Workshops
Our highly engaging workshops are designed to inspire, instruct, and motivate. We create each workshop tailored to your organization's needs.
Recent Workshops:
Leading with Emotional Intelligence
This one-day workshop focuses on the intersection of emotional intelligence and leadership. With an emphasis on self-awareness, we guide participants through a series of exercises designed to demonstrate how our perceptions of self can influence the way lead ourselves and others.
Experimenting with Problem-Solving:
This 4-hour class, broken into three sections, introduces participants to three different models for problem-solving: 1) a technical-scientific approach, 2) a humanistic-psychological approach, and 3) a hybrid approach. Participants select a single, real-world problem, then apply one method a day to the same problem. This allows participants to consider which approach works best for them and why.
Leadership Competencies
During this 2-hour class, participants explore the knowledge, skills, and behaviors associated with the leadership behaviors they strive to embody.
To inquire about a workshop, contact us >
Training Materials & Programming
We provide customized curricula for a wide range of trainings and development. While we evaluate and work with each company to decide the best program structure, below are samples of some recent successful lesson plans.
Exploring Self-Awareness (Triggers)
This 2-hour class provides participants with an opportunity to safely explore the topics, subject matter, or behaviors which may trigger an intense emotional reaction. By bringing awareness to the sources of these triggers, participants can begin to transition from reacting (instinctual) to responding (deliberate) when triggered.
Leaders Off a Cliff
This 2-hour class provides participants with an opportunity to explore the characteristics and behaviors of the best and worst leaders we have experienced. Then, we compare the positive and negative behaviors with our own leadership style to identify opportunities to improve and develop.
One Mission – Many Parts
During this 4-hour class, team members learn important details about one another and how they each play a different role in supporting the same mission. This class is useful with new teams and with teams made up of individuals with different roles and functions.
Our programs are specifically developed for each unique organization
What is Toxic Positivity?
The term Toxic Positivity describes the excessive or inappropriate use of well-intentioned positivity which avoids, rejects, suppresses, invalidates, or minimizes a person’s negative emotions or experiences. As grief expert David Kessler says, “Toxic positivity is positivity given in the wrong way, in the wrong dose, at the wrong time.”
Indications you are engaging in toxic positivity toward another person include the following.
• Minimizing another person’s negative feelings through the use of positive quotes and sayings like “stay positive,” “everything happens for a reason,” and “pull yourself up by your bootstraps.” This also includes the popular statement, “If I can do it, so can you.”
• Telling a person what they should be grateful for instead of validating their feelings.
• Shaming another for not feeling gratitude or positivity.
More about Toxic Positivity in The Infourge Compendium >
Max is a gifted communicator. He knows how to build trust quickly and reach a wide variety of people effectively.
He is an expert in curriculum development and a master of balancing instruction and facilitation.
Simply put, Max is one of the best coaches I have seen in over 40 years as an intelligence professional.
Steve Flett
Retired Supervisory Intelligence Analyst
FBI
