how we help
We integrate best practices for developmental trainings.
Trainings and workshops are highly interactive. We use a combination of interactive lecture, small and large group discussion, technology for virtual interaction, case studies, role-play, and experiential exercises.
Our trainers and facilitators are experienced educators, who are able to listen and understand learners, while also noticing and leveraging in-the-moment learning opportunities.
Leadership Development
Single programs or a complete series that integrates with your leadership model; we offer both. We will even help you develop a leadership model for your organization.
Training and workshop topics for leadership development are extensive and include: Leader as Problem-Solver; Leading Workplace Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Developing a Leadership Model; Communicating for Inclusion, Equity, and Engagement; Understanding Differences and Managing Conflict; Leading Effective Meetings; 21st Century Leadership, Management, and Delegation; Leading and Development Teams; Design Thinking to Cultivate Innovation; Developing Your Business Model; Driving Vision, Purpose, and Results; Managing Systemic Complexity; Leading Change; Adaptive Leadership; Leading with Courage, Confidence, and Effective Communication; Emotional Intelligence; Learning to Coach; and Giving and Receiving Feedback Effectively.
The Career Lab Experience
Planning and sustaining a career in today’s world of constant disruption and change is a challenge for everyone. Discovering what you want, developing a flexible plan, and improving key skills is a must! Finding the right career path and developing your skills and resources requires experimenting and learning as you go. This program includes assessments for discovering your strengths, opportunities for development, tips for figuring out what you want personally and professionally, and the steps to take to experiment, learn, adapt, and succeed.
Cohort-Based Workshop Design
You will creating a career plan. You will also develop key competencies like managing change; project, time, and task management; empowerment and resilience; influence and communication; emotional intelligence; and understanding how your values, assumptions, and beliefs affect how you think and what you do. You will do all of that with peers, while expanding your professional network and improving your intellectual, emotional, and physical well-being. To get on a waiting list for the next workshop, contact us and put in the subject line – The Career Lab Experience.
RAINMAKERS INCUBATOR Business Development WORKSHOP
In our highly popular Rainmakers Incubator, you will learn what “natural rainmakers” already know, how to flex your natural communication preferences to that of a rainmaker without a lot of pain in the process. You’ll also meet new people and expand your business network. Rainmakers Incubator is a 4-part Workshop Series offering new and different approaches to business development, backed by research, hands-on practice, and fun as you learn and develop a new network for cross-referrals. Our first workshop includes a communications assessment, designed to help you gain insight into any gaps between your default ways of selling and the proven and effective ways. The following work will guide you through planning and creating the materials you need to become a successful rainmaker.
Cohort-Based Workshop Design
You will learn how to sell yourself and your unique approach as a professional service provider to clients. Discussion, thoughtful analysis and brainstorming, and hands-on practice with your peers helps you to expand your professional network and exchange experiences and ideas for supercharging the learning experience. To get on a waiting list for the next workshop, contact us and put in the subject line – Rainmakers Incubator.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Training
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion trainings include foundational content on unconscious bias, communication differences, effective listening, giving and receiving feedback effectively, collaborative problem-solving and decision-making, approaching conflict effectively, and how to recognize and address dominant/non-dominant group power dynamics. After that foundation is in place, training shifts to the identification and design of specific workplace solutions that change structures and processes to address systemic racism and other forms of discrimination, conscious or unconscious. The aim is to help participants learn how to lead or play a pivotal role in a culture change that brings equity - a fair distribution of resources so everyone can succeed - and inclusion - a sense of belonging - into an organization or team and improve engagement, advancement, and retention of exception employees, clients, and customers.
Law Firm Start-Up Workshop
You’re ready to help your client, but before you do, there’s a lot to consider when starting up a new law firm. What’s a good practice area with marketplace demand and that matches your interest? How much money do you need to start-up? How do you create a start-up budget and also projections for coming years? Which technology is a “must-have” and which can be delayed? How should you think about malpractice insurance and developing substantive excellence? You will learn about creating a business plan with a start-up budget, the basics of IOLTA accounting, entity selection, real or virtual location, technology, marketing, and more.