Professional Greatness – Capacity Building in the Workplace
Foster a New Paradigm of Staff Growth & Community Development with Capacity Building
WHY FOCUS ON PERSONAL-INTERPERSONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE WORKPLACE
In our capacity building work, we
- partner with public schools, community-based organizations (CBOs), and small businesses to leverage strengths and facilitate proactive communities
- facilitate bespoke professional experiences for personal-interpersonal effectiveness
- collaborate with key stakeholders in a problem-solving process that centers inquiry & equity
- boost your organization’s capacity to learn how to learn
- measure, study, and debrief our impact
Cliques, silos, low expectations. . . it’s time to address the elephant in the room.
Your organization is mission-driven and that means it’s people-driven! Building staff capacity is essential to achieving impact. Well-designed professional development trainings focused on craft, technical know-how, and competencies are an indispensable component. And yet, it is also true that our paradigms can hijack even the best professional trainings.
At AIW, we believe that investing in your staff’s personal-interpersonal effectiveness is a high-leverage practice that gets at the heart of the matter. Within a professional framework (e.g., community building), we engage mindsets, dispositions, and attitudes that affect workplace culture and mission delivery. Like cliques, silos, low expectations . . . Therefore, we prioritize development from the inside out, which powers professional competence and proactive communities.
Conflict, By the Numbers …
Conflict in the workplace is inevitable. Spirited conflict can spark powerful insights and innovation. But unhealthy, unresolved conflict has a real impact on the work environment and your bottom-line. Our solutions, tools, and insights can boost staff capacity to manage conflict.
70%
Number of times people take things personally
8 hours
The amount of productivity lost to gossip from unaddressed conflict, leading to other unproductive activities and a drain in resources and morale
$7.5K & 7 days
80%
(Source: SHRM: “How to Resolve Workplace Conflicts”)
If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.
– Stephen R. Covey, Educator & Author
Our Capacity
Building Services
NYC PUBLIC SCHOOLS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Our professional development (PD) offerings for staff focus on cultivating wellness, team building, and engaged learning communities.
FACILITATION
Governed by professional competencies, our brand of facilitation is dynamic and adaptive to spur forward thinking and achieve alignment on what matters.
LIFE COACHING FOR LEADERS (LCL)
Creating a culture of trust and accountability starts with leaders who invest in their own personal competence. Explore how Life Coaching can transform the way you lead.
TEAM BUILDING
Our team building experiences are fun, hands-on, and harness the collective wisdom of the group, which boosts internal capacity.
CURRICULUM DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT
We leverage decades of expertise designing instructional resources to craft principle-based curricula to support your organization’s programmatic needs.
“Sawabona” Professional Development for Public Schools
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, we designed a Sawabona workshop series for public schools to center the experiences, humanity, and resilience of staff and to engage them in planning for a sustainable culture of wellness. The video showcases some of our nascent work to foster healing and revitalize community. Sharing stories of hardship and resilience and acknowledging colleagues for their support allowed staff to “see” each other anew.
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