Programs
Our programs are the gold standard for understanding relationships at work. We have been awarded the distinction as a top 2011 leadership development firm, and the award winning book “Don’t Bring It to Work” by our founder, Sylvia Lafair PhD, has gained recognition as one of the top 20 books for emerging leaders.
Our research and unique perspective help countless companies understand the power of behavior patterns we bring into the workplace from our original organization, the family. These patterns: the pleaser, persecutor, victim, rescuer, martyr, avoider, and splitter (there are 13 to consider) show up when stress hits the hot button, and in these constantly changing times this is just about an everyday occurrence.
The following are our core programs that are available as two hour presentations or half and whole day workshops:
We can custom design a program for your specific needs.
Don’t Bring It to Work | Get the BUT Out of Your YES | OUCH | The Creative Edge | Build and Give | Total Leadership Connections | GUTSY
Maybe he’s the office clown, just like your uncle… or the woman who manages to look busy but avoids work like your sister…, or the long suffering victim like your mother-in-law. Does your office have a Pleaser, an Avoider or a Rescuer? These learned behavior patterns are the core reasons for the game called “office politics”, now playing at offices around the world!
It’s time to get to the bottom of workplace behaviors that limit productivity, collaboration, and profit. We help you find the way with the OUT Technique™:
- OBSERVE patterns and positive change happens
- UNDERSTAND where the patterns began and change is deeper and long lasting
- TRANSFORM patterns to be a leader who inspires and encourages others to be successful
RESULTS YOU CAN EXPECT:
- Recognize the 13 most common workplace patterns.
- Explore and change patterns that derail success.
- Develop the ability to create a culture where everywhere feels valued & invested.
- Learn how to “PRACTICE SAFE STRESS” at work.
TOPICS INCLUDE:
- Tips to create positive work relationships
- Keys to collaboration and a more profitable bottom line
- Creative ways to transform old, ingrained behavior pattern
- Methods to build a culture of trust, collaboration & accountability
Want to break up office politics? Click here.
Count the number of times you have either heard or said:
- “Yes, but…,”
- “I shouldn’t…,”
- “I can’t…”
Put a price on each one and you’d likely be rich! Negative phrases come at a very high price: They limit your ability to perform at your best, to advance your career and can derail important success.
Learn to run interference on this self-sabotaging inner voice.
Once you observe your style of communication and make appropriate shifts in words and tonality you will get your points across quickly and easily. This is a “must do” for anyone who coaches or supervises others.
Experiential and informative, you will learn short term tactics for long-term gain.
RESULTS YOU CAN EXPECT:
- Understand why your customers & colleagues respond positively to your new language.
- Gain insight into the core of communication to build a culture of trust,and accountability.
- Develop tactics for keeping negativity out of your thinking.
- Use personal power to communicate with EVERYONE.
TOPICS INCLUDE:
- Know Your Communication Style assessment
- Neuroscience of communication
- Formatting target questions for effective dialogue
- Reframing your language for optimum result
Get Clear on Your Communication, learn how, click here.
Confrontation with valued employees can leave everyone involved hurt and angry. The result is often a lack of resolve and ongoing tension which stifles creativity, slows productivity, and creates a less than optimal work environment for everyone. Elephants & gorillas take up most of the oxygen in meetings and in the hallway.
Becoming competent in handling conflict shuts down rumor mills, prevents the predictable defensiveness and disappointments that are the inevitable outcome. This competency is a must for anyone in or aspiring to a leadership position.
This lively and enlightening program gives you a new foundation for understanding the interpersonal aspects of conflicts:
- Blame gives way to accountability.
- Conflicts are handled with less hostility in less time.
- You’ll find the way OUT Technique™ of conflict by Observing, Understanding and Transforming stale, useless patterns to accelerate productivity
RESULTS YOU CAN EXPECT:
- Get results rather than get even.
- Understand the fight, flight, or freeze mechanisms in your brain.
- Gain strategies to minimize conflict and maximize innovation.
- Learn techniques to diminish conflict quickly and effectively; maintain high morale.
TOPICS INCLUDE:
- Neuro-psychology and conflict triggers
- How to transform conflict cowards to conflict masters
- The OUT Technique™ for pattern transformation
- How to limit legal and human resource issues
Got Conflict? We’ve Got Solutions—click here.
Find the “aha” moments that make the creative experience fun and challenging. Getting to “aha”, “wow”, or “I never thought of that before” requires a complex blend of strict discipline and unbridled freedom. Once learned this is a formula you will never forget.
As you walk the creative edge with your teammates you will learn the newest methods that go beyond brainstorming. You will have the opportunity to master the art of blending didactic learning, logic, and intuition – a requirement for 21st century leaders.
This provocative program pulls together the newest research for collaboration in a refreshing, experiential, and innovative manner that produces great results.
