FliPskills Consulting

Duration: One Day
Target Audiences: Leaders, Managers

Hang on to your best and brightest! One of the biggest worries of companies today is the loss of their best and brightest talent.  Increasing numbers of talented employees are jumping ship now that job markets are opening up.  Why do top talent get blocked in their upward climb, get disillusioned, and jump ship?  Frankly, it’s rarely their lack of leadership – we tend to spend a lot of time teaching them to lead – it’s followship that is the culprit in executive derailment and the loss of top talent.  FliPskills’ innovative and leading-edge 360° Employee™ model is the first of its kind to combine teaching followship skills and leadership skills.  It makes all the difference to careers, and to your organization! 
Hang on to your best and brightest!

One of the biggest worries of companies today is the loss of their best and brightest talent.  Increasing numbers of talented employees are jumping ship now that job markets are opening up.  Why do top talent get blocked in their upward climb, get disillusioned, and jump ship?  Frankly, it’s rarely their lack of leadership – we tend to spend a lot of time teaching them to lead – it’s followship that is the culprit in executive derailment and the loss of top talent.

Strengthen your talent pipelines with FliPskills’ innovative and leading-edge 360° Employee™ model, the first of its kind to combine teaching followship skills and leadership skills.  It is the program that trains top talent on the skills they need to optimize their own development and performance and, in turn, develop their staff, create stronger teams, and become peak performance managers.  These are skills every leader needs to know, but especially your top talent because they frequently have new leaders, deal with new teams under new circumstances (cultures), and are mentors and role models for other staff. 

In this challenging, high-energy, and engaging one-day workshop, your top talent will hone key partnering skills and learn a strategic framework that enables them to integrate and elevate their capabilities.  It makes all the difference to careers, and to your organization!         

This class can be combined with expert-level half-day modules:  Sharper Decision-Making and/or SMART(er) Performance Management. 

How Your Top Talent Will Benefit:

·    Optimized performance and mobility
·    Higher-functioning teams that are more collaborative and effective business partners
·    Fresh insight from the latest scientific and practical research that can be used to enhance personal effectiveness
·    A clearer path to personal development and career growth
·    Integrate leadership and team-building concepts, e.g. MBTI, DISC, Situational Leadership, etc.  into a useful, overall framework

2. A Master Class in Partnerships & Teams

Duration: One Day
Target Audiences: Leaders

A master class for experienced leaders only! Great leaders all know that an organization’s core is its people, and its strength comes from productive partnerships and teams.  This master class in partnerships and teams builds on the knowledge and experience of your management team by filling in critical gaps and providing a strategic framework that integrates and elevates their capabilities.
A master class for experienced leaders only!

Great tools, wrong problem!  This is a common scenario.  In today’s fast-paced world of work, leaders gain a vast amount of experience at a rapid rate and are inundated with tools, tips and techniques for high-performing leadership.  Do they know how to fit the right tool to the right problem?   Are your leaders capitalizing on all the experience, training and tools they’ve gained?  This master class in partnerships and teams builds on the knowledge and experience of your management team by filling in critical gaps and providing a strategic framework that integrates and elevates their capabilities.

In this thought-provoking, high-energy, engaging, and interactive one-day session, your leaders will learn the innovative and leading-edge 360° Employee™ Model.  They will practice using it to transform their performance management, to sharpen their decision-making, to strengthen their personal effectiveness, and to develop the productive partnerships and teams that your organization needs.  These are things every leader should know.

This class can be combined with expert-level half-day modules:  Sharper Decision-Making and/or SMART(er) Performance Management. 

How Your Leaders Will Benefit:
·    Higher-functioning teams that are more collaborative and effective business partners
·    Boost leadership capacity and productivity
·    Integrate leadership and team-building concepts e.g. MBTI, DISC, Situational Leadership, etc. into a useful, overall framework
·    Become more skilled at talent development
·    Gain fresh insight from the latest scientific and practical research that you can use to deal with challenging performance issues and to enhance your personal effectiveness

Your Leaders Will Learn:
·    A leading-edge strategic framework
·    The five key partnership skill areas which stimulate collaboration, alignment, and engagement
·    How to construct better performance agreements
·    A diagnostic tool for performance issues and how to coach/mentor for results
·    How to create an environment that is conducive to excellent decision-making
·    To build and receive more purposeful and productive communications
·    A framework that enables stronger partnerships upwards, downwards, with peers, and with clients

