About Our Workshopsand Assessments

Workshops

People Skills

People Skills provides the skills and strategies to enable individuals to work together successfully. People Skills emphasizes the importance of building trust, respect and commitment to common goals. Through our one or two day workshop, you will learn how to build upon your strengths and how to tap into the knowledge and skills of others, especially people with whom you have a difficult time getting along. People Skills will help you discover techniques for responding to conflict and creating a win-win. Content developed by the Effectiveness Institute.

Managing for Performance

Managing for Performance focuses on the skills managers must maximize to create a work environment that retains and motivates employees to achieve their highest levels of performance. These include: dealing with constant change, leading vs. managing, building teamwork, understanding work styles, communicating to achieve results, establishing performance expectations, coaching, delegating, and resolving conflict. Managing For Performance helps organizations develop committed, flexible, and motivated employees who are skilled at working in teams. The end result is higher levels of performance and productivity. Content developed by the Effectiveness Institute.

Influencing Decision Makers

Influencing Decision Makers is a proven workshop that gives you the why, what and how of influencing with integrity, especially when you don’t have direct “authority.” It provides practical tools for you to immediately use with individuals and groups crucial to your success. Past participants-both in the U.S. and from work cultures all over the world-have experienced dramatic performance improvement in sales calls, consulting engagements, technical projects, strategy sessions and crucial business meetings. Content developed by the Effectiveness Institute.

Leadership Challenge Workshop

The Leadership Challenge is about how leaders mobilize others to want to get extraordinary things done. It’s about the practices leaders use to transform values into actions, visions into realities, obstacles into innovations, separateness into solidarity, and risks into rewards. It’s about a climate in which people turn challenging opportunities into remarkable successes. The Leadership Challenge was developed by Jim Kouzes and Barry Pozner, researchers, writers, and teachers in the field of leadership.

Assessments

Teams That Work Assessment

This assessment measures the level of team performance and reports the presence or lack of the six characteristics of high-performing teams: a high level of trust, a high level of respect, a shared commitment to a clear and common purpose, willingness and ability to resolve conflict, focus on measureable results, mutual responsibility and accountability for outcomes. Developed by the Effectiveness Institute.

Behavior Style Profile

Behavior style is the foundation for all leadership and influence. Because you can make choices to adapt your behavior to different situations, the Behavior Style Profile assesses your behavior and not your personality. This assessment will identify your primary behavior style (Controller, Persuader, Stabilizer or Analyzer) and will help you understand the strengths and challenges of each. Developed by the Effectiveness Institute.

Behavior Style 360

Discover your personal impact by understanding the difference between how you see yourself and how others view you. Because you can make choices to adapt your behavior to different situations, the Behavior Style 360 assesses your behavior and not your personality. Understanding the difference between your “intent” and your “impact” is a key to building effective relationships and successful teams. Developed by the Effectiveness Institute.

Team Profile

What is your team made of? Discover the strengths and blind spots of your team. A Team Profile allows you to view at a glance the distribution of your team members’ behavior styles across the four behavior style quadrants (Controller, Persuader, Stabilizer, Analyzer). Developed by the Effectiveness Institute.

Leadership Practices Inventory

Leadership is a measurable, learnable, and teachable set of behaviors. This 360-degree leadership assessment tool helps individuals and organizations measure their leadership competencies. Developed by Jim Kouzes and Barry Pozner, researchers, writers, and teachers in the field of leadership.

ACT-cube®

Measures key drivers of teams and organizations,focusing on their readiness for and responsiveness to change. This assessment identifies how effectively an organization, team, process and value chain works, identifying performance inhibitors and enabling leaders to build on what is working well. It also addresses the core leadership question: how can an organization be led through the next cycle of inevitable change? Developed by Human Insight.

AEM-cube®

Drawing on business ecological thinking, this assessment analyzes an individual’s ability to respond to the changing demands of the business lifecycle. The AEM-cube® is a 360 feedback instrument that reports an individual’s and team’s attitude toward change, challenge, task and purpose – ultimately enabling leaders and individuals to understand their contribution to team performance. The report expresses the need for diversity of thinking with the need for congruence of vision, values and behavior as a powerful platform for building trust and increasing performance. Developed by Human Insight.