House of Skills Solutions
Collaborative Leadership™
Collaborative Leadership™
Thriving amidst the intricacies of matrix or expansive global organisations can be a daunting task, to say the least. Let’s not sugarcoat it—navigating dual reporting lines, breaking down silos, and manoeuvring through political mazes can test even the most resilient leaders.
However, success is not just a possibility—it’s a reality. Our program delves deep into the strategies and insights of those who not only survive but thrive in such environments. Discover the key elements of their formula for success and unlock your potential to lead and excel in complex organisational landscapes.
In today’s intricate and uncertain landscapes, particularly within matrix environments, leadership demands a strategic mindset at every level. It’s about fostering collaboration and accessibility, prioritising teamwork over solitary pursuits. Crucially, it’s about empowering team members to achieve success through shared effort and influence.
This course is tailor-made to:
Equip leaders with the mindset and behaviours necessary for strategic, collaborative decision-making.
Foster resilience within the complexities of organisational structures.
Provide leaders with effective strategies for cross-cultural collaboration and global teamwork
Step into the realm of impactful leadership with our immersive course, designed to equip you with the practical skills needed to thrive in complex organisational landscapes. Dive deep into the intricacies of leading and influencing within dynamic environments, where participants are encouraged to enrich the learning experience by sharing their insights and experiences.
Throughout the course, you will:
Understand the nuances that differentiate complex structures from simple organisational setups, and the unique challenges they present in global, government, or matrix environments.
Master techniques and behaviours that empower you to foster proactive collaboration and lead with effectiveness
Strengthen your resilience and adaptability, essential traits for success in complex systems.
Explore the pivotal role of personal influence in building collaborative relationships.
Craft strategies for enhancing productivity within culturally and geographically dispersed teams.
But the journey doesn’t end there. Participants will develop their own Personal Theory of Collaborative Practice during the workshop, ready for immediate implementation post-course, with further refinement in our post-course small group coaching sessions.
Lead2Engage™
Lead2Engage™
The more complex an environment, the more important it is that leaders know how to build, maintain and use effective and engaging relationships as the basis of personal and organisational success. Whether it be building heightened engagement in the team they lead, or managing relationships with their peers or their own up line manager/s – either in their own country or across many functions and countries…the ability to relate and influence is more critical now than ever before.
Unlock your leadership potential with Lead2Engage: an immersive journey that empowers leaders and aspiring visionaries to harness their full power and cultivate an impactful leadership style.
Through dynamic, hands-on experiences, participants don’t just attend – they actively shape their learning journey by sharing insights and real-world examples.
In just two transformative days, you will:
Master a proven framework and cutting-edge techniques for unparalleled engagement.
Cultivate authentic connections and elevate the quality of your interactions.
Gain valuable insights into your current engagement levels with peers and team members.
Craft a personalized roadmap for enhancing individual and team engagement.
But it doesn’t end there. With Lead2Engage, learning is integrated into action. You’ll conduct a comprehensive engagement analysis of your team, immediately implementing strategies for heightened engagement. And with post-course small group coaching sessions, you’ll refine your approach for sustained success.
Topics Include:
Engagement Culture & You
Potency of Leadership
The Impact of Psychological Drivers on Engagement
Psychology of Relational Communication
Communicating Authentically
Engaging Conversations
Applying the Global Engagement Framework
Who should attend? Leaders/prospective leaders who:
Want to learn how to lead in a naturally engaging manner
Want to enhance their leadership style through more impacting and meaningful leadership behaviours
Work in organisations that rely on the quality of leadership behaviours to break down silo’s and strengthen collaboration
Need to maintain engagement throughout change
Are ready for an advanced, fresh and proven approach to building an engaged team.
Don’t just lead – lead with impact – lead to engage!
