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KMS Solutions, LLC
Human Capital Development
KMS Solutions offers a
full-range of professionally facilitated
services that benefit individuals, teams and
organizations. KMS helps individuals
develop core skills, teams to create positive
and productive environments, and organizations
to achieve their goals. With a team of
certified facilitators KMS provides group team
building, leadership skills development and
leadership performance coaching.
Our programs are fun, insightful, and used successfully by both
commercial company leadership teams and federal
government agencies to build better leaders and
more productive work environments. Group programs can be
customized into sessions that are
½ to 3 days in length.
The KMS catalog of services includes the
following programs:
Team Building
DiSC® Personality Style and Behavior
Model
Effective
leadership and followership is grounded in
understanding oneself, understanding others, and
realizing the impact of behavior on other team
members. KMS Solutions utilizes the DiSC®
Personality Style and Behavior Model to reveal a
profile of each team member's behavior.
The DiSC®
model is based on a four-quadrant approach that
reliably describes four styles of human
behavior.
Dominance (D) -- Shaping the
environment by overcoming opposition and
challenge
Influence (i) -- Shaping the
environment by persuading and influencing others
Steadiness (S) -- Achieving
stability, accomplishing tasks by cooperating
with others
Conscientiousness (C) --
Working within circumstances to ensure quality
and accuracy
Certified KMS facilitators guide groups through
interpreting their individual profile and
learning about the styles of others.
Through dynamic interactive exercises, members
experience their styles as they participate in a
variety of situations, and have the opportunity
to adjust behaviors to improve team
effectiveness.
Upon completion of the 2-day program, team
members have been exposed to a variety of
subject matter that assists them in the ability
to:-
Communicate more effectively
- Increase creativity and innovation
skills
- Manage conflict more effectively while
achieving a win-win outcome
- Recognize effective leadership practices
and learn ways to use them
- Build collaboration, teamwork and trust
- Acknowledge the accomplishments of
others.
Where required by a solution, KMS offers more
detailed reporting for management through the
use of the Everything DiSC®
Management Profile. Managers learn how to
read the styles of the people they manage and to
bring out the best in each employee. The
result is managers who can adapt their styles to
manage more effectively.
Everything DiSC®
- Management focuses on:
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Individual DiSC®
Management Style
- Directing and Delegating
- Motivation
- Developing Others
- Working with Your Manager.
This enables managers to effectively dialogue and provides personal insights to the different styles of their employees
by practicing the cornerstone principles of the Everything DiSC® Management Profile:
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All DiSC®
styles are equally valuable, and people with
all styles can be effective managers
- Management style is also influenced by
other factors such as life experiences,
education, and maturity
- Understanding yourself better is the
first step to becoming more effective with
your employees and your manager
- By carefully observing the behavior of
other people, you can learn to recognize the
DiSC®
styles of colleagues, friends, and clients
- The ability to adapt your behavior to
other DiSC®
styles can help you manage more effectively
- Managers can help colleagues
adapt their own behavior by
explaining needs and preferences
more clearly.
In addition, KMS offers tools and techniques
that augment DiSC®
for enhanced Team Building and Leadership
training, they include:
Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance™ Model
The Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance™ Model is used as a road map to
explore the principles and tools of teamwork.
The model developed by Alan Drexler and David
Sibbet in 1999 covers the creation and
sustainment of high performance teams utilizing
a sever step process (Orientation, Trust, Goal
Clarification, Commitment, Implementation, High
Performance and Renewal).
Upon completion of the Effective Team
Performance training module, supervisors have
been exposed to a variety of subject matter that
assists them in the ability to:
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Develop effective team engagement techniques
for use as a team leader and organizational
manager
- Discuss how leadership, followership,
and management play critical roles in team
communication
- Explore how teamwork contributes to
innovation and creativity
- Examine how self-awareness helps build
trust for team performance.
