The future of work is here and work-as-a-location is moving toward permanent and long-term work-from-anywhere practices. While work-from-anywhere-forever is an idea that conjures up visions of a flexibility utopia, leading a virtual team–or more likely a hybrid workforce–requires new leadership skills and new management practices. If you want a high performing team that delivers results in this newest normal, there are some critical approaches for leading you will need to adapt and adopt.

“Choose to Defuse,” our signature conflict resolution workshop, focuses on identifying emotional triggers, techniques for healthy conflict resolution and leveraging conflict for organizational health.

“After Further Review” focuses on lessons Dr. Lavon Gray has learned as a veteran NCAA football official, then transfers them to organizational cultures illustrating key leadership principles. Using personal stories, humor, interactive teaching, experiential learning and decades of proven leadership expertise, Lavon takes participants on a leadership journey giving them the tools they need to take organizations to the next level…all based on foundational leadership truths he learned from “behind the whistle.”

“I learned a long time ago to never wrestle with a pig… You both get dirty and the pig likes it.” – George Bernard Shaw. During this humorous and inspiring keynote of workshop, Lavon explores the importance of relational skills in dealing with seven pig personalities that are prominent in your workplace. More importantly, audiences are challenged to identify the battles worth fighting and how to do it without smelling like a pig!

Feedback can be ill timed, unfair and downright mean, but that doesn’t have to dictate our ability to use it for our own growth. Using lessons from the best-selling book “Thanks for the Feedback” by Douglas Stone and Shelia Heen, learn the three types of feedback, the barriers to receiving good feedback and how to be empowered to seek feedback for your own growth.

Creating a truly inclusive team rests on the shoulders of front-line leaders. It is noble to expect that leaders will work to help team members feel included, yet we too often fail to train leaders in exactly how to create inclusiveness within their teams. This course is all about behaviors that drive inclusivity. It’s practical. It’s immediately usable. It’s desperately needed as a skillset.

This session is about specific actions that help you win as a working parent. Part of winning the game will be learning new plays—if you keep doing what you’ve always done nothing will change. Some of these plays you could run today, while others may be saved for later. No matter the age of your dependents, you can feel like you are winning at work as a working parent.

“After Further Review” focuses on lessons Dr. Lavon Gray has learned as a veteran NCAA football official, then transfers them to organizational cultures illustrating key leadership principles. Using personal stories, humor, interactive teaching, experiential learning and decades of proven leadership expertise, Lavon takes participants on a leadership journey giving them the tools they need to take organizations to the next level…all based on foundational leadership truths he learned from “behind the whistle.”

Although some people think working remotely eliminates office conflicts and politics, think again. As long as you have contact with a boss, co-worker, or teammates, you will find conflict. When working remotely, conflicts and disagreements with co-workers, teams, or employees will occur just as when working in a brick-and-mortar office. However, without the benefit of face-to-face contact, resolving these issues isn’t always easy. This workshop walks participants through a step-by-step process to effectively address conflict and build a healthy remote culture.

Covid-19 has fundamentally changed how and where business gets done. As businesses continue their transformation, the way we hire, engage and retain talent will look significantly different in the future. This workshop features our team of experts at Blue Hen as we walk through specific challenges in the areas of team building, conflict resolution, leadership development and employee emotional/mental health. In addition, we explore the key factors influencing the changing behavior of workers, as well as the changing nature of work itself, as well as provide practical solutions for building successful teams in a rapidly shifting business environment.

Have you ever felt invisible? While this may sound like a ridiculous question, the truth is our work cultures are filled with people who are invisible, or what we more commonly refer to as lonely. This workshop/keynote focuses on the power of relationships to add value to teams while providing the foundation for organizational success.

What if you could tap into your greatest motivations and dramatically improve your relationships and accelerate results? Your individual personality affects every aspect of your life. One of the best things you can do to grow yourself is to understand …

Business bottom lines are negatively impacted whenever diversity and inclusion issues arise in the workplace and not addressed. And this ‘elephant in the room’ continues to expand the gap between the behaviors that unlock the potentials of a diverse workforce and leaders acting as if it’s not an issue.

Business leaders face environments that are more complicated, less predictable, and more volatile than ever before. And these environments expose the weaknesses of organizational culture, the inability of team members to collaborate and their fading individual performance as we prepare to transition to in-person events and workplaces. The truth is, successful leaders resist the impulse to adopt a defensive stance in times of uncertainty by Simplifying the Shift for a successfully transition. 

Positive and negative stress is a constant influence on all of our lives. The trick is to maximize the positive stress and to minimize the negative stress. Your participants will be shown how stress can be positive and negative, and we’ll look at practical approaches that will form the basis of this workshop.

In business, as in life, we often face times of significant change or uncertainty. In these moments, everything that was normal (order) shifts to chaos (disorder), which often leaves leaders frustrated, angry or confused. In this workshop, Dr. Ron Mumbower walks participants through the process of change and how disorder can be redefined for success.