The Awkward Zone™ Workshop

This fundamental training module helps each participant understand what barrier behaviors they have in their personal “Awkward Zone™” — that place of knowing a co-worker or employee is struggling, but not knowing what to say or do.

Some are eager to help support others but don’t know how to start; others don’t think it’s their business to get involved; others want to figure out how to prioritize supportive care, accountability, and productivity at the same time. Participants walk away from this workshop understanding what stops them from showing up and connecting more deeply, and with the skills to support those in and around them at work.

• Completion of Personal Awkward Zone™ Assessment Profile to ensure that employees develop skills to know, understand, and see the people around them in and out of work.

• Aggregate of this data is provided once workshops are completed.

• Small group discussion reviewing specific scenarios that put participants in the Awkward Zone™.

• Discussions of what tips and tools are best to break through participants’ individual Awkward Zones™.

• Completion of Personal Care Profile, a personalized report for each manager that gets more granular, specific, and individual in terms of how each of their direct reports likes to be cared for and supported.

• Identify the barriers that stop them from showing supportive care.

• Be confident in what actions to take when navigating the Awkward Zone™.

• Have a few “go-to” phrases to use when navigating the Awkward Zone™.

• Identify individual strategies to incorporate the skill of supportive care into their daily life, both in and out of the office.

• Compiled information via the Personal Care Profiles on how to care for and support each leader’s team members in one place. Using the tools they’ve learned from their training, their leaders and managers can review these reports and use them as a “key” for how to support their direct reports.