Onsite Management & Employee Training Programs
Our Mission
Collaborative Connections unleashes passion and purpose in people and organizations by inspiring, assisting, and supporting organizations to achieve extraordinary results through training, facilitating and coaching people to work together successfully.Our Core Values
Continuous Learning
We support life-long learning and transformation in ourselves and others
Integrity
We are open, honest, and look for ways to build trust in all working relationships with clients, affiliates, staff, and vendors
Model What We Teach
We model what we teach by:
• Working together collaboratively
• Living with passion and purpose
• Continuous improvements and innovation
• Creating opportunities for transformation
Customer Service
We exceed our customers' expectations by providing quality service and innovative solutions at reasonable prices
Social Responsibility
We give back to our communities by:
• volunteering for worthwhile organizations, events, and causes
• offering free or reduced fees to small nonprofit and community organizations
• being environmentally conscious and making choices that sustain the planet
• holding a world perspective that honors diversity
 Communication |
Meetings and Facilitation |
| Conflict |
Miscellaneous Topics |
| DiSC® Styles |
Strategic Planning |
| Leadership |
Team Development |
The following list represents our most requested onsite management and employee training programs. We also offer Facilitation Skills Training Public Workshops.
Communication
Five Steps for Dealing with Difficult Conversations
In this interactive workshop participants learn a five-step process that will build their confidence and provide a game plan the next time they know they need to talk with someone about something important, but are afraid to do it.
Conflict
Conflict Resolution Skills
This program enhances participants’ awareness of their own and others’ responses to conflict in order to improve their ability to effectively deal with it.
From Conflict to Consensus™
Strategies for bringing together divergent opinions and formulating solutions everyone can support are presented. Participants learn how to create an environment which allows collaboration and consensus to flourish and gains the commitment needed for successful implementation of decisions.
From Conflict to Consensus™: Creating Effective Team Decisions
This workshop teaches participants how to build consensus in group decisions by bringing together divergent opinions and formulating a solution everyone can support. Participants will learn how to resolve conflicts productively, use backup strategies, and create an environment which allows consensus to flourish.
Move Groups “From Conflict to Consensus”™
This workshop teaches participants how to build consensus in group decisions by bringing together divergent opinions and formulating a solution everyone can support. Participants will learn how to resolve conflicts productively, use backup strategies, and create an environment which allows consensus to flourish.
Negotiating for Win-Win Outcomes
Participants learn and practice advanced skills needed to be an effective facilitator such as generating ideas, gathering facts, categorizing and prioritizing information, problem-solving, getting feedback, handling group conflicts and understanding participant styles.
Overview: Mediation and the Mediation Process
Participants gain an understanding of the role of mediation as a process for resolving conflicts.
DiSC® Styles
DiSC Styles: Maximizing Your Strengths As a Leader
Gain a greater appreciation for the impact a leader\’s behavioral style has on the people they lead. Understand how each style communicates, deals with conflict, and is motivated to perform. Develop strategies for effectively managing all styles.
DiSC Styles: Understanding Behavioral Styles in Your Team
Understand and appreciate your own style and that of team members in order to work more effectively together. Communication increases and conflicts decrease when people understand how behavioral styles impact relationships and strategies are learned to improve working relationships.
Working With Different Styles (One to two days)
Reduce conflicts, improve communication and productivity, and create more satisfying relationships by understanding and appreciating different behavioral styles. (One- to two-day program)
Working With Different Styles (Two hours)
Improve communication, reduce conflicts, and create more satisfying relationships with coworkers by understanding and appreciating different behavioral styles. (Two-hour program)
Leadership
21st Century Leadership Skills
This program provides leaders at all levels with the knowledge and skills to be effective in a constantly changing environment.
Discovering Your Passion to Lead
This program provides new leaders with the knowledge and skills to lead with passion and purpose in a constantly changing environment.
Leading With Passion and Purpose (keynote)
This program provides leaders with the knowledge and skills to lead with passion and purpose in a constantly changing environment.
