Services

Switchback Foundation Training

The ongoing success of your organization is dependent on individuals managing their thoughts and actions and your teams working and communicating effectively. Training to this competency is complex. We have solved this challenge with every detail in our training: humor, profound hand drawn frameworks, participation, story telling, compelling theories.

Switchback’s easy to assimilate tools will give participants the opportunity to change chronic bad habits, improve communication and set measurable targets. Participants are given a clear road map to see and understand their thinking, their team dynamics and overall organizational culture. The training format follows a learn/do pattern. This will not be a dull powerpoint passive process. Switchback is hands-on and interactive. Participants are encouraged to use their own work challenges as case studies to better understand and break down their workplace issues.

All this is achieved by adopting the power of HUMAN AGENCY, the ability to choose your thoughts words and attitude regardless of the external circumstances. This is the foundational key to building mental toughness, resilience and high performance teams.

The Benefits/Learning Outcomes:

  • Increase self-awareness and situational awareness across teams.
  • Fostering personal/professional development and positive team momentum.
  • Practical tools for development of neuroplasticity (growth) and metacognition (thinking before reacting).
  • Boosting of individual and team resilience.
  • Developing tactical and strategic planning for stress management.
  • Training that translates both professionally and personally for long-term success.

Switchback Foundation Training is a 3 day event combining the unique power of group sessions and one on one consultations.

Details:

  • In person or virtual.
  • Three consecutive half day group sessions.
  • Personalized one on one Switchback training for each participant.
  • Group size up to 24.
  • Can be custom tailored to your needs.
  • No prerequisites, available to existing and new clients.
Leadership Training

Building on Switchback Foundation Training, Switchback Leadership Training takes practical implementation to the next level. With a working knowledge and personal experience of Switchback thinking and tools, participants work with each other to gain a deeper understanding of the complexities within their leadership and team responsibilities resulting in powerful takeaways.

Benefits/Learning Outcomes:

  • Leaders will gain a deeper understanding of their natural bias and blind spots.
  • Participants will be given an opportunity to shift one of their leadership roadblocks.
  • Participants will give and receive feedback on leadership competencies.
  • Participants will develop action plans to advance their area of responsibility.
  • Leaders will reflect on the big picture around work/life balance and personal professional integrity.

Details:

  • In person or virtual
  • Three consecutive half day group sessions.
  • Personalized one on one Switchback training for each participant.
  • Group size up to 24.
  • Can be custom tailored to your needs.

Advanced Implementation Training

Advanced Implementation Training is the ongoing continuity training system that gives your team a deeper dive into their current complexities with feedback, analysis, prioritization and buy-in, all leading to measurable action. This training supports personal resilience while building teamwork as you work towards key initiatives within your organization.

Benefits/Learning Outcomes:

  • Participants will prioritize the primary outcomes for the training.
  • With Switchback analytical tools participants will be able to complete root cause analysis.
  • Measurable action will be clearly established.
  • Mid and long term objectives will be engineered, educated and enforced.

Details:

  • In person or virtual.
  • Three consecutive half day group sessions.
  • Personalized one on one Switchback training for each participant.
  • Group size up to 24.
  • Can be custom tailored to your needs.
  • No prerequisites, available to existing and new clients.

Switchback AAR: After Action Reviews

Stopping to analyze what has just happened and why it happened is a powerful debriefing process. Switchback AAR’s are unique in that they include the Switchback individual, team and culture FRAMEWORKS as the backdrop for the conversation and analysis. The Switchback AAR process has the potential to highlight deep learning for understanding complex situations and the corrective actions to take moving forward.

Fatality and injury response is one Switchback AAR opportunity but for most organizations AAR’s are simply built into the schedule as a way to stay on top of the ever evolving environments we operate in.

Benefits/Learning Outcomes:

  • Participants will develop deep understanding through self reflection.
  • Participants will employ systems thinking to understand the broader implications.
  • Participants will give and receive feedback.
  • Participants will gain a list of action items connected to their learnings.

Details:

  • In person or virtual.
  • From 2 hour to multi-day depending on the complexity of the situation.
  • One on one Switchback training is an additional option.
  • No Group size limit.
  • Can be custom tailored to your needs.
  • No prerequisites, available to existing and new clients.

