Rainmaker Strategies Group offers a wide range of both personal and professional development services. This area is devoted to professional and organizational development – executive coaching, consulting services, workshops and other services designed for busy professionals and organizations who want to develop peak effectiveness in their staff. Along with our ongoing roster of workshops, we also offer the option of customizable programs that will be tailored for your organization’s specific needs.
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS
Keynote Speaking Engagements
Claudia Ferryman is a highly sought-after keynote speaker. Her message conveys the perfect blend of conceptual and practical strategies. Claudia utilizes passion and humour to engage the audience. She has been a keynote guest speaker for numerous corporations and not-for-profit organizations. Participants are known to leave workshops saying “That was the best presentation I’ve ever attended!”
Assessment Profiles
Assessment profiles are available for communication styles, leadership preferences, sales / job competencies, relationship styles, emotional intelligence and motivation factors. We also conduct 360 Degree surveys and organizational surveys for customer service and employee satisfaction.
Leadership Development Program
This leadership program is made up of 12 workshops that cover subjects such as leadership styles, communication, conflict resolution, psychology of influence, decision-making, strategic planning, change management and more. Each participant will complete an online validated Leadership Assessment that outlines their core competencies, emotional intelligence, communication preferences and motivational factors. This program can be completed as integrated 12 modules or select stand-alone workshops.
Dynamic Communications
Dynamic Communication is a behaviorally-based communication seminar aimed at teaching people how to communicate using specialized techniques and methods to understand themselves and others. The seminar incorporates a behavioral assessment to give a more complete understanding of each individual.
Participants learn how to interact with others and to appreciate each others’ behavioral styles. Improved communication is noticed immediately after the seminar. This workshop is certified for continuing educational credits. The training is based upon the DISC Communication Model.
Team Building
This workshop is designed to enhance team effectiveness. You will be exposed to practical methodologies used to develop cohesive teams who communicate and work together in a more effective and productive manner. You will gain access to the most advanced, leading-edge skills for mobilizing cross-functional teams. Learn the reasons why teams fail and how to motivate individuals to work collaboratively by understanding the fundamental characteristics, communication styles and motivations of one another.
“Selling with the Styles” Sales Intelligence Workshop
Learn proven strategies and techniques for developing more meaningful and professional sales relationships with your clients. Learn about you and your client’s view of the world, how they choose to buy, how to build instant rapport, how to identify your client’s buying/decision making strategies, and how to identify your client’s motivational factors to manage your state of mind for peak performance.
Powerful Speaking and Presenting Skills
This course is designed for anyone who has to facilitate meetings, train or present to groups of people. Participants will discover the underlying factors that affect how individuals learn and what motivates them. You will gain knowledge about communication techniques, learning strategies, special listening skills and how to capture and maintain the attention of your audience. Training includes experiential exercises, lectures, demonstration and self-assessment surveys.
Masterful Facilitation
This course is designed for anyone who has to provide training, facilitate meetings or present to small or large groups of people. Participants will learn many of the underlying factors that effect group dynamics. Learn how individuals process information and what motivates them to learn, and discover how to run buzz groups and conduct effective debriefing. You will acquire powerful communication techniques, learning strategies, special listening skills and how to capture and maintain the attention of your audience. Training includes experiential exercises, lectures, demonstration and self-assessment surveys.
Presentation Skills with PowerPoint Essentials
The workshop is designed to teach you how to create a dynamic, impactful presentation from start to finish. You are also taught the essential skills of utilizing Microsoft PowerPoint to turn your presentation into a multi-media experience. Participants are video-taped doing a presentation in the program; feedback and evaluations will be provided in areas for improvement.
Workplace Harassment & Violence Workshops (Bill 168) – It’s the Law! Mandatory Training
Due to amendments to the Occupational Health and Safety Act that came into force on June 15th, 2010, workplaces in Ontario where more than 5 workers are regularly employed will be required to develop written policies addressing workplace harassment and violence, and must review those policies at least once a year. Employers are required to conduct training on these policies to meet their due diligence. We will help your organization with assessments and the mandatory workshops training to educate your staff on the details of this new mandate.
We cover the following:
• violence in the workplace
• workplace harassment
• domestic violence as it affects the workplace
UPCOMING WORKSHOP
Psychology of Influence Intensive course – 1.5 Days, May 6 and 7
Success in business, management and sales depends on the skills and experience that professionals have in influencing and persuading others to cooperate collaboratively and complete work assignments in a timely and effective manner. In this course you will learn the principles, tools and techniques of influence taken from Social Psychology, NeuroLinguistic Programming and Communications. You will also walk away with the tools to negotiate a raise or a promotion!
Lunch & Learn Series
Lunch-and-Learn Series: Effective Communication
The workshop is designed to teach the most powerful techniques and tools for effective and active listening and communication. You will learn how to build instant, deep, meaningful and long-lasting rapport with anyone by understanding and utilizing sensory acuity, language, physiology, gestures, tonality, mirroring/matching and breathing. You will also learn about active listening methods.