Leading Virtually™
Leading Virtually™
This workshop is dedicated to managers of virtual and hybrid teams. The participants:
Become familiar with the reality of remote work
Analyze the challenges of managing remote and distributed teams
Practice 3 practices and habits of a virtual manager
- Attention and care
- Building of the sense of community
- Effectiveness and development enhancement
Create their own action plan
Thanks to the application of this solution, the participants:
Increase their personal managerial effectiveness
Improve communication and cooperation in a team
Enjoy greater trust among employees
Can build the sense of community and teamwork
Contribute to higher self-reliance of employees
Increase the motivation and engagement of team members
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Team Engagement – Power2EmpowerTM
Team Engagement – Power2EmpowerTM
This workshop enables improvement of the quality of decision-making through appropriate engagement of the team in the process. The participants:
Become familiar with decision-making styles and various levels of team engagement in decision-making
Analyze their leadership style individually
Compare their own decision-making effectiveness in with others’
Have access to the online analytical tool after the workshop ends
Receive guidelines concerning the development of their own style
Thanks to the application of this solution, the participants:
Improve the quality of the decisions made
Can enhance team engagement and accountability
Know how to use knowledge and experience resources optimally
Develop team capability and willingness to cooperate more effectively
Effectively reinforce employees’ sense of belonging to and being an important part of the organization
Optimize the time devoted to decision-making better
Optimal Motivation
Optimal Motivation
Optimal Motivation is an integrated approach to understanding and shaping human motivation. The participants:
Learn self-regulation, management of their own thoughts, feelings, and attitudes to achieve specific goals
Diagnose their sources of priorities
Recognize their own basic psychological needs from various motivation perspectives
Practice the structure of Five Steps to Triggering Optimal Motivation
Thanks to the application of this solution, the participants:
Know how to take responsibility for the level of their motivation and do not expect the company or the manager to motivate them
Willingly engage in pursuit of goals, being ready to do more than specified in the scope of their responsibilities
Believe that their workplace allows them to pursue their own goals and values and is full of meaningful interpersonal relationships
Experience a high level of energy, vitality, creativity, and innovativeness
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Leader’s Authority
Leader’s Authority
This workshop concerns the key competency of every leader: the skill to build authority among employees and colleagues. The participants:
Become familiar with four areas of authority building: credibility, vision, relationships and competencies
Diagnose the competencies on which they build their personal authority
Learn to present the vision to the team
Practice building trust and partner relationships with employees based on openness and feedback
Work on building credibility
Thanks to the application of this solution, the managers:
Act more effectively in difficult manager situations, which require referring to authority and influencing
Increase the effectiveness of influencing on the employees
Introduce changes more effectively
Exert a greater influence on the increase in employee loyalty
Use feedback as a base for work on personal authority
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Effective Manager (The Beginnings)
Effective Manager (The Beginnings)
The program focuses on building foundations of managerial competencies, delivering skills and specific tools. The participants:
Before the training, become familiar with a video inspiration, which is the starting point of work on the key aspects of the role of manager
Take part in a training game, which illustrates the areas of influence and responsibility of a manager
Identify their own tasks and areas that require optimization
Become familiar with modern tools, which allow organization and structuring of knowledge about the team
Learn and train how to set effective and engaging goals on their own examples
Practice a model of conversation which enables constructive monitoring of work progress
Thanks to the application of this solution, the participants:
Understand better their role as a manager in the organization
Formulate goals clearly and precisely and communicate them such that employees know what results are expected of them
Effectively assign tasks, adapting their method of delegation to a given employee and situation
Define the level of their employees’ skill and depending on that take relevant motivational measures
Know how to talk to an employee to account for the effects of each stage of task performance
Apply such communication techniques as are necessary for proper HR management
Can provide constructive feedback when an employee’s attitude or activity needs to be corrected
Understand the power of appreciation: can give and receive praise
Delegating
Delegating
As part of an original program we do not focus merely on techniques and tools but we show the logic of the whole delegation process. The participants:
Become familiar with the definition of delegation as an expected result
Create a map of tasks which they can delegate and which they must perform on their own
Learn to diagnose the level of employee readiness for performing the task
