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NEW! Take Control of Unruly Meetings

We're teaching a live, online workshop from 1/31/24 to 2/14/24 that builds skills in managing challenging meeting behaviors. If you could use some practical, hands-on practice along with templates, frameworks, and tips and techniques to disarm common disruptive meeting behaviors, this course is for you!

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The class Welcome video

Workshop Topics

All proven winners!

The modern work environment requires collaboration, and everyone benefits when problems can be solved by leveraging the strengths and talents of all. These lively, hands-on workshops focus on key strategies for powering effective collaboration on individual teams and across your entire organization.
Our Leadership workshops meet your employees where they are and offer hands-on practice with key skills of a leader such as building strong teams, giving feedback, providing coaching, making decisions that stick, and delegating.
If there's one constant in today's work environment, it's change. The business environment shifts, roles evolve, teams grow (and sometimes shrink), business strategy pivots. Our Change Management series of practical, hands-on workshops empowers your employees to navigate, manage, and initiate change with skill and confidence.
Communication is key. Getting along well with colleagues, putting ideas across, solving problems -- they all require effective listening, knowing your audience, and recognizing your own style and preferences. Our Communication workshops offer skills-building practices that address these topics and more to uplevel communication in your organization.
We believe anyone can manage projects with skill and confidence. Our Project Leader workshop series has something for everyone, whether they're facing their first project or just need a few tips to up their game. As with all our workshops, hands-on and practical is the focus in these engaging, relevant sessions.

What We Do

WHAT

We help employees be more effective at work focusing on planning, leadership and team dynamics.

  • Custom workshops and self-paced training to boost employee skills.

  • Facilitated problem-solving to address key challenges.

  • Hands-on, interactive, and immediately useful solutions.

HOW

We partner to understand root causes and develop solutions that work.

  • Developed collaboratively to meet your needs.

  • Reflects your company culture and values.

  • Drawn from deep expertise in project and process management.

WHO

Companies aiming high.

  • Small businesses growing out of their start-up phase.

  • Any team looking to improve the quality of their outcomes.

  • Employees hungry for practical, targeted instruction.

Our Secret Sauce

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Learn

Understand the context and problem.

Your pain points, goals, culture and employee capabilities.

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Design

Design a custom solution.

Relevant and accessible, drawn from our expertise in project and process management.

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Deliver

Deliver with excellence.

Hands-on, results-focused solutions that build skills and solve problems.

Our Team

Jenny 2020

Jenny Warila, SCPM, CPCC

Founding Partner

From her early years as a software engineer and engineering manager in the database industry, Jenny has been passionate about two things: how products get developed and how people grow into their potential. Her Stanford Certified Project Manager credential reflects the first interest; her Certified Professional Co-Active Coach credential the second. Jenny has over 25 years of professional experience in software development, expertly balancing process orientation with execution focus as she led engineering and program management teams and delivered large technology programs.

 

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Debbie Crouse, MBA

Founding Partner

Debbie has been driving change within technology, service and manufacturing businesses for over 20 years. She has consistently provided outstanding coaching, facilitation, training and hands on delivery of projects for clients and former employers. In more recent years, she has worked with technology startups to improve execution in line with their growth and lead extensive fundraising projects for non-profits. Debbie prides herself on her ability to work across diverse teams and personalities to drive excellence in process and project execution.

 

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Recent Clients

"We hired CW Training and Consulting to help our agency work more effectively with clients when team changes occur. They helped us analyze the problem and provided great insights on the recurring challenges we were having. They also helped us come up with some great ideas that had never dawned on us before about what to do before and during a project when we are faced with a personnel challenge on the client side. Since working with them, we have tried out many of the ideas and they have been quite effective. I highly recommend the CW team for their insight, creativity, and solution-oriented process. Great job team!"

Julie Stanford, Principal Sliced Bread Design

"I had the opportunity to work with Debbie on rolling out an Introduction to Project Management workshop at Box. Debbie’s experience and tenacity made this initiative a huge success. Her deep background in all things program management allowed us to tailor an interactive, dynamic workshop for a young, growing workforce who needed to develop these key skills to help us scale and thrive as a business. We achieved extraordinary 95%+ ratings on the course while training hundreds of Boxers and expanded it to even be conducted in our international offices. Debbie was an amazing partner throughout, never taking things too seriously and bringing levity & energy in the classroom to thoroughly engage all the attendees. I would be thrilled to work with Debbie again in the future."

Saminda Wijegunawardena, VP Engineering Box, Inc.

"You were the most collaborative team intent upon us getting a Segment-relevant training experience to insure transfer of knowledge and skills post workshop! The hours you put in working with the team were extraordinary resulting in the most relevant training for teams across the company. Really appreciate your effort and great attitude!"

Sandy O'Gorman Segment

"Thank you for putting this together! My specific project has a lot of moving pieces and it forced me to really sit down and focus on my end goal and not get distracted by out of scope ideas. I walked out with a more well defined goal and action plan."

Workshop Participant Segment

What I liked best about the workshop was that it was interactive, infused with humor, and the concepts were laid out clearly & concisely.

Delegating with Confidence Workshop participant Evernote

What did I like best? All of it! Ideas about how to manage time, people going off-topic, etc.

Effective Meetings Workshop participant Evernote

I worked with CW Consulting and Training in developing our Management and Professional curriculums. The workshops they created for our company was very aligned with our values and culture. Their presentation of the materials and their encouragement of ensuring that it was an open dialog with our employees were very effective. They made the workshops informative yet fun which was the feedback received by attendees. I would recommend CW Consulting and Training for your company's training needs.

Gale Iguchi, Director & HR Business Partner Evernote

I was so pleased with the customized training that Debbie led with our team at Workday. She took the time to factor in not only our team dynamics, but our culture as well. It was effective and meaningful to each of the participant - with an incredibly high NPS score.

Amy Timmins, Director People Portfolio and Change Management Workday

A useful workbook and great answers to questions -- shows you're both REAL experts in this and not just trainers who have no real-world experience.

Driving Decisions workshop participant

The content was excellent, along with the instructors. Being a part of the training allowed me to also hear other people's perspectives on the sharing activities. Those were helpful and a direct comment in one was "It feels good to be in a safe environment and get other perspectives".

Driving Decisions workshop participant

THIS...is training / learning! Too many sessions we do are called 'training' when they are not. You beautifully orchestrated and delivered a great session with impact!

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