Building Effectiveness Across Boundaries

Interface Consulting, LLC

Workshops We Offer

We all want smart employees.  Scientists, IT people, Engineers, Managers — it is a war for talent that must be won.  But, do we really know what to do once we hire them?  And, do we manage in a way that actualizes their talents and retains gifted employees?

Often smart employees apparently seem to come with a whole host of annoying, disturbing, and exasperating traits.  These perceived negative qualities often come from not understanding the components that make up the whole package that comes with giftedness.

 

Smart People:  Managing and Retaining Gifted Employees ®

COURSE RESULTS

 

Participants will learn:

 

· The high correlation between perfectionism and giftedness.  How perfectionism negatively affects work product and makes acknowledging gifted employees so difficult.

 

· A diagnostic for how to quickly identify the two major learning styles of gifted employees and how to manage the differences, conflict, and confusion generated by these differences.

 

· The apparent emotional fragility of gifted employees and why they are so easily hurt, disappointed, and frustrated.

 

· How to managed what seems their constant upset with ‘the organization’ and its ethics.

 

· How to assist employees with what seems to be unrealistic expectations of other employees, projects, management, and even themselves.

 

· Why gifted employees seem to be so ‘high maintenance’ and what to do about it.

 

· A tool for understanding how best to handle day-to-day communication with gifted employees to maximize results and minimize frustration.

 

· How most gifted employees don’t think of themselves as gifted — which makes them come across as condescending, arrogant, and impatient.

 

· How generational issues magnify many of the above issues.

 

 

 

 

Pre-requisites for this course are:  Attendance in Productive Relationships©

 

 

 

 

® 2000.  Interface Consulting, LLC is a V2 Distributorship.  

< Return to Workshop List

Register for an Interface Consulting Workshop:

 Phone: 303.814.3443

Toll-Free:  866.814.3443

 

E-Mail:  Signup for a Workshop

Interface Consulting, LLC  |  info@interfaceconsultingonline.com  |  303-814-3443  |  1-866-814-3443

© Copyright 2005.  All rights reserved.

Contact Us

Though we know they are brilliant and required to compete in today’s market — they also can seem:

 

 

 

Most people do not understand “what comes with the package” of giftedness.  Consequently motives and behaviors are misunderstood and responses of managers are often counter-productive.

This workshop unravels the mysteries of understanding and managing gifted employees.  The workshop will give you tools and diagnostics to better understand and make better choices about how to keep your brightest people satisfied and productive while keeping your sanity.  The purpose of the course is to give individuals the skills and understanding to successfully manage and retain gifted employees.