Summary
I offer a variety of training courses that cover fundamental business skills, the use of NLP to communicate better, and humor-based courses on cognitive biases and dimensions of culture.
Training Classes
Business Fundamentals, Sanity Savers, NLP and Everything I needed to learn about business, I learned in Monty Python
Sanity Savers Series
60-90 min training courses on how to alleviate some common work place issues:
Effective Meetings
Virtual Collaboration
How to Manage Email
Fundamental Business Skills
Leading Teams and Team Development
Analytical Problem Solving – Seven step process that includes root cause tools
Communicating Effectively - Using the U-It-I model and At-a-glance formats
Writing Effective Presentations
Seven-step Brainstorming Technique (including tips on creative brainstorming)
Coaching and Feedback for Performance Improvement
Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) -Based Classes
Intro to NLP Series: Each class is 90 minutes in duration. The Intro session should be a prerequisite, but not completely needed for the other sessions. Otherwise, the sessions are independent of each other. These are generic classes that are not necessarily tailored to business needs.
Class 1: Introduction to NLP
· Positive intentions
· Submodalities
Class 2: Determining your and others’ preferred thinking mode
· Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic wording
Class 3: Identifying language patterns that are helpful and harmful
See also the Lazy Person's Guide to Business Success Training Series
Everything I needed to learn in business, I learned from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
This series uses the movie for a humorous approach to business management training. They can be adapted to anywhere from 90-minutes to 3 hour formats.
If she weighs more than a duck, she must be a witch: Understanding cognitive biases and how they impact our decision-making
This class walks through the scene and highlights the well-known cognitive biases at play. Covers hindsight bias, confirmation bias, repetition bias, cascade effect among others.
Banging coconuts: Creating an awareness of cultural differences, both corporate and regional, that affect our perspectives
This class reviews some of the cultural differences across countries and distills corporate cultures to five dimensions.
More classes are under development, including an Intro to Systems Thinking and one on Planning Fallacy.
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