RESULTS YOU CAN EXPECT:
- Understand the neuroscience that heightens creativity
- Evaluate your personal style for accessing creative ideas
- Develop ability to utilize others in accelerating your own “aha” moments
- Explore breakthrough patterns of new possibilities thinking
TOPICS INCLUDE:
- What it takes to lead a team through the creative process
- How to use the inclusion exercise to create an environment of safety
- The importance of our proprietary change model to source new ideas
- How to finesse the polar opposites of agreement/dissention so everyone wins
Need some Creativity?—click here and we’ll be in touch.
Remember your first bike?
Shiny, slick, and new – you couldn’t wait to get on and show your friends.
You can recreate that feeling for some children that have not yet enjoyed that experience and at the same time your team will be engaged, empowered and enthusiastic about a team building experience.
YES!! You can do this in 2 – 3 hours and have results and memories that last a lifetime.
- LEARN new business “tips” for effective collaboration and communication.
- LAUGH together as your team “wins” parts to put bikes together.
- LOVE the results when you “gift” community kids with shiny new bikes.
Groups come together with common goals having some fun, learning how to work effectively together, and doing something good for your community.
Engage and motivate your staff and pay it forward to your community!
To learn bike building and team building skills, click here.
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OUR FLAGSHIP PROGRAM
Total Leadership Connections™ (TLC) is a powerful six-month, four session leadership enhancement program that will change your career and your life.
Why Total Leadership Connections?
If you are a business or a world leader, extraordinary leadership begins with the understanding that YOU are an integral part of a system – a continuum of connectedness. This connectedness radiates from INNER LEADERSHIP to OUTER LEADERSHIP, finally reaching into the ultimate sphere of influence: the world at large.
Whether you are part of a large corporation, family firm, nonprofit or a start-up company, it is critical for you to understand the basic realm of how relationships work in a system, how behavior patterns intertwine, and how they can cause conflict or collaboration, depending on how they are handled at work.
THE BASICS OF TLC:
- A multimedia learning forum providing rich, experiential and didactic experiences using CEO’s proprietary PatternAware™ Leadership Model.
- Through intensive personal discovery and peer to peer interaction, leaders learn to identify and address underlying patterns of behavior – in themselves and others – that impact all levels of individual, team, and organizational success
- Learning culminates in a deep knowledge of systems thinking – how everything is connected to everything else
RESULTS YOU CAN EXPECT:
- Enhance your emotional and social intelligence, a skill set needed for all 21st Century leaders
- Learn the OUT Technique: to OBSERVE, UNDERSTAND and TRANSFORM patterns to gain strategic advantage for a proven return on investment
- Master the skills to create a PatternAware™ culture of trust, collaboration, and accountability to minimize office politics and maximize innovation
TOPICS INCLUDE:
- How men and women relate differently
- Ingrained patterns and emotional intelligence
- Cultural basis of leadership
- How to track generational patterns
- Requirements for 21st century leaders
HOW IT WORKS:
- There are four sessions over a six month period; they begin with a reception and dinner on a Wednesday evening and end by 11am on Friday morning. These sessions are held at The Country Place Retreat and Conference Center in White Haven, Pa. or at other locations around the country
- Group conference calls between session provide an opportunity to debrief and reinforce learning
- Individual unlimited coaching throughout the program is included and is used to help participants practice and gain new insights
- The inclusive fee also includes a 360 Degree Leadership Assessment prior to the start of the program and also three months after the end of the program with extensive feedback
You can become a Total Leader, click here.
GUTSY women come from everywhere, and they all have one very important commonality –they choose to make a difference.
GUTSY gives working women what they need: time to reenergize, recalibrate, and refuel. The Friday evening through Sunday noon program addresses three core areas, “how to be the best” in self-care, self-aware, and pattern-aware.
GUTSY women learn that self-care is not selfish-care. Time is put aside to get quiet and get relaxed.
GUTSY women learn to be self- aware, when to plunge forward or stop. Time is spent with easy to follow tips on how to trust your gut and retrain your brain.
GUTSY women learn that pattern-aware means knowing everything you can about relationships, why patterns repeat and what to do about them.
RESULTS YOU CAN EXPECT:
- Reenergize – self-care to feel great and focus on your goals.
- Recalibrate – self-aware to tap into your strengths and enhance your leadership skills
- Refuel – pattern-aware so you know how to move relationships forward.
TOPICS INCLUDE:
- How women got from there to here
- How YOU got from there to here
- What still needs to be done to level the playing field
GUTSY is a weekend retreat developed by Sylvia Lafair, PhD, award winning author of “Don’t Bring It to Work” and based on her 30 years of being a leader, often at a time when women were still standing behind men. She did plunge into new territory in healthcare, education, and business, learning how to partner in an equal way rather than seeing men as adversaries.
Dr. Lafair’s new book “GUTSY! How Women Leaders Make Change” includes the long view of the way women have reframed the patterns of history, or “herstory” and practical ways to be both feminine and tough, in a word, GUTSY.
Using our unique and powerful PatternAware™ Leadership wisdom and insight, GUTSY will help you transform yourself, your work, and your world from the inside out.
Get started, click here.
