Strategic planning: InterWorks designs and facilitates customized strategic planning workshops aimed at enhancing your organization’s ability to shape its future, influence its work environment and face its emerging threats successfully. Strategic planning contributes to your organization’s continual viability, relevance and effectiveness in a rapidly changing and complex work environment. While strategic planning meetings are tailored to meet your needs, they generally cover such areas as: defining an organizational (or programmatic) vision or strategic direction, drawing lessons learned from previous experience, analyzing opportunities and gaps, prioritizing goals and developing action plans to implement these goals. Strategic planning meetings often also include the objective of “teambuilding”.

Teambuilding: Teambuilding is essential for gaining commitment to team and organizational goals, for successful implementation of activities requiring coordination, and for improving the overall performance of interdependent staff or groups. InterWorks can design and facilitate teambuilding retreats or integrate teambuilding into other training and planning events.

Leadership: Leadership in emergencies is key because the effectiveness of an emergency response is directly linked to the quality of the emergency teams on the ground.  While emergency team performance is subject to a wide range of variables, experience has shown that the success of an emergency response team is inherently tied to the competence and effectiveness of its leader.

Participants in our training identify their strengths and weaknesses as leaders and work on strenghtening their team leadership competencies (e.g. situational leadership, teambuilding, direction setting, decision-making, and communicating purpose, having influence, practicing emotional intelligence, communications, etc.).

Interpersonal Skills

In addition to valued technical expertise, those working in development and disaster settings must possess adequate interpersonal and communication skills to be effective.  InterWorks provides training to enhance these skills in such areas as: negotiation skills, meeting management, presentation and facilitation skills, emotional intelligence, active listening, coaching, decision-making, leadership, and media and external relations.

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