What Your Top Talent Will Learn:

·    The five key partnership skill areas which stimulate collaboration, alignment, and engagement
·    How to integrate more quickly and fully into new organizational cultures, departments, and teams
·    How to construct better performance agreements and help others do the same
·    To make better decisions and how to create an environment that is conducive to excellent decision-making
·    A new language that enables clearer, more purposeful and productive communications
·    A framework that enables stronger business partnerships upwards, downwards, with peers, and with clients

3. SMART(er) Performance Management

Duration: Half-Day, One Day
Target Audiences: Managers, Executives

Goal clarity is a key driver of employee performance – 64% of performance-related issues stem from an employee’s lack of understanding of the expectations of their roles.  Clearly there is improvement to be had!  One very important lever to drive greater understanding is goals. The right goals create understanding, and motivate people to do the right things.  This eye-opening, expert-level half-day workshop focuses on developing the right goals and building truly useful performance agreements.  Our variation on the popular acronym, SMART(er), is based on the latest scientific and practical research on teams that really work (hint:  S is for shared!).  This workshop is highly beneficial for leadership development or as a team-based activity for those seeking greater levels of collaboration and performance.
As Dale Carnegie said, “The man who starts out going nowhere generally gets there.”

Organizations are expected to improve every year because shareholders (and the market) demand it.  The standard goal-setting model, SMART goals, doesn’t foster continuous improvement nor does it stimulate collaboration.  Goal clarity is a key driver of employee performance – 64% of performance-related issues stem from an employee’s lack of understanding of the requirements of their roles.   Clearly there is improvement to be had!  One important lever to drive greater understanding is goals. The right goals motivate people to do the right things…

This eye-opening, expert-level half-day workshop focuses on developing the right goals and building truly useful performance agreements.  Our variation on the popular acronym, SMART(er), is based on the latest scientific and practical research on teams that really work (hint:  s is for shared!).  This workshop is highly beneficial for leadership development or as a team-based activity for those seeking greater levels of collaboration and performance.

The SMART(er) Performance Management workshop is an excellent complement to one of the general 360° Employee ™ workshops. 

How You Will Benefit:

·    Clearer performance expectations
·    Reduce role ambiguity, conflict and stress
·    Walk away with a specific action plan and goals
 
Your Organization Will Learn:

·    To develop SMART(er) goals and be better at helping others succeed in the same
·    To distinguish between goals that motivate team performance and goals that differentiate individual performance
·    The five partnership skills of good goal-setting 

4. Sharper Decision Making

Duration: Half-Day, One Day, Two Days
Target Audiences: Managers, Executives

It is possible to improve the quality, consistency and agility of your organization’s decisions! Effective decision-making is one of the top functional competencies of management; however, most managers (and their staff) spend very little time developing the skill.  There are teachable skills involved in making great decisions including creating a conducive decision-making environment, setting down the ground rules for decision-making, avoiding natural decision-making biases and errors, and value-added implementation.  There are also skills every employee can learn about providing excellent decision support.  This is a one-of-a-kind half-day seminar.
Are long decision times and ‘analysis paralysis’ hampering your organization’s progress?  Are front line and middle management risk averse or reluctant to make decisions?  Is getting buy-in on decisions zapping your leadership capacity and energy?

These are common frustrations that top management have of their organizations: too slow and ineffective at making and implementing decisions.   Effective decision making is one of the top functional competencies of management; however, most managers (and their staff) spend very little time developing the skill.  There are teachable skills involved in making great decisions including creating a conducive decision-making environment, setting down the ground rules for decision-making, avoiding natural decision-making biases and errors, and value-added implementation.  There are also skills every employee can learn about providing excellent decision support.   

“Anyone can make a decision.  It takes a great leader to create the right decision-making environment.”

FliPskills’ Sharper Decision Making is a half-day to two day workshop that takes a deep dive into effective decision-making partnering skills.  In a half-day, participants learn the decision-making lifecycle, the roles that add value along the way, and the partnering skills that truly work from inception to implementation.  In two days, participants both learn the skills and put them to good use.  With the help of our expert facilitators, the team works their way successfully through a current and significant decision.   
It is possible to improve the quality, consistency and agility of your organization’s decisions!   

