Training built for the room in front of us.
Most teams can find topics relevant to their development in the 46 workshops below. If yours is not here, it can be built from a short conversation.
The strength of humanfusion is the creative process. Any workshop topic you want your leaders trained on can be easily constructed with a few simple questions — what is going wrong, who it is happening to, and what should be different afterwards.
An asterisk marks a workshop that includes fieldwork before the session, such as an interview round or an assessment.
Management
Running a team, a shift, or a department — the daily mechanics of getting work done through other people.
- Building and Leading Effective Teams
- Principles of Time Management and Prioritization
- Drive: Know What Motivates Your People
- The Manager’s Job: Folklore and Fact
- Performance Management: The Key to Employee Development
- Giving Praise and Recognition: Using the Losada Ratio to Your Advantage
- MBWA: Management by Walking Around
- Introduction to Coaching Principles
- *Constructive Conflict: Dealing with Challenging Employees
- *SWOT Analysis: How to Understand Your Department and Next Actions
- Giving and Receiving Feedback: The Power of the Johari Window
- Strategic Elements: How to Integrate Mission, Vision and Core Values
- The Performance Review System: Making Daily Progress
- Motivational Management: The Service-Profit Chain Audit
- *Five Absolutes for Getting Results (Ross School of Business, University of Michigan)
- Corporate Service Intelligence: Extracting the Best Data from Your People
- *Management Assimilation (useful when a manager is not performing well and drastic measures need to be taken)
Leadership
Setting direction, carrying a room, and making decisions whose consequences outlast the quarter.
- *What Makes a Leader? Introduction to Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
- *Managers and Leaders: Are They Different?
- Alignment: Ensuring Momentum from the Bottom to the Top
- Communication: The Heart of Leadership
- Leading Effective Meetings
- Servant Leadership: The Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness
- The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time
- The Science of Decision-Making: Choosing the Best Course of Action
- The Five Practices and Ten Commitments of Leadership
- The Four Fatal Flaws of Strategic Planning
- 7 Daily Wins: Orchestrating a Successful Day
Best books workshops
A working session built around one book, so a team reads the same thing and leaves with the same vocabulary.
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Lencioni)
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Covey)
- Leading Change (Kotter)
- Good to Great (Collins)
- The Leadership Challenge (Kouzes / Posner)
- 12 Elements of Great Managing (Wagner / Harter)
- Blue Ocean Strategy (Kim / Mauborgne)
Employee development and personal mastery
For people who are not managing anyone yet, and for managers who need to get their own house in order first.
- Proactivity: How to Take Personal Responsibility for Your Development
- Begin With the End in Mind: How to Develop Vision
- First Things First: A Guide to Prioritizing Your Week
- Introduction to Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
- Principles of Self-Awareness (can be a standalone workshop)
- Principles of Self-Management (can be a standalone workshop)
- Principles of Organizational Awareness (can be a standalone workshop)
- Principles of Organizational Management (can be a standalone workshop)
- Workflow Management: Optimizing Your Environment for Maximum Productivity
- *Team Strength: Harnessing the Personality of Your Team (Winslow Behavioral Profile; includes the additional cost of the profile)
- Time Mapping: Organize Using the Most of Your Brain
Common questions
What if the topic we need is not on the list?
Then we build it. The catalogue is a starting point, not a menu limit. The strength of humanfusion is the creative process — any workshop topic you want your leaders trained on can be constructed from a few simple questions about what your team is actually struggling with.
How long is a workshop?
Most run a half day or a full day. Some topics work as a short series so managers can practice between sessions, which is usually where the behavior change actually happens.
What does the asterisk mean?
An asterisk marks a workshop that includes fieldwork before the session — an interview round, an assessment, or data gathering. That preparation is what lets the session use your material instead of generic case studies.
On site or remote?
Both. On-site sessions work best for team-building and conflict topics where the room matters. Remote works well for skills training and for organizations with people spread across several states.
How many people should be in the room?
Twelve to twenty is the sweet spot for a working session. Larger groups shift toward presentation and away from practice, which changes what you get out of it.
I would like to be trained.
Tell us who the training is for and what is not working. If the right workshop is on the list we will say so. If it needs building, we will build it.