Training
Gravett & Associates offers customized
training in the following areas:
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"Balanced Leadership: Finding Your Voice and
Helping Others Find Theirs"
Before a person evolves into a great leader, he or she must
understand their unique talents and attributes and how to leverage
those characteristics across the organization. Finding one’s
own voice is the beginning, however; synergy comes from discovering
the unique talents of those around you that complements what you
offer. This presentation focuses on five behaviors that lead to
balanced leadership – knowing oneself and bringing out the best in
those around us.
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Building a Bridge Across Generations
Companies and individuals are struggling to address
the impact of having five distinct generations working side by side
in the workplace. Understanding and communicating with this
multigenerational workforce is a challenge for people at all
organizational levels. This interactive session focuses on
concrete ways to minimize conflict and build productivity in a
workplace that has four generations working side by side.
Learning Objectives:
- Define the Five Workforce Generations
- Describe the Major Influences on Each Generation
- Learn How to Adapt Communication Styles to Appeal to Four Generations
- Understand Important Factors to Consider to Tailor Recruiting, Retention,
and Professional Development Across Generations
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Coaching and Delegating
This fast paced, interactive half-day workshop
provides supervisors and managers with concrete, effective methods
to enhance employees’ job satisfaction and productivity.
Topics addressed include: the top five delegation mistakes –
and how to avoid them; situational leadership; and setting and
reaching meaningful goals.
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Conflict Resolution
This one-day seminar helps participants distinguish between
destructive and constructive conflict within their organization
and provides concrete techniques to promote effectively managed
conflict. Participants will learn the stages of conflict
and appropriate interventions for each, as well as demonstrated
methods for achieving win-win results from confrontations.
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East Informs West:
Achieving Balance Through Martial Arts Principles"
In today’s fast-paced society full of “white noise” we’re often
stressed from multi-tasking and trying to please everyone but
ourselves. Martial Arts principles of Tai Chi, Tae Kwon Do,
and Yoga translate into ways we can manage stress, organize our
thinking, and fulfill our own dreams and aspirations. This
presentation focuses on key principles from Eastern martial arts
that busy individuals can use in the U.S. to take back control of
their time, energy and well being.
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Ethics in the New Millennium
This half-day workshop for supervisors and managers
surfaces some of the critical ethical dilemmas in today’s workplace
and provides a framework for ethical decision making. Workshop
participants will discover the elements of an ethical organization
and learn how to fulfill their role in maintaining a high trust work
environment. This workshop is highly interactive and provides
participants with an opportunity to discuss real-world ethical
dilemmas.
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Managing
Employee Profitability and
Sustainability in the Economic Downturn
This two-hour workshop, designed for Senior HR professionals and company line
managers and executives, covers the following topics:
- How to differentiate between the traditional HR role and transition to
a change-focused, strategic role
- Understand how to measure the impact of economic and organizational change
- Explore how skill mapping can help align staff with business imperatives
- Discover best practices for getting employees to function at top capacity (or
exit gracefully with dignity)
- Learn how to communicate critical changes that affect the organization
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Managing Workplace Diversity
This fast-paced, interactive one-day seminar provides participants
with an expanded perspective on the definition of "diversity"
and addresses important dimensions of diversity and their impact on
organizations today. Topics include, "Building A Bridge Across Generations,"
"Tearing Down Communication Barriers Between Men and Women,"
and "Successful Initiatives of Five U.S. Companies.
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"Personal Excellence: Leaving 'Effective' in the Past"
Working smart and hard leads to success; that’s what we’re taught
from the time we’re children. We live in a global society that is
competitive and sophisticated. In order to navigate this new world,
we must understand how to move past effectiveness to excellence and
attain fulfillment, passionate execution, and significant
contribution. This presentation describes eight behaviors that can
be learned to move to the level of personal best.
