The Connor Group, Inc. A highly effective outsource alternative to in-house training and development.

We offer the following training programs that can be facilitated directly by us or passed along to your training staff for ongoing licensing and delivery: (A detailed content outline for each program is available upon request.)

This program is designed to help anyone new to organizational development:

• Conduct an effective needs assessment.
• Create observable and measurable course objectives.
• Design an evaluation strategy for any given training program.

Facilitating training is very different than presenting. This program covers the basics that those new to training need in order to manage and engage participants. A very engaging program, it involves the practical application of each concept as it is taught through video taping and one-on-one feedback.

Tons of text on the screen? Is your PowerPoint boring? If the answer is “yes” to either question, this program may help. Conceptual Visualization is all about using graphics to get your point across in an engaging way. We cover how to visualize your presentation, how to choose graphics and a number of tips for using the “hidden features” in PowerPoint to make your life easier as a presenter… and appreciated by your participants.

The good news is that there are plenty of candidates out there to fill your position. The bad news is that screening out the least effective ones is a major challenge. This program will help you:

• Clarify the skills and attributes you are seeking in a candidate.
• Screen resumes and applications.
• Develop a sequence of powerful questions that will uncover the candidate’s skills and motivations.
• Create a method for fairly comparing candidates without bias.

Today more than ever managers need the skills to bring out the best in their people. Coaching for Success will help all managers sharpen their coaching skills. Topics include:

• Observing performance without bias.
• Clearly assessing performance gaps.
• Using a multi-step process for delivering positive and corrective feedback.
• Gaining agreement on change and development.
• Dealing with adverse reactions.
• When all else fails, how to terminate.

As part of our support for a well rounded training & development organization, we offer DISC Behavioral Profiling. Our clients find that our process is simple to use yet yields a tremendous amount of information. The key uses for this information falls into two categories:

Hiring Decisions

When the field of candidates is narrowed to the final few, the DISC report will offer insights into each candidate’s behavior and how that behavior will fit into your organization… or not. Upon completion of a report, we will coach the hiring manager on the key questions to ask to clarify the candidate’s areas of strength and uncover possibilities for collisions.

As one of our clients said prior to using our reports, “Our problem is that we hire people for what they know then have to fire them for who they are.”

Ongoing Coaching

The DISC reports can go a long way to helping managers understand their direct reports, what motivates them and how to best communicate with them. We also do team assessments and are able to detail the strengths and areas for improvement with the functional team.