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# Human Resource Programs
Get the building blocks of creating a high-performance work environment that improves employee communication, upgrades employee skills, reduces attrition, increases collaboration, boosts employee effectiveness, and nurtures the next generation of leaders to inherit your organization.
Give your teams the tools, strategies, and resources they need to be highly effective in increasingly diverse work environments, communicate with each other more effectively, and solve business problems creatively, drawing on each other’s strengths and unique expertise, knowledge, and backgrounds.
Building a dependable workforce is no cakewalk. Our human resource programs are designed to help organizations resolve common and not-so-common people issues.
## What’s Need of HR Training Programs
* **Intra-team Issues**
  Differences in culture, ethnicity, and background, combined with a lack of understanding of workplace challenges faced by individuals from diverse backgrounds, lead to misunderstandings and communication problems. Left unresolved, they can create a toxic environment.
* **No Employee Engagement**
  Absence of clarity on business goals and team-level expectations, or the lack of employee buy-in often prevents employees from being fully invested and committed to realizing organizational goals.
* **Cross-functional Team Issues**
  Non-alignment of priorities within and between teams becomes a source of friction, severely impacting employee effectiveness, productivity, and satisfaction. Left unchecked, it can lead to high employee attrition.
* **Skills Shortage**
  Some of the most in-demand jobs today did not exist 15 years ago. The ground is shifting beneath us as we speak. Technological advancements are making old and new skills obsolete. There’s cutthroat competition for cutting-edge skills and knowledge, and employers are ready to pay top dollar for these skills. However, despite spending hundreds of thousands on hiring, companies end up with wrong hires or under-skilled employees.
* **Lack of Leadership Talent**
  Without strong natural leaders at various levels of your organization, your teams risk losing focus and the threat of disarray. Also, the absence of home-grown leadership eventually snowballs into succession issues .
* **Temperament Issues**
  Due to differences in personalities, career aspirations, and temperaments, employee meetings tend to be highly wasteful and ineffective. Non-cooperation between conflicting egos and stifling of less vocal voices hold back teams from reaching creative solutions to business problems.
* **High Hiring and Onboarding Costs**
  Plummeting employee happiness is almost always followed by high turnover, which forces organizations into a vicious hiring-onboarding-quitting-hiring cycle. Low retention not only increases your HR costs but also hurts your organizational competitiveness. Each new hire takes months, or even years, to start delivering the same level of value as a veteran employee.
## HR Challenges Facing Modern Organizations
# 01.
### Intra-team Issues
Differences in culture, ethnicity, and background, combined with a lack of understanding of workplace challenges faced by individuals from diverse backgrounds, lead to misunderstandings and communication problems. Left unresolved, they can create a toxic environment.
# 02.
### No Employee Engagement
Absence of clarity on business goals and team-level expectations, or the lack of employee buy-in often prevents employees from being fully invested and committed to realizing organizational goals.
# 03.
### Skills Shortage
Some of the most in-demand jobs today did not exist 15 years ago. The ground is shifting beneath us as we speak. Technological advancements are making old and new skills obsolete. There’s cutthroat competition for cutting-edge skills and knowledge, and employers are ready to pay top dollar for these skills. However, despite spending hundreds of thousands on hiring, companies end up with wrong hires, or under-skilled employees.
# 04.
### Cross-functional Team Issues
Non-alignment of priorities within and between teams becomes a source of friction, severely impacting employee effectiveness, productivity, and satisfaction. Left unchecked, it can lead to high employee attrition.
# 05.
### Lack of Leadership Talent
Without strong natural leaders at various levels of your organization, your teams risk losing focus and the threat of disarray. Also, the absence of home-grown leadership eventually snowballs into succession issues.
# 06.
### Temperament Issues
Due to differences in personalities, career aspirations, and temperaments, employee meetings tend to be highly wasteful and ineffective. Non-cooperation between conflicting egos and stifling of less vocal voices hold back teams from reaching creative solutions to business problems.
# 07.
### High Hiring and Onboarding Costs
Plummeting employee happiness is almost always followed by high turnover, which forces organizations into a vicious hiring-onboarding-quitting-hiring cycle. Low retention not only increases your HR costs, but also hurts your organizational competitiveness. Each new hire takes months, or even years, to start delivering the same level of value as a veteran employee.
