Matrix Psychological Services

Adapting to Change

This seminar focuses on helping employees successfully adapt to change in the workplace to help them become more effective at their jobs and decrease stress. Strategies discussed include recognizing the change, accepting the change, keeping a positive mindset, communicating effectively, setting measurable goals and realistic timelines, focusing on what can be controlled, practicing change-management steps, and practicing problem solving techniques. Handling the emotional components of the change process is also discussed.

Creating a Desirable Corporate Culture

This seminar focuses on the core components of a desirable, healthy and productive workplace culture and how to create and cultivate them. Discussion topics include

• How to best motivate and inspire employees;
• How to select talent that best fits into open roles to create and coalesce high performing teams;
• How to nurture a culture’s level of psychological safety that allows for employees to be honest, transparent and vulnerable in sharing their experiences and viewpoints;
• and how to best navigate relationship conflicts with effective crucial conversation skills.

Leadership

This session will discuss several different kinds of leadership and core leadership elements to effectively work with, motivate and inspire people to do their jobs with quality and consistency. Topics discussed include:

• effective communication
• creating a psychologically safe team culture rooted in strong trust
• navigating office politics
• building diverse teams
• leading with emotional intelligence
• navigating interpersonal relationships
• fitting the right people into their best fit chairs
• embracing change
• resolving conflict
• task delegation
• working with efficiency
• stress management
• managing the brands of the company, team, and leader
• winning through the team’s successes
• dedicating time for personal health, and
• giving back to the community.

This presentation will include didactic instruction coupled with interaction and group discussion that will allow participants to share challenges as well as glean effective strategies from each other.

Leadership Styles

Although there are many ways to lead, there is no one way that is universally most effective across space, people, and time. There are times to be strong, times to be lenient, times to take charge, and times to be democratic. Learn about the different leadership styles and how to recognize when each may be most appropriate.

Resilience

Learn the basics of developing a resilient mindset and a new way of approaching and managing stress. This course will introduce the psychological concept of resiliency and explore the science behind what makes some people more resilient and persistent than others. 

Social & Emotional Intelligence

This presentation is designed to introduce concept of social intelligence and how it is highly associated with leadership, team, and organizational success. People will learn SI basics, how each contributes to team and leadership outcomes, and specific actions one can take to improve them.

Participants will be able to:

• • • Define social intelligence and develop a high-level overview of its importance to leadership and team success
    • Learn the core components of social intelligence
    • Identify 1-2 target development areas with specific action exercises to practice