Programs for Managers & Leaders
Empower
Your Employees
One of the biggest challenges managers face is learning how to effectively empower and trust their team. The EMPOWER program is designed to teach new and seasoned managers how to boost employee performance through trust, coaching, and strengths-based leadership.
EMPOWER
Program Includes
- 5 Experiential Workshops
- Gallup StrengthsFinder™ Assessment
EMPOWER
Program Objectives
- Develop skills that can be used on a daily basis to enhance the performance of direct reports.
- Gain confidence coaching direct reports in ways that build trust, provide support, and improve performance.
- Develop a personal leadership style that is consistent with individual and organizational values.
EMPOWER
The Workshops
EMPOWER WORKSHOP
Appreciative Listening & Asking Questions
- Connect authentically and build trust through applied improvisational games that support agility, spontaneity, and creativity.
- Learn how to apply Ziksana’s Appreciative Listening Tool to develop a more open and inclusive culture.
- Learn the difference between open and closed-ended questions and identify specific situations where they can be most effectively applied.
EMPOWER WORKSHOP
Giving & Receiving Feedback
- Understand the importance of giving and receiving feedback to direct reports on a consistent basis.
- Learn and practice using a 5-Step Process for Giving Feedback through experiential activities.
- Learn tips for giving both formal and informal feedback in ways that increase the likelihood of performance improvement.
EMPOWER WORKSHOP
Strengths-Based Management
- Use Gallup StrengthsFinder™ to understand their own strengths and how they inform their personal leadership and coaching style.
- Understand their direct reports’ strengths in order to assign strengths-based roles, boosting productivity and engagement.
- Experience a game simulation that demonstrates how strengths-based leaders assign the right responsibilities based on individuals’ strengths profiles.
- Receive a team strengths map that informs them how to collaborate more effectively and fill in any gaps that might be affecting team performance.
EMPOWER WORKSHOP
Building Trust
- Receive a simple framework that highlights the different ways people build trust based on both personal relationships and task performance.
- Use a diagnostic tool to identify strengths and challenges related to trust with each direct report.
- Learn how to apply these tools in order to have effective conversations with direct reports that address gaps in trust and highlight ways to improve it.
EMPOWER WORKSHOP
Performance & Development Coaching
- Learn a simple process to effectively lead conversations about work performance to quickly improve results.
- Learn a simple process to effectively lead conversations about personal development in order to motivate and support individual growth.
- Practice and build confidence leading both types of conversations through role-plays.
- Appreciative Listening & Asking Questions
- Giving & Receiving Feedback
- Strengths-Based Management
- Building Trust
- Performance & Development Coaching
- Appreciative Listening & Asking Questions
EMPOWER WORKSHOP
Appreciative Listening & Asking Questions
- Connect authentically and build trust through applied improvisational games that support agility, spontaneity, and creativity.
- Learn how to apply Ziksana’s Appreciative Listening Tool to develop a more open and inclusive culture.
- Learn the difference between open and closed-ended questions and identify specific situations where they can be most effectively applied.
- Giving & Receiving Feedback
EMPOWER WORKSHOP
Giving & Receiving Feedback
- Understand the importance of giving and receiving feedback to direct reports on a consistent basis.
- Learn and practice using a 5-Step Process for Giving Feedback through experiential activities.
- Learn tips for giving both formal and informal feedback in ways that increase the likelihood of performance improvement.
- Strengths-Based Management
EMPOWER WORKSHOP
Strengths-Based Management
- Use Gallup StrengthsFinder™ to understand their own strengths and how they inform their personal leadership and coaching style.
- Understand their direct reports’ strengths in order to assign strengths-based roles, boosting productivity and engagement.
- Experience a game simulation that demonstrates how strengths-based leaders assign the right responsibilities based on individuals’ strengths profiles.
- Receive a team strengths map that informs them how to collaborate more effectively and fill in any gaps that might be affecting team performance.
- Building Trust
EMPOWER WORKSHOP
Building Trust
- Receive a simple framework that highlights the different ways people build trust based on both personal relationships and task performance.
- Use a diagnostic tool to identify strengths and challenges related to trust with each direct report.
- Learn how to apply these tools in order to have effective conversations with direct reports that address gaps in trust and highlight ways to improve it.
- Performance & Development Coaching
EMPOWER WORKSHOP
Performance & Development Coaching
- Learn a simple process to effectively lead conversations about work performance to quickly improve results.
- Learn a simple process to effectively lead conversations about personal development in order to motivate and support individual growth.
- Practice and build confidence leading both types of conversations through role-plays.
Buy a Workshop
If you can’t commit to a full program, we also offer our workshops in single, ‘a-la-carte’ sessions, tailored to your needs.
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Creativity & Innovation
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Leading Change
Spark
Creativity & Innovation
Accelerate
Leading Change
