Growing Forward Services
Course Catalogue - Training Topics
Are You Obeying the Signs? (keynote/motivational) Using the analogy of typical road signs,
this seminar gives guidance on wisely navigating life and leadership. (1 hr.)
Best Boards: Keys to Effective Board Leadership: an overview of board recruitment, orientation,
expectations, evaluation, board meetings, top responsibilities, and avoiding board woes. (2 hrs)
Boosting Your Emotional Intelligence: the #1 soft skill for influence identifying Learning the 5
key elements of EI, the dangers of lacking each of them, and practical tips to strengthen your
EI (3 hrs)
Bring Your Meetings to Life! Leading meetings that matter Fresh strategies and reminders
for before, during, and after the meeting, as well as adding special kinds of meetings (2 hrs)
Burning Bright without Burning Out: what leads to burnout and dozens of practical habits to
develop that keep you sharp in your leadership Assessment of how close you are to burnout
now, consequences of burnout, physical/mental/spiritual/social routines (3 hrs)
Communication Skills for Professionals: Being a clear Sender and an open Receiver Dozens of helpful tips for getting your message heard and understood, while reining in the “noise”—with great results! (3 hrs)
Courageous Decision-Making:
7 steps for choosing wisely learning a successful process and filters for making important
decisions at work and in life (1 hr)
NEW! Employee Engagement & Retention: Learn how to recognize disengagement and build a workplace where employees feel motivated, valued, and committed to staying. This session offers practical strategies to boost engagement, performance, and retention. (1 hr.)
Energizing Email: How to manage your email time, how to write effective email, and a
dozen other tips for email etiquette (1 hr.)
Enhancing Your Executive Presence: tips to project confident leadership in how you
speak, look and act in front of others (2 hrs)
Giving and Receiving Feedback Constructively: entering the danger zone tools for having a
mindset and delivery/reception that seeks to grow yourself and others when communication of
uncomfortable news must occur (1.5 hrs)
Goal-set to Greatness: Setting, vetting, and getting what you want 10 tips for preparing for, writing, and achieving powerful goals that get results, including a practice session for writing them. (3 hrs)
Got The Point? (keynote/motivational) 5 ways of maximizing your energy: being grounded in core values, knowing your destination, picking yourself, swiping away distractions, and putting a 10 on everyone’s foreheads (1 hr)
Jumpstart your Life, Career and Relationships: Rediscovering your identity and getting clarity
on your life vision Using several assessment tools, you’ll determine where you are now, then
grow forward to a bigger vision for your life, as well as how to overcome obstacles to stay on
track (3 hrs)
Leader as Coach: developing each unique person on your team Become a coaching leader
not just an evaluative leader by getting stronger at leading 1-to-1’s with every direct report (3
hrs)
Leadership Development That Leaves a Legacy: why it’s crucial to have a LD plan, what the
essentials of LD are, and the 3-legged stool of LD: On-the-Job training, continuing education,
and mentoring/coaching. (1.5 hrs)
Making Your Staff Feel Appreciated: how to keep your team in the loop, methods for soliciting
their input, and a plethora of ideas for morale-boosting (1 hr)
Maximizing and Modifying Your Personality Style: learning the 4 animal types, bringing out
the best in your style, where you fit best on any team, how to respectfully customize your
communication to the other styles (3 hrs)
Mistakes Leaders Make and How to Avoid Them: stop shooting yourself in the foot Practical
alternatives to common pitfalls to getting better at leadership, like not celebrating people,
going it alone, poor time management, etc. (3 hrs)
Networking That’s Working: Maximizing your ROI at an event Especially for introverts, you
need an intentional plan for getting the most out of networking conversations, so that it leads
to new business/contacts for you. (2 hrs)
Nurturing Your Creativity: Habits to work out the right side of your brain A myriad of ideas for
creating an environment of innovation in your culture, and how to personally possess a creative
mind-set (2 hrs)
Questions to Pack in your Self-Leadership Backpack: deep questions to make you think
about how you are living your life, why they are important to wrestle with, barriers to push
through, and new habits and vision to form. (1 hr)
Reaching for Rock-Solid Relationships: the 5 relationships that you need to keep strong—and
how to practically enhance them Overarching tips to put the “elation” in your relationships, and
specific tips for each type relationship (customer, boss, team, colleagues, and family). (2.5 hrs)
Speak Up: Developing Your Public Speaking Ability. Tips on preparing for and delivering
presentations with more confidence and impact, so that your message is remembered (1 hr)
Strengthening Your Core: strategic planning for a healthy organization: hands-on
development/evaluation of your team’s mission, vision, and values, and the other key
foundational areas that must be in place in order to strategically plan (3 hrs)
3 Keys to a More Confident You: Boosting your confidence and courage (could be stand
alone 1 hr or 2 parts, 1 hr. each)
Time Management Made Easy: 8 habits that will help you get your priorities done every day
and to do more with less time. Reconnecting to your values and vision; how to prioritize; how to
set up your day for success and goal-achievement; energy management (3 hrs)
Top Traits of Terrific Team Leaders: 11 practical leadership habits for melding your group into a
team Hiring team players, learning individuality of your people, recognizing team behaviors,
correcting mis-aligned members (3 hrs)
Top Traits of Terrific Team Players: how to be a go-to employee that brings energy to your
team and gets an exceeds expectations on your performance review (1 hr)
Vision is C’ing Future Success:: Activities and principles for helping you clarify where you are leading your team, sharing that destination with your team, and making it part of the culture. (3 hrs)
Win-Win in Conflict: Getting to win-win with difficult conversations How conflict can be a good thing, why confrontation is necessary, and how to approach and do conflict resolution well, even the hardest of talks. Including a default conflict style assessment (3 hrs)
Work-Life Balance: how to develop a rhythm of a life lived according to your values, and how
to protect it with good boundaries Establishing margin, watching your gauges, inserting the
pause button (1 hr)
You can be a Change-agent: becoming a change management pro Why leaders need to be
change-agents, and practical soft-skill strategies for leading a change effort and getting more
buy-in than resistance (3 hrs)
Your Dynamic Growth Plan: 5 key business leadership categories to strengthen If you aren’t
growing, you are dying—so you need an intentional plan to continuously improve yourself. (1
hr)