The people skills growth platform
We help organizations develop a culture that appreciates the diversity of thoughts, ideas, experiences, & people by developing soft, critical success skills.
Engaging, Impactful, & Flexible
Engaging Content
Employees learn the career skills that lead to success in today’s knowledge economy, why they are essential at work, and real-world examples of them in use.
Impactful Development Exercises
With different development exercises to choose from, employees can practice those that best match their learning style. Our work tailored exercises integrate an employee’s current job responsibilities with colleague interaction and job quality self-reflection and self-analysis.
Curriculum Options to Meet Your Needs
- On-demand Employee Access
- Live Cohort Session
- Custom Team Training
Courses
Course Topics (Click + to expand)
The first prong of our two-prong diversity, inclusion, and equality course mission is to help individuals understand different does not equal wrong, but rather greater creativity and opportunity. And 2, to raise awareness of our conscious and subconscious opinions that impact our daily decisions and actions at work.
Awareness is the foundational requirement for change. We all have unknown biases that impact our daily actions and decisions. And our biases are powered by automatic, easy thinking and can range from business decisions to reactions to others.
In this curriculum, we help individuals become aware of their biases (we all have them) to outsmart them in the future and change their behaviors.
Specific topics covered include:
What Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Means
- Automatic Thinking About Others
- Microaggressions
- Unconscious biases
Develop the Skills to Support an Environment of Belonging
- Humility & Intellectual Humility
- Empathy
- Vulnerability
Build High Trust Relationships Through
- Creditability
- Relatability
- Safety
- Social connection
Course Topics
Strategic thinking is the opposite of our everyday System 1, or automatic, thinking. It is System 2 thinking, which is more logical and requires effort. It is a process that starts by questioning our current thoughts or beliefs, being open-minded to other opinions, considering cause and effect, and much more. Today’s knowledge economy is creating a even greater need for strong strategic thinking and sound decision-making.
The 5-skills dedicated to Strategic Thinking are:
- Active Listening (Yes, it is a thinking skill)
- Intellectual Humility
- Intentional Thinking
- Problem-Solving
- Communication Effectively
Course Topics
Work today requires a diversity of thoughts, opinions, job responsibilities, and backgrounds that drive innovative ideas and solutions or outcomes that are better than what an individual can create on their own. In other words, today’s work environment requires Uber-team work.
Working effectively with colleagues requires understanding different work styles, varied personality types, communication preferences, opinions, functional area responsibilities, and more.
We naturally collaborate more efficiently with individuals we know better than a superficial hello as social beings. So it is also essential to understand our colleagues on a more human level.
This course provides the tools needed to understand individual differences better and build strong working relationships with all work approaches.
Learners will engage with content on 3-topics:
- Building Relationships
- Collaboration Behaviors & Check-ins
- The 3-Elements of Empathy
Course Topics
The first thing learners will discover about communication is it is a process that starts well before uttering a single word. It involved active listening, defining a goal for each conversation, knowing your audience, data gathering and analysis, and much more. Once learners understand the preparation process, they will move into the delivery portion of communication, including how to determine if what they are saying is understood.
As Warren Buffet says, “You can have all the brainpower in the world, but you have to be able to transmit it. And the transmission is communication,”
He added, “If you can’t communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you’re giving up your potential.”
Course Topics
The one constant at work, and in life, is change. To meet the needs of its customers, businesses need to continuously enhance it strategies to meet their needs and thrive. To be effective in our jobs, employees need to embrace change, which comes with an elevated stress level for some. To embrace change requires a positive attitude and behaviors.
Learns will come to understand how positive thinking stimulates our brains to make sure it is functioning at its best. It also increases energy levels, making sure we are alert and equipped to perform our responsibilities. And best of all, it reduces your stress and can boost our mental well-being.
Our positive behaviors subjects include:
- Building & Maintaining Confidence Throughout New Opportunities & Change
- Optimism & Getting Comfortable with Change
- Building & Maintaining Resilience
Course Topics
Many of today’s emerging professionals are ambitious and have a desire to achieve more at work. To help employees achieve this goal, they need to understand how to demonstrate value beyond completing tasks to exceeding expectations. Learners in this course will understand how to improve the quality of their work output, take initiative correctly, and demonstrate strategic thinking & sound decision-making.
The foundational skills needed to demonstrate initiative successfully are:
- Active Listening
- Intellectual Humility
- Intentional Thinking
- Problem-Solving
- Taking Initiative
And individual soft skills, such as intellectual humility, empathy, problem-solving, resilience, motivations & values, emotional triggers, and more.
Benefits
Empowering employees
Today’s knowledge economy calls for employees to have strong technical skills and strong soft skills to interact with co-workers productively, skillfully judge and process information, and effectively communicate their ideas.
Building strong teams
Employees learn the value of seeking diverse opinions and varied information sources, intellectual humility, and empathic concern, or knowing what others need from us; all of which lead to sounder problem-solving and decision-making, strong working relationships, and effective collaboration.
Fueling success
Companies enjoy a positive culture, develop more innovative solutions, and deliver healthier results thanks to their employees’ higher work quality, lower anxiety, and a higher sense of job purpose and satisfaction.
Some of our Customers
A consumer-grade digital platform that meets the expectations of today’s workforce.
Our educational content and development exercises integrate the latest behavioral science research and experiential learning theories with modern digital techniques to match how today’s employees prefer to learn, self-reflect, and develop positive habits.
