Growthspace has truly helped us address our employees’ development needs with personalized programs, no matter where they are in the world. It’s reassuring to know we have an array of ready-to-use talent development solutions that can tackle any challenge and assure we hit our business KPIs.”
John Gilleeny, Sr. Director of Global Talent & Learning
How it works
Define the outcomes the
team needs to achieve,
along with the key
topics and skills to focus on
Match with a
domain expert who has
relevant skills,
experience, and industry
expertise
Conduct 1-3 two-hour
sessions with up to 15
participants per group
Measure outcomes
through participant and
manager feedback
against predefined goals
Tailor workshops to your
organization’s needs and team goals
- Select a workshop track
or standalone session - Choose from in-demand workshops
or collaborate with
an expert to create your own - Meet the expert to provide context
and customize the agenda - Register participants on their behalf,
or share a landing page
for employees to explore workshops
and register themselves - Measure success with customized feedback questions
for participants and managers
Match each cohort with the ideal
expert based on skills, background,
and expertise
Our AI-driven algorithm evaluates
the cohort’s goals, topics, background,
location, language, and the expert’s
qualifications. It then searches our pool
of over 2,500 global experts and recommends the top three matches.
From there, you can review profiles,
ratings, and reviews to select the best fit
for your needs.
In-demand workshops you can build on and make your own
Enhancing leadership effectiveness
Management essentials
Optimizing sales performance
Emerging leader essentials
Leading through change
Leading hybrid teams
Women in leadership masterclass
Advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion
Communication essentials
Enhancing leadership effectiveness
Provide participants with the essential skills and knowledge (strategic thinking, building impactful relationships, coaching others, amongst others) needed to become a more effective, strategic, and inspiring leader.
Topics:
- Strategic thinking for managers
- Mastering collaboration and connection
- Improving business and financial acumen
- Boosting team productivity
- Leader as a coach
- Leading a culture of innovation and experimentation
- Fostering psychological safety
Management essentials
Support first-time managers in their transition from individual contributor to people management, providing them with practical tools (delegation skills, feedback skills, managing performance, driving team results for example) to help them succeed.
Topics:
- Navigating the transition to people management
- Driving your team’s performance
- Feedback skills for managers
- Enhancing team effectiveness
- Delegation skills
- Attracting and ramping up new hires
Optimizing sales performance
Support your sales teams and give them practical tools to succeed. These include key success factors in the sales process such as communication best practices, setting and achieving personal and team goals, and more.
Topics:
- Mastering sales foundations
- Mastering the sales cycle
- Optimizing the sales process
- Effective sales communication
- Leading sales teams
Emerging leader essentials
Create a pipeline of “ready now” high-potential talents that understand and model the foundational leadership behaviors that are critical to success in leadership positions. Improve their ability to perform more effectively and exercise their influence in their current position.
Topics:
- Unleashing your leadership potential
- Foundations of effective communication
- Effective teamwork and collaboration
- Exercising your influence with emotional intelligence (EQ)
- Delivering presentations that captivate
- Mastering career development
Leading through change
Give managers the tools to assess and drive projects forward in situations of change or crisis. Prepare them to lead teams in a high-pressure reality, and support their teams as they overcome challenges.
Topics:
- Introduction to change management
- Building impactful change plans
- Decision-making in times of uncertainty
- Navigating difficult conversations
- Driving excellence through personal initiative
- Dynamic leadership
Leading hybrid teams
Equip managers with the tools to address challenges in building productivity, camaraderie, and engagement in hybrid/remote environments.
Topics:
- Managing hybrid/remote teams
- Team-building essentials for hybrid/remote teams
- Creating communication norms for hybrid/remote teams
- Establishing productive work habits for your team
- Thriving in the new work landscape for managers
- Optimizing hybrid/remote teams
Women in leadership masterclass
Equip women leaders with the knowledge and tools to advance their careers, maximize their potential, gain a competitive advantage, and drive business performance.
Topics:
- Thriving as a woman leader
- Elevating your influence
- Mastering stakeholder engagement and network building
- Communicating for impact
- Mastering the art of negotiation
- Building adaptivity and resilience
Advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion
Equip managers with skills to support diversity and inclusion in their teams and in the organization. Build your manager’s ability to uncover biases, recognize unfair processes, and learn how to actively promote inclusion and belonging in the workplace.
Topics:
- Fundamentals of diversity, equity, and inclusion for managers
- Boosting performance through DEI excellence
- Inclusive Leadership
- Cross-cultural understanding and collaboration
- Empathetic leadership
- Bridging the workplace generation gap
Communication essentials
Equip participants with an understanding of a variety of methods of communication (EQ, active listening, presenting and persuading others, amongst others) and how to effectively use them to communicate goals, decisions, needs, and issues.
