International sports leader looks to raise the standard of team culture by improving internal communications.

Course:  Managing Work Relationships with Communication Styles

How an awareness of work styles can lead to collaboration and cohesion in teams

The cen­tral theme of the Man­ag­ing Work Rela­tion­ships with Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Styles pro­gram is that our behav­ior impacts the per­cep­tions and reac­tions that oth­er have of us.  Those reac­tions, in turn, form the foun­da­tion of our work­ing rela­tion­ships with oth­ers.  This ses­sion pro­vid­ed an oppor­tu­ni­ty for team mem­bers to learn more about how their per­son­al style may influ­ence their abil­i­ty to work effec­tive­ly and effi­cient­ly with ver­ti­cal and hor­i­zon­tal mem­bers of their team. Through self-assess­ments, prac­ti­cal analy­sis and engag­ing inter­ac­tive work place sce­nar­ios, the par­tic­i­pant were guid­ed by our team of facil­i­ta­tors through the Social Styles mod­el to increase their aware­ness of their own work style, as well as, learn prac­ti­cal and employ­able tech­niques to col­lab­o­rate and improve pro­duc­tiv­i­ty on their teams.  Through inter­ac­tive prac­tice exer­cis­es, team mem­bers learned how ver­sa­til­i­ty, along with an aware­ness of oth­ers’ work style pref­er­ences, can lead to improved com­mu­ni­ca­tion and increased productivity.

This work­shop was attend­ed by asso­ciate, man­ag­er and direc­tor lev­el employees.

Fortune 500 company’s internal business strategy roll-out benefits from change management component

Course:  Managing Through the Uncertainty of Change

How communication is the key to change management.

Day One Group col­lab­o­ra­tive­ly designed a pro­gram with the client that focused on orga­ni­za­tion­al align­ment through man­ag­ing tran­si­tions, improv­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tions and han­dling resis­tance. In three days of focused, pro­duc­tive train­ing, employ­ees were giv­en the oppor­tu­ni­ty to learn about new poli­cies, explore areas of uncer­tain­ty, and com­mu­ni­cate with impact to facil­i­tate change.

Par­tic­i­pants were coached on lead­ing one-on-one con­ver­sa­tions with their staff in order to assist the tran­si­tion from old to new busi­ness prac­tices, while mov­ing the busi­ness for­ward.  A major focus of the course was to help man­agers devel­op ques­tion­ing and lis­ten­ing skills in an effort to broad­en their staff’s under­stand­ing of the change agent, while assist­ing them in com­mu­ni­cat­ing a clear, suc­cinct mes­sage on the change.  Our team of expe­ri­enced facil­i­ta­tors guid­ed learn­ers through prac­tice exer­cis­es and role play­ing sce­nar­ios as prepa­ra­tion for poten­tial­ly chal­leng­ing con­ver­sa­tions. The pri­ma­ry objec­tive of every ses­sion was to have the entire orga­ni­za­tion aligned and exe­cut­ing consistently.

This pro­gram was attend­ed by mid-lev­el managers.