Training Sessions and Keynotes


Creating Possibilities Enhancing your CQ Intelligences
Collaboration  Communication  Creativity
Fueling Innovation through Unlocking Human Potential  

Collaboration Works provides a dynamic training process for organizations committed to creating genuine collaboration and pursuing innovation.
  

Genuine collaboration is critical for organizations.
The problem is that employees and work teams are seldom given the permission or practical tools to help them collaborate and innovate. Traditional approaches to team building, strategic planning and product, program or service development seldom add value or produce anything new. Einstein famously observed that problems cannot be solved with the level of thinking that created them.

The good news is that it is possible, given permission – and the tools, processes and methods we can provide – for people to learn new ways to collaborate and think outside the box. Our training process helps unlock the hidden potential in every staff member. It fosters full engagement, and thus everyone’s talents and gifts are available to resolve problems and create new products and services. A great synergy is created that will better align your organization, and your people, with customer and client needs. Your organization will function more effectively and profitably.



Fueling Innovation: CQ3 Series builds Collaboration, Communication, and Creative Intelligences and offers a unique approach to unlocking human potential at work. People are given the opportunity to develop their collaboration and innovation muscles experientially with a focus on learning in the moment. The direct and applied training process creates discovery that allows people to express new thinking in new ways. As Viola Spolin, improv pioneer says, “Creativity is not rearranging; it is transformation.” Our training process allows for the uniqueness of every individual and every team to build and develop - the potenial for growth and change is limitless. As teamwork and collaboration build, groups can then move to developing their creativity and innovation ultimately using their new found skills, and tools, to create new or improved products, programs or services that better meet client and customer needs.

Innovation Transformation
Discover and enhance skills and tools for unleashing and applying creativity. Generate solutions at first contact. Use proven tools and methods to develop best practices, new programs, policy, services or products. Create crucial buy in and effectiveness with staff, clients and customers by creating collaborative environments. Create transformation!

Building your Collaborative Intelligence
Increase awareness of how our filters, attitudes and behaviour affect ourselves and others in terms of collaboration and communication. Explore the impact of perceptions and attitudes. Learn tools for listening more effectively and maximizing collaboration. Apply processes to create positivity and use tools to develop positive relationships, trust, respect, and responsibility.

What is your Team’s CQ?: Collaborating and Communicating Teams
Laugh and have fun together. Build skills of group awareness, the creation of trust, thinking out of the box, being in the moment and seeing all the offers (anything that is said or done, consciously or not) that are being made. Build team and strengthen group processes as everyone's ideas are valued and built upon. Explore all the possibilities and create and work in whole new ways.

Communicating Excellence Yes, And! I can: Collaborative Relationships
Create positivity. Improve client satisfaction and build commitment and loyalty. Improve the retention rate of your staff by giving them the tools to meet customer and client needs quickly and efficiently. Enhance the ability to listen effectively and see all the offers (anything that is said or done, consciously or not) that are being made. Maximize the potential to create new opportunities and develop new relationships.

Collaborative Leadership: Enhancing your Influence
Good leadership requires the ability to listen effectively, and build trust and group awareness. Lead by fostering the acceptance, support and building on to the ideas of all. Learn tools for creating positive solutions quickly and creating maximum communication.

Beyond Words!   The Critical Essence of Verbal and Non-verbal Communication
The words we say count for less than half of what we actually communicate.
Our body language and how we speak communicate far more than we might imagine. There are powerful, yet subtle things we do that raise us or diminish our ‘status’. Status is not tied to our jobs, money, roles, but to how we behave. The more equal we are in status, the better we are able to get our messages across.
We can use these same tools to convey to others that we are confident. In charge. A leader. When we become aware of our behaviour we can choose to consciously alter it to improve communication and to affect the outcome of situations.

Presenting – with confidence, authenticity and openness
Be and respond in the moment, see all offers, increase your awareness of the ‘picture’ you are presenting. Be seen as confident and authentic. Encourage and respond to questions positively and effectively.

Collaboration Works is uniquely positioned to help you transform your organization into a dynamic and creative place to work and achieve.

To discover how Collaboration Works can work for you and your organization phone Anne McDonald for a free consultation. 
Anne McDonald 
306 546-2427       

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