Topics:
- The fundamentals of emotional intelligence (EQ)
- Navigating communication styles
- Mastering active listening
- Cultivating strategic influence
- Storytelling
- Communicating through conflict
Elevate your leaders’ effectiveness
Arm your leaders with the skills they need to be highly effective in their roles. Ensure they’re better prepared for their future responsibilities, such as collaborating across levels and functions, driving productivity, and situational leadership.
Topics:
- Building your strategic understanding and delivering on it
- Knowing thy business
- The leader as a coach
- Effectively collaborating across levels and functions
- Productivity and prioritization
Support individuals transitioning to first-time manager roles
Help first-time managers adopt a managerial mindset and give them practical tools to succeed in this new role. These include key success factors, how to motivate others, promoting strong individual and team performance, and more.
Topics:
- Transitioning from IC to manager
- Feedback skills
- Managing and delegating tasks
- Influencing outcomes
- Building high-performance teams
- Hiring and evaluation
Optimize your sales teams’ effectiveness
Support your sales teams and give them practical tools to succeed. These include the sales process’s key success factors, communication best practices, setting and achieving personal and team goals, and more.
Topics:
- Introduction to sales foundations
- Sales effectiveness
- Sales leadership
- The sales process
- Communication best practices in sales
Develop your bench of “future leaders”
Grow your key players’ skills so they understand the critical leadership behaviors for success. They’ll get practical tools to increase their ability to perform effectively and exercise their influence in their current positions.
Topics:
- Leading with an owner’s mentality
- Building relationships and networking
- Storytelling
- Effective communication
- Exercising your influence
Teach managers how to lead through change and perform under pressure
Give managers the tools to assess and drive projects forward in situations of change or crisis. Prepare them to lead teams in a high-pressure reality, and support their teams as they overcome challenges.
Topics:
- Introduction to change management
- Risk management and making decisions in times of uncertainty
- Leading with an owner’s mentality
- Building a change plan
- Navigating difficult conversations
- Situational leadership
Prepare your managers to lead in a hybrid world
Give managers the leadership skills they need to thrive in hybrid and remote environments. They’ll learn how to drive productivity while encouraging team spirit and engagement.
Topics:
- Essential skills for managing hybrid and remote teams
- Remote team building
- Building resilience and effectiveness
- Optimizing productivity in the new hybrid/virtual space
- Remote communication best practices
- Managing the return-to-office
Empower women leaders
Provide your female leaders with the knowledge and tools to advance their careers, maximize their potential, gain a competitive advantage, and support business performance.
Topics:
- Limiting beliefs and glass ceilings
- Networking, gravitas, and impact
- Practical tools for negotiation
- Paths to influence
- Presence and assertiveness in communication
- Adaptivity and resilience
Promote diversity, equity, and inclusion
Equip managers with the skills to support diversity and inclusion. This workshop teaches how to uncover bias, recognize unfair processes, and actively promote inclusion, psychological safety, and a sense of belonging in the workplace.
Topics:
- Leading with a diversity mindset
- Inclusive leadership
- Building empathy, integrity, and trust in a multicultural environment
- Managing DEI to boost performance
- Intercultural communication
- Managing a multi-generational work environment
Equip employees with essential communication skills
Teach participants the tools to communicate effectively, like EQ, active listening, presenting, and persuading others. They’ll also learn how to communicate goals, decisions, issues, etc., and build trust-based relationships in the workplace.
Topics:
- Emotional intelligence
- Active listening
- Storytelling and presence
- Interpersonal communication
- Persuasion and influence
- Overcoming gaps in communication and resolving conflicts
Impact more people all at once
Workshops and training are scalable ways to empower and educate employees. Participants learn from a domain expert, as well as their colleagues, practice new skills, and at the same time, build peer groups一all crucial for team and individual alignment, and performance.
It prepared me for my next (career) step, and I couldn’t have done so without it.”
Frequently Asked Questions
What workshop topics do you offer?
We have a list of in-demand workshops for your convenience. Each workshop has multiple sub-topics you can pick and choose from to design the one that best fits your organization and cohort. You can also work with an expert to build a customized workshop, tailored to your wants and needs.
What’s a cohort?
A cohort is a group of up to 15 employees that share a desired outcome. It could be a sales team working towards a revenue goal or a group of first-time managers facing similar challenges in driving their teams’ performance goals. We find this group size ideal to scale employee development while providing an interactive and experiential experience that promotes skill adoption and usage.
How do you match an expert to a cohort?
Our AI-based matching algorithm takes into account the workshop’s selected outcome and topics, along with the cohort’s background, location, language, and the experts’ expertise. All of these put together guarantee the best-fit expert to lead a workshop.
What’s the time commitment required from participants?
A workshop typically consists of one to three two-hour sessions, so overall two to six hours. Experts may provide resources or short assignments between sessions, and we ask participants to provide feedback. All in all, it’s a focused program with a limited time commitment.