Workshops are held from 8am - noon on the second Thursday of each month at the East Beltline Campus of Western Michigan University.
Trust: The Game of Collaboration
A fun and dynamic simulation that teaches people the results of win-lose strategies. Learn how to build trust and achieve win/win outcomes with others.
Creating Teams: A Blueprint for High Performance
Experience the advantages of high-performance teams over traditional groups. Understand the essential ingredients of teams and how to create them.
Face-to-Face: Communication for Today’s Professional
Improve relationships by practicing a powerful model of two-way communication to ensure that people establish mutual understanding before taking action.
Effective Meetings: The Power to Get Things Done
Few would disagree that many (if not most) meetings are poorly organized and run. Learn how to create effective and efficient meetings that result in action and accountability.
Emotional Excellence: Handling Life’s Challenges
When and how do we get “hooked” into unproductive ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving? Identify the weakening patterns that keep us from being fully capable and learn strategies and techniques to conquer them.
Taking Responsibility: How to be Proactive not Reactive
“Claim ownership” of the results of your life and learn to see choices available in each circumstance and situation. Experience the power and personal effectiveness that come from owning responsibility.
Conflict Resolution: The Road to Win/Win
Learn about healthy and unhealthy ways of dealing with interpersonal conflict. Assess your own “style” and practice a powerful skill for resolving conflicts in a way that everyone wins.
Empowering Employees: A Guide for Success
Learn to solicit commitment rather than compliance from others. Learn the elements of empowerment and specific tools for transferring responsibilities to others.
Setting Performance Expectations: A Guide to Managing People
High-performing organizations require more– not less—from their employees. Learn to set performance expectations and then confront behavior that fails to meet those expectations.
Time Management: Acting From My Priorities
Understand the difference between “urgent” and “important” and develop habits of self-management that allow you to be proactive and not reactive in the use of time.
Team Decisions: Making Things Happen
Understand several methods of group decision making and the advantages and disadvantages of each. Learn methods of making wise decisions based upon a correct analysis of the problem and exploration of all alternatives.
Winning Relationships: Strengthening Self and Others
Understand the critical features of a vibrant and strong relationship and develop skills to interact with others in ways that strengthen their ability to clarify and vision and handle life’s problems.
