Workshops
The Odyssey Group offers a variety of workshops that enrich and expand the capacity of your organization. We believe that you will get the best results from products and services that meet the unique needs that your organization is dealing with, and we customize all of our workshops around your organization and your specific culture and needs. Our workshops can be used as stand-alone solutions or combined to form a curriculum of opportunities. These programs are targeted at leaders and managers, as well as at individual contributors, and we know that employees at all levels in your organization have unique needs.Managers
Leadership Odyssey
Developing leaders is a process that involves learning, application, and integration with the organization and its needs. The Leadership Odyssey is completely built around your organization and your leaders, including workshops, coaching, mentoring, and action learning.
Leadership Tools For Success
Managing people and groups requires a different skill set than contributing as an individual. Ensuring that your emerging and existing supervisors, managers, and leaders successfully fulfill the expectations that your organization has of them requires attention and development. Leadership Tools for Success is a program designed with the knowledge that people who are new to managerial roles need both information and practice.
Mentoring Skills
Teaches and builds skills, such as teaching, coaching, and providing feedback, used in effective developmental relationships. Mentoring enables experienced people in your organization to share their experience and wisdom so that others are more capable, have better performance, and are engaged in ongoing development.
Managers Role in Developmental Planning
Managers need the right tools to guide employees on their career development journeys, including goal setting, feedback, and communication.
Coaching For Results
Coaching is a useful skill - on the playing field, at the executive level, and throughout your organization. This workshop provides participants the opportunity to learn key coaching skills and to practice them in realistic situations.
Performance Management
Performance management is a process that requires managers have and effectively use a set of skills, such as documenting performance, setting objectives, and holding a performance discusson. This workshop focuses on interactive practice, building participants' confidence throughout their skill building.
Faciliation Skills
Conducting meetings and groups is more than a presentation, and is a skill set that is needed throughout the organization. From listening and engaging to focusing and challenging, this workshop prepares people to work effectively in the role of facilitator.
Building Effective Work Teams
Assembling a team of people with the knowledge, skill, and approach needed to achieve the results you need is a critical step towards effective teamwork, but your team leaders also need to know how to create and mold the team. This workshop is targeted towards people who are leading and guiding teams towards increasingly greater results.
Managing For Results
Managing for Results is the workshop that increases your managers' skills in maximizing productivity, decision-making, communicating clearly and effectively, and supporting the organizational mission and strategy through their management.
Putting Innovation to Work
Each business and each job has its unique challenges. Something new or better needs to be done; you need a breakthrough change or an incremental improvement. How do you address these challenges ? How do you inspire the creativity and values needed to turn good ideas into great results?
Innovation Styles is a proven, values-driven booster that works in a wide variety of applications - marketing, new products & services, strategic thinking, productivity improvement, leadership development, and organization change.
Innovation Styles is a proven, values-driven booster that works in a wide variety of applications - marketing, new products & services, strategic thinking, productivity improvement, leadership development, and organization change.
Individual Contributors
Making The Most of Mentoring
Mentoring is most successful when those being mentored approach the relationship with clear expectations and understanding of their role, as well as the role of their mentor.
Individual Development Planning
Developing the people who make up your organization increases the capability of the business and increases the satisfaction of your people. This workshop guides participants through their skills and values, the resources and opportunities available, the skills they need to engage in a productive career discussion.
Everyone
Working With Styles
Style differences are everywhere. Styles – how people take in and use information – are an important part of who we are and how we operate. Learning to work with different styles can increase both effectiveness and satisfaction at work.
Presentation Skills
Reaching and effectively communicating a message is an essential part of organizational effectiveness. This workshop is instructional, application-oriented, and built around practices. Specific feedback and tips ensure translation to superior performance.
Creative Problem Solving
Identifying a solution often requires a creative approach to the problem. This workshop guides participants to step outside of traditional approaches using problem solving skills, unleashed creativity, and increased support for their ideas.
Give & Take of Feedback
The Give and Take of Feedback offers skills, application, and practice in discussing job-related behavior in an effective, clear, and supportive conversation.
The Exceptional Service Team
Customer service is one of the most visible measures of your organization your customers, and you depend on each one of your people to maintain excellent service. This workshop assesses and increases the service strengths among the participants, as well as provides a strategy for creating competitive advantage through service.
Office Politics at Work
Office politics is about getting things done using both the formal structures of your organization as well as the informal processes. This workshop provides an opportunity for participants to see and understand that organizational information is available through multiple channels and gives them the opportunity to identify and practice ethical and effective applications.
Cutting Through the Fog: Communicating Effectively
Effective communication is more than having the right words to say. Participants in this program learn about the impact of communications on their job, and gain insight into their own communication strengths and weaknesses. This workshop includes techniques and practices on topics such as crafting and delivering the message, but also listening and responding to to others' input.