Workshops Designed around your Team’s Needs

Below you will find our trainings curriculum. In advance of each Sway-hosted workshop, we give a team survey to tailor the workshop to your individual team members’ needs. Additionally, the Team Lead co-designs the workshop along with our Sway experts.

One-Day, 6-8 Hour Workshops

 

Nine Styles of Leadership

-Track A-

Introduce the Enneagram framework to your entire staff. Have people leave knowing their type and how to use it in the workplace.

Materials:

Communication Styles & The Enneagram Intelligence Centers

-Track B-

Must complete Track A. Starting with the model of head, heart, and body intelligence overlapped with Margaret Mahler’s Object Relations Theory, this workshop gives participants tangible tools for communication and strategies on how to implement them.

Instincts, Sequencing, & the 27 Subtypes

-Track C-

Designed for teams who have completed workshops A and B and are actively participating in individual coaching.

More Curious Leadership

Asking good questions is the key to ensuring your organization is on the right track. Through this experiential workshop, your team learns the difference between weak and powerful question-asking in order to build group cohesion and help reveal blindspots and under-utilized strengths. Active listening required.

Psychological Safety + CT Trainings

Using Concepts from Amy Edmondson's work on psychology safety, this workshop supports leadership teams in learning the principles that promote effective risk-taking and innovation, while avoiding the pitfalls of fear-based culture that decrease engagement and staff retention. Teams will also complete self-assessments and work towards identifying ways to implement of practices into their organization that support:

  • Increasing engagement and productive risk-taking behavior

  • Creating an atmosphere of candor to promote product feedback

  • Fostering a culture of curiosity through use of situational humility

Change, Transition, and Transformation

Using the model by William Bridges, this workshop helps teams recognize the differences between change, transition, and transformation at both an individual and organization level. By knowing this model and applying it to your situation, your team develops more resilient productive work habits.

Active Communication

A workshop building on the skills of the More Curious Leadership and Change, Transition, and Transformation training. Here we hone in on communication skills and work with each member of your team to develop the skills of an expert coach.

Mini, 2-Hour Trainings

 

Acknowledging the Pandemic in the Workplace

Since 2020, the pandemic has presented many challenges to individuals, families, and those of us in the workplace. One of the deeper challenges has been the experience of transition, sometimes expected, but often not. With many of our employees confused and disoriented in this new environment, our organizations can’t function properly. By acknowledging the elephant in the room, we build team cohesion, respect, and a better workplace for all.

Facilitator: Fernando Serna


Understanding Your Social Location for Better Leadership

We know that the people we work with emerge from all walks of life. Regardless of who we are and where we come from, we all are part of various social groups and identities. Social identity is a person’s sense of who they are based on their group membership(s). Leave with a better understanding of how these different identities speak in the workplace and how that can impact one’s leadership potential.

Facilitator: Jonathan Dumas

“After the workshop time, there are noticeable differences in our team. We are connecting and collaborating more effectively. The space was tailored to the survey responses and what our team needed to take work satisfaction to the next level through stronger professional relationships. The pre-work videos were easy to follow and not overwhelming. We were challenged with new skills and have space to implement creative ways to strengthen team cohesion like practicing productive questioning and active listening in our team meetings.”

— Erica Nicewonger, Director of Operations

Boys and Girls Club, Washington