A Cohesive Team
This full-day course will help you to determine key attributes that can make or break the environment you foster for your employees. It will include discussion about factors that contribute to a cohesive team atmosphere and how to build a workplace that supports leadership and innovation.
- Understand the relationships between people, profitability and culture.
- Identify the seven elements of people centered cultures.
- Determine the cultural factors that are most important in creating a people centered, high preforming company.
- Identify which of the seven elements of people centered cultures need to be leveraged to improve performance.
- Learn how to integrate culture and climate into the strategic planning process.
- Define leadership competencies required for high performing, people centered cultures.
- Apply people centered culture processes to drive competitive advantage.

Course Schedule and Cost
This full-day workshop will be held 8 am - 4 pm on (date to be determined), at UW-Stout Memorial Student Center located in Menomonie, Wisconsin.
Cost is $199.00 which includes lunch and the book, The Human Factor to Profitability, by Dr. Jeanette Black. Parking information and instructions will be sent via email to all registrants 7 - 10 days prior to the workshop.
8:15 am-8:20 am Welcome and introductions
- Overview of seminar
- Expectations
- Housekeeping
8:30 am-9:30 am- The importance of organizational culture
- The impact of culture on productivity and profit
- The impact of organizational climate on productivity and profit
- The 7 elements of People Centered Cultures
- High performing cultures (HPOs)- Scores Model
- The Great Place to Work™
9:30 am- 10:30 am- What is your organizational culture type?
- Assessing your organizational culture
- Assessing your organizational climate
- Onboarding, socialization, and adoption of organizational climate
- Impact on competitive advantage
- Impact on Creativity and Innovation
- Case Study and Application
10:30 am-10:45 am- Break
10:45 am am-11:45 -am-Emotional Intelligence and
Leadership
- Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Competencies
- Emotional Intelligence and the impact on organizational culture and climate
- Impact on organizational performance, creativity and innovation
- Emotional Intelligence link to Organizational Culture
- EQ 360 Leadership Assessments
11:45 am-12:30 pm- Lunch
12:30 pm-1:30 pm-Denison Organizational Culture Survey™
- Why culture matters
- Beliefs and assumptions
- Traits and indexes
- Mission: Do we know where we are going?
- Adaptability: Are we listening to the marketplace?
- Involvement: Are our people aligned, engaged, and capable?
- Consistency: Do we have the values, systems and processes in place to execute?
1:30 pm-2:15 pm Denison Culture Instrument-Dynamic influencers and tensions
- Stable and Flexible
- Internal and external
- Cross Patterns
- Alignment
- Adaptability and consistency
2:15 pm-2:30 pm Break
2:30 pm-3:00 pm Dennison Culture Instrument-Link to Performance
- Operation performance, Quality, Employee satisfaction
- Stable performance over time
- Innovation & Customer satisfaction
- Growth
3:00 pm- 3:45 pm Pulling it all together. Creating the business case for culture change
- Designing a People Centered Culture
- Designing the High-Performance Organization
- Return on Investment
- Drive for competitive advantage
- Application Case study- Human Resources VP
3:45 pm-4:00 pm Closing Comments
- How the Denison Model can help you drive culture change
- Next steps
4:00 pm Adjourn