Workshop Facilitation

MGP’s Workshop Facilitation Services support organizations to improve their performance by enhancing leadership efficiency, maximizing organizational capabilities, and linking the organizational culture to bottom line. MGP works with clients to develop new business strategies or manage changes within the internal or market environment as well as to reenergize organizational members under a general business context.

1. Leadership Team Development

a) Leadership team effectiveness development, evaluation and facilitation;

Through analyzing a team’s profile, the leadership team can better understand:

• The team’s style highlights, strengths and shortcomings;
• Dynamics among subgroups, tension points and interactions among team members;
• Dynamics among team leader vs. team members, and resulting influence styles;

Thus, a leadership team can identify key actions and initiatives to enhance the internal team effectiveness and overall impact within the organization as well as become more competitive in leading the industry;

b) Collaboration and Cooperation Facilitation;

MGP designs workshops which support organizations in facilitating internal communication and improving cooperation across boundaries. Through such a workshop, people are better able to:

• Identify key success factors for collaboration and cooperation in an open and transparent way;
• Understand the team dynamic and think from a team perspective;
• Leverage resources across functions and facilitate communication;
• Create a communication and collaboration platform with a common language.

c) Leadership Development Action Planning Workshops;

This type of workshop aims at helping participants to understand:

• The general framework and key components of leadership
• Advantages and drawbacks of different leadership styles under various contexts and situations;
• How to become more aware of these different styles, and thus be more effective in applying their strengths;
• How to work more effectively with different styles to maximize the effectiveness of a team as a whole.

2. Organizational Capability Development

a) Innovation workshop;

This type of workshop is designed to:

• Support participants in building innovation thinking frameworks;
• Facilitate learning through critical examination of best practice case studies
• Provide a platform for participants to analyze their own situation and challenges, and come up with new, useful and applicable actions and measures;
• Support the development of action plans.

b) Building a coaching culture;

This workshop is aimed at helping participants:

• Establish a basic coaching framework;
• Understand the basics around the “Whos”, “Whats”, “Hows” and “Whys” of coaching;
• Develop specific coaching skills through the assistance of simulation and role play;
• Use provided tools to better understand their own coaching style, strengths and areas that need more attention;
• Master the basic knowledge and skills to practice coaching on a day-to-day basis.

c) Building a high performing culture;

The workshop is designed to help participants:

• Understand what the organization’s culture is composed of and why it matters to performance;
• Engage in group discussion regarding organizational culture highlights, and their implication at both the positive and negative ends;
• Share and discuss Denison Organizational Culture Survey results (if applicable);
• Align on actions with regard to improving the culture at different Business Units, Levels and Functions.

3. Strategy & Planning Facilitation

MGP facilitates Leadership Retreats as well as Strategy and Planning meetings to:

• Support Strategy Review and discussion among the leadership to better understand the implications of the strategy;
• Facilitate discussion around the competitive landscape and the strategic competitiveness of the organization;
• Use case studies and thinking models to support critical analysis of different perspectives and initiatives which might affect the strategic landscape;
• Help leadership teams best leverage their competitive advantage while engaging potential opportunities and aligning on the key actions and plans.
• Such meetings can be designed around specific strategic initiatives or plans to facilitate detailed discussion around making them more specific and actionable.

4. Value Deployment Assessment

Through semi-customized surveys, MGP can assess the effectiveness of an organization’s value deployment initiative. With MGP’s Value Deployment assessment, organizations can better understand:

• How an organization’s underlying principles are seen in operation by employees
• Whether internal mechanisms as well as initiatives aimed at deploying the organizational values have worked effectively
• What stages in the deployment model need to be revisited to achieve greater alignment

This assessment is designed to give key stakeholders a deeper understanding of how organizational members perceive the values in action at the workplace, as well as how they view related mechanisms that affect their job and the initiatives aimed at cascading these values down the line.

5. Certification Workshop

a) Hogan Assessment Certification Workshop

The Hogan Certification Course is designed to provide an in-depth understanding of how to effectively administer and interpret the Hogan Inventories by understanding:

• Overview of three Hogan inventories:

- Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI)
- Hogan Development Survey (HDS)
- Motives, Values, Preference Inventory (MVPI)

• Theories behind Hogan Tools
• Strength and Development needs of each scales
• Configural and Conflict implication across personality traits
• Team dynamics of different personalities
• Individual Career Development and Botton-line impact of Personalit

b) Denison Organizational Culture Workshop

The Denison Organizational Culture Workshop is designed to support people professionally apply Denison Organizational Culture Model, track changes over time and monitor your organization’s progress. By attending this workshop, people are able to:

• Understand Denison culture survey tool introduction, dimension explanation and application;
• Use Denison culture to assess Organizational Culture;
• Facilitate organizational change and track changes;
• Facilitate workshop for Denison Culture result interpretation;