Workshops

Watershed offers a variety of different workshops that are designed with your bottom line in mind. Our four flagship programs have been developed to enhance key workplace competencies while tackling issues that are eroding your productivity. 

• Watershed Flow
• Watershed Productivity
• Watershed Leadership
• Watershed Edge

Watershed Flow: Equipping Employees with Tools to Better Manage Stress

Are you experiencing high levels of employee absenteeism? Are your employees less engaged and therefore less productive? According to Statistics Canada, lost work time due to stress related ailments costs Canadian employers $12 billion a year. Stop these costs from hitting our bottom-line by investing in the Watershed Flow program. It is designed to help your employees manage stress and increase resiliency.

At the end of this session, your employees will:

• Identify their key stressors to determine how they can be managed
• Understand their stress symptoms to proactively cope with stress
• List the three questions to ask in any stressful situation to gain control and composure
• Describe and demonstrate the secret practice to changing the brain to deal with stress
• Incorporate Quick Stress Busters in three minutes or less to turn stress into productivity
• Create and commit to a 30 day action plan

Find out why Jamie Hrycyshyn, of Dusome Insurance said “I have used your strategies from the seminar and find them to work! What a relief !!!”

The best format for this program is a full day with 2 follow-up group coaching teleseminars.

Watershed Productivity: Improving the brain’s functionality to boost leader’s productivity

Are your employees constantly distracted that you wonder how they get their work done? Is your team working harder and harder without achieving greater results? Disruptions, interruptions and greater demands take a toll on productivity forcing your employees to work against their brain not with it. In fact distractions cost organizations $10,790 per worker each year (Harmon Software, 2011) while interruptions cost U.S. businesses $588 billion per year (Basex, 2009). Prevent this from happening at your company by investing in this workshop.

At the end of the session, your employees will:

• Describe the brain’s natural reaction to interruptions, distractions and stress
• Identify how their current productivity strategies are actually counterproductive
• Employ methodologies to short circuit the brain’s natural response to distractions and interruptions
• Boost productivity with one simple practice that can permanently change the brain
• Describe the 3 most refreshing activities for the brain
• Create and commit to a brain maximizing strategy

The ideal format for this session is 2 half days with 1 follow-up group coaching teleseminar.

Watershed Leadership: Building leaderships effectiveness by improving Awareness, Empathy and Optimism

Are your managers having a hard time motivating their teams? Do their teams perceive them as being trust worthy and having an interest in their wellbeing? According to a Towers Watson 2010 survey, only 42% of employees feel that their leaders “inspire and engage them”, only 38% think their leaders “have a sincere interest in their well-being” and only 47% think their leaders “are trustworthy”. Educate your leaders on how they can have a positive impact on your employees by investing in their development with the Watershed Leadership program

At the end of this session, your leaders will:

• Understand their unique leadership skills and how to leverage them to inspire and motivate
• Demonstrate the key skill for cementing strong relationships with their team
• Identify how to easily boost their team’s productivity with one simple strategy
• Employ optimism to boost their team’s results
• Create and commit to a leadership action plan

The ideal format for this program is a full day with 2 follow-up coaching teleseminars and 2 one-on-one coaching sessions.

Watershed Edge: Developing concentration, interpersonal skills and innovation in your team to deal with overload

Is overload affecting your employees’ concentration, working relationships and innovation? Concentrating at work is a challenge with constant pressures and interruptions; In fact, refocusing after interruptions consumes approximately 28 percent of an employee’s time during the work day. Stress is also impacting working relationships as more than half of working Canadians reported experiencing anxiety or irritability with co-workers. According to the Wall Street Journal, CEOs have called creativity the #1 leadership competency for the future. Give your employees a competitive edge over overload by investing in the Watershed Edge workshop.

At the end of the session, your employees will:

• Describe how the brain reacts to overload and why it impacts executive functioning
• Explain why mindfulness meditation can help improve concentration, relationships and creativity
• Employ strategies for increasing concentration and managing overload
• Demonstrate improved empathy for coworkers
• Incorporate 3 simple techniques for innovation at work

The ideal format for this program is a full day followed by 3 half day sessions and 3 one on one coaching.