• Live Instruction

• Hands-on, Guided Activities

• LIVE Remote or Classroom Delivery

What’s Included

  • Small class sizes
  • Certificate of course completion

People Leader

PM 101

In this workshop, participants will learn how to maximize their first 100 days as a new manager by establishing trust. Whether they’re new to a team, new to the organization, or transitioning from being a peer to managing the team, establishing trust from the beginning is cornerstone to their success. This course will prepare them for the handoff as they learn ways to build trusting relationships, empower team members, avoid micromanagement, turn empathy into action, and ultimately establish a new team culture.

Detailed Course Outline

Course Outline
  • Ways to build trust in your first 100 days
  • How to empower your team
  • Turning empathy into action
  • Practice using tools to help you succeed as a new manager
  • Make the team your own—establishing yourself as the leader
Outcomes
  • Facilitate a smooth transition by building trust in your first 100 days
  • Get the best out of your team by empowering them
  • Understand what motivates team members to lead and support them effectively
  • Demonstrate your competence by taking action on what’s most meaningful to your team
  • Gain loyalty by being honest and approachable

"Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical class. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular class."

Detailed Course Outline

Outline:
  • Defining Visions
  • Design thinking process for creating a vision
  • Metaphorical thinking
  • Intuitive thinking
  • Motivators for vision writing
Outcomes:
  • Understand what a vision is and who it’s for
  • Use creative thinking techniques to draft a vision
  • Consider how to apply the vision for specific direct reports

"Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical class. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular class."

PM 101

The future of work is flexible. As work arrangements continue to evolve, it is essential for leaders to adapt their leadership styles to meet the changes needs of their teams. This course is designed to help leaders effectively lead teams that work in a remote, hybrid, or flexible working environment. Leaders will learn how to overcome challenges related to communication, collaboration, and engagement while also supporting flexibility, productivity, and connectivity.

Detailed Course Outline

Outline:
  • Be aware of proximity bias
  • Leverage synchronous and asynchronous communication while also setting communication boundaries
  • Overcome collaboration challenges by setting decision-making rights
  • Explore independent ideation and brainstorming rules and roles
  • Advocate for the wellness of your employees
  • Plan events and make the most of your meetings to support employee engagement
Outcomes:
  • Focus on flexibility, productivity, and connectivity to overcome challenges in these three focus areas:
    • Communication
    • Collaboration
    • Engagement

"Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical class. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular class."

PM 102

This science-backed workshop explores the nuts-and-bolts of performance management with a focus on defining, planning and supervising goals that hit the sweet spot of challenging and doable (eustress). Participants will also learn frameworks for conducting effective performance reviews. Together with our other courses on managing teams such as Coaching for Managers and Giving and Receiving Feedback, this class rounds out a holistic approach to managing teams for performance and development.


Detailed Course Outline

Course Outline
  • 5 goals of effective performance management
  • Exploring the performance management cycle
  • Three steps for setting direction
  • Writing goals that are clear, fair and relevant
  • Managing execution and resisting micromanaging
  • Writing effective performance reviews
  • Three components of performance review conversations
Outcomes
  • Identify the performance management cycle, and the part employees, managers, and organizations play in that cycle.
  • Discover how to set direction and write effective goals
  • Develop skills in managing goal execution
  • Learn how to write performance reviews and facilitate performance review conversations

"Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical class. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular class."

PM 102

This workshop explores some of the more challenging situations managers face in performance management. These challenges include how to deal with an employee who is underperforming, how to handle conflict between members of your team, and how to hire and fire someone on your team. These topics aren’t always fun or easy, but we are confident that preparing for these situations will help develop a holistic approach to managing teams for performance and development.


Detailed Course Outline

Outline:
  • Understanding performance
  • How to have course correction conversations
  • How to create an effective PIP
  • Mediation in three steps
  • Leading your team through change with honesty, credibility, clarity, and hope
Outcomes:
  • What to do when a direct report is underperforming
  • Mediating conflict on your team
  • Leading your team through change

"Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical class. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular class."

Detailed Course Outline

Course Outline
  • Managing vs Coaching
  • 4 styles of coaching
  • Pre-requisites for a coaching mindset
  • OARS
  • Situational Coaching Model: A series of suggested questions
  • When to ask vs When to tell
  • Incorporating coaching into a workday
  • Preparing for common coaching problems
Outcomes
  • Understand the benefits of promoting a coaching culture within your organization and team
  • Develop the pre-requisites for a coaching mindset
  • Apply a series of suggested questions to any coaching situation
  • Learn how to support your employee the best by knowing when to ask and when to tell

"Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical class. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular class."

PM 103

Giving and Receiving Feedback is a foundational course geared towards managers that covers the basics of a subject many people find difficult. Participants explore a systems approach rooted in allyship to giving and receiving feedback that is flexible and holistic. Our approach is still grounded in observable, situational details but takes giving and receiving feedback a step farther, resulting in unique and authentic feedback that is more likely to be heard, understood, embraced and acted upon.

Detailed Course Outline

Course Outline
  • Define and prioritize Allyship
  • Intro to the FOR-A Model for giving impactful feedback
  • Define & Refine: a model for refining the 4 steps of FOR-A
  • Applying the models to provide thoughtful, authentic, and impactful feedback
  • Intro to the Lean in Practice for receiving feedback well
  • How giving and receiving feedback work together like a circuit
Outcomes
  • Define and prioritize allyship when giving feedback
  • Learn and practice our FOR-A feedback model through the lens of situational understanding
  • Learn to “lean into” receiving feedback from a growth perspective
  • Use the circuitry of giving and receiving feedback to enhance your approach

"Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical class. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular class."

