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In this workshop, you will learn the fundamental tool of great leaders: how to use questions to engage, empower, and improve performance in your direct reports. Through a series of science-based exercises, you will learn how to help your reports become more self-sufficient, resolve their own problems, and make more valuable contributions to your team.

Knowing how to give feedback that is specific, actionable, and motivating is the hallmark of a strong manager. In this lab, you’ll practice the science and art of giving, receiving, and asking for effective feedback, even in tough situations. 

This workshop bundles the most effective techniques for working smarter when time and resources are limited. You’ll learn to diagnose your and your team’s productivity challenges and walk away with tools for improving time awareness, prioritization, organization, and focus for yourself and others.

The one-on-one is one of the best opportunities to track your direct reports’ development and engagement, but most of us don’t put this time to good use. You’ll walk away from this workshop with a plan for how to transform your 1-1s into productive, motivating, and energizing sessions.

You’ve learned how to coach, give feedback well, help people prioritize, and hold effective 1-1s. Now it’s time to refresh your skills and apply them to challenging situations and difficult conversations, so you are prepared for anything that might come your way as a manager. We’ll quickly review what you learned then spend 90% of this workshop applying these skills to tough management scenarios. This workshop will take you to the next level in your skill set as a manager and leave you with new confidence to handle any situation. 

When things move fast, it’s easy to get stuck in a short-term mindset. To scale and collaborate well, you and your team need to think and execute strategically. In this workshop, you’ll sharpen your long-term thinking skills and practice tools for selecting strategic focus, involving the right stakeholders, making good decisions, communicating the planning, and monitoring execution.

We spend so much of our time in meetings, yet few people are trained to be outstanding meeting leaders. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to engineer meetings that are useful, productive, and energizing. You will learn the formula behind good and bad meetings and how to quickly fix meeting problems as they occur, including topics that go off track, sidebars, over- or under-participation, and decisions that are stalled. You will leave more confident in your ability to optimize the meetings you are in, even when you aren’t in charge.

Change is the only constant in innovative organizations, so we need to know how to handle it well and help others adapt. In this workshop, you’ll discover what happens neurologically when we experience change, and you’ll learn easy techniques to reduce resistance and increase commitment and action in yourself and others. You’ll practice devising solutions and crafting communication using a change template that will make you a more effective and inspiring leader.


Do you know how to bring out the best in your people? In this workshop, you will learn how to structure the types of conversations your direct reports crave in just a few minutes each week. You’ll walk away with tools to identify the skills that add the most value to your team, and help your direct reports create a skill development plan for themselves even when there are no clear career paths available.

You’ve learned how to help your direct reports think more strategically, contribute well in meetings, handle change, and develop themselves. Now it’s time to refresh your skills and apply them to challenging situations and difficult conversations, so you are prepared for anything that might come your way as a manager. We’ll review what you learned in our previous workshops, assess your strengths and areas for further development, then spend 90% of this workshop practicing. This session is a confidence boost and a personal development boost, taking managers to the next level of mastery by turning core behaviors into habits. 

Research reveals that one of the most valuable (but least known) leadership competencies is inquiry skills: how to use the right question at the right moment. In this lab, you’ll deepen your question skills so that you instinctively word questions in ways that earn influence, resolve problems, and motivate people to take action.

Knowing how to give feedback, ask for feedback, and optimize the feedback you get is an essential life and leadership skill. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to share what you are thinking in a way that helps other people accept and act on your message. You will also learn how to ask for feedback and handle feedback you don’t agree with. You will leave more confident in your ability to say things well, even when the message is difficult.

This lab bundles the most effective techniques for working smarter when time and resources are limited. You’ll learn to diagnose your own productivity challenges and walk away with tools for improving your time awareness, prioritization, organization, and focus.

No matter what point you are at in your career, strategic self-development is critical. In this workshop, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of your strengths, learn how to expand your network, and identify the easiest, most effective opportunities for growth. You’ll walk away with an action plan and new confidence in your ability to take charge of your career, even if there are no clear career paths available.

You’ve learned how to ask questions that earn influence and create clarity, give and receive feedback, manage time well, and own your career growth. Now it’s time to refresh your skills and apply them to challenging situations and difficult conversations, so you are prepared for anything that might come your way at work. We’ll review what you learned in our previous workshops, assess your strengths and areas for further development, and then spend 90% of this workshop practicing. This workshop will take you to the next level of mastery and leave you with new confidence to handle any situation.

Build awareness, shared vocabulary (to make scary conversations easier), and learn to be an advocate for yourself and others.

(2 hours, 30 participants max)

Help employees at all levels develop feedback skills, confidence, and shared norms and vocabulary to take the fear out of tough conversations.

(2 hours, 10 participants for execs and managers; 30 for ICs)

Learn the unique challenges of remote and distributed employees, and increase their engagement by adopting simple but powerful leadership and team habits.

(2 hours, 10 participants max)

In this HPT intensive, teams build greater cohesion, productivity, and communication, as they drastically cut down the time it takes to build trust and do great work together.

(4 hours, 15 participants max)

When leading a meeting, giving a presentation, or handling difficult conversations, your body language often matters as much as the words you use. In this workshop, we use hacks from advanced perception research to make small changes in your delivery style, leading to a big improvement in the ability to be persuasive and connect with an audience. We cut through the obvious stuff that everyone knows and move straight to the things that make the biggest difference.

Take part in a series of small experiments to explore your personality and work patterns (based on the MBTI framework). You will leave with greater self-awareness and insight. You’ll also learn a unique skill called personality flexing: the ability to read the work and communication preferences of coworkers and adjust your style to work more effectively with others.

Do you know how to negotiate a resolution that benefits everyone involved and earns you a great reputation? In this lab, you’ll learn to overcome the barriers to successful negotiation. You will walk away with skills and knowledge to reach win-win outcomes in everyday work scenarios.

Many of us trust our instincts when hiring, but research shows that instinct-based hiring leads to biased decision making. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to create objective decision criteria and interview candidates for competency and cultural contribution. You’ll leave with skills and processes for finding the perfect hires to join your team.

Can you tell when someone has a question but is hesitating to ask? Can you spot when someone’s emotions don’t match their words? In this lab, you will get trained in a unique skill: detecting facial micro-expressions that reveal what someone is truly feeling. You’ll learn how to become a better people-reader and when to pause, talk more, pivot, or ask questions. This is the same training provided to members of the police department and special investigations units.

On the surface, when we are surprised, our faces look comically empty, but inside the brain, surprise is one of the richest emotions. Surprise is at the heart of attention, interest, learning, and connection. In this workshop, you will discover the little-known psychology of surprise and collect tools to design surprise and delight into any interaction, project, or experience.