Services

All Synergistic services include:

  • Original, customized material development and a guarantee of confidentiality.

“Every session I develop is unique. Each one is customized to meet your goals and your desired outcomes.”

Training, Keynotes, Retreats

The sessions noted below are just a sample of what Synergistic Solutions has to offer.

Leadership

  • The 4 Relationships of Leadership
  • Core Leadership Characteristics
  • Leadership & Power
  • Myers & Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
    • A Leadership Application
  • Leadership 101
    • An Introduction to Leadership
  • Leadership 901
    • Executive Leadership

Management / Supervision

  • Managing Performance Expectations
    • Setting, Communicating, Measuring & Coaching Expectations
  • Strategies for Supervisory Success
  • Making the Right Choice: Coaching, Counseling or Discipline
  • Coaching for Results
  • Building a T-E-A-M
    • vs. a-group-of-people-working-together
  • Empowering & Delegating: Delivering Directives that Stick
  • Motivating: Inspiring people beyond the job description
  • Managing Challenging Personalities

Communication

  • Bridging the Communication Gap
  • Myers & Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
    • A Workplace Application
  • Working with Challenging Personalities
  • Gender Differences in Communication
  • Generations in the Workplace: Veterans, Baby Boomers, Gen X & Gen Y
  • The Feedback Loop (Delivering & Receiving Feedback)
  • Active Listening

Teams

  • Team Links: Being part of a T-E-A-M
  • Myers & Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
    • A Team Application
  • Working with Challenging Personalities
  • Constructive vs. Destructive Problem Solving
  • Conflict Resolution
  • The Customer Connection: Providing Quality Customer Service

Change

  • Managing Change & Transitions
    • The Human Relationship to Change
    • Successful Change Implementation

Professional & Personal Balance

  • Achieving Balance in the Information Age
  • How to Create (& keep) your Perspective
  • How to –not- let others get the best of us
  • Stress Management
  • Time Management Techniques

General Topics

  • Myers & Briggs Personality Indicator (MBTI)
  • Engaging Ethics
  • Email Etiquette
  • Sensitivity Training
  • Delivering Powerful Presentations
  • Strategic Planning: A ‘How to’

Other Topics per Request

Managerial & Executive Coaching

  • Private one-on-one coaching sessions with personal introspective homework designed to help you move to that next level

Mediations

  • A process with an impartial 3rd party designed to:
    • Bring parties from opposing sides closer together
    • Explore collaborative options
    • Instill individual accountability
    • Develop pathways & action plans

Meeting Facilitations

  • Having a difficult time getting anything accomplished in meetings?
  • The facilitators role is simple:
    • Create a framework and manage the process
      • Insures integrity-led behaviors (not ego)
      • Keeps participants on track (redirection if necessary)
      • Insures discussions are issue-focused
      • Provides guidelines on how to present an issue (reduces rambling)

Strategic Planning

  • Provides organizational focus and direction
  • Answers the questions:
    • Where are you now?
    • Where do you need to be?
  • Creates a plan to help you get there

Human Development Services

Whatever your people concerns are… call me and let’s talk about them

  • All contacts are confidential
  • All work is confidential
  • I’ll develop a program to get you where you want to be, or
    • I’ll recommend someone who can

FEATURED TESTIMONIAL

Department of Health & Human Services

"Ms. Kirk is the rare trainer who, not only knows the academic side of the subjects she teaches, but also possesses the flare and energy necessary to create an enthusiastic audience. Over the years I have been to numerous management trainings; Ms. Kirk is the most engaging and genuine of the lot. She truly believes in the principles she preaches and is as much a coach as she is an instructor."

Kenneth Takakuwa
Division Manager
Municipality of Anchorage