Successful leaders can connect authentically, build confidence in others, and inspire and motivate people into action. Leaders with purpose stay focused and committed to leading through the myriad of everyday organizational challenges. This workshop will help leaders become more confident, composed, and credible, able to connect authentically with the thought and feelings of their team to motivate and inspire them toward a desired outcome.

Talking about mental health in the workplace isn’t easy. Given the mental health statistics in the U.S. and our experience with the pandemic, we know these  discussions are critical. Supporting mental health in the workplace goes beyond offering programs and apps. Leaders play a crucial role in setting the tone and sending the message that our emotional wellness is just as important as our physical wellness. This training will help leaders recognize the significance of their role in creating a work environment that can positively or negatively impact their employees’ overall physical and mental health.

Some people immediately command attention and respect when they walk into a room. Do you have that kind of presence? If not, is it something that you would like to develop? This training will help you do just that by building your credibility, improving your personal appearance, honing your networking skills, and enhancing your ability to communicate effectively.

Design Thinking is an innovative approach to problem solving. Learning how to use Design Thinking will help your team create user-friendly solutions designed to increase profit while decreasing customer dissatisfaction. This training will help your team master the concept of Design Thinking and use them to solve real-world problems.

Building trust and employee engagement is crucial to the success of any organization. No matter how sound and smart your business strategy is, at the end of the day, it is your employees who have to execute strategies and deliver results. Participants will be challenged to build trust through recognizing what it takes to have an engaged and motivated team dedicated to moving the organization forward.

Building High Functioning Teams training will teach participants how to grow employees into highly driven individuals dedicated to getting results. Participants will learn how to foster cooperation within their teams with effective decision-making tools that will inspire and motivate their teams for success.

Built on the concepts of Harvard professor Amy Edmondson book The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth this training will provide evidence-based ways to create fairness and increase morale. Participants will be challenged to analyze their leadership style and identify and correct personal and professional integrity gaps in a safe, non-judgmental environment.

What exactly makes a decision ethical? The problem with ethics is that what may seem morally right (or ethical) to one person may seem appalling to another. This workshop will not provide you with an easy way to solve every ethical decision you will ever have to make. It will, however, help you define your ethical framework to make solving those ethical dilemmas easier. We will also look at some tools that you can use when you are faced with an ethical decision. And we will look at some techniques you can use so you do not get stuck in an ethical quandary. Best of all, we will look at a lot of case studies so that you can practice making decisions in a safe environment.

Coach, Role Model, Counselor, Supporter, Guide…do these words ring a bell? Being a coach involves being a role model, sometimes a counselor or supporter, and always a guide. Coaching is based on a partnership that involves giving both support and challenging opportunities to employees. Knowing how and when to coach is an essential skill that can benefit both you and your organization, and Elevate’s Coaching Skills for Manager & Supervisors seminar does just that!

Elevate’s Performance Management training will help guide your employees to focus on the same priorities as the organization, resulting in improved production and reduced waste. This seminar teaches participants how to handle difficult employees and situations without bringing up resentment and gives you the tools to help manage staff problems legally and diplomatically. When changes occur Performance Management helps the organization and employees have a stream-lined relationship and helps to close any gaps that exist in an employee’s skill-set to make them a more valuable employee through feedback and coaching.

It can be hard to deal with a troublesome employee – someone who lowers morale, stalls productivity and encourages bad habits – especially without provoking more conflict. By helping you to identify individual leadership styles and understand different challenging personalities, Elevate’s  Criticism & Discipline for Managers & Supervisors will help participants develops proactive strategies and teach the proper techniques to put a stop to bad behavior once and for all while minimizing negative outcomes.

Being promoted into a position of leadership is a challenging transition. You now have to juggle being the boss and maintaining positive relationships with your employees. Not only do you get a whole new set of responsibilities, but you also have many new skills to learn. Elevate’s Transitioning from Staff to Supervisor program will teach participants how to become a confident leader and manage a team to get desired results. Participants will learn new skills and techniques to ease their transition from day one. They will learn how to manage their new staff, ease conflict, delegate, problem solve, ease into managerial duties, and more.

Being promoted into a position of leadership is a challenging transition. You now have to juggle being the boss and maintaining positive relationships with your employees. Not only do you get a whole new set of responsibilities, you have many new skills to learn as well. This course will orient you to your changing role as a supervisor and help you understand your rights and responsibilities as a supervisor, as well as the rights of your employees.

You will be introduced to the leadership competencies, proficiency rating scales, merit system principles, and prohibited personnel practices and how they apply to you as a supervisor. In addition, you will understand the different types of leave, what approving and disapproving leave entails, and various work schedules.