## How Leadership Strategies can help?
**Upskill Talent**
Elevate the skills of your employees and prepare them for your next big challenges.
**Improve Communication**
Equip your team with the communication skills, techniques, and resources they need to improve communications.
**Improve Workplace Culture**
Improve your company culture with a private class specially designed to help your teams.
## Is it Worth Investing in HR Training Programs?
* : Hidden cost of poor communication skills to an average company of 100 employees annually
* : Report that they suffer loss in employee engagement when they encounter toxic behavior at work
* : Annual healthcare costs as a direct result of stressful workplace environment
* **120,000**: Annual deaths resulting from workplace stress-related issues
* : Annual cost to businesses because of disengaged employees
* : The number of millennials that find leadership to be sorely lacking in their organization
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## Benefits of HR Training Programs and Courses
When organizations fail to create a healthy work environment for employees, it’s because their leadership and employees lack key skills, tools, and strategies that make up well-functioning teams. Fortunately, there are proven methods to fill up these gaps – customized, targeted HR training and leadership programs. Here’s how they can help.
* **High-functioning Teams**
  Targeted programs can equip leaders with the knowledge, skills, and confidence they need to host highly-effective meetings that sidestep negativity, leverage creative solutions from participants, and prevent dominant personalities from hijacking the meetings. The result is a highly productive meeting that crystallizes into actionable solutions and strategies.
* **Better Workplace Relationships**
  Sensitizing employees to cultural differences and helping them empathize with their diverse colleagues translate into fewer misunderstandings and improved quality of communication – a prerequisite for a happy work environment. A happy workplace, in turn, improves employee engagement, productivity, and retention.
* **Competitive Edge**
  When employees do not feel oppressed, abused, persecuted, or discriminated against, they become more confident and resourceful. They tap into their natural talents and skills and unlock their full potential. Together, they help their organization become more agile, responsible, innovative, and competitive against business threats.
* **Home-grown Leadership**
  Develop your own cadre of natural leaders who can skillfully influence, build consensus, diffuse conflicts, manage dysfunction, maintain focus, generate ownership, and inspire action among employees and clients alike. They will make your organization highly effective at every level and in every aspect.
## Importance of Soft Skills for Individuals
Besides providing tangible and measurable benefits to organizations, soft skills also tremendously impact the career prospects of individuals who acquire them.
* Increased effectiveness
* Smoother collaboration
* Higher job satisfaction
* Improved dynamics with teammates
* Superior salesmanship
* Greater confidence
* Higher risk-taking ability
* Accelerated career growth
## Don’t Let Gaps in Soft Skills Hold You and Your Organization Back
## The Abilities of Your Trainers Impact the Skills of Your Entire Organization.
25 years of guaranteeing impactful results. We’d love to hear about what impactful results you are seeking to achieve.
## Customer Stories
**Sinead Condon and Kevin Mackie of CA Technologies**
They discuss the tremendous impacts on agility, innovation, and success that taking a facilitative approach to leadership provides.
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## Give Your Trainers the Skills They Need with the Help of our Master Facilitators.
Connect with us today to learn how we can customize a course for your team that will revolutionize the way you run meetings!
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# Improve Work Culture
Improve your company culture with a private class specially designed to help your teams align and work together effectively.
Learn how to establish common goals, develop workable solutions, and collaborate effectively. Train your workforce at every level to be highly effective as individual employees and as part of closely-knit teams focused on realizing organizational goals.
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## How Poor Work Culture Could Be Stifling Your Organization
A poor work environment prevents your employees from thriving in your organization. It stifles their creativity, resourcefulness, and innate desire for collaboration to produce desired results. What's worse is that it suffocates employee initiative and turns them into mindless robots that merely follow directions. They do just enough to push the workflow to the next person while taking little to no ownership of the projects.
