We work with companies that want successful projects and with
leaders who want to get their people behind a common goal.

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- On-site Training Workshops -

Thriving on Conflict
Have you tried conflict management and conflict resolution techniques?  We may wish there were a to make conflict go away, but the real issue how to work constructively with others when there is a conflict. We acknowledge that bright people who want to achieve success will differ on how to get there.  Once you appreciate opposing points of views, you can get conflict to work for you instead of against you. The overall goal is project success.  Learn to thrive in a conflict situation by recognizing what is going on under the surface and dealing with that.

In our conflict training workshop, we use The Life Styles Indicator Conflict™, a tool from Human Synergistics(R), This identifies 12 styles for handling conflict.  We show how to recognize and respond to each.

High Performance Teams
Jumpstart your project team.
Stop Trying To Fix People - Fix The Team! You hire for skills and get personalities in the process.  Then, you expect everyone to be a top performer, even though they are all so different from one another. We show how to improve team performance without changing people. It starts with developing a shared vision, followed by showing respect for different work styles, and then learning how to influence people who think and work differently from one another.

Race, gender and other obvious diversity differences are nothing compared to diverse work styles. If you want people to respect one another, start by understanding and appreciating the strengths people bring to the team. We use the DISC assesssment from the American Management Association for identifying your own work style and we then look for ways to integrate your style with others on the team.

Your people need training opportunities.  Tough Teams specializes in teamwork training, and we don't do it through group hugs.  We focus on a common purpose as seen from different perspectives.  Conflict is a part of teamwork.  You can want conflict to go away, you can want conflict resolution, but if you want to get work done, you have to accept conflict as part of the process.  The goal of our conflict training is to keep it constructive.  Constructive conflict gets work done because the team respects the different perspectives and considers that other points of view.

Regardless of the size of your company and size of your budget, we will work with you to plan effective team development. We offer a variety of workshops on such topics as team conflict, team building and team communications.  Get your work team off to a solid start and deal effectively with conflict, right from the beginning.

We are based in Colorado and our facilitators travel to corporations and government agencies throughout the country.  We also do special programs for executives on your site or can plan an executive retreat for you in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

Adults learn best when they are actively challenged.  You will not sit still for two days listening to theory.  We use a combination of lecture, discussion, and activities to aid the learning process.  Participants tell us that the time goes by so quickly that they miss their normal afternoon downtime, a time when they would normally find themselves mentally sleeping. Our workshops are done at your business site and are typically two days of intense work and lots of fun.