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