Improving Workplace/Team Culture & Communication:
More cooperation, less conflict, greater wellbeing
Consulting & Training Services
Do your workplace and employees ever experience?
- ineffective meetings,
- absenteeism,
- lack of motivation and focus,
- workplace tension and resentment,
- conflictual communication,
- diminished team productivity
- trouble having difficult conversations
Skills and knowledge to transform your workplace/team
We can help your business/organisation/team to increase:
- workplace wellbeing,
- cooperative culture,
- interpersonal understanding,
- empathetic communication and
- problem solving processes
We can creatively use conflict to bring about team harmony, innovation, new solutions and approaches, increased trust and productivity.
Benefits for your workplace & team
For your workplace and business/organisation
- Increased employee loyalty and reliability
- Reduced attrition
- Increased team harmony and workplace wellbeing
- Reduced “bullying” incidents
- Improved customer interactions
- Increased work effectiveness
- Reduced time and money spent on resolving conflicts or their consequences
- Better brand reputation
For leaders, team members, employees
- Less stressful work environment and enjoyment at being at work
- Feeling greater sense of a positive connection with colleagues and the company/organisation
- Ability to communicate effectively with a colleague or manager when there is a difficult situation or strong emotion
- Feeling heard and understood
- Having transferable skills that can be applied in other settings
Services we offer to help transform your workplace or team
Short workshops are available in-person or online
Each service includes a pre-workshop needs assessment and customisation of the offering to meet the workplace needs and a follow-up report with resources and recommendations.
Taster workshop: Cooperative culture and communication
2 hour
You choose which topic you'd like for this interactive, fun, and practical workshop.
$500
(excluding travel costs)
Cooperative culture AND communication workshop
4 hour
We cover both topics in this interactive, fun, and practical workshop.
$800
(excluding travel costs)
Cooperative culture, communication & strategy
Day immersion
We train and facilitate a transformational full-day retreat and create a strategy to ensure new norms and behaviours become instilled.
$1500
(excludes travel costs)
Tailored workplace/team transformation programme
This is a customised programme to take your team/organisation to a higher level of work and interpersonal effectiveness. This usually takes place over a few weeks or months.
Costs TBD
No more boring meetings
In this 2 hour workshop, we train your meeting leaders in proven facilitation & engagement methods to improve meeting participation and effectiveness--saving time, getting buy-in, and getting better outcomes
$500
(excluding travel costs)
Working creatively with conflict
In this 4 hr workshop, we uncover what is behind conflict, explore what information conflict gives us, and how we can creatively deal with interpersonal conflict that create great outcomes for all parties
$800
(excluding travel costs)
Coaching
Group or one-to-one
We offer 1-hour sessions as a follow up to any of the workshops to help teams or leaders to instill new ways of communicating and behaving, set accountability goals, and get feedback/insights.
$150/session/1-1
$250/session/group
(excludes travel costs)
Multi-cultural Considerations
In this 4 hr workshop we explore multicultural perspectives to understand and value the cultures and ethnicities of team members. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are important aspects of human resource management.
$800
(excluding travel costs)
Tailored Programme to Create Positive Workplace Transformation
This programme takes a holistic and sustainable approach to improving workplace culture and interpersonal communication. Culture is formed over time by the beliefs and actions of many people and therefore needs time and participation to create cultural changes. The return on investment in time, energy, and resources to improve workplace culture is exponential in its benefits.
Culture is like an iceberg—we can see the tip as symptoms that we can see, hear, and feel but it takes a deep dive to uncover what creates those patterns and address them in a meaningful way.
What are the main benefits for a business/organisation?
Employee retention and job satisfaction: People are more likely to be attracted to and stay in an organization where they feel valued, respected, and supported.
Productivity: Employees are more likely to be motivated and engaged when they feel that their contributions are appreciated and their needs are being met. Management spends less time dealing with interpersonal conflicts and people are solutions-focused when there are challenges.
Collaboration, contribution, and innovation: When employees feel comfortable sharing ideas and collaborating with each other, they are more likely to come up with creative solutions to problems and make valuable contributions to the organization.
Reputation and brand image: A toxic workplace culture can damage a company's reputation and brand image. Negative reviews can discourage potential employees from applying, and customers may be less likely to do business with a company that has a bad reputation.
What is involved in the programme?
Step 1: Half hour free exploration call
Step 2: Co-designed proposal
Step 3: Workplace assessment
Step 4: Creation of training programme
Step 5: On-site or off-site training
Step 6: Assessment and feedback provided
Step 7: Post-training improvement assessment (optional)
Step 8: Deepening the learning and practice
Optional Service: One on one coaching
What are the qualifications of the trainer?
Zola has a Masters degree in International and Intercultural Management with a speciality in intercultural communication and organisational behaviour. She has been trained in adult education and training of trainers methodologies. Zola has participated and led workshops in Non-Violent Communication (NVC), also known as Compassionate Communication, and has a wealth of adult curriculum on this topic.
Testimonials
Zola is very structured and organised. I enjoyed her energy and tenacity to make all facets of the retreat work for all.
With her open heart, Zola consciously ensures there is always space in her events for fluidity.
This is a skill and a talent that was much appreciated by the group.
Thalea Tane
Global Ecovillage Network
and retreat participant
Zola is very skilled at creating an inviting space and encouraging people to share and listen to each other.
From her previous experiences, she has a huge range of tools and activities that she used to give structure to our time together.
She balanced the need for open sharing with time for more structured content very well.
Zola is very solutions focused.
She contributes generously and encourages others to do the same. She is very experienced in this work, so she brings depth and resilience to it.
Bronwen Newton
Urban Habitat Collective
and retreat participant
The quality and quantity of information. The opportunity for collaboration on content, so that all attendees could be sure to get what they wanted from the event.
The warmth and connection she brings with her communication and energy! Easy communication, great to collaborate with, ability to think outside the box and come up with interesting and effective solutions
Carol Sumner
Retreat participant
Let us help you create your better workplace/team culture
Common Ground
Whakatū/Nelson, Aotearoa/New Zealand│Director, Zola Rose │(027) 449-0422│kiaora@commonground.net.nz
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