Audience: People Managers and Emerging Leaders
Duration: 2hr. "Greatest Hits" or  4 session "Gravity Series"

As a reward for success, the best employees get promoted into an entirely different job. 

Here, we explore high-level skills of the best people managers. Attendees learn how to skillfully set the stage for success, avoid the trap of micromanagement, and create a science-based motivation plan.

No one likes difficult conversations which is why we also reveal a real-world, step-by-step system you can use to hold people accountable when they’re not performing. 

These are the skills it took us years to learn on our own and we geek out on this stuff.

Available as: Greatest Hits (2hr)

or 5-Session Series

• • • • Respect-Based Leadership – Empathy and Feedback
      • Set Clear Expectations
      • Getting and Holding Accountability
      • Courageous Conversations
      • Make It Stick - Present a Plan (for series only)

Audience: Leaders and People Managers
Duration: 2hr. "Greatest Hits" or  4 session "Gravity Series" 

People have a natural resistance to change. As leaders, how do we understand the psychology of change so we best know how to introduce and support it?

In this session, we leverage the structure of professional change management. You’ll be able to confidently prepare for, announce, and support change. Change Management is a game changer.

Available as: Greatest Hits (2hr)

or 4-Session Series

• • • • Planning for Change
      • Announcing Change
      • Keep Change Going
      • Hands-on Change Planning Session

Audience: Anyone who Leads Meetings
Duration: 2hr.

Leading a good meeting is hard enough without dealing with tech challenges and competition for attention. This hands-on workshop focuses on how to get the most out of in-person and remote meeting environments and how to lead engaging, action-oriented meetings. 

You’ll leave people saying, “That was a great meeting!”.

Audience: Leaders
Duration: 1 or 2 Sessions - 2hrs, ea.

You've excelled in your career because you get things done. Moreover, as a leader, people look to you to solve tough problems and you're expected to transition to away from sailing the ship and towards plotting a course.

In this workshop, we unlock creativity with real-world step-by-step tools you'll use right away to strategically create plans and solutions to tough challenges. These tools will become some of the most valuable professional skills you have in your arsenal. You’re going to love this workshop.

2 sessions, available together or individually  

• Get Your Hands Out of Everyday
• Strategic Planning and Thinking – Step by Step

Audience: Leaders and People Managers
Duration: 2hr. 

Accountability sounds good, doesn't it?

Accountability starts with the way you assign goals and tasks and continues through the way you support your team and hold people accountable when necessary.

Studies about accountability reveal step-by-step processes you can follow to confidently build a mindset of accountability and success for your team.

Audience: People Managers & Leaders
Duration: 2hr. 

One of the hardest parts of any manager's job is dealing with difficult performance or behavior issues, especially if the employee is also a high performer.

Here, we reveal frameworks for approaching problematic behaviors and creating a respectful and inclusive plan designed for positive outcomes.

When managers and leaders have a framework it makes the conversation more likely to go well, and more likely to even happen.

Audience: People Managers & Leaders
Duration: 2hr. "Greatest Hits" or  4 session "Gravity Series"

If you think about the single most significant accomplishment in your career so far, we bet it won’t be something that someone else told you to do. 

Business coaching is different from sports coaching. In business coaching, the coach skillfully walks their team members into crafting solutions and plans on their own. Following our simple 5-step method, anyone can become a successful coach. You’ll be coaching by the time you leave the workshop.

Coaching is the best tool for employee growth. 

Available as: Greatest Hits of Guided Problem Solving (2hr)

or 3-Session Series

• • • • Coaching Fundamentals - Avoid the Advice Trap
      • Coaching Through the Tough Spots
      • Hands-on Coaching and Planning Lab

Audience: People Managers and Success-Driven Individuals
Duration: 2hr. 

Modern goal-setting theory and the neuroscience of goals is fascinating and so much more than SMART.

In this direction-setting workshop, we get smarter. We align with org goals and build individual goals aligned to what the best research says really works. 

Audience: People Managers and Success-Driven Individuals
Duration: 2hr. 

Frequent feedback is the #1 most highly correlated behavior that goes into motivation. Yet, giving and receiving feedback is often difficult, and sometimes not very helpful.

In this workshop, we leverage research that focuses on how the most successful communicators offer feedback. We reveal and practice clear and easy ways to make sure the feedback you offer is less likely to create emotional backlash and more likely to create growth.

Audience: People Managers and Success-Driven Individuals
Duration: 2hr.

In this fascinating and useful session, leaders learn a step-by-step process to focus on performative success.  They will set action-focused goals, assign tasks and projects, and build a culture of reporting—all without micromanagement!

Audience: Leaders and People Managers 
Duration: 2hr.

