The Four Elements Personal Profile

By Golden Egg Communications

Earth, water, wind and fire…..four basic elements of nature that also represent the way people behave and perceive the world. Earth people are steady, poised, dependable and supportive. Water people are patient, easily directed, flexible, and team-oriented. Wind people are spontaneous, friendly, energetic, optimistic, persuasive, and decisive. Fire people are motivating, energizing, devoted to task, results-oriented and move quickly.

This profie, based on the best-selling book by Laurie Beth Jones, “The Four Elements of Success”, is an excellent staff development and team-building tool that can help you learn a lot about yourself and a lot about your team members. When taken together and used as a team-building tool, a group of people who work together can learn a lot about how their styles compliment and can sometimes conflict with each other. A team can take a look at profiles to learn which elements thay are strong in and which element may be lacking. This assessment is fun, easy and will give you lasting info to improve teamwork and results!

Audience: everyone

Time: about 2 hours

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Ethics for Everyone

By Golden Egg Communications

Can you live a life of integrity AND ambition? For all the well-publicized failures of unethical business people, one might think that everyone cheats, but it is only the fools who get caught. Wrong! This session will take a refreshing look at personal and organizational ethics and how they translate into personal and professional success. Video clips of ethical scenarios give participants the opportunities to consider ethical implications of everyday decisions. “Ethics for Everyone” video demonstrates the many ways we act ethically and unethically at work and provides guidance on how to deal with ethical dilemmas.

Audience: everyone

Time: about 3 hours

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Workplace Etiquette: Back to Basics

By Golden Egg Communications

Do you ever feel like we live in a world full of people who have lost their sense of manners, respect and basic etiquette? Come to this session and enjoy a fun look at the basics of workplace etiquette. Bring your questions about everyday interactions.

Audience: everyone

Time: 2-3 hours

Filed Under: Personal Effectiveness & Communication

Mastering the Message

By Golden Egg Communications

This communication skills learning session is a perfect fit for people who work in busy, chaotic, demanding workplaces where communication skills are crucial to productivity, teamwork and operational success! Many of us encounter communication problems that keep us from building good work relationships and getting work done. In this learning session, you’ll have the opportunity to learn and “re-learn” some communication basics like:

  • being specific and clear
  • using humor to connect with people
  • being clear in group communication
  • encouraging discussion to solve problems
  • showing composure & compassion when communication with others
  • confirming expectations
  • listening to understand
  • approachability
  • verbal clarity

Participants will leave this workshop with a renewed sense of how communication skills can help build better working relationships. Participants have the opportunity to examine their personal strengths and weaknesses, their personal communication style and set at least one goal for personal improvement.

Audience: everyone

Time: 3-4 hours

Filed Under: Personal Effectiveness & Communication

Improving Your Presentation Skills

By Golden Egg Communications

In a well-known study, 3,000 people were asked what frightened them most. The number one answer was “public speaking”. This learning session gives participants the skills needed for confident communication with audience of one or one thousand. This full-day class gives participants the opportunity to lean the basics and deliver a 3-5 minute practice presentation, which allows each participant to get positive and improvement feedback from trainer and fellow participants.

Delivering effective presentations can help you be better at your current job and open up opportunities for your career. Being a good communicator and being able to explain ideas and information to others is an essential quality in any job. Additional reasons to improve your presentations skills are:

  • Presentations improve you personal development.
  • Effective presentations benefit your organization.
  • Presentation skills advance you career.

Learning points that engage participants are:

  1. The four main components of effective speaking for an audience of any size
  2. Speech anxiety – why we feel it and how to deal with it
  3. The importance of effective body language
  4. How to most effectively communicate your message
  5. Confidence-building techniques
  6. The ABCs of presentation skills
  7. Effective introductions and conclusions

Audience: everyone

Time: full day

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How Full is Your Bucket?

By Golden Egg Communications

How did you feel after your last interaction with another person? Did that person — your spouse, best friend, co-worker, boss or even a stranger “fill your bucket” by making you feel more positive? Or did that person ”dip from your bucket,” leaving you more negative than before? The #1 New York Time and #1 BusinessWeek bestseller, How Full Is Your Bucket? by Tom Rath & Donald Clifton reveals how even the briefest interactions affect our relationships, productivity, health, and longevity.

Organized around a simple metaphor of a dipper and a bucket, and grounded in 50 years of research, this engaging program will show you how to greatly increase the positive moments in your work and your life — while reducing the negative. Filled with discoveries, powerful strategies, and engaging stories, How Full Is Your Bucket? is sure to inspire lasting changes and has all the makings of an unforgettable learning session.

