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Team Spark: Craft Your Message With Purpose

Communication across differences is often done in a similar fashion. However, taking time to think about who, when, and how a message will be received allows the sender to craft a much more effective message that will produce much better results.

Team Spark: Create Structure to Help Bridge Barriers

The lack of face-to-face interaction reduces the team’s ability to adjust and adapt as quickly as a team that is located all at one site. In situations like this, having a clearly defined structure detailing everyone’s role and responsibilities is a key to success.

Team Spark: Cross-Pollinate to Spark Innovation

Within companies and teams, employees have the important role of sharing ideas between groups, departments, and teams. This “cross-pollination” of ideas helps to unlock the inherent creativity and innovation that lies within a company, but may need a spark from another source to bring it to life.

Team Spark: Find the Common Beat

Similar to a band with many different instruments playing together, a diverse team consists of many different personalities working together. While this diversity allows for innovation and creativity, it also makes it more difficult for team members to keep the same tempo. It is the role of the team member with the drummer personality to keep everyone communicating and completing tasks on time.

Team Spark: Pay Attention To Nonverbal Communication

Colleagues in the workplace communicate both verbally and non-verbally. Understanding how to interpret their nonverbal communication can be a great advantage. The meaning of body language and facial expressions may vary from culture to culture, so it is always good to check for understanding.

Team Spark: Teach Team Shorthand to New Team Members

Most work teams tend to develop their own compressed language that allows team members to communicate quickly and easily with each other. When outsiders join the team, this shorthand may be hard to understand or learn, resulting in conflict and frustration, especially if people are from different cultural backgrounds.

Team Spark: Tell Stories to Build Strong Communities

Storytelling is at the heart of what makes us human and is a universal tool used by groups of people to explain who they are and the experiences that shaped their history. While we might not use cave drawings anymore, we still use storytelling to capture collective histories and lessons learned.

Team Spark: Use a Mediator to Help Stalemates

Asking for the assistance of a “referee” or a neutral, third party colleague, may provide the necessary insight to tease out the cause of the miscommunication, which could be rooted in cultural, generational, or personality style differences.

Discussion Card: Leadership

Are you leveraging the true power of leadership within you team? With your employees? Being a good leader isn't rocket science, but it takes skill... and patience... and practice. These easy-to-use cards provide a simple model (L.E.A.D.E.R.) along with thought-provoking questions on better understanding what it takes to truly lead. These cards are great for a quick training reminder, reinforcement or as a conversation generator.

Discussion Card: Nonverbal Communication

Did you know that 55% of communication with others happens without words? That means your body language is key in your daily conversations. These easy-to-use cards provide a simple model (W.A.T.C.H.) along with thought-provoking questions to help learners understand the importance of nonverbal communication - helping leaders, managers and supervisors address individual or team issues. These cards are great for a quick training reminder, reinforcement or as a conversation generator.

Five Completely Sane People

It's sometimes tough bringing a group of diverse and free-thinking individuals together on a team - and expect them to immediately gel. This video demonstrates the work needed to get the best from a multi-generational team. Includes varying views of appropriate business etiquette.

Courage 2 Coach™

Let's face it. Being a manager these days is tough. We've all got a lot on our plate, and there are days when some of the people we manage seem to have a hard time with the concept of "common sense." And, as competitive as the job market is these days…it’s difficult to attract and retain good people. The only thing that works is having the courage to coach.

Training Activities Package

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A package of over twenty activities designed to encourage longevity of skills. Use this activity bundle to support skill development and to help turn appropriate actions into habits for maximum long-term impact.

Dealing with Conflict: Common Fight, Flight & Freeze Responses

Help employees and co-workers understand the responses observed in the workplace when someone was presented with a challenge that provoked an emotional reaction.

Team Spark: Proverb - Be Creative

Spark team communication around supporting team members when they choose to set their own course in how they complete work.

Team Spark: Proverb - Be Patient

Spark team communication around being patient and giving a project time to move forward - allowing for greater creativity or innovation.

Team Spark: Proverb - Deal with Little Issues

Spark team communication about the protocols that can help us catch small problems early on (before they grow into BIG issues).

Team Spark: Proverb - Don't Insult Someone Who Can Take Care of You

Spark team communication about how to better understand each other so that we don’t offend each other.

Team Spark: Proverb - Don't Waste Your Efforts

Spark team communication around project or product completion.

Team Spark: Proverb - Each Person Is Unique

Spark team communication around how we can use our unique skills and abilities more effectively as individuals, or as a team.

Team Spark: Proverb - Everyone Makes Mistakes

Spark team communication around how to handle mistakes when they are made.

Team Spark: Proverb - Expecting Different Results Without Change Is Unrealistic

Spark team communication around project or team turnaround without careful analysis of the current situation - and understanding what might need to change in order to achieve the results expected.

