Own Your Voice: Corporate
Voice and Communication Workshops for Teams
After all this work-from-home separation and Zoom fatigue, many people are definitely ready to return to the office. But many are also a little nervous about whether and how they’ll be able to reconnect with others.
This is also a major concern for leaders who saw 69 million US employees quit their jobs in 2021 alone, most of whom did so because they lacked a sense of belonging at work.
In addition to covid safety protocols and logistics, leaders who are successfully preparing for a smooth transition to in-person work have also been strongly focused on rebuilding organizational culture, specifically within the realm of belonging.
How do you help your employees connect?
A helpful first step is to understand that a primary block to a sense of belonging is…
The fear of not belonging.
“A company in which anyone is afraid to speak up, to differ, to be daring and original, is closing the coffin door on itself.”
Leo Burnett
Fight, Flight, Freeze…For Real?
This fear of not belonging directly impacts the way people speak and communicate.
Fear of not belonging can look like sarcasm. It can look like too many ‘ums’, or like that person who never speaks up. It can look like someone saying ‘yes’ when they need to say ‘no’, or like speaking to the data just fine but wanting to throw up when asked to publicly brainstorm.
Fear is that general sense that everyone else is somehow better than you…
And that if you speak up, they’ll all realize it, too.
Fear can be difficult to notice because the symptom is often assumed to be the root problem.
“Being nervous isn’t bad. It just means something important is happening.”
Michael Jordan
Managing fear and improving communication
Creating a culture of belonging and engagement
If fear and communication are intrinsically connected, how do you help your team members feel safe and communicative?
While it’s up to management to set the tone and direction of the organization, the truth is that culture cannot simply be imposed from the top-down, nor can it be built from the bottom-up.
Culture is created from the inside-out and the outside-in by…
- Investing in developing your individual team members’ emotional resilience.
- Ensuring they have the tools to let their voices out.
- Infusing them with healthy communication skills and norms that in turn protect and grow the psychological safety of the entire team.
Emotionally resilient and communicative individuals create psychologically safe teams. Psychological safe teams allow individuals to become even more resilient and communicative.
A feedback loop is created.
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”
Jim Morrison
Our workshops help your team build that loop
How do we do it?
Our interactive and experiential workshops teach team members how to manage their internal fears and effectively communicate with each other.
We focus in three areas:
Own Your Voice Workshops make a great post-COVID return-to-work integration event, a fun and educational offsite, or simply a nice way to build skills while breaking up the everyday flow of work life. They pack in a lot of personal and group transformation, all while having a lot of fun, too!
Measurable Impact
Our workshops create strategic benefits across your entire organization
What are the Options?
Our Workshops Menu
- In-person
- 3 - 4 hours
- Participant workbook and practice plan
- 30-minute leader prep call
- 30-minute leader debrief call (opt)
- 30-min discovery call for participants
- In-person
- 7 - 8 hours
- Foundations + additional custom topics
- Pre-workshop participant survey
- Participant workbook and practice plan
- 30-minute leader prep call
- 30-minute leader debrief call (opt)
- 30-minute 30-day leader follow up call (opt)
- 30-min discovery call for participants
- "Why Won't My Voice Come Out? Getting Out of Your Own Way to Speak with Impact."
- Online
- Participant workbook
- 30-min discovery call for participants
