JIMPACT Enterprises, Inc.
No excuses. Just Performance!
JIMPACT Enterprises, Inc.
46 S. Maple Ave, Suite 1C
Marlton, NJ 08053
484-461-7278
info@jimpact.com

Workshops

Please click on the links below to learn more details about the workshops we offer. Contact us to schedule a workshop.

WORKSHOPS: ONE, TWO & THREE-DAY SESSIONS

LEADERSHIP
- Bringing Out the Best Plus!
FACILITATION AND TRAINING
DIVERSITY
TEAMBUILDING
- Synergy Energy
COACHING
- The Reinvented Coach
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- The Polished Professional
- From Average to Awesome

WORKSHOPS: ONE, TWO & THREE-DAY SESSIONS

LEADERSHIP WORKSHOPS

— Bringing Out the Best Plus!

From the opening exercise to the closing action “next steps” assignment, this leadership workshop highlights what leaders can do to bring out the best in themselves, their team members, their peers and their customers. During this high-energy session, participants interactively explore the following cornerstone leadership components: motivation, communication, diversity, empowerment, trust, staff development, customer advocacy and personal development. The workshop’s objectives are to:

Improve the team members professional and career development
Communicate departmental and organizational standards
Build relationships and motivate the team
Leverage the expertise of the team and its leaders
Build advocacy with your customers

Attendees should come prepared to go beneath the surface, stretch, share and step up —
to a new level of leadership.

Today’s business environment is extremely competitive. Moreover, today’s workers clamor exposure, development and empowerment opportunities. This can be challenging since, in many cases, distance and time creates an unwelcome void between management and staff. In addition, everyone is SO busy! Leaders are seeking creative methods to motivate and connect with their staff and peers. During the Bringing Out The Best Plus! session leaders really take a hard look at, and practice, what they can do to continuously bring out the best in everyone they come in contact with, thereby enhancing business results. Attendees should come prepared to go beneath the surface, stretch, share and step up — to a new level of leadership.

FACILITATION AND TRAINING WORKSHOPS

—JIMPACT BOOT CAMP

This high-energy, quick paced workshop highlights what trainers, sales professionals, managers, leaders and anyone who facilitates, speaks, presents or leads meetings can do to make their trainings, meetings, sales calls and presentations more exciting, motivational or engaging.

Objectives include:

Moving from D.B.P.P. (i.e., Death By Power Point) to HEPP (Happy, Engaged, Purposeful Participants)
Utilizing adult learning principles and powerful presentation skills
Creating an empowering learning environment
Reviewing and revisiting content for maximum retention and performance
Dealing with Difficult Participants
Story telling
Measuring and maximizing the content

—Awesome Presenter Plus

As professionals we are always on. Our presence, communication behaviors, decorum, tact and service energy are vital for achieving the results we desire. Language, clarity, image and thoroughness play a key factor in every customer interaction. Every participant (e.g., managers, team leaders, individual contributors, project managers, generalists, directors, etc.) who attends this workshop woman at workshop will be more effective when working with and presenting to customers (internal and external), leaders and with each other. They will be better communicators, engaging, thorough and confident and provide greater impact.

During this two- or three-day, high-energy session participants learn: powerful and engaging presentation, platform and facilitation skills, adult learning theories, proven practices for accelerated learning, group responsibility and learner retention. Participants also learn and practice methods for: opening and closing presentations, reviewing and revisiting content, story telling, developing, preparing and organizing their presentations. Creating an empowering learning and presentation environment and atmosphere, developing personal presence, poise and energy, dealing successfully with difficult presentation situations, overcoming stage-fright and nervousness, applying application methods, asking and answering questions, transitioning, gesturing, voice modulation, eye movement, using visual aids (namely power point and flip charts), and installing pre and post session assessments and goal review are also reviewed and applied.

—Crash and Learn: Stuff Trainers Do in the Classroom that Make People want to SHOUT, sleep or Sneak out!

WORKSHOP Get ready for hours of non-stop high-energy, fun, sharing, networking and self-examination as we take a look at the mistakes trainers (and all speaking professionals) do in the classroom that demotivate their learners. Based on Jim’s upcoming book (same title), this session helps both new and experienced trainers, sales professionals, managers and other leaders (actually, any one who speaks in front of audiences), to:

Examine the importance of creating an empowering, productive, motivational learning environment.
Investigate why we make the mistakes that we do
Discuss the importance of engaging the learner’s head and the learner’s heart (and other adult learning principles).
Highlight the crucial presentation skills and platform skills that keep learners soaring – not snoring.
Evaluate ourselves so that we can see what areas (e.g., Facilitation, Visual Aids, Motivation, Adult Learning, Curriculum Design and Preparation) we need to improve in

There’s so much more to training, facilitation and presenting than just information dumping. Many speakers think that just because they taught it (i.e. their content) their learners have caught it OR just because it was said, it’s in their head. In the CRASH AND LEARN workshop we polish, adjust, correct and fine-tune the delivery skills you are currently using.

—Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah, Staying Alive, Staying Alive!

This quick-moving session highlights what trainers can do to stay focused, energized and motivated before, during and after their workshops. Particular areas of focus include tips for:

Delivering the same content repeatedly
Inspiring and rejuvenating a tired group
Working effectively with your co-facilitator
Preparing mentally and physically for your session
Getting your participants to take more responsibility, accountability and ownership for their learning

—Am I Going Through OR Growing Through Leadership

This purposeful workshop focuses on trainer leadership; primarily what trainers can do before, during and after their sessions to exemplify leadership. Topics covered include:

Working with management (before, during and after the session)
Working with co-facilitators
Handling difficult participants and difficult workshop situations
Setting the appropriate stage, vision and atmosphere during the session
Self discovery (as it relates to where you are on the Trainer Leadership Competency Scale)

—Unleashing Your Persona - Ways to Bring Out the True You (Advanced Facilitation Skills)

This advanced facilitation workshop is for trainers who are ready to take their training to even greater heights.

Trainers enjoy helping people grow, watching their students try on new concepts as they look for ways to apply the key takeaways back on the job (or in the field). Through these myriad experiences and more, WORKSHOP trainers grow too, evolving into even more effective facilitators. Nevertheless, some trainers believe there’s a level they haven’t yet reached. There’s a standard they haven’t yet obtained. There’s a zone they haven’t yet experienced…at least up to now.

The Unleashing Your Persona workshop helps trainers to discern what’s needed to stretch even more. During this moving, challenging introspective workshop experienced trainers examine the role fearlessness, creativity and theater play in bringing out his/her best.

... trainers will develop a personal plan for unleashing their persona.

In addition, participants will experience the five “Persona Power Principles” as they create a personal action plan for taking their training to heights they’ve never reached before. The session also highlights “The Savvy Seven,” (i.e., seven principles every experienced facilitator should know and master in the classroom). The “Savvy Seven” are:

Intuition
Connectedness
Energy
Power
Recovery
Leadership
Showmanship

Through exercises, presentations, self-examination and feedback trainers will develop a personal plan for unleashing their persona.

DIVERSITY WORKSHOPS
— Managing Diversity

This workshop is geared for leaders, managers, supervisors and the like who are responsible for developing people and creating cultural change. Key subject matters include:

How to recruit, retain and develop today’s diverse workforce
How to provide developmental feedback
How to maximize one’s productivity
How to leverage key diversity business drivers
How to orient and position new employees into an existing corporate culture

Participants also explore the 5-step Just the FACTS model for being a productive manager of diversity:

Focus
Accountability
Communication
Taking Risks
Support

Today’s leaders need all of the tools they can receive to effectively manage today’s diverse workforce. Yesterday’s organizational and societal mores and practices are quickly becoming outdated. We have to tap into the strengths and skills of all our employees. Everyone has to feel empowered. Everyone has to feel included. Everyone has to feel like part of the team. This workshop helps managers to get there.

—Diversity Awareness (Insights)

During this workshop participants explore the diversity workshop broad definition of diversity and its many elements. Age, class, thinking style, gender, physical and mental ability, sexual orientation, race, education, ethnicity and many others are discussed as learners assess the notion that diversity is just about race and gender. Learners also participate in our staple “Pull Right Up” and “Ask Me Anything” exercises where they have the opportunity to personally consider the role specific diversity elements play in their lives. Through video, discussion, small and large group activities, this highly interactive workshop challenges learners to think (and perhaps live) outside the tiny box that diversity is often put in.

The workshop objectives are:

To discuss the broad definition of diversity
To explore how diversity impacts business and the bottom line
To analyze the changing workforce demographics and how these demographics impact internal and external customer interactions
To develop a diversity tool kit to use professionally and personally
To share and ask diversity related “don’t go there” questions that are typically kept within

—Recovery Skills

the impact of one’s behavior does not always match his/her intent

Successful communication is certainly not always the easiest goal to achieve. This fact is greatly heightened when diversity factors are involved. Gender, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class and race differences, just to name a few, can play a significant role in how one receives and reacts to communication or behavior directed toward him/her. Add to this the notion that the impact of one’s behavior does not always match his/her intent. We have to refrain from “blame the victim” thinking (i.e., thinking it’s always the other person’s fault or that the other person has to stop being so sensitive and learn to just “get over it”). Poor work relationships can develop just because someone has unknowingly said or done the wrong thing. During this communication’s workshop participants explore:

How to personally recover from inappropriate comments
How to approach the individual, after an insensitive remark, to reestablish a productive relationship
How to have insightful, inclusion conversations and dialogues with colleagues and customers who are different from them
How to overcome the “fear factor” associated with having inclusion conversations

—Blind spots

“I can’t believe I missed it – it was sitting right there.” “I never realized she could…” “Who would of thought that he would be the one to…” “I must be going blind – it was right in front of my face.” People whose blind spots have affected their thinking, their communications or their behaviors Jim Smith, Jr. have shared those sentiments and more. During this high-energy workshop, participants explore the myth and theory that, “what you see is what you get.”

