Trainings and Workshops
We design and facilitate world-class training customized to your organization’s culture and goals.
Consider us your experienced learning and development partner. We build customized, relevant, actionable and research-backed training experiences for organizations. We can deliver light-touch workshops or build robust training programs to drive results. Tell us your goals and we’ll design learning experiences that stick and drive the changes you want to see across your teams and organization.
Organizations that make space for their teams to learn together, advance their skills, and shift their perspectives build high-trust and higher-performing teams overall. Build capacity on your team and strengthen your organizational culture.
Connect to share your learning goals and we’ll design a custom session or program to deliver on your desired outcomes.
Common Organizational Roadblocks that Training Can Address
Management challenges: Inconsistent or ineffective communication, difficulty giving feedback or navigating conflict, and burnout from doing instead of leading.
Leadership teams that are not aligned: Operating in silos with no shared approach, a reactive culture instead of a proactive one, or leaders who are unsure how to motivate, inspire, or hold others accountable.
Teams that are struggling with collaboration, creativity, or problem-solving: jumping to solutions without understanding the problem, or friction between departments who need to co-create.
Organizational culture challenges emerge or intensify: Rising turnover, miscommunication or mistrust, and low morale or disengagement.
Moments of growth, change, or uncertainty often expose capability gaps: Rapid growth or team expansion, reorgs or leadership transitions, shifts in business model or strategy, and pressure to innovate or modernize.
We help develop people through hands-on, practical learning in three key areas:
Manager Training
We believe that managers are the gorilla glue to sustaining happy and productive team cultures. We train managers how to create clarity, purpose, trust, and alignment for their people and teams. When we build customized manager training programs, they often include the following topics:
Effective Feedback
Building a feedback culture, understanding the science of feedback, and learning to deliver difficult messages well.
Tools for Managing Conflict
Learn to identify common work conflicts, develop the mindsets needed to productively address conflicts, understand your own tendencies with conflict, and learn a protocol for navigating conflicts with productive processes moves.
Building Trust
Learn the science of trust and build psychological safety on your teams.
Coaching Skills
Frameworks for mentorship, coaching and growth, tools to effectively coach.
Meetings that Matter
Design and run highly effective meetings that move teams and work forward.
Effective Communication
Deep dive on active listening skills in synchronous and asynchronous contexts, especially in remote work environments where effective digital communication really matters.
Design Effective Teams
How to intentionally build effective teams that work to deliver on organizational priorities.
Systems + Strategic Thinking
Navigate complexity with actionable tools.
Effective 1:1s
Actionable tools and frameworks to make the most out of this weekly touchpoint.
Leading Change
Normalize change work that navigate uncertainty with more confidence and practice.
Leadership Development Training
Organizational leaders need a lot of different skills to be truly effective in their roles at work. Our approach is to strengthen existing skills, while adding new tools and mindsets to a leader's toolkit. When we build customized leadership development training programs, they often include the following topics:
Winning Remote Work Cultures
Explore current research and practical approaches to designing effective remote teams.
Great Goals
The science to setting goals, measuring what matters, tracking progress and team accountability strategies.
Delegation 101
Work is a team sport, learn strategies to hand-off work to other team members for peak empowerment + quality work outcomes.
Mastery of Strategy, Innovation + Systems
Learn processes and approaches to support high-level thinking to strategy, innovation and work systems thinking across your teams and organization (learn what we do and how to do it yourself).
Running Retros
Gain deeper understanding for why reflective practices make more aware and effective leaders. Learn how to run retros that address tensions and seize the right opportunities, right now.
Manage up + Sideways
Increase your power literacy and strategies for influencing without authority.
Productivity for Busy People
Learn techniques for radical prioritization, scoping work realistically, tight time management, writing for busy readers + build systems to drive productive ways of working.
Happy Teams, Happy Cultures
Build positive team cultures with strategies for collaboration, play, engagement, recognition and appreciation.
Human-Centered Design
Learn how to execute, leverage, and coach human-centered design skills and mindsets to develop expert problem-solvers across your team.
Design Thinking 101
An immersive, interactive mini-design cycle to understand this problem-solving process in its entirety.
Brainstorming, but Better
Level up your team’s ability to generate great ideas.
Design Sprint
A customized, immersive, one-week innovation program to unlock new, testable ideas for your organization.
Empathy Research
Skills and practices for unlocking insights about your customers and stakeholders—without breaking the bank.
Making Thinking Visible
Prototyping for alignment.
Pilot for Newbies
How to use testing, pilots, and MVPs to push out new ideas, even in the most constrained environments.
Timelines for Training
For any training experience, we offer in-person, virtual, hybrid and learning options. Unsure which is the right approach for your team? Connect with TGF for a consultation.
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Multiple-month engagement (3 months to 1 year) with a workshop cadence of in-person and virtual sessions that work on a schedule with curated peer learning groups, “apply it” homework assignments, personalized coaching to complement workshop training, manager meet-ups, and trainer office hours. All reference tools and assets are shared with program attendees.
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Half-day or full-day training experiences, either in-person or virtual sessions with pre-work, “apply it” homework assignments following the session(s), manager meet-ups, and trainer office hours. All reference tools and assets are shared with attendees.
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60-minutes, quick inspiration like a lunch-and-learn or one off learning experience to inspire teams with tools they can instantly apply to their work context. All reference tools and assets are shared with attendees.
A tailored approach to training that promotes adult learning.
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Research Backed
We share key findings from research, case studies and real-life examples to help underscore important leadership and organizational learning lessons.
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Practical + Easy to Implement
We share easy-to-implement tools and strategies that managers can start using with their teams for quick wins and longer-term change. Quick wins your team can put to use as soon as the workshop is done.
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Experiential
We aim to create participatory sessions where attendees practice new skills learned from the content we share. This isn’t a passive webinar. We’ll leave that to TED talks. Learners come ready to participate and process information in ways that are digestible.
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Learner-Centered
We appeal to different learning styles and are learner-centered. We push participants to take the content we present and make it relevant and specific to work context and roles.
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Practice Makes Progress
We design for individual thinking, small group discussion to deepen learning and offer “real life” scenario training, where participants have the opportunity to practice new skills and get feedback on their skill development, in real time.
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Mastery Matters
We help senior leadership in that we amplify and echo important learning themes and skills they expect their staff to master. We build shared language across the organization for your needed culture change.
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We Teach What We Practice
We are relevant in the room because our trainers work with organizations of different scope and size, tackling different challenges across sectors and fields. All of our trainers have decades of experience in leadership roles that require strategy, operations and people management skills. Our team gets it.
80% of workers say the chance to learn new skills would increase their engagement levels.
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