Corporate
Training and Development
In
the field of people training and development Bourke & Associates
is a pioneer in helping businesses unleash superior performance.
Our developmental approach is geared toward promoting participation,
breaking down inefficiencies that inhibit productivity, and linking
individual goals and pride of ownership with organizational objectives.
The
net result of our commitment to designing reliable and universally
applicable methods, is a productive work force that possesses the
ability to capture new learning at every turn, while remaining
resilient and responsive to their ever-changing business environment.
- Group
Facilitation Methods:
Three powerful methods from the ICA’s “Technology
of Participation series that combine to create the core requirements
for your participative leadership development program – Focused
Conversation Method, Consensus Workshop Method and Action-Planning
Method. More about this.
- Crucial
Conversations:
Tools for Talking When The Stakes Are High -
This nationally acclaimed training based on the NY Times, Wall
Street Journal Best Seller provides the “language currency” required
to reap the dividends of your performance improvement, culture
change or quality enhancement efforts. When you, your team or
your organization is “stuck” there is a Crucial Conversation
keeping you there! More
about this.
- Effective
Meeting Skills
Do you waste your time talking in meetings or more accurately?
Do you waste your talking time in meetings? Effective Meeting Skills
combines process and facilitation highlights from our Group Facilitation
Methods course and goes further to lay down the tenets of meeting
design, documentation and follow-through. This course also covers
key elements of human dynamics, focusing on tips for leveraging
diverse perspectives and managing derailing behaviors that hinder
meeting productivity.
- Self
Management (Time Management)
It’s one thing to understand the tools and approaches to managing time
well and another thing to breakthrough your own personal hang-ups and habits
that keep you from using time effectively. This behavioral approach to Time Management
offers participants best-practice time management skills within the context of
individual behavioral preferences and biases.
- Project
Management
A best-practice, template-driven approach to managing initiatives from beginning
to end. Key topics include project definition/stakeholder expectations, project
delegation, implementation and follow-through.
- Breakthrough
Leadership
Some leaders are born, the majority emerge! This challenging curriculum earns
it’s title as participants forge their personal “breakthrough response” to
the key drivers facing their respective businesses. The MBTI (Psychological Preference
Indicator) is leveraged as a foundational tool in this program.
- Mediation
and Conflict Management
Mediation and Conflict Management begins by offering
participants a medley of traditional mediation, arbitration,
and negotiation tools and applications as strategies of last
resort.
The heart of the curriculum quickly shifts to providing powerful
approaches for “mediators” in their mission of helping
stakeholders forge holistic agreements. The mediator’s
role is transformed to one of facilitator as final strategies
and actions are fortified to truly accomplish the underlying
purposes that originally brought the respective parties to the
mediation table.
- Change
Management
The Change Management and Corporate Culture services of
Bourke and Associates encompass a broad range of specific course
topics
including: Managing Change; Refocusing Workforce Talent Amidst
Change; Managing the Stress Associated with Corporate Change; Creating
Integrated Communication Plans; Behavioral Approaches to Managing
Change Using the Myers Briggs; Defining Corporate Culture; Translating
Culture Into Action and Bottom-Line Performance
- Team
Building with The Myers-Briggs
Team Building for the sake of providing a common experience
of delight, camaraderie and engagement just begins to scratch the
surface of the “real” benefit of this time-tested approach
to building transferable skills for breakthrough team performance.
This workshop provides individuals and teams with skills for assessing,
mapping and leveraging the diverse range of communication, problem-solving,
decision-making, conflict management, and organization styles present
in any team venture. Focus is directed at leveraging these skills
with both internal and external corporate stakeholders.
- Compassionate
Communication
This course is inspired by the work of Marshal Rosenberg, founder
of the Center for Non-Violent Communication. The curriculum adapts
the general principles of Non-Violent Communication in a style
that is user-friendly for corporate application. Participants learn
and apply methods for diminishing conflict, tension and difference
by becoming better self-monitors of their own personal intentions
and resultant language. These methods have been used in public-safety,
risk-management, homeland security venues with profound results.
- Crisis-Management/Situational
Management
This program provides a framework for assessing the environment
around us for drivers, influences and daily realities that have
the potential to undermine compromise or derail our best laid plans.
Additionally, practical tools are offered for minimizing individual
and corporate exposure to such risks.
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