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How does your company handle
conflicts and low morale?
Workplace divisions cripple productivity and innovation. Group dynamics are tricky and teams fall apart. We provide solutions for Unconscious Bias, Diversity and Inclusion, and related conflicts and challenges between management, team players, and clients. Fewer tensions means greater productivity, healthy innovation, and satisfied employees and customers.
Harmony Strategies Group offers consulting and professional development solutions to grow and ensure workplace harmony. Our coaching, consulting, workshops, and Circle processes tackle everything from individual to public forums for increasing harmony and efficiency.
Employee relations can make or break a company’s morale, productivity, and innovation-potential. Companies save time, money, and resources when teams feel a strong sense of purpose, interconnectedness, and mutual concern. Companies large and small struggle with how to create that sense of belongingness among their staff.
Ensuring efficiency and understanding.
Most companies experience backlog when conflicts aren’t handled efficiently. Usually, this happens because there isn’t a specific system in place for how to deal with problems that may arise. For example: Who is in charge when employees aren’t getting along? To whom should an employee turn, when her manager is not listening to her? Often, the person trying to manage the situation is untrained to do so efficiently or effectively, wasting hours or weeks of work time. Harmony Strategies offers comprehensive conflict management systems design consulting, to assess the current situation, advise on opportunities for improvement, and training the right individuals to handle internal conflicts in the future.
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Facilitating a safe environment.
Even the best corporations and well-run organizations experience dynamics-turbulence. We provide mediations for individuals and teams, where we guide parties to improved communication and better understanding. Through the mediation process, underlying attitudes, incidents, or work habits that are dragging down productivity can be appropriately aired and addressed, in a safe and confidential environment. Mediation brings grievances to light and helps parties develop solutions and strategies to handle the situation. Clients come away with a written agreement and/or strategic plan for how to move forward.
Impactful and engaging to boost moral.
HSG workshops focus on Conflict Management, Collaboration and Team-Building, Sensitivity & Bias-Awareness, and Management and Leadership Skills.
We offer multi-day series’ as well as one-day programs, and a robust list of our offerings are now available on our workshops page. Generally, workshops are customized to suit specific client interests and needs.
Unconscious Bias
More often than we know, our decisions, choices, and perceptions are guided by cognitive biases that are beyond our control. These biases can lead us to think we know things that we don’t, believe truths that are actually false, and guide us to make poor choices. These choices affect our lifestyle, livelihood, and overall success. Harmony Strategies Group’s "Understanding Unconscious Bias" engages participants in deeper understanding of what unconscious bias means, how it plays out in our lives, and some options for how to tame or correct misperceptions and associations. As with all of our workshops, this program is highly interactive, such that individuals reflect and share their learning process. Book Now!
Cultural Humility
With the increased attention focused on Diversity practices, there are questions around cultural sensitivity and mindful integration into company systems. This program highlights a key component of successful and effective inclusion: Cultural Humility. We discuss what this concept means, exploration into common pitfalls, and effective ways of promoting in cultural sensitivity and awareness. Participants come away with rich understanding on how to be mindful of cultural differences and practical ways to engage in healthier, more effective workplace practices. Book Now!
Non-Verbal Communication
Body language and non-verbal communication can dramatically alter how a conversation progresses. Your subconscious messaging can convey myriad signals that are likely beyond your awareness but can dramatically workplace success. This workshop highlights how non-verbal cues frame interactions and what to do to maximize awareness and control over them in your office dynamics. Book Now!
Inter-Active Listening Skills
Listening-skills are at the core of effective communication, and this practicum challenges participants to re-think how they listen. With a combination of theory and exercises, we reframe what listening and communication means, so that we can have more enriching conversations and better, deeper understanding. Book Now!
Perspective Taking
This program highlights how people of different backgrounds and cultures have different perspectives on issues and events. Through simulations and discussion, participants better understand that different perspectives are not by nature “wrong” but rather “new”. As such, listening to other people’s perspectives opens opportunities for growth, change, and cooperation. Participants in this seminar come out with better skills for facing identity-based and issue-based conflicts. Book Now!
Power to Confront
This program develops practical skills that empower participants to confront when conflicts with others arise. Often, perceived conflict and social friction are crippling and emotionally draining. People become overwhelmed with fear and let the conflict fester and grow. This program empowers participants to face conflicts with confidence, rather than fear confrontation. Book Now!
Schemas and Stereotypes
This program introduces the concept of schemas and how they frame our perception of infinite daily routines and patterns. It then develops how schemas lead to stereotypes, prejudice, and ultimately racism and racial profiling. Lively discussion and role-plays help develop sensitivity to the problems that schemas raise in modern society, followed by brainstorming remedies. Book Now!
Principles of Conflict
This program provides a basic introduction to conflict. Key definitions and explanations of how conflicts arise, escalate, and sometimes erupt aid participants in early detection and awareness. Participants are invited to explore their own attitudes towards conflict and resolution. Book Now!
Power of Silence
This program focuses on how to be a patient and attentive listener. Developed around the idea that silence is a powerful and useful tool, participants consider scenarios where silence plays a key role. Silence allows the speaker to be heard and feel comfortable, and a skilled listener will use this tool to help the speaker open up with confidence. Silence also breeds compassion and empathy, essential for effective business, family and community relationships. Book Now!
Group Dynamics
This program focuses on the individual within the group, and how groups behave. Emphasis is placed on teambuilding, motivation, and dealing with conflict and stressors. Participants learn about different personalities and how they effect the team, ultimately analyzing their own team and group behaviors and attitudes. Book Now!
Stress Management