Organizational Development - OD Training Classes and Seminars In Hartford, CT

The Key to Working More Effectively With All Types of PeopleLearn why Emotional Intelligence is so i...

Building a culture of accountability is key to organizational success. People that embrace accountability at work are happier employees — they're high performing, more motivated, more invested in company goals and more productive overall....

Strengthening Your People Skills in the Workplace is an intensive new people skills training workshop that provides you with a way to gain the essential people skills you need to push ahead in your career....

What if you could create radical solutions that could stimulate an emotional response? Better yet, what if you could do so rapidly? Experimental, collaborative and holistically innovative. That’s design thinking. It’s a mindset for success. It’s for anyone who wants to see infinite possibilities and turn problems into solutions. Putting the customer front and center, design thinking offers a strategy for successful companies to be more agile and innovative. Using a proven process to drive inn...

<p>Breakthrough growth isn’t about luck. It requires that everyone in the organization change their mindset from <em>what is </em>to <em>what if </em>and create a disruption. Disruption equips us with the ability to withstand external threats, like competition, technology, government regulations, demographic shifts, economic uncertainty, and other influences.</p> <p>As a leader of disruptive innovation, you will help your business capitalize on new opportunities and safeguard it against stagn...

<p>With import/export costs accounting for up to 20% of bottom-line expenses for many U.S. corporations, there is an urgent need for global supply chain professionals with the most current skill sets available. This course offers you a comprehensive and contemporary foundation in these issues. Explore regulations, procedures, global security, documentation, dealing with customs and other government agencies, trade compliance, HTS classifications, managing freight and much more. You’ll interact w...

<p>In a shifting business environment, it’s the agile and resilient organizations that have a much better chance to survive—and even to thrive. With future orientation and entrepreneurial focus, this course gives you the roadmap to seize new opportunities and bounce back even stronger from unforeseen changes.</p> <p>Let’s build agility and resilience into your leadership repertoire and your organization’s DNA. Add the ability to shift mindset and inspire behavior change. Plus, the strategies ...

Professionals who can write clearly and correctly are far more valuable to an organization than those whose business writing is filled with errors. Whether you need to refresh your knowledge of grammar and punctuation—or know what’s grammatically correct but can’t always explain why—this highly interactive and collaborative course is the perfect and painless solution. Grammar in business writing gives you the tools to correctly apply the standard rules for proper usage in business writing. Using...

<p>Good business teams produce results during times of prosperity. It’s a different story during times of change and uncertainty, when only prepared and motivated teams have the agility, focus and motivation to successfully in navigate the shifting environment.</p> <p>As a leader, you must help your people overcome their reactions, embrace the change initiatives, and use focused approaches to keep team activities on course. </p> <p>In this workshop, you’ll gain practical tools that will enable...

<p>Research shows that most companies have little or no deliberate succession planning in place—and aren’t fully aware of how much the lack of it can cost their organization, especially in an unstable economy. Managing the succession of talent is a vital strategic process that minimizes gaps in leadership and enables your best people to develop the skills necessary for possible future roles.<br> <br> This seminar will show you how to design and implement an effective and flexible succession pl...

Adjusting and re-adjusting to a business environment that is constantly changing can feel like a never-ending struggle. Without specific skills to adapt, your productivity, morale and business results can be adversely impacted. You first need to recognize your responses to your environment—and then learn how to adapt your mindset accordingly. This workshop explores ways to develop great adaptability through emotional intelligence and mindset. Using specific steps, tools and techniques, you’ll...

<p>The modern workplace is here! For leaders like you whose team is co-located, remote or a combination, you’ve got to be ready to implement the next set of actions to build a culture in which innovation, creativity and collaboration can thrive regardless of any physical boundaries separating employees. Take charge and explore what’s possible for you in this course.</p> ...

