Beyond Your Strengths

Leverage Your Strengths to Build Strong Leaders and Teams.

Ideal for:

Leadership teams, emerging leaders, cross-functional teams, executive retreats, and leadership development programs to create a shared language and understanding.

Formats:

45- to 90-minute interactive session or 2- to 4-hour workshop

Why It Matters

Our strengths shape how we lead, communicate, and solve problems. They also shape what we overlook.

Using assessments such as Lumina Spark or CliftonStrengths, this interactive workshop helps participants discover how their greatest strengths influence how they think, make decisions, and interact with others. More importantly, it reveals the blind spots that every strength creates when we overuse it in times of change and when we feel overstretched as individuals and teams.

Rather than focusing only on individual strengths, participants learn to better understand, recognize, appreciate, and leverage each other's strengths - the by-product is improved collaboration, innovation, trust, and team performance.

What Your Audiences Gain

• A deeper understanding of how strengths influence the perspective, communication, and decision-making of individuals and teams in times of momentum and times of stress.

• Greater awareness of the blind spots every strength creates when we overuse or underuse them as individuals and teams.

• Practical strategies for working across differences to strengthen collaboration, innovation, and trust.

• Tools to leverage diverse strengths for better team and organizational performance.

Through Peering, they also practice looking beyond their own perspective and using the strengths around them as a resource, rather than relying only on what comes most naturally to them.

From Correction to Connection

Using Feedback to Create Ownership Through Peering

Ideal for:

People Leaders, leadership teams, executive teams, board members, leadership cohorts, cross-functional teams, HR leaders, and teams looking to strengthen feedback and learning culture, accountability, mentorship, and communication.

Formats:

45- to 90-minute interactive session or 2- to 4-hour workshop

Why It Matters

How many of your leaders avoid giving feedback?
Feedback can easily become correction: here is what I saw, here is what went wrong, and here is what I think you should do differently. Even when the intention is good, we can unintentionally make the conversation about our answer instead of the other person's thinking.

From Correction to Connection introduces a Peering approach to feedback. Participants learn how to be clear about what they observed and its impact, then shift from telling to asking so the other person can reflect, explore, and take ownership of what comes next.

Most experiences focus on theory, case studies, or role-play. By using COIN to structure the feedback and ADVAgo’s ASK Framework, participants experience moving from telling to asking and empowering.

Rather than treating feedback as something one person gives and another receives, participants experience how feedback can become a conversation that strengthens ownership, accountability, and connection.

What Your Audiences Gain

• Clear, specific, collaborative feedback system your audience uses right away.

• How the peer mindset can help us recognize when feedback shifts from collaboration to telling someone what to do next.

• Use the COIN framework to clearly communicate context, observations, impact, and next steps.

• Use the ASK model to move from telling to curiosity and create space for the other person's thinking.

• Peers equip each other with actionable next steps to better prepare for feedback conversations they can use today.

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The HeART of Conflict

Partner to See Beyond the Conflict

Ideal for:

People Leaders, leadership teams, cross-functional teams, HR leaders, and leadership cohorts.

What you see: difficult conversations are being avoided, employees are asking why they only hear feedback during performance reviews, or unresolved tension is starting to affect trust, engagement, and retention.

Formats:

45- to 90-minute interactive session or 2- to 4-hour workshop

Why It Matters

Most conflict programs focus on what to say. But frameworks for how to communicate don't solve the heart of why difficult conversations so often end differently than we hoped.

This experience explores the space in between: what happens before we speak, where assumptions, emotions, and the stories we tell ourselves about what will happen shape the outcome long before the conversation begins.

Participants discover how asking better questions of themselves and partnering with a trusted peer or mentor before the conversation creates space to prepare with greater clarity, curiosity, and intention. They learn to explore the heart of what drives another person's behavior, recognizing that people often act not to hurt us but because they see the situation from a different perspective.

What Your Audiences Gain

• How the peer mindset can help us recognize when we are reacting versus responding.

• Ask better questions that spark curiosity about what may be driving the other person's behavior and perspective.

• Peers equip each other with actionable next steps to better prepare for difficult conversations they can use today.

The Peering mindset shifts conflict from proving our perspective to becoming curious about another person's. It also gives people a way to think with a peer before escalating the issue upward or walking into the conversation with only their own story.

Beyond Change

Leading Change Beyond Action by Engaging the Peer Mindset

Ideal for:

Leadership teams, organizations navigating transformation, executive retreats, team offsites, and leaders responsible for guiding people through growth, uncertainty, and change.

Leaders believe there is clarity and alignment, but teams leave with different interpretations of priorities, decisions, and what needs to happen next.

Formats:

45- to 90-minute interactive session or 2- to 4-hour workshop

Why It Matters

In times of change, leaders often focus on what people need to do. But change isn't driven by action alone. It is shaped by our emotions, expectations, energy, and the meaning we make of what is happening around us.

Beyond Change explores the human side of change through a Peering lens. Participants examine how they are experiencing change themselves, become curious about how others may be experiencing the same change differently, and use peer conversations to make sense of what is happening together.

Using the PEER framework, participants practice moving beyond simply communicating change to creating the conversations, shared ownership, and connection that help people find their way forward together.

What Your Audiences Gain

• The above and below the line of peer mindset that impacts change behaviors.

• Leverage the PEER framework to partner more effectively when communicating change.

• Greater awareness of how the brain influences and impacts emotions, expectations, and energy when we communicate change, and how we can do it better.

• Peers equip each other with actionable next steps to better prepare for change conversations they can use today.