Unique Workshop Delivery System

Because we know that people long to be actively engaged in their own learning, our brand of facilitation is interactive and experiential. This style, coupled with the application of adult and accelerated learning principles in workshop design and delivery, ensures participants are retaining, applying and sustaining what they've learned back in their real-world settings.

Unique in the industry, we also work to create learning communities in our workshop settings. Because participants spend multiple days together, they begin to share a common experience. This creates relational bonds, which form an indirect support system within the organization. These internal learning communities are a powerful strategy to assist meeting your organization's goals. How? Because participants continue to grow and develop by reaching out to their learning community when new issues or opportunities arise.

Retaining

In the spirit of ensuring the greatest impact for our participants and retention of what they've learned, we use a multi-day immersion approach to learning. Courses are designed so that each day builds upon the day before, which allows participants to repeatedly practice concepts previously learned.

Applying

Instead of scripted roleplays, participants are asked to bring top-of-mind, real-life challenges to the workshops. These challenges are then used for content during structured practice sessions. The practice sessions give participants the opportunity to try out new skills in a supportive and safe environment. To ensure the skills are being learned and applied properly, our practice sessions include real-time coaching from instructors. They also gain valuable insight about their approach from peer-to-peer feedback. This method empowers participants to tackle their work-place challenges by focusing on both relationships and results.

Sustaining

Let's face it, when an organization invests in the development of its people, the expected end results are long-term sustainability of the knowledge and skills learned. That's why we employ follow-up practice sessions at 30, 60 and 90 days post-workshop. During these follow-up sessions, internal learning community participants review key learnings, share successes and challenges, and practice their skills using current issues. The instructors continue to coach participants, as well as reinforce the use of peer-to-peer coaching for maximum growth and development. The follow-up sessions reinforce the concepts learned and strengthen the learning community formed during the initial workshop.