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Workshops
At Barbara Annis & Associates, we’re workshops specialists. Let us help to create a learning session that is right for your team. Using powerful diagnostics, we can tailor a diversity workshop to your needs, or assist in building an ongoing learning series for your organization.
We’re continually developing new material for our workshops, and specialize in multimedia presentations that incorporate dramatic scenarios and engaging video content to deliver the message with impact. Here are some of the workshops we’re offering:
Creating Inclusiveness engages every employee to co-create a new culture in which each individual feels valued and included. It is designed to renew employees’ commitment to their workplace by making them agents of change for an inclusiveness culture.
Gender Awareness examines the typical misinterpretation of both genders, explores the different ways men and women communicate and make decisions, and guides participants to an understanding of win/win communication. This nine-module program can be tailored to your needs and facilitated in a one- or two-day workshop.
Attracting and Retaining the Best explores the latest research, tools, and global initiatives that have worked to attract and retain top talent. Our approach includes the cultural challenges organizations face in retaining Aboriginals, members of various ethnic and cultural groups, different ages, and both genders. It also develops a tailored benchmarking strategy to create a competitive edge and reduce turnover.
Building Team Effectiveness elucidates how gender, personality, and cultural differences play out in the workplace. Removing barriers and increasing awareness free employees to contribute their best and permit the team to accept each member’s contribution, so that everyone can bring greater creativity, enthusiasm, and focus to achieving corporate goals.
Harassment-Prevention Training demystifies gender differences, reduces the likelihood of harassment, and steers your organization away from behaviors and situations that can severely damage your corporate image and employee morale. Our approach is positive and enlightening for both men and women.
Diversity Team Effectiveness applies diversity awareness to the task of team building. Many teams fail because they cannot effectively employ different ways of communicating and problem-solving across cultures. This workshop offers an understanding of how personality, gender, and cultural differences play out in the workplace and provides practical tools for using these differences to enhance team performance.
Women in Business Workshop meets the needs of women striving to achieve balance and success in their personal and professional lives and offers a lasting breakthrough in your effectiveness, in terms of both results and personal satisfaction. The workshop shows what can occur when you create empowering lasting relationships and build a strong inner core and clarity.
Ontological Transformational Leadership creates a leadership culture of authenticity, integrity, diversity, and inclusiveness. This intensive program creates an innovative learning environment using a tailored approach to address executives’ current challenges and breakdowns directly. The process fosters a sustainable leadership culture and mindset conducive to ongoing breakthroughs.
Authentic Leadership Retreat for Women creates personal breakthroughs, new research, and networks of support. We will use the network we are creating to help us. We will expand the network to include women from other countries and from public, private, and voluntary sectors. We can make a contribution to all women by opening up our own conversation, supporting each other, and exploring our own authenticity.
Train the Trainer is a certification program for individuals interested in leading awareness sessions and workshops as transformational facilitators and coaches and in making significant cultural change. It includes four international workshops, weekly coaching sessions, reading and writing assignments, and one-on-one coaching.
Program Structure
Our workshops are made up of several modules that can be delivered either in highly interactive two-hour weekly sessions or a one- or two-day workshop. All participants receive handouts, workbooks, or handouts that are included in the price of all program.
Sample Program: Gender Awareness (10 modules)
- The Facts – gender differences, the indisputable business case
- Gender Behavior – creating respect & inclusiveness in the workplace
- Selling and Marketing to Women – understanding the differences between male and female clients
- Self-Perpetuating Myth Cycle – a self awareness process
- Gender Communication Differences – creating a win/win
- Gender and Stress – how men and women deal with stress differently and what to do about it
- Conflict Resolution
- Creating Balance
- Stages of Awareness
- Action Plans
Results of Sample Program:
The following is a sample of the kind of results we produce to enable employees - men and women to communicate, problem-solve, and make decisions:
- Challenges men and women face when working with the opposite sex and how to resolve them
- What men say & what women actually hear
- What women say & what men actually hear
- The scientific facts of gender differences and what these mean in your relationships
- How men can empower women
- How women can empower men
- How to resolve gender conflicts with win\win results
- How to prevent harassment from ever happening
- How to frame your conversations
- Understanding our different strengths
- How to turn different leadership styles into our joint competitive advantage