Pat has conducted team building for new and evolving work and professional groups around the world and in many industries.

She offers workshops for intact project and corporate teams in organizations and for professional groups with common goals and interests.

Team Norming for Project and Corporate Teams

Based on a comprehensive ‘discovery’ process with team and organizational leaders and an analysis of the environment the team will work in, Pat gets your team pumped and ready with a comprehensive framework, proven tools and problem solving approaches that enables your team to succeed.

Her comprehensive, experiential workshops are tailored to your team/group’s needs in the following key areas that affect the success of all teams:

  • Communication – what frameworks/methods will we use to make sure we are all in the loop?
  • Collaboration – how will we bring out the best in each opportunity and in each other?
  • Trust – how will we prove our commitment and intent to succeed?
  • Emotional Intelligence – emotions can help or hinder us – how will we use them to motivate?
  • Innovation – how can we bring the team to create at the next level?
  • Accountability – how will we hold one another accountable for what we promise to do?

Your customized team workshop will be highly interactive and experiential to give the participants the knowledge and also the experience to utilize that knowledge.

Turning Messy Emotions into Leadership Strengths (90 minutes)

Emotions can be messy, complex and often intense. They play into every interaction we have whether we show them or not. Women leaders may find emotions to be the proverbial ‘double-edged sword ‘- if you show emotion, you are too ‘soft’ and, therefore, ineffective. If you don’t, you are labeled ‘cold’ and unnatural. If avoiding emotions is not a healthy option, how might we handle messy emotions in an ‘intelligent’ way?
 

Topics:

  • What are emotions?
  • What is EI? Why does it matter?
  • Can women show emotions without affecting their professional image and impact?
  • How can you develop EI?

Using Emotional Intelligence: Do Women Have an Advantage? (90 minutes)

Attendees examine how gender may play into how emotions and emotional intelligence (EI) are viewed and used in the workplace and if women leaders might gain a ‘natural’ advantage using EI. Based on Dr. Baxter’s own research and practical experience, this presentation looks at how emotions, when properly managed, can drive trust, loyalty, commitment, productivity and innovation.
 

Topics:

  • How biologically tied are humans to their emotions? Can/Should we control them? If so, how?
  • How do the emotions of followers affect their trust of women leaders? How can trust be gained?
  • Do women gain wisdom and emotional intelligence with age? Is it diminished with time?
  • How can we demonstrate EI in emotionally-charged professional scenarios?

Taming the Three-Headed Monster: Handling Uncertainty, Risk and Fear (90 minutes)

The fearsome threesome of uncertainty, risk and fear can stop us from doing what is worthy of us. This session looks at ways to ‘shift’ and turn uncertainty into a sense of adventure, fear into resolve, and risk into reward.

Participants will use results of structured in-class interviews with colleagues to create a strategic/tactical plan (‘uncertainty scaffolding’) to help counter fear, uncertainty and risk.
 

Topics:

  • What does that ‘monster under the bed’ look like?
  • How can you ‘stack the deck’ in your favor whenever you take a risk at work?
  • How do you build personal resilience to keep moving instead of standing still out of fear?
  • Ambiguity is a constant as there are no guarantees – there is always risk, uncertainty and potential
    failure. What action would increase your personal tolerance for ambiguity?