BJ Penick teaches teams how to work better together, innovate and communicate, and she teaches leaders how to exponentially improve their effectiveness. She attentively listens and offers her expertise and experience to clients by designing team-building and leadership activities that teach through experiential learning. She masterfully customizes half-day, full-day or multi-day programs. Every detail from beginning to end is carefully considered. All this, coupled with BJ Penick’s clear and concise teaching that is masterfully woven into every aspect of the program will take a ordinary team-building or leadership activity from good to great.
Team Building
Communication. Awareness. Teamwork. Every company wants their teams to perform at a high level, but not all teams are able to practice the soft skills necessary to perform optimally. BJ Penick routinely works with teams to speed up the team life cycle of Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing. She quickly identifies member behaviors that are detrimental to overall team success and teaches members how to deal with them and correct them.
Leadership Coaching
All companies need leaders who can not only get results and innovate, but empower and mentor their subordinates and create a positive culture.
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BJ Penick facilitates learning sessions that teach leadership skills to both groups and individuals. Using DiSC Assessments and her years of experience, she can identify strengths and areas of opportunity for leaders. Then she creates a tailored learning plan to achieve sustainable growth.
Train Trainers
Experience-based training is recognized as the most effective approach to accelerate the learning process and to transform cognitive insight into usable behavior. Experiential training is a powerful tool adaptable to any team learning process. BJ Penick provides training for individuals who want to become experiential learning facilitators. This training is comprehensive and will prepare trainers to assume a primary role in the design and on-site facilitation of education/training groups.
DiSC®
Promoting awareness of self and understanding between team-mates is core to BJ’s teaching. That’s why BJ Penick is certified to administer DiSC® assessments as part of her training curriculum. DiSC® is a personal assessment tool used to help improve teamwork, communication, and productivity in the workplace. DiSC® creates common, safe, understandable language that brings clarity and a realization of traits and values previously unnoticed or valued. Its goal is to reveal ourselves to ourselves, which allows us to be intentional about what we need and why we need it.