You will also receive an overview of different documentation requirements and categories to present alternatives to taking formal action against an employee and to become familiar with available resources allowing you to more effectively carry out your responsibilities.

The future of work will be to provide a flexible work environment, and a sense of purpose and belonging in terms of place, time, job description, and career paths. This class will give participants techniques and strategies to improve communication with their team and make personal aspiration a routine part of manager conversations. Genuinely purposeful organizations embed solidarity right into management practices that translate to a sense of belonging and security for employees.

Using Elevate’s 6-step ENGAGE Model, Managers and Supervisors will learn the steps to lead a diverse team, keep everyone on track, and promote positive interaction with team members, peers, and upper management.

The main challenge with any large diverse workforce, agency, or organization that deals with the public good is cultivating a genuine culture of respect among its internal and external stakeholders based on a single unifying DEIA framework. Creating this culture requires an understanding of bias, diversity, and equality and the subtle ways they must be addressed to ensure a fair administration of access and justice, build impactful agency results, and generate meaningful positive change. Anti-racism is not just a conceptual value; it is a concrete goal that will only be achieved when operationalized via practical strategies. Using a five-phase work plan, Elevate will work with an appointed DEI advisory council to develop an all-encompassing strategic framework that encourages change within your organization’s current DEI practices.

The future of work will be to provide a flexible work environment, and a sense of purpose and belonging in terms of place, time, job description, and career paths. This class will give participants techniques and strategies to improve communication with their team and make personal aspiration a routine part of manager conversations. Genuinely purposeful organizations embed solidarity right into management practices that translate to a sense of belonging and security for employees. Using Elevate’s 6 step ENGAGE Model, Managers and Supervisors will learn the steps to lead a diverse team, keep everyone on track, and promote positive interaction with team members, peers, and upper management.

Could a conversation (or avoiding one) be keeping you from getting the results you need? Whatever the issue—from declining quality to strained relationships—it’s likely that you’re experiencing the effects of a poorly held difficult conversation. Learn to balance tact & assertiveness, how to speak and be heard (and encourage others to do the same) and deescalate emotional conversations to avoid resentment and conflict so you can surface the best ideas and make the highest-quality decisions.  Each participant will take a Behaviors & Motivators assessment prior to the training so we can incorporate the results and understand your ideal method of communication and help each member of your team communicate better with their peers. With use of real-life application, video, group discussions, and skill practice this seminar will show you how to achieve effective dialogue at all levels in your organization and reduce deference and defiance.

In Elevate’s Leadership Skills seminar will give you the tools to become an engaging, motivating & more resilient leader. This seminar will give you the skills to enhance the performance of your team with a variety of proven leadership techniques. Maximize you teams performance and effectively manage others as you are guided through a step-by-step process for building emotionally intelligent and inclusive teams with high-quality decisions, flexible leadership, proper conflict resolution. This interactive program will go beyond just learning how to be a leader and give attendees a hands-on experience, with the use of video, group discussions, skill practice, and real-life application to make the course both entertaining & engaging.

Decision-making is the process of making choices by identifying a decision, gathering information, and assessing alternative resolutions. Using a step-by-step decision-making process can help you make more deliberate, thoughtful, and courageous decisions by organizing relevant information and defining alternatives. This approach increases the chances that you will choose the most satisfying alternative possible.

We live in a knowledge-based society, and the more strategic you think the better your knowledge will be. Tactical to Strategic Thinking provides you with the skills to analyze and evaluate information so that you are able to obtain the greatest amount of knowledge from it. It provides the best chance of making the correct decision and minimizes damages if a mistake does occur. Tactical to Strategic thinking will lead to being more rational and disciplined thinking. It will reduce your prejudice and bias, which will provide you a better understanding of your environment. This workshop will provide you the skills to evaluate, identify, and distinguish between relevant and irrelevant information. It will lead you to be more productive in your career and provide great skill in your everyday life.

Elevate’s Effective Delegation, Coaching & Counseling training will provide participants with the information to become more decisive, capitalize on their team-building skills, and to be a mentor to their team. This training session is to teach participants how to encourage employees to improve their performance and maintain appropriate conduct and how to promote successful performance and provide appropriate feedback. In addition, participants will understand how to deal with misconduct issues and what corrective actions they can take.

Using assessment results Elevate’s Leading Effective Teams training will teach participants how to grow employees into highly driven individuals dedicated to getting results. Participants will learn how to foster cooperation within their teams with effective decision-making tools that will inspire and motivate your team for success. Woven throughout the program are essential presentation and public speaking skills for effective leadership.

