AVAILABLE CAREER, COACHING, AND LEADERSHIP WORKSHOPS

All Turning Points workshops incorporate individual development as a key component of improving group effectiveness. Workshops are meaningful because of the individual’s connection to the content. All workshops emphasize awareness, clarity, action and accountability. Below are descriptions of the topics, core learning objectives, group size and length. All are ultimately customized to meet the refined objectives of each engagement.

Personal Leadership

The Personal Leadership Workshop guides participants toward developing a Personal Leadership Plan using a whole-person approach. Leaders with Personal Leadership Plans are more successful in achieving personal career goals, developing individual team members, developing high-functioning teams and maintaining work-life balance than those that do not have them.

Participants take the Highlands Ability Battery , to learn their most effective approach to learning, problem solving, communicating and optimizing their work environment. During the highly interactive workshop, participants create a personal vision that integrates their abilities, skills, personal style, interests, values, family background, goals and stage of career. Participants apply that vision to their careers to create a holistic Personal Leadership Plan.

Workshop participants will:

• Understand the hard-wiring of their personal leadership style
• Learn tips for constructively addressing interpersonal differences
• Gain a new level of awareness of your strengths and blind spots
• Create a holistic personal vision
• Relate their personal vision to your career
• Assess current fit
• Explore priorities regarding keeping or delegating job responsibilities
• Create a Personal Leadership Plan to achieve professional goals
• Begin to set realistic personal and professioinal goals

Length: One to 1.5 days plus taking tHAB as prerequisite (2-hour individual debriefs optional)

Optimal Workshop Size: A minimum of 6 and a maximum of 25 with 12 as ideal.

Coaching Clinic®

Dr. Stiles is certified in CCUI’s Coaching Clinic®. In the Coaching Clinic®, participants are trained to use coaching techniques in their professional relationships. The training provides a toolkit of knowledge, techniques, and skills that can spur rapid development of individuals and teams, and foster leadership potential.

Today’s leader must integrate coaching skills into his or her style – it is paramount to increasing accountability, efficiency and continuous growth of the leader and all employees.

Workshop participants:

• Learn how taking a coach approach to leadership is efficient and effective
• Understand the personal shifts needed to adopt a coach approach
• Learn a 5-step model for conducting coaching conversations
• Identify and practice 4 key coaching skills
• Describe their own personal coaching style using the PCSI
• Help others bring a focus to their conversations with you
• Help others move from their current reality to their goal
• Optimize their sphere of influence
• Incorporate a coach approach as a means of building capacity through developing others
• Create a personal action plan to adopt a coaching style of leadership

Length: One-two days, typically with 3 half-day follow-ups

Optimal Workshop Size: A minimum of 8 and a maximum of 25 with 12 as ideal.

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence has been coined “the competency of the decade”. Researchers and practitioners have written hundreds of articles and books documenting the importance of “EQ” and its applicability to every line of work. Using movie clips and interactive exercises, participants will walk away with a basic understanding of the four EQ skills and some practical tips on how to enhance them.

Workshop participants will:

• Understand why EQ is more important than any other factor, including intelligence and expertise, in helping you meet their life and career goals.
• Become familiar with the four critical skills of EQ (emotional intelligence).
• Assess their perceived effectiveness using each skill
• Practice their EQ skills in each of the four areas
• Explore how to apply EQ in their work relationships
• Identify 3 specific situations and EQ-smart plans for handling

Length: One day. A 15-minute EQ assessment is a prerequisite.

Optimal Workshop Size: A minimum of 10 and maximum of 30

Team Dynamics

The Team Dynamics workshop is an intensive, highly interactive session. The group first focuses on understanding each individual’s talents and what makes him or her the most productive and satisfied. This self-knowledge can lead to greater utilization of individuals’ contributions, an appreciation of the diversity among team members, and increased communication. The group then focuses on team problem solving, leadership, communication, risk-taking, trust, and conflict management. Ultimately, team members define the team’s goals and create a Team Vision.

Workshop participants will:

• Understand the hard-wiring of their personal leadership style
• Learn tips for constructively addressing interpersonal differences
• Gain a new level of awareness of your strengths and blind spots
• Recognize team member strengths & challenges
• Enhance individual and team performance
• Build a team profile & team awareness
• Draw on common values and interests
• Improve communication among members
• Brainstorm team goals
• Create a team vision

Length: One to 1.5 days plus taking tHAB as a prerequisite (2-hour individual debriefs highly recommended)

Optimal Workshop Size: minimum of 6 maximum of 15. Appropriate for executive teams, leadership teams, strategic planning teams and project teams.

Customized Highlands Ability Battery Group Debriefs

Half-day and full-day workshops designed for your group or team with the primary focus on debriefing and working with the results from the Highlands Ability Battery (tHAB). The group’s profile is shared, giving participants a point of reference, still keeping confidential each individual’s results. Can be used with small groups (6-20) or large groups (up to 100). Pre-workshop requirements include:

• Meeting with client to solidify engagement objectives, timeline, costs
• Distribution of tHAB and instructions
• Introductory Pre-assessment Meeting with participants (face-to-face or teleconference)
• Completion of tHAB by all participants

Leadership Team Facilitations and Coaching

Half-day and full-day facilitations designed for the top leadership team with the primary focus on individual contributions and team functioning.