Ty's Untie the Knots® Training Systems programs teaches professionals - on all levels - to sharpen skills and improve performance. In his twenty plus years as a skilled dynamic and engaging lead professional development trainer, he has competently worked with and trained groups as small as 4 - 19 people, 20 - 400 people, and 500 - 3,000 people. Continue scrolling down the page to learn how the Untie the Knots® Training Systems' professional development training programs can deliver measurable and lasting results to you, your teams and organization.

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Ty's dynamic and energizing training program sessions can go from 40 minutes up to 2 hours long, Half-Day (up to 3 hours), Full-Day (4 to 6 hours), and Multiple Days (from 2 to 5 days).

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MORE THAN JUST TRAINING "SKILLS." WE DEVELOP AND MAXIMIZE THE POTENTIAL AND ABILITIES OF PEOPLE.

In today's post-pandemic work environment, managers face complex challenges. The ongoing disruptions throughout the business landscape have led to decreased employee engagement and well-being, communication and social-emotional breakdowns, accountability problems, inclusion and sensitivity concerns, opposition toward return to office efforts, higher turnover rates, and a shift towards hybrid work models. Managers are tasked with providing stability amidst this disruption and leading their teams into the future, which has made their role more demanding than ever.

Consequently, managers' own job satisfaction and engagement have declined, leading to an increased likelihood of them seeking new opportunities.

Moving forward, it is crucial to prioritize the support and development of managers at all levels, as they play a pivotal role in determining their team's engagement, accounting for 70% of the variance.

For 25 years, Ty Howard and InspiraGen Institute have provided businesses in over 57 industries with tailored leadership development training and solutions for their C-level executives, directors, managers, and aspiring leaders. We deeply understand the unique challenges that executives and managers face, and this understanding forms the basis of our comprehensive and engaging training programs. We cultivate talent, strengths, trust, communication, collaboration, unity, influence, mindfulness, experiences, resilience, social-emotional health, well-being, growth, and effective leadership skills, all while empathizing with the challenges today's leaders face. Our proven track record of success and customized approach set us apart as the go-to partner for companies seeking to elevate and maximize their leadership capabilities.

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Ty's Training Programs on Leadership Development

1) Excelling in Leadership
         (7 Steps to Successful and Consistent Peak Performing Leadership)

For executives, directors and managers who are seeking strong leadership skills to help them motivate and inspire others.

Are you an executive or manage seeking fresh strategies on how to effectively lead successful employee teams in today's work climate? Or are you an executive or manager who struggles to boost employee morale, inspire consistent peak performance, improve productivity, stay ahead of your work, and prevent top talent/good employees from walking out the door?

According to a recent, preliminary report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2.5 million American workers willingly left their positions. Why are so many employees willing to leave their employers? Are they leaving because of their leaders? By improving your management and leadership style, you will be able to keep your top talent, and inspire and elevate the others to consistently peak perform. Yes, you can change how they feel about YOU, the executive or manager. Small steps and improvement can make a big difference in how employees feel about their leader.

In this dynamic, interactive and inspiring training session, Ty Howard skillfully takes leaders on a journey of what it takes to go from just wearing the title of a leader to actually excelling in leadership. Excelling in Leadership addresses many of the challenges leaders face and have to overcome daily in order to be an effective and successful leader. By inspiring executives and managers to build on their existing strengths, Ty will also encourage them to embrace and practice excelling leadership skills, such as empowering team members, holding people accountable, inspirational communication, ethical leadership, and how to collaboratively and cohesively problem solving.

This is the right training session to wake up, engage, inspire, and charge-up leaders on all levels for what your organization has to offer and teach them. This is where your leaders discover how great leaders take extra steps to ensure their work environments are open, trusting, innovative and productive. As a result, your employees will respond positively.

2) Leading with Confidence, Integrity, and By Example^TM
         (Becoming A Leader People Want to Follow)

Leadership is a critical skill that every professional should possess to be successful in today's work environment. Developing into an "Influential and Effective Leader" goes beyond traditional assessments of your qualities and application of those results. In this empowering, high-energy and interactive training session, Ty uses personal anecdotes, motivation, inspiration, research on top leaders, humor, and fun to awaken the spirit of confidence, ethical leadership, and leading by example.

