Training Workshops

SRSD provides training workshops on various topics that are relevant to local government professionals.

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Leadership Development

  • A framework for greater influence and impact.

    Explore the Energy Leadership™ framework to manage mindset and emotional responses more effectively. Through real-world scenarios, participants will learn to identify default energy patterns and shift toward more empowering leadership.

  • Tips for Shifting Energy and Inspiring Action.

    A deeper dive into Energy Leadership™, this session teaches leaders how to shift energy in real time, influence motivation, and inspire action. Ideal for those looking to lead with clarity and impact during challenges and change.

  • Leadership is challenging because it is full of paradoxes. This session explores common tensions leaders face—such as balancing authority with approachability and driving results while nurturing relationships—and offers practical strategies to manage them with clarity and confidence.

  • Leadership is most powerful when it begins with self-awareness and intentional choice. This session explores how a leader’s mindset, presence, and ownership of their actions directly influence trust, accountability, and team culture.

  • New supervisors learn how to navigate the shift from peer to leader. This session covers setting boundaries, building credibility, and managing relationships with confidence and fairness.

  • This session explores key leadership roles—designing systems, managing relationships, and driving growth. Leaders will identify strategies to strengthen team structure, trust, and performance.

  • Trust is a critical driver of team performance and organizational speed. In this session, leaders will explore practical behaviors that build, repair, and sustain trust, while also strengthening their own credibility.

  • Effective leaders know that not all problems are created equal. Some challenges have clear solutions, while others are adaptive—requiring learning, experimentation, and new ways of thinking. This session introduces practical tools to help leaders recognize the difference and respond appropriately..

  • This session empowers participants to view self-advocacy as a vital leadership skill—building confidence to overcome barriers, clearly communicate strengths and goals, and drive career growth and fulfillment.

These workshops support both emerging and experienced leaders in developing core leadership mindsets and skills.

  • Learn to give clear, constructive feedback that drives learning and performance. This session teaches how to prepare, balance candor with empathy, and use feedback to build trust and development.

  • Deepen communication skills by mastering the three levels of listening. Participants will learn to listen with empathy and awareness to strengthen collaboration, trust, and connection in every conversation.

  • Build stronger workplace communication through active listening, non-verbal cues, and intentional messaging. Learn how transparency and consistency foster trust and credibility.

  • Participants complete a DiSC® assessment and explore their communication style. This session boosts self-awareness, empathy, and collaboration using the Catalyst platform.

Focused on improving interpersonal skills, active listening, and delivering effective feedback.

Communication & Feedback

  • Success comes from intentional systems. This session helps participants take ownership of time, commitments, and habits through proven time management tools and strategies for accountability and personal effectiveness.

  • Strengthen your performance management approach by mastering purposeful 1:1 conversations and delivering feedback that drives impact.

  • Explore a modern, continuous approach to performance management. This session covers planning, monitoring, developing, and recognizing performance while emphasizing documentation and motivation.

Designed to help individuals and managers stay on track, set goals, and drive results.

Performance & Accountability

  • Based on Lencioni’s Five Behaviors model, this multi-session program helps teams build trust, engage in healthy conflict, commit to decisions, hold each other accountable, and deliver results.

  • A personal development journey rooted in Lencioni’s model, this program helps individuals strengthen their contributions to any team by building trust, accountability, and emotional intelligence.

  • Designed for anyone leading discussions or group work, this session teaches the core skills of facilitation—from guiding dialogue and managing dynamics to driving decisions and clarity.

  • This interactive workshop reframes vulnerability as a leadership strength that fosters trust, deepens connection, and builds stronger teams. Participants will explore common myths, learn how vulnerability supports psychological safety, and practice behaviors that create authentic, trust-based relationships.

  • Bridging Perspective Through Experience

    Bridge generational gaps by exploring the formative experiences behind workplace values and expectations. This session promotes empathy and collaboration across all age groups.

Ideal for improving team trust, dynamics, and cohesion—whether you're building or joining a team.

Team Effectiveness & Collaboration

  • This session helps participants identify internal saboteurs that undermine performance and relationships. Using Positive Intelligence tools, attendees will build mental fitness and learn to shift from self-sabotage to self-command.

  • Everyone can benefit from coaching tools. This session introduces foundational coaching skills like asking curious questions, offering acknowledgment, and helping others take ownership of their growth.

  • Using the EQ-i 2.0 framework, participants explore core emotional intelligence skills. They'll review personal results, identify strengths, and develop strategies to improve relationships and leadership.

Workshops that support personal growth, resilience, and emotional effectiveness.

Emotional Intelligence & Self-Awareness

  • This workshop explores workplace conflict, personal response styles (DiSC recommended), and how to shift from unproductive reactions to constructive dialogue. Participants will gain tools to de-escalate tension, manage disagreements effectively, and build healthier work relationships.

  • Equip frontline staff with tools for de-escalation, resilience, and empathy. This affirming session supports those who manage difficult public interactions with grace and professionalism.

For handling disagreement, tension, and emotionally charged situations with skill and empathy.

Conflict & Difficult Conversations

  • Transform meetings from draining to dynamic. Learn how to set clear intentions, manage time, engage participants, and ensure follow-through to make meetings productive and purposeful.

Tools and practices for running effective, engaging, and productive meetings.

Meeting Management