Breakouts are the moment when your attendees are given the space to explore, discuss and internalize a key message at your conference. They’re where concepts are made real and tangible.
Focus your breakouts on the content and skills you most want people to hold onto when they leave, and make sure they don’t turn into just another presentation. Consider these rules of thumb to make your breakouts truly effective.
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Our personalized approach to enhancing presentation skills and stage readiness, designed for both individual presenters and organizations.
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A one-page reference basic story structure with some tips for how to work through mapping your story idea to the structure.
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Read our detailed brochure about our flagship and longest-running program for business leaders.
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This Google Docs worksheet will help you prepare for a difficult feedback conversation with an employee.
This worksheet includes questions to help you process through the issue and behaviors and provides a template for a feedback conversation.
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Before you jump to building a slide deck for your next presentation, take the time to craft your message and consider what’s most important.
The worksheet includes questions to help you consider the context, audience and messages that will help you design your presentation for success.
Read MoreThis 4-page takeaway accompanies the workshop titled Maximizing the Manager/Employee Check-In, which helps people leaders think about ways to better utilize their one-on-one touch points with team members.
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The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) launched an annual cohort leadership development program (LEAD) in 2021. Because their members have diverse experience and goals, and work for a variety of organizations throughout the U.S., executive coaching would play an important role in tailoring the learning to each individual leader’s needs.
Download our case study to explore more about our partnership with CSTE over the years.
Read MoreThis takeaway accompanies the OneHour Workshop titled Managing Time to Reduce Overwhelm. This workshop helps people leaders prioritize, focus, and ultimately find more space to serve their team members.
Read MoreGreat public speaking begins weeks before the actual event, when you figure out what you’re going to say. Then, in the moment, it’s about knowing how to say it just right.
Download this resource for some easy and digestible tips and tricks to help you determine what to say and how to say it so that your communication counts.
Read MoreInstead of providing direct instructions and advice to employees, a manager who acts as a coach will ask open-ended questions to help their employees reflect and move forward with intention.
Download this resource to learn how managers who are empowered to be coaches support a culture of continuous improvement throughout the performance review process.
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This Google Sheets template will help you diagnose the quality of your manager/employee check-ins. Discover whether your time is well-spent, or if you have opportunity to have more meaningful, effective, and inspiring conversations.
Read MoreYou’re a content expert who been asked to teach what you know. Challenge yourself to reach beyond the typical “lecture style” approach to learning—it’s not that effective anyway—and build out an interactive and engaging workshop instead. Here are some basic rules of thumb to keep in mind as you create your learning experience.
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Juniper Square was excited to host it’s first ever in-person Sales Kick Off event. Given what they knew about the power of stories, the leadership determined that the SKO would be designed around storytelling with the theme Ignite: Stories Brought to Life. Wolf and Heron drew from the foundational Influential Storytelling program and created a series of storytelling training experiences for team members at all levels.
Download our case study to explore more about our partnership with Juniper Square to deliver an impactful SKO 2023.
Read MoreTo help our clients embed stories into their presentations, we typically encourage them to take an intentional look at their story ideas through the lens of the building blocks of the story. If you’d like to do the same, use this tool to get started.
Read MoreIn our work helping clients design their strategy retreats, we've come across plenty of draft agendas. Some are better than others. Download this file for two draft agendas that we've marked up with comments on their strengths and opportunities.
Read MoreTruly engaging your audience takes a lot more effort and planning and, as a result, is often neglected. Ramp up the “asks” for your audience over the course of the meeting. Check out this one-page reference on how to Ramp Up The Asks.
Read MoreTurn off the slide deck and make your materials physical instead. Check out this one-page reference of Materials for Meeting Success.
Read MoreThe best medicine is always and forever will be prevention, and that is something you can do pretty effectively by establishing thoughtful ground rules at the outset of the meeting. Check out this one-page reference with some high-quality ground rules you may consider adapting and/or adopting for yourself.
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Download a pdf with prompts and questions designed to help you inspire you to have an intentional and productive manager/employee check-in.
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