Change/Organizational Development

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Speaker:  Dr. Axel Meierhoefer and Harry Shade

Change Management through Innovation Mapping™

 

Location: On-site/by request

 

Length: 2 day workshop

Number of Participants : 9-32, working in small groups of 3-4 people. 

Materials : Hard copy notes/binder with training materials for each participant in training location

Follow-Up Monitoring : No-Charge MVP six month follow up program. Attendees may contact instructor(s) for topic relevant questions by email or phone for six-months following the workshop.

 

Facilitators: Dr. Axel Meierhoefer and Harry Shade

This interactive, informative and engaging two day workshop is specifically designed for supervisors, managers, young leaders and executives as well as people working in organization development or organization change functions, looking to find the right tools to identify new opportunities to innovate, solutions for lingering challenges in teams or parts of the organization, and ways to develop new strategies and approaches for the next business cycle. We especially emphasize that participants will learn, through interactive exercises and the application of the Innovation Mapping™ methodology, that long lasting results with tangible products created by participants will allow for an amazing experience rarely achieved in training environments.

 

What You'll Learn?

·       How to identify a specific topic to form Innovation Mapping™ Teams

·       What is the methodology of the map (What goes where)

·       How to draw conclusions using Socratic questioning

·       How to identify challenges related to your topic, new strategy or goals

·       What are the unknown components to your issue/topic, how to find images for them 

·       How are issues in your team or organization linked to your topic

·       How to use Visualization to innovate

·       How to effectively communicate

·       How to improve Your Soft Skills

·       How to use World-café discussions to learn and innovate

·       How to create  a powerful conclusion

 

Who Should Attend?

Supervisors, managers, leaders or executives who want to become better communicators, learn how to solve challenges in a unique way or to develop new strategies and approaches using Innovation Mapping™. During the workshop, you will work interactively in small teams and learn a whole new approach to solving your organizations challenges. You will generate results and create a map that will be a guide going forward that allows you to implement the new approach, strategy or design you developed during training with your team.

 

Course Highlights:

·       Combining Images with questions to learn

·       Finding solutions that last

·        Increasing retention of learning content and the ability to convince others to jump on your bandwagon

·       Having a Map as a guideline available to you and your team after the workshop

·       Improved communication and presentation skills

 

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The Leadership Toolkit

 

Location: On-site/by request

 

Length: 2 days

Number of Participants : 10-35

Materials : Assessment provided via email to signed participants or organizations project coordinator prior to seminar date, hard copy binder with training materials for each participant in training location

Follow-Up Monitoring : No-Charge MVP six month follow up program. Attendees may contact instructor for topic relevant questions by email or phone for six-months following presentation.

 

Facilitators: Dr. Axel Meierhoefer and Harry Shade

This interactive, informative and engaging two day seminar is specifically designed for supervisors, managers, young leaders and executives who are looking to find the right tools to advance in their organization and improve their skills and abilities in their role. We especially emphasize that participants will learn, through interactive exercises and simulation, as well as how to use the skills we introduce to them from the toolkit. This way, they can return to their place of work fully capable of applying what was introduced, ensuring more success and  better results.

 

What You'll Learn?

·       Understanding Leadership Styles

·       Using Mentoring to Improve Leadership

·       Using Coaching to Improve Leadership

·       Handling Sensitive Situations in Positive Ways

·       Growing New leaders

·       The Four Leadership Directions – Up, Down, Left & Right

·       Stress & Time Management to Avoid Burnout

·       Effective Communication

·       Improving Your Soft Skills

·       Succession Planning

·       Identifying and eliminating “burnout”

 

Who Should Attend?

If you are a supervisor, manager, leader or executive who wants to become a better communicator, learn how to be a mentor and coach to those you lead and work with and look for ways to improve yourself, your abilities and skills, and become an all-around improved individual, able to master the requirements of your position you should attend one of our seminars. We guarantee that it will be well worth your time. Conversely, you'll expand your organizations productivity, & profits, by assimilating & retaining the skills needed to make you, your followers and your organization more successful.

 

Course Highlights:

·       What are the consequences of no leadership?

            a. Tension/Stress

            b. Back atmosphere/attitudes

            c. Disorganization

            d. Paralysis

            e. No direction

            f. Lack of proper prioritization/delegation.

·       Learning how to do more with less?

·       Showing you how to make the most efficient use of your time?

·       How to gain back at least three hours a day?

·       Being a coach and mentor while still achieving your own goals and requirements.

“Leaders as Coaches”

A certification program

 

Location: On-site/by request

 

Length: 2 days/16 hour classroom training, followed by supervised practice – options to receive certification (via email, 44 hours)

Number of Participants : minimum 5 participants for internal, single organization course, 8-20 for multi-organization or multi-national org courses/open call courses

Materials : Assessment provided via email to signed participants or organizations project coordinator prior to course date, hard copy binder with training materials for each participant in training location, follow-up forms and tools during practice period

Follow-Up Monitoring : Mandatory, supervised practice period as part of course to receive full certification, No-Charge MVP six month follow up program. Attendees may contact instructor for topic relevant questions by email or phone for six-months following presentation.

 

Facilitators: Dr. Axel Meierhoefer and Harry Shade

This interactive, informative and engaging two day seminar is specifically designed for supervisors, manager, young leaders and executives who have realized that a good leader also needs to be a coach and mentor for those he/she leads. The “Leaders as Coaches” program offers training to learn how to coach and mentor followed by a supervised practice period, after which participants receive a full coaching certification.

Being a certified coach and having completed the “Leaders as Coaches” program will enable participants to achieve their goals better, allow for a better work atmosphere and relationships within the organization, and improve the qualification of a participant, readying him/her for new challenges while advancing their careers.

The course is conducted by a trainer/facilitator team with huge experience in certification training having certified approximately 700+ individuals as coaches.

 

What You'll Learn?

Module 1: Introduction to Coaching

            The Coaching Process

                        a. Gather Information

                        b. Set Goals – Identify what they want to achieve in the future.

                        c. Create Action Plans – How they will get there

                        d. Follow-up and Continual Coaching

Coaching, Mentoring & Counseling

Elevator Pitch Exercise – What is your coaching niche?

Employee/follower Interview

Assessment tools and their application

Introduction of checklist (what to look for, what data to gather)

How to conduct the interview (Dos and Don’ts video)         

 

Module 2: NLP

            Introduction to NLP as it applied to coaching and mentoring

            Brief explanation of Learning Modalities,

Meta Models and Meta Programs

Module 3: Socratic Questioning

            The art of Socratic questioning    

101 Life Changing Questions

Leaders as communicators – what to know and what to avoid

Module 4: Coaching Tools, Tips & Techniques

            Vision Map Exercise

            Vision Statement Exercise

Wheel of Life interview process

Abbreviated and full vision statement development

Demo Vision statement, combined with Lemon Drop Exercise

Sample Coaching Session Video

State or Personal Power