People behave differently; they exhibit different behavioral styles. A greater understanding
of these behavioral styles can help you to improve communications and interact more
effectively with other people; even those you find most challenging.  Infuse, Immerse, Ignite! - A series of evolutionary workshops using blended learning to build and improve the effectiveness your teams.

At Learning Beam, we accelerate the development of managers and individual team members into effective leaders who can execute your organization’s strategies and scale new peaks of achievement.

Our goal is to enable your employees to hone their skills, improve their capabilities and enhance their chances for personal and professional success.

We believe firmly that you already have the potential to achieve your goals - our task is to assist you in unlocking that potential through self discovery.  Our workshops are based on self-assessments using tried and tested instruments based on DiSC  and other instruments from Inscape Publishing.  Learn more about the insights and benefits that you will gain by attending one of our workshops:

Individual Insights

Interpersonal Insights

Personal Insights in a Team Environment

Group Insights in a Team Environment

Leadership Insights for everyone

Individual Insights

Personal Insight into Behavioral Preferences and Inclinations: Help people understand their habits
and behavioral tendencies in a manageable and systematic way.

• Understand the work environments that are most and least comfortable for you
• Develop a stronger sense of your task-oriented and relationship-oriented work habits
• See how your dominant characteristics can be both strengths and drawbacks
• Understand how others interpret your actions
• Learn the strategies you use to understand, influence, and relate to other people
• Understand the sources of your frustrations at work, if you are consistently required to behave
in a way that is incompatible with your personal style
• Learn more about your fears and behavioral tendencies when you are under pressure
• Understand what motivates you in your relationships and find ways to maximize this motivation
Appreciation of Personal Diversity: Help people understand how others might have personalities and
behavioral styles that are different from their own.
• Understand that others may have different motivations, priorities, and instincts that compete
with your own
• Learn about tendencies and biases you have when reading the behavior of others
• Understand how others might interpret or misinterpret your behaviors

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Interpersonal Insights

A Common Language to Understand and Discuss Personality: Help people develop a language
through which they can efficiently and accurately discuss interpersonal concerns.

• Learn a better, simpler model to understand the complexity of human behavior
• Organize your experience with co-workers, friends, and loved ones into a usable format
• Create a common language to discuss your unique subjective experiences
Dialogue About Personality Preferences and Differences: Help people create a forum in which an
open discussion about personality differences is not only accepted, but encouraged.
• Understand that differences do not necessarily lead to conflict
• Understand that there are no right or wrong interpersonal preferences, just differences
• Create a safe forum to discuss differences
• Create a culture of acceptance around diverse interpersonal styles
Relating to Individuals with Different Personalities: Help people develop strategies and skills that
will mend or improve the quality of interpersonal relationships within a social setting.
• Understand that although people need to adjust at times, their preferences are not necessarily
wrong
• Develop new communication strategies and contracts about communication
• Withhold judgment to see a situation from multiple perspectives
• Adapt your personal tendencies, when appropriate, to facilitate harmonious relationships
• Increase empathy and compassion for the perspectives and struggles of others
• Communicate your frustrations in a less threatening fashion
• Learn how to reduce misinterpretations of interpersonal behaviors

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Personal Insights in a Team Environment

Personal Insight into Work Preferences: Help people understand their preferences for work
activities and job tasks.

• Understand the nature and value of your contribution
• Understand the strengths that you bring to a project and how to best capitalize on these
strengths
• Understand the sources of your frustrations at work, if you are consistently required to
take on roles that don’t fit your preferences
• Comprehend what motivates you in your work and find ways to maximize this motivation
• Understand the danger of not realizing your limitations

Check out our Team Effectiveness Workshops based on DiSC

Understanding of Diversity in Work Roles: Help people understand how others view the group
process and their roles.

• Understand that others may have different motivations, priorities, and instincts that
compete with your own
• Understand the roots of your frustrations with others
• Realize that diversity does not equal adversity
Valuing All Work Roles: Help people accept, welcome, and encourage the entire spectrum of
work roles.
• Understand that although people need to adjust at times, their preferences are not
necessarily bad
• Develop a model and language through which you can more systematically, cooperatively,
and efficiently work with others
• Create a safe forum to discuss differences
• Create a culture of acceptance around diverse work roles
• Give team members the courage to step out and do what they do best
• Realize when it is appropriate to let others do what they do best

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Group Insights in a Team Environment

Knowledge About Project Development: Help people understand the process through which a
team or organization creates, develops, and realizes an idea or project.

• Identify the tasks that need to be completed at each stage of project development
• Share a common understanding about the process to ensure less wasted time
• Understand how unnecessary or mistimed digressions can be stopped or addressed later

Ability to Create Balance in Work Tasks: Help individuals within groups understand that
they will have to fill different work roles as a project progresses.

• Understand that you will have to shift your thinking and behaviors from time to time
• Realize when it is necessary to stretch beyond your preferences
• Understand how teams can be reformed to contain a
more even balance of roles

Check out our Team Effectiveness Workshop based on Team Dimensions

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Leadership Insights for everyone

In a successful organization, leaders can be found at any level.  We all have something to contribute to leadership, but we may not know when to step forward and offer our contributions.

By the end of our Dimensions of Leadership Workshop, you will have a better understanding of how to contribute to your organization as a leader, how to recognize the contributions of other potential leaders, and how to identify leadership contributions at different times and in different places.  You will also have a better understanding of how to contribute to your organization as an active follower.

The purpose of our Dimensions of Leadership Workshops is to help you understand leadership as a dynamic relationship between leaders and followers.  Effective leaders focus on different things in response to the leadership needs of a situation.  You will understand what gets your attention as a leader and what is important to you and others in a particular situation.  You will also discover how you can choose to lead or follow so that everyone benefits, you, your colleagues, your team and your organization.
 

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