Workshops & Services

Productive Learning's core values; leadership, strategy, learning, & change provide a framework for the workshops and services offered.

Strategy

Future Vision is as essential to organizational success as the very resources and technology used to deliver your product or service. Leaders must be equipped with a compelling direction that guides their workforce’s daily decisions while also serving to motivate and inspire! Productive Learning’s clear strategy and planning solutions will provide well-organized processes for identifying and articulating the vision that will lead to engagement, productivity, and success!

Future Search Strategy

Used for organizational strategic planning, as well as for departments, initiatives, and program planning, the Future Search Conference process assists leaders in discovering strategic direction while simultaneously building commitment.

Positive Inquiry Strategy

Used for creating clear direction, uncovering latent potentials and for invigorating an organization’s culture and commitment to continuous improvement, the Positive Inquiry method gives structure to your efforts to ensure future success.

Planning Meeting Facilitation

Anytime you have important initiatives, projects, or campaigns to launch, Productive Learning can provide you with objective, energetic, and complete facilitation services that directly impact success.

Leadership

Great leaders make great organizations! And great leadership is a journey, unique to each who undertakes its challenge. Success is defined individually: a peaceful day with no conflicts for one leader may define success, while another may realize success only when employees are noisily buzzing through problem solving and information sharing. Productive Learning creates tailored workshops to help leaders discover their unique abilities to successfully lead and inspire teams. Based upon your organization’s mission and culture, participants will learn best how leadership works toward guiding unparalleled success!

Leadership Development

Productive Learning leadership development programs are created and customized for the unique needs of your organization. Apply evidence-based, proven leadership practices to the various levels and specialties in your organization to realize greater levels of productivity and success! Create an ongoing commitment to leadership growth with a series of classroom style sessions with on-the-job follow-up and application assistance, or increase effectiveness with a few sessions of awareness building and action-planning guided by knowledgeable, energetic instruction!

Leadership Coaching

Learning through experience is indisputably the most effective way for adults to develop skills and habits for leadership success. Leadership coaching sessions are a quick and efficient way to supplement daily experiential learning. Coaching session help individual leaders place emphasis on strength-building in areas best suited for the needs of the leaders and the organization. Sessions can be delivered privately for individuals, or organization-wide coaching can be instituted with opening sessions for groups followed by scheduled smaller sessions using assessment and mission-related themes.

Leadership Assessments

Knowing how to adjust relationships, habits and behaviors is a struggle most leaders face as they learn to navigate the changing workforce we face in today’s fast-paced, high tech world. Leadership Assessments can reveal how leader behavior is manifested and perceived in order to provide a knowledge base for future development and success.

    Feedback Assessments Include:
  • Leadership Style Inventory
  • Managerial Style Inventory
  • Emotional and Social Intelligence Inventory
  • Organizational Climate Survey

Leadership Consulting

Leadership strategy requires knowing where and how your human capital is best utilized to create grand results. Seeking objective, expert input on leadership strategy and placement helps organizations increase productivity while cutting costs and increasing effectiveness. Open your hidden potentials and capture the tacit knowledge that makes your organization tick. Whether engaging for an hour or a day, the payoff for planning with Productive Learning consulting will last for years!

Productivity

All organizations have systems in place to deliver their mission: technical systems, financial systems, and people systems. While technical and financial systems are tangible and regimented, people systems have more variables and room for inefficiencies. Maintaining a high level of engagement and focus in any organization’s people systems is an ongoing challenge. Involving your workforce in Productive Learning’s team learning experiences brings order and clarity to the relationships and communication patterns and will raise your productivity beyond business as usual!

Team Learning

Members of our organizations learn in different ways. Within a team, this can create valuable results or paralyzing issues. Productive Learning’s Team Learning sessions provide a structured way for teams to clarify and improve working relationships to become more effective. Team members can learn to value their differences and use them to create valuable results!

Communication & Learning Style

By understanding our own learning style, and knowing more about how others learn, we can increase our effectiveness as communicators and team members. When your workforce is equipped with tangible knowledge about how people learn, their approach to problems and challenging situations becomes more efficient. Productive Learning’s Communication workshops produce valuable, easy to grasp insight into how people learn, and can add depth to anyone’s ability to communicate clearly and effectively.

Productive Meaning-Making

Research shows that individuals capable of connecting the meaning of their daily tasks to the mission of their organization are more engaged, productive, and capable of creating a greater level of service and productivity. Busy schedules, daily problems and increasing complexity cloud worker ability to realize the meaning in daily activities. Productive Learning’s group exercises build individual and team commitment to organizational goals and success.

Assessments

When demanding work schedules and busy lifestyles command our time, we are less likely to reflect on our own strengths, behaviors, and outcomes. Taking time to measure and reflect upon individual and team approaches to the work in our organizations is imperative in order to guarantee the ongoing success in delivering products and services.

    Feedback Assessments Include:
  • Leadership Style Inventory
  • Learning Skills Profile
  • Adaptive Style Inventory
  • Managerial Style Inventory
  • Emotional and Social Intelligence Inventory
  • Organizational Climate Survey

Change

Change is the only constant, yet we spend tremendous amounts of time trying to solve the issues and challenges that change creates in our organizations. Mastering change and making it work for you is the only way to achieve high-end results in any type of organization. Productive Learning’s consulting services will provide your organization with the tools and information necessary to turn your change battles into successful results!

Complexity to Simplicity

Taking time to assess the disruption change is having on your organization’s ability to produce results will provide a starting grid for creating clarity, engagement, and focus. Bring your leadership teams and work teams through a brief assessment and analysis meeting to discover the hidden complexities that exist in your organization. Outcomes will not only provide clarity and focus, but will be enthusiastically embraced by a workforce who essentially had a hand in creating them!

Forces and Sources

Emergent Change is creeping around in every organization with varying effects. Taking part in a Forces and Sources analysis led by Productive Learning’s skilled facilitator will provide a clear picture of the forces acting upon your organization’s ability to produce results. Awareness and planning will help your organization take those forces and create confident processes for mastering them!

Adaptive Style

How Adaptive is your organization? Are there systems, processes, or people who are road-blocking your organization’s ability to perform for optimum results? Discover the personal and professional adaptability of your organization through Productive Learning’s Adaptive Style assessment and help you put the right resources in the right roles to produce wildly successful results!

Adaptive Style

Looking for an updated, results-oriented, energizing alternative to the traditional SWOT analysis for your organization? Positive Inquiry is a strong, thorough process for analyzing your organization’s potentials and creating a motivating and realistic plan for employee engagement and productivity!