You cannot not communicate is a common philosophy in the communication discipline. Since everything is communication, workshops must be more narrowly defined or will be sure to disappoint.

• Power and Persuasion*

Title will only get you so far. Learn about power from every corner of your environment, and how to build your capacity, culminating in your persuasion power, and how to have more influence.

• Nonverbal communication

Beyond gestures and facial expressions. Colors, workspaces, and what you don’t say all communicate to your team and clients.

• Professionalism*

Best practices for writing emails, holding meetings, workplace appearance, and ethics.

• Managing (not resolving) conflict*

Conflict is natural, inevitable, and the only way to improve. Creating channels for expressing respectful disagreement will enable you to create stronger, sustainable solutions.

• Implicit bias & the power of diversity

Everyone has biases, and sometimes we don’t even realize they exist. Diversity is more than race, ethnicity, and gender. Having a lot of different perspectives reduces biases by sheer contact with the “other,” ensures that you are meeting the most needs, and reducing blind spots.

• Small group communication*

What makes teamwork so complicated and messy, and how to harness that for the best outcomes possible. We will discuss predictable stages of acclimating to a group, and how to build a team environment through Team Talk, and avoiding the dreaded groupthink.

• Code-switching & person-centered communication

Competent communicators change what they say and how they say it to meet the needs of the person they’re communicating with. But are there drawbacks?

• Public speaking & presentations*

Skills that help you overcome the anxiety of public speaking, or kick it up a notch. Lessons may include choosing your words, emphasizing with non-verbals, designing the most powerful presentation materials, how to practice, and keeping it interesting and easy.

• Deception

What is it? Is it all bad? Why do people do it? What happens when you’re caught.

 *Co-facilitating this lesson with Shawn Haught will result in pure awesomeness.

Entrepreneurs have a natural tendency toward leadership, but we all have blind spots. These modules are intended to dig deep into commonly held beliefs and provide a fresh perspective for implementing these concepts daily.

• Disruption and Change Management*

How to prepare for and navigate the many challenges associated with transformations, namely people.

• Strategic Planning

From developing a mission and vision statement and identifying core values, to measuring progress and success toward these goals.

• Time Management & Prioritization

For ambitious types, we want to do it all, but we all have 24 hours in a day. Learn techniques for prioritizing, delegating, and streamlining.

• Successful mentoring*

Fostering an environment of mentorship, and exploring different models of mentoring to create the strongest team, both for mentees and mentors.

• Women in leadership

Exploring unique challenges and opportunities for women leaders.

• Perseverance, tenacity, grit*

Do this. All of this. Don’t stop.

• Mechanical to meaningful*

Best practices in interviewing, evaluating, and developing talent.

• Computer-Mediated Communication

Best practices for a world of remote work.

• Benefits of transparency

A naked emperor is just as dangerous as one you never see. The vulnerability and benefits of taking that risk will be explored.

• Informal networks

Mavens and opinion leadership – the OG influencers.

Data is the present and future of commerce. Data-driven organizations perform better in every way. And data is not just for data nerds.

• Reporting is not analytics

Providing the volume, frequency, or percent of something is a great start, but it’s just scratching the surface. Dedicating resources to analytics will uncover insights to be lean and grow.

• Data Literacy

Learn foundational concepts for the whole organization to be data-driven, including the data lifecycle, common data fallacies, and the difference between correlation, prediction, prescription, machine learning, and AI.

• Data lifecycle

From capturing, to mining, to cleaning, to exploring, to producing insights, to presenting findings: understand each team member’s role in creating value with data.

• Data Governance and stewardship

Setting up processes, responsibilities, and expectations is essential to ensuring reliable, scalable, repeatable insights to create a competitive advantage.

• Continuous improvement

An iterative, ongoing, measured approach to addressing anything in the organization that can be better.

• Data visualizations, dashboards and storytelling

Tactical advice for how to communicate results regardless of the tools you have at your disposal.

• Survey design

Surveys are easy… but that doesn’t mean they’re good. How to get the most from just a little survey data.

• Evidence based practices & program evaluation

The gold standard in data-driven organizations. Using existing research and conducting your own to see if your strategies, programs and interventions are meeting your organizations goals and needs.