Leadership Development

Leadership & Management

Leadership Accelerator – The Spark4 Leadership Accelerator weaves knowledge, tools and skills to be empowered leaders within your organization and in life. This training is designed to offer an opportunity to nurture the being and doing aspects of leadership and management. Offered as a 3-day, 3-month and/or a 6-month cohort. Scheduling is customizable.

Emerging Leader Bootcamp – True company growth and change requires new leaders from all levels to step up – but not without the support of those who have come before. Spark4’s Emerging Leader Boot Camp includes aspects of team building, soft skills enhancement, as well as leadership mindset training to help folks overcome imposter syndrome and lead with confidence.

Leading Your Values: Authentic Leadership – Exemplary leadership starts with clarifying one’s values and ensuring that those values align with that of the business. In this training leaders work to create intrapersonal alignment with values to cultivate their influential leadership behaviors.

Rethinking Performance Management – This training enables teams to adopt coaching frameworks and rapid feedback loops to improve employee AND manager performance. Furthermore, this training helps businesses analyze and change their culture around productivity and team-dynamic to increase employee satisfaction & retention.

Employee Wellbeing Series

Trusting Your Team, So You Can Let Go – Which comes first, vulnerability or trust? Free up the intelligence and creativity of your top staff, partners and colleagues by letting go of the need to control all decisions. Leaders, managers and business owners who are able to foster self-determination within their teams and partnerships exponentially increases the productivity of the whole organization. This training focuses on both mental and practical tips for the reciprocal nature of trust and vulnerability.

Tending the Flame to Avoid Burnout – Employee retention is key amidst “The Great Reshuffling.” This training supports organizations in burnout prevention and helps managers and employees learn the signs & responses to stress and overwhelm.

Energy & Personal Resource Management – Remote and hybrid teams face new challenges around setting healthy boundaries for work and life while maintaining productivity and engagement. This hands-on workshop offers teams the chance to create practices and frameworks around communication, time, boundaries, and task-management.

Impact Your Team’s Culture

Powerful Promises: Navigating the Accountability Gap – Great workplaces allow for individual and team accountability to arise out of a sense of personal responsibility and passion. But inevitably there are always tasks and jobs that no one wants to do. Combining known accountability frameworks and problem-solving activities, this interactive training examines how we can make meaningful promises to ourselves and each other and avoid the accountability gap

Adopting a Change Mindset – Staff can easily burnout if companies don’t acknowledge and account for the accelerating rate of change and technology and the pace at which most people can adapt. This training supports employees in creating a healthy relationship to change and helps leaders navigate the human side of the integration.

Harnessing the Value of Creative Tension – Conflict and differing opinions are normal in work settings…but how can we avoid conflict and negativity dominating the workplace and bring curiosity into the process? This training series offers teams useful skills and frameworks to help raise awareness around communication and personal patterns to transform situational conflict from draining to creative and useful.

The Insightful Team

Remembering the Relational – In our day-to-day business interactions and when we are planning offsite retreats and company meetings, it’s easy to forget that we are working with *actual people* who have entire lives away from the job responsibilities. In this training, participants practice deeply relational approaches to working together with clients, colleagues, bosses, direct reports to bring more humanity to the often transactional nature of work.

Deciding How to Decide: How Efficient Teams Move-Forward – This training uncovers the value, approach and pitfalls of the 5 main ways companies and organizations choose to make decisions. Time is spent using real-world examples from your company in a decision-making laboratory. Take away a new perspective and an actionable framework you can apply immediately.

The Facilitated Team – A variety of custom created sessions intended to inspire individuals and team insights via work-personality assessment and adaptive workshops. Through our customized activities we create even playing field for all – regardless of role or tenure – to emphasize personal connection, improve communication, create group understanding, and analyze team performance.

DiSC Workplace

A personalized learning experience that empowers everyone in the organization to build more effective relationships with each other. Our DiSC Workplace Assessment and Workshop teaches participants to understand themselves and others while learning to appreciate different priorities, preferences, and values that each individual brings to the workplace. With individual insights and actionable strategies, participants learn how to adapt to the style of others, ultimately improving engagement, collaboration, and the overall quality of the workplace.