Workshops offered

Finding Your Why: Introducing Purpose into Your Work

Is your life and work fueled by a strong sense of purpose? Does it matter? Consider the following:

This module will explore what it means to live and work with purpose and why purpose is key in staying engaged, committed, and motivated. Drawing on the latest research from psychologists, executive coaches, and organizational leaders, this module will help participants discover the "greater why" that drives them in their own work and lives, develop an authentic purpose statement, and identify concrete steps to put your purpose into action. 

From Dreaming to Doing with WOOP 

If you can dream it you can achieve it, right? As it turns out, people who have stronger, more positive fantasies about reaching their goals are actually less likely to achieve them. Studies indicate that they receive fewer job offers, lose fewer pounds, earn worse grades, stay lonely longer, and recover from injury more slowly.

However, there is an evidence-based method to achieve your goals. It's called WOOP, or Wish Obstacle Outcome Plan. This module will walk participants through a step-by-step process scientifically proven to help people achieve their professional goals and thrive in the workplace.

How to Set S.M.A.R.T. Goals

Goal setting is key to creating meaningful change, both for ourselves and our teams and organizations. Yet how do we determine goals that are meaningful and worth pursuing?

This module will explore the importance of setting goals the right way. Setting SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound) will help you clarify your ideas, focus your efforts, use your time and resources productively, and achieve what you want in your work and life.

Avoid Busyness and Beat Procrastination with the Urgent/Important Priority Matrix

Most of us would describe ourselves as "busy". And yet often our busyness doesn't result in the kind of forward momentum we want in our lives and work. 

This module will focus on why we stall in reaching our goals despite our days being filled with activity. Is our "busyness" meaningful or a distraction? How can we tell if we're spending our time effectively? We will use the Urgent/Important Priority Matrix to determine what we should direct our efforts towards and why our time is often spent on activity that can appear productive but doesn't actually further our goals.

How to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones

Studies show that about 40% of our daily activities are formed by habits (source). Success in work and life is in large part a result of the habits we form. This module will look at the science of habit formation and guide participants in identifying the positive habits we need to cultivate, our own bad habits standing in the way of our success, and essential practices to create the change they want through positive habit formation.

Self-Compassion in the Workplace

Why are so many of us so hard on ourselves when we make a mistake on the job? Is being your own toughest critic actually helpful to better performance? Learn how to move past self-criticism and negative self-talk to be happier, more resilient, and more successful at work with the science of self-compassion.


How Gratitude Can Transform Your Workplace

"Gratitude" can feel like like a soft HR concept that doesn't have any practical consequence in the workplace. However, research shows that approximately two-thirds of employees would quit if they don't receive enough of it. That figure jumps to 76% for millennial employees.

Studies of gratitude at work link it to more positive emotions, less stress and fewer health complaints, a greater sense that we can achieve our goals, fewer sick days, and higher satisfaction with our jobs and our coworkers. This module will give participants practical tools and techniques to build cultures of gratitude and appreciation in the office to transform their work lives, leading to deeper connections to team members and to the work they're doing. 


Obstacles to Change: A Look at Competing Commitments

Everyone one of us has at some point struggled to grow, change, or adapt in our lives and work despite our best intentions. Why is change so hard? Isn't it just a matter of willpower or motivation?

According to Harvard organizational psychologists Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey, there's a reason employees resist change, and it's not what most people think. Their theory of "competing commitments" shows why change is so difficult even when an employee has the skills, smarts, and even desire to make a change with ease. 

This module will help participants explore their own internal "competing commitments" to their stated goals and give them a step-by-step method to identifying and overcoming them.

How to Find and Leverage Your Core Strengths

According to research from Gallup, people who use their strengths every day are six times more likely to be engaged with their work. Focusing on building employees' strengths is shown to be a far more effective approach to increasing performance than trying to improve weaknesses. Helping employees identify, understand, and consistently use their core strengths can be a key to keeping them more motivated, engaged, and productive. 
This module will give leaders tools to identify their own core strengths as well as those of their employees in order to leverage them in the workplace to increase engagement, satisfaction, and performance.

Effective Communication

The ability to communicate effectively is critical to success in the workplace. You need to express ideas, collaborate with teams, and share information with a multitude of audiences and stakeholders. Yet effective communication does not come naturally to most people. It can be especially challenging when so much of our communication is done digitally through email, texts, and Slack. 

This module will teach participants the components of effective communication, active listening, how to deliver positive and negative feedback, dealing with difficult people, and the challenges and skills involved with communicating digitally. 

Mindful Work

Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us. People who mindfully approach their work have more impact and influence on their organizations and can better articulate their vision, be flexible with change, overcome stress, make better decisions, solve problems more confidently and be more productive. This module focuses on understanding the benefits of practicing mindfulness in the workplace and gives participants tools to navigate their work mindfully.

Resolving Conflict 

Some degree of conflict is inevitable in any organization. Conflict can, if not handled properly, lead to infighting and dysfunction. But conflict can also disrupt habitual patterns, invigorate us and bring new learning opportunities. This module will help participants understand their own conflict styles (aggression, avoidance or accommodating) and new approaches for ensuring that conflict among one's team is an opportunity for growth and greater cohesion rather than harm.


Stress Management

Stress and burnout are serious threats in the workplace. While some stress is inevitable and even healthy, unmanaged stress can interfere with problem solving, decision making, and interpersonal relationships with peers and colleagues. This module will help participants look for signs of unproductive stress in themselves and in their teams that may lead to burnout or other longterm consequences. You'll also learn four valuable, practical skills that psychological research has shown to help reduce stress in the short- and long-term.

Deep Work and Tuning Out Distractions

With the constant ping of notifications from email, text, Slack, social media, and a host of other distractions, engaging in deep work is harder than ever. In this module while learn while letting email and other messages guide our workday is making deep work rarer and more difficult, and therefore more valuable. You'll learn how to tune out digital distractions to focus on what's truly important, how rituals can encourage deep work, and techniques to improve our concentration so we're more focused on the task at hand. In today's digitally distracted world this is an invaluable skill both for leaders and their teams.