Tactics for Overcoming Change Resistance and Risks

More than ever before, organizations are evolving, innovating and changing to stay relevant and ahead of the competition. Leadership at all levels are being asked to communicate, support and successfully manage all stages of the change process....

<div><ul> <li>Establishing agreements, consistent definitions and success metrics</li> <li>Setting parameters for team selection and role assignments</li> <li>Understanding and choosing an appropriate strategic planning model, frame of reference, and related decisions • Agreeing on logistics, scheduling needs and considerations</li> <li>Knowing the key components of the strategic planning process</li> <li>Translating the strategic planning process into tactical action and communication plans</li...

For most of us, the demands our careers place on our shoulders can be overwhelming. Combine this with the distractions caused by an unending influx of information, and our lives can become downright exhausting. If we don't react to these stimuli with clear discernment, our ability to think clearly and make wise decisions about what's important suffers, the goals that matter most in our professional and personal lives get shortchanged, or not accomplished at all. This course combines curren...

We all have a mindset for innovative and creative thinking, but when processes have been in place for many years, introducing fresh ideas can be a struggle for many organizations. SkillPath’s newly refreshed LIVE, virtual training program presents all-new strategies for adopting a creative mindset and removing barriers to innovation....

<div><ul> <li>How to build rapport and achieve trust</li> <li>Fundamental competencies needed to achieve solid work relationships</li> <li>Flexibility in actions, thoughts, and feelings to better handle any situation</li> <li>Personal and professional responsibilities in communicating effectively with others</li> <li>Short- and long-term implications of communication as a cycle of continuous responses that create "relationship residue"</li> <li>How to avoid communication mistakes such as misinte...

Prepare to achieve the APMG Change Management&trade; Foundation and Practitioner certifications in this training course...

Successful organizations rely on critical thinkers and creative thought leaders who can generate inventive solutions to everyday problems...

In this Business Relationship Management (BRM) training course, you take on the role of a business relationship manager, learn to overcome communication barriers between IT and the business, leverage innovative best practices, and solve business problems ...

<div><p>Today's organizations must integrate and align people, processes, structures, culture, and strategy in order to successfully transition individuals and groups from a current state to a desired future state, such that the desired outcomes and business objectives are achieved. Unfortunately, many managers still view their primary responsibility as managing specific business functions (resources, time, scope, budgets, etc.) and have a difficult time understanding and properly integrating organizational change management activities through successful strategic execution.�</p> <p>This course focuses on change management in the areas of organizational development and human resource management combined with standardized portfolio, program, and project management practices (<em>A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge [PMBOK^� Guide]�Fifth Edition, 2013</em>, Project Management Institute, Inc.). All key concepts necessary to manage strategic and tactical changes are covered through a mix of inspiring lectures and exercises.</p> <p>Organizational change directly affects everyone from the entry-level employee to senior management; therefore, everyone must learn how to handle changes to the organization. Managers and executives are charged with the additional responsibility for making change happen in and through the different levels of strategic execution.</p> <p>PMBOK and PMI are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.</p> <p>�</p> <p><s...

<div><p>Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:</p> <ul> <li>Explain the common vulnerabilities in the IoT deployments.</li> <li>Explain the cybersecurity approach for IoT architectures.</li> <li>Define the Cyber Vision main concepts.</li> <li>Describe Cyber Vision solution portfolio.</li> <li>Describe and use the Cyber Vision GUI.</li> <li>Identify and explain Cyber Vision Installation and Support procedures.</li> <li>Define Cyber Vision Assessmen...

Business and Personal Development

All projects introduce change into organizations which invariably change the way stakeholders work. Organizational change management (OCM) is about the people side of change – helping them let go of old practices and embrace the new. Through this interactive workshop, you will learn techniques to clearly define the change, generate support, assess organizational readiness, develop a change management plan, effectively address resistance, and identify the critical success factors to sustain the change once it is implemented. In short, you will leave class ready to participate as a valuable change agent in any change initiative....