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Communication & Problem Solving

How can I do it? Communication One of the needed skills for managers and supervisors is the ability to connect with our people. We have goals and responsibilities when it ...

Workplace Harassment & Organizational Culture

How do we create culture for a safe and productive workplace? At a basic level, the workplace is an exchange of time from our employees for a service to be ...

Executive Communication

How to connect with your Audience? Executives have a significant role within any organization. They are responsible for productivity goals, maintaining a fruitful work environment, and anticipating future challenges. They ...

Asking versus Telling

How to get the most out of your team? As managers and leaders, we are in the business of moving people in the direction of meeting goals, solving problems independently, ...

Building Better Communication

How do you connect with your people? With the opportunity to teach a variety of courses over the years, I have become a big proponent of changing the way we ...

Less Stress & Enjoying Life

How to be good to yourself? One of the courses that I have taught over the years is Personal and Organizational Ethics. While the focus of the class is ethics ...

Good Traits When Managing

How do they influence your team? In my continuing effort to improve my skills as a manager, instructor, and influencer, I expose myself to a wide variety of ideas and ...

Building a Training Manager Community

Getting Better by Reaching Out As a young and newly minted supervisor on the Sheriff’s Department, I was placed into a position to supervise a classmate from my academy class, ...

Why We Teach

What Motivates a Good Instructor? As a trainer for the past decade, I have learned a number of skills which have made me better at my craft. It has been ...

Why Study Teams?

Knowing Your People Gives You Tools for Success You are a supervisor that needs to improve the performance of your team. There are a number of ways to improve team ...

Manager versus Leader

Not Everyone is a Leader, but Everyone can be a Good Manager A couple of weeks ago, I was involved in teaching a group of sixty new supervisors with my ...

Team Builder Questions

Team Builder Questions Purposeful Onboarding and Culture Building When bringing a new person onto an existing team, there should be a focus of what is expected of the new team ...

Motivational Conversation

Motivational Conversation Guiding our People down the path of Success In an era of smartphones and social media, the workplace can become very isolating for team members. We can immerse ...

Individual Coaching

Dychelon offers courses for effective team building; becoming a great teacher, trainer, or consultant; organizational change; alternative discipline implementation, and organizational ethics. Personal instruction is offered to those who want ...

Education-Based Discipline

Alternative Discipline for our Employees Every organization will be placed into the position of disciplining an employee. The prospect of effectively disciplining an employee can have career long impacts. The ...

Imagine Productive Meetings

Should the Agenda Pose Questions Instead of Topics? One of my responsibilities as a Training Bureau Sergeant for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is instructor development. We offer classes ...

Goals, Questions, and Results

Goals, Questions, and Results Don’t Get Lost in ALL the Details of Your Vision Setting goals for a team, organization, or yourself requires a number of questions to be asked. ...

Socratic Leadership: Successful Leaders Teach Their Vision

Socratic Leadership: Successful Leaders Teach Their Vision Creating Conversations for your Organizational Mission Teaching and leading involve several similar skill sets. Many teachers prefer to “tell” their students what they ...

Maintaining your Team

The Top, Middle, and Bottom Parts of Your Team The ability to motivate people is an ongoing challenge for managers and supervisors. Having been a supervisor since 1998, I soon ...

Generational Differences

Different generations in the workplace can provide the diversity of thought which is needed for an organization to move forward and not become disconnected. However, generational differences can lead to ...

Trust, Culture, and Cynicism

Why do people move away from an organization’s mission? Having worked for the largest sheriff’s department in the country for the past thirty years has provided me some perspective about ...

Alternative Discipline for Employees

In many public service agencies, when an employee receives discipline, they are punished by being suspended without pay for a specific amount of time. The problem with this type of ...

Instructor Development

The effectiveness of a training program, course, or informational briefing relies heavily on the successful delivery of content. The instructor is the conduit of information to be provided. Many times, ...

Meaningful Work: Avoiding Burnout

I had the fortunate opportunity to develop and instruct a three-day class on managing teams for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department where I serve as a sergeant for the ...

DYCHELON CREATES SOLUTIONS

DYCHELON CREATES SOLUTIONS BEGIN THE PROCESS TODAY Dychelon has extensive experience working with public and private organizations. Problem solving and identifying their root cause provides the foundation of moving an ...

Organizational Ethics

Ethical conduct by an employee is an expectation for any organization. Every field and occupation are affected by ethical breaches of individuals. However, the expectation of ethical conduct for employees ...

Team Management

Teams compose any organization. Whether a company has ten employees or ten-thousand employees, small teams are where services are delivered to clients. Setting goals, improved communication, and effective management propel ...

Decision-Making

Decision-making is foundational for individuals and teams. While many are adept at making decisions, others are not. Decision-making is a process. Many use the “Observe-Assess-Act” model in making decisions, which ...

Corporate & Government Training Programs

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