How You Will Benefit:

·    Boost leadership capacity and productivity
·    Gain fresh insight from scientific research that can be used in decision-making effectiveness
·    Get decisions to stick
·    Minimize unpleasant surprises
·    Build decision support capacity in project and operational teams

Your Organization Will Learn:

·    Current scientific research on effective decision-making
·    How to contribute to a strong decision-making team
·    How to create an environment that is conducive to effective decision-making
·    The decision life cycle and how roles change throughout
·    Decision support skills
·    Common decision-making biases and mistakes, and how to avoid them

5. Power Up Your High Potential Talent

Duration: One Day
Target Audiences: Leaders, Managers

Hang on to your best and brightest! One of the biggest worries of companies today is the loss of their best and brightest talent.  Increasing numbers of talented employees are jumping ship now that job markets are opening up.  Why do top talent get blocked in their upward climb, get disillusioned, and jump ship?  Frankly, it’s rarely their lack of leadership – we tend to spend a lot of time teaching them to lead – it’s followship that is the culprit in executive derailment and the loss of top talent.  FliPskills’ innovative and leading-edge 360° Employee™ model is the first of its kind to combine teaching followship skills and leadership skills.  It makes all the difference to careers, and to your organization! 
Hang on to your best and brightest!

One of the biggest worries of companies today is the loss of their best and brightest talent.  Increasing numbers of talented employees are jumping ship now that job markets are opening up.  Why do top talent get blocked in their upward climb, get disillusioned, and jump ship?  Frankly, it’s rarely their lack of leadership – we tend to spend a lot of time teaching them to lead – it’s followship that is the culprit in executive derailment and the loss of top talent.

Strengthen your talent pipelines with FliPskills’ innovative and leading-edge 360° Employee™ model, the first of its kind to combine teaching followship skills and leadership skills.  It is the program that trains top talent on the skills they need to optimize their own development and performance and, in turn, develop their staff, create stronger teams, and become peak performance managers.  These are skills every leader needs to know, but especially your top talent because they frequently have new leaders, deal with new teams under new circumstances (cultures), and are mentors and role models for other staff. 

In this challenging, high-energy, and engaging one-day workshop, your top talent will hone key partnering skills and learn a strategic framework that enables them to integrate and elevate their capabilities.  It makes all the difference to careers, and to your organization!         

This class can be combined with expert-level half-day modules:  Sharper Decision-Making and/or SMART(er) Performance Management. 

How Your Top Talent Will Benefit:
·    Optimized performance and mobility
·    Higher-functioning teams that are more collaborative and effective business partners
·    Fresh insight from the latest scientific and practical research that can be used to enhance personal effectiveness
·    A clearer path to personal development and career growth
·    Integrate leadership and team-building concepts, e.g. MBTI, DISC, Situational Leadership, etc.  into a useful, overall framework

What Your Top Talent Will Learn:
·    The five key partnership skill areas which stimulate collaboration, alignment, and engagement
·    How to integrate more quickly and fully into new organizational cultures, departments, and teams
·    How to construct better performance agreements and help others do the same
·    To make better decisions and how to create an environment that is conducive to excellent decision-making
·    A new language that enables clearer, more purposeful and productive communications
·    A framework that enables stronger business partnerships upwards, downwards, with peers, and with clients

6. Executive On-boarding: A Team Approach

Duration: One Day
Target Audiences: Middle Managers, Executives

Get on the bus! It can be tough for anyone when a new leader comes on-board, but it is especially difficult for middle managers and executives because senior leaders often want to steer their organizations in a new direction.  Executive Onboarding:  A Team Approach is different from other new leader assimilation programs:  it engages the entire team in the change process.  Team members are empowered with tools to help them ‘get on the bus’ and the new executive is supported in expressing ‘how the bus tickets get handed out’ and ‘where they plan to go’.
Get on the bus! 

The best predictor of management derailment is when a new leader comes on-board. Why? Because when someone has built a relationship with the outgoing leader over a number of years they become used to a certain way of working and  set of priorities.  What is it worth to save even one manager or executive, and keep them working for the new leader?  What if a program could enhance speed-to-performance of a team by a month?  Or two?

