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DiSC-Based Collaboration

Great collaboration doesn’t happen by accident — it starts with understanding how you and your teammates are wired.

Description

Understanding yourself is the foundation of working well with others. This full-day program uses the Everything DiSC assessment — a science-based, computer-adaptive tool — to help participants uncover their own behavioral style and better recognize the styles of those around them. Through video, group activities, and guided reflection, participants gain practical strategies for connecting, communicating, and collaborating more effectively across differences.

Participants leave with a personalized DiSC profile and a clear action plan for applying their insights immediately in meetings, on teams, and in everyday workplace relationships.

Audience

This program is ideal for professionals at any level who want to strengthen working relationships and create a more collaborative, engaged workplace culture.

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • Understand the research behind DiSC and what your personal style reveals about your workplace tendencies
  • Recognize the priorities, motivators, and communication preferences of other DiSC styles
  • Practice “people reading” to adapt your approach in real time
  • Apply DiSC principles to build trust, navigate conflict, give feedback, and gain commitment
  • Develop a personal action plan using your assessment as an ongoing resource

Leading Across Generations

The leaders who attract and retain top talent across generations are the ones who understand what drives each of them.

Description

Today’s workforce spans up to five generations, each shaped by different experiences, values, communication styles, and expectations. One thing is the same--every generation wants to be seen and contribute meaningfully. Effective leadership requires understanding people deeply enough to lead everyone to their varying definitions of success.

This full-day workshop equips leaders with the understanding and practical tools to attract, engage, and retain talent across every generation. Moving from self-awareness to organizational action, participants will examine their own generational assumptions, develop deeper curiosity about others’ lived experiences, and build management systems that allow everyone to do their best work.

Participants will explore how generational assumptions are formed and how they impact leadership decisions. Then, attendees will discuss adapting their communication and management practices to meet the needs of a diverse workforce.

Audience

Professionals of all levels who develop, retain and engage with a multigenerational workforce.

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • Identifying and challenging their own generational biases and assumptions
  • Building empathy and curiosity through shared generational experiences and perspectives
  • Adapting communication and feedback approaches to meet each generation where they are
  • Creating team agreements, accountability structures, and recognition systems that work across generations
  • Developing a personal action plan to strengthen leadership effectiveness with every generation represented on their team

Discovering Your Genius

Even the most capable teams can feel stuck, misaligned, or frustrated - why does work that should feel energizing sometimes feel draining instead?

Description

In today’s complex and fast-paced work environment, productivity challenges are rarely caused by a lack of intelligence or effort. More often, they stem from misunderstanding how work flows from idea to execution and how each person is uniquely wired to contribute to that process. When individuals spend too much time working outside of their natural strengths, frustration increases, collaboration weakens, and burnout follows.

This interactive program introduces The 6 Types of Working Genius®, a practical framework developed by The Table Group that helps professionals understand how they contribute best to getting work done. Participants will discover what types of work give them energy and fulfillment, where they may experience frustration, and how to collaborate more effectively - without restructuring roles or changing teams.

Unlike traditional personality assessments, Working Genius is designed as a productivity tool. It provides a simple, shared language that clarifies how work moves from idea to execution. Participants will explore how different strengths show up in meetings, projects, and cross-functional collaboration and how to regulate their own contributions to reduce friction and improve outcomes.

Through guided reflection, structured discussion, and real-world application, participants will learn how to apply the model immediately to improve alignment, increase momentum, and elevate team performance.

By the end of the session, professionals will leave equipped with a practical framework that enhances execution, strengthens collaboration, and promotes sustainable performance.

Audience

Professionals at all levels across industries who want to better understand how they contribute to work, improve collaboration across teams, and increase productivity without increasing burnout.

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • Understanding their Working Genius®, Competencies, and Frustrations - and how each impacts energy, effectiveness, and burnout.
  • Using the Working Genius model to pinpoint where work gets stuck (Ideation, Activation, Implementation) and improve collaboration across roles and functions.
  • Reducing guilt and judgment by recognizing how different geniuses show up at work and how to better partner with others.
  • Regulating their genius in meetings and projects to reduce “turbulence,” strengthen handoffs, and keep work moving forward.
  • Designing more effective meetings aligned to the right type of work, with clear expectations, roles, and follow-through.
  • Creating practical commitments to apply immediately, improving results within their current role and team.

Influencing and Persuading for Results

When ideas are met with hesitation, influence bridges the gap between being heard and making things happen.

