Scott Kress

Duration: One Day
Target Audiences: Team members

As a national leader in the design and delivery of leadership development training programs, Summit uses traditional & experiential training methods to give individuals and organizations the tools to reach new heights.

Summit applies a blended learning approach to fully engage all learning styles. Participants are guided through a series of challenging activities followed by periods of reflection, facilitated discussions, and presentations of current theories and models.  This session includes follow up contact with the Summit facilitator to encourage implementation of action plans.
Communication is vital for success, yet it is the number one challenge for organizations worldwide. In this workshop, participants begin by assessing personal styles through one of several standardized tools, such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator™ or Identity Mapping™.  They learn how to connect with all potential audiences by recognizing preferences, presenting ideas appropriately, and understanding others' points of view. Through hands-on, engaging challenges they explore the challenges specific to their extended workplace, and learn to overcome communications barriers between teams, customers, and clients.

Team members will:

Understand their team-mates' preferences for relating and communicating
Understand the elements of effective communication
Assess their communications strengths and weakness, and take action

The team will:

Have a clear set of expectations and processes for interdepartmental communications.

2. Bridging the Gap - Enhancing Personal Interactions

Duration: One Day
Target Audiences: Team members

As a national leader in the design and delivery of leadership development training programs, Summit uses traditional & experiential training methods to give individuals and organizations the tools to reach new heights.

Summit applies a blended learning approach to fully engage all learning styles. Participants are guided through a series of challenging activities followed by periods of reflection, facilitated discussions, and presentations of current theories and models.  This session includes follow up contact with the Summit facilitator to encourage implementation of action plans.

Does your team spend too much time "storming" and too little time truly performing? This session introduces positive ways to look at our differences, resolve conflict, and find common ground in the team setting. The "polarity" model helps team members tap into the healthy tensions that result from diverse viewpoints. They also explore different ways people deal with conflict and practice simple tools to manage conflict to achieve win/win solutions.

Team members will:

Understand and value each person's unique contribution to the team
Learn to thrive in a constantly changing environment
Give feedback in a clear and constructive manner
Employ a variety of conflict management techniques

The Team will:

Create "big-picture" thinking and generate interdepartmental collaboration
Challenge unproductive and limiting mindsets
Avoid unwarranted conflict and learn to benefit from healthy opposition
Seek win/win solutions

3. Ride the Wave - Mastering Change

Duration: One Day
Target Audiences: Team members

As a national leader in the design and delivery of leadership development training programs, Summit uses traditional & experiential training methods to give individuals and organizations the tools to reach new heights.

Summit applies a blended learning approach to fully engage all learning styles. Participants are guided through a series of challenging activities followed by periods of reflection, facilitated discussions, and presentations of current theories and models.  This session includes follow up contact with the Summit facilitator to encourage implementation of action plans.
As your team committed to innovation yet struggling to master change?  Ride the Wave explores the link between our need for innovation and our struggle to cope with the change it inevitably entails. Team members assess their own change hardiness, learn about the change cycle, and develop personal strategies to move from denial and anger to embracing ... even driving ... change. This session can include a dramatic high ropes component if desired.

Team members will:

Be aware of their reactions to change
Understand the change cycle
Identify personal strategies for becoming more adaptive to change
Learn to lead change
The team will:

Develop strategies to support one another in times of change
Know when and how to communicate change
View change as an opportunity

4. Teams in Action - Foundations of Performance

Duration: Full Day
Target Audiences: Team Members

As a national leader in the design and delivery of leadership development training programs, Summit uses traditional & experiential training methods to give individuals and organizations the tools to reach new heights.

Summit applies a blended learning approach to fully engage all learning styles. Participants are guided through a series of challenging activities followed by periods of reflection, facilitated discussions, and presentations of current theories and models.  This session includes follow up contact with the Summit facilitator to encourage implementation of action plans.
If you have a newly-formed team or one that is simply looking for a tune-up Teams in Action will give you first-hand experience in the principal competencies that world class teams master.  Exciting challenge activities anchor six main learning modules. From these engaging experiences, team members establish patterns of successful interaction. They communicate and plan more effectively, develop a shared team vision, agree on core values, and create an enduring climate of trust. Team members will finish by assessing team strengths and developing action plans.