Audience: everybody

Time: 3-4 hours

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What’s My Style?

By Golden Egg Communications

Without question, personality drives behavior and communication. Yet even among groups of people who work closely together, there may be a lot they don’t know or understand about each other’s personality. This workshop provides a simple and fun way to measure and understand general personality style. By completing a self-assessment, participants are able to gain a better understanding of their own style and learn about the style of others. This is a non-threatening, team-building opportunity to look at and learn more about individual personality style and the way those styles affect the way people work together.

Audience: everyone

Time: about 2 hours

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Personal Time Style

By Golden Egg Communications

You can’t manage time nearly as well as you can manage yourself. That is the foundational idea this learning session is based upon. Personal Time Style is designed to help you improve the way you manage yourself and your time in order to obtain better outcomes and improved working relationships. Emphasis is placed on focusing on priorities, organizing resources and managing people. A self-assessment provides enlightenment about how you  use time to accomplish objectives, share information and work with others.

Audience: everyone

Time: about 3 hours

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Effective Time Management

By Golden Egg Communications

Stress is a fact of life. How well you manage it is a skill everyone can learn and improve upon. This program gives each person the opportunity to identify stress symptoms and the various options for effectively managing stress in daily life. Participants are also given the opportunity to complete the “Stress Profiler,” a simple self-assessment that reveals a lot about oneself and stress. This program can yield specific action points for an individual or group to follow-up on that will help with stress management, change management and improving the work environment and productivity.

Audience: everyone

Time: about 3 hours

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The Pygmalion Effect

By Golden Egg Communications

It’s a fact — limited expectations bring limited results, high expectations lead to exceptional results. The phenomenon is known as the Pygmalion Effect and it has been documented often in both business and education. The good news is that we can be taught to create the positive results of the Pygmalion Effect. This learning experience clearly illustrates that the way we view others can deeply impact the outcome of any given project or task.

In the video, participants get a complete overview of the Pygmalion Effect through real-life examples and dramatic scenes from the classic movie “Pygmalion,” where individuals are transformed through the positive (or negative) expectations of another. The four ways managers transmit expectations to the subordinates – climate, feedback, input and output are also depicted.

Offer this workshop to your group if you want the leader in your organization to:

  • Understand how positive/negative expectations create self-fulfilling prophecies
  • Develop the skills to positively influence coworkers and subordinates
  • Raise the expectations they have for their staff
  • Believe more in their own ability to positively influence and lead others

Audience: everyone

Time: about 3 hours

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Improving Your Problem-Solving & Decisions Making Skills

By Golden Egg Communications

Problem-solving and decision-making are two of the most challenging and complex skills required of individuals and teams. This learning experience give you the opportunity to learn some “best practices” of problem-solving and decision-making using a variety of self-assessments, structured experiences and learning resources.

Audience: everyone

Time: 3-4 hours

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Trust Builders and Trust Breakers

By Golden Egg Communications

Without trust, nothing good happens. Participants have the opportunity to explore what affects their decision to trust, or not trust others. In a non-threatening way, participants explore, discuss and assess trust-building and trust-breaking behaviors. This is a great opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of  trust on a personal, team and organizational level.

Audience: everyone

Time: 3-4 hours

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Resolving Conflict

By Golden Egg Communications

Success without conflict is unrealistic. Few of us are really good at dealing with conflict in an honest, positive, solutions-oriented way. In this learning session, you’ll learn a clear, easy-to-use approach that will help you think things through to arrive at the best action to take when in a conflict situation. Ultimately, this will increase the productivity of your organization. You’ll learn that turning conflict into collaboration is the only way to make sure that goals are met, relationships are improved and teams are strengthened.

Main learning points:

  • Identify the three most common workplace conflict situations.
  • Identify the five different ways people deal with conflict.
  • Use the “Everybody Wins” approach in a conflict situation.
  • Learn the basic principles/practices for resolving conflict constructively
  • Take personal responsibility for dealing with conflict, diversity, and disagreement.

Audience: everyone

Time: 3-4 hours

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Who Moved My Cheese?

By Golden Egg Communications

You’ll love this classic program that covers the basics of how humans deal with change. After all, life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. You’ll have a blast with this fun look at change, based on the New York Times best seller, Who Moved My Cheese? You’ll understand why thousands of organizations make this book required reading.

Audience: everyone

Time: 3-4 hours

Filed Under: Personal Effectiveness & Communication
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