All LDW workshops are custom-designed to focus on the critical training needs of each client, with a special understanding of the organization's unique culture, demands and requirements. Workshops are presented with working examples and illustrations from each client-organization, ensuring relevance to the "real work" in the organization. All LDW training professionals hold doctoral degrees in psychology, and are highly experienced in working with managers and teams in a wide variety of organizations.

Implicit in all LDW workshops is the underlying theme that part of a manager's job, and part of what managers should hold themselves accountable for, is the selection, motivation, development, and ultimate performance of the people for whom they are responsible. LDW seminars reinforce the idea that meaningful change requires personal and professional growth. We challenge managers to look within themselves, to question their own assumptions, and to broaden their own views of who they are and who they can be as leaders. We believe that for managers to truly benefit from developmental seminars, they need to break out of their own mental models and literally try out new behaviors. A successful workshop experience means two things: The participant not only learns new concepts and tools, but also initiates new behaviors in the real world of their organizations.

Selecting for Excellence: A Workshop in Interviewing Skills
This one-day workshop emphasizes practical skill building for interviewing and selecting candidates. Participants will gain confidence in their ability to interview effectively, including managing the interview process (selection of questions, managing different styles of interviewees), and interpreting and understanding the data obtained from the interview. This workshop encourages active participation of participants, including discussion of current hiring problems, standard setting in the organization, and planning for ongoing employee development.

Coaching and Developing Others
This one-day workshop covers both conceptual and practical issues of coaching others for development. Participants learn what coaching really is, and how it can impact individual and organizational performance and growth. Specific skills of coaching are taught, practiced and then applied to a real-life "case study" provided by each participant. A special emphasis is placed on participants gaining insight into their own leadership and coaching styles through the use of a brief profile questionnaire. Participants leave with their own action-plans for coaching the person they chose for their "case-study". In this way, conceptual principles are immediately turned into practical, applied lessons to take back home.

Confronting the Psychological Barriers to Change: A Workshop Geared towards Managers Implementing Change
It has become conventional wisdom that the rate of change in organizations is increasing rapidly and will continue to do so. To thrive, organizations must be quick, agile, and willing to take risks and change the way they do business. Yet it is also true that "all change is local", in that each individual manager has a unique responsibility to take ownership for change in his or her area and the organization as a whole. This one-day workshop will help managers conceptually understand the process of organizational change, help them to understand their own reactions to change, and give them some practical skills and tools to increase their effectiveness in managing change in their organizations. We design this workshop around the current changes confronting the organization, so managers can work on the "real world" challenges they are actually facing. There is a special emphasis placed on managing resistance to change in the organization, including how to develop emotional "buy-in" from those they manage and lead.