Training
We use
highly participative active learning techniques in all of our training
workshops. Each is goal centered and provides participants with the
opportunity to set and achieve meaningful goals. For information
on bringing any of our workshops to your organization, please contact Doug.
How To Achieve Your Goals
An
interactive workshop for meetings, conferences, training and
special events
People and
organizations thrive on several key factors.
Leadership, communication, creativity, and productivity expertise and
skill contribute to success. Knowing how to perform at your best is
important; acting on what you
know is critical. Hard work and a sense of vision and purpose combined
with relentless action are the keys to success. But nothing is more
important than knowing
how to set and achieve powerful goals.
This workshop
provides keys to how to achieve your goals. Whether you are
a business professional, artist, entertainer, educator, health care
worker, or anyone with the desire to achieve more for yourself, for
your organization, and for the improvement of the world, one of your
best strategies for getting there is to constantly focus
your dreams and ambition with powerful, passionate, achievable goals.
Program Highlights
When you book or
attend How To Achieve Your Goals
you can expect a lively, humorous, and motivating message that
includes:
- What
type
of goal-setter are you?
- What do
the most successful goal achievers say about setting and achieving
goals?
- What
are
the facts on goals?
- What's
so
smart about SMART goals?
- How
many
goals should you set at a time?
- What
prevents people from achieving their goals?
- What
are
the three most important things to do right now to move toward success
at achieving your goals?
- How can
you best develop distinctive values that will help you achieve your
goals?
Ten Key Qualities
How To Achieve Your Goals
shares insights and opportunities on ten key qualities that lead to
increased creativity, communication, motivation, leadership, and
results:
Giftedness: All
people
have talents and gifts that can be developed to help them achieve their
goals.
Action: Sharing our
talents and gifts encourages happiness in our selves and in others.
Encouraging
others to share their gifts creates mutually enjoyed energy for
success.
Communication:
Making every conversation meaningful, open, and honest facilitates
intentional and successful results.
Exploring: Our gifts
and our lives are meant to be explored, utilized, shared,
optimized, and transformed. Life is a
learning adventure. Opening ourselves to the spontaneous and to the
unexpected creates vast opportunities for learning and success.
Practice: Achievement takes
practice! Embrace imperfection and grow from there!
Love: Love is a
renewable, limitless resource. Love encourages more love. We are free
to choose a loving response to any interaction. We, and others, benefit
every time we choose a loving response.
Service: The essential
question is, "How can I help?"
Encouragement: Lifting,
supporting, applauding, rewarding, and recognizing others increases
practice and sharing.
Persistence: Staying
motivated through each learning experience and relentlessly working to
achieve your goals.
Leadership: Sharing inspiration and
responsibility with the courage it takes to achieve success.
The Five Step Process for How To Achieve Your Goals
Knowledge is the first part of achieving
your goals. Here is a a
five step IDEAL plan, developed from our extensive experience and
research into creating success. Each step includes one key question to
ask yourself for focus and direction.
1. Identify your
dream.
2. Drop whatever stands in
your way.
3. Express a plan for success
to people who matter.
- How
will you achieve your dream?
4. Act relentlessly on your
plan.
- What's
next? What will you do next to work your plan?
5. Learn from feedback every
day.
- What
have you learned today?
That's the
process -- the workshop will help you internalize that knowledge,
inspire your plan, and propel you into action toward creating success.
Creating and Sustaining Success
A
weekly program for setting and
achieving meaningful, passionate, life-affirming goals.
Have you ever set
important goals only to see them fade away into the distance,
unachieved?
Do you find
yourself setting so many goals that you lose track of them and wonder
whatever happened to the success you were expecting?
Creating and Sustaining Success is
a weekly
intensive, highly interactive program where you will take a
fresh look at setting goals and put in place the actions you need to
move forward with confidence, passion, and eagerness to achieve your
highly prioritized goals.
