 Training, Workshops & Retreats
Your success depends on how well you develop your most talented employees. CEO Partnership partners with you in developing training programs to address your most pressing business and leadership challenges.
Over the last fifteen years, we've provided training, facilitation, workshops and retreats for a wide variety of organizations and work teams – from high-tech firms to financial institutions, universities, cities, state and federal agencies, national health care providers, engineering and manufacturing firms.
Customized for your Needs
We begin with an assessment of your training needs and then custom design programs that incorporate and reinforce your existing training programs or even current books you want to bring to life. In formats ranging from two hours to multiple days, every training program and retreat is designed to fit your schedule and tailored to help you meet your business objectives.
Depending on your preference, we will partner with world-class resorts in Colorado (and elsewhere) to deliver a truly memorable training program or we will come to your location and do the same.
Uniquely Effective
Our training is unique in that our programs are highly interactive, hands-on, content-rich, innovative, fun and engaging, and designed to enable participants to immediately put their learning to work on the real-life problems and challenges your organization is facing today.
Our Training Programs:
- Sharpen leadership & communication skills
- Enhance problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Identify and integrate individual strengths
- Improve collaboration & teamwork
- Rekindle creative energy
- Spark new ideas and innovations
- Build camaraderie and trust
- Renew commitment
Some of our most popular executive training programs include:
Leader as Coach
The Coaching Clinic®
Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
Emotional Intelligence in Sales
Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
Conflict Management
Powerful Communication Skills for Managers & Executives
Power, Persuasion & Influence
Smart Negotiations
Results-Focused Leadership
Stress Management & Resiliency
Board & Executive Team Retreats
Training & Retreat Testimonials
Leader as Coach
Offered as a 1½ -hour keynote, a half-day, or in one-or two-full day formats, this dynamic, highly-interactive workshop will get your leaders practicing the essential skills of coaching immediately, including respectful listening, asking powerful questions, providing honest, constructive feedback, dialogue, evoking excellence, challenging for results, goal-setting and action planning.
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The Coaching Clinic®
Is a two-day seminar where executives, managers, HR professionals and leaders learn crucial coaching skills and competencies? Designed and licensed through Corporate Coach University International, this program supports individuals in gaining an in-depth understanding of how to coach and develop others. Dr. Belsten is a licensed Coaching Clinic® facilitator.
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Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
Covers the business case for EI, the scientific, medical and health case for EI, the four-quadrant EI model, the 24 EI competencies, and the competencies most important for success in your organization and for your employees’ positions. Highly-interactive and engaging, this is one of our most popular programs.
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Emotional Intelligence in Sales
The world’s top sales people have the unique ability to “read” or “tune in to” others to make and close the sale. They are also realistically optimistic, an emotion which is contagious and leads to more and bigger sales, and they are also more resilient in the face of setbacks. This workshop focuses on the top ten EI skills for sales people.
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Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
This popular program begins with one of the emotional intelligence (EI) assessment tools and continues with your choice of a variety of EI workshops, depending on your needs. These may include stress management, powerful influencing skills, realistic optimism, honing awareness and understanding of ourselves and others, teamwork and collaboration, developing and coaching others, managing conflict, innovation, building trust, catalyzing change, and many more. Optional, on-going coaching in between workshops further reinforces the learning and supports individual executives and leaders in integrating new leadership practices in the work place.
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Conflict Management in the Workplace
Conflict costs U.S. organizations billions of dollars a year in wasted staff time, unnecessary turnover, lost productivity, and the consequences of poor decisions resulting from a process contaminated by power contests. This workshop gets to the root of conflict. In this workshop, we use The Conflict Lens® instrument, an assessment instrument which identifies conflict behaviors, and provides a powerful way to improve self-awareness of what triggers conflict in individuals and how they respond to it. Based on these triggers and responses, the Conflict Lens and this workshop provide practical approaches for improving behaviors that promote more effective, constructive conflict resolution. Conflict is not necessarily a bad thing. If it’s managed constructively, it can result in new ideas, more informed decision making, and better performance. But managing conflict requires skill, knowledge and experience. There is an art to disagreeing and managing conflict without injuring relationships. Everyone has a different way of handling conflict, and it’s important to become adept in dealing with the whole range of conflict styles. These days every organization must train its employees to effectively manage conflict and resolve issues that block performance. And the impact on your bottom line is beautiful.
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Powerful Communication Skills for Managers & Executives
Communicating effectively is perhaps the most basic critical skill to an organization’s success. Good communication is not just about speaking well. The strongest influence on the outcome of all communications is the ability to listen effectively. Those who listen well tend to respond more appropriately, subsequently building trust and fostering positive business relationships. In this workshop we get into listening, communication styles, the art of dialogue, asking stimulating questions, balancing advocacy and inquiry, crafting powerful messages, giving and receiving feedback, gender differences in communication, and much more. This fun and engaging workshop is a specialty of ours.
