workshops

Assessments and Workshops

We offer the following customized leadership development workshops:

• "Coaching skills for Leaders"
• "Communicating for Results"
• "Building Great Teams"
• "Key Strategies on Time Management"
• "Thriving on Change"

We offer assessments and workshops on all four programs described below.

Insights

Insights® is a learning & development company that works in partnership with our clients to help them improve their effectiveness in five key areas: individuals, teams, organizations, sales and leadership. Through a consultative approach, we will carefully assess your needs, objectives and organizational values and use those insights to custom- design a solution that works for you.

Our learning process typically begins with an introductory Personal Effectiveness program which is designed to help individuals better understand themselves, recognize the needs of others and develop adapting skills, to better connect with others. Based upon the proprietary preference- based Discovery ® learning system, our Insights Discovery Personal Profile has an impressive track record of enabling individuals to clearly understand their personal strengths as well as clarifying key development areas. Utilizing our memorable common language has proven to have profound impact on inter-personal interactions, leading to enhanced productivity and new results for individuals, teams and organizations.

Our solutions are designed to address an evolving individual, team or organizational learning and development process. The Insights Discovery portfolio of products and programs has the capacity to address a wide variety of needs through applications such as improving inter-personal communications, understanding the impact of style on others, enhancing influencing and negotiating skills, managing stress, handling difficult people, learning how to lead others, fine-tuning people management practices through to creating ideal environments for development, and vision and goal setting, to mention only a few. Our long- term learning solutions have proven to enhance capabilities and overall effectiveness at the individual, team and organizational levels.

It's often critical to compare and contrast the role that style vs. competencies may be playing in overall performance. The Insights Navigator® learning system allows us to integrate complementary capability assessments into your learning and development process. Insights offers the Navigator portfolio of programs and services which enables individuals, teams and organizations to measure performance against key indicators and to track and monitor progress in development over time. For more information about Navigator solutions, please go to www.insightstoronto.com or contact info@insightstoronto.com.

Stress

Workplace stress has been a concern for decades, and for good reason. Stress costs industry over $300 Billion a year in the United States and over $16 Billion a year in Canada.

Research has shown that the cost of workplace stress contributes to approximately:

• 19% of absenteeism;
• 40% of turnover;
• 55% of EAP programs;
• 30% of short-term disability and long-term disability costs;
• 10% of drug plan costs (for psychotherapeutic drugs); and
• the total cost of workplace accidents, workers compensation claims, and lawsuits due to stress.

Low job satisfaction, high employee turnover, reduced efficiency, illness, absenteeism, alcoholism, poor decision-making, indifference, lack of motivation, engagement and creativity are all by-products of an over-stressed workplace.

Stress Mastery

StressMap® is the most widely used self-assessment stress management questionnaire in Canada. It is easy to use, reusable and completely self-scoring. The assessment can be completed on-line or through hard copy work books. It is statistically reliable and valid and is available in French and English. StressMap® helps the user to explore sources of stress and personal responses to them. The Map pinpoints your strengths and vulnerabilities, detects burnout zones and helps you chart new strategies for enhancing personal health and overall performance. Use our award-winning map as the foundation for your class or team training or use it one on one. The StressMap® includes:

StressMap® Questionnaire:

• measures your current pressures, changes and satisfactions
• identifies coping assets and liabilities
• assesses patterns of thinking and feelings that mediate stress
• directly correlates to your health, wellness and performance

StressMap® Scoring Grid:

• visually maps personal profile
• pinpoints your stress strengths and vulnerabilities
• can be reused to plot progress over time

StressMap® Interpretation Guide:

• provides a definition for every scale
• turns learning into action with Tips for Improvement
• includes easy-to-use Action Planning Worksheets

StressMap is the registered trademark of Essi Systems, Inc. ©1984-2009 Essi Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.

EQi BarOn and EQ-360

The EQi BarOn assessment measures the emotional quotient (EQ) of individuals, teams and organizations. It is the best tool in the world for this purpose, and it is the first scientifically validated assessment tool for EQ. It is also web-based, flexible in a variety of situations, and cost effective to use. It comprises 133 items and employs a five-point response set ('not true of me' to 'true of me'). The assessment renders four validity scale scores, a total EQ score, five composite scale scores and 15 EQ subscale scores (intrapersonal - self-regard, emotional self-awareness, assertiveness, independence, self-actualization; interpersonal - empathy, social responsibility, interpersonal relationship; adaptability - reality testing, flexibility, problem solving; stress management - stress tolerance, impulse control; general mood - optimism and happiness). These 15 EQ competencies influence your ability to manage yourself, others and the daily demands and pressures that you face. Once measured, the EQi assessment identifies areas for development and leverage areas of strength. This process is crucial to focus development efforts on areas which will dramatically improve work and life.

The EQ-360 assesses emotional intelligence from a multi-rater, self/others' perspective. Used in conjunction with the EQi self-assessment report that a client completed, EQ-360 feedback forms are completed by co-workers, supervisors, direct reports, and significant others of that client. Results from the self-report and 360 feedback are scored together to result in a more complete assessment of an individuals EQ.

Myers-Briggs

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator instrument is based on years of observations by the psychologist Carl Jung and by the instruments authors, Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother, Katharine Cook Bridges. Their ideas explain why different kinds of people are interested in different things, are good at different kinds of work, and sometimes find it hard to understand each other. The MBTI instrument was developed with great care and has been used by people around the world for more than 20 years. Family members use it to understand each other better. Teachers and students use it to make learning more interesting and efficient. Young people and adults use it to choose careers that are likely to hold their interest and use their gifts. Organizations use type information to improve communication, teamwork and leadership.

A clear understanding of the basics of your type and type development will be helpful throughout the rest of your life. Personality type development is a life-long process of gaining greater command over your individual strengths and preferences.