A Non-Anxious Presence: Leading Teams in Conflict

This session provides leaders with increased knowledge, awareness, and skills to be a non-anxious and healthy influence for their teams when everyday conflict surfaces. The approach is highly interactive and responsive to the specific needs of the participants, addressing real concerns and challenges that they put on the table.

Coaching 101: Developing and Retaining Employee Talent

In this highly interactive workshop, participants have an opportunity to learn key concepts and skills for dealing with poor performance and helping employees improve good performance.

Developing Talent in a Diverse Workforce

This is a foundation workshop for people who have responsibility for developing talent in others (supervisors and above). Highly interactive exercises and activities help participants understand the barriers to development that exist for some employees, as well as how to help reduce those organizational barriers.

Interviewing for Hiring and Selection

This workshop uses extensive skill practice to help leaders increase their ability to conduct effective interviews for selecting the most talented candidate from a pool of applicants. Through discussion, role-play, resource/tool development, and other activities, participants increase their ability to hire the most talented individuals available from inside or outside the organization.

Team Wellness

A motivating retreat for teams to assess their current state, develop and begin implementing action plans for improvement, and adopt/adapt tools for evaluating their progress and needs going forward. Highly interactive and customized around a team’s specific needs.

Role Clarification Workshop

This workshop gets everyone on the same page and knowledgeable about each other’s roles, responsibilities and authority. Clarifies areas of agreement, disagreement, or confusion. Allows the team to attain higher levels of trust, clarity, and commitment.

Conflict Management for Teams

This workshop provides teams with increased knowledge, awareness, and skills to develop and utilize mutually-acceptable ways of handling everyday conflict in the workplace.

Personality and Team Effectiveness

This workshop explores specific work situations and how our personality style influences our perceptions of and responses to those situations. This is an excellent workshop for strengthening team and group relations. Can use Enneagram or Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Step II) as primary personality typing tool for the workshop.

Discussing the Difficult: Holding Hard Conversations with Important Others

Although we often avoid it or rush through it, a difficult conversation doesn’t have to be bad news. Managed effectively, it can clear the air, improve the relationship, and even be a launching point for success. In this highly interactive presentation, participants explore the practices of planning, persisting, and pursuing to increase success in future hard conversations about any topic -- professional or personal.

Listening With Presence

This workshop reviews basic listening skills and levels, and then goes further. Use practices such as conscious embodiment, believing mind, and mindfulness to experience how and when to stay calm and open to another’s message, even when our initial reaction is to shut down.

Expressing My Truth

In this workshop, participants practice asking for what they need and want, clearly and peacefully. Much of the workshop is spent in practice situations, with many opportunities for reflection on patterns of attention and behavior that participants recognize in themselves.

Managing Everyday Conflict: Interest-Based Negotiation

This workshop provides an overview of conflict management using a process called interest-based negotiation (seeking win-win). Discuss the characteristics of conflict, the steps in managing conflict effectively, and the process of using interest-based negotiation to resolve conflicts. Participants will have a chance to apply the process and tools to real-life conflicts they may be experiencing.

Working in a Diverse Workforce

This intensive workshop gives participants an opportunity to gain fundamental awareness, knowledge, and skills to work effectively with people who differ from them. It explores our own cultural influences and heritage, the dimensions of diversity, language usage, stereotypes, collusion, power and privilege in systems, organizational culture, and barriers to an inclusive organization.

Going Along To Get Along: Collusion At Work

When people don’t speak up or intervene to stop unfair or inappropriate behavior of others, they passively collude; when they join in, they actively collude. Exercises and discussion allow participants to examine a definition of collusion, how collusion relates to values, how collusion may be played out at work, the risks and benefits of avoiding collusion, and realistic applications back in the workplace.

Cross-Cultural Encounters

A “culture-general” workshop in which participants explore the concept of culture, examine their own culture, recognize what happens during cross-cultural encounters and clashes, and acquire tools for increased cross-cultural effectiveness.

Voicing Self

This motivational workshop uses a variety of the arts (painting, poetry, music, collage, etc.) and self-expression to refresh and energize participants. The focus is on listening to one’s own voice and remembering the value of staying tuned to that voice, in spite of the many other “voices” clamoring for our attention (others’ needs, image, status, criticism, fears, and so on). We explore how to continue the practice of giving voice to Self even after the session is over, deepening the habit of everyday Self-expression.

Here I Stand: Mapping Self

For individuals who are ready to begin the process of revealing the real self (solid self, authentic self), this work can build the foundation for ongoing responsible and conscientious thought and choice in an anxious world. The workshop offers participants a way to be more aware of and objective about their changing beliefs and relationships and to grow in the capacity to choose a steady course in life. Growth and self-understanding in mapping self affect one’s functioning in all of life’s relationships.

The Conscious Body

In this workshop we use the body in motion to observe our own habits of attention and to experience transcendent awareness. Participants identify and observe where their attention goes as they move in habitual and non-habitual ways, practicing moving meditations and conscious embodiment. No prior training, knowledge, or physical ability is necessary. Workshop activities include breath practice, walking and standing meditations, and placements of attention. We can accommodate physical limitations; this workshop can be experienced from a seated position, if necessary, or with a limited range of motion.