Team members will:

Value team work and their team's diversity
Be fully committed to the team's success
Understand team development stages
Understand the qualities of good teams and good team members
Deliberately assess their strengths and challenges, and take action
The team will:

Have a set of shared core values
Have a clear shared vision of their "world class" team
Create a culture of success

5. Take Flight - Leadership for High Performance Teams

Duration: One Day, Two Day, Three Day, Four Day
Target Audiences: Leaders, Potential Leaders

As a national leader in the design and delivery of leadership development training programs, Summit uses traditional & experiential training methods to give individuals and organizations the tools to reach new heights.

Summit applies a blended learning approach to fully engage all learning styles. Participants are guided through a series of challenging activities followed by periods of reflection, facilitated discussions, and presentations of current theories and models.  This session includes follow up contact with the Summit facilitator to encourage implementation of action plans.
Take Flight gives your leaders insight into the characteristics of "World Class" teams, and how they can create the conditions for their teams to excel.  The Emotional Intelligence model provides a framework for examining leadership styles, and guidelines for applying the right style at the right time. Leaders learn to create a team environment where trust, innovation and commitment flourish.  Above all, they create their personal vision for "greatness" and a plan to get there.

Participants will:

Understand the Emotional Intelligence model of leadership
Identify their leadership style preferences
Understand team development
Practice appropriate leadership styles and actions
Develop a clear leadership Vision and a plan to achieve it

6. Building Blocks - Foundations for Trust

Duration: One Day
Target Audiences: Team members

As a national leader in the design and delivery of leadership development training programs, Summit uses traditional & experiential training methods to give individuals and organizations the tools to reach new heights.

Summit applies a blended learning approach to fully engage all learning styles. Participants are guided through a series of challenging activities followed by periods of reflection, facilitated discussions, and presentations of current theories and models.  This session includes follow up contact with the Summit facilitator to encourage implementation of action plans.
Is your team working from a rock-solid foundation of trust? This session examines our perceptions of risk - physical, emotional, and intellectual - and how we can sort out the real from the imagined. Through an unforgettable series of experiences, teams discover ways to create an enduring climate of trust and mutual support in the workplace. Team members extend their own comfort zone, take initiative, and benefit from a mutually supportive environment. This workshop involves dramatic high ropes course activities.

The Team members will:

Evaluate their personal perceptions of risk
Apply a simple model for assessing and confronting personal risk
Extend their own comfort zone for taking personal initiative and confronting risk
Create strategies for building trust in their team
Create strategies to offer and acknowledge co-worker support

The Team will:

Create a plan to develop a climate of high trust and mutual support at work

7. Hit the Mark - Planning to Succeed

Duration: One Day
Target Audiences: Team members

As a national leader in the design and delivery of leadership development training programs, Summit uses traditional & experiential training methods to give individuals and organizations the tools to reach new heights.
Summit applies a blended learning approach to fully engage all learning styles. Participants are guided through a series of challenging activities followed by periods of reflection, facilitated discussions, and presentations of current theories and models.  This session includes follow up contact with the Summit facilitator to encourage implementation of action plans.

Is your team planning to succeed or spinning its wheels? This session captures the imagination while it delivers solid understanding and skills in key areas of successful planning.  A fast-moving series of activities will address each of the steps and components in planning, including goal setting, innovating, prioritizing, consensus building, resource management and implementation.  A daring rescue simulation brings it all together.  This session can include a dramatic high ropes component.

Team members will:

•Understand the planning cycle
•Contribute fully to the team's success
•Commit to team decisions
The team will:

- Apply an effective planning cycle
- Celebrate their shared success
- Set clear and ambitious goals
- Successfully access the team's creativity
- Apply effective consensus building techniques
- Use resources effectively to implement their plans
- Adapt their plans to changing conditions
- Evaluate their own plan and performance