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:

Leadership Development

Organizational leaders need many 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:

Human-Centered Design

Learn how to execute, leverage, and coach human-centered design skills and mindsets to develop expert problem-solvers across your team.

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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

80% of workers say the chance to learn new skills would increase their engagement levels.

  • “The Group Forward’s coaching helped our managers build skills in effective communication, engaging and motivating staff, organizing and planning programs, and dealing with difficult employee conversations and staffing challenges. It is exciting to see the support provided by The Group Forward still serving our managers today.”

    — Greg Lawson, Assistant Head, Student Affairs, The Harker School

  • “I was very glad that we decided to go with Cornelius and Hannah as our facilitators for the Design Sprint. They were a perfect fit. This is heavy [work], and I appreciate that they brought fun into it.”

    — Participant, Braven 3-Day Design Sprint Workshop

  • “My staff literally quotes the concepts they learned in this training. It gives them a common language that enables them to be on the same page. We’ve been running a training program with The Group Forward for three years now, and I truly believe there isn’t a better way to invest in our staff’s success.”

    — Anna B. Herman, Camp Director, Henry S. Jacobs Camp Utica, MS

  • “I was able to use the techniques they taught me to tackle some of the most difficult situations a supervisor comes up against—from employee defiance to speaking to upper management. The Group Forward made me feel heard, supported, motivated and equipped to handle any situation I was going through.”

    — Lorena Martinez, Middle School BEST Program Director, The Harker School

See The Group Forward In Action

Ready to move your team forward? Let’s talk about how training can help your organization grow.