Lunch-and-Learn Series: Building Instant Rapport
This presentation is designed to teach individuals how to build instant, deep, meaningful and long-lasting rapport with anyone by understanding and utilizing sensory acuity, language, physiology, gestures, tonality, mirroring/matching and breathing.
Personal Development Workshops
Personal Mastery for Personal & Organizational Effectiveness
This presentation is designed to teach tools and techniques to understand and manage states of mind and body to create a powerful state of being and enhance your personal performance in all areas of your life. Sports stars utilize the most powerful tools for unleashing human potential such as NeuroLinguistic Psychology. Why not you?
We will teach you how to utilize the most powerful and proven tools for unleashing human potential and creating sustainable personal change. You will conquer what holds you back from taking the steps and creating meaningful action toward producing a quantum leap of success in your life. You will learn the tools and techniques to condition your mind, body and spirit to consistently respond with power and focus in any situation.
You will learn to finally let go of limiting habits, beliefs and emotions while developing empowering thoughts and philosophies to move you toward a positive and optimistic
mindset. You deserve this chance to really achieve all your needs, goals and desires. Walk away knowing how to naturally and precisely transform the quality of your life to create the future you desire.
Living by Design
The most successful people in the world find opportunities even in the hardest times. They do this by designing their life through planning, creating strategies and goal-setting. Are you among them? If not, don’t you want to be?
In Living by Design you will learn the tools to create your destiny. In this one day seminar, you will be shown how to build a master plan– a personal strategic plan for life and learn how to utilize the most powerful and proven tools for unleashing human potential!
Join us to set in motion a new approach to your life. We will build a plan by exploring your core values, beliefs, strengths and skills. Then we will follow a unique process to lead you to your ideal day, which is a metaphor for your ideal life. We finalize the process by developing a set of goals and action plans to implement the vision.
MINDFULNESS PROGRAMS
Mindfulness has been steadily gaining popularity among business executives, managers and staff. Why are Google, Facebook and many other companies utilizing mindfulness training? The answer is, they have recognized the amazing benefits of mindfulness practices for their staff.
Mindfulness is a mental state of awareness that requires paying attention to the present moment with an open mind, curiosity and resilience. Mindfulness is a powerful skill that can be developed through practicing meditation, body scan, mindful breathing, mindful eating, mindful walking and other mindfulness practices. During this series you will learn a number of these techniques to attain a calmer state of being both in mind and body.
Through our Mindfulness Practice Workshop Series, Mindfulness Webinars, Workplace Mindfulness and Mindful Leadership programs we work with individuals and organizations to bring you the many benefits of mindfulness practices. Participants attest to experiencing a greater sense of calm with an enhanced ability to manage their thoughts, anxiety and reactions to everyday stressors.
Some benefits of mindfulness include:
• Increased calm and relaxation
• Manage stress and anxiety
• Cope with challenge
• Strengthened relationships
• Become emotionally resilient
• Listen without judgement
• Less conflict with others
• Effective communication
• Greater empathy for others
• Reduced mental & emotional suffering
Workplace Yoga – Stress Management Yoga Programs
Yoga in the workplace is a fast-growing phenomenon, as business leaders and managers are seeing the many benefits of this holistic practice. Yoga enhances our physical and mental wellbeing as it reduces stress and boosts our energy and core strength. Healthy employees, in turn, reduce the burden on corporate health benefits programs.
Rainmaker Strategies Group Workplace Yoga classes offer an affordable way to expose employees to the numerous benefits of regular Yoga practice.
We know that long hours of working at a desk can cause muscular tension as well as aches in the neck, back and shoulders. Yoga requires stretching and deep breathing, which produces deep relaxation for the whole body. Those who practice Yoga say they have a greater feeling of calm and relaxation throughout their day. Calm employees are more focused, leading to increased productivity and improved concentration on work tasks.
Companies often start with just one session per week, and participants attest to experiencing benefits within just a few weeks. Employees develop a sense of physical and mental well-being with improved energy levels. Enhanced team spirit is also a by-product of the Yoga classes as staff develop greater comradery by spending time together as they learn.
Our yoga training offers a simple, safe, and practical means to quickly reduce tension and stress in the workplace.
Getting Started with Workplace Yoga
We can start with a pilot of a few sessions to gauge the level of interest and determine program design and timing. We will require a workshop space such as a boardroom or conference room that can be cleared of tables and chairs. Employees are required to bring their own yoga mats, or we can provide these for a fee. Finally, we conduct evaluations to get feedback from the participants and gain valuable information on how to best tailor the program and determine when is the best time to conduct sessions for the organization.
Ongoing Workplace Yoga programs can be configured to include weekly or bi-weekly classes lasting a few months, or you may choose a comprehensive Yoga and Mindfulness program. We also offer Chair Yoga, which is easy to practice in just about any setting.
Our instructors are typically certified in Hatha, Vinyasa and Restorative Yoga and are dedicated experts who will guide your staff toward a greater level of health and well-being. Contact us today to learn more about our Workplace Yoga offerings and to receive a proposal.