Discovering Your Leadership
If you are ready to lead from your strengths … in this session, Olympic rower Dr. Jennifer Walinga will demonstrate how productive the leadership/sport metaphor can be for personal and team development, and optimal performance.
Performance Coaching
If you are ready to foster optimal performance… Performance Coaching enables participants to explore their individual philosophy of leadership coaching, and practice coaching skills with others.
Building Effective Teams
If you are ready to collaborate, communicate and connect … Learn how to find strength in diversity by applying key frameworks and achieving key team competencies including: clarity of purpose, connection to core values, commitment to collaborative process, and increased confidence and capacity to achieve team goals.
Communication Challenges in the Workplace
If you are ready for optimal organizational performance … join Dr. Jennifer Walinga for Addressing Communication Challenges in the Workplace: Drilling Down and Whysing Up. Effective Organizational Communication demands creative and integrated workplace communication channels, planning, and messaging. Next offering Feb 20 Royal Roads University
Communicating for Clarity and Impact
If you are ready to make an impact… writing, speaking, and presentation skills have the power to engage, move, and transform an audience. Communicating with Clarity and Impact: Professional Writing, Public Speaking and Presentation Skills custom courses offered at your organization or through the contract training department at Royal Roads University, Victoria BC
Creativity and Innovation
If you have always understood that optimal performance demands creativity, innovation, and insight join Dr. Jennifer Walinga of Royal Roads University and Integrated Focus Consulting for Creativity and Problem Solving: Getting Everyone Out of the Box
Unlocking Creative Insight
The purpose of this research was to develop a model for how individuals unlock creative insight. Creative problem solving (CPS) is inherent to effective decision making, innovation, and organizational development tasks but insight, innovation and creativity remain intangible concepts.
The Power of Sport: Values Education for Social Capacity
Walinga speaks about the values sport can teach and researches the ways that values can be taught, distilled and translated into human and social capital.
Walls to Windows
The purpose of this study was to explore and develop a conceptual model for how individuals unlock insight. The concept of insight – the „out of the box‟ or „aha!‟ solution to a problem – offers a framework for exploring and understanding how best to enhance problem solving skills due to the cognitive shift insight requires.
Training Insight
Walinga, Cunningham and MacGregor’s recent publication in the Journal of Creative Behaviour shows that an integrated focus that combines a barrier with a goal focus helps overcome constraining assumptions and unlock creative insight
Change Readiness
Here is an exploration of theories of cognitive appraisal, stress, and coping. This study reveals critical variables to the change readiness process to be appraisal, focus, and perceived control.
Values Focused Action for Social Innovation
Our world, more than ever perhaps, needs innovative strategies for achieving sustainable ‘triple bottom line’ growth. We are coming to appreciate that the innovation the world needs is not simply ‘creative’ or ‘out of the box’; our innovations must be systemic, holistic, complex and multifaceted yet still elegant and sustainable. Truly what is called for is an evolution in thinking that moves us past command and control strategies to a values based decision making framework.
Measuring Performance in the Workplace
In this time of labour shortages and high demands, many companies are aiming to perform more efficiently with less or perform at
a higher level with the same resources.
Drilling Down and Whysing Up
The organizational communication systems with which we work can be configured to promote collaboration, reflection, and experimentation – key elements of an organizational culture that result in innovation, learning and high performance.
Keynotes and Motivational Speaking
If you are ready for new ideas… Dr. Jennifer Walinga has presented at a number of conferences and events internationally on her research as well as her professional and athletic experiences. She is happy to speak on a wide range of topics including positive change, values based leadership, optimal performance and the power of innovative thinking.
