In Capitalizing on Team Talents™, participants will:

• Learn the four different roles within teams and the diversity of inherent talents each role brings to the team

• Understand their natural team roles

• Recognize how to use their innate strengths to contribute maximally to a team

• Identify how to efficiently tap into their underutilized natural strengths in daily activities

• Discover activities that don’t fall within their preferred role, and recognize that these activities may cause stress

• Uncover the strengths and limitations of their team, based on the distribution of team talents within their group

• Create action plans to reduce individual and team stress and increase team productivity by tapping into the natural talents of the individuals on their team
  

idXready: DiSC® Powered Selling (view brochure)
Utilizes the DiSC® Learning Model

In DiSC Powered Selling, participants will:

• Discover four basic approaches to selling and identify their most natural approach to selling

• Identify which approach is most appropriate for each style and discover the similarities and differences among selling styles

• Learn how preferences drive buying behaviors and discover effective techniques for selling to people with differing styles

• Understand that customers have diverse needs and learn to adapt communication to build the trust needed to gain commitment for the sale

• Learn the seven stages of the selling process and how to adapt their styles during each stage and with each customer

• Develop selling strategies and action plans for adapting to different customers’ styles

idXready: Frontline Management: Leveraging the Strengths of Your Style (view brochure)
Utilizes the DiSC Learning Model

In Frontline Management: Leveraging the Strengths of Your Style, participants will:

• Learn four different approaches to management

• Discover their own unique management style

• Understand their unique strengths and challenges as managers

• Recognize how they manage when:

  • Communicating

  • Decision-making

  • Delegating

  • Managing time

  • Directing people

  • Problem-solving

  • Developing people

  • Motivating others

• Identify different responses to their management strengths and understand how strengths can be overused

• Create individual action plans based on their unique management strengths and challenges to aid them in managing productively and effectively

idXready: Managing Conflict (view brochure)
Utilizes the DiSC Learning Model

In Reducing Team Conflict, participants will:

• Recognize their unique preferences and behaviors when working on a team

• Learn what their behaviors may look like when under stress and in conflict

• Learn a model for understanding how people of diverse styles react differently to conflict

• Understand how their own and others’ behaviors may be interpreted in different ways

• Discover a non-threatening way to communicate preferences and discuss differences

• Create action plans for dealing with conflict situations by exploring effective methods for coping with conflict in the workplace
  
  

  idXready: Improving Your Listening Skills (view brochure)
  Utilizes the Personal Listening Profile® Model

  In Improving Your Listening Skills, participants will:

  • Recognize the importance of developing good listening skills by reflecting on their past listening experiences

  • Discover the five different listening approaches used in communication and the specific characteristics of each approach

  • Discover their most natural listening approaches

  • Explore their strengths and challenges as listeners

  • Identify effective listening approaches and behaviors, and practice modifying their listening approaches to meet the communication needs of team members

  • Create action plans to improve their ability to communicate effectively to all team members by using different listening approaches

idXready Programs have synchronized the following training essentials for you:

	Online Assessment  Includes trusted, proven assessment. The assessment is sent as pre-work completed online prior to training, ensuring training time is maximized.
	Individualized Participant Workbook Workbooks incorporate personalized assessments for each individual. The learning becomes relevant and the facilitation time more effective and productive.
	Synchronized Participant Pages  Corresponding participant workbook pages for every PowerPoint reference.  Note taking is made easy - guess work is removed, and participants keep in step with every reference you make.
	Fully Scripted Leader’s Guide  Synchronized with Participant Workbooks and PowerPoint, and editable. Leader’s Guides are generated in easily accessible PowerPoint files, which are ready to use as they are, or may be edited with your personal touches.
	PowerPoint That Makes a Point   High-impact, visual storytelling slides with effective animations. Professional, high quality presentations that quickly engage learners.
	Video Built into PowerPoint PowerPoint files built with video synchronized right into the presentation. No more wasting time searching for video clips on a VHS tape or DVD, taking the stress out of transition time.

System Requirements

• Microsoft Office 2003 with Power Point 2003
• Microsoft Windows 2000 (Service Pack 3 +) or Windows XP (Recommended)
• Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 or higher (free at www.adobe.com)
• Adobe Flash Player 9 or higher (free at www.adobe.com)
• USB Ports (USB 2 recommended)
• 512 MB of memory (Recommended)