PM For the rest of us

In this workshop, participants will learn how to leverage the power of psychological safety to run more effective, productive and high performing meetings. Participants begin with an assessment of the current state of their meetings which can be mapped onto the six core components of psychologically safe meetings. Participants will leave with a thorough understanding of our meeting framework leading to greater levels of inclusion, interaction, engagement, and productivity.

Detailed Course Outline

What is psychological safety?
Assess your meetings for psychological safety
6 components of a psychologically safe meeting, including:
  • Establishing what type of meeting this will be
  • Strategically reduce meeting size while promoting inclusion
  • Set the tone for a high performing meeting
  • Agendas, time management, and roles for predictability
  • Collect inclusive contributions while staying on track
  • Use feedback for continuous improvement and collective engagement
How power, privilege, and access impact a meeting
Outcomes
  • Learn what psychological safety is and how it relates to meetings
  • Assess your meetings for psychological safety
  • Apply 6 components to run a psychologically safe meeting
  • Discover how power, privilege, and access can impact a meeting

"Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical class. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular class."

PM For the rest of us

Trust is an essential component of leadership that can be challenging to build and easy to lose. We’ve built this class around six key traits of trust, the THREAD model: together, honest, resourceful, empowering, approachable, and dependable. In this course, you will discover where you need to grow and which traits to develop. You will learn actionable steps for becoming a more trustworthy leader. And you learn what to watch out for when applying these key traits.

Detailed Course Outline

Current outlook on trust
  • Global trust is down
  • You can always do better
THREAD
  • Together
  • Honest
  • Resourceful
  • Empowering
  • Approachable
  • Dependable
Domains of trust
  • Competence
  • Authenticity
  • Empathy
Final thoughts
  • Building trust cannot be done silently
  • Waves of trust
Outcomes:
  • Trust is something you keep building
  • THREAD trust throughout your team
  • Balance the three trust domains

"Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical class. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular class."

PM For the rest of us

While middle managers are one of the most populous roles within many organizations, research indicates these leaders often describe themselves as lost, torn between multiple forces, isolated, and thus, lonely. In this workshop, participants will take a deep dive into the experience of loneliness and isolation of middle managers. Participants will gain insight in organizational and interpersonal challenges middle managers face and create an individualized toolkit of practical solutions and actionable mindsets to navigate their own experience of loneliness.

Detailed Course Outline

Who are middle managers
Common challenges faced by middle managers
  • Organizational challenges
  • Interpersonal challenges
Actionable mindsets and practical solutions
  • Creating relationships and networks
  • Curating meaning and purpose
  • Engaging in self-care
Outcomes:
  • Explore organizational challenges faced by middle managers
  • Explore interpersonal challenges faced by middle managers
  • Learn practical solutions to navigate loneliness
  • Apply actionable mindsets to curate meaning and purpose

"Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical class. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular class."

PM For the rest of us

Teams with motivated employees are highly adaptable, exude positivity, and demonstrate higher levels of performance and productivity. This workshop takes team leaders through the process of reflecting on how their attitudes and beliefs shape employee motivation. It then guides leaders through a four-part plan with clear strategic and practical actions they can take to create a work environment optimized for sustainable motivation. Motivation isn't something you can do to or for others. But you can create optimal conditions for motivation which is what this class is all about.

Detailed Course Outline

Why we need motivated employees
How to build team motivation
  • Provide clarity to your employees
  • Assess your management style
  • Reduce dissatisfaction and maximize satisfaction
  • Make team motivation personal
Show appreciation to your team
A leader’s impact on team motivation
Outcomes
  • Why we need motivated employees
  • Four components to create an optimal workplace environment for sustainable motivation
  • The impact of showing motivation for your team
  • Why transferring optimism to your team matters

"Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical class. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular class."

Three Class Discount

Buy any three classes and receive 20% off.

The Training to YOU Three Class Discount is a terrific way for an individual to purchase multiple classes for a discount. Whether you are looking for a series of classes like Excel 1, 2 & 3 or a variety of classes such as Google Sheets, Docs and Slides the Three Class Discount is the way to go!

State of Arizona employees are eligible for an additional discount.

Training to YOU Tickets

Tickets are a great way to reduce the cost of training your team. Save up to 45% by purchasing your training in bulk.

We are now providing a custom-made registration portal for each organization that purchases 50+ training tickets. These portals allow supervisors and employees to schedule training easily and information workflows keep everyone in the loop.

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Class Ratings
4.9 stars from 1984 reviewers:

“I learned so much in this Excel 1 course. My Instructor paced the class just right so you felt challenged but not overwhelmed (even with 264 pages). He ensured we were all engaged in the material and always allowed us an opportunity to ask any questions. He is patient and eager to help. I’m thrilled to have found this class and leaving with so much useful information. Overall one of the best instructors I’ve had! He did an amazing job!! ”

— S.G. took Excel 1

“I really enjoyed this class. My instructor has a very unique ability to convert technical terminology into plain English and makes the material so much easier to understand. My instructor was very attentive and ensured everyone was on the same page before moving on and provided assistance if we were having any difficulties.”

— A.G. took Excel 2

“Alexandre is very easy to learn from. His thorough teaching technique helps you understand the material and hold that info in your brain. I can’t wait to start applying this to my forms I use everyday! Thank you so much!”

— S.P. took Excel 1

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