The key for your organization to thrive is to be cohesive, aligned & profitable at the same time.
With so many changes constantly taking place, it’s no wonder your organization struggles through the transitions. Your leaders struggle to connect purpose and profit through consolidations, technology changes, regulatory pressures, and workforce shortages… which creates tension between your mission and your very real need to keep a healthy bottom line.
At the end of the day, your people are pulled in so many different directions and are jumping through so many hoops that they’re hungrier than ever for someone to LEAD them toward successfully fulfilling your mission while maintaining a profitable business.
That’s where we can have such a profound impact on your leaders and teams. Our programs show the leaders in your organization how to cultivate a thriving, magnetic culture with engaged employees who are driven and aligned with your mission.
Most workshops can be presented as virtual or in person sessions.
Featured Workshops, Webinars and Sessions
Executive Talent & Strategy Alignment Session
“It’s fine. I’m fine. Everything’s fine.” Sound familiar? Setting the direction and inspiring followership while your people are stressed isn’t easy. But it’s your job to make sure your teams perform despite any obstacles. So you put on your game face and solve problems as they arise. But what you really want is a high-functioning team that performs when the pressure’s on. Then you can stop fighting fires and get back to strategy. Because that’s how you soar.
See your team’s strategic goals and its collective behavioral identity side-by-side. Have a team that’s struggling with low trust, accountability, cohesion, or stress? Or perhaps they are faced with a shift in strategy, an acquisition integration or high-profile initiative? Book a 1:1 Talent Strategy Session to learn how you can transform any team in your organization. A talent optimization consultant will give you actionable recommendations, using science-based behavioral assessments and team analytics. After your custom consulting session, you’ll have the clarity you need to get your team unstuck. And, this value-packed session takes just 90 minutes or less. During your 1:1 Talent Strategy Session, you’ll:
- Understand the team’s collective behavioral strengths and caution areas
- Uncover what’s holding your team back
- Get critical, data-backed recommendations to help the team hit their goals
- Build a clear path forward to improve communication and accountability
- Walk away with newfound confidence to execute your strategy
Things are about to change for the better. Book your 1:1 consulting session today. This session can be held virtually or in person.
Leading in Times of Change
Extraordinary social, economic and global challenges swirl around leaders facing the ambiguity of an uncertain future. Rapid growth, new leaders, competition, mergers and restructuring each bring new risks and challenges. Realigning business priorities, the workforce and likely both remain an acute reality for many, and the stakes are high. Powerful emotions are at play when your leadership is needed most. Through this workshop you will:
- Gain understanding of your own leadership style, strengths and potential blind spots
- Learn a framework for aligning your leadership team to your strategic priorities.
- Identify actions to take for greater alignment of business and talent strategies
The Leading in Times of Change workshop can be conducted virtually or in person.
Building High-Performance Teams
Turn your team into a powerhouse. Drastically improve your team’s performance. Build teams that trust each other, communicate, and hold each other accountable—so you maximize your bottom line. Use a proven framework to build accountable and cohesive teams. Introducing The High Performance Series, a two-part workshop series designed to help any team reach peak performance through expert guidance and first-of-its-kind people data. Understand different individual work styles and motivating needs.
Part 1: Discovering Your Team Type: No team is effective without trust and communication. With the help of an expert facilitator, this workshop helps you build a self-aware and trusting team. Establish an understanding of each team member’s motivations and work style, and uncover your group’s specific “Team Type.” Through this catalyzing reveal, your team will become a unit, building lasting cohesion and collaboration habits. You’ll also uncover the group’s collective working style, strengths, and caution areas and leave with a clear action plan to better work in harmony.
Part 2: Designing for Strategic Action: Many teams aren’t a good fit for their objectives and don’t even realize it. This workshop turns uncertain team performance around by mapping a group’s natural strengths to its goals, exposing areas of misalignment and providing recommendations to address them. Attendees will learn how to “stretch” their skillset, so they can refocus their daily priorities to best serve the goals at hand. You’ll also be given a clear action plan on how to deliver on the proposed objectives with renewed confidence.
