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Our workshops will make you and your leaders and team more effective
Having us lead an in-house workshop - or participating in one of our video or face-to-face workshops - is great way to raise your and your leaders’ and team’s skills and effectiveness. Tap our knowledge and insights on leadership, decision making, strategy implementation, facilitation, meetings and more.
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Our workshops make you better.
Achieve and succeed.
ACHIEVE BIG GOALS. Forrest Training workshops can train your leaders to be more effective and successful. We can equip your leaders to produce better results and achieve big goals for your organization.
RAISE YOUR STRATEGY GAME. Forrest Training workshops can raise your team’s strategy game. Our workshops can help your team set strategies and goals. and move your organization to your shared vision of success.
Great decisions and results.
MAKE BETTER DECISIONS. Forrest Training workshops can help your leaders and team make better decisions. We can equip your leaders with unique knowledge about effective decision making and to use a better decision making process to produce better results for your organization.
GET RESULTS FROM MEETINGS. Forrest Training workshops can equip your leaders with facilitation skills and train them to hold meetings that get results.
Immediate and custom.
RESPOND TO THE CURRENT NEED. Forrest Training offers special workshops to meet immediate needs. From using the OODA Loop for fast planning in a changing environment to Covid-19 business strategies, we offer immediately relevant learning.
CUSTOM WORKSHOPS. If you need training on a business topic, from strategy and communications to productivity and effective selling, just ask. It’s likely we can structure a workshop using our knowledge and expertise to meet your needs.
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What we offer.
Workshop 1.1
How to be a better Board.
Use best practices and good governance, and foster involvement and accountability.
Workshop 1.2
Make your meetings great.
How Boards and teams can work together for strategic, actionable outcomes.
Workshop 1.3
Using Robert’s Rules of Order
The best method to get results from your meeting.
Workshop 2.1
Use the latest insights to become a great leader.
Get better outcomes from your organization by using behavioral economics, psychology and more.
Workshop 2.2
Your and your organization can make big decisions better.
Learn about the 100s of traps that lead to bad decisions and how to make great decisions when it really counts.
Workshop 2.3
Develop strategies to transform your organization.
Learn to use Fast Track Strategic Planning to develop your shared vision, goals and strategies, and initiatives and action steps to move your organization to your vision.
Workshop 2.4
Why strategy fails and how you can make it work.
How to avoid, recognize and overcome the many causes of strategic plan inaction and failure, and tools for making better strategy decisions.
Workshop 3.1
Facilitating successful meetings.
You can facilitate great meeting outcomes by using this powerful process.
Workshop 3.2
Not your meeting? Use “sidelines facilitation.”
Get the results you need through "sidelines facilitation.“ Facilitation tools and techniques for professionals and subject matter experts who need decisions and results from meetings.
Workshop 4,1
Successful selling
Learn to sell using consultative selling principles and the sales cycle.
Tailored workshops
We offer many other workshops not outlined above, on topics including positioning and branding, the business model, the healthy organization, and strategic choices. And we design workshops to meet a client’s specific needs. Just ask!
Board best practices and effective meetings.
Better leadership, decisions, and strategies.
Better outcomes from facilitation
Better sales, marketing, and communications
Workshop 1.1. How to be a better Board.
Use best practices and good governance, and foster involvement and accountability
Training modules:
Workshop objectives and desired outcomes.
Board best practices.
Chair and member duties and responsibilities.
Traits of an effective Board.
Member recruitment and involvement, and getting the work done.
How to measure your Board's performance and avoid or mitigate big risks.
Summing up and Q&A..
Time required: 5 hours / 6 hours with optional pre-workshop Board e-survey to assess Board status and issues.
Participants receive:
PDF of workshop PowerPoint presentation.
Handouts provided in the workshop.
Report on Board e-survey, if conducted.
Fee: $1,800 / $2,800 with pre-workshop Board e-survey, plus expenses.
Workshop 2.1. Be a great leader!
Use behavioral economics, psychology, and more
Training modules:
Workshop objectives and desired outcomes.
The Bad Leader.
Biases, traps and flaws that trip up leaders and those they lead.
A system and tools for effective evidence-based leadership.
The Great Leader.
Summing up and Q&A.
Time required: 4 hours.
Participants receive:
PDF of workshop PowerPoint presentation.
Free e-copy (draft or final version when available) of Lee Crumbaugh's upcoming book, BIG DECISIONS.
Handouts provided in the workshop.
Fee: $1,600, plus expenses.
Workshop 3.1. Facilitating successful meetings.
You can facilitate great meeting outcomes by using this powerful process
Training modules:
Workshop objectives and desired outcomes.
Planning the meeting.
Setting the stage for the meeting.
Preparing for the meeting.
Facilitating the meeting.
After the meeting.
Review and discussion.
Time required: 10 hours.
Participants receive:
PDF of workshop PowerPoint presentation.
Handouts provided in the workshop.
Fee: $3,200, plus expenses.
Workshop 4.1. Successful selling.
