Workshops
WORKSHOPS
Leaders today face unprecedented complexities that require agility, skill, and flexibility. Abrupt economic shifts, downsizing, rapid scaling, a multigenerational workforce, complex hybrid environments, and effective uses of AI are just a few factors challenging today’s leaders.
Collaborative Thinking™ helps leaders meet these and other challenges.
Program participants will build practical and useful skills including:
- Expanding and reinforcing leadership capacity
- Collaborating effectively in complex cross-functionally environments
- Embodying authentic leadership presence
View our Emerging Trends Program Catalog
Our Collaborative Thinking Coaches will tailor workshops and programs to meet your team’s specific needs, timing, and format.
Emerging Trends Programs Include:
Leading Self
Courses focused on increasing self-awareness, cultivating resilience and wellness.
Suitable for all levels of staff, managers, and leaders.
Leading Others
Hands-on learning experiences focused on building strong leadership foundations.
Suitable for all levels of staff, managers, and leaders.
Leadership Team Conversations
Opportunities for leadership teams to hone skills while collectively navigating work challenges and enhancing team performance.
Suitable for Intact Leadership Teams
Leadership Cohort Programs
Combines the skill and art of leadership in an immersive peer-experience resulting in impactful and inspirational leaders.
Suitable for cohorts of leaders within the same organization. Includes one-on-one coaching and peer learning.
Every Collaborative Thinking™ course/program is steeped in science related to adult learning principles, neuroscience of change, group dynamics, sociology, organizational development, wellness, and psychology. Participants leave with personalized and practical ways to build helpful daily routines.
LEADING SELF
For all levels of Staff, Managers & Leaders
Select from individual courses or combine multiple courses into a Leadership Learning Series.
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Emotional Intelligence & Resilience
Authentic Leader’s Mindset
Building Authentic Presence and Resilience
Courage – Living Core Values at Work
Discovering Your Value Proposition for Individual Leaders
Leading with Emotional Intelligence
Resilience & State of Mind
Participants will establish resilience-building habits to achieve greater well-being, sustain focus, and balance energy throughout the day. Emotionally intelligent leaders accurately self-assess and skillfully self-manage by using practices that result in personal resilience and meaningful connections.
Wellness & Mindfulness
Introduction to Mindfulness
Managing Anxiety to Avoid Burnout
Managing Boundaries at Work & Home
Wellness at Work
Participants will identify inspiring new behaviors and create simple and personalized practices to help them manage life and workplace anxiety and engage in their personal and professional lives more fully. Learners will discover the neuroscience behind mindfulness, wellness, and habit formation.
LEADING OTHERS
For all levels of Staff, Managers & Leaders
Select from individual courses or combine multiple courses into a Leadership Learning Series.
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Communication & Coordinating Work
Aligning Personal & Organizational Values
Collaborating & Coordinating Together
Decision-Making & Role Clarity
Framing Conversations with Clear Purpose & Outcomes
Executive Thinking: Balancing Strategic & Tactical Thinking
Participants will refresh their toolbox and sharpen core skills to create effectively functioning teams. Teams perform internally and cross-functionally more effectively by employing shared skills and language related to coordination, decision-making, and role clarity.
Coaching & Managing
Collaboration Skills for Leaders
Conversations for Accountability
Manager as Coach
Offering & Receiving Feedback
Truth Telling in Uncertainty: The Courage to Communicate in Turbulent Times
Participants will practice using tools that improve trust and performance; they will learn how to frame conversations for accountability as they manage up, down and across the organization. Leadership exists at all levels, and within any organization.
Conflict & Uncertainty
Dilemmas of Authentic Leadership Vulnerability & Strength
Group Cohesion – From Conflict to Collaboration, Tools for Teams
Mapping Turbulence, Understanding Complex Challenges – COMING SOON!
Applying research in neurobiology, participants gain an understanding of the psychology related to conflict and change. Participants learn how to manage their mindset, recognize defensive behaviors, overcome barriers, and negotiate mutually beneficial solutions.
LEADERSHIP TEAM CONVERSATIONS
For Leadership Teams
Select from individual courses or combine multiple courses into a Leadership Learning Series.
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Leading High-Performing Teams
Being a Collaborative Leader
Coordinating Work Effectively
Creating a Sense of Team in the Hybrid Workplace
Creating Team Common Purpose
Decision-Making & Role Clarity
Managing Effective Meetings
Team Dynamics – Trust & Triggers
Team Norms: Building the Foundation for High-Performing Teams
Intended for groups of mid to executive level leaders, this program explores skillful ways to be collaborative when managing up, down, and across your organization. Participants engage in cross-functional conversations and negotiate shared interests and commitments. They explore ways to manage relationships, embody executive presence, and communicate with clarity and purpose.
Includes 2.5-day workshop and 6 one-hour coaching sessions over 6 months.
Understanding One Another for Team Performance
Cultivating Culture Rooted in Appreciation, Belonging & Collaboration
DiSC™ Team Building Workshop
Develop Team’s Talents Using CliftonStrengths™
Enhancing Team Communication with Enneagram™
Excelling in a Multigenerational Workforce
Understanding Myers-Briggs™ Personality Types
Team Management Profile™ : Enabling True Collaboration
Participants will learn their own preferences, strengths, and triggers and those of their colleagues; this allows for greater acceptance, inclusion, and diversity in the workplace. As participants learn about themselves, opportunities for deeper connection and team cohesion becomes accessible.
LEADERSHIP COHORT PROGRAMS
For Leadership Teams & Cohorts of 8-25 participants
Select from individual courses or combine multiple courses into a 3 – 8 month Cohort Experience.
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Coaching Skills
Coaching Skills for Leaders: ‘Expert-Leader’ to ‘Leader-Coach’
Intended for people-managers at all levels, participants learn to practice a coaching approach in the context of delegating, framing critical conversations, asking powerful questions that elicit insights, and sharing personal observations to accelerate employee growth. This program teaches leaders to augment traditional management techniques with the proven skills of professional coaches.
Includes six 2-hour cohort sessions led by Executive Coaches, 1-hour coaching video, and 1-hour of personal reflection between sessions.
Collaborative Leadership & Executive Presence
Being a Collaborative Leader
Intended for groups of mid to executive level leaders, this program explores skillful ways to be collaborative when managing up, down, and across your organization. Participants engage in cross-functional conversations and negotiate shared interests and commitments. They explore ways to manage relationships, embody executive presence, and communicate with clarity and purpose.
Includes 2.5-day workshop and 6 one-hour coaching sessions over 6 months.
Leadership Team Alignment
Custom Designed Cohort Program Focused on Leadership Team Alignment
Discovering Your Value Proposition for Intact Teams & Business Units
Intended for newly formed teams, teams that have undergone significant change and upheaval, or for long-standing teams that are ready to refresh and refocus. While in collaboration, the leadership team and staff gain clear alignment on practices that manifest their mission, vision, and values.
Includes four half-day meetings resulting in staff and leadership having shared commitments on how to live the desired culture.
Cross-Industry Leadership
Leadership Collaboratives
Loneliness and isolation are common for C-suite leaders. While your days might be packed with meetings and moments of contact, how often are you experiencing true connection? Leadership Collaboratives offer an intimate small group experience with other executive leaders with shared challenges and skills. You will engage in rich discussion for problem solving, collaboration, personal learning and growth.
Includes bi-weekly meetings (virtual and/or in-person) over 6 months.