training and workshops
 

Training Workshops with Ken Gonyer
For more info, email ken@hiddenspringscoaching.com

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Powerful People Skills
The DISCovery Seminar Unleashes Powerful People Skills for Highly Effective Work Groups 

Can you imagine what it would be like if, in 2012, your organization:

 …avoided most personality clashes among employees, management and supervisors

…wasted little if any time and resources dealing with misunderstandings and conflict

…built strong, effective teams of happy, motivated staff

…developed a culture of healthy communication and mutual understanding

Just think of the mammoth increase in productivity! It could happen. The key? People skills.

Next time you're shopping online, look for books about "working with difficult people." There are lots! With so many books on the subject, you can be sure that there are a lot of difficult people in the workplace. 

The real difficulty is the fact that most people don't have the skills to deal effectively with personality differences. The people are not the problem. The real problem is a lack of people skills.

The DISCovery Seminar™ is designed to give your team members the tools and people skills they need to understand and appreciate the differences among the people they work with.

The DISC Behavioral Style Model was developed over 75 years ago and has become one of the most widely-used tools for understanding behavioral differences among people.

And the DISC model is easy to grasp. It’s amazing how fast people “get” the power of the DISC language—and how much it helps them. Here’s what it sounds like:

“Just want to let you know that DISC is working great today at the office! I have two project leaders I work with. One is a high C, the other a high D. Today, in separate meetings with them, I flexed my communication style and they responded really well!”

The DISCovery Seminar™ draws from each participant’s personal DISC profile to help them see where they’re similar and different from others in their group.

Through discussion, exercises and examples, each member of the group learns more about their own style. They learn the keys to better communication with one another… and with prospects and current clients.

After taking an online assessment, team members receive a profile that categorizes their style using the DISC traits: 

• Dominance: direct, demanding and competitive
• Influence: sociable, people-oriented, “life-of-the-party”
• Steadiness: patient, persistent, sympathetic
• Compliance: rational, organized, dispassionate

The 29-page profile is full of wisdom to help your team understand the motivational characteristics and leadership strengths of their behavioral style. It helps them discover how to communicate with other styles and maximize their effectiveness in the workplace and on the team.

The welcome result is higher productivity, improved perception of the workplace and increased sales performance. When your team has developed powerful people skills, they’re simply happier, more successful people – and they project that to everyone they meet.

So… how many hours of productive work were lost in your organization last year due to personality clashes affecting productivity and teamwork in your organization?

To build highly effective work groups in 2012, I invite you to consider bringing the The DISCovery Seminar™ to your team. Notice I didn’t invite you to send your team to The DISCovery Seminar™. That’s because I want to come to you – to your shop.

It’s convenient and economical - you’ll save on travel expense and time, plus you’ll be able to get your whole team together for the experience. While we’re together for the seminar, we’ll elaborate on the DISC profile’s findings, chart the group’s personality styles, learn best practices for communication, set goals for energizing teamwork, learn how to gauge a prospect’s personality style and boost sales …and have a lot of fun!

Investment:
Each online DISC assessment and 29-page profile report costs only $45 with a minimum of 20 participants.

Seminars like this one - private, customized, highly relevant on-site workshops - can cost thousands of dollars. My standard fee for the high-energy 2-hour seminar (20 participants per session) is only $750 plus my travel expenses. 

I hope to hear from you soon! To reserve your seminar date, email me at ken@hiddenspringscoaching.com. Be sure to check out the brochure here.

Total Employee Engagement: Training for Supervisors

This interactive training workshop empowers supervisors to lead their team through an incredibly effective, employee-led strategic planning session. Because every team member has input and ownership in the resulting plan, implementation is supercharged. The end result? Success for the team... and your organization. Fee: please email for a quote.

Ken Gonyer provided our credit union leaders with training on the GROW process in preparation for departmental goal setting. The training, which was informative, interactive and fun, provided our leaders with the tools they needed to conduct effective planning sessions with their staff. The result was better than we anticipated! We now have SMARTER goals and action plans in place to carry us through the year!  Ken’s upbeat, knowledgeable and humorous approach to training was just what we needed. 

--Yvonne Boettger, HR Manager, Park View Federal Credit Union


Becoming a Skillful Communicator on the Job

We’d all like to see our team members:
      - Sell more products or services
      – Clarify confusion and build relationships
      – Resolve difficult situations

This training gives them the tools to achieve success in each of these areas. The result? Your retail staff will be more comfortable and successful at introducing products, explaining processes, and resolving problems. This highly interactive workshop will equip participants to be the best at communicating with their customers and with each other through Skillful Listening and Skillful Responding. The take-home value is obvious: positive, can-do partners who communicate with confidence and get results. Fee: please email for a quote.

Coaching Skills for Leaders

Jack Welch said that “in the future, people who are not coaches will not be promoted.” After years of command and control management and supervision, I finally learned how to coach employees. The result: powerful partnerships, solid relationships, innovative solutions, and self-motivation. Every manager or supervisor needs to learn to coach. They’ll get more things done – and done better – in the organization through coaching than with any other leadership skill. Fee: please email for a quote.

Better Speaking Skills for Leaders

You CAN be a better public speaker. As a former victim of stage-fright and perpetrator of boredom, I can help you become comfortable and successful in your public speaking and presentations by drawing on your own life story and natural personality. Fee: please email for a quote.

NEW!  Crash-course in Public Speaking

I’ve developed an intensive coaching process that helps speakers hit their target of clear, articulate communication that engages their audience and calls them to action. Adaptable for groups or individuals, the sessions are delivered in one-hour modules.  I request a minimum of three participants or three individual coaching sessions. Please email for a fee quote. 

Also from Ken Gonyer:

Need a Speaker?

Need a speaker for a conference, event or fundraiser? I would be honored to consider invitations to speak to your group. As an award-winning speaker, I'm creative and original in my presentations so I can keep my listeners enthusiastically engaged. When I speak, I strive to be authentic, direct, and practical while keeping my talks light-hearted, encouraging and fun. My topics and sessions can be customized to meet the needs of your organization. Contact me for a fee schedule.  

Strategic Planning Facilitation

I am available to facilitate strategic planning sessions for the board of directors or executive management teams of corporations, nonprofits and ministries. Using many of the same tools that a coach would use, I ask the questions that help your team develop vision, evaluate present conditions, explore options and set specific goals for achievement.

To discuss customized training options for your staff or leadership team, please email me with your contact information: ken@hiddenspringscoaching.com