Many of us, because of our blind spots, miss important opportunities and/or information. This could be in the areas of succession planning, coaching, mentoring, hiring, promoting, sales or development. And when you consider the critical role that perceptions and stereotypes play in our daily interactions, one could have quite a challenge. Invariably, all of these lead to unproductive work and work relationships. We have to take responsibility for acknowledging and eliminating our blind spots.

This workshop’s objectives are to:

Assess why and how our blind spots impact our professional, personal and societal interactions and decision-making
Discuss ways for eliminating blind spot thinking and performance
Develop an action plan for expanding one’s perspective and vision
Discuss and acknowledge what are our blind spots

—Creative Diversity Training Techniques

So often participants dread coming to diversity workshops. They would rather play in traffic blind folded or drink a jar of wasabi sauce, nonstop, then attend a full day class on diversity. dancing Even the name (i.e., diversity) itself frustrates and scares some, especially if they’ve already had one trying diversity workshop experience. Learners come to the sessions expecting the worst and hoping for an early dismissal. What can trainers and managers do? This participant driven workshop is primarily for trainers, leaders and others who lead diversity workshops, trainings and meetings. The objectives for the workshop are to provide tips, tools and techniques for:

Productively opening and closing your sessions with power and purpose
Effectively managing difficult participants and difficult conversations
Getting learners to freely and confidently participate
Having productive one-on-one diversity dialogues
Creating room safety
Facilitating the total diversity trainer experience

TEAMBUILDING WORKSHOPS
— Synergy Energy

This highly interactive workshop highlights the vital components of teamwork and teambuilding. Through numerous experiential exercises and activities, participants experience teamwork at its best and at its most challenging. Workshop objectives include:

Building Trust
Managing Diversity
Communicating Effectively
Motivating your Colleagues
Managing Up, Down and Across

COACHING WORKSHOPS

— The Reinvented Coach

During this moving, introspective workshop participants develop powerful coaching practices by first exploring the ideology and emotional connection between “what they have accomplished and how and who they are.”

Throughout the session participants engage in self discovery activities and discussions to get clear about their beliefs, their actions and the future they are creating for themselves and for those they manage and lead. Our coach approach is that, “you cannot successfully coach others if you’re not clear about your personal vision.” Participants move to the superior coaching model by focusing on developing a personal success orientation through mindset shifts, behavior modifications and a customized action plan.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS
— The Polished Professional

The powerful P.I.E. (performance, image and exposure) are just a few of the factors Jim highlights during the moving and quick-paced The Polished Professional workshop. We’ve all learned that there are myriad contributors to one’s success in the workplace. Many of those intangibles we learned the hard way. Others we still haven’t learned (or we haven’t accepted that they are vital to one’s success). Unfortunately our parents and our college counselors and professors did not totally prepare us for many of the corporate hurdles and games that are so prevalent in today’s workplace. During this session you’ll explore, discuss and examine what it takes to be an awesome professional (both the saids and the unsaids). Come gather some quick tips for communicating powerfully, getting others excited about you, dealing with difficult people, sharing your energy, influencing others and much, much more.

—From Average to Awesome:

The From Average to Awesome workshop highlights what people can do professionally and/or personally, awesome! to defeat procrastination, live their dreams, and change their mind set and behaviors to always strive for awesome results. Moreover during this moving, high-energy workshop, Jim uses anecdotes, key learnings and tips from his From Average to Awesome book to help move one’s typical words of “I’m OK,” and “I’m hanging in there – same stuff, different day,” to “I’m feeling spectacular,” and “I couldn’t be better!” Jim shares what people can do to live with passion, purpose and power – unwavering power! Some of the other session’s highlights include:

Ways to get the junk out of one’s trunk
Strategies for bouncing back from problems and setbacks
Methods for reinventing oneself and for dealing with fear
Steps for developing an empowering and positive outlook
Tips for exceeding all of you customer’s (internal and external) expectations
Pointers for thoroughly taking care of oneself and savoring those special moments in life
Methods for connecting with ALL people