Business Consulting

What are the benefits of hiring me to help your business?

I enjoy working with businesses to help clarify core values, set goals and create strategies that allow them to keep their integrity as they evolve.  I like to share skills that give employees and managers a greater understanding of each other and help optimize their capacity to communicate effectively with one another.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® is one of the best tools I’ve found to educate people about differences in how they process information and make decisions.  Knowing the workplace “preferences” of co-workers helps prevent conflict and handle it effectively when it arises.

Compassionate (Nonviolent) Communication (CC) is an integration of a worldview and language that guides people in the workplace to communicate their desires and concerns clearly and elicit understanding from others.  The CC model, by focusing on shifting judgmental thinking to needs-based thinking, helps facilitate conflict resolution and remove blocks to creativity.

The Technology of Participation® is a set of strategies that allow businesses to plan their future by including all stakeholders in the process.  It includes an interactive Strategic Planning Process, a Focused Conversation Process, and a Workshop Method to handle many sorts of office needs.

I enjoy using these technologies and others to help your business become more efficient and more enjoyable for managers, staff, and clients.

What are specific topics that I like to share?

“Communicating with Heart in the Office” — Communication Skills Training

  • Compassionate Communication Trainings
  • Valuing the Process and the Product
  • Delivering a difficult message
  • Hearing the needs underneath the words
  • Providing Feedback Honestly and Compassionately

“Building Community in the Workplace” – Strengthening work teams

  • Improv Games
  • Myers Briggs Type Indicator®
  • Power Games
  • Community-Building
  • Ice Breakers

“Conflict is not a Four-letter Word!” — Learning to Grow through Conflict

  • Reality of Conflict
  • How you frame it determines its impact
  • 5 steps to growing from conflict
  • Mediation and Mediation Skills

“Participatory Strategic Planning” – Strategic Planning that involves all Stakeholders in the process

  • Plan with your staff
  • Experiential/Practical/Involving all
  • Helping organizations grow with integrity (stay true to their core values)

“Meetings that Move You” – Making meetings more effective and efficient

  • Meeting Facilitation
  • How making clear, present requests will help meeting move forward
  • How to avoid “raw meat” at your meetings
  • Developing Minutes, Agendas, Follow-up

“Don’t ‘Reply to All’ Unless…” — Using Email Effectively

  • Email – a Reptilian Tool in a Limbic World
  • Ways to prevent misunderstanding
  • Rules to guide effective email use

Trainings Tailored to your business

To schedule a FREE Consultation

Click here to email David McCain or call 619-218-7554.