Learn to sell using consultative selling principles and the sales cycle.
Training modules:
Workshop objectives and desired outcomes.
Buying and selling fundamentals.
Sales cycle: Consultative selling versus traditional selling.
Positive openings.
Opportunities and needs.
Probes - open and closed.
Effective listening.
Supporting: Product/service - feature - benefit.
Closing and handling objections.
Summing up and Q&A.
Time required: 5 hours.
Participants receive:
PDF of workshop PowerPoint presentation.
Handouts provided in the workshop.
Fee: $1,800, plus expenses.
Workshop 1.2. Make your meetings great.
How Boards and teams can work together for strategic, actionable results.
Training modules:
Workshop objectives and desired outcomes.
The Bad Meeting: Eight traits.
Robert's Rules of Order: The Framework.
The meeting participant's role.
Building a culture of trust:
The seven dimensions of difference.
Strategic meetings: How to assure that your meeting is strategic.
The Great Meeting: Seven traits.
Meeting Jeopardy, summing up and Q&A.
Time required: 4 hours.
Participants receive:
PDF of workshop
PowerPoint presentation.
Handouts provided in the workshop.
Fee: $1,600, plus expenses.
Workshop 2.2. Big Decisions
Why we make them poorly. How we can make them better.
Training modules:
Workshop objectives and desired outcomes.
Why strategic decision making often goes bad.
Often unrecognized decsion-making traps and biases.
Four cases where bad strategic decisions led to bad outcomes… and why the decisions were flawed.
Recognizing the limits to our knowledge: Going beyond rational decision making.
Nine decision making tools.
The iDECIDE decision making framework.
Summing up and Q&A.
Time required: 4 hours.
Participants receive:
PDF of workshop PowerPoint presentation.
Free e-copy (draft or final version when available) of Lee Crumbaugh's upcoming book, BIG DECISIONS.
Handouts provided in the workshop.
Fee: $1,600, plus expenses.
Workshop 3.2. Facilitating from the sidelines
Not your meeting? Get the results you need by using “sidelines facilitation” tools and techniques.
Training modules:
Workshop objectives and desired outcomes.
Problem: Lack authority but need results.
Solution: Facilitate.
Setting the stage for the meeting.
Preparing for the meeting.
Facilitating from the sidelines.
After the meeting.
Summing up and Q&A.
Time required: 5 hours.
Participants receive:
PDF of workshop PowerPoint presentation.
Handouts provided in the workshop.
Fee: $1,800, plus expenses.
Workshop 1.3. Using Robert’s Rules of Order
The best method to get results.
Training modules:
Workshop objectives and desired outcomes:.
What are Robert’s Rules of Order?
Why use Robert's Rules of Order for your meeting?
10 Robert’s Rules of Order basics. Robert’s Rules of Order definitions.
What’s really important to know to use Robert’s Rules of Order with great success.
Doing it right, practice, summing up and Q&A.
Time required: 3 hours.
Participants receive:
PDF of workshop
PowerPoint presentation.
Handouts provided in the workshop.
Fee: $1,400, plus expenses.
Workshop 2.3. Fast Track Strategic Planning
Develop strategies to transform your organization
Training modules:
Workshop objectives and desired outcomes.
Why to plan and why strategic planning often fails.
Fundamentals of the Fast Track System.
Smart pre-planning.
Finding the shared vision and identifying the strategic gaps.
Creating strategic goals and powerful strategies.
Developing strategic initiatives and annual action steps.
Finalizing the plan and setting the stage for successful implementation.
Summing up and Q&A.
Time required: 4 hours.
Participants receive:
PDF of workshop PowerPoint presentation.
Free e-copy (draft or final version when available) of Lee Crumbaugh's upcoming book, BIG DECISIONS.
PDFs of two Forrest Consulting Strategic Leader research reports, Strategic Planning and Decision Making, and Closing the Strategy Gap and The Promise of Strategic Planning: How Leaders are Delivering. Handouts provided in the workshop.
Fee: $1,600, plus expenses.
Tailored workshop
Please consult with us if you are interested in having us propose on developing a training on a business topic. Our team has deep and diverse skills and experience.
Workshop 2.4. Why strategy fails…and how you can make it work
Training modules:
Workshop objectives and desired outcomes.
The case for strategic planning.
Two strategy success secrets.
13 best practices for planning success.
Why planning fails: Bad practices.
6 planning problems and how to remedy them.
The unrecognized problem: Bad decisions.
How to make better strategy decisions.
Summing up and Q&A.
Time required: 4 hours.
Participants receive:
PDF of workshop PowerPoint presentation.
Free e-copy of Lee Crumbaugh's book, AHEAD: Strategy is the way to a better future
PDFs of two Forrest Consulting Strategic Leader research reports, Strategic Planning and Decision Making, Closing the Strategy Gap and The Promise of Strategic Planning: How Leaders are Delivering.
Handouts provided in the workshop.
Fee: $1,800, plus expenses.