The landscape of modern work has changed more in the last few years than ever before. Research is just now starting to catch up.

High-level studies are finding surprising truths about the effect of work from home and what leaders might do to increase job satisfaction, decrease negative effects, and make a significant difference in innovation and the human side of work.

In this workshop, we reveal the fascinating research that is coming to light and use it to make informed plans for our teams. Informed plans are the best kind of plans, aren’t they?

Audience: People Managers and Success-Driven Individuals
Duration: 2hr.

Good leaders recognize the risk in running an organization without talented people ready to move into key positions when the current occupants leave.

In this session we take a step-by-step approach to identifying potential candidates for advancement and build a plan to prepare them to step into a new role.

Leaders will learn how to create a vacancy risk assessment and how to create a program of training and support to mitigate risk and increase employee growth and morale.

Audience: People Managers and Success-Driven Individuals
Duration: 2hr. "Greatest Hits" or  2 session "Gravity Series"

Performance reviews are often dreaded by employees and leaders alike. But, it doesn't need to be that way. A well-done performance review creates a structured path employees can follow for success.

In this step-based workshop, leaders learn all they need to know to quickly create impartial and legally defensible performance reviews. An effective, fact-based, forward looking, action-oriented performance review can be every leaders number one tool for employee growth.

Audience: People Managers & Leaders 
Duration: 2hr. "Greatest Hits" or  2 session "Gravity Series"

80% of workplace conflict never gets solved. It just gets “let go”. Of course, when conflict isn't addressed, it builds up and becomes a systemic relationship issue.

Modern conflict resolution practices provide us with a fantastic roadmap to get to the heart of what's really going on and build solutions that foster strong relationships.

Here, we take a hands-on “how-to” approach to resolving conflicts in a way that feels natural and people-oriented. Managers won’t need these skills every day, but they’ll be very thankful for them when they do.

2 sessions, available together or individually  

• Managing Conflict on Teams: Step-by-Step
• Language Skills of Conflict Resolution

Audience: People Managers & Leaders
Duration: 2hr.

Most of us treat employee interviews as a conversation. Then, we're surprised when the employee doesn't live up to our hopes.

In this hands on step-by-step workshop we will break down the most important characteristics of a dream employee and then craft an interview that uncovers if the candidate has what we want. We’ll use research supported methodologies to get honest answers out of candidates and we’ll be confident we know their skill level in critical competencies.

Don't hire another employee until you take this workshop. It makes a massive difference.

Audience: People who will teach, train, or onboard online
Duration: 2hr.

So many teachers accept that remote teaching won't be as good as an in-classroom experience, but it doesn't need to be that way. It is true that learners are 40% less likely to engage online, so educators need to go get the engagement.

In this fantastic session, we focus on the most important “next-level” techniques for using today's most popular online tools to get people interested, engaged, and learning.

Audience: Teachers, trainers, SME's, managers, sales people, emerging leaders
Duration: 2hr.

Teaching isn't a natural skill for most people. We tend to “present” what is already in our brain and forget how the information got in there.

Here, we break down the how of the learning journey step-by-step into a simple structure. Then we follow that structure to create clear, concise, and action-driven learning your audience will love you for. This stuff is game changing.

Audience: Teachers, trainers, HR
Duration: 2hr.

In real life we don't learn very well by just listening. We also don't learn well by just doing.

In this fascinating session we examine and apply scientific research that shows how to blend discussion, lecture, and hands-on experiences to maximize learning. You're going to love this one.

Audience: Teachers, trainers, instructional designers, HR
Duration: 2hr.

Don't think of yourself as an instructional designer. Think of yourself as a problem solver, because that's what good teaching does, it solves problems.

In this mold-breaking session, we reveal the 4-step structure anyone can follow to create fantastic classes, videos, manuals, or workshops. When you're ready to up your game, this is the workshop for you.

Audience: Teachers, trainers, HR
Duration: 2hr Greatest Hits or 4-session Gravity Series.

Let's face it, most e-learning is pretty bad. But, it doesn't need to be.

Here, learning professionals will dive into the fascinating world of designing and developing video learning. You'll learn more than just how the tools work. You'll learn how to work the tools to make video learning sessions you will be proud of. Plus, it's fun!

Audience: Learning professionals, instructional designers, senior teachers
Duration: 2hr.

“Measuring the Leaning” is the number one concern of learning professionals worldwide.

Without serious measurement to prove value, learning programs can feel like a “nice-to-have”. But if you have proof that your learning programs are smart business decisions it's much easier to get leadership on board. Here, we take learning out of the “squishy” category and lay out how to create credible evaluative data all the way up to ROI.

Don't worry, you don't have to be a math person to make this stuff work.