Workshops

Experiential, interactive, results-focused training is very helpful for identifying and working with many workplace issues. Here is a partial list of workshops that I offer, which are fully customizable and can be combined to create the perfect training package for the needs of your group or team:

Leadership & Management

• Learn the fundamentals of effective leadership
• Broaden your style and strengths as a manager
• Practice effective decision-making
• Leverage the risks and benefits of the management structure of your company
• Increase initiative, alignment, and accountability throughout your organization

Conflict Resolution

• Identify the dynamics that contribute to conflict in the workplace
• Understand your primary default modes of dealing with conflict
• Learn and appropriately apply all the modes of dealing with conflict
• Differentiate between problems that can be solved and chronic conflicts that must be managed
• Handle group and individual conflicts effectively

Communication Skills

• Apply appropriate communication styles to any workplace situation
• Minimize misunderstandings
• Confront difficult employees with confidence
• Manage challenging conversations with ease
• Effectively give and receive positive and negative feedback
• Foster open, honest, and healthy communication

Managing Change

• Understand the nature and principles of the change process
• Strengthen your ability to handle change
• Deal with resistance to change at all levels of your organization
• Increase your own resilience and the resilience of your team
• Improve your success with change-related projects

Facilitating Productive Meetings

• Learn basic meeting preparation skills
• Practice excellent facilitator behavior
• Identify and avoid common pitfalls of facilitation
• Prepare yourself to deal with difficult meeting situations
• Improve your facilitators toolbox in order to further develop your signature facilitation style

Mission , Vision, and Strategic Planning

• Learn the difference between mission and vision statements
• Develop skills for building an effective plan on a solid foundation
• Apply sustainable planning practices to plans that will guide you for many years
• Leverage your plan to help create organizational alignment and motivate staff and/or board members
• Identify critical aspects of your organization that should be included in your plan, including a focus on environmental sustainability

Stress Management for Leaders

• Learn the importance of stress management for effective leadership
• Understand and practice basic stress management tools
• Recognize the signs of burnout and learn how to avoid it
• Develop a stress management plan for yourself and/or your workplace
• Examine the heart of your own stress and find the courage to make changes that protect your own health and well-being

Embracing Diversity in the Workplace

• Learn how to view workplace conflicts through the lens of diversity issues
• Understand the experiences of both marginalized and central team members
• Identify and practice methods for facilitating workplace discussions about diversity issues
• Examine diversity from the larger perspective of your community and our world
• Incorporate tools for embracing diversity into your work and your life

Leading Focus Groups

• Recognize situations when focus groups would be helpful to the work of your business or organization
• Learn the special skills of moderating focus groups
• Create questions for focus groups
• Learn methods for analysis and reporting of focus group data
• Understand how to approach focus group work with specific populations such as youth, and community organizations

I also periodically schedule in-person trainings in Bella Coola, BC and Moab , Utah and a series of tele-classes every season that train you and allow you to connect with others from the comfort of your office.

TESTIMONIALS

“Progressive management workshops from Canyon Springs Consulting are a must for everyone who works with clients, customers, and/or employees.  Alison trained the management team of our small oil and gas consulting group the polished skills of effective communication, employee relations and client interaction.  A workshop with Alison should be a requirement for everyone.”

Don Hamilton, business owner, Moab, Utah