Strategic Planning For Life

Using a process parallel to strategic planning for organizations, participants envision and plan the lives they mean to live. This session launches the process of investing in the design of one’s life in order to live it by choice and not by chance. The workshop provides insightful, customized, and plain-spoken guidance to address five strategic questions, with tools designed to build upon the work after the workshop:

* Who am I?
* How am I doing?
* Where do I want to be?
* How will I get there?
* How will I hold myself accountable to this vision/plan?

Enneagram Foundation Workshop

The Enneagram is an ancient and powerful study of human personality that helps us understand the central themes in our own and others’ lives that influence our behavior patterns. This personality system explores why people think, feel and act as they do by examining our habits of attention, our patterns of attention, what we avoid, and how we behave in both stressful and secure circumstances. During this workshop, participants identify which of nine types they believe they are and listen to people who are examples of those types talk about the motivations and perceptions of the type.

Enneagram and Relationships

This workshop deepens the insights and knowledge from the Enneagram Foundation Workshop. It explores the ways in which our own personality can affect all of our relationships, even when we don’t mean it to! We will participate in various practices for noticing our personality type during interactions and setting our personality aside in order to work more from our essence, or true self. This workshop includes journaling, inner work, and role-playing. Participants have an opportunity to consider their own “hot buttons and blind spots” and to practice self-observation and awareness techniques for staying awake to the moment (especially during conflict with important others).

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Workshop (Step II)

Using the MBTI Step II assessment, this workshop provides information on the basic concepts of Jung’s theory of psychological types and on the participants’ own scores and type characteristics. Participants are able to develop skills in observing their own and others’ behavior and in analyzing situations, gaining more active direction of their own lives.

Movement Meditation

Movement meditation is using music, movement, and attention to experience awareness in the body, presence in feelings, and connection to self, others, and spirit. We will be performing simple, everyday movements that engage our full attention and bring about a meditative state. Our goal is to instill in ourselves a sense of deep curiosity and true inquiry into the nature of attention and relaxation, effort and receptivity, and mindfulness and joy. No special abilities or previous experience is necessary – just an interest in opening oneself to the present moment and to the pleasure of movement and music.

Facilitating Groups

This foundation workshop provides skill practice and theory for facilitating learning and growth for groups that are meeting for a common purpose. Participants learn and practice techniques for chartering and contracting with groups, beginning and ending meetings, helping groups solve problems, make decisions, and follow their own ground rules, and working with a co-facilitator. Appropriate for classroom facilitators and for group facilitators (facilitation of teams, committees, councils, etc.).

Diagnosis & Intervention Techniques for Group Facilitators

This workshop builds on the skills and knowledge in Facilitating Groups (prerequisite). Participants learn and practice techniques for observing a group’s behavior to assess effectiveness, determining the nature of the behavior, and inferring causal relationships consistent with a model of group effectiveness.

Working with Challenging Behavior in Groups

This workshop builds on the skills and knowledge in Facilitating Groups (prerequisite). Participants explore the issues that can prevent groups from reaching their common purpose. Includes diagnosing and responding to covert group behaviors; identifying and working with hostile, fearful, or resistant participants; and handling group conflict.

The Awake Facilitator

Participants examine their own conscious and unconscious influence on a group’s effectiveness, as well as their own filters for selectively perceiving and responding to the behaviors of others. Includes journaling, inner work, peer coaching, and examination of previous facilitation or other group experiences.

Waters and Associates can bring IT Training to you! We offer hands on training classes in technical areas important to your company that can be held at your site.

If you have a new technical product roll out for your company we can help create training to assist in that rollout. Our consultants can work with your subject matter experts to design training and create standup delivery and/or web based training classes.

Beginning Microsoft Word
In the beginning Word class you will learn how to get familiar with the Word 2007 window. The student will learn about the Microsoft button, the title bar, the status bar and other features of the environment. Next the student will learn about entering and formatting text, including changing fonts and font types, indenting, adding bullets. A Section of the training will also cover formatting the page and the paragraphs in the document. Finally the class will end with how to save the document.

Intermediate Microsoft Word
In this class the instructor will demonstrate how to create tables, editing, and formatting them to meet the documents needs. Creating headers and footers will be covered as well as adding images and working with styles.

Advanced Microsoft Word
This class will cover how to use the merge document features to create letters, envelopes or labels. The students will create a list of names and address, a letter with merge fields and create a merged document. Macros will also be explored.

Beginning Microsoft Excel
In the beginning Excel class you will learn how to get familiar with the Excel 2007 window. The student will learn how to enter text, numbers and how to add numbers that are to be read as text. The class will focus on how to format the data, the columns and rows, and the page as a whole. Multiple sheets will be used and renamed to fit the needs of the document. Finally the class will learn how to save the document in different directories.

Intermediate Microsoft Excel
In the intermediate class the student will learn how to work with the common formulas in Microsoft Excel. The students will learn how reference types of absolute or relative will affect a formula. As an end to the class the students will learn how to work with data across worksheets and to create a chart within a worksheet.

Advanced Excel
In the advance class students will work with pivot tables, advanced formulas, creating functions, and creating macros.

Other classes
Beginning and Intermediate Microsoft Access.
Beginning and Intermediate HTML
Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Dreamweaver.
Beginning JavaScript.