Maximize Your Strengths As a Leader
Participants learn how to effectively lead all DiSC styles, and maximize their strengths and minimize challenges when working with others.
Meetings and Facilitation
Advanced Skills of Effective Facilitators
Participants learn and practice advanced skills needed to be an effective facilitator such as generating ideas, gathering facts, categorizing and prioritizing information, problem-solving, getting feedback, handling group conflicts and understanding participant styles.
Facilitating Effective Meetings
Participants learn and practice the foundational skills needed to facilitate an effective meeting which engages participants and creates results.
Facilitating Group Dynamics
Participants learn skills and practice dealing with difficult people and difficult situations in meetings, training sessions, or other group events.
Herding Cats Basic Facilitation Skills
Participants develop the foundational skills of an effective facilitator and discover collaborative tools and techniques that make meetings effective.
The Path of Strategic Planning
This program helps participants identify the steps, benefits and pitfalls of the Strategic Planning Process, and discover the key components of an effective plan.
ToP® Group Facilitation Methods
Facilitators will add three valuable methods to their toolbox: 1) The Focused Conversation Method, 2) The Consensus Workshop Method, and 3) The ToP Action Planning Process. Participants will experience each method, learn the steps to successfully facilitate each method and practice each method in a safe learning environment. All three methods are designed to maximize participation, engage the participants, and create clear results that people are excited about.
Unleashing the Power of Meetings: Facilitating With Ease and Confidence
Participants improve their facilitation skills by understanding and utilizing collaborative tools and techniques that make meetings effective.
Miscellaneous Topics
Brown-Bag Learning Bites (60-minute lunch-hour topics)
If your organization is struggling to provide training to employees in this tight economic climate, consider 60-minute Brown-Bag Learning Bites. Sample topics include:
Five Steps to Dealing with Difficult Conversations • Lead with Passion and Purpose • Set and Achieve Inspiring Goals • What’s My Style and How Do I Work with Yours? • Seven Techniques for Highly Focused and Effective Meetings • Create Synergy on Your Team • Create Meaningful Focused Dialogue in Your Meetings • Build Consensus in Five Easy Steps • Handle Difficult Situations in Meetings with Ease • Form a New Team That Works
The Power of Trust
Is lack of trust wearing you down? Where does trust begin, how do you get it, what happens when you lose it, and how can you get it back? Consider what could be different in your workplace if you had a very high trust culture and how you can contribute to it.
Wearing the Six Hats of Effective Decision Making
Group decisions can be a challenging process. How many times have you sat in a meeting where important decisions needed to be made but they weren’t? Instead of coming to an agreement, one or more of the following occurred: members didn’t participate and share their ideas; conflicts erupted; the meeting droned on with no clear solutions identified; everyone left frustrated.
When participants wear the six hats of effective decision making they begin to look at a problem or situation from different angles which leads to a clearer understanding of the issues, and they spot opportunities not always recognized through traditional decision making approaches. In addition, they walk away with a decision they all can support.
Strategic Planning
The Path of Strategic Planning
Identify the steps, benefits and pitfalls of the Strategic Planning Process. Discover the key components of an effective plan.
Team Development
Building an Effective Team
Participants gain an understanding of the basic steps to effective team building and use them to start a new team or improve an existing team.
Building an Effective Team or Board
Participants gain an understanding of the steps to effective teamwork and use them when starting a new team, adding new members, or to improve an existing team or board.
Leading Virtual Teams
This program teaches team leads and managers the critical skills necessary for successfully leading teams when they work across geographical boundaries.
Team Basics for Established Teams
This program teaches participants to understand the basic components of an effective team and develop individual and team knowledge and skills for enhanced team performance.
Teaming Up: Taking Your Team to the Next Level of High Performance
Participants will be able to assess the strengths of an intact work team and facilitate the team moving to the next level of performance.
If you require assistance in determining which management or employee training program would be most appropriate for the challenges your organization currently faces, please give us a call at 303-380-2550, e-mail
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