Include & Innovate Training
In-Person or Virtual
Jessica Stollings offers five, 90-minute in-person or online training sessions to help you benefit from differences. Each module can stand alone or build on the next. Put them together for a half-day workshop, retreat, or ongoing learning series.
All training is tailored to your needs, goals, audience, and desired outcomes. Planning calls ensure the approach is positioned to build on your past learning initiatives and deployed to add enterprise-wide value. All content is educational, interactive, results-driven, fun, and inclusive of all learning styles.
Add Jessica’s Will Power or Team Chemistry game to allow your group to learn, apply insights, reflect on takeaways, and play their way to performance.
See Differences Differently
Honor and include all perspectives to fuel success.
Our personal backgrounds influence our perspective.
Among a wide spectrum of backgrounds, it’s no wonder perspectives collide and cause conflict… even when everyone means well.
It doesn’t have to be that way. With the right understanding, our different views can serve as our greatest strength.
In this session, national speaker and author Jessica Stollings will share how to break down barriers that divide and build up awareness that unites and empowers all people to create a more inclusive and innovative future.
- Manage conflict in a constructive way.
- Evaluate personal paradigms and see self and other more clearly.
- Consider and include alterative points of view.
- Honor and combine all perspectives to create positive breakthroughs.
Key Topic
Conflict management, conscious and unconscious bias, diversity, inclusion, innovation.
Duration
90 Minutes
Fuzzy to Clear
How to communicate so everyone can hear.
Words, phrases and body language can have different meaning depending on your cultural context, and your preferred communication channels may vary based on your background and experiences.
Among a myriad of meanings, styles, and channels, messages can easily get lost in translation and cause misunderstanding.
National speaker and author Jessica Stollings will clear up the communication lines, guiding you toward strategies that ensure everyone on your team gets the message.
- Create a non-verbal presence that is welcoming and safe for engagement.
- Practice active, non-defensive, and empathetic listening with your employees.
- Translate your words so that everyone can interpret your desired meaning.
- Determine the communication channels that are beneficial for all members of your team.
Key Topic
Non-verbal communication, listening, verbal communication, crucial conversations, emotional intelligence.
Duration
90 Minutes
benefit from belonging
How to design a culture of inclusion and alignment.
Belonging, a sense of fitting in, is a basic human need that- according to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs- is necessary before self-esteem and reaching full potential and optimal performance.
Among a diverse mix of perspectives in the workplace, it’s challenging to create a culture where all people belong and are empowered to thrive yet strive towards a common goal.
In this keynote, national speaker and author Jessica Stollings shares how to design a culture conducive for diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, and experiences while ensuring a shared language and expectation set, and movement towards a common goal.
- Create an inclusive culture where all people belong and are empowered to thrive.
- Ensure a common language and understanding among your diverse workforce.
- Design a culture of clarity where everyone is headed in the same direction.
Key Topic
Inclusive culture, expectation setting, team alignment.
Duration
90 Minutes
LISTEN UP
How to create story sharing experiences that inspire inclusion.
Research shows story-sharing syncs the brains between the messenger and the listener, making
this time-tested communication form a natural and powerful way to break down barriers and
increase understanding.
In this workshop, national speaker and author Jessica Stollings explains how to utilize
story to bring people together towards a common goal. She’ll also share how to process and
share your own story, how to create genuine curiosity and care for other people’s stories, and
how to listen intently to one another to increase empathy, understanding and unity.
- Utilize storytelling to bridge gaps.
- Tap into your own story, share it to help others.
- Seek to understand and steward the stories of others.
- Create safe spaces for story sharing experiences.
- Identify barriers to effective listening and improve active, mindful, non-defensive,
empathetic listening.
Key Topic
Listening, storytelling, empathy
Duration
90 Minutes
SHARE IT FORWARD
How to lead change, transfer knowledge and ensure a thriving future.
By 2030, the workplace – and the people who lead within it – will look very different. As you
face the implications of the massive historical, cultural and demographic shifts that are taking
place, the time to prepare is now.
In this forward-thinking session, national speaker and author Jessica Stollings empowers
you with insights to forecast the future and evaluate where you can adapt now to build
enduring success.
With guidance presented through divergent thinking exercises, change readiness mapping, and
knowledge transfer best practices, she’ll take you on a journey to transform disruption into
innovation—and draw on the insights of all employees to ensure your company’s legacy.
- Utilize demographics to forecast the workplace of the future.
- Identify and lead change, ensuring a smooth transition into the future.
- Identify, capture, store and share individual and organizational knowledge.
Key Topic
Workplace of the future, change management, knowledge transfer, legacy
Duration
90 Minutes
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