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Progressive Discipline
This half-day workshop for supervisors and managers
provides a concrete definition and approach towards effective
progressive discipline. Participants are provided with a
workbook that contains samples of written progressive discipline
policies, verbal and written warnings, critical incident reports,
and termination checklists. Effective methods for minimizing
the need for progressive discipline and testifying at grievance
hearings are also offered.
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The P-A-C-E of Change
in a Complex Global Society
This interactive, one-day workshop uses a four-stage approach
developed and tested by Gravett and Associates over the last 10
years in private sector, nonprofit, and public organizations.
An interactive video experience, the Shifting Sands Experience, is
also incorporated into the workshop. Each seminar is
customized to meet the needs of individual organizations.
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Sexual Harassment
Participants of this half-day
seminar will leave with a solid understanding of the definition of
sexual harassment. Real world scenarios that have left
organizations vulnerable to law suits will be analyzed.
Concrete prevention methods will be provided, as well as appropriate
steps to follow to minimize damages should a sexual harassment claim
be filed. Sample sexual harassment policies will also be
provided to participants.
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Strategies for Managing Workplace Stress Borrowed from the Martial Arts
This is a fun and informative two-hour session that
you can bring into your organization to help employees manage the
tensions of everyday stress. Dr. Gravett, who holds a 5th degree
Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do, shares exercises that borrow from T’ai
Chi and Tae Kwon Do that can easily be done in a person’s work
space. These exercises will help improve concentration, reduce
tension, and improve memory. As a result, participants will be armed
with strategies to cope with stress and maintain inner peace . . .
which allows them to be more productive in the workplace.
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"The 10 Myths About Employee Motivation"
In this fast-paced, humorous presentation Linda explodes 10 widely-held beliefs
throughout industry about employee motivation. She offers
alternatives for leaders to replace the outdated, ineffective myths
that get in the way of organizational success. Linda shares
ideas from her interviews over the past four years with members of
each generation in today’s workplace about which types of rewards
and recognition truly serve as motivators for each age group.
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Topics for Keynotes and Motivational Presentations:
- Balanced Leadership: Finding Your Voice and Helping Others Find Theirs
- East Informs West: Achieving Balance Through Martial Arts Principles
- Personal Excellence: Leaving “Effective” in the Past
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Unleashing the Potential of Diverse Teams
This one-day seminar covers the four stages of team development,
tools that help teams get positive results, conflict resolution techniques,
and the roles of the team leader and team facilitator. After engaging
in an interactive training process, participants understand the difference between a
"group" or "committee" and a fully-functioning, results oriented
team, as well as ways to prevent common team problems. Participants will learn
about – and try out – tools such as Affinity Diagramming, Nominal Group Technique,
and Force Field Analysis.
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You Have a Diverse Workforce: Now What?!"
Linda shares her
often humorous and poignant story about growing up in a small
Midwestern town as the daughter of a full-blooded Native American
mother and a French father. She offers analogies for the
workplace from her youth when she was usually the person who stood
out in a crowd because of her mixture of Indian philosophies about
herbal medicines and reverence for ancestry and French
colloquialisms and cuisine. Linda delivers a message of
respect for others’ beliefs, ways to honor different perspectives,
and how to leverage a diverse workforce for organizational success.
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In addition to the programs outlined above, Dr. Gravett
is also available for presentations on the following topics:
- Motivating Employees for Enhanced Performance
- The Emotionally Intelligent Trainer
- Turning Conflict Into Collaboration
- Building a Bridge Across Generations
- Unleashing the Potential of Diverse Teams
- Managing Change So Change Doesn't Manage You
- Measuring and Marketing Human Resource Effectiveness
- Gen X'ers: Who Are They and What Do They Want?
- Mentoring: How to Defeat a Sound Concept
- The World of Diversity: Building Collaboration in a Multicultural Workplace
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Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are offered for all Gravett and Associates
workshops: .1 CEU for each hour of classroom attendance.
If you have any questions or need more information about any of
our training offerings, please complete our
Contact Form, or contact Dr.
Gravett by telephone at 513-753-8870.