Team Spark: Proverb - Giving Up Too Easily

Spark team communication around tips for keeping the team focused and on task when facing challenges.

Team Spark: Proverb - If Everyone Has The Responsibility; Nothing Gets Done

Spark team communication on having specific ownership to help ensure a task is completed.

Team Spark: Proverb - People Will Listen More If You Are Kind When Delivering the Message

Spark team communication on how kindness can help us achieve our desired end result on both projects and personal pursuits.

Team Spark: Proverb - Planning Needs to Be Paired with Action

Spark team communication on we can empower the key action oriented team members to help us know when to move forward.

Team Spark: Proverb - Take Responsibility For The Results

Spark team communication understanding the need to reevaluate how people are given responsibility.

Team Spark: Proverb - Title But No Authority

Spark team communication on authority and how it can also be seen as influence.

Team Spark: Proverb - When You Solve One Problem, There Are Always More Problems

Spark team communication on the complimentary skills that each person brings to the team that will help us to solve problems.

Courage 2 Coach™ - Program Introduction/Model

This engaging video lays out the Courage 2 Coach™ (C2C) model for effective coaching. A narrator/coach works through a high level coaching scenario using a dramatic situation.

Preventing Workplace Bullying: Manager's Module

A module specifically created for managers covering the bullying topic and how to address and prevent it in the workplace.

Workplace Bullying: The School Principal

A teacher takes necessary steps. Review Organizational Polices, Document actions and responses, Involve HR or management, Formalize complaint.

Workplace Bullying: Stand Up for Others

A coworker stands up for another coworker who is bullied by an employee of another company (vendor).

Team Spark: Proverb - Short-term Investments Result in Long Term Gains

Spark team communication on how to balance our short and long term objectives (at the organization or project level).

Discussion Card: Respecting LGBTQ Coworkers

A simple and to-the-point reminder card that provides a model (R.A.I.N.B.O.W.) for respecting LGBTQ co-workers, being an ally - as well as providing questions to get conversations started. These cards are great for a quick training reminder or conversation starter.

Communication Essentials™ Promoting Professionalism in the Workplace

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Effective communication is the cornerstone of any successful organization. Whether you're interacting with colleagues, clients, or stakeholders, the way you communicate can make or break the outcome of your interactions. Why maximize your workplace communication? Simply put, doing so helps you avoid common pitfalls associated with bad communication including: misunderstandings, low morale, conflict, missed deadlines, poor decision making, customer dissatisfaction, lack of innovation, employee turnover and legal issues. Addressing these pitfalls through improved communication strategies can significantly enhance organizational effectiveness and employee satisfaction.

Workplace Bullying via Social Media/Email

An employee shares her story about co-worker bullying by teasing her about her weight.

Workplace Bullying Example in Healthcare Setting

Female shares her story about the head nurse bullying the newer nurse.

Courage 2 Coach™ - Coaching is Positive

We've all done our share of avoiding and hoping employees would just work things out on their own. Yeah, right! The only thing that works is having the courage to coach. This scenario helps a coach keep things positive.

Discussion Card - Multigenerational Teams

This fun, information-packed card provides a working across generations model (A.G.E.S. @ W.O.R.K.) and questions to address common generational-specific issues in the workplace. These cards are great for a quick training reminder or conversation starter.

Info Brief: Religious Terminlogy & Information

When it comes to religion, the words you use are important and play an integral part of conversation with fellow colleagues. To ensure teamwork and communication in the workplace run as smoothly as possible, using the correct words and terms is very important.

Conflict Clock: Taking T.I.M.E. to Resolve Conflict in the Workplace™ (Managers)

As a supervisor or manager, your role is vital to the success of the organization. You can impact morale, teamwork, collaboration, respect, inclusion, innovation, quality…and the list goes on. Sometimes we forget this in the heat of conflict. Conflict Clock™ for managers will give you a quick reinforcement and a model for successfully resolving workplace conflict.

Diversity 101™ Leveraging the Power of Inclusion, Equity & Respect

Our Best-Selling DEIB Program! An inclusive workplace doesn't need to be elusive! As organizations and customer bases become increasingly diverse, it is important for employees to be able to engage and work through differences in a positive manner that supports productivity, teamwork and customer satisfaction. This best-selling program addresses the “respect and inclusion” component of diversity – from the employee’s perspective. Topics include: unconscious (hidden) bias, cultural competence, diversity moments, gender & gender identity, rumors & gossip, joking and improper expressions.

Managing Generations: M.E.E.T. for Respect in the Workplace™

Leaders can turn the challenge of multiple generations in the workplace into a competitive advantage by applying the concepts of this program to the complexities of managing a multigenerational workforce. Managers gain insights, strategies and skills that help minimize generational conflict, strengthen collaboration and improve teamwork for better results.