Thomas-Kilmann
Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI)
The Thomas-Kilmann Conflict
Mode Instrument was developed by Kenneth
Thomas and Ralph Kilmann in
1974. In conflict
situation, the model is used to
describe a person's behavior
along two basic dimensions:
Assertiveness and
Cooperativeness. The model
describes the five ways
(competing, collaborating,
compromising, avoiding and
accommodating) that individuals
typically deal with conflict
using a combination of
assertiveness and
cooperativeness.
Supervisors are provided real
world scenarios to determine the
best approach and the fact that
different conflict styles work
better in different situations.
Upon completion of the Conflict
training module, supervisors
have been exposed to a variety
of subject matter that assists
them in the ability to:
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Understand the different conflict resolution
approaches
- Leverage the most effective way to
handle conflict for different situations.
Generation Exploration
Program
KMS facilitators address the potential conflicts
inherent in the workplace when upwards of four
generations (Generations Y, X, Baby Boomers, and
Traditionalists) are working side-by-side.
Generational differences can affect everything,
including recruiting, building teams, dealing
with change, motivating, managing, and
maintaining and increasing productivity.
Think of how generational differences, relative
to how people communicate, might affect
misunderstandings, high employee turnover, team
productivity, difficulty in attracting employees
and maintaining employee motivation.
Upon completion of the
½-day program, team members have been exposed to
a variety of subject matter that assists them in
the ability to:
- Understand the factors
that molded the generations'
perspectives, and impacted their
views of their roles in the
workplace
- Understand generation-based beliefs,
behaviors, and attitudes that can result in
workplace misunderstandings and conflict
- Implement conflict mitigation strategies
by leveraging generational expectations.
"Save the Nation"
Teambuilding Exercise
This teambuilding exercise, which takes place on
the National Mall in Washington, DC, is used
as a capstone event to either (1) reinforce the KMS
teambuilding programs or (2) provide a stand
alone teambuilding event as part of an
organizations' leadership retreat.
"Save the Nation" reinforces teamwork
based on the DiSC®
four-quadrant Model as a dynamic and interactive
exercise (either an indoor or outdoor version).
Team members are provided a high energy
opportunity as they move from smaller to larger
teams to practice and reinforce the key elements
of successful teamwork. The exercise
allows each participant to experience
collaboration, networking, effective
communications, leadership, followership,
behavior control under pressure, and conflict
resolution through multiple changes in team
structure and goals.
Upon completion of the exercise, the KMS
facilitators take the team through a
post-exercise debrief providing each member an
opportunity to discuss their accomplishments, as
well as talk through how they dealt with the
inherent frustrations relative to solving the
problem while moving from smaller to larger
teams.
Upon
completion of the 1-day training, team members
have been exposed to a variety of subject matter
that will assist them in the ability to:-
Recall and employ behaviors and activities
related to successful teamwork, to include
leadership, followership, and conflict
resolution in solving the problem
- Work to overcome personality or
generational differences as may be
discovered in the DiSC®
profile or generation exploration programs
- Better employ personal and team
communication skills.
Critical Thinking
KMS teaches the theory and
practice of critical thinking as
well as methods of structured
analysis. Students are
provided exercises and examples
to demonstrate that they have
bias and mindset followed by a
discussion on the implications
of those conditions on analysis.
A divergent/convergent thinking
exercise is followed by pros,
cons and fixes exercise on the
same scenario demonstrating the
value of these techniques to the
students.
Upon completion of the Critical
Thinking training module,
participants should be able to:
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Describe the differences and value of
critical and creative thinking to analysis
- Explain the value of structured analysis
techniques to the analysis process
- Explain the relationship between
concepts, inferences, assumptions, evidence
and implications.
Executive Coaching
KMS builds customized mentor-protégé
programs that help leaders be more successful.
Our cadre of mentors are particularly skilled at
helping former senior military leaders
successfully make the transition from military
leader to business executive.
To request a
proposal, please email us at
contact@kmssol.com or call 703-823-8405 x104
today!
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