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University of Puzzle Professors will cover topics including:

Check MarkDefining Success: Mastering the Art of Setting Clear Expectations
Setting Clear Expectations guides learners through the nuances of goal setting, exploring the necessity of establishing clear expectations and how clarity serves as a roadmap for success. Participants will learn the importance of communication as a tool for guidance, gain insights into setting achievable goals, and learn how to align individual goals with organizational vision.
 
Check MarkInspecting What You Expect: Ensuring Success Through Vigilant, Effective and Known Monitoring
Inspection equips learners with the skills to maintain proper visibility of what their teams are working on while ensuring the proper follow-up points are in place.  By inspecting your expectations, you are aligning the goals you have set with the expectations required to produce success.
 
 Check MarkEmpowering Dialogue: Learning the Skills of Constructive Feedback
Feedback is a vital skill that leaders need to possess.  Feedback allows you to articulate where an employee stands with a task in a timely fashion, allowing for just in time management of priorities rather than having to refocus and redo once an entire project is complete.
 
Check MarkEmpowerment through Coaching: Elevating Skills and Performance
Empowerment through Coaching: Elevating Skills and Performance explores the difference between feedback and coaching and provides strategies for targeted coaching and building constructive coaching relationships. The course covers the GROW model of coaching, equipping learners with the tools needed to elevate their team’s performance and unleashing their full capabilities.
 
Check MarkDriving Accountability: Igniting Your Teams Success
Driving Accountability re-thinks how responsibility and performance are managed, equipping learners with strategies to boost trust and instill a strong sense of task ownership to create collaboration. Participants will learn to differentiate between elements within and beyond their control and identify indicators that accountability may be lacking.
 
Check MarkUnderstanding your Leadership Preferences: Omnia Behavioral Assessment
The Omnia Behavioral Assessment Debrief provides learners with an in-depth exploration of four critical personality traits: Assertiveness, Sociability, Pace, and Structure. Omnia categorizes individuals into one of 17 groups, offering profound insights into how we function in professional settings. Learn how Omnia can benefit you and your employees in driving efficiency through our personality differences.
 
Check MarkManaging Change Through Storytelling: Inspiring Transformation with Compelling Narratives
Managing Change Through Storytelling: Inspiring Transformation with Compelling Narratives highlights the significance of the Head, Heart, Hands model of leading people through change, designed to facilitate smooth transitions and foster an environment conducive to effective change. The course provides learners with practical tips and strategies to enhance their change management abilities and what drives successful change.
 
Check MarkAm I Being Understood? Communication Best Practices
Communication Best Practices sharpens learners’ abilities to recognize and adjust to different communication styles. Participants will receive practical tips on delivering clear, concise, resonant messages, engaging with interactive modules designed to hone communication skills. The course places equal emphasis on written, verbal, and non-verbal skills to enhance organizational communication.
 
Check MarkMastering Tough Talks: Strategies for Difficult Conversations
Difficult Conversations explores the steps of communication, from introductions to clear messaging. Participants will learn actionable strategies for handling misunderstandings and tough conversations in ways that allow everyone to feel respected and supported. The course empowers leaders to get their message across clearly in any conversation.
 
Check MarkNavigating the Storm: Essential Conflict Management Skills
Managing Conflict offers vital strategies for fostering trust, understanding conflict management techniques, and recognizing the constructive potential of conflict. As a natural element of the workplace, participants will learn to identify early signs of conflict, apply resolution strategies, and encourage an environment where conflict fuels innovation. The course empowers leaders and teams to transform conflict into a catalyst for success.
 
Check MarkInfluence vs. Motivation: Strategies for Effective Engagement
Influence vs. Motivation: Strategies for Effective Engagement equips learners with the skills to boost employee engagement through communication, recognition, and company culture. Participants will learn practical strategies to cultivate an engaging environment for employees, encourage open dialogue, establish trust, and reward contributions.
 
Check MarkWorld-Class Customer Service Programs
Offering a program to train your employees on World-Class Customer Service can be the game changer in your business today.  Learn how a World-Class Customer Service training program can benefit your organization and help improve your overall client satisfaction.
 
Check MarkRecognition Revolution: Driving Innovation, Collaboration and Engagement through Rewards and Recognition 
Understanding Rewards and Recognition re-thinks employee appreciation as a critical component of job satisfaction, performance, and overall organizational health. Participants will learn best practices for determining employee recognition preferences and which rewards are meaningful and realistic, fostering a culture of appreciation throughout the organization.
 
Check MarkThe Bridging of Generations: Fostering Inclusive Workplaces for All Ages
With 5 different generations in the workplace, we must understand how to bridge the gap between them to enhance workplace relationships.  It is also important to understand that the baby boomer generation is retiring at record pace, making it vital to begin transferring knowledge to our new generations.
 
Check MarkOne-on-One Excellence: Enhancing Communication and Productivity
Are your one-on-one meetings productive and helping to drive results or just a history lesson of what your teammates did since last chatting with them?  To make a one-on-one effective, you must incorporate more than just recent history, creating a conversation that drives repeated positive actions, promotes employee growth, and keeps vision on priorities laser focused.
 
Check MarkUnderstanding Team One: The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team
The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team introduces learners to the most common challenges teams encounter and strategies to identify them in their working environment. The course provides learners with solutions designed to correct and overcome these dysfunctions, building a cohesive team to enhance satisfaction and connection.
 
Check MarkTeam Meeting Mastery: Leading Dynamic and Productive Discussions
Effective Team Meetings unravels the structure needed for successful team meetings, highlighting the best practices and action items needed to drive success. Participants will learn to craft effective agendas, apply practical strategies to encourage engagement, and understand how to foster a collaborative meeting environment for efficient team communication.
 