Here are some signs of poor work culture that could be affecting your organization:
* Absence of clear organizational goals
* Little to no hiring from within
* High employee absenteeism
* Excessive and unhealthy employee competition
* Infighting among leadership
* Opaque promotion or success process
* Opaque decision-making among leadership
* Employees tend to hide bad decisions
* Discussions and meetings tend to spiral into arguments
* Little to no trust between employees
## Impact of Positive Work Culture on Organizations
Positive work culture has a diametrically opposite impact on employees. They are full of hope for the future of their organization and their own future in it. Their morale is strong; they are more confident in sharing their ideas and solutions with each other; as a team, they feel capable of overcoming any challenge thrown at them.
Here’s what positive work environments look like:
* Clear organization goals and core values
* Promotes fearlessness by not punishing mistakes
* Every employee feels valuable
* Performance and commitment are rewarded
* Transparent decision-making at all leadership levels
* Excellent growth opportunities
* Employees proactively refer candidates for hire
* Low attrition
* Little to no gossiping
* New ideas flow freely
* Meetings tend to end with solutions
## Signs of a Well-designed Training Program
#### It is visually and mentally engaging
#### Conveys the importance of the training wit
#### It is mindful of different learning styles
#### Inspires audiences to participate
#### Encourages application of learning with real-world cases and simulations
#### Gives clear, actionable tips to practice newly acquired skills
* It is visually and mentally engaging
* Conveys the importance of the training
* It is mindful of different learning styles
* Inspires audiences to participate
* Encourages application of learning with real-world cases and simulations
* Gives clear, actionable tips to practice newly acquired skills
# Courses
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With a more hands-on approach, The Facilitative Leader workshop gives participants the leadership qualities that will help them build trust, give praise, and win the loyalty of their teams. Our dynamic training also gives them an action plan for skillfully and confidently empowering, engaging, inspiring, guiding, and leading.
Master the key principles of "Taking a Facilitative Approach (TAFA)" to become a facilitative leader.
Our flagship course captures the essential skills of every high-functioning business leader – the ability to motivate, build consensus, manage dysfunction, maintain focus, generate ownership and inspire action.
Learn the tools and techniques master facilitators use to achieve brilliant results through groups.
To increase efficiency and effectiveness and create a culture that emphasizes tangible outcomes from meetings, revolutionize your meetings with a step-by-step guide, loaded with actionable techniques.
Learn how to facilitate meetings that sidestep dysfunctional behavior, make efficient use of time, bring groups to consensus, and end with clarity and commitment from all stakeholders.
Understand your natural communication style represented across four dimensions – Drive, Influence, Steadiness, and Compliance – and master the clues for identifying other people's styles. Apply your newfound knowledge to adapt your style to skillfully engage, inspire, and lead a diverse team of individuals into high productivity and effectiveness.
Witness drastic improvements in your one-on-one communication with peers, friends, family, clients, and everyone else you meet in your life after completing this program.
# Services
Take a scientific approach to resolving conflicts using time-tested principles that sidestep negativity and promote healthy working relationships between your employees.
Review the five Thomas-Kilmann conflict modes (including taking the Thomas-Kilmann Assessment) and understand the Cycles of Conflict Management to skillfully and effectively diffuse intra- and inter-team conflicts.
Discover the building blocks of happy and high-performance teams. They are aligned with the organization's vision. So, these teams are fully committed to the vision's Why, What, and How of that vision.
Get actionable insights for improving your group's trust, leadership, alignment, readiness, and happiness quotient, and turn it into a high-functioning team.
Let us analyze your HR practices and work culture to better understand how they're affecting your employee morale, productivity, and organizational performance as a whole.
Get fully tailored reports on the critical aspects of your work environment that require your immediate attention, along with suggestions on improving them to create a nurturing workplace for every employee in your organization.
Establish the guiding principles and objectives that direct every decision your employees make at every level of your organization. Understand how you communicate these values to your workforce through open communication and skilled leadership.
Learn how to develop a roll-out plan for communicating your organization's vision, mission, and core values to your workforce and ensure that they are absorbed at all levels.
## Create a Nurturing Work Culture
Successful organizations are not a result of their employees’ skills alone. They are a product of highly driven, committed, and resourceful employees that enjoy working together to achieve extraordinary results. They embrace your organizational principles, feel genuinely appreciated for their contribution, and know they have the potential for growth based entirely on their performance. They love working for you.
 for our courses and services to build an organization you are proud of, and your employees love.
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