Silicon Valley Training Connect provides a variety of options to HR departments. We will supply a comprehensive leadership program for your company, supplement your core internal programs or present stand alone classes to address current company priorities.
We can tailor classes/workshops to match your business needs. Courses are offered in modules, half-day increments, and full-day units.
New Manager Program - Is your training program for new Managers “sticking”? Do your managers go off to training and then return to work without effectively implementing their new skills over time? Coaching reinforces learning but is usually only available to executives – change that model! We have a comprehensive program that combines training and coaching to be sure that new skills are used in the work place by all managers. Our New Manager Training Program combines the best classroom instruction with take away action plans and individual 2-hour coaching sessions.
Choose 5 modules from our extensive list of courses to create your own customized management training program or select specific courses to supplement your existing program. They will be packaged with an individual coaching program for each participant.
Leading for Results — Understand the differences between management and leadership and what employees value in a leader. Explore and transform leadership deficits. You will receive tips for success from the best and learn how to inspire others to act.
Coaching for Development and Performance — Develop deeper levels of listening, practicing intuition and inquiry skills, and fine tuning feedback through open and closed behaviors while re-building a plan for success.
Emotional Intelligence — EI is the mental ability we are born with, which gives us our emotional sensitivity and our potential for emotional learning – skills that can help us maximize our long-term health, happiness, and survival. Good EI makes for great leaders and plays a very important role, both personally and professionally.
Cross Cultural Business Communications – Because we now live in a global world, our default communication styles can be misunderstood. In this highly interactive and practical course, we’ll take a look at what culture is and then better understand your default communication style and tools for handling any communication missteps. Through the use of active listening, political savvy strategies, influence and persuasion tools and practice learners will walk away with tools they can implement immediately.
Organizational Politics – Learn what skills are necessary to be politically savvy. Understand how to make organizational politics your friend, not your enemy, and still retain your integrity. With these new skills, you’ll not only be more successful in your organizations, but you’ll be able to fend off attacks from potential saboteurs.
Negotiating in the workplace — In this interactive workshop you will learn the steps necessary to prepare for a successful negotiation. We will explore essential negotiation skills like basic communication skills, your ability to listen and deliver your message clearly. How to build rapport, be persuasive, and think critically and creatively. Also, we’ll take a look at how non-verbal cues can help us or harm us. Participants will take a current negotiation and through group work will prepare the steps needed to have that negotiation be successful.
Changing Conflict Dynamics — Changing Conflict Dynamics is a must for anyone who has problems with or avoids conflict. Let’s face it, conflict is the norm in most organizations and life itself. Learn your style of conflict. Experience the biology (Roots and Personal Impact Triggers) and define what conflict means to you and your desires regarding how to handle it. Deal with difficult conflict situations through assertions skills, both at home and in the workplace, while practicing how to assert your messages in a safe setting.
Executive Presence and Presentations — We know that one of the greatest fears that people have is based on their ability (or inability) to stand in front of a group of people and speak confidently. This program allows you to build, examine, learn, and practice from people who present for a living and want to share all the methods that make it easy and fun.
How to Hire and Onboard — Most people hire by resume and then later learn that their skills alone are not what make the candidate a successful choice. We’ll first examine what role you’re really trying to fill, and then examine the team members you already have. Through gap analysis, participants will be able to create the skills needed by candidates to successfully fill those gaps, and then create the questions that will uncover if this is truly the right candidate for the position.
Core Communication Skills — There is a wide communication spectrum and some styles may be more effective for use in different situations or with different people. Understanding how your communication style impacts others is an important component of effective communication. This experiential workshop identifies the foundation of communication and then gives hands-on practice in giving feedback effectively as well as how to receive feedback non-defensively.
High Performance Teaming for Managers — High performance teams are essential for organizations to respond to the competitive pressures in changing domestic and global markets. High performance teams include virtual and project. Learn why teambuilding does not work and understand the team development process. Learn how to set up supportive structures that connect team members with interlocking accountability and how to create an environment that allows for communication and creativity.
Leading Meetings — Learn to plan and facilitate meetings that stay on track and produce results. Practice techniques to increase participation and dialogue, generate ideas, get to decisions, and keep meetings on track even in difficult situations. Explore techniques to identify and eliminate patterns of bias that keep your meetings from identifying the issues clearly. Leave with the skills to organize and facilitate better meetings while building trust and good working relationships within the team.
Being a Change Agent – The secret to learning how to be a Change Agent is not in your title or spot on the O-Chart. The secret to creating a Change Agent is understanding and making the five elements – Change Statements, Management of the Change, Flexibility for People, Gaining Commitment and, Measuring Results – happen through the people involved.
Performance Management — Managing employee performance facilitates the effective delivery of strategic and operational goals. There is a clear and immediate correlation between using performance management programs or software and improved business and organizational results. In this course you will gain the essentials for identifying the overlap between an employee’s intrinsic motivation and your company’s needs and from there, align the employee’s performance to those goals through monitoring, coaching, feedback and talent discussions.