Leadership Retreats

Imagine 3-5 days unplugged from the day to day where you and your colleagues are able to relax and reflect within the facilitated guidance of Switchback leaders and Frameworks. Without Retreats built into the annual calendar the long term cumulative effects of stress on leaders can become the pathway to mental health issues and burnout. This will be an opportunity to: build mental and relational resilience, restore relaxed human connections apart from the drivers of production, re-evaluate work life balance and re-envision personal, professional and organizational culture.

Benefits/Learning Outcomes:

  • Relaxed good natured conversation will be established.
  • Personal and group self reflection will break down work fatigue.
  • Working together towards a common insight will develop comradery.
  • Complex work and personal issues will be discussed from a personal human factor perspective.
  • General refreshing will take place with the help of humour.

Details:

  • In person or virtual.
  • Three consecutive half day group sessions.
  • One hour of personalized one on one Switchback training for each participant.
  • Group size up to 24.
  • Can be custom tailored to your needs.
  • No prerequisites, available to existing and new clients.

Keynote Speaking

Looking for an entertaining, non-powerpoint dynamic speaker to headline your event? Switchback leaders are very skilled at connecting with diverse audiences while delivering high value content. Looking for more than just information? We will captivate with stories from our personal lives and our work around the world. Thinking about embedding Switchback thinking into your organization? Consider a Keynote Speaking engagement to pilot your team’s views.

Suggested Topics:

  • Intro to Switchback Thinking: How to transform your life, your team, your organization.
  • Human Agency: Individuals ability to choose.
  • High Performance Teams: How to build, maintain and multiply.
  • Switched-On Leaders: How to think like a world class leader.
  • Organizational Culture: How to analyze and shift complex systems.
  • Respectful Workplaces: Building a culture vs compliance.
  • Strategic Thinking: Moving from “putting out fires”.
  • Safety Culture: Merging the rules with the human factor.
  • Difficult Conversations: Developing the practical skills of communication.
  • Conflict Resolution: Learn how to de-escalate and listen with intent.
  • Team Building: The core of any system is teamwork.
  • Resilience: Personal and organizational.

Co-Facilitated Meetings

Co-Facilitated meeting is an evergreen opportunity to integrate Switchback’s thinking and frameworks into your daily business. With your inhouse facilitators we will work together to engineer, plan and deliver high performance meetings. It is our observation that leaders can stall out due to a lack of communication, shared vision and alignment. With Switchback 3rd party assistance your agendas will get back on the open road. If issues persist we have the skill and the tools to help your team walk through any and all issues.

This is clearly a win win. If the agenda flows without issues it is a win. If the agenda blows up we are willing and able to help your team walk through the process, get to the root causes and then shift back to being productive. Engaging Switchback in your Co-Facilitated Meetings is also a way to continue to be trained in the application of Switchback thinking. In this setting the learning happens in the moment in real time.

Benefits/Learning Outcomes:

  • Difficult agendas will have productive outcomes.
  • People will be given an opportunity to choose to work towards a common outcome.
  • Internal co-facilitators and leaders will learn Switchback meeting techniques through participation.
  • Historical roadblocks between people and professional priorities will be viewed in a new light.
  • Meeting fatigue will be dramatically reduced through the implementation of Switchback meeting etiquette.

Details:

  • In person or virtual.
  • Time frame from 2 hour to multi-day depending on the complexity of the situation.
  • Group size unlimited.
  • Can be custom tailored to your needs.
  • No prerequisites, available to existing and new clients.

Company Communications/ Branding

For a select few of our clients we offer a premier service of being a coach, mentor and ghost writer for internal communications. Delivering weekly high value communications is challenging for many organizations. With this service we coordinate with the project sponsor, build out a scheduled communication strategy and then take on the heavy lifting of taking a loose concept to a final high quality product.

If you would like more information on this unique service please reach out to us.

E-Learning/Online Courses

Does your organization prefer e-learning? We offer annual memberships to our e-learning platform where your employees can consume the module learning at their own pace. If you would like to take it to the next level we can train your internal facilitators to be skilled in Switchback Small Group Facilitation. This will give you and your organization a whole new level of Switchback competencies and skill.