Creating Change

with Engagement & Interaction

Creating Change

with Engagement and Interaction

McClure Professional Services offers a variety of activities and challenges to help teams of people—from university students to executives—improve their leadership, communication, and collaboration while enhancing team dynamics. See the menu below for both our workshop trainings and to learn about our highly sought and wildly popular custom events!

In our custom events, we present your team with ideas to consider, problems to solve, obstacles to overcome, and communication challenges to navigate in interactive ways. In our workshops, those same facilitative skills make for engaging and lively training on the topic of your choice.

We’ve served large corporations, small businesses, and grassroots nonprofits with thousands of hours of engaging experiences!

Our workshop curricula and our custom events have proven successful over decades for teams in a variety of industries. Some of our great clients are highlighted on our home page. Scroll down for our current menu of training and facilitation offerings.

Training Subjects

Click on any of our current training offerings to discover the synopsis and relevant themes. If you need a custom workshop researched and delivered, use the ‘schedule a consultation’ button above and let us know what you have in mind.

Essential Supervisory Skills Training
- Your best producers are often thrust into leadership roles based on their character and work ethic. That does not automatically mean they are good leaders. This training includes modules on communication basics, conflict resolution, giving & receiving feedback, emotional intelligence, and more.
- Outcomes: more confident leaders equipped with tools and habits to manage and supervise their teams with consistency and improved results
- Delivery/Scope: varies... But each module is approximately 2 hours and fully interactive. Consultation determines which modules and schedule.
Customized Team Building Events and Retreats
- From newly gathered groups to refreshing connections in existing teams, the customized team building McClure Professional Services conducts is, by far, the most requested experience! With thousands of people in dozens of locations for several decades, we have helped teams bond, develop trust, improve communication, and enhance their problem-solving capacities. Participants don’t sit and listen, they move and cooperate. These experiences are crafted after initial consultation to learn about the group dynamics, demographics, and aims of the time to be invested. Drawing on 30 years of expertise and dozens of unique and challenging activities, MPS creates an afternoon, a day, or a weekend full of laughter, questions, engagement, and results for you! Shouting, smiling references available on request!
- Outcomes: varies depending on the group, but common themes of custom events include: development of healthier communication, increase in trust and authenticity among team members, transforming views on errors and improvement, etc.
- Delivery/Scope: typically offsite in a venue with plenty of space for movement and recreational activity with a purpose (every time!); minimum of 2 hours, up to a full weekend retreat
Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team
- All teams are made of human beings and everyone struggles. So, when a team is facing dysfunctions that prohibit trust and diminish effectiveness, what can they do? This training features not just principles to learn, but immersion exercises to develop skill and trust together! Based on the best-seller by Patrick Lencioni, this training process produces significant results.
- Outcomes: patterns of healthy communication, increased cohesion and effectiveness, developed trust, enhanced response to conflict.
- Delivery/Scope: an initial 2-day offsite, 3 or more follow up team meetings for application and practice, plus 1:1 coaching sessions for each member of the team.
Improving Engagement in Meetings and Talks
- Leaders often oversee important meetings to coordinate efforts and are occasionally tapped to speak. That doesn’t make them automatically good at either. Dr. McClure pulls back the curtain on 30 years of professional speaking and expert facilitation to teach and practice methods, techniques, and even facility setup for increasing genuine engagement of those in the meeting or in the audience. This training includes modules on speaking as well as on conducting excellent and productive gatherings of teams.
- Outcomes: increased participation in meetings, developed skills for engaging a crowd, increased confidence, and a batch of tools to utilize
- Delivery/Scope: interactive seminar (6-8 hours) in 1 or 2 sessions; personalized coaching for particular applications is also available
The Gut Behind the But (Safety Interjection Training)
- Safety matters and everyone knows to ‘say something’ if they 'see something'. ‘But…’ People are emotional creatures who often know when they should act, but choose not to act due to a number of relational and psychological reasons. This training features interactive modules identifying the importance of safety, discovering the blockades to action, and establishing methods to train people for honest and worthwhile communication and action which improves leadership, ownership, and safety.
- Outcomes: bolder communication, increased safety culture, enhanced respect
- Delivery/Scope: 7-8 hour training in 6 interactive modules
Train the Trainer
- So many supervisors and managers must train new employees but haven’t had the opportunity to understand how to do so effectively. This training features modules on how adults learn, development of training content, instruction and practice in training methods and techniques, and moderated practice sessions with professional feedback for actionable takeaways for each participant.
- Outcomes: increased confidence in leaders, immersion in training methods, improved training processes and results for trainees
- Delivery/Scope: 14-16 hours of training over 2 days
The Conversation Tool
- Everybody knows how to talk, but leveraging 2 minutes to actually learn about a person is a developed skill. This training is fun, interactive, and constantly practiced throughout. Instruction is given in basics of healthy conversation, followed by introduction of a tool that transforms small ‘moments’ into bond-building events. One of McClure Professional Services most-enjoyed, most often requested training offerings, The Conversation Tool is as simple as it is effective.
- Outcomes: increased focus, enhanced relationship building, development of authenticity, excitement to use it!
- Delivery/Scope: Minimum of 2 hours, up to 4 hours, depending on size of the group
Organizational Review/Improvement
- All teams must grow and fight drift from their vision and goals. Dr. McClure can provide guidance and facilitated discussion on the condition, goals, and challenges of your organization. Services can include: creation/crafting of vision or campaign statements, SWOT-style assessments, evaluation of structure and/or leadership effectiveness, etc.
- Outcomes: focus, improved effectiveness overall, enhanced leadership development, etc.
- Delivery/Scope: varies with the organization and their needs
Building An Effective and Enduring Team
- Anyone with a team of two or more must develop their team. How that goes depends on intent and content. Building a team that is cohesive and productive takes efforts and a variety of approaches. In this interactive session, Dr. McClure will facilitate defining, discussing, and practicing exercises for crucial attributes necessary for an effective and enduring team. NOTE: This is a 'taste and see' event which features several exercises and techniques taught by McClure Professional Services.
- Outcomes: enhanced vision for development of your team, actionable takeaways for a development plan
- Delivery/scope: interactive workshop, 2 hours

Testimonials...

"I’ve been able to translate many of the skills and techniques learned in Dr. McClure’s Improving Engagement in Meetings Workshop to improve my own business meetings and professional presentations. Whether you’re running a small group meeting or presenting to 500+ people, this workshop will help you captivate your audience and facilitate those meetings more effectively.”

Michael Lejong, Principal Architect,

MAGH Architecture

"Phillip’s intuitive sense is the key to his work with teams. He has an ability to draw the best out of people and push a team to be bigger than the sum of its parts. He helps put the right individual strengths together so they are multipliers. It’s been a privilege working with Phillip to leverage our team members to be the best we can be as a whole. "

Allison Montiel, Principal,

Future School