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Power, Persuasion & Influence - We are What We Say
Some executives report spending as much as 70% - 80% of their time influencing, persuading and motivating others. Our success, relationships, leadership, and even our income depend on our ability to persuade, motivate, and influence others. This workshop combines scientific research with real-world studies to provide the most authoritative and effective arsenal of proven techniques for persuading, influencing, and motivating others. Participants learn the use of “power language,” how to exercise influence, and how attention to our verbal patterns helps us alter the balance of power.
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Smart Negotiations
Participants in this workshop learn the behavior, attitudes and processes of exceptionally successful negotiators. The program includes preparing for the negotiations (setting your objectives, identifying theirs), evaluating negotiating strengths, weaknesses and the power balance (yours and theirs), calculating the cost of concessions, overcoming gridlock, dealing with dirty tricks and more.
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Results Focused Leadership
This program focuses on results. The #1 reason people and organizations don’t achieve their goals is a lack of focus. This training program gets your entire leadership team focused on a set of mutually understood results for the organization. We begin the training program by working with you to identify the specific leadership skills and competencies most important and most needed in your organization, those most likely to bring about the results you are seeking. These leadership skills may include bottom-line competencies such as financial acumen, industry knowledge and competitiveness, and driving execution. They may also include critical thinking skills, high-impact presentation skills, and skills related to entrepreneurial risk taking. And finally, they may also include some of the EI competencies such as developing others, influencing and negotiating, fostering open dialogue, inspiring trust, innovation, change management and visionary leadership. The process of determining which leadership skills are most important for your organization is, in itself, a one-day exercise (often with a core group of executives and HR representatives) that begins to clarify and bring into focus what the organization and its members need to be doing to maximize results. The training program then brings performance issues into clear focus, with an emphasis on the skills and leadership competencies which will get the results you are seeking.
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Stress Management & Resiliency
We all know that too much stress hurts our health, our relationships, and our productivity at work. Participants in this workshop learn to identify ‘stressors’ and their sources and find ways to live with stress and use it positively. Participants will gain tools to manage stress, avoid burnout, strengthen coping skills, increase effectiveness through positive mental attitudes, maximize well-being and build resilience. Highly resilient individuals lead to highly resilient organizations which can have a competitive edge in a business environment where employees must do more with less, do it with higher quality, in new ways, with less time and a smaller budget. This highly interactive session reviews executive actions that increase or impair personal and organizational resiliency.
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Board & Executive Team Retreats
We work closely with you to design a retreat to strengthen and refine your board’s or executive team’s vision, mission, goals, action plans and ability to work collaboratively as a team. Together we define the goals of the executive retreat, prioritize the issues, design activities and dialogue which will address both business and human issues, identify where the discussion may veer off track, agree on strategies for handling potentially explosive issues, and create an agenda that will move you quickly to your desired results.
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Training and Retreat Testimonials:
“Dear Laura,
Since we returned from Aspen, I have spoken to the fellows in your Leader as Coach seminar. They consistently tell me they learned a great deal, so much so that they are changed managers. I just want you to know you scored a home run.”
Dr. Kathy Kennedy, DrPH,
Director, Regional Institute for Heath and Environmental Leadership
Associate Clinical Professor of Preventive Medicine
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
“Dear Laura,
Where were you 30 years ago? This was the most useful, helpful workshop I’ve ever attended. I could have used this 30 years ago!
J. Spencer, Senior Vice President
Hewlett Packard
“Laura,
Great workshop, great materials, exceedingly relevant to what we need to accomplish in the coming year. All the content was useful, motivating, stimulating critical thought and solid answers. Plus you created greater awareness among team members of how we can work together more productively.
Vice President, Human Resources
Clear Channel Communications
“Laura,
I would gladly attend your workshop over and over – knowing I will continue to learn and work on these coaching and communication skills. I’ve learned so much about myself and how to work more effectively with others, and I know you have even more to give.
Susan Thomas
Up With People Worldsmart Program
“Laura,
I loved your listening, your questions, your guidance, your sharing, your responsiveness – and your ability to help all members to feel heard. Your timing and pace were perfect and helped us achieve our goals. It was not stressful at all.
Reluctant Retreat Participant
City Government Executive Team
“Dear Laura,
I just wanted to thank you for leading such an interesting and useful class. I never dreamed I would learn so much in so little time . . . Briana Barbato
“Dear Laura,
Thank you again so much for an intimate, informative, generously-created workshop.
With a full heart,
Diane Pisano”
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