Leading with Confidence, Integrity and By Example^TM builds on insights that will help you uncover your mind-set, develop the passion you possess toward leadership, and consequently empower you to influence and empower others to continuously perform at their peak. This session will teach you empowerment skills you can apply to enhance your leadership skills. Recognizing who you are as a person is only the first step to developing into an influential and effective leader. This session is THE next step in your leadership development journey.

3) Building Accountability in the Workplace
         (Learn How to Empower Yourself and Employees to Take Responsibility)

Stop poor effort, negativity, 'the blame games,' and finger-pointing before it reduces productivity and kills morale!

As a leader, you understand the tricky balancing act between empathy and accountability — especially when leading employees through change and uncertain times.

And while it's tempting to let accountability slide due to other challenges you're facing — do not give in. For teams to thrive today, leaders (managers) must prioritize accountability. Otherwise, even high performers will begin not making the effort. An accountable workforce manages itself! Imagine being freed up to focus on something other than day-to-day negative situations and disciplinary issues. Employees benefit because they are empowered and held accountable for their and the company's success.

Building Accountability in the Workplace teaches and explains to your leaders how to be more intentional about their expectations and how to strengthen workplace connections — the right way. Ty Howard shares practical strategies to help leaders coach and get their employees to realize the importance of every position, including their own. He also teaches you how to inspire and coach your employees to consistently embrace their responsibilities while improving their attitudes, mindfulness, work relationships, and overall job performance. This empowerment will tremendously and positively affect the company and their leadership effectiveness, happiness, and peace of mind.

Turn accountability into a positive for everyone on the team by hiring Ty Howard today to be your guest master trainer or lead facilitator for your leadership group.

4) Excelling in Teamwork
         (Creating and Coaching UP Successful Efficient, Cohesive, and Untied Teams)

*A Team That Excels — Does Several Things 'Cohesively' Well

Is your team moving forward together or inundated with conflict? Do your team meetings consist more of bickering than collaborating? Do you have some team members who are everyday peak performing superstars, while others do just enough to get by?

Winning teams do not just happen, they are created by committed leaders and team players who’ve learned how to motivate, inspire and guide their productive efforts to individual and organizational successes. Ty Howard's Excelling in Teamwork - action learning training/general session - shares awareness and strategies in the areas of teamwork, team dynamics, team problem-solving, and team decision-making. The structural and behavioral dimensions of building and leading an effective work team, task force or group are fully explored. He skillfully combines a highly substantive team building curriculum with ongoing indoor fun and safe team building activities to spark participant curiosity, motivation, trust, honest communication, and commitment to apply and practice individual and group learning gains immediately.

You will also learn what it takes to develop leadership skills applicable to creating successful self-directed work teams, employee participation teams, interdepartmental task groups, and other group situations where combined efforts are needed to reach optimal team performance and desired outcomes.

5) Untie the Knots®
       (Improving Habits, Choices, People, Relationships, Performance, and Results)

An organization or person tied-up in toxic knots becomes an organization or person destined to fail in one or several areas of business or life. Untie the Knots®: Improving Habits, Choices, People, Relationships, Performance, and Results is a powerful wake-up call that addresses the countless challenges, obstacles, issues and toxic habits found inside most organizations and people today. This no-holds-barred, get-real program will bring your audience a practical solutions based process that they can implement immediately to create positive improvements and significant real-life results.

Bring this powerful - engaging and energizing - training session to your organization or group, and discover the same transforming principles that have led hundreds of organizations, business leaders and their teams to the professional and personal optimal success they desired.

6) Leading and Coaching UP an Exceptional Customer Service Culture
         (Creating a Customer-focused Organization Your External and Internal Customers Will Love)

It’s been said that customer service can make or break a business, and that’s never been truer than in today’s climate. Businesses compete daily for customers, and social media can spread word of your reputation—good or bad—instantly. From top to bottom, exceptional customer service is your greatest advantage in the marketplace. Have you - consistently - made your customers the focus of your organization?

