We are on a mission to help managers be the kind of manager they would want to work for. We've spent 12 years coaching leaders with content anchored in real-world experience, data, and neuroscience. Our live workshops create lasting habit-based practices for the future.
We pride ourselves on having the most relevant and actionable content, with the techniques and frameworks we teach being rooted in experience (through hundreds of hours of coaching), data (from training thousands of managers), as well as psychology and neuroscience research. We deeply understand the challenges leaders face and we know what works.
From interactive modules to real-life examples and proven techniques, our workshops are designed to be as engaging as they are effective.
"I feel armed with enough tools to be a more direct and effective manager. I feel more confidence in handling conflict and guiding individuals on a better path to growth."
— Jillian Locks, VP of Product, Hatch
In this workshop we dive into four management techniques that are fundamental to every manager's success and that form the foundation for subsequent skill building. We cover 1) building trust and psychological safety, 2) listening so others feel heard, 3) running great 1-on-1s, and 4) delegating effectively. These essential skills will help you feel prepared, confident and connected to your team.
Delivering feedback well and at the right time is an absolutely essential part of being an effective manager. Learn the neuroscience behind both positive and constructive feedback and how to make it one of your most effective tools to improve motivation and performance. You will leave with 4-point structures that change the way you give feedback and the way your direct reports react to it. Lastly you'll walk away with tips on how to receive feedback with grace and ease!
In this workshop we cover how to manage your physical and emotional energy, and identify when you work best. You'll also walk away with some tricks and tips to use with your team to help them and yourself de-stress. We'll take you through a time audit exercise to look at how you're allocating your time and what you need to do to be efficient and make time for the high impact things. Lastly you'll learn some techniques for setting boundaries with your time.
One of the main reasons people are loyal to companies is because they feel their career growth is invested in. In this workshop you'll learn how to structure a career conversation and what questions to ask to make that conversation dynamic. You'll also learn an easy, quick way to set development goals so people make progress, and tips on how to follow up to set them up for success.
We created this workshop to relieve the stress during performance review time and help you feel more calm and confident. You'll learn Elevate's Preparation Checklist, which is a simple process to get you prepped in a short amount of time. We'll show you a simple structure for having the conversation so you know how to run the meeting. You'll also walk away understanding how to set development goals simply, and how to follow up on them with your direct report. Lastly, we'll give you some quick tips on how to receive feedback.
Using coaching as a leadership technique can dramatically increase the quality of your relationships with your direct reports. They learn how to learn, feel more ownership over their work and feel more confident in their abilities. Coaching saves you time and energy too! We cover coaching fundamentals using the GROW model and when/how to use it. You'll also learn how to ask great quality coaching questions. When you have a team of people where you're not the subject matter expert, coaching will be your go-to tool.
Creating an inclusive environment for all employees is a core skill for every manager. In this workshop we learn 5 skills to create an inclusive team that everyone loves being a part of. We'll also dig into Elevate's version of Situational Leadership to meet your team where they are and provide each member with the type of management they need. You'll learn how to be flexible with your management style so you can give the people on your team the right level of support.
In this workshop we'll dig into Elevate's version of Situational Leadership to meet your team where they are and provide each member with the type of management they need. You'll learn how to be flexible with your management style so you can give the people on your team the right level of support according to their circumstances. A big part of being flexible with your management is also understanding how to delegate effectively according to the skill level and the amount of autonomy for each individual on your team. This workshop will really help participants with performance management.
Trust is the bedrock upon which all high performing teams are built. Whether you want to shift the culture on your team, increase productivity, or enhance creativity, understanding how to build trust is a must for any manager. You'll walk away from this workshop with an understanding of what is needed to engender trust and risk-taking on your team, as well as actionable steps you can immediately take to build trust with individuals, enhance psychological safety on your team, and run inclusive meetings that help people feel supported and heard.
What does thinking strategically really mean? Using your own real-life examples, you'll leave with a clear understanding of what you can do to think strategically, get your team aligned, and drive accountability. We know keeping people accountable is hard, so we've made the techniques both simple and actionable, with practical changes you can make in your day to day. Thinking like an owner has never been easier!
