 
Catalyst for Action facilitates one-of-a-kind, participant-centered, experiential leadership programs that fuse a coach-approach to learner engagement with interactive drama techniques. Learning sticks when participants have an opportunity to try out concepts on their feet and develop the ability to adapt to real-world situations with colleagues, clients, and competition. Each training is customized to meet the unique needs of the organization and equips participants with practical strategies and techniques for translating insight into action.
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"The estimated annual costs of stress for the United States as a whole range from $200-$300 billion. The impact to employers includes decreased performance, productivity and quality, more accidents and injuries, increased healthcare costs and higher levels of absenteeism and turnover."
- DeFrank and Ivancevich 1998
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Co-Intentional Leadership: Engineering Success One Employee at a Time
In Catalyst for Action’s signature leadership development program, executives, directors, managers, and administrators explore how to build and sustain successful and balanced organizations through collaborative leadership. Leaders across the organization will define their leadership style, vision, mission, and core values. They will identify their strengths and develop strategies for playing to them to increase individual and team performance and job satisfaction. Senior leaders will develop tools for harnessing the enthusiasms and abilities of employees throughout an organization, identifying and adapting to generational styles, coaching employees to peak performance, embracing change and innovation, and establishing and maintaining a culture of optimism amidst anticipated and unforeseen organizational challenges.
Half and One Day Trainings Available
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"Forty two percent of college students and recent graduates said what they value most when making career decisions was work/life balance - more than money (26%), advancement potential (23%) or location (9%)."
- A survey of college students and recent graduates by Jobtrak.com (2000)
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Leading Generation We: From Management to Empowerment
By 2012, millennials will compose 30% of the American workforce (Michael Berger). Explore what drives these leaders, their strengths, and their fears. Utilize Gen-We’s expertise in social media while coaching them to develop their interpersonal communication skills. Learn best practices for giving Gen-We the appropriate balance of structure and freedom. Capitalize on their creativity by cultivating a culture of “intrapreneurship.” Discover how to give constructive, generationally appropriate criticism and explore strategies for enabling young leaders to develop in their roles to minimize increasingly high rates of turnover. Learn how reverse mentoring programs enable younger and older generations to learn from one another’s skill set, strengthen intergenerational relationships, and build both groups’ leadership capabilities.
Half and One Day Trainings Available
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"Before the age of 32, most Americans will have held 8.6 jobs."
- Department of Labor
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The 4 C’s of Successful Teams
A winning team honors the unique contribution of each member, creates a culture of trust, promotes strategic risk taking, and supports members to step out of familiar roles in order to discover unexplored capabilities. Empower your team to work smart and have fun while building competencies in the 4 C’s.
Communication: Develop the ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, clients, and competition in one-on-one and group situations. Enhance your ability to read and respond to verbal and non-verbal cues by listening with the 5 senses. Practice using lasered language that strikes listeners in the head, heart, and gut. Learn how to give and receive feedback that empowers peak performance.
Collaboration: Explore the characteristics of an effective team, its stages of development, and the 4 leadership styles. Learn strategies for negotiating conflict. Discover how to frame challenges as opportunities for creative problem solving.
Commitment: A team player understands and commits to the team goals, understands his or her unique role in the process, and supports others in discovering and fulfilling their responsibilities. Investigate strategies for minimizing distractions, increasing individual and group efficiency, and staying motivated.
Creativity: Winning teams achieve success by developing powerful visions for the future and employing innovative strategies for getting there. Learn how to unleash your creative potential and shift from thinking “outside the box” to thinking without a box.
Half, One, and Two Day Trainings Available
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"Workplace researchers have found that adult employees retain just 15% of what they are told in a lecture, compared with 75% of the material presented in an interactive, experiential way."
–Washington Business, March 24, 1997
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The Catalyst Trainer’s Essential Toolkit
A trainer’s success is measured by his or her ability to engage participants, empower them to transfer learning to action, and achieve measurable results. Designed for HR professionals and training specialists, managers, and directors, this training introduces a myriad of strategies and techniques for dynamizing one's training practice and launching participants to professional excellence. Learn to:
- Identify individual training strengths and align them with organizational needs
- Develop techniques for identifying and meeting employees where they are at and eliciting their active participation in learning programs
- Cultivate tools for leading and facilitating with confidence, clarity, and passion so that trainees can use learning to shift behaviors, values, and attitudes
- Discover a range of experiential ice-breaking, group building, energizing, focusing, assessment, and reflective activities applicable to various populations and content areas
- Practice conceiving, communicating and measuring training goals and objectives
One and Two Day Trainings Available
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"Organizations that embrace diversity outperform homogenous counterparts in problem solving, conflict resolution, and creativity."