Help your teams perform at their best, so you can get out of the weeds and focus on the strategy ahead. These workshops can be virtual or in person and take approximately 3 hours each. Both are customized to your team’s style and their most important work goals. Ask about the best solution for your company’s needs.
Foster Thriving Cultures
This program is designed to shed light on your organization’s cultural strengths and help you develop a collective vision for what your culture should be. Your audience will:
- Create the plan to bring your vision to life
- Discover how to tie the vision to the business strategy.
- Understand how to communicate the vision and mission and get buy-in from each employee so they’re engaged in the process and all moving toward the same common goal.
These are examples of workshops designed to build more effective leaders and managers and more engaged cultures. Programs can be tailored to meet the specific needs of your organization and many can be designed to be conducted virtually.
Predictive Index Workshops:
These workshops are designed specifically for clients who are utilizing the powerful insights of The Predictive Index to hire the right people, enhance engagement and performance and to strengthen leaders and managers. Learn more about Predictive Index and the power of Talent Optimization. Take a free PI Assessment using the link on the side bar of this web page and check it out for yourself. Workshops are delivered virtually or in-person by expert facilitators. Target audiences include executives, people managers, professionals and human resource and development leaders.
Decode Workplace Behavior with PI
Understanding how people think and work is elusive yet essential for an effective and productive workplace. This workshop provides everything you need to know to interpret and apply PI insights into your organization – for better performance, collaboration and trust. After attending, participants will be able to:
▪ Increase self-awareness across the organization
▪ Understand how to use PI behavioral insights in the business context
▪ Equip leaders to understand others to boost engagement and retention
▪ Learn to avoid common missteps when leading people
▪ Help your employees feel seen and heard
Develop Effective Leaders with PI Inspire
Leaders are the linchpin in an organization, but most are unequipped to lead. This negatively affects your brand, retention, and productivity—and can threaten your business. This workshop helps leaders develop a clear understanding of their strengths, leadership style and areas for improvement. You’ll empower your leaders to build stronger 1:1 relationships, motivate their people, and get exceptional results. After attending, participants will be able to:
▪ Increase the self-awareness and effectiveness of your leaders
▪ Reduce unwanted turnover
▪ Help leaders personalize their approach to each direct report
▪ Acquire a common language to easily navigate people dynamics
▪ Avoid common missteps when leading people
Build High-Performing Teams with PI Design
Work is more cross-functional than ever. However, most teams struggle with mistrust, miscommunication, and misalignment. This hurts morale, impacts retention, and risks your business goals. This workshop, led by a PI expert, will help you unlock a team’s strengths and address areas for improvement. It will equip you with tools that will help you leverage behavioral data to gain alignment and optimize team performance. After attending, participants will be able to:
▪ Boost understanding of team strengths and potential gaps
▪ Leverage a common language to work together more effectively
▪ Avoid miscommunication and establish a clear direction for your team
Boost Employee Engagement with PI Diagnose
Traditional employee engagement surveys fall short in driving meaningful improvements. They lack actionable insights to address the core drivers of disengagement, e.g., job fit, manager effectiveness, culture, and team dynamics. This workshop will provide comprehensive approaches to boost engagement. You’ll see how to leverage actionable data to tackle root causes and build a more motivated and productive workforce. After attending, participants will be able to:
▪ Pinpoint core disengagement factors
▪ Remove blockers and drive goals
▪ Create data-backed action plans
Predict Candidate Success with PI Hire
Finding the right match for a role is the ultimate goal of hiring, but it’s a challenging task. Relying on resumes and interviews falls short due to inherent subjectivity, leading to costly mis-hires and wasted time. This workshop aims to eliminate guesswork and increase your confidence in selecting the right individuals for your organization, ensuring they are in the most suitable positions. After attending, participants will be able to:
▪ Reduce effort to attract and hire top talent
▪ Boost confidence with objective data
▪ Achieve alignment on job requirements
Contact us to create the culture & leadership your organization needs to thrive. Call (516) 637-6095 or e-mail drivenburgh@strategic-imperatives.com.
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