Description

In today’s dynamic work environment, success depends on engaging others, building trust, and moving forward together. Influence is the ability to guide people through credibility and integrity, while persuasion turns ideas into cooperation by connecting logic and emotion to shared values.

This one-day program equips you to influence and persuade ethically and effectively. You’ll learn how to strengthen relationships, communicate with purpose, and navigate resistance with confidence, enabling collaboration and meaningful results.

Audience

Employees at all levels who need to effectively influence others up, down, and over in order to achieve personal, team, and organizational goals.

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • Build credibility and trust that encourages others to listen and follow.
  • Adjust your approach to influence different audiences and situations.
  • Listen to understand, not just to respond, so you can address real needs.
  • Present ideas in ways that motivate action and support.
  • Handle resistance constructively, transforming disagreement into progress.

Influencing in a Business Environment

Professionals become frustrated, aggravated, and discouraged when they feel like they are limited in what they can do, are not being heard, or their ideas are not grasped or appreciated.

Description

Organizations oftentimes have many different departments that work together to achieve the overall mission and vision. However, these departments can become siloed and develop agendas of their own. How does a professional get buy-in from colleagues at all levels of the organization in this type of business environment?

The key is influencing. This one-day program will provide strategies to influence others no matter their position or title to achieve common goals that will propel the overall organization toward success. Goal setting, preparation to be persuasive, and crafting an effective message for specific audiences will all be discussed through conversations and experiential activities.

Audience

Employees at all levels who need to effectively influence others up, down, and over in order to achieve personal, team, and organizational goals.

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • Understanding and leveraging various ways to be influential
  • Creating a plan to become a trusted advisor that colleagues seek out for guidance
  • Strengthening the ability to have a voice that is heard
  • Defining clear outcomes and identifying objectives, obstacles, strategies, and tactics
  • Responding to concerns and hesitations in an impactful way
  • Maintaining commitments to earn trust and credibility

Venue

Cintas Center
1624 Musketeer Drive
Cincinnati, 45207 United States + Google Map
Phone
513-745-1094

Business Innovation Certificate

In this inspiring and highly interactive program, we will share innovation methods and tools across the areas of Design Thinking, Storytelling, and Creativity/Improvisation.

Our internationally recognized facilitators have more than 75 years of experience between them in innovation and have touched hundreds of companies and brands.

To obtain a Business Innovation Certificate, participants will attend the following one-day programs:

Program Dates

  • April 4, 2023 (8:30am-4:00pm)
  • April 18, 2023 (8:30am-4:00pm)
  • May 2, 2023 (8:30am-4:00pm)
  • May 16, 2023 (8:30am-4:00pm)

Description

Creative Problem Solving

This highly-interactive, fun, and fast-paced session provides a framework for understanding and applying tools to meet real business needs. You will walk away from this session with increased confidence to generate creative ideas, techniques to recognize/replace unproductive thinking patterns, and a methodology to foster creative potential and innovation. Participants are encouraged to think about real-life organizational problems and bring these situations to the program to discuss and brainstorm together. By walking through these problems together, participants will learn the steps to creatively solve problems.

Customer Experience

In this program, participants will learn how to strategically deliver customer experiences with purpose. Delivering exceptional customer service is all about the details. In order to exceed expectations, you need to create systems and processes to make sure that nothing is left to luck. Learn ways to be intentional to create memorable experiences. Discover unique ways to make sure your customers are telling others about their excellent experience with your organization.

Design Thinking

In this one-day program, you will have a hands-on experience while learning both the mindset and method of Design Thinking. Covering the principles of empathy, problem framing, ideation, prototyping, and testing, you will leave with tools and stories you can take back to your business for immediate application.

Design Thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation that is 100% focused on people. You begin by examining the needs, dreams, and behaviors of people you want to affect with your solution. This is the ‘Desirability’ lens, and you will continue to view the world through this lens throughout the design process. Then, you begin to view solutions through the lenses of  ‘Feasibility’ (what is technically and organizationally feasible) and ‘Viability’ (what is financially viable). These two lenses are introduced carefully during the later phases of the design thinking process. Finally, the program will stress that true breakthrough solutions will overlap all three lenses.

Storytelling for Innovation

More than ever, there is one thing that truly separates many brands and companies today—that one thing is STORY. When it comes to creating powerful brand connections, engaging innovations, and inspirational business strategies, a good story can make whatever brands share more impactful. For this full-day workshop, presentations include surprising insights, engaging personal stories, fun movie references, hands-on exercises, and “Hollywood-esque” tools. Participants will leave with a series of inspiring story fundamentals, examples, and methods that can be applied by ANY role within an organization and in ANY industry. Using the building blocks of storytelling, participants will be able to develop strategies to bring innovative ideas and methodologies back to the organization.