Program Goals
- Identify
your greatest goal opportunities
- Discover
your gifts and focus your goals around your strengths, rather than your
weaknesses
- Develop
your capacity for goal achievement
- Learn
and
practice a process to optimize your results in every transaction and
relationship
- Create
a
goal achievement plan that will energize your days and set you
on a path toward transformational success
- Create
and sustain meaningful success
What To Expect
- Meaningful
conversations with your peers about your most important goals
- Highly
interactive individual and group learning activities
- Stimulating
conversation
- Insights
from your peers and group coach
- Creative
techniques and motivators
- Assessments
that reveal your greatest opportunities
- Processes
to help you pick, prioritize, and powerize your goals
- Enjoyable,
relevant assignments that build your skills and momentum toward success
- Practice
with a tool kit for optimizing your transactions and relationships as
you
drive forward to better results
Who Should Attend
- Creative
artists, actors, and musicians who are looking to develop an edge that
will lead to success
- Business
professionals seeking a way to take their business and career to the
next level of accomplishment
- Managers,
supervisors, and leaders who seek to energize their teams and drive
toward improved results
- Human
resource professionals looking for a program to move performance
management from a punitive to a energized culture
>>Attend
our program on "Creating and Sustaining Success"
Deeper Conversations
Strengthen
your interpersonal dynamics
What could be more important that building
and sustaining
mutually helpful and respectful relationships? During this program you
will explore your own personality traits, share stories and insights
with others, and practice the keys to creating the deeper conversations
that lead to more satisfying relationships.
You'll explore the
joys and benefits of substantially deeper conversations, talking about
what matters the most to you. Using a set of guidelines for effective
dialogue, you'll experience communication from an authentic, radically
true perspective. Without judging your conversational partners, you'll
learn more about the relationships in your life and practice the skills
that can solidify those relationships into satisfying, profoundly deep
experiences.
Who needs to develop deeper conversational skills? Everyone!
Imagine that you can increase your ability to understand and to be
understood by those around you. Consider the feelings you'll share when
your conversational partners feel listened to and appreciated.
During this workshop you will discover, explore, and
practice how to:
- Create a series of agreements
- Listen actively and with empathy
- Understand your conversational partner's points and
opportunity
- Express yourself openly, creatively, and authentically
- Share responsibility for success within your conversation
and in the agreements you'll create
Deeper
Conversations provides you with the tools and practice that will make
every conversation a more rich and fulfilling experience. People may
begin to wonder why they enjoy talking with you so much, and you'll
know exactly why.
Deeper Conversations is also great
for:
- Relationship building
- Couples conferences
- Team Building
- Leadership
development
- Staff retreats
- Congregational
retreats
- Conventions
- Acting companies
- Conference sessions
- Parties
- Coffee house sessions
- Special events
For more
information and availability, contact Doug.
Understanding Yourself and Others
How to communicate more
effectively
Do you
realize that three-quarters of the people in the world see things
fundamentally different than you do?
Do you ever
wonder why
some people are so hard to understand? Does conflict seem to slow you
down and make you uncomfortable? What are the keys to interacting more
effectively and communicating with anyone you meet?
During this one
day
study of interpersonal dynamics you will take and utilize a DISC
assessment to bring new insights to how you interact with people and
what it is that you, and others, are looking for in your relationships.
The results may surprise and intrigue you as you explore the skills
that powerful communicators use to establish rapport, build
relationships, and achieve successful results.
Understanding Yourself and Others
is also
great for:
- Team Building
- Staff retreats
- Congregational
retreats
- Conventions
- Conference sessions
- Parties
- Brainstorming
sessions
- Special events
For more
information or to schedule a session, contact Doug.
Conflict
Resolution Skills
How to handle conflict more effectively
Did you know that people tend to follow the
same pattern for handling conflict over and over -- even when it's not
effective? What happens when communication breaks down or stops
altogether? How do you handle a clash of perspectives or personalities?
Conflict Resolution Skills builds on the powerful work of Dr. Kenneth
Thomas and Dr. Ralph Kilmann, utilizing their Conflict Resolution
Instrument as a way of identifying our preferred patterns of conflict
interaction and identifying the additional choices we have available.
During this session you'll explore the five basic conflict resolution
strategies and determine which of the five you tend to over-use. You'll
explore and practice a method of collaborative conflict resolution that
provides hope for mutually beneficial outcomes rather than win/lose
conflicts that simply perpetuate themselves.
Learn and practice how to:
- Assess
your personal conflict style
- Practice
handling unexpected conflict
- Create
collaborate conversations that lead to reduced conflict
- Use
conflict to your advantage, rather than getting stuck as a victim
- Expand
your conflict resolution flexibility
- Avoid
unnecessary conflict
- Compete
fairly and vigorously when the situation requires
- Build
better relationships through skill conflict management
Conflict Resolution Skills
is also
great for:
- Team Building
- Staff retreats
- Congregational
retreats
- Conventions
- Leadership development
- Project launches
- Conference sessions
- Special events
For
more
information or to schedule a session, contact Doug.
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