Chris Littlefield is an International Speaker on Employee Appreciation and Remote Teams, Harvard Business Review and Forbes Contributor, and founder of Beyond Thank You. His book is 75+Team Building Activities for Remote Teams.
Christopher Littlefield’s Interactive Virtual Trainings:
As return to work dates get pushed further and further away, it is time to stop waiting for the storm to pass, and learn to thrive in our new reality.
You have given leaders the technology to connect, now give them the tools and activities and experiences to make those connections meaningful and engaging.
Here are a few of Chris Littlefield’s interactive virtual programs to support your people and bolster your organizational culture during the pandemic.
Remote Leadership Playbook
Give Leaders a roadmap to curate an engaging remote team culture without investing more than 15 minutes of planning each week.
After months of working remotely, your leaders are tired, burned out, and barely have the bandwidth to take care of themselves, let alone support their people. This program is designed to give your managers the tools to make leading remotely easier. Leaders will leave with a roadmap and abundance of concrete activities to make their virtual interactions less awkward and more meaningful.
Time: 1 -1.5 hours Virtual Program (Presentation 1hr. 15 min. + 15 min. for questions)
Sessions: Interactive Virtual Program with Discussion
Audience: People Managers from any level.
In this short session, leaders will:
- Learn strategies that will help them discover exactly what each team member needs to feel supported in the pandemic, and how to give it to them in a remote environment.
- Learn how to incorporate relationship building into virtual meetings, chats, and one-on-ones.
- Learn 10+ Virtual Activity Ideas that take under 10 minutes.
- Learn how to organize a virtual team retreat in under an hour.
- Gain tips on how to consciously transition back to work when/if the time comes.
Tools & Takeaways:
Team Relationship Building Self-Assessment – 10 Question Assessment to reflect on how leaders are really doing with their teams.
Know Your People Form – A form to track all the information leaders should know about their people.
COVID-19 Resources
- Sample Meeting Agendas
- Questions to understand employee needs
- Conscious Transition process
Virtual Retreat Planning Form – Step by step guide to plan an engaging and meaningful virtual team retreat.
The Art of Recognition & Feedback
Train your leaders in the most fundamental leadership imperative: How to give and receive recognition and feedback.
Study after global study shows that recognition is fundamental to the engagement and retention of top talent and the profitability of our organizations. So, why do people still avoid doing it? Through an interactive process, participants will be exposed to a hidden side of recognition, learn the four common misuses of recognition that foster distrust within organizations, and explore other misconceptions around the recognition process that prevent people from giving their employees the very thing they need. Based on innovative research and the latest engagement findings, participants will walk out of this session keenly aware of the value of recognizing employees and equipped with an abundance of low to no cost easily implementable tools to ensure their employees feel valued and appreciated at work every day.
Time: 2 hours (Presentation 1hr. 45 min. + 15 min. for questions)
Sessions: Interactive Virtual Program with Discussion
Audience: People Managers
Group Size: Up to 30
Outcomes: Leaders will learn…
- How to understand what each of their people wants and needs to feel valued and
work at their best every day.
- How to effectively weave company values and standards into their daily
employee appreciation/engagement efforts.
- How to use acknowledgment, recognition, and praise to enhance positive
work relationships and transform difficult ones.
- Learn how to nurture a culture of appreciation remotely.
- A new peer-to-peer recognition practice to use with coworkers, subordinates and friends that is guaranteed to get results.
Tools & Takeaways:
Workshop Packet – A compilation of all of the core distinctions and tools from the program in one simple packet.
Know Your People Form – A list of all the important information every manager should know about their people. Need recognition ideas… managers can go back to this form to remember what matters to their people.
Elements of Engagement Checklist – A checklist of key elements proven to engage employees, and a list of questions for managers to self-assess their own work and plan actions for how to improve.
Employee Recognition Form – Questions for managers to answer about their employees that will help them understand how to ensure their employees feel valued every day.
Being Resilient in a Pandemic
Give your people practical strategies to better manage stress and stay at their best amid the pandemic.
People are running a race with no finish and trying to put together a puzzle with no picture. Uncertainty makes movies exciting but makes life exhausting. In this interactive session, people learn practical strategies to help them better manage stress and keep them at their best in the midst of a pandemic. They will learn to understand their stress and recovery cycle and leave with four proven strategies that trigger our parasympathetic nervous system to rest and recovery. They will learn to better take care of themselves and each other.
Time: 1.5 hours (Presentation 1hr. 15 min. + 15 min. for questions)
Sessions: Interactive Virtual Program with Discussion
Audience: All Staff
Outcomes: Leaders will learn…
- How a common everyday misconception in perception inadvertently drives us to burnout, and how to change that on the spot.
- Four proven strategies that trigger the parasympathetic nervous system into rest and recovery, helping to better take care of themselves and others.
- How to better understand their personal stress and recovery process in the pandemic and how to identify early warning signs and improve how they manage stress.
Tools & Takeaways:
Time & Energy Audit – A tool to help managers take a critical look at how they are currently spending their time and energy and identify ways to structure their days for more balance at work and home.
Personal Success Equation – A tool to help people map their personal stress and recovery cycle and identify exactly what they need to keep them at their best on a daily basis.
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Christopher Littlefield’s Bio:
Christopher Littlefield is an International and TEDx Speaker, regular Forbes and Harvard Business Review contributor, and the founder of Beyond Thank You. As an expert in Employee Appreciation, Recognition, and Workplace Culture, he has trained thousands of leaders, across six continents, on how to understand what their people want and need to be at their best. His clients include Accenture, The Lebanese Postal Service, Boston Medical Center, Reserve Bank of Australia, Salesforce, the U.S. Army & Air Force, the United Nations, and more. His work has been featured in New York, Mindful, and British Psychologies Magazines, and profiled in Harvard Business Review. Chris is a regular contributor to Forbes and Harvard Business Review and the author of the bestselling book, 75+Team Building Activities for Remote Teams.