Audience

Individuals that strive to bring design thinking and creativity to their organization’s daily practice and are looking to build a culture of innovation within the organization.

Outcome

Creative Problem Solving:

  • How to define and unleash creativity
  • Understand the myths of creativity
  • Learn to identify problems with effective brainstorming
  • Gain skills to strengthen creativity
  • Capture ways to think differently
  • Learn The Three-Legged Stool of Innovation
  • Tackle actual organizational problems

Customer Experience:

  • Learn what makes a great customer experience
  • Unlock deep customer understanding to reveal customer pain points
  • Map the customer’s journey to reveal emotions and insights
  • Develop customer personas and segmentation
  • Turn insights into actions
  • Pursue customer-centered innovation

Design Thinking:

  • See new opportunities in a consistent manner
  • Connect deeply with customers
  • Use the needs and wants of customers to guide ideation and solution-making
  • Transform insights and data into actionable ideas
  • Create and implement new solutions with business impact in a faster and more effective way
  • Discover solutions through three different lenses

Storytelling for Innovation:

  • Defining and leveraging the most distinctive quality of the brand idea in the stories
  • Understanding how empathy serves as the foundation for both the story and innovation strategy
  • Knowing where to look to find the best “stories” to learn from
  • Utilizing story principles to ensure data and analytics are delivered in the most powerful and compelling way
  • How to use a story sequel plan for the brand’s strategy and long-term pipeline
  • Creating focused and clear presentations by leveraging a powerful story theme
  • Crafting and using an elevator pitch to leave the audience wanting more

Venue

Cintas Center
1624 Musketeer Drive
Cincinnati, 45207 United States + Google Map
Phone
513-745-1094

Business Storytelling

More than ever, there is one thing that truly separates many brands and companies today—that one thing is STORY. When it comes to creating powerful brand connections, engaging innovations, and inspirational business strategies, a good story can make whatever brands share more impactful.

Description

For this full-day workshop, presentations include surprising insights, engaging personal stories, fun movie references, hands-on exercises, and “Hollywood-esque” tools. Participants will leave with a series of inspiring story fundamentals, examples, and methods that can be applied by ANY role within an organization and in ANY industry. Using the building blocks of storytelling, participants will be able to develop strategies to bring innovative ideas and methodologies back to the organization.

Audience

Any professional within any industry can benefit from developing storytelling skills.

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • Defining and leveraging the most distinctive quality of the brand idea in the stories
  • Understanding how empathy serves as the foundation for both the story and innovation strategy
  • Knowing where to look to find the best “stories” to learn from
  • Utilizing story principles to ensure data and analytics are delivered in the most powerful and compelling way
  • How to use a story sequel plan for the brand’s strategy and long-term pipeline
  • Creating focused and clear presentations by leveraging a powerful story theme
  • Crafting and using an elevator pitch to leave the audience wanting more

Venue

Cintas Center
1624 Musketeer Drive
Cincinnati, 45207 United States + Google Map
Phone
513-745-1094

Storytelling with Data

Data is needed to make smart and appropriate business decisions. However, if data is not presented in a compelling way, the decisions can be undermined.

Description

Data provides the foundation for making smart and appropriate choices in many contexts. However, it is not unusual for managers to be overwhelmed by the amount of available data within their organization and the marketplace. To tell an effective, data-inspired story, it is important to know the intended audience and present the most applicable information in the most effective way.

This session will begin by helping participants understand what questions need to be addressed and discerning what data is relevant to answer those questions. Then, the program will focus on what makes a story convincing and how to adapt stories to the needs of different audiences. This will be followed by applying that understanding to create powerful, data-driven stories that will change mindsets and facilitate the right business choices. Participants will also explore the interpretation of data and ensure that data is used accurately and completely.

Audience

Professionals in any industry wanting to improve data-driven storytelling practices.

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • Discovering the end objective that needs to be assessed
  • Identifying the data that best informs the end objective
  • Clarifying how to interpret the collected data
  • Understanding the audience and how they need to receive information
  • Translating the data into an effective story for the target audience
  • Incorporating relevant visuals to support the story behind the data

Venue

Cintas Center
1624 Musketeer Drive
Cincinnati, 45207 United States + Google Map
Phone
513-745-1094