Become familiar with delegation techniques and tools
Practice techniques of giving feedback following task performance
Become familiar with methods of defense against upward delegation
Thanks to the application of this solution, the participants:
Are able to adapt quickly to the role of manager even if they have hardly any experience in this role
Allow employees to act by entrusting them with tasks in accordance with the principles of delegation
Set goals and communicate them to the employees correctly
Plan and organize the work of their employees effectively
Assess the employee competency level as regards individual tasks
Know what tasks they can, should and must delegate and what tasks they should not and must not delegate
Apply various delegation methods in practice
Adapt the method of delegation to a given employee and situation
Give feedback on an ongoing basis, accounting for task performance in a constructive manner
Are able to defend themselves against upward delegation
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Motivating
Motivating
The program focuses on the process of building a direct relationship between a manager and their employee. The participants:
Become familiar with the definition of motivation and motivating and various motivating factors
Examine their own motivation level and become aware of its sources
Analyze, based on a questionnaire, managerial attitudes to motivating
Become familiar with 4 areas of motivation and train solving a motivation-related problem with the use of a motivational compass
Learn to recognize individual needs of employees
Work on case studies concerning motivation-related problems
Thanks to the application of this solution, the participants:
Apply various employee motivating tools and techniques in practice
Adapt the motivating methods to employees’ needs
Act on a system basis with an awareness that motivating is a continuous process rather than an event or point in time
Use good practices and solutions developed during the training in difficult situations in the area of motivating
Build a culture of appreciation in the company by their actions
Achieve a better alignment of individual goals of employees with organization’s goals on the organization level
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Effective Remote Meetings
Effective Remote Meetings
How to avoid comments such as “what was that about?” and “I don’t know what I’m supposed to do” after a meeting the workshop participants:
Learn how to prepare for remote meetings
Become familiar with information, consultation, and problem-related meetings
Learn about the role of facilitator of remote meetings
Learn the rules and techniques of conducting such meetings
Practice handling difficult situations based on cases from their own professional life
Thanks to the application of this solution, the managers:
Known the suitable facilitation techniques, tools, and methods
Know how to apply and select influencing techniques matching their own behavior style and the goal they want to achieve
Cope with difficulties arising at meetings better
Are able to design a speech oriented towards specific goals
Effectively sell their ideas at remote meetings
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Fierce Generations®
Fierce Generations®
Effective cooperation with a multi-generational team is one of the greatest challenges faced by leaders nowadays. The participants:
Become familiar with the principles and transformational ideas of Fierce Conversations
Diagnose how much they have in common with every generation present on the labor market
Become familiar with the characteristics, methods of action and manners of cooperation between various generations
Practice team conversations, thanks to which differences become a source of power
Thanks to the application of this solution, the managers:
Support the long-term success of the organization by applying the knowledge and experience of all employees and facilitating the exchange of information between generations
Are able to recruit, motivate and maintain a diverse team in the organization effectively
Know how to build an environment that fosters further development of representatives of all generations
Understand themselves better, thanks to which they build relationships effectively and contribute to employees’ satisfaction
Use various perspectives while solving problems and looking for new solutions
Identify threats related to perceiving others from the angle of generational stereotypes more effectively and are able to respond to these threats
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Appraisal, Corrective, and Disciplinary Conversations
Appraisal, Corrective, and Disciplinary Conversations
This workshop prepares managers for conducting difficult conversations with employees. The participants:
Learn about cognitive and emotional reactions to appraisal
Become familiar with the benefits and risks involved in the appraisal process
Get to know what mistakes can be made during appraisal
Practice the assertive feedback model
Become familiar with corrective and disciplinary tools
Practice setting boundaries in the case of insufficient engagement and effectiveness
Thanks to the application of this solution, the participants:
Improve interpersonal skills
Increase the understanding of the influence of their reactions and behaviors on the environment
Are more efficient in conducting difficult corrective and appraisal conversations
Can apply the intervention line in the situation of a difficult conversation
Conduct difficult conversations with greater self-confidence, while taking care of good relationships
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