“Walking on water wasn’t built in a day.”
-Jack Kerouac
 

Transforming the thinking and action of an individual, a team or an entire organization takes time and fortitude. It also takes some very well-honed tools and skillful leadership.

Education and training are two essential tools for developing new collaborative capacity and leadership, especially when they are designed around participants’ actual business challenges and concerns. 

Highly interactive and action-oriented, Grayson James Consultants’ workshops and courses are crafted to engage executives, middle managers and employees in developing new thinking, new action and new organizational outcomes.
 

Current programs include:
 

TALKING TRUST [IN BUSINESS]™
A new 90-120 minute in-house program designed for Boards of Directors and senior management teams. (Please call for details.)
 

COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP™ - Intro Course
This course provides executives and mid managers with a powerful new understanding of how to manage the complex, interdependent network of business conversations, processes and relationships in their organizations in order to produce aligned, collaborative leadership and results.   We get exceptional feedback about this program and the impacts this program has on course participants and their business colleagues.   

COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP™ - Advanced Programs
Custom tailored as a follow up to the Introductory Course, these programs support and advance the strategic aims of a management team, board, cross-functional work group.  Emphasis is on expanding participants’ capacity to relate to the future in powerful ways, and to take bold new leadership action in strategic and commitment-enhancing ways. 
 

INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS COACHING
Business coaching has become one of the most effective ways for organizations to consistently improve the performance of individuals and teams, from senior executives to line staff.  This workshop introduces participants to the basic distinctions, practices and the application of business coaching in organizations.  This program sets the stage for more in-depth training of coaches within an organization, which may include certification courses for internal business coaches or facilitators.
 

COLLABORATIVE ACTION LABS
Collaborative Action Labs provide an opportunity for managers or line staff from different departments to raise and address critical business issues, opportunities or challenges within a facilitated conversational context. The focus of these labs is two-fold:

• To facilitate participants in brainstorming, strategizing, planning and/or committing to specific actions related to their topics of concern, and;
   
• To enable participants to concurrently learn and practice new collaborative competencies, within the context of their important business issues and challenges. 

These Labs are exceptionally effective at building trust, cross-functional interaction, and alignment within management and cross-functional teams.

LEADING AT THE CENTER OF CHANGE™
This course introduces participants to proven emotional, intellectual and physical leadership practices for leading and managing effective change in organizations and in life.
 

Please call us at 707/769-9601 to discuss how our programs
 can contribute to your organization’s collaborative
performance capacity.