Developing Organizational Health through Teams and Groups

Customized programs explore ways to develop new skills and competencies and influence organizational culture. 

Creating a healthy work culture with employees who feel valued is critical in the modern workplace. High demands make it harder for organizations to provide an environment where all are engaged and high performing. Sepp6 6 invites conversations about how to make your organization and your teams more effective, fulfilled, and collaborative. Achieving these results in a healthier, more resilient workplace.

Key topics of Sepp6 programs include:

• Leadership Development:  Learn a proven model of leadership, laying out a clear path for leaders at all levels to meet real-world demands. The focus will be on understanding how style and tendencies influence  effectiveness in specific leadership situations.
• First Team: Build trust on your first team, so everyone can weigh in to buy in and keep each other accountable to team commitments.  Leading as a first team prevents/remedies insidious silo mentality and builds focus toward organizational goals.
• High Performing Cohesive Team: Explore the 5 behaviors as defined by Patrick Lencioni of trust, productive conflict, commitment, accountability, and results. Designed for an intact team of three to twelve members who share responsibility for collective goals and want to become more effective and higher performing.
• Inclusive Workplaces: Leading an organizations that values equity and belonging can only happen when leadership commits to a workplace that values, models, and leverages differences. Mindsets, policies, norms and rules need to be reviewed for updates in a journey of learning and practice.
• DiSC: Whether improving working relationships, strengthening management skills, building best practices in leadership, or tackling conflict with a new mindset, DiSC programs delivers insights and strategies to meet many organization's unique needs.  
• Embodied leadership: How do you affect and inspire others? Identify ways to ground yourself in something that you are committed to, that you care about, allowing you to take more powerful actions and be better aligned with your goals and values.
• Emotional Intelligence: Understanding yourself and your impact on others are critical skills of anyone in the workplace, especially leaders. They are also the first two components of emotional intelligence. They open the door to addressing the next two, which are self- and social-management. The many benefits include stress reduction, greater trust, improved communication and relationships, increased accountability, and greater professional success.
• Work of Leaders:  Learn the simple 3-step process that is the fundamental work of leaders: Vision, Alignment and Execution. We'll use a best practices model of leadership that connects real world demands to a clear path of action, identifying leadership strengths and areas for development.  
• ​Organizational Resilience:  Increase the capacity for your team to recover from and adapt in the face of stress, change and adversity with specific programs designed to meet the challenges your team currently faces.
• Management Training:  Managers are your best retention tool (75% of the reasons for turnover can be influenced by managers and their relationships with staff). Develop your orgnanization's management team by building self awareness, leveraging their strengths, enhancing communication skills and their ability to meet the needs of the individual employee.  We'll use a behavioral model to refine how to motivate, direct, delegate and develop others (and how to better manage up), knowing that one size does not fit all.  
• Unconscious Bias:  The brain has a complex and important job making sense of each moment’s 11 million bits of data, an unconscious  cognitive process that influences attitudes, judgment, and decisions. This session discusses how to understand, recognize, mitigate (when necessary) and leverage these mental shortcuts.
• Manager as Coach: Managers play a key role in the development, motivation and satisfaction of staff. This session focuses on identifying coaching moments and practicing coaching techniques to get the best of each team member.
• Communications: Practice critical components of effective, clear communications to quickly change results. Powerful language moves increase collaboration, accountability and productivity.
• Capacity Building: Learn best uses of personal resources while managing the many external demands and stressors. Science reveals best uses of energy and time that lead to getting more done, better problem solving and more creative thinking. This cognitive and physiological knowledge can be put into practice to make every day easier.