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Public and General Courses
WOW often hosts community and special fundraiser courses within the communities we serve. These sessions include special options for Chambers of Commerce, Charities, Non-Profit organizations and Social Responsibility groups. WOW's public courses cover general interest topics that have broad applicability to a wide variety of audiences. Our goal with public courses is to deliver core knowledge in a simplified format of either two or four hours. Audience sizes for public courses varies from 36 to 500 attendees depending on:
- the level of interaction
- whether game play will be an aspect
- venue size and capability
- audio and video options
- budgetary constraints
The Ultimate Team-Builder Seminar
Audience Size:
Up to 120, in table groups of 8 maximum.
Overview:
This four hour (core format) course provides participants of an
overview of what is required to be a part of, to lead and to
contribute to a team. This program is fast-paced, very interactive
(at table groupings) and is an excellent opportunity to bring
diverse groups together.
The Ultimate Employee Series
How to Hire for Success
The hiring of a new employee is the beginning of a performance relationship. Within this four-hour intensive program we:
- review the fundamentals and legal requirements of hosting a hiring process
- review effective screening techniques
- discuss power questions and strategies for interviewing
- and provide templates and tools for use in screening and evaluating candidates
Creating Performance Environments
What makes some teams gel while others wither? In this four-hour interactive program, we will examine how workplaces, management, and culture can combine to create high performance teams, where communication, creativity, and productivity grow. This program sets the stage for the Directing, Delegating, and Discipline program.
Participants will:
- Identify your organizational culture –requires some pre-work
- Receive high performance tools and charts to use in their workplaces
- Create a plan to implement high performance cultural tools in their workplace
- Be coached on performance management actions
Directing, Delegating and Discipline
Many managers struggle with how to effectively delegate tasks to their team, while maintaining a friendly relationship. In this four-hour interactive program, we will examine how to create standards of performance, how to phrase requests for maximum buy in, how to persuade and empower staff at all levels, and how to create a cooperative, results oriented workplace. This program builds upon the Creating Performance Environments program and sets the stage for Evaluation Skills for Leaders.
Participants will:
- Recognize when directing is appropriate
- Understand how to persuade team members to adopt their viewpoint
- Discover how to delegate with peers and subordinates in a positive manner
- Learn how to use communication and teambuilding to create task pools and project teams
- Learn to effectively correct staff or team member performance through tools and processes.
Evaluation Skills for Leaders
This is a compressed and intensive version of our three-day Evaluation Skills seminar, that the WOW team has delivered this program throughout Canada and Asia. In this session, attendees will discover the power of a well-presented and thoughtful evaluation, and how it creates greater performance and enhanced accountability at all levels.
Participants learn:
- The power components of a good evaluation
- How to deliver an effective, empowering evaluation
- How to use structure to guide your process
- How to follow up and create excellence after the evaluation
- How to infuse performance into your culture through evaluations
Achieving Personal Excellence
Audience Size:
up to 500 attendees, theatre style seating. This course requires
audio and video support suitable to large halls. However, it can
also be offered to smaller groups in smaller venues.
Overview:
This 4 to 8 hour session looks at personal/professional life balance
as well as the psychology of personal worth. It is both a reflective
as well as empowering session aimed at creating a questioning
mindset that allows participants to question their today and focus
on their tomorrow.
The I in Team for Leaders
Audience Size:
Audiences between 36 and 120 are appropriate to attend using theatre
style seating. This course requires audio and video support suitable
to large halls. However, it can be offered to smaller groups in
smaller venues.
Overview:
the I in Team for Leaders seminar is oriented to leaders in the
organization and how they can maximize their impact within their
sphere of influence. The I in Team takes the team concept a step backward
by asking the question "Is there an I in Team?" The answer is a
resounding yes!
Engaging Effectively in Change
Audience:
Audiences between 24 and 48 in rounds of up to 6 attendees per table
is the best configuration for this session. Basic audio and video
setups are required for this session.
Overview:
This session outlines how we psychologically resist change as an
instinctual action, actions we can take to engage more effectively
when change, and how to support our peers to work through change
when they are struggling. This is highly interactive session.
Options for delivery include a set of physically demanding
challenges that force the participants to physically work together
to lift and move each other through obstacles. When booking this
option consideration needs to be paid to the fact that some
participants may find the session personally challenging as it
challenges boundaries, physical barriers and personal space.
However, this physical version creates the most impact for
audiences.
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