Check MarkThe Importance of Development Programs
One of the top priorities of leadership in the workplace is to improve and implement development programs for their employees as this is one of the top drivers of employee retention.  Let's dive into the world of development programs, their importance, and how they can take your business to the Next Level.
 
Check MarkFoundations of Emotional Intelligence: A Guide to Self and Social Awareness
Emotional Intelligence: The Basics covers the fundamental aspects of Emotional Intelligence (EQ), underscoring its importance for professional achievement as a foundational skill and a key determinant of job performance. Participants will learn how self-regulation and empathy create a constructive work environment and actionable methods for applying EQ.
 
Check MarkFrom Hearing to Understanding: The Listening Revolution
Listening to Understand guides learners through the different levels of listening, discussing whether they are listening to reply or listening to comprehend.
 
Check MarkMaintaining the Balance: Stress Management and Resilience
Stress Management and Resilience equips leaders with insights and strategies to handle stress within the workplace, ensuring a nurturing atmosphere for their teams. The course provides learners with knowledge on identifying signs of stress, developing empathetic leadership, and establishing a culture rooted in open communication and mutual respect, allowing us to grow and flourish, even when mistakes are made.
 
Check MarkCorrecting the Root Cause: Effective Problem Solving
Problem Solving uncovers new ways to approach challenges, providing learners with actionable strategies to solve problems in the workplace. The course emphasizes the importance of creativity and innovation, developing critical thinking skills, and strengthening decision-making abilities.
 
Check MarkPrioritizing People: The Cornerstone of Effective Planning and Execution
Prioritizing People: The Cornerstone of Effective Planning and Execution offers learners guidance on navigating the complexities of prioritization and planning strategies. Participants will learn how to use prioritization to drive productivity, best practices for establishing clear objectives, and how to use the Eisenhower Matrix to determine if tasks are urgent, important, both, or neither.
 
Check MarkThe Importance of Coaching
You have reached a new high point in your career.  Now what?  Coaching is a fundamental method used in employee development that provides a forward-facing focus on the actions needed to continue self-development and problem-solving.  Join a PuzzleHR coach to hear more about the importance of coaching and what it can mean to you or your organization.
 

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Interactive 2025 Training Calendar

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*All Sessions are held from 1pm-2pm EST unless otherwise noted*

January

1/7: Defining Success: Mastering the Art of Setting Clear Expectations

1/16: Defining Success: Mastering the Art of Setting Clear Expectations

1/21: Inspecting What You Expect: Ensuring Success Through Vigilant, Effective and Known Monitoring

1/30: Inspecting What You Expect: Ensuring Success Through Vigilant, Effective and Known Monitoring

February

2/4: Empowering Dialogue: Learning the Skills of Constructive Feedback

2/13: Empowering Dialogue: Learning the Skills of Constructive Feedback

2/18: Empowerment through Coaching: Elevating Skills and Performance

2/27: Empowerment through Coaching: Elevating Skills and Performance

March

3/4: Driving Accountability: Igniting Your Teams Success

3/13: Driving Accountability: Igniting Your Teams Success

3/18: Understanding your Leadership Preferences: Omnia Behavioral Assessment

3/27: Understanding your Leadership Preferences: Omnia Behavioral Assessment

April

4/1: Managing Change Through Storytelling: Inspiring Transformation with Compelling Narratives

4/10: Managing Change Through Storytelling: Inspiring Transformation with Compelling Narratives

4/15: Am I Being Understood?: Communication Best Practices

4/24: Am I Being Understood?: Communication Best Practices

May

5/6: Mastering Tough Talks: Strategies for Difficult Conversations

5/15: Mastering Tough Talks: Strategies for Difficult Conversations

5/20: Navigating the Storm: Essential Conflict Management Skills

5/29: Navigating the Storm: Essential Conflict Management Skills

June

6/3: Influence vs. Motivation: Strategies for Effective Engagement

6/12: Influence vs. Motivation: Strategies for Effective Engagement

6/17: World-Class Customer Service

6/26: World-Class Customer Service

July

7/8: Recognition Revolution: Driving Innovation, Collaboration and Engagement through Rewards and Recognition 

7/17: Recognition Revolution: Driving Innovation, Collaboration and Engagement through Rewards and Recognition 

7/22: The Bridging of Generations: Fostering Inclusive Workplaces for All Ages

7/31: The Bridging of Generations: Fostering Inclusive Workplaces for All Ages

August

8/5: One-on-One Excellence: Enhancing Communication and Productivity

8/14: One-on-One Excellence: Enhancing Communication and Productivity

8/19: Understanding Team One: The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team

8/28: Understanding Team One: The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team

September

9/4: Team Meeting Mastery: Leading Dynamic and Productive Discussions

9/9: Team Meeting Mastery: Leading Dynamic and Productive Discussions

9/18: The Importance of Development Programs

9/23: The Importance of Development Programs

October

10/7: Foundations of Emotional Intelligence: A Guide to Self and Social Awareness

10/16: Foundations of Emotional Intelligence: A Guide to Self and Social Awareness

10/21: From Hearing to Understanding: The Listening Revolution

10/30: From Hearing to Understanding: The Listening Revolution

November

11/4: Maintaining the Balance: Stress Management and Resilience

11/13: Maintaining the Balance: Stress Management and Resilience

11/18: Correcting the Root Cause: Effective Problem Solving

11/20: Correcting the Root Cause: Effective Problem Solving

December

12/2: Prioritizing People: The Cornerstone of Effective Planning and Execution

12/11: Prioritizing People: The Cornerstone of Effective Planning and Execution

12/16: The Importance of Coaching

12/18: The Importance of Coaching

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