-Scott E. Page, author of The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies
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Beyond Tolerance: Diversity and Pluralism in the 21st Century
Organizations that achieve excellence and retain employees value and reward staff who align their diverse strengths, values, backgrounds, learning and working styles, communication patterns, and interests with their job responsibilities. In this innovative, experiential training, learn the 15 coach-approach tools for building and sustaining a workplace that values diversity. Create and/or enhance your organization’s diversity mission and vision. Cultivate strong and unified teams that embrace generational differences. Engender commitment to company goals. Shift individual and organizational values, attitudes, and behaviors. Create a safe space for discussing sensitive and important issues. Discover how diversity = daily discovery.
One and Two Day Trainings Available
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"Born between 1978 and 2000, they are 95 million strong,
compared to 78 million Baby Boomers"
–Eric H. Greenberg and Karl Weber
Do you know how to empower this generation to a
lifetime of values-driven leadership?
 Catalyst Strategies for Engaging Generation We
Generation We has grown up in a culture that has decreased the average attention span, fostered a sense of entitlement, promoted skepticism for authority and tradition, and rewarded autonomy over collaboration. Simultaneously, they have become the most diverse, technologically savvy, politically engaged, and idealistic generation. They will outnumber Generation X and Baby Boomers in the workplace by 2012. But how does one engage them?
Gen-We thrives even more than previous generations on hands-on learning that caters to multiple intelligences and a range of communication and leadership styles. Educators can get young people excited to learn and prepare them for lifelong civic leadership by using innovative, drama-based tools that also lead to increased academic achievement. In this workshop, participants will explore cutting-edge, easy to facilitate and adapt interactive learning strategies. This experiential workshop can be targeted towards a particular subject area or look at how interactive learning can be incorporated across curricula to promote academic achievement and lifelong leadership.
Half and Full Day Trainings Available
Beyond Tolerance: Facilitating Diversity and Pluralism Awareness for the Generation We Leader
Learn how to design and implement dynamic, hands-on, student-centered diversity and pluralism education. Develop a range of innovative, effective, interdisciplinary, and easy to lead exercises that engage young people in critical thinking and creative problem solving around real-world scenarios. Empower young people to examine their own biases, to treat others the way THEY wanted to be treated, and to deconstruct and when appropriate shift attitudes, values, and behaviors. Explore how to cultivate a classroom where diversity = daily discover.
One and Two Day Trainings Available
 The Gen-We Leader’s Survival Toolkit
While Gen-We recognizes that they are the first American generation to inherit a nation in economic and ecological decline, they also are the generation most optimistic about their ability to change the world for the better. Prepare the next generation not only to be values-driven leaders but also to develop the competencies necessary to build, grow, and sustain successful and balanced careers, organizations, institutions, and governments. Universities and secondary schools may select desired topics from the Toolkit for their customized training.
Values-Driven Leadership
In Catalyst for Action’s signature Gen-We leadership offering, define your leadership mission, vision, and core values. Find your leadership style and persona. Awaken to your strengths and use them to chart a plan for being a leader in your family, workplace, and community.
SMART Goal Setting
Envision, create, adapt, and accomplish academic, professional, and personal goals that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timely, and linked to individual core values.
Public Speaking
Investigate The Top 10 Tools for Successful Speech Making. Beat stage fright, research and deliver speeches that are clear, concise, dynamic, and persuasive, and use language to spark dialogue and catalyze audiences to action.
Time Management
Differentiate working smart from working hard. Identify common time and energy drains. Develop strategies for balancing school, work, and life commitments. Identify opportunities for regular and intentional leisure.
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
Prevent and resolve common classroom, workplace, relationship, and interpersonal conflicts. Learn strategies for making all parties “win” by identifying your own and other’s conflict management styles. Through group role-playing, reframe conflict as an opportunity to practice effective negotiation.
Embracing Diversity
Flex your critical thinking, communication, and compassionate leadership muscles through innovative, hands-on diversity awareness exercises. Identify your own biases, treat others the way THEY want to be treated, and when appropriate, shift attitudes, values, and behaviors through the exploration of real-world scenarios.
The 4 C’s of Successful Teams
Increase your ability to be a desirable and effective group member. Learn the core goals of teamwork. Strengthen your ability to communicate, collaborate, concentrate, and tap into your creativity.
Adapting to Change
Cultivate strategies and techniques for anticipating, adapting to, and embracing change as an opportunity to grow. Be resilient in your career, the workplace, and interpersonal relationships.
Half, One, and Two Day Workshops and Weeklong Trainings Available
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Contact Alexia for a complimentary coaching session or to inquire about training and speaking for your company, conference, university, secondary school, or community association.
