Workplace Communications Improvement Program

Audience: Organizations, from the board to front line employees. Duration: Monthly

Transform the way your entire organization communicates

Create a top-to-bottom culture of open communication, accountability, and direct feedback with our month-to-month, ongoing training program is transformative.

The Problem, Solved

Every day, you deal with egos, miscommunication, silos, information hoarding, internal politics, power plays, giving and receiving feedback, hidden agendas, misunderstandings, sloppy management, virtual communication, issue avoidance, fear of speaking up, and ineffective presentations.

And, as effective as one-time workshops are, unless people are given ongoing opportunities to learn, practice, and improve, it’s hard to see cultural change on the organizational level.

Fortunately, there is something that would make everyone’s work and life better.

Communication Is Key

You may have said this dozens of times, but have you ever defined, clearly defined, what that means for your organization?

Our unique approach has radically transformed large and small organizations, helping create a culture where everyone is more able and willing to have open, honest, courageous conversations – about anything.

“Not Finance, Not Strategy. Not Technology. It’s teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it’s so powerful and so rare.”

-Patrick Lencioni

An Ongoing Approach To Communications Training Makes The Difference

Healthy communication increases productivity, bonding people together, as humans.

It can make you and your employees more productive and efficient, but perhaps more importantly, healthier and happier.

We can help your entire organization…

  • Effectively communicate across differences, silos, and disagreements

  • Passionately and respectfully disagree so the best ideas rise to the top

  • Commit to decisions, even ones people may disagree with

  • Create a culture of peer-to-peer accountability and direct, constructive feedback; and

  • Keep everyone focused on results, by putting their team’s needs ahead of their own.

47%

Companies with effective communicators achieved 47% higher total returns.

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Help People Do Their Best Work

92%

Of participants say “I will use what I learned to improve my own interpersonal communication.”

91%

Of participants say, “I believe this will help my team improve.”

55%

Of participants say, “This training / its impact influenced my decision to remain with the organization.”

We’ve had new managers tell us. I’ve never given direct feedback before, and now I do it all the time.

More than one participant has said, This is going to change the way I speak with my kids.

How Does It Work
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  1. We define your challenges, with data

  2. You define what success looks like

  3. We deliver fun, interactive, experiential workshops and coaching, drawn from our entire toolkit

  4. We re-assess and show progress, with data

  5. When you’ve seen the change you want, we help you build in-house capacity

  6. Open communications becomes culture

Who Is This For?

Organizations of all shapes and sizes come to us in three situations:

  1. When a leader, perhaps a new leader, wants to clean the slate, start fresh, and reset the culture.

  2. When a leader is already a good communicator and understands the value of communication training.

  3. When there’s clear communication dysfunction – challenges such as silos, information hoarding, internal politics, power plays, giving and receiving feedback, sloppy management, virtual communication, issue avoidance, fear of speaking up, or ineffective cascading of messages.

Who Is This Not For?

Transforming the way your organization communicates requires two things:

  1. Consistent ongoing effort, and

  2. A leader willing to do the hard work themselves, right alongside their employees. 

If this isn’t you, we recommend one of our stand-alone workshops.

Low Risk

Our Workplace Transformation Program is a month-to-month retainer, so if you’re not seeing the impact, you can cancel anytime. We’re that confident that you won’t want to.

When our work ends, all the materials, including the Catalyst e-learning platform (with the company directory of communication styles), is yours to keep, so people can continue using it to improve communication long after we’re gone.

We plan from day one to work ourselves out of a job, so that healthy communication becomes culture, and so your communication training program is self-driven and self-sufficient.

Employees spend 7 hours a week dealing with the effects of poor communication and teamwork, equating to 2 full months each year, for each employee!

At a time when we are all struggling with uncertainty, hybrid work, four generations now in the workplace, and cultural differences, the solution is to help people speak to each other in healthy, productive ways.

People aren’t taught how to communicate effectively, and the longer bad habits spread, the more stress, dysfunction, and waste compound.

What Could Be More Important ?

This will be fun…I promise. 

After 25+ years in corporate communications and 10 years leading mountaineering expeditions, Dan Kaplan has taught hundreds of people to speak their truth when it matters most.

Transforming the way your organization communicates doesn't have to feel like climbing a mountain.