Lectures & Workshops
K Squared enterprises offers a variety of informative,
entertaining, relevant lectures. Audiences
gain pertinent insights regarding their most
challenging relationships at work.
Lectures
are also available in workshop format. Through
interactive exercises, participants uncover
probable causes and craft viable solutions
to their most
challenging business relationships.
Leading without Bleeding – Teaching Leaders The Interpersonal Skills They Need to Succeed. New!
Skilled leadership includes the willingness to embrace and contend with the multitude of personalities who inhabit the workplace. You can’t lead effectively by ignoring, avoiding, or being held hostage by difficult people at work. What is the professional way to handle an employee who ignores your directives, a manager who blocks your ideas, or a colleague who takes credit for your accomplishments?
This workshop teaches the key interpersonal skills needed to become a strong leader. It provides field-tested, constructive ways for high-potential employees to communicate with and lead those people who try to block, challenge, or control their initiatives.
Women Competing with Women at Work - From Fighting to Uniting New!
Most women go into female associations with the expectation that they can find a way to get along. Biological wiring tells women to tend and befriend other women at work. When one woman acts hostile, competitive or mean to another woman, it can be startling and painful.
What can you do to turn a woman-on-woman power struggle into a collaborative relationship? This lecture introduces four kinds of competitive women in the workplace: Gossips, Saboteurs, Pedestal Smashers, and Easily Threatened. Participants gain specific techniques for managing each brand of competitive woman so that they can move from fighting to uniting with other women at work. Book
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Social Media – Bringing Your Best Self Online New!
Are we one person or many people? Who we are depends on context. We are parents, uncles, daughters, managers, directors, employees, musicians, photographers, travelers, cooks, knitters, and sports fans.
We bring all sides of ourselves to the real world, so how do we manage these different sides in the virtual world?
In this program, participants will discover the best way to responsibly bring their whole selves to their virtual worlds by looking at how to effectively use specific platforms: LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Blogging.
Digital Strategist Deborah Brozina, and Executive Coach Kathi Elster show you how to connect with others, become a thought leader, and interact through social media to further your career. Book
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Managing a Multi-generation Workforce - An Adult Development Approach New!
There is no one-size-fits-all management strategy when dealing with such an age-diverse workforce.
Most courses on managing a multi-generation workforce focus on each generation’s characteristics based on the cultural context of their upbringing.
This lecture takes a different approach. It examines each generation (Generation Y, Generation X, Boomers, Traditionalists) based on where they are in the adult life cycle.
Did you know that Gen Y employees are naturally idealistic but have a hard time prioritizing? Do you understand why Boomers need places to share their expertise?
Discover the psychological needs, capabilities and limitations of each generation and how you can help them work well together. Awareness of the internal differences at each phase of adult life is the first step to managing all four generations (Gen Y, Gen X, Boomers and Traditionalists) effectively. Book
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Working
with You Is Killing Me:
Freeing Yourself from Emotional Traps at Work (Overview)
In every workplace, there are certain people whose behavior drives us crazy. This lecture offers field-tested techniques for effectively managing interactions with irritating co-workers, unruly employees, and overly demanding clients.
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Sanity Check – You aren't crazy but you may feel crazy New!
Understand the eight phases of a challenging boss/employee relationship, from Honeymoon to Burnout, and target where you might be. Book
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Managing
Up – Taking
Control of Your Worklife
This
lecture introduces
the single most important skill for anyone
who wants to take charge of his or her
worklife – Managing
Up. Find out the ten principles of Managing
Up – practices
that you can immediately implement to
improve your experience at work. Book
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The Business
of Boundaries – Protecting
Yourself at work
Explore the importance of setting clear
interpersonal boundaries
with colleagues,
customers and vendors at work. We’ll
outline the seven most common areas
for Boundary Busting,
and offer three critical steps for
setting and maintaining clear boundaries. Book
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Managing
Down – Business
Parenting Techniques Every Manager
Should Know
Like
it or not, if you’re a manager,
your employees look to you for many
of the things that children seek from parents.
Discover the four principles
of business parenting – a practical approach
to bringing out the best in your
staff. Book
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Confining Roles
People Play at Work
Have
you ever played the part of hero, martyr, entertainer
or rebel
at work?
Do you ever
feel unfairly branded as a certain
kind of person
by your colleagues or boss? Find out if
you are sabotaging your
own career
by
falling into a
limiting role at work. Book
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Haven’t
We Met Before? - Fatal
Attractions at Work
This
lecture focuses on the most
challenging kind of workplace relationship – a fatal
attraction. These relationships
begin with great promise only
to
deteriorate into interpersonal
nightmares. Learn the five most
common types of fatal attractions,
and see how to manage this kind of association. Book
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