Team Sessions
In-Person and Virtual Cohorts
Team Sessions
Sessions that focus on actionable growth through practice, feedback, and creating shared understanding - ensuring teams leave energized and aligned on goals.
CURRENT OFFERINGS
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Accountability in Today’s World
How to create accountability in order to maximize performance
Accountability has become a loaded term—often associated with micromanagement, conflict, or discomfort. In this workshop, we’ll reframe accountability as a powerful, positive driver of performance. Leaders will learn how to set clear expectations, follow up consistently, and support their people in today’s rapidly changing workplace.
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Building a Culture of Trust
How to establish and maintain trust so that it lives among your team every day
Trust is the foundation of every high performing team—but building it and maintaining it can feel elusive. In this session, we’ll break trust down into a clear, actionable framework that helps leaders understand what drives trust, how to strengthen it, and how to repair it when it breaks. Participants will leave with practical tools, renewed confidence, and a deeper understanding of how to create a culture where people feel supported, connected, and committed.
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The Art and Science of Influence
How to get others (and ourselves) to take action regardless of positional power or authority
Influencing others—especially when you’re not their boss—can feel challenging and complex. This session explores the research behind why people take action and how to intentionally shape behavior, motivation, and collaboration on your team. Participants will learn proven frameworks and practical strategies for influencing with clarity, purpose, and integrity.
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Leading Engaging and Effective Meetings
How to plan and facilitate meetings that everyone feels are impactful and no one wants to cancel!
Meetings shape the culture and productivity of every organization—yet too often they feel unproductive, unfocused, or disengaging. In this session, participants will learn how to design and facilitate meetings that are purposeful, efficient, and inclusive. Leaders will walk away with practical tools to elevate their meetings and strengthen their team’s culture.
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Creating Connection in a Remote World
Intentional, research based ways that we can feel connection even though we’re working through screens.
Remote and hybrid work offer flexibility and productivity—but they also come with rising levels of loneliness and disconnection. This session explores research-based strategies for creating meaningful, authentic connection across distance. Participants will learn how to design interactions, structures, and habits that strengthen trust, belonging, and collaboration in virtual environments.
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Tough Conversations
When, why + how to have them
Tough conversations are often the ones we avoid the longest—and the ones that matter most. This session helps participants understand when to lean into difficult conversations, why avoiding them causes more harm, and how to approach them with clarity, confidence, and care.
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Maximizing the Power of Feedback
How we give it, receive it, and create a culture where everyone on our team wants it!
We all know that feedback is critical to our growth and our team’s success—but for most of us, it still feels hard to give and even harder to receive. In this workshop, we’ll explore how to normalize feedback as part of daily work and learn actionable frameworks for how to give and receive feedback in ways that build trust, clarity, and growth.
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Managing Up
Why it matters and how to do it well.
Learn how to build stronger, more effective relationships with your manager. This interactive session breaks down “managing up” into clear, actionable skills so you can communicate more effectively, increase your impact, and navigate your role with confidence.
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Goal Setting
How to Do It Effectively with Those You Lead.
Goal setting is everywhere—but often ineffective. In this elective, you’ll learn how to design and lead goal-setting processes that actually drive clarity, ownership, and momentum. Walk away with a practical framework to set meaningful goals, align your team, and sustain progress over time.
What Attendees are Saying
“Having partnered with Kyle on multiple leadership topics, I can confidently say he has a gift for engaging learners and shifting mindsets. Thanks to his palpable energy and conversational tone, he naturally invites leaders to speak up and participate actively. It is a real skill for a facilitator to lead a 90-minute virtual session where participants feel the time both flew by and they left with actionable tools to apply immediately. I appreciate Kyle’s ability to simplify complex and sometimes intimidating topics, leaving our leaders more empowered to craft their next steps.”
- Allie Santis, Learning & Development Lead at PUMA North America
“Kyle is a natural teacher, leader, facilitator, and coach. In any teaching or coaching role he is extremely easy to be around, thoughtful, supportive and detail oriented. With Electives.io, Kyle teaches classes for corporate audiences about effective meetings, team culture, accountability, and more. He creates learning experiences that are engaging, inclusive, and polished. People love learning from Kyle and find his guidance relatable and relevant. With ZERO hesitation I recommend Kyle for any coaching or teaching opportunity for your leaders, teams or whole company.”
- Maggie Goldstein, Vice President of Learning Experiences at Electives.io
“Throughout our work with Kyle, he has provided invaluable insights and tools that have significantly enhanced our leadership team’s ability to communicate, collaborate, and build solid and effective teams.
Kyle’s session on giving effective feedback was particularly impactful. He offered our leaders actionable strategies to foster open, constructive conversations with their teams. In addition, the templates for effective meeting agendas he shared have helped streamline our meeting processes, ensuring that we are consistently productive and focused. His team-building exercises were engaging and thoughtful, and they have played a crucial role in strengthening the relationships among our leadership team members.
Perhaps most importantly, Kyle’s guidance on building trust within teams has been transformative. His approach to fostering trust and accountability has laid the foundation for more cohesive, aligned, and high-performing teams within our organization.
I highly recommend Kyle Shaffer for any leadership development initiative. His expertise, professionalism, and commitment to empowering leaders make him an asset to any organization seeking to elevate its leadership capabilities.”
- Emily Briton, President of MedStar Health