Workshops
Coaching to Motivate and Retain High Impact People
Identifying and Developing Future Stars
Influence Edge
Performance-Based Coaching
W.G.H.T.
Custom Solutions
Coaching to motivate and retain high impact people
Program:
Keeping and engaging great people on your team is becoming an increasing challenge in tomorrow's world. In this workshop we will look at why they predictably resist change, examine 8 trends that are impacting corporate loyalty, benchmark "best practices" in retaining high performers and learn motivation techniques to engage every member of the team.Topics:
Benchmarking "best practices" in retaining high performers- Understand 8 trends that make keeping great people a greater challenge in tomorrow's world
- Develop strategies to engage top performers
- Identify the 4 key beliefs of successful people that make them successful and can make change difficult
- Recognize the "success traps" that block learning
- Learn what great people look for in their work
- Practice a 4 step model for inspiring people during times of great change
- Two motivators that must be present for sustained impact
- The "blind side" leaders miss most often
Benefits / Special Features:
- See research on treads impacting loyalty and retention
- Understand the six challenges that impact top performer's decision to look for another job
- Practice a four step model for inspiring the people on your team
- Examine the seven steps to manage retention of essential high impact people during times of high change
- Learn how to apply key concepts of the latest research on motivation and engagement that apply to everyone on the team
Identifying and developing future stars
While getting the most from the rest of the team
Program:
Every leader is faced with the dilemma of doing two things simultaneously: produce excellent current results and prepare for the future by building skills and capabilities of your entire team.How do you do that?
In this workshop you will see the latest research on identifying high potential talent, examine how to maximize the return on investment for the time you spend with your people, learn how to build development into the job, and acquire tools that will motivate every member of the team.Topics:
Identifying Future Stars- Learn the nine early indicators of future global executives
- Examine the key behaviors that reveal growth potential
- Apply a technique for analyzing the time you spend with direct reports
- See research showing how to maximize the return on investment for your time
- Identify the twelve challenges (5 of which must be embedded into a job) for development to take place
- Distinguish the five categories of experience that executives cite as potentially developmental
- Learn the primary and secondary needs that are essential in impacting motivation
- Practice techniques to motivate people on the job
Influence Edge
Getting work done without authority
Program:
Getting people to do what you want, when you want it is not all that difficult --- when you have authority. Success in today's environment, however, requires business professionals to influence an array of people (both within and outside their own organization) who they cannot control in the traditional sense. In this workshop you will gain an understanding of power, learn techniques to build personal credibility and practice applying appropriate styles to influence effectively.Topics:
Credibility (what you bring)- Learn what makes business professionals credible
- Identify behaviors to avoid POWER (what you have)
- Identify components of your "power bank"
- Understand the relationship of other's perceptions and your power
- Understand that the elements of influencing are situational
- Learn how to analyze circumstances and choose styles that increase effectiveness
Benefits / Special Features
- Learn how to assess and then enhance the 5 elements in your personal "power bank" that increase your influence potential
- Examine the 6 components of Credibility (Three that you must have to keep you in your job and three that separate you from the crowd / get you promoted)
- See summary results from research involving 86,000 people on leadership effectiveness -- what works and what to avoid
- Practice using 4 influencing styles that can enhance your ability to influence others
- Learn how to diagnose situations to determine when and how to apply all these tools
Performance-Based Coaching
Helping Successful People Become Even Better
Program:
In the "old world" of coaching there was an assumption that the leader knew what to do and how to do it, and could therefore coach others to be effective. In tomorrow's world this assumption may well be invalid.This workshop will focus on how to be an effective coach without being a technical expert. We will look at how to develop yourself, coach others for measurable behavior change and learn a new technique for team building that is fast and effective.
Topcs:
The challenge of coaching successful people- Identify the 4 key beliefs of successful people that lead to success and can make change difficult
- Recognize the "success traps" that block learning Developing yourself as a leader
- Learn a 7 step process for encouraging feedback
- Practice a new technique called "Feedforward" Developing others for positive measurable change in their behavior
- Distinguish when is coaching effective and when it is a waste of a leader's time
- Learn a 5 step coaching process that guarantee's results and works in any culture around the world Team building without time wasting
- Create an assessment of where the team 'is' and 'needs to be'
- Learn a model for team building (that requires very little of the leader's time)
What Got You Here Won't Get You There
How Successful People Become Even More Successful
Program:
You are doing well in your field, but there is something standing between you and the next level of achievement. Perhaps one small flaw; something that hasn't really been a problem in the past; a behavior you barely even recognize. That something just may be one of your own annoying habits.In this workshop you will discover how to identify and overcome 20 of the most common interpersonal challenges often found in leadership behavior. You'll learn a seven step method to modify the habits you want to change and apply 'rules of change' to make the changes permanent.
Topics:
The Success Delusion (why we resist change)- Identify the 4 beliefs that help create success
- Understand the paradox of success (the beliefs that carried us here my hold us back from further success)
- The Higher you go, the more your problems are behavioral
- See that the obstacles holding people back from the highest levels of management are almost never flaws relating to technical skills, intelligence or personality
- Identify the twenty most annoying interpersonal issues in the workplace
- Learn a seven step method for changing interpersonal relationships
- Practice "Feedforward" a tool for coaching, development and change
- Apply the eight rules that help you get a handle on the process of change
- Learn to choose a personal change strategy that stacks the deck in your favor
Custom Solutions
Hawkins Consulting Group also provides custom tailored workshops for senior and mid level management teams. These sessions are frequently designed to support major change initiatives, their impact on teamwork and collaboration.Back to top
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