Training Experiences

Front line leadership skills for creating a culture of inclusion, consistency, and professionalism.

Typically, within one month of moving into a Supervisor level position, that person will need some guidance and reinforcing strategies for leading others.  This training module accomplishes that by providing new supervisors with concrete, hands-on tools to help them lead their teams through targeted communication, coaching, and counseling.

After completing this 3-day training forum, participants will improve team performance by successfully applying learned concepts:

• Living the role and characteristics of an effective supervisor
• Training front line employees through learning styles
• Determining what method of communication will garner the best results
• Praising and reprimanding more effectively
• Strengthening focus on operational performance measures
• Planning and organizing daily activities
• Reaping performance results through a balance of taking care of the mission and taking care of the people
• Defining standards of performance for the front line team
• Choosing appropriate forms of counseling that best fit employee’s situation and supervisor’s needs
• Preparing for a counseling session, getting to the root cause of an issue, helping counselee resolve problems, and documenting the session
• Providing follow up with front line employees to focus on enhancing their skills

Methods of instruction:  Informal Lecture, Guided Discussion, Application level exercises

Profiting from a consistent, strong mentorship culture.

This 3-day training forum builds upon the learning in the “Leading Your Team To Success” module by cultivating specific ways of enhancing your partnership and communication with your direct reports in order to develop their skills and your bench strength:

• Nipping problems in the bud to decrease need for disciplinary actions
• Determining the best uses for counseling for a particular situation
• Using the right counseling skills to reach your goal of either changing behavior, helping with a personal problem, or reinforcing exceptional work
• Preparing for the session – a lost art, that if done properly, makes the session more productive, less stressful for both parties, and keeps both of you from straying from meaningful conversation
• Working through the counseling event, from opening the session to getting to the root cause of an issue to resolving and  following up to ensure change is taking place
• Handling specific behaviors in counseling that, if allowed to continue, would negate any gains made in the session
• Discovering what counseling can’t fix – knowing when to stop and move to disciplinary action
• Coaching for success – what to do before you delegate
• Getting someone ready for delegation of a task
• Practicing your job, as a coach, at each level of follower development
• Creating a simple, easy to use performance management plan– putting responsibility for performance in  the hands of employees
• Setting clear performance and behavior expectations on day one
• Working with employees to take the angst out of goal setting
• Organizing consistent tracking sessions for accountability – the key to high performance

Methods of instruction:  Informal Lecture, Guided Discussion, Case Study, Application level exercises.

Making meetings work as a platform for enhanced team commitment and problem solving.

In this 3-day training experience, participants strengthen their meeting facilitation skills in order to conduct various types of results-driven meetings.  The goal will be to enhance each participant’s communication methods and relationships in the workplace through the platform of truly effective meetings. This level of training can make huge impacts on organizations of any size.

• Improving group communication through effective meetings
• Learning when to use meetings as a method for improving processes, keeping  teams focused on a project, or making sure everyone has a stake in the success of a project
• Determining when a meeting is NOT the right option
• Choosing the most effective format and agenda based on your meeting goal
• Getting the right people involved in the process
• Developing your prep work for the meeting: most important key to getting results
• Practicing your presentation skills & public speaking – learning  how to get folks excited about the meeting, clear on their part in the meeting, and psyched about the goal – all in the first 5 minutes – a skill that, when honed, will benefit you in any situation where you need to speak publicly
• Drafting your agenda, facilitating the meeting, and dealing with unproductive meeting behaviors
• Teaching team members the skills they need to improve processes so you can let go and let them succeed during and after the meeting

Methods of instruction:  Informal Lecture, Guided Discussion, Case Study, and Application level exercises

Discovering and using the experiences, talents, and differences of your team to thrive as an organization.

Simson’s Diversity Training offers a 3-day, interactive, and collaborative forum experience that will enhance your company’s  mission through using the unique skills, talents, and experiences of each individual on your diverse team.

Participants completing this training forum will be able to improve performance and interpersonal relationships among a diverse workforce by successfully applying learned concepts:

• Determining the best method for new employees of all cultural backgrounds to clearly understand your mission and how they fit into that mission
• Developing relationships centered around what a person “brings to the party”
• Determining what respect means to different people and taking action to display respect while showing others what respect means to you
• Using the “diversity bio” when recognizing an individual’s performance
• Honoring Primary/Secondary Dimensions of Diversity – understanding differences, finding similarities, and celebrating both
• Identifying behaviors that get in the way of using diversity
• Stopping unproductive behaviors through counseling and “teachable” moments
• Creating a plan to enhance your mission by taking diversity “baby steps”
• Learning about various cultural and religious customs of your employee group
• Determining  company’s cultural norms to which everyone must assimilate; discover ways to “teach” those cultural norms
• Creating a personal six-month plan to enhance your mission through improved understanding of diversity and its link to mission accomplishment

Methods of instruction: Informal Lecture, Guided Discussion, Case Study, Application level exercises

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Targeted communication skills that propel your team to work together.

A 3-day, interactive training forum format that engages your leaders and gives them the simple tools they need to target their communication and teambuilding efforts – tools they can, in turn, teach others in order to grow profit, productivity and customer service while lowering turnover.

• Speaking and training to employee’s learning style
• Eliciting honest, respectful input from the team
• Choosing the most impactful communication method to ensure real understanding and action after a conversation
• Developing a strong communication plan to decrease time spent chasing down information from employees while making sure everyone is in the loop
• Praising, reprimanding, and recognizing accomplishments in a way that guarantees repeated good performance
• Honing listening skills to find root causes of performance issues
• Creating leadership/followership interdependence to allow for improved bench strength in the company
• Teaching others how to grow both their leadership and followership skills
• Developing others  through teaching your team how to approach you with suggestions, improvements, and problems
• Learning the steps for approaching your boss to get agreement on actions
• Creating your group dynamic of trust, respect,  and partnership with a focus on operational results
• Determining your team’s own vision/plan that supports, in action, your company’s vision, mission, and core values

Methods of instruction: Informal Lecture, Guided Discussion, Application level exercises.

Do you have a company retreat coming up?  Perhaps you are facing a restructuring of teams or roles, adding a supervisory level into your reporting infrastructure or are running up against problems stemming from low morale or negative company culture.  Every organization faces unique challenges from time to time that can be resolved through training, meeting facilitation, individual coaching or team building activities.

Simson Training Group’s training forum style works to bring your team members together to learn new workplace communication strategies that enable them to self-solve day to day problems and issues that interrupt business work flow and profitability.

Simson Training Group will first counsel you by listening to your challenges, collaborating on potential solutions, and then formulate a customized training experience uniquely tailored to your organization and team members.

Learn more about The Simson Way and our process.