Traaen and Associates, LLC
Client Training and Organizational Development Services
Traaen & Associates, LLC is a resource for retreat, conference and workshop speakers, including keynote presentations. All of the firm’s associates are seasoned public speakers and content experts in their fields. We are prepared to build customized training and professional development sessions on additional topics other than those listed below.
General Topics
- Customer Service
- Environmental and Safety Training
- Diversity/Preventing Harassment/Discrimination
- Ethics and Principled Leadership
- Leadership Development (all workforce levels)
- Management/Supervision Skills
- Personal Development/Coaching
- Sales
- Strategic Planning
- Teambuilding
- The Management of Change
- Work/Life Balance
Specific topics/services by associate
- Grant writer
- Curriculum and Instructional Design
- Organizational Capacity Building K-12
- Classroom 'Walk Through' feedback process
- Cooperative Learning Structures for Maximum Student Engagement
- School-wide Citizenship and Professional Ethics
- Build The Team: Collaborative Approach
- Effective Instructional Strategies: How School Culture Affects Learning
- Recognizing and Energizing Creative Potential in Students and Adults
Chris Hunsicker, M.S. Organizational Development
Arizona Governent Finance Officials Organization Summer Conference - 08/05/2009 - Rolling the Dice in Today's High Stress HR Environment: Using Moral and Emotional Intelligence to Conquer the HR Dragons
- The Great Lie of Customer Satisfaction
- The Cost of Mediocrity
- The Power of Choice: Why Teams Fail
- 10 Marketing Mistakes Small Businesses Make
- Emotional Intelligence – Intro and Advanced
- Emotional vs. Executive Intelligence
- Navigating the Acquisition of Non-profit Status for Businesses and Churches
- Orientation to Collaborative Competency Based Theories
- Strategies for Minority Recruitment & Retention
- Assessment & Diagnosis – Alignment with EAP Services
- Ethics and the Administration of Justice
- Criminal Procedures
- Criminal Law
- Issues of Race and Ethnicity in the U.S. Criminal Justice System
- PeoplePlus! Exploring the Dynamics of Diversity
- Building a Harassment Free Workplace
- Avoiding Sexual Harassment
- Leadership Dynamics for Today’s Workforce
- Supervising People and Process
- Successful Delegation
- Managing Change: Messages for “Making It”
- The Flexibility Factor
- The CEO of You
- The Emotional Reality of Success
- Out of the Puddle: Into The Pond
- Go for the Gold: Adding Richness and Balance to Your Life
Marcia Reynolds, Psy.D., Master Certified Coach
- Accessing Emotional Intelligence: Applying the Latest Discoveries in Brain Biology to Leadership and Coaching
- Outsmart Your Brain: How to Rewire Your Brain for Success
- Step Into The Zone: Face Your Challenges Like A Champion
- Powerful Public Speaking: Creating the Results You Want When Addressing A Group
- Team Weaving: How Teams Can Access and Use Their Emotional Intelligence
"Knock, Knock: Who's There? The Union"- A Matter of Ethics: Facing the Fear Of Doing The Right Thing
- A Matter of Ethics: Identifying and Facing The Corporate Challenges of Ethics Based Leadership
- A Matter of Ethics: The Role of HR In Navigating An Organization Through Unprincipled Leadership
- Conversations with HR: Positioning Your Organization’s HR Department to Sustain a Competitive Edge
- Workforce 2015 and Beyond: Creating and Sustaining Quality Service Through Your Human Capital
- 15 Tips For Motivating The Long Term Workforce
- Designing and Implementing An Organization Wide Ethics Initiative
- HR and the Media – Orchestrating A Win In Every Situation
- Framing Employee Relations Matters Through Collaboration
- Leading Through Transformational Change
- Strategies for Customized Succession Planning
- Train the Trainer: HR Staff Development
- The New Language of Leadership
- The Effects of Information Technology on Organizing, Managing and Leading People Within Organizations
- Innovation, Critical Thinking and Creativity
- The People vs. The State of Illusion – Leadership on Trail
- Era III Leadership: Using Complexity Science to Master Change in Organizations
- Wall Street & Wildflowers: Choices About Life In Corporate America
- Black Box Stories: True Stories of Leadership and Teamwork Among Airline Crews
- The Soul of Teamwork
Corporate Facilitation Services – Developing Workplace Collaboration
- Multiple Group Interaction - this session focuses on the interaction between three or more interdependent work groups with emphasis on groups disclosing perceptions of one another, especially in terms of contributions to one another’s effectiveness.
- Issue Census and Problem Solving – This popular workshop examines and improves the effectiveness of an organization across many levels or layers in the company. The goals are to identify key issues and generate specific goals and action commitments associates with solutions for priority issues.
- Intergroup Team Building – Use this to examine and improve the total work effectiveness of two interdependent work groups, and to identify problem areas and corrective actions.
- Team Goal Setting – This session is useful for generating goals and related action plans to which a work group is committed as a team. We clarify mission and related accountabilities, minimizing role confusion and focusing the group’s energy.
- Strategic Planning – Use this service to identify strengths and weaknesses, both current and future, in relation to mission accomplishment and to generate strategies, plans, goals and objectives to which the organization is committed.
- Job Development – This session identifies components of a specific job that underutilizes talent and demotivates the people in them. The goal is to redesign the work involved and to develop higher levels of job satisfaction, motivation and quality of work.
- Role Development – When you need to clarify and define the expectations of a specific role or to resolve conflict associated with not knowing one’s job, use this session.
- Team Skills Training – This workshop introduces teamwork concepts and fosters development of knowledge in group dynamics, group influence and coordination, and in self-assessment and interpersonal awareness.
- Leadership Skills Training/Style Analysis – Leaders who are interested in examining their own personal preferences, tendencies, and values while leading will find this session extremely useful.
- Minority Awareness Training – This session examines racism issues as well as opportunities to improve the climate for assimilation and utilization of all human resources.
- Gender Awareness – Use this workshop to examine issues and opportunities concerning gender awareness and to enhance the climate for employee development.
- Seven Laws of Business Success – This facilitates workshop focuses on seven Universal truths common to mankind and services as a strategy for improving overall personal effectiveness on the job.
- Leading with the Mind, Body & Spirit – This workshop clarifies one’s purpose and mission as a leader, with special emphasis on taking care of the whole person when serving in a leadership capacity.
- Stress, Burnout and Well Being – This session centers on how well-intended, talented managers unknowingly create stress on the job, how to identify it, and what to do about it.
General Facilitation Services
- On-site and off-site meetings requiring a neutral position for the leader or manager
- Conflict resolution interventions among employees at all levels
- Open space technology
- Leadership development sessions
- Team meetings at all levels
- Team building events
- Executive retreats
- Stress reduction sessions
- Strategic planning sessions.