Our results-oriented training programs increase productivity, effectiveness, & performance

Personal PresenceIncreasing Personal EffectivenessCommunicating to Manage PerformanceFive Behaviors Of A Cohesive Team


In one way or another all of EDSI’s programs address professional presence, personal effectiveness, or performance management. We have taught these three hallmark, results-oriented programs to thousands of participants over the years, with amazing results. Most clients start here and customize their programs with one or more of our talent management solutions in the areas of Employee Development, Management Development, and Professionalism.


 

Increasing Personal Effectiveness®
Focus: Accountability
Audience: Individuals, Teams, Organizations

Benefits:

  • Ownership for daily choices
  • Understand how choices impact results
  • Awareness how values encourage choices
  • How self-image impacts thinking, actions and performance
  • Ownership for conflict resolution
  • Personal ownership for behavioral style
  • How to adapt your style to others

Results:

  • Foundational leadership skills
  • Enhanced team and organizational skills
  • Increased employee accountability for performance and results
  • Improved individual performance through learning initiative
  • Increased productivity through conflict resolution
  • Enhanced customer responsiveness and satisfaction
  • Organizational changes through empowered individuals

 

Communicating to Manage Performance
Focus: Performance
Audience: Individuals, Managers, Supervisors, Organizations

Benefits:

  • Communicate clearly to set performance expectations
  • Describe employee behavior through positive feedback reinforcement
  • Understand and value others through active listening
  • Acknowledge ideas for continuous improvement
  • Coaching for performance through corrective feedback

Results:

  • Creates and environment of open, clear communication
  • Employees feel valued and motivated
  • Increased employee awareness of performance expectations
  • The culture embraces new ideas and innovative thinking

 

Professional Presence in a Casual World
Focus: Professionalism
Audience: Individuals, Teams, Organizations

Benefits:

  • Understand core concepts of attitude, performance and behaviors can align for professional presence
  • Identify elements in electronic communication, presentation skills, and negotiations and their relationship to professional presence
  • Enhance daily work behaviors to build best practices in management, performance and continuous learning
  • Understand the critical importance of manners and etiquette in business

Results:

  • Professional performance expectations for behavior are confirmed
  • A stronger cultural connection between employees and the organizational vision
  • Refined individual image that communicates polish and professionalism to clients
  • Awareness of competence and skills needed for organizational growth

 

Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team
Focus: Teamwork
Audience: Intact Teams

Benefits:

  • Trust one another to build vulnerability based trust
  • Engage in conflict around ideas
  • Commit to decisions
  • Hold one another accountable
  • Focus on achieving collective results

Results:

  • Team makes better faster decisions
  • Taps into the skills and opinions of all members
  • Avoids wasting time and energy on politics, confusion, and destructive conflict
  • Avoids wasting time on the wrong issues
  • Creates a competitive advantage