Leadership Workshops
Helping Leaders Do the Hard Work
Your Team’s Time to Thrive
Workshops get a bad rap. Sitting in a room with a trainer talking at you all day sounds boring and dreadful, doesn’t it? Good news: I don’t do boring! Experience a whole new way to learn, lead, and thrive. All of my workshops can be delivered virtually or live. Contact me to book a session.
Signature Workshops
I love teaching and connecting with people. I believe you can’t lead others if you can’t lead yourself. You can’t know others if you don’t know yourself. You need to get comfortably uncomfortable and I can help you do that.
Working Genius
The Working Genius is Patrick Lencioni’s newest teamwork model, which helps people understand how they can contribute to work most effectively. This tool can help individuals, leaders and teams better leverage one another’s strengths and understand how to be both productive and fulfilled at work. I am a certified Working Genius Facilitator
Outcomes of this workshop:
Team cohesion and productivity
Clarity around stages of work
Job alignment and adjustments
5 Behaviors of a Functional Team
This team building workshop is focused on the Five Behaviors of a Functional Team based on Patrick Lencioni’s book. This workshop is customized to your organization so that you have more productive and cohesive teams. I am a certified Facilitator of 5 Behaviors.
Outcomes of this workshop:
Explore the Five Behaviors model
Review your Five Behaviors assessment
Set goals for team success
Leadership Communication with DiSC
Leaders with a clear understanding of their individual communication styles, and how they complement or contradict the team dynamic, lead well. In this customizable workshop, everyone completes an Everything DiSC® assessment and learn how that impacts those they lead.
Outcomes of this workshop:
Increased understanding of personal behaviors and how they affect the team dynamic.
Increased understanding of motivation.
Increased understanding of how stressors and challenges impact communication behavior.
Emotional Intelligence for Leaders
Helping leaders understand instinctive responses and behavior leads to an increase in Emotional Intelligence (EQ) mindset.
In this workshop we uncover different mindsets and share strategies for adapting behavior to be more emotionally intelligent in relationships and conversations.
Outcomes of this workshop:
Increased understanding of personal strengths
Increased understanding of mindsets
Tools to adapt instinctive behaviors
Navigating Difficult Conversations
Learn how to lead well by recognizing the importance of different types of conversations that can and need to occur in the workplace.
Outcomes of this workshop:
Increase understanding of how performance, coaching and courageous conversations differ.
Learn to adapt communication behavior to effectively communicate through conflict.
Prepare to navigate courageous conversations.
Understand why politeness and kindness are so important in difficult conversations.
Productive Conflict & Communication
Would you benefit from learning about techniques to curb destructive behaviors and effectively respond to conflict situations? We’ll explore DiSC® in a conflict context, help participants explore their destructive conflict responses, and offers them a better method for making more productive choices.
Outcomes of this workshop:
Understand your communication profile as it relates to conflict
Recognize destructive conflict responses
Identify productive conflict behaviors
Build a common language in the organization around appropriate conflict behavior
Building Trusting Relationships
Understanding how we build and maintain trusting relationships is key to any leader’s success. But what does the trust building process really look like in the workplace?
In this workshop, we dig deep to understand how trust impacts professionals of every level. Participants will leave with tangible techniques they can use.
Outcomes of this workshop:
Identify trust-breaking behaviors and recognize them in yourself.
Enhance trust with yourself and others.
Increase your skills in building trust with others.
Looking for something else?
Don’t see the topic you are looking for? Go to my contact page and schedule a call with me to discuss. If I don’t have the expertise, I can likely recommend a trusted friend to assist you.
What People Are Saying
“Gretchen will push you, mentor you, and be your biggest cheerleader! She leads with passion and compassion, bringing out your strengths. Because of her, I was able to truly advance in my career.”
— Sarah Michaels, Director of Population Health & Analytics, Employee Strategist, Apex Benefits
“Whether it’s through flawlessly driving massive events, developing and delivering leadership enablement sessions, running small business meetings, or one-on-one, people are drawn to Gretchen’s advice, leadership and friendship.”
— Todd Caponi, Author of The Transparency Sale, Speaker
“I look forward to every opportunity I have to work with Gretchen or see her present and speak. She is kind and very intentional about treating others with respect and enthusiasm.”
— Karen Seketa, VP of Talent, Element Three
It’s time to lead well.
The world needs better leaders. You can be one of them.