Enhance performance and alignment across teams
Interactive cohort-based workshops and training allow you to enrich employees’ knowledge, establish a performance standard, and fill in business-critical knowledge gaps. Their experiential nature and group setting promote skill adoption and usage across teams and populations.
Growthspace’s solution helped us address development gaps within our high-potential group, connecting development to specific business goals and achieving results.”
How it works
Defining the outcome a cohort needs to achieve, and the topics and skills to focus on accordingly.
Matching based on the desired outcome and topics, background, and experts’ expertise.
Meeting the expert to tailor the agenda to the organizational context and cohort.
Conducting one to three sessions in groups of up to 15 participants.
Measuring results against the predefined outcome via participant and manager feedback.
Matching each cohort to the best-fit expert based on skills, background, and expertise
Our AI-based matching algorithm takes into account the selected outcome and topics, cohorts’ background, location, and language, and the experts’ expertise. It combs through our pool of over 2,000 top-notch global experts and proposes the top three matches. From there, you can browse these experts’ profiles, see their past ratings and reviews, and decide which is the best fit.
Workshops tailored to your organizational context and cohort’s goals
- Select a workshop track or standalone session.
- Choose from a list of in-demand workshops or work with an expert to build your own.
- Meet the expert to get to know them, provide relevant context, and customize the agenda.
- Register participants on their behalf, or share a dedicated landing page for employees to learn about workshops and register themselves.
- Measure what’s important to you with customized feedback questions to participants and managers.
Measure programs’ impact on business KPIs
We understand that you run workshops in order to see real and tangible results. That’s why every workshop starts by defining the cohort’s organizational or business KPIs. The platform generates and executes the program and continuously measures its impact based on participants’ and managers’ inputs.
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
Use workshops and training to 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.
Upskill and reskill cohorts to meet their goals
Each workshop is focused on one topic and related skills to help a specific cohort meet their individual and team goals.
Establish a performance standard across a cohort
Organic and cross-company teams meet with an experienced domain expert to align around processes and delivery standards.
Build supportive peer groups
Workshops’ small groups and experiential nature encourage participants to build trusted relationships that keep supporting them after the workshop ends.
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.
What’s a cohort?
A cohort is a group of up to 12 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.