Research shows that HR interventions are effective in accelerating the learning and relationship building for newly appointed leaders and their teams.  Executive Onboarding:  A Team Approach is an approach for senior level teams (managers, executives, and c-suite) that respects and leverages their years of management experience. First, the entire team is engaged in providing input and support; second, this is a learning and team building opportunity that can be used by each team member in their own leadership roles; finally, the entire team and each of its members comes away with an action plan for success. 

This eye-opening, informative and highly practical program has immediate payback and benefit, especially when offered early in a new leader’s tenure.  The program comprises a full day of team training plus a series of coaching sessions relating to each members’ full 360° relationships.  It introduces the 360° Employee model™ and key partnering skills to the entire team, and it introduces the new leader and team to each other.   Team members are empowered with the tools they need to ‘get on the bus’ and the new leader is supported in expressing ‘how the bus tickets get handed out’ and ‘where they plan to go’.

How Your Organization Will Benefit:
·    Head-off management derailment
·    Build momentum and enhance speed-to-performance
·    Create a shared understanding of team priorities, expectations and the opportunities to add value
·    Instil a shared responsibility for assisting the new leader fit in and excel
·    Learning that benefits the entire organization
·    All team members walk away with new, shared goals and a personal action plan

The Leader & Their Team Will Learn:
·    The five key partnership skill areas which stimulate collaboration, alignment, and engagement
·    A new, common language that enables clearer, more purposeful and productive communications
·    A framework that enables stronger business partnerships upwards, downwards, with peers, and with clients

7. The Workshop for Gen Y Employees

Duration: One Day
Target Audiences: Employees, Managers

Don’t lose your best employees before you even know you have them! There are workshops that help identify the unique traits and behaviours of Gen Y, workshops that help develop programs to attract and retain Gen Y, and workshops that help managers understand and motivate Gen Y.  This is not one of those workshops.  This is a workshop for them (not you).  The Workshop for Gen Y Employees is fun, fast-paced, and invaluable.  It teaches them the skills they need to adapt and thrive in your organization.  In this one-day workshop, your Gen Y’s will learn how to build and maintain productive partnerships.
Don’t lose your best employees before you even know you have them! 

Three years ago, Gen Y was top of the mind for C-suite executives:  How do we attract, align, satisfy, motivate and encourage them to flourish both creatively and productively in the workplace?  They are so different! There are workshops that help identify the unique traits and behaviours of Gen Y, workshops that help develop programs to attract and retain Gen Y, and there are workshops that help managers understand and motivate Gen Y.  This is not one of those workshops.  This is a workshop for them (not you).  The Workshop for Gen Y Employees delivers the key tools they need to navigate and thrive in your organization, while helping them to be both productive and leverage their true strengths. 

In this fun, fast-paced, and invaluable workshop, your Gen Y’s will learn a leading-edge framework, The 360° Employee Model™, and key partnership skills that will enable them to build stronger business partnerships and to focus their talents.  This workshop works best at about the one-year mark of employment although any time after 3 months and before 2 years is great.  It can be incorporated into an existing on-boarding program for new hires or co-op students.

How Gen Y’s Will Benefit:

·    Integrate more quickly and fully into new organizational cultures, departments, and teams
·    Get on the boss’s wavelength
·    Contribute more effectively to creative and decision-making processes
·    Be a part of a higher-functioning, more collaborative team
·    Gain more clarity about the path to personal development and career growth
·    Build stronger partnerships upwards, downwards, with peers, and with clients
·    Walk away with a personal assessment and action plan
·    Have a stronger commitment to the organization, its culture, and its goals

Gen Y’s Will Learn:

·    The five key partnership skill areas which stimulate collaboration, alignment, and engagement
·    Organizational fit strategies
·    Performance management essentials
·    How to avoid being micro-managed
·    To get the most out of mentoring

8. Team Building for Productive Partnerships

Duration: One Day
Target Audiences: Team Members

Revitalize, re-engage and re-focus your team! To see great partnerships in action, we need only look to the world of ballroom dancing.  Imagine if ballroom dancers were trained in separate rooms with their own choreographers?  Or, imagine if only the leader was trained and not the follower?  Preposterous!   How would great partnering skills emerge that way?  In a thought-provoking, energizing and highly practical one-day workshop, your team will learn a leading-edge framework, The 360° Employee model™, and key partnering skills to invigorate and strengthen your team’s performance.  Look your best on the dance floor!

