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Online Course Overview
2020 was a challenging year and required many businesses and teams to transition to a digital work environment.
That's why we've rolled out an entire catalogue of new courses designed to address current leadership challenges in the new digital environment.
You can preview all of the courses below.
In this course, we will focus on strengthening your capacity to be a "Champion for Change" - a change agent who specifically influences your organization to develop and sustain a culture that values diversity, strengthens equity, promotes inclusion, and ensures accessibility.
There are four objectives we will be focusing on in this course:
In this course we will:
In this course, there are four points we're going to emphasize:
In this course, we're going to follow a 4-step process for Effective Delegation that will help you determine:
In this course, we'll cover three ways to build motivation with your virtual teams:
There are three objectives will be focusing on through this course:
In this course, we will be emphasizing principles and strategies for managing conflict when you are involved, particularly in one-on-one working relationships with a remote colleague
Throughout the course, I'll be asking you to think of real life situations where you can apply these principles and strategies. Begin by making a list of conflict situations on the following page.
In this course we are going to focus on three specific objectives in the context of individual virtual working relationships:
In this course we're going to focus on assessing and strengthening EQ in the virtual team context.
In particular, we’ll going to look at:
In this course, we’re offering basic skills and techniques for those who want to facilitate effective virtual meetings within their own organization.
This is not a “professional facilitation skills” training. Rather, this course is for Senior Leaders, Supervisors, Team Leads, Project Managers, and really any staff member who wants to help make your organization’s virtual meetings more effective
In Virtual Facilitation 202 we will be taking the roles and responsibilities of the Facilitator to the next level.
We'll walk you through how to prepare for and facilitate more substantial virtual meetings, such as a half-day team retreat, planning meeting, or stakeholder forum. We'll look at more advanced techniques for engagement, and consider how to apply those to meetings for various purposes.
When it comes to leading in a virtual environment, you’ll have to forget a LOT of what you know about leading in a colocated world. Leading effectively in a virtual context is a whole new challenge!
Practical Strategies for Creating and Developing a Strong, Productive Virtual Team. In this Course we will focus on three fundamental aspects of a strong, productive virtual team:
In this course we cover:
In the virtual environment - especially if you’re in a “suddenly virtual” situation - it seems there are more demands coming at us from all sides than ever before.
In this Course, we will discuss useful tactics in three areas:
This course will help you:
In this course we’ll be focusing on championing change.
We'll help you to begin developing an effective change strategy to move your team or organization forward towards successfully implementing a desired or necessary change.
It doesn’t take much to see that we have major challenges communicating across differences. Here’s the problem: At some point, we will have differences with everyone!
If we don’t learn how to courageously initiate effective communication across differences, then we’re left with the only option of increasing division and decreasing capacity to work together effectively to achieve results.
In this course we’re going to be offering you strategies for strengthening existing partnerships, and for building new partnerships by expanding your range of relationships.
Seeing the Bigger Picture:
Being a leader means that it's your responsibility to both take the initiative to learn about and understand the big picture around you, and it's also your responsibility to explain that big picture to others.
This course focuses on understanding and appreciating the various functions that make your organization work while challenging you to be a "Go-To Person" in your area of expertise.
What Makes you Tick?
If you’re not clear on these fundamental building blocks, you should be.
Our personal values are an “internal compass” that guide us professionally and personally – either consciously, or unconsciously. In this module, we will examine how we define and align values by examining our personal values in relation to the forces that have shaped through the course of our lives.
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John Riordan and Associates
44927 George Washington Blvd #265
Ashburn, VA 20147