicle through which organizations can transform their culture and realize these results.

Creating a Coaching Culture is designed for managers and leaders to launch coaching in their organizations.

This three day program has participants experience what coaching is, see the impact coaching has on individuals, and helps participants realize a strategy for moving their organizational culture towards that of a coaching organization.

Outcomes:

Upon completion of Creating a Coaching Culture participants will:

Experience coaching from the perspective of a coachee during two, ½ hour coaching sessions.

Use the Coaching Out of the Box 5/5/5 model to effectively coach others.

Identify and implement new coaching techniques with your employees for improved results. Find solutions to specific business challenges, by creating a coaching environment.

Utilize effective communication skills involved in coaching.

Demonstrate coaching competence during a faculty audited coaching session.

Draft a plan to integrate coaching into their organization.

Target audience:

Managers/leaders responsible for holding employees accountable to strategic action direction.

Professionals who struggle with managing their direct reports in a complex organization.

Leaders who wish to create an environment of accountability and productivity.

Recommendations for delivery:

We recommend that this program be spread out over a period of 2 – 6 weeks to allow time for transfer of knowledge to the workplace. It is important that individuals practice their coaching skills to gain competence in coaching skills.

Teaching and learning techniques:

Participants will experience a variety of instructional methods and techniques. Throughout the sessions participants will be exposed to experiential learning and immersion into a positive and influential method of giving and receiving feedback on all necessary techniques and coaching skills. Video and case studies, as well as extensive practice with coaching will comprise.

Coaching Out Of The Box

What makes us Out of the Box?

We keep it simple

All of our programs and products are designed to keep the learning simple and clean. No jargon or complex models. Instead we tap into participant’s natural way of being and share resources and learning to compliment what they are doing and who they are naturally. We hear over and over again from participants that they “finally get it” and how eager they are to use it.

We have FUN and make it engaging

We believe that people learn from doing. That’s why all of our programs and resources engage participants in trying and experimenting with the new things they are learning. We provide easy-to-understand overviews and concept introductions but then we roll up our sleeves and dive into doing it. And all the while we have FUN. Yes, that’s right – F-U-N!

We are experts in coaching

The developers of our programs and products are pioneers and global leaders in the industry of professional coaching. They have been on the cutting edge of the coaching profession since its inception. They have taught executive coaching in major universities and largely contributed to the development of the coaching industry standards and competencies on every continent in the world. We know what works and we know how to deliver it.

We have a mission

Coaching Out of the Box® was born from one big question. “What if EVERYONE had coaching skills?” As experts in coaching, we were well aware of the power of good coaching. Over the years we have witnessed incredible transformation in individuals on up to entire organizations that had adopted a coaching culture. We have watched coaching grow from a few dedicated coaches in North America to a global sensation that continues to grow each year in numbers that were incomprehensible ten years ago! Our Core Team has always been passionate about coaching and each one has played a role in taking it to where it is today. But now we’re playing bigger. We’re taking coaching mainstream! Our mission is to see that EVERYONE has some level of coaching skills. From the CEO to the 3rd grade teacher. The butcher, the baker and the software maker! There isn’t ANYONE who couldn’t benefit immensely from learning the basics in coaching skills and see their own transformational results in their own world.

We see it like this

When people learn coaching skills they also learn how to truly listen to one another and hear things that bring whole new perspectives, ideas and new ways of collaborating.

When people learn coaching skills they also learn to be curious, ask questions and be a student of others and their surroundings.

When people learn coaching skills they learn how to truly support others.

Imagine what could happen if EVERYONE knew this?

We’re doing more than imagining. We’re making it happen!

Output: One Coaching Out of the Box for each participant

Suggested Workshop Timing: 1-2 Days depending on audience

Surviving and Thriving through Change and Transition

obert C. Gallagher once noted that “change is inevitable except from a vending machine.” No one need remind us about the unprecedented speed with which our organizations are changing. Not to mention the impact of change in our personal lives. In this workshop, we will explore some change theories and translate these into tactical, easily implementable ideas that will help you to survive and thrive through change and transition. We will also look at how these ideas can be implemented to help others navigate the change process.

Output: Participant workbook

Suggested Workshop Timing: 3 hours

Leadership and Influence

Every leader has access to a number of different influence or power bases. Through this workshop, you will learn about the various influence styles by completing the Leader Influence Style inventory. Once influence is understood, we will examine leadership styles to see where each is most effective. Understanding that all influence styles and all leadership styles must be used in various situations will help you to choose the best style for the issue at hand.

Output: Influence Strategy Workbook

Suggested Workshop Timing: 3.5 hours

Closing the Generation Gap

It is a fact that we are living in a time where no less than 4 generations are working side by side. Understanding the “generation gap” helps us all to understand and appreciate where our colleagues are coming from lessening the potential for conflict, miscommunication and damaged relationships.

Motivating for Peak Performance

Motivation is a key topic in today’s workplace. In this workshop we will examine some of the motivational theories and apply these theories to real world situations. We will also discuss recognition and reward in the context of motivation and examine the impact of these concepts on motivation and morale.

Output: Participant worksheet

Suggested Workshop/Presentation Timing: 1-3 hours

Inspiring Possibility

Can you imagine a life filled with people who always put forth their best? Who, even in tough times and through difficult situations, neither close their minds to possibility nor project negative attitudes. Envision how positive and productive your personal and professional worlds would be if you could bring out the best in yourself and every person you interacted with. All this is possible if we focus on possibilities rather being drawn in to the “downward spiral” of fear, doubt and negative attitude.

Through discussion, activities and examination of the video: Leadership: An Art of Possibility, we will realize how by starting with ourselves, and embracing the power of possibility, we can begin to inspire this vision in others motivating them to be the best they can be.

Output: Participant worksheet

Suggested Workshop/Presentation Timing: 1-3 hours