Training

“Beth O’Neill has helped more than 100 managers in our company develop essential skills to lead people effectively and motivate higher performance. By drawing from her deep experience and through stories, she challenges our managers to think differently and try new approaches. During workshops, she creates a safe space for managers to share challenges, try out new techniques and learn from each other.”

In-person or virtual workshops designed to address your pressing leadership challenges 

 

Collaborative Leadership

Intellectual prowess is not the only (or, arguably, best) characteristic of a good leader. While business acumen and functional area expertise are vital, leadership also requires influence skills and the capacity to enroll others in a common vision. Great leadership demands a clear and strategic game plan for helping people work effectively together.

Beth’s Collaborative Leadership workshop provides practical skills to inspire and lead others, regardless of leadership role.

In this workshop, we explore how to:

  • Provide direction and gain alignment on the big picture
  • Articulate your vision
  • Delegate for development
  • Design and articulate a decision-making strategy
  • Develop trusting relationships
  • Coach to engender intrinsic motivation
  • Provide effective feedback

Women, Language and Power

Partnering with Susannah Baldwin, Ph.D., author of the book Women, Language and Power: Giving Voice to Our Ambition, we explore how gender and power influence women’s communication. Highlighting current research, you will learn the three aspects of social conditioning that inhibit women’s ability to communicate powerfully and advance professionally. The session offers a variety of exercises and tools for making new language choices designed to connect women to their power, themselves, and their rightful place as leaders. It is offered as a half-day program and can be presented in a virtual format.

Topics covered:

  • The 3 C’s of our social conditioning: Considerate, Contained, Collaborative
  • The language of certainty
  • The body language of confidence
  • Speaking about performance and accomplishments
  • Building a support network

DISC® Team Workshop

DISC® is a personal assessment tool used by more than one million people every year to help improve teamwork, communication, and productivity in the workplace. It provides a common language people can use to better understand themselves and those they interact with—and then use this knowledge to reduce conflict and improve working relationships.

 

In this 2-hour, interactive workshop, you will:
  • Improve Self Awareness: Gain insight into how you respond to conflict, what motivates you or stresses you out, and how you solve problems.
  • Improve Teamwork: Learn ways to improve communication and understanding between team members while preserving your unique style.
  • Make Conflict Productive: Turn conflict into a positive, productive exercise that helps your team navigate your differences and move forward.
  • Manage More Effectively: Become more naturally effective by understanding the preferred working styles of employees and other team members.

Creating Productive Disagreement

Why don’t people speak up when they disagree?

  • In some cultures, speaking up runs counter to the social norm.
  • Strong personalities dominate and drive the agenda, leaving no room for disagreement.
  • Inequity dynamics prevail, due to differences in cultural background, language, gender, generation, behavioral style, and organizational role.
  • The discussion is emotionally charged, inhibiting open dialogue.

Beth’s Creating Productive Disagreement workshop provides thought frameworks that cut through the barriers to speaking up. These frameworks give people a way to elevate the conversation from “me versus you” to the relative merits or downsides of a situation. Allowing all sides to be heard leads to a more robust dialogue and, ultimately, better decision making.

“I think Beth is great, very engaging and personable. I normally don’t love classroom settings, but she made the workshop feel pretty natural.”

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