Interaction Associates

Essential Skills for a Collaborative Workplace

Training programs that provide practical tools that you need to collaborate, communicate, and solve problems effectively.

Develop Skills that Drive Success

Our hands-on programs focus on developing practical, actionable skills that enhance team performance, improve collaboration, and support better decision-making.

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Training Programs

Core Programs

Most popular learning journeys that build essential skills for leaders, group facilitators, and team members.

Action Accelerators™

Instructor-led, live virtual learning experiences with self-paced application, focused on one key skill. 

Special Topic Programs

Blended and single mode learning experiences addressing common challenges facing leaders and teams.

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Core Program

Essential Facilitation™

Learn a proven method for guiding groups to their desired outcomes in high-stakes meetings, and with people who have diverse backgrounds and points of view.

Live In-Person , Public Workshops , Live Online , Custom Blend

Collaboration, Meetings

Core Program

Facilitative Leadership™

Learn seven practices for engaging and empowering people to share responsibility, bring out the best in their teammates, and achieve mission-critical goals

Live In-Person , Public Workshops , Live Online , Custom Blend

Leadership, Collaboration, Meetings, Change

Special Topic

Strategic Thinking™

Learn six strategic thinking skills for understanding the present, imagining a desired future, and thinking clearly with others about the best way to get there

Live In-Person , Live Online

Leadership, Collaboration

Core Program

Managing with Impact™

Learn a science-based approach for conducting routine managerial conversations that help improve accountability, trust, and performance

Live In-Person , Public Workshops , Live Online , Custom Blend

Leadership, Collaboration

Core Program

Mastering Meetings™

For leaders and attendees, learn tools and techniques for setting up, conducting and following through on meetings where you want to everyone to contribute

Live In-Person , Live Online , Custom Blend

Collaboration, Meetings

Core Program

Strategic Leadership Skills™

Guided by a state-of-the-art simulation, work in teams to solve a business problem, imagine alternative scenarios, and decide how to pursue an emergent opportunity

Live In-Person , Custom Blend

Leadership, Collaboration, Change

Special Topic

Teams in Action™

Learn to operate as an effective team leader or team member – solve problems together, build consensus, reconcile differences, take concerted action, and exchange feedback

Live In-Person , Live Online , Custom Blend

Leadership, Collaboration

Action Accelerator

Influence Key Stakeholders™

Learn techniques for influencing the thinking and behavior of people whose support you want, but over whom you have little authority or may never meet in person.

Live Online , Short Course

Leadership, Collaboration, Virtual Working

Action Accelerator

Tame the Online Meeting Monster™

Learn techniques for planning the meeting, getting people focused and engaged, building agreements, and completing the meeting with clear and practical action plans.

Live Online , Short Course

Meetings, Virtual Working

Action Accelerator

Really Listen & Understand People™

Learn how to listen as an ally: hear and understand people more accurately, appreciate alternative points of view, and encourage honest, back-and-forth communication.

Live Online , Short Course

Leadership, Collaboration, Virtual Working

Action Accelerator

Build Trust & Rapport™

Learn the essential ingredients for building trust and staying connected with co-workers and teammates who work from home and/or in different locations.

Live Online , Short Course

Leadership, Collaboration, Virtual Working

Action Accelerator

Engage Everyone in Hybrid Meetings™

Learn practical techniques for including everyone in hybrid meetings, focusing their attention, generating ideas, tracking the discussion, and agreeing on action items.

Live Online , Short Course

Leadership, Collaboration, Meetings, Virtual Working

Action Accelerator

Lead with Purpose & Empathy™

Learn how successful leaders communicate and connect with employees to build authentic, mission-driven relationships that lead to greater accountability and performance.

Live Online , Short Course

Leadership, Collaboration, Virtual Working

Action Accelerator

Raise & Address Difficult Subjects™

Learn how to initiate difficult conversations, help colleagues say what’s on their minds, and help your team and company develop norms for addressing hard topics.

Live Online , Short Course

Leadership, Virtual Working

Action Accelerator

Ask Better Questions to Get Better Solutions™

Learn the 4-Step Unstuck Minds Method for framing questions -- by yourself and with others -- that avoid thinking traps and guide you to better solutions

Live Online , Short Course

Collaboration, Change, Virtual Working

Action Accelerator

Present Online with Confidence™

Learn how to engage and command the attention of an audience in online meetings using compelling messages, attractive visuals, vocal variety, and being yourself.

Live Online , Short Course

Leadership, Virtual Working

Action Accelerator

Give Feedback from a Distance™

Learn how to observe others’ actions and behaviors from a distance in order to (a) provide constructive feedback, and (b) support virtual colleagues in responding to a request for a change in their behavior.

Live Online , Short Course

Leadership, Collaboration, Virtual Working

The Value of Team Leadership Training

Team leaders are made, not born. The skills needed to effectively lead teams do not come naturally as they are often not taught within our formal education system. As an organizational leader, we understand it is your responsibility to clarify the key skills within your organization and then implement a plan to build those necessary skills to transform a disparate group of individuals into a high-performance dream team.

Interaction Associates’ hands-on development programs teach leaders how to collaborate and work better together to enhance individual, team, and organizational performance. Throughout IA programs, participants explore and practice leadership methods needed to gain understanding, vision, and commitment towards action.

Build Essential Team Leader Skills

Interaction Associates’ management and leadership training equips team leaders with new skills while honing their current skills. We teach leaders how to:

  • Be a team leader, managing the process in which the team accomplishes its goals
  • Be a change agent, encouraging learning and continuous improvement of organizational systems
  • Be a coach, guiding individuals to higher levels of performance and satisfaction

Today’s challenges and opportunities call for an expanded model of leadership. Beyond coping with change, leaders must design and manage change by tapping the power of participation. Our cross-functional leadership training for better collaboration can improve your leaders and their team by helping them take ownership. By empowering people to work together to achieve a common goal, these leaders helps others take on more responsibilities, more ownership, greater commitment, and ultimately teach others how to do the same.

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