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Performance Development Courses and Assessments 

In today's fast-paced and ever-evolving business environment, the ability to improve performance and deliver exceptional results is more critical than ever. Our performance improvement courses equip professionals with the tools, insights and strategies needed to excel in their roles, drive organizational success and foster meaningful personal and professional growth.

Participants learn to: 

  • Enhance strategic planning with breakthrough tools. 
  • Deliver world-class customer service inspired by Disney principles. 
  • Deepen understanding of personality types with the MBTI Step II Assessment. 
  • Cultivate grit and perseverance.  

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These courses are available by request only and may be used as a TCED elective course.  

Contact Performance Improvement Consultant Martha Kelley to register.

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Performance Improvement Courses

Learn to use Hoshin Planning Tools to facilitate problem solving. These tools will ensure alignment with major strategies and goals. Through a series of structured activities, participants plan strategic activities that provide the best return for the resources invested.

  • Four-to-eight-hour course or practical application 

Excellent customer service is much more than smile training or implementing useful technology. It’s understanding what’s important to your customers and designing services to exceed their expectations.

Successful service delivery is an outcome of systems thinking, and no one does it better than Disney. With a stronger understanding of customer needs and defined service standards, service professionals will feel more comfortable delivering excellent service with the right tools and clear service expectations. Happy employees create happy customers, and the entire organization benefits. 

  • Five-hour course

Step II of MTBI brings a deeper understanding and more complete description of an individual’s MBTI type. Gain understanding of your personality type, learn about other personality types, and develop strategies to improve communication. Knowing your own preferences as well as your teammates can improve teamwork and compatibility.

  • Four-hour course 

Learn how MBTI type influences people’s perceptions of, and response to, emotions. Develop strategies for enhancing their emotional intelligence using the MBTI framework.  

  • Four-hour course
  • Prerequisite: MBTI basic course or have taken the MBTI assessment 

This course teaches participants about: 

  • Your own needs in the workplace.
  • How teammates and others make behavioral choices.
  • How social needs affect the group’s ability to work together. 
  • How the team can be more effective.  

 

  • Four-hour course 

Storytelling and engagement go hand in hand. Focus on the benefits of using storytelling to create a compelling business narrative and inspire others to follow your lead. Learn important storytelling tools and use a template to help think through the development of your organizational or personal story. 

  • Four-hour course

This course is most useful with current or potential executives, managers and C-level teams interested in improving their performance. CPI helps participants identify their strengths and blind spots. Learn to capitalize on strengths, target areas for development, and plan action steps to increase leadership effectiveness.

  • Two one-hour individual feedback sessions 

Based on Angela Duckworth’s book Grit, participants will examine the components of passion and perseverance and why grit is important, as well as how they can grow grit for themselves and influence its development in others. An assessment of individuals’ grittiness is included in this course. 

  • Three-hour course