Training and

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Better results depend on better training. Positive Results trainings give you an immediate opportunity to obtain the competencies you need to make a real difference in your career and business. Whether you are looking to create more accountable work teams, awaken your understanding of personality differences, cultivate healthier work relationships, or improve your communication skills, there is a customized training for your organization.

Teresa customizes all of her trainings to your organization’s needs. She utilizes examples that apply to your current organizational challenges. Without applicability, a generalized training only has a generalized effect! Teresa encourages the consistent actions encouraged in the trainings so participants will achieve the desire results.

According to the Chally Group survey of over 1400 organizations (2011), the number one reason for leader’s failure (40.2%) is their inability to build effective relationships with their team. Without effective relationships employees are not motivated to give their best. The reason indicated for this is lack of “appropriate soft skill training”. Training is most effective when followed up with coaching. For example, once you learn how to be effective at conflict resolution in a training, you now have to put the skills into practice. The training is the starting point, the coaching assures the execution.

The Personnel Management Association reports that when training is combined with executive coaching, individuals increase their performance by an average of 86% versus 22% with training alone. Training is the instruction and coaching supports the action of the instruction.

The following is the list of the most requested trainings; however Teresa can customize any soft skill training for your organization. Teresa’s trainings encourage a team approach to accountability, conflict resolution, time management, and working with personality differences. When everyone on the team has the same knowledge, you can help each other be accountable to newly learned behaviors. Common expectations lead to appropriate ways of handling challenges effectively.

Professional Trainings Offered

Transforming Negativity at Work

Each of us brings all of who we are to our work. Our fears, negative habits and self-defeating behaviors, all play a powerful role in our patterns of interaction with one another. Instead of expecting everyone else to “get over” their stuff, this training teaches us the true nature of negative thoughts and emotions and how to liberate ourselves from their destructive power.

This training will reveal “how to” free ourselves from the habitual negative patterns that keep us stuck. In this training you will learn:

Negative thoughts and emotions only have power over us in a reactive state of mind
How to change to a proactive state of mind so you can choose an effective response
Transform a response from habit to choice and watch the positive effects
Once you change your response, notice how others change their response to you

Creating Accountability in Your Organization

The majority of people in organizations today, when confronted with poor performance or unsatisfactory results, immediately begin to formulate excuses, rationalizations and arguments for why they cannot be held accountable, or at least not fully accountable for the problems.

The essence of organizational success will always be found in the accountable actions and attitudes of its individuals. The power to rise above victimizing circumstances and obtain desired results lies within oneself. This training focuses on:

Identifying victim behaviors in yourself and others that prevent accountability
What accountable attitudes and behaviors really look like
Using accountability to build an effective team culture
Learn how to reward accountability to reinforce its affects throughout the organization

How to Utilize Conflict Constructively

Conflict can stimulate greatness or it can downright wear you out! Once you learn how to effectively respond to conflict it becomes a tool for the stimulation of ideas and processes rather than a power struggle and misunderstanding.

When trust is lost, it’s difficult to reestablish. Ineffective conflict resolution causes low levels of trust and low levels of trust cause low motivation to work on issues. This training will teach you:

The five responses to conflict and how to identify your response
How to identify others response to conflict and learn how to respond effectively
Understand your own buttons of resistance and how that affects the interaction
Utilize active listening and reflective statements according to the five conflict response styles to affect people where they are at

Putting Your Whole Organization’s Brain to Work: How to Effectively Understand and Utilize Personality Differences in Your Organization

Forget the Golden Rule! Don’t treat others the way you want to be treated; you will miss the mark more often than you hit it! Organizations cannot succeed without the cooperation of people who receive different messages from the same words and respond differently to the same events. Understanding your own personality style helps you determine your patterns of leadership, decision making, time management style and communication preference.

When we tailor the way we give information and respond to others according to their personality style we start having some real effectiveness in working with one another.

You will learn:

How to maximize the strengths and minimize the weaknesses of your personality style
How to adapt effectively to other’s personality styles
How to team people to create a powerful synergy verses polarity
What personality styles are most effective for certain roles within the organization

Results Oriented Communication

How well you communicate can make or break your professional image, influence how others view your work and affect your career mobility. Organizations consistently cite that communication issues are the main problem which affects every area of productivity. Miscommunication is expensive!

Most of us are so focused on what we need to communicate we don’t often see the effect of our communication. We know our intention but we don’t know the reception! This training focuses on:

Active listening to build respect and clarity
Reflecting back not as a time waster but in insure intention and message are matched
How to effectively read body signals to determine communication effectiveness
Realize how others perceive you and improve communication for desired responses

Time Management for Busy People

Effective time management isn’t about controlling time – because you can’t, but you can certainly manage it better. It’s about understanding where your time goes and why. How do you juggle competing priorities, approach deadlines and avoid unproductive habits? Understand the reasons for procrastination and overcome this biggest time management saboteur of all!

In this training you will learn how to: