Affinity Consulting and Training Group

Lead People...Manage Things : Master the Five Key Facets of High Performance Leadership. In this one to two day workshop you will discover how to focus on the key attributes that will help you become not just a good leader, but a great one.

The Z Team: Where Innovation Abounds! : This workshop introduces participants to the Z Team Innovation Process. Using the Team Dimensions Profile participants discover their strengths and preferences as a member of an innovation team.

Improving Personal Listening : Effective communication depends on the clarity, speech style, and tone conveyed by the person sending the message, as well as the ability of the listener to attend to the message. But listening effectively is more than just hearing. Listening is the ability to receive and interpret verbal messages and other cues, like body language, in order to respond in ways that are appropriate to the purpose. This workshop is designed for to help participants identify their preferred Listening Approach, or attitude. Participants also develop an appreciation for other Listening Approaches that may be more effective in different environments or situations for communication purposes.

Building Greater Self-Awareness : In this workshop, participants gain greater insights into their behaviors and personality, and how it affects their progress as a leader.

Communicating Strategy Using The Balanced Scorecard : This workshop walks participants through an actual Balanced Scorecard simulation, including the development of a Strategy Map. Developed by Kaplan and Norton, the Balanced Scorecard is now the preferred approach to implementing strategy, and is in use in corporate, non-profit and government organizations worldwide.

Getting The Most From Your Key Contributors : Even the best performers get stagnated from time to time. But before managers can help them out of their rut, they need to understand the situation and why the person is having difficulty. Sometimes they don t have the skills or know-how. This program helps managers use DiSC to read the situational needs of their key contributors and adjust their management style accordingly. They ll learn some fundamental strategies for reading the willingness and ability of the people they manage as well as the approaches that are most effective in each situation.

Managing Conflict & Resistance : Working with so-called difficult employees can be one of a manager's biggest headaches. People oftentimes come across as difficult because they handle conflict differently than we do. In fact, others approaches to conflict can often seem counterproductive, confusing, or even bizarre. This course provides managers with a simple, direct way to understand the different fears that drive much of the conflict and resistance they see. Through DiSC , managers learn their style of handling conflict and understand how that style might differ from their employees' methods. They also take time to recognize how quickly employees' fears can disengage them from a team or more...

Maximizing Your Strengths as a Manager : Description: Managers have an influence over other people. Their strengths can be a terrific benefit for the people who work for them. And of course, their limitations can trickle down to create frustration, confusion, or even paralysis for those they lead. Because they have this effect on others, managers have a responsibility to know themselves. Through DiSC , this workshop gives managers a safe, fun way to understand and organize the strengths and challenges they bring to the table. They gain a greater appreciation for the impact that their behavior has on others, and they discover how their personal style is read and filtered by different more...

Recognizing & Removing Barriers to Performance : Great managers can read people. They know that employees have different skills, different concerns, and different levels of motivation. Further, they know that if they ignore these needs, there is a greater chance that their employees will waste their energy moving in the wrong direction, get frustrated with a lack of success, or just disengage from a project or a team. Consequently, they ve learned to adjust their management style to the employee s style and the needs of the situation. This workshop is designed to help managers recognize their employee s needs and remove barriers to performance.

Adventures in Attitudes - A Guided Program for Achieving Personal and Professional Growth : Adventures in Attitudes is a program like no other. Delivered in ten half-day sessions, or as one continuous three and a half-day session, this is a strategic program designed to help people understand that how they perceive and respond to events is their choice. This awareness is the first step in changing negative attitudes to positive ones, and in changing disengagement to engagement. Over four million people worldwide have taken this program, and many describe it as life altering. People of different cultures, occupations, and ages have journeyed together through the experience and become more aware of the significance of attitudes.

Building Bridges to Understanding: Discovering the Power of Diversity : Businesses and corporations, both large and small, seek employees who have knowledge, practical skills, and a professional commitment to work effectively with peers,subordinates, and supervisors. Shifting demographics have changed the face of business,and as a result, we must respond. Changes in employment practices require the rapid adjustment of employers and employees. Given the reality of individual uniqueness in the workplace, this workshop is designed to allow participants to assess the perceptions, values, and behaviors we embrace in work groups and individual work settings.

Improving Individual & Team Motivation : Everybody on a team is motivated. They re just motivated by different things and, sometimes, toward different things. The team can be more effective and engaged when each member knows how to get what he or she needs out of the process. This workshop helps participants pinpoint the things that drive their success on a team. Through the DiSC model, participants learn to appreciate the role that their environment has on their motivation. Team members discover how to capitalize on their particular motivators in a way that makes the entire team more energized, dynamic, and successful.

Improving Individual and Team Effectiveness : Think of the first team you were on.You probably quickly discovered that each person had a unique way of doing things. Sometimes team differences are easily accepted and laughed about, and may even complement each other. But too frequently teams find that those differences can also cause confusion, stagnation, or frustration. Only when people have a framework to make sense of their differences can they learn what to expect from others and the best way to get what the team needs. This workshop uses the DiSC framework to address three of the most common challenges that teams face: motivation, conflict, and communication. Participants learn simple, intuitive ways to make lasting improvements in a team s effectiveness.

Reducing Team Conflict : Few of us like conflict. So why is it so pervasive, so enduring, and so difficult to resolve? One of the primary reasons is that we all have a natural instinct to see just one side of an issue: our own. Can this instinct be reshaped? Twenty-five years of DiSC training shows that it can. This is a simple but powerful program that helps individuals and groups develop the understanding and empathy to work through tough interpersonal conflicts. This workshop is designed to spark a lasting change that speaks to not only the individual, but also to the group. It builds fundamental skills that are crucial for effective teamwork and collaboration.

The Time of Your Life: How to Master Your Time and Get More From Your Life : We all face a daily dilemma: too much to do and not enough time to do it. Time management concerns how we resolve that dilemma. Time is the limiting factor, not activities. We must make tough choices about what to do and what not to do. In order to change our habits, we must identify them. That s what this time mastery workshop is all about.