Barnes & Conti Programs and Services
Our interactive, skills-development programs are practical, research-based, and immediately applicable to your organization and/or workgroup.
Influence & Communication
Exercising Influence: Building Relationships and Getting Results
This popular influence skills program uses a fitness metaphor to help participants develop strength, focus, and flexibility as influencers.
Constructive Negotiation Building Agreements that Work
This program approaches the negotiation process as an opportunity to build agreements that meet the needs of all parties. Participants will gain the confidence and skills necessary to conduct successful negotiations.
Conflict: From Prevention to Resolution
In this workshop, participants will gain a better understanding of the sources of conflict, learn interpersonal communication techniques to prevent unconstructive conflicts, and develop more collaborative working relationships.
Leading Remote Teams Through Influence: Building Relationships and Getting Results Across Boundaries
This program provides you with processes, techniques, and tools to create and maintain trusting, motivated, high-performing teams.
Influential Negotiation: Building Agreements with Others
This program applies the behavior skills of influence to the negotiation process. Participants will have the opportunity to practice influence behaviors they would use when conducting a negotiation.
The Art of Communication: Creating Shared Meaning
This program helps participants develop shared meaning and a common language so that information flows efficiently and effectively within and among organizational units and stakeholders.
Innovation & Risk-Taking
Managing Innovation: Driving Ideas from
Strategic Initiative to Value Creation
In this program, participants will discover and practice the mindsets and skill sets needed to increase both the quality and quantity of innovation.
Intelligent Risk-Taking: From Vision to Action
This program provides participants with practical tools and processes to identify their risk-taking profile and compare with others. Participants will apply a framework for making intelligent decisions about which risks to take.
Creating a Culture for Innovation: A Guide for Leaders
This program helps participants encourage entrepreneurial innovation and risk-taking in their organization. They will identify barriers to creativity and innovation and develop ways to decrease their impact
The Influential Innovator: Gaining Support and Achieving Results
In this program, participants will learn how to express and apply interpersonal influence skills and strategies throughout the journey of innovation.
Applied Creativity: Solving Problems and Responding to Opportunities
In this program, participants will practice using creative thinking tools to break through persistent problems and take advantage of opportunities.
Decision-Making & Problem Solving
Strategic Thinking: Leadership Tools for Planning,
Problem Solving, and Decision Making
Using a variety of tools, leaders will identify and apply systems thinking, critical thinking, and creative thinking to a problem they currently face.
Puzzles, Mysteries, and Muddles: Naming and
Taming the
Problems that Keep You Up at Night
Different types of problems require different approaches to solutions. This research-based program provides leaders with understanding and insights to target their approach and become successful problem solvers.
Constructive Debate: Building Better Ideas
This program helps participants learn how to establish conditions that encourage the free exchange, discussion, and development of ideas and eliminate conditions that prevent useful ideas from getting a hearing
Leadership Skills & Development
Inspirational Leadership: Encouraging Others to Do Great Things
This program provides insights and skills to help you and your team members believe in the remarkable work you can do together. It includes intensive skill practice and application to a current leadership challenge.
Leading Global and Virtual Teams: Succeeding Across Boundaries
This workshop provides techniques and tools to create and maintain trusting and motivated teams. It offers team leaders and members the skills to succeed, especially when working across boundaries of time, distance, and culture.
N.E.W.S. Team Navigation™
This program is suitable for focusing management teams, functional teams, or corss-functional project teams. It applies the N.E.W.S.™ model and the process helps develop a “common compass,” creating alignment among team members.
C.O.A.C.H. for Peak Performance: A Guide for Leaders in
the Learning Organization
This program builds on the knowledge and experience of those who coach outstanding individuals and teams. Participants learn to create and sustain a successful coaching relationships.
Internal Consulting
Consulting on the Inside: Walking the Line, Building Your Practice
In this program, internal consultants will develop a greater understanding of their role, the consulting process itself, and how to use specific communication skills and tools to create an effective and successful internal consulting practice.
The Influential Internal Consultant: Building Relationships and
Getting Results in Your Organization
Participants in this course will learn how to use specific influence skills and tools to create or enrich an effective and successful practice.
Facilitating Forward: Guiding Others Toward Results
Participants in this workshop will learn the fundamentals of facilitation including skills in observation, communication, and intervention.
Change Management
The Mastery of Change: Thriving in Interesting Times
This program is ideal for leaders whose organizations are undergoing major change initiatives. It provides a practical opportunity to develop a change implementation plan while exploring real change issues with colleagues.
Self Navigation: The N.E.W.S. Experience™
Self-Navigation provides a valuable set of tools that can be used for career planning, leadership and high potential development, on-boarding, mentorship, executive coaching, and team and organizational development.
Executive and Leadership Coaching
The N.E.W.S.™ model offers a systematic, structured, measurable, adaptable, and transparent process to both the organization and the coachee. The coach works with the coachee on all aspects of his or her role—personal, interpersonal, and organizational.
Our Approach—What We Do
All Barnes & Conti programs can be presented within your organization in a variety of formats, either for intact teams or as open enrollments:
- Half-day, one-day, or two-day workshops
- Online modules
- Customized learning interventions
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We are happy to work with you to design new programs and customize the content and delivery mode to meet your business needs.
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