Revitalize, re-engage and re-focus your team!

Great leaders know that an organization’s core is its people, and its strength comes from productive partnerships and teams.  To see great partnerships in action, we need only look to the world of ballroom dancing.  Imagine if ballroom dancers were trained in separate rooms with their own choreographers?  Or, imagine if only the leader was trained and not the follower?  Preposterous, and yet, that is exactly what is customary in organizational settings.  How would great partnering skills emerge that way?  FliPskills’ leading-edge workshop, Team Building for Productive Partnerships, is designed expressly to be a shared learning experience.

In a thought-provoking, energizing and highly practical one-day workshop, your team will learn a strategic framework, the 360° Employee model™, and key partnering skills to invigorate and strengthen your team’s performance.  The framework fills in key gaps, and integrates tools you may already know and use; such as, MBTI, DISC, Situational Leadership, etc.  Together, the team develops shared goals, shared communication protocols and a shared understanding of good decision support and decision-making.  Your team will be looking its best on the dance floor!

How You Will Benefit:
·    Higher-functioning team
·    A more collaborative team environment
·    Boost leadership capacity and productivity
·    Hasten the decision lifecycle; decisions that stick
·    Shared understanding of team priorities and opportunities to add value
·    Team is on the wavelength of the leader

Your Team Will Learn:
·    The five key partnership skill areas which stimulate collaboration, alignment, and engagement
·    The decision life cycle and how to contribute to a strong decision-making team
·    A new, common language that enables clearer, more purposeful and productive communications
·    How to construct better performance agreements
·    To recognize unproductive behaviours and to shift toward positives ones
·    A framework that enables stronger business partnerships upwards, downwards, with peers, and with clients

9. The Project Team Building Workshop

Duration: One Day
Target Audiences: Project Teams

Save 10 or 20 or 50 days over the life of your project with an investment of just 1 day! Research reveals that 84% of the problems project teams run into today relate to interpersonal and team interactions.  FliPskills’ Project Team Building Workshop is designed expressly to pre-empt these challenges.  In an eye-opening, energizing, and highly practical one-day workshop, your team will learn a leading-edge framework, The 360° Employee model™, and key partnering skills to build a strong team foundation. All project teams should start off this way!

Save 10 or 20 or 50 days over the life of your project with an investment of just 1 day!

Consider these facts about project teams:
·    Project teams have become the preeminent enabler of progress in organizations, so their effectiveness is a top business imperative
·    Project teams have less time to succeed and less slack than day-to-day operational teams
·    People on project teams are more diverse than on functional teams, coming together from all across an organization and often including external consultants
·    Managers and sponsors of project teams are typically new to their assignments and new to team members

The standard model of team effectiveness includes four stages of development: forming, storming, norming, and performing.  Project teams cannot afford to take three to six months to get to performing.  And yet, the facts show that team development is even more critical for their success.  Research reveals that 84% of the problems project teams run into today relate to interpersonal and team interactions.  This makes sense.  Decades of using and refining project management methodology has vastly reduced the technical and process problems occurring on projects.  FliPskills’ leading-edge Project Team Building Workshop is designed expressly to pre-empt the interpersonal challenges.

In an eye-opening, energizing, and highly practical one-day workshop, your team will learn a strategic framework, The 360° Employee model™, and key partnering skills to build a strong team foundation.  The framework complements standard project management methodology, fills in key gaps, and integrates tools you may already know, such as MBTI, DISC, Situational Leadership, etc. Together, the team develops shared goals, shared communication protocols and a shared understanding of good decision support and decision-making.  All project teams should start off this way! 

How You Will Benefit:
·    Better, faster project outcomes
·    Hasten the decision life cycle; decisions that stick
·    A more collaborative team environment
·    Project team is on the wavelength of the sponsor and the project manager
·    Interpersonal challenges inherent in project teams are greatly reduced

Your Team Members Will Learn:
·    The five key partnership skill areas which stimulate collaboration, alignment, and engagement
·    More about their role on the project and the opportunities to add value
·    The decision life cycle and how to contribute to a strong decision-making team
·    A new, common language that enables clearer, more purposeful and productive communications
·    To recognize unproductive behaviours and to shift toward positives ones
·    A framework that enables stronger business partnerships upwards, downwards, with peers, and with clients