In addition to our Leadership Development series, NWTD offers professional and personal development workshops which can be substituted in the series during in-house offerings, or taken as stand alone events.

Charismatic Leadership (Cats & Dogs) – 2 days

• The metaphor of Cats & Dogs pursuing the power of influence vs the influence of power
• Profiling your leadership approach
• How to read others and adjust non-verbal behaviour accordingly
• When to be approachable, when to be credible balancing your position and your person
• Understanding the non-verbal processes of influence
• Understanding group dynamics and how to adjust leadership tactics accordingly
• Dealing with negativity and how not to get shot

Negotiation Skills – 2 days

• Defining conflict and negotiation
• Understanding the 2 universal aspects of all conflict and how they influence intervention strategies 
• Negotiation Style 
• Relationship building
• Establishing behavioural and procedural ground rules
• Issues vs positions – using issue based negotiation
• Expanding common ground – getting them saying yes
• Communications techniques to diffuse conflict
• People differences and negotiator bias
• Leadership / influence styles

Business Writing Skills – 1 day

• Clarity – the 6 principles of clear writing, and how to measure your clarity
• Organizing reports and outsmarting the deadlines – speed without   sacrificing image
• Finishing tips of the pros
• Includes a 115 page manual that youll want to give to your kids

Stress Management – 2 days

• Understanding the origins and mechanisms of stress
• Stress Processing Report – your personal stress evaluation
• Practicing stress reduction  and relaxation techniques
• Understanding stress loads at work and how work systems relate to stress

Hiring Right – 1 day

• Creating fair and defensible standards for jobs
• Using Behaviour Description Interviewing techniques to predict a positive job match
• LAB profiles and observation of non-verbals during interviews

Incident Investigation – 1 day

• The Big Picture – Is it safe? – safety as a belief, and understanding the balance between safety and production 
• Cost / Benefit / Risk – understanding perceptions
• The Basics  – Why investigate? Who? When? 
• Characteristics of an Effective Investigation
• Determining Causation 
• Cost Analysis
• Risk Assessment   

What did I MISS? 1/2 day

• Safety as a Belief -    Cost / Risk / Benefit
• Safety vs Production
• The Is it safe? problem
• Whats the Issue?   the bottom line on due diligence
• What did I M.I.S.S. – Hazard Identification
• Assessing Risk
• Control Measures
• Making What did I MISS automatic safety behaviour

Train the Trainer (Basic) – 2 days

• Characteristics of adult learners- responding to learning style needs
• Objectives and Evaluation
• Lesson Planning – the outline
• Techniques, aids and experiential activities
• Managing training projects
• Presentation Planning
• Presentation Practice and feedback

Train the Trainer (Advanced) – 3 days

• Advanced non-verbal communication techniques
• Delivering negative information and maintaining positive  relationships
• Getting learners on task
• Dealing with resistance and interruptions
• Learning when to use non-verbals for credibility or approachability
• Creating experiential training activities that involve and motivate
• Using metaphors and anchoring to engage unconscious learning
• Advanced NLP applications
• Understanding Group Dynamics
• Presentation practice and feedback

Back Power (Modules) 2hours each

Back Power

• New perspectives on the Back Problem
• The two sides of a back problem and  the meaning of back pain
• The two parts of the back and how it functions + the role of posture & breathing
• Determining Back Fitness – the National Back Fitness Test
• The Back Power exercise program
• Commitment to action

Muscle Maintenance

• Retest of back fitness, discussion of results & referrals to Back Power +
• Muscle Maintenance tests and exercises
• Lifting and Ergonomics
• Commitment to Action

Back Power (Train the Trainer) – 2 days

• How to deliver the Back Power program in-house to your employees