LEADERSHIP WORKSHOPS

Spartina offers the most relevant, experiential, and practical training, cohort learning, and coaching to support leaders who endeavor to drive positive change within their organization.

Training

We design and facilitate curated learning experiences, including executive retreats, leadership development programs, team-building and modularized skill-building sessions that are strengths-based, experiential, action-oriented, and fun.

Sessions Include:

  • Leading Positive Change

    Maximize your unique skills and strengths, developing your leadership abilities while bringing out the best in others. This workshop will expand leaders’ capacity to lead positive change and inspire leadership in others using Appreciative Inquiry and other strengths-based and high-engagement approaches to change.

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  • Rapid Strategy Development: from SWOT to SOAR

    The success of your organization hinges on its strategy – not the published strategic plan tucked in a three-ring binder, but the capacity of your people to think and act strategically and to make strategic decisions on a moment’s notice every day. This workshop will provide an experiential overview of our participatory and possibility-focused strategy framework that accelerates both strategic planning and implementation.

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  • Leading in Uncertain Times

    Living and leading in a post-COVID world requires a delicate mix of confidence and humility while navigating ambiguity and uncertainty. This workshop provides strength-based tools for managers and leaders to improve the quality of engagement, productivity, collaboration, and communication.

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  • Leading Highly Engaged Remote Teams

    Strengthen the quality of engagement, productivity, collaboration, and communication between leaders, staff, and teams while working remotely.  Available in a series of modular 2-hour digital workshops, with the option of supplementary peer coaching sessions to integrate workshop and real-world challenges over time.

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  • Creative Problem Solving

    There is a problem with traditional problem-solving, which all too often becomes an unbridled exercise in finger-pointing, blame, and defensiveness, fueling a downward spiral of negative thought, action, and behavior. This “Creative Problem-Solving” workshop flips traditional problem-solving on its head, integrating Appreciative Inquiry, positive psychology research, and the new sciences.. Using a combination of experiential activities, participants will gain tools and practices for leading creative problem-solving with a focus on solutions, desired impact, and results.

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  • Resilient Leadership for Adaptive Change

    Leadership today requires inner work to navigate and thrive in an ever-changing world. From workshop to staff retreat, maximize your team’s unique skills and strengths to lead positive change with ease and equanimity amidst an unknown future.  Develop your leadership mindfulness practices combined with inquiry and dialogue approaches to show up at your best every day.

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  • Appreciative Inquiry

    Introduction, Foundations, and Advanced Practitioner Appreciative Inquiry Workshops for leaders and practitioners interested in expanding their facilitation portfolio, grounded by the tenets of leadership neuroscience and Appreciative Inquiry in action. Dip your toe or dive deep into exploring the latest case studies, research, and practical applications for leading using an inquiry-driven, appreciative lens.

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  • Coaching for Growth and Development

    Learn how to lead and inspire employees by developing your coaching skills.  Utilize proven coaching, mentoring, inquiry, and dialogue approaches to positively influence, engage, and build on the strengths of individuals and teams you lead.

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  • Communication

    This workshop provides tools and experiential activities to build your capacity for clear, accountable, and fluid communications. Key topics focus on communication for conflict resolution (“From Difficult to Learning Conversations”), reframing (“Problem to Opportunity”), feedback, and “FeedForward.”

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Training

Spartina offers in-house training ranging from 2 hour modules to 2-day intensives, and everything in between. Sessions combine and integrate educational material, experiential leadership and team-building activities, while introducing new approaches, tools, and processes to put into real-world practice after the training session. Skill practice and action learning opportunities will be designed to create a safe and honest space for sharing reflections/insights among participants while applying curriculum insights to everyday work situations.

Coaching and Assessment

Change can be hard. We find that some organizations, while having the best of intentions, do not have the internal structures to help embed these learnings into the culture of the organization. For those who want to maximize the return on investment, we recommend supplementing the workshops with coaching. A coach can work one-on-one with the leader to identify and address ways in which the leader can more effectively engage their team in the change being implemented.

Spartina provides coaching for senior and executive leaders and their teams. We can work one-on-one to support leaders through specific challenges and areas of growth. We also work with teams to enhance and strengthen group trust, alignment, and ways of working.

Spartina uses a variety of industry-validated assessment tools to begin the process of elevating awareness of self and behavioral impact on others.