Accentuate Consulting provides one-on-one coaching in person and via Skype on topics such as: presentation skills and dealing with performance anxiety (using proven techniques from the theatrical world and the Alexander Technique) and life skills using the science of positive psychology.
The Power of Positive Management
We live in a knowledge-based economy characterized by constant change. Managers are under enormous pressure to make decisions with limited information in uncertain times. This environment places higher demands on our psychological resources than ever before. In order to thrive, managers need to bring a greater capacity for innovation, self-management, self-efficacy and a higher level of consciousness to work activities. Managers need to produce results and do more with less. So it’s more important than ever those managers know how to motivate, develop and retain the employees on their team. The latest research in psychology and neuroscience is revealing the power of how positive emotions and employees’ strengths can be unleashed to stimulate better performance, higher levels of productivity and full engagement.
Harnessing the power of positive emotion does not mean ‘just be happy’ or ‘just be positive’. Positive emotion must be authentic – and when it is – it can move people forward in a powerful way. Science has recently discovered a specific ratio of positive to negative that contributes to human flourishing and higher levels of performance. In order to create fully engaged work environments, managers need specific tools that allow them to achieve that ratio thus achieving high levels of performance. Managers must also challenge employees and change processes that block talented people from fully realizing their potential. This is what our Positive Management training program gives you – practical simple tools based in empirical research that can easily transform your work environment into one that drives performance and improves well-being.
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Thriving Through Change
Most change management workshops help managers deal with the aftermath of change. This change management workshop is a new and innovative approach to change that turns traditional change management on its head. We help managers and teams see change in a whole new light; inspiring people to move towards an exciting new vision together.
In this one-day workshop, you will learn:
- The Neuroscience of Change: the brain science behind change
- A powerful exercise to help your team understand what they have control over and what they don’t with strategies for dealing with both
- How to approach employees and team members to deal with the emotional state of change
- How to build resilience using a strengths-based approach and case study
- Discovering strengths that make you more resilient using StrengthsFinder™ 2.0
- Envisioning and building a bright new future for the organization; moving people towards that new vision with hope
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Positive Communications for Better Performance
Is your team energized after interacting with you? Recent research tells us that human capital is created through social connections. In fact, as much as 70 percent of organizational learning takes place via informal networks and social interactions. Thus, high quality connections can have a profound impact on your own work experience and the performance of your people.
In this 3-hour workshop, you will learn:
- How different mindsets can dramatically impact how much your people learn and grow on the job
- Practical tools and techniques for communicating both positive and negative feedback that will improve the performance of your people
- The scientific ratio behind high performing teams and how you can maintain the ratio
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Dealing with Challenging Conversations
Sometimes in order to maintain positive workplaces, managers need to confront bad behavior and deal with challenging issues. Managers often ignore these difficult issues because they are fearful of approaching the offending employee or worried they will ruin a good relationship. Managers require new ways of doing things so that they can approach a difficult conversation with greater confidence and emerge feeling better about the outcomes.
In this 3-hour workshop, you will learn:
- A strengths based approach to dealing with difficult conversations
- How to reframe a 'difficult' conversation and remove the emotional impact
- The basics of solution-focused coaching and how to apply it
- Tools and tips on how to conduct a brief coaching session when time is tight
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Strengths-Based Managing
According to recent research based on survey responses from hundreds of thousands of employees and managers, teams that have the opportunity to use their strengths everyday report higher levels of profits, productivity, customer satisfaction, and employee retention. In fact they are 50% more likely to have low turnover, 38% more likely to have higher levels of productivity and 44% more likely to have high customer satisfaction ratings. The ability for managers to leverage strengths is becoming a critical skill.
In this one-day workshop, you will learn:
- How you can identify strengths in yourself and others using the StrengthsFinder™ and VIA Strengths™ online assessment tool
- Practical tools for leveraging strengths and giving strengths-based feedback
- How to apply strengths to overcome obstacles
- Powerful questions that build employee self efficacy around strengths
- The science behind why strengths-based managing works
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Optimism & Resilience: How Your Thinking Can Improve the Bottom Line
According to the latest brain research, our thinking is at the core of performance. Optimism has been attributed to higher performance and the achievement of higher level goals. Yet most people spend an inordinate amount of time worrying and criticizing themselves which does not support successful performance. This workshop is based on leading research from the University of Michigan in the field of positive psychology at work.
In this 3-hour workshop, you will learn:
- How thinking and emotional patterns drive behavior
- Techniques for remaining optimistic and forward thinking even when facing set-backs
- How to depersonalize and attribute failure to something temporary and specific
- Through the case study format, how other individuals have achieved resilient thinking
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Appreciative Inquiry Summits
"AI focuses on the positive aspects on our lives and leverages them to correct the negative. It is the opposite of 'problem solving'"
- T.H. White, Working in Interest Times
Appreciative Inquiry (AI) offers a way of asking questions and envisioning the future that helps organisations and individuals to collaborate and change. It is about finding strengths and building on them, rather than focusing on weaknesses and trying to ‘fix’ them.
AI is based on the idea that people move in the direction of the questions they ask. For example, when organisations study conflicts and weaknesses, they often find that the number and severity of these problems grow. When they focus on strengths and accomplishments, these positive attributes gain momentum.
For some reasons, AI is a powerful tool for us to use as we make our new strategy and brand a reality.
Does it work?
AI has helped organisations like the United Nations, McKinsey & Co., the US Navy, Walmart and Hewlett Packard move towards a more positive and collaborative future. Closer to home, at least 25 organisations are embracing the benefits of AI through funding provided by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.
Some of the outcomes that have been achieved by these organizations include:
- more engaged and productive employees
- increased sales and enhanced business performance
- decreased absenteeism
- enhanced organizational reputation
- improved capacity for dealing with sensitive/troublesome issues in the workplace
- greater confidence among employees
- more adaptable and flexible working environments.
All of this from collaborating towards positive change.
Accentuate Consulting can design an Appreciative Inquiry Summit for your organization. Please send an email for more details.
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