Most of us don't look forward to tough conversations and some of us avoid them altogether. Well, avoid them no longer! We'll teach you a reliable model to help you plan any tricky conversation and deliver what you want to say with confidence. You'll also leave understanding how to manage people's emotions in the moment, which can often be the most difficult part of having a tough conversation.
Whether the change you're going through is large or small, constant or a one-off, this workshop will help you and your team navigate it with finesse. You'll learn how to embrace what's happening to get yourself and your team on board and working effectively again, and you'll leave with an understanding of how to communicate with your team about the change and proactively monitor their reactions. With Elevate's Change Management Checklist, you'll be prepared to make any transition go as smoothly as possible.
Whether your team is hybrid or fully remote, you'll walk away from this class with an understanding of how to manage teams when they are not co-located full time. We make this simple with Elevate's Remote Working Trio so you can create a plan and feel more confident. You'll also learn how to enlist the help of your team members to find fun ways to connect and be consistent so people feel they have security and feel like one team.
The cost of not addressing conflict on your team is huge but most people find it hard to know when and how to step in. This workshop provides a deep look at the 3 critical elements of conflict. You will learn how to help your reports have a conversation to resolve a conflict themselves, and if it comes to it, how to step in and mediate. Finally, you'll learn a step-by-step process to successfully navigate that mediation so you can confidently help a relationship in conflict make progress.
Communication often goes wrong because we hear things through our own filters and fail to understand the other person's perspective. This workshop is all about understanding yourself and your team members better so that you can collaborate and communicate more effectively. The workshop leverages the DiSC assessment to help articulate communication tendencies across your team. Leave the workshop with actionable ways in which you can adjust your communication depending which team member you are working with.
*There is an additional fee of $72 per person for the DiSC assessment.
This workshop is a chance for everyone to level up their interviewing skills. We have all the tips and interview techniques you'll need to feel confident running high quality, unbiased interviews. You'll learn Elevate's 6 tips for how to prepare for interviews, how to avoid biases that are so easy to fall foul of, how to structure the interview itself and how to ask great quality questions. You'll also walk away understanding how to effectively sell your team and the company to strong candidates and how write excellent feedback for the hiring managers.
Turn your managers into hiring ninjas with this workshop that's packed with all the tips they'll need to run an excelent hiring processs. You'll learn how build effective interview panels, how to source candidates, how to avoid biases in the process and how structure the interview itself. You'll also walk away with a detailed understanding of how to follow up with candidates appropriately, how to avoid selection faliure modes and last, but by no means least, how to be an excellent partner to your recruiting team!
In this workshop we give future facilitators — whether you're on the People Team or a leader in the organization — the tips and tricks to feel confident facilitating your own live training. You'll learn how best to prepare in the shortest time possible, how to think about logistics on the day, and best practices for leveling up your facilitation. We'll also teach you other essential skills like how to ask great quality questions and how to get back on track should something or someone derail the conversation.
Research shows that when training is paired with coaching, the likelihood that the participants apply the learning increases by 39%. The coaching sessions are designed to address any challenges with the content, answer follow-up questions on the material and help the attendee plan how to integrate their new action items and frameworks into their day-to-day.
"165 of our people managers participated in Elevate workshops on how to give feedback and 100% agreed or strongly agreed that the content was valuable."
Gianna Nall
Head of Global Business Partners and Employee Experience, Cohesity
If you don’t see a workshop that covers the topic you need, don’t worry. Although it's not listed here, there's a good chance we've probably already built it—or we can design it for you!
"Thank you so much for yesterday, I left feeling very inspired and I'm so looking forward to implementing what I've learned this week, and throughout my career."
— Natalie Gavello, Talent, Kleiner Perkins
Research shows that 70% of a workshop is forgotten within a day so we created Elevate Academy to enable ongoing learning. Elevate Academy is a membership based community that provides on-demand access to our content via beautifully produced short-form classes. Participants receive access to the classes to support retention of the managing techniques they learned during workshops and 1-on-1 sessions.