Interpersonal skills change the game. We show you how to build them.

The higher up the ladder you are, the more your emotional intelligence matters. Impact Weekend builds the specific competencies you need to influence, inspire and truly lead your team. Together, we’ll uncover critical, actionable information about the strengths and weaknesses of your communication style— and help you understand how the way you come across impacts and influences others. 

You’ll discover a sky-high sense of self-awareness. Expert-level people skills. And a newfound ability to convert difficult conversations into productive ones.

You’ll leave with the skills to communicate more effectively, make better decisions, and operate at a much higher level of performance.

WHY SHOULD I CARE?

Life—particularly the business part of life, is a hot mess. What should be simple almost never is. It’s a labyrinth of emotion, conflict, persuasion and influence. The life you want. The relationships you want. The career you want. They all depend upon your interpersonal skills. Impact Weekend gives you the specific competencies you need to radically improve them all. 

According to the Harvard Business Review, ‘‘the time spent by managers and employees in collaborative activities has ballooned by 50 percent or more.” Teams are now the norm for how organizations work. If you want to beat your competition, you need to influence not just your people individually, but how they work together.

PROGRAM TOPICS

1. Mindset

2. Communication

3. Emotions

4. Feedback

5. Building Bridges

6. Influence and Accountability

WHAT WILL I GAIN?

  • How to manage your mindset and use it to become a powerful and effective communicator

  • How to be a resilient learner—one who knows how to be open, honest and vulnerable

  • Improved interpersonal communication skills including high level listening and how to hear what is not being said

  • How to give feedback that motivates instead of irritates - so employees are learning, as opposed to leaving

  • How to build bridges across differences in style, culture, gender and various other demographics

  • Discovering when you are most influential—and why

  • How to improve accountability among your team...without being “that guy”

WHAT HAPPENS DURING THE WEEKEND?

GROUP DISCUSSIONS:

Each day we will meet for group discussions where different concepts will be introduced. 

T-GROUPS:

The majority of our time will be spent practicing interpersonal dynamics in a format called a T-Group. (The “T” stands for “Training,” not therapy. Developed in 1946 by pioneering psychologist Kurt Lewin, T-Groups have been a critical element of leadership education at Stanford School of Business and Yale School of Management for decades. Your facilitators for this program currently work in the Interpersonal Dynamics (IPD) program at Yale School of Management; Dr. Marianne Pantalon as Senior Facilitator and an Instructional Designer Consultant and Dr. David Tate as an Instructor.

The purpose of a T-Group is to create a space where individuals can learn and practice interpersonal skills, comfortably. By design, there is no agenda, no goal, and no leader (facilitators serve as guides but participate as well). This creates a vacuum that allows interpersonal dynamics to develop freely and naturally. A few exercises will be introduced to help move the process along in a timely manner. The groups run in three-hour blocks that allow meaningful conversations to occur in a spacious, relaxed manner.

Happily, T-Group programs are becoming more and more available outside of business school.

https://www.tgroupsforwomen.com/

http://www.deepstreamleadership.com/workshops/

https://www.fortlight.com/tgroups-level-1

The impact of this type of training is increasingly recognized as profound and instrumental to success. We are thrilled to be offering this powerful program to professionals on the East Coast.

WHO IT’S FOR

  • C-Suite Executive

  • Directors

  • Vice Presidents

  • Board Members

  • Senior Managers

  • Individuals transitioning into management 

  • Entrepreneurs pitching to investors

COST & FEATURES

Program Fee: $2250

  • Three day leadership sprint in New Haven, CT 

  • Delivered by Instructor and Senior Facilitator of the world-renowned Yale School of Management 

  • Practical application

  • Highly experiential environment

  • Access to program alumni community

AGREEMENTS

  • Full and punctual attendance at all meetings

  • Active participation. What you and others learn depends upon each other, so it is important to be engaged. If you prefer to sit back and passively absorb information, this workshop is not for you.

  • Willingness to stretch yourself. To get the most out of this program, you will need to take risks and try some new ways of interacting. These micro-experiments can be a little scary at first, but are key to developing new ways of interacting and communicating. So a willingness to try out new behaviors is critical.

  • This is not therapy. Although we will be learning and experimenting with feelings, thoughts, and behaviors, this is not therapy. The focus is on improving ways of relating, interacting, and communicating with others. It is not about addressing personal psychological issues. If you are currently in therapy, please consult with your therapist to see if this program is right for you.

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