The Emerging Leaders Series is a two-part series designed for emerging leaders, team leaders, new supervisors, and first-level managers. Part one of the series is a three-hour Management and Leadership course that will help new leaders understand the challenges and requirements of their new role, as well as the importance of harnessing the mission and vision of their work unit and how it supports the larger organizational goals. Part two of the series is a Self-directed Leadership course, where participants will internalize the four pillars of self-leadership and to make meaningful, empowered choices while taking action to get where they want to go.

In this training, participants will explore the facets of meeting planning and facilitation. Whether you are facilitating a teleconference or an in-person meeting, this training was designed to help managers and leaders host productive meetings. The facilitator will learn the tools to get everyone engaged, build consensus, come to a group agreement, and overcome conflict and disagreement, while your employees will discover how they can get the most out of every meeting they attend. Using discussion and activities to plan appropriate facilitation sessions, participants will learn principles of effective communication, investigate group management, and meeting best practices.

Successfully leading and managing a workforce can be challenging. Why Good Leaders Fail will teach participants the difference between management and leadership. The biggest difference between managers and leaders in the way they motivate the people who work for or follow them and this sets the tone for most other aspects of what they do. Participants will learn new skills and techniques to easily transition from being just a manager to being a true leader. They will learn how to manage their new staff, ease conflict, delegate, problem solve, ease into managerial duties, and more.

Whether you’re an employee with a team or one without a team, when you think of engagement and motivation, many things come to mind. For example, as a manager, you might think that more money, a bigger office, a promotion, or a better quality of life would motivate team members. Conversely, if you’re focused on motivating customers and clients, you might think of ways to make your interactions easier. The truth is, no matter what we offer people, true motivation must come from within. In this course, participants will learn how to engage people and become great motivators using popular motivational and engagement models.

The pressure of performance review season tends to be draining and nerve-wracking time of the year for the entire organization. As a manager, the task tends to be rather cumbersome, with the added responsibility of delivering annual evaluations for all your employees, which consumes the weeks before these reviews with research & analysis on every individual within your organization. While this process is essential for determining how well an employee performed throughout the year, and an opportunity to provide feedback and determine future goals, this annual expectation is also one of the most dreaded & daunting administrative processes that HR manages. This is an opportunity to prove your worth to your boss and get a leg up in your career, but with these reviews come the added stress of acknowledging weaknesses and setting productive goals for the upcoming year. Elevate’s Perfecting Performance Reviews seminar is designed to guide leaders through the process of “performance planning” to make annual expectations less daunting & more rewarding for everyone!

As organizations transition back to the office, leaders will be expected to be fair and equitable to those who are working from home and those who are coming back to an office environment. To be successful the leader of a hybrid team must successfully apply insights and techniques to guide performance and work relationships with all employees. Elevate’s How to Manage a Hybrid Team course will answer the most pressing questions and give useful tools and techniques to manage various circumstances while treating everyone fairly. This powerful training course is designed to give participants the tools necessary to build trust and synergy between office employees and those teleworking. Participants will walk away with practical ideas to lead hybrid teams with success and complete confidence.

With working from home becoming the new norm, workplaces around the world are enjoying the power and opportunities of being linked virtually through technology. However, many virtual teams do not succeed because they fail to recognize that virtual collaboration has to be managed in specific ways. The leader of a virtual or remote team must successfully apply special insights and techniques to guide performance and work relationships with employees who may be hundreds or thousands of miles away. This powerful training course is designed to help participants build truly synergistic and effective long-distance teams. Participants will return to work with the tools and methods they need to manage and lead virtual and remote teams with success and complete confidence.

Whether you are a seasoned leader or have been promoted into a position of leadership you have to juggle being the boss and maintain a positive relationship with your employees. Elevate’s Accountable Leadership program will help participants to become a confident leader and manage a team to get desired results, ease conflict, delegate, problem solve, and communicate in a way that keeps everyone accountable.

For the first time in history, there are five generations in the workforce. Leading a Multi-Generational Workforce will help managers and supervisors to bridge generational gaps between Traditionalists, Boomers, and GenX – Z’s by recognizing the unique strengths of a diverse workforce in a complex and ever-changing work environment. The key to effective leadership is finding the right balance, which requires individual leaders and teams to step out of their comfort zones and adapt to what the organization needs to accomplish its goals. This training program will give leaders an understanding of their leadership styles, the five roles they play, and their application within their team and organizational goals.