Bring Ty Howard in to deliver Leading and Coaching UP an Exceptional Customer Service Culture, and you and your leaders will be on your way to a company culture committed to delivering exceptional customer service. Organizations that engage in exceptional customer service enjoy thriving relationships and repeat business, they find it pleasing and less expensive than acquiring new customers. But it takes more than positive engagement, polite telephone skills, consistent follow-through, and smiles. Ty will guide and show you how to analyze your organization’s current culture, start communicating more significantly with your customers, and create consistent, respectful relationships both externally and internally... which will improve your employees’ morale and enhance your organization’s image—and its profits!

This training session will help your leaders and organization to gain a competitive edge and sustain it, too. Take the first step to building an exceptional customer-focused organization that will set you apart from your competitors, continuously boost your bottom line, and retain your top talent because they love the customers and place of work.

7) Compassionate Leadership
       (A Mindful Call to Lead with Increased Care, Awareness, and Emotional Intelligence)

*There's a strong link between mindfulness and leadership effectiveness.

Compassionate Leadership is one's ability to intentionally see others as others see and feel as others feel. In today's climate, the tone and stage have been set for leaders to begin taking care of human capital from both the heart and mind. Many leaders are afraid to alter their behaviors or leadership styles to adjust to this new approach, but it often proves more rewarding than challenging.

Ty Howard transports audiences on a journey through Compassionate Leadership examples from his career as a leader in the United States Navy, and working in several positions after his military tenure as a human resource generalist, office manager, corporate trainer, sales manager and trainer, intervention and behavior specialist manager, business leader, executive and manager development coach, organizational development consultant, and public speaker. He talks about compassionate leadership in an enlightening and transformational way so that leaders on all levels walk away with a mindful call to action―to lead with increased care, awareness, and emotional intelligence for the better! Recent research has found that increasing mindfulness increases charisma and productivity, decreases burnout and accidents, increases creativity and innovation, improves likability and relationships, decreases conflict and insensitivity, increases focus and resilience, and improves health and longevity. There is a great benefit in teaching people to live and lead with compassion; it transfers to bottom line measures and future organizational success.

Ty Howard's Compassionate Leadership training session elevates the consciousness of leaders to serve the highest good—not just influencing and lifting the lot of employees and shareholders, but the communities in which they operate and the world.

8) Leading and Communicating with Confidence
         (Empowering Strategies for Building Confident, Collaborative, and Successful Leaders)

It takes both effective communication skills and confidence to be a successful and influential leader today!

There are plenty of leaders inside businesses and in the community today who are good at getting tasks done, yet they struggle with communication skills and confidence. Then there are the great leaders - the superstars in leadership - that are good at getting tasks done while inspiring and influencing others to do their part for the success of team/vision/cause in front of them.

In Leading and Communicating with Confidence, Ty will teach and show your leaders that the essence of successful leadership is in inspiring, clear, and confident communication that moves people to action. An energetic voice, expressive face, strong eye contact, bold gestures, and relaxed posture express your confidence. People can see it, hear it, and sense it in many ways—often in ways not always apparent to the person/leader being observed. Strong, seasoned leaders have naturally incorporated confidence into their communication style, while other professionals struggle to appear confident. Confidence has the power to improve communication skills, growth, leadership, and success on many levels.

9) You Have to FOCUS and S-T-R-E-T-C-H for Continuous Success^TM
         (What's Required of YOU to Continuously Succeed in Today's Ever-Changing and Demanding Workplace)

Success is more than being okay or good at what you do; it's about being and staying consistently cutting-edge. Ty Howard helps leaders on all levels to better understand why their influence, services, products, resilience, and relationships – or in some cases, those of their competitors – are number one. And why you absolutely cannot spell SUCCESS without a fully committed "U" in all aspects of work and life. This engaging and energizing training session will provide relatable research on how to best manage your expectations and emotional intelligence for resilient peak performance and desired outcomes. You will also learn practical strategies and solutions for overcoming daily 'work-life' challenges that will empower the right person with the right positive attitude to begin FOCUS'ing and S-T-R-E-T-C-H'ing for Continuous Success passionately. Here's where you will experience in a dynamic and fun way—what is required of you to become and stay continuously successful, as a person, leader, and a business moving forward.

10) Leading with Emotional Intelligence (EI)
         (How Successful Leaders Put Their Emotional Skills to Work)

Here's where you learn how to improve your emotional intelligence skills to recognize and positively manage emotions in yourself, in others and in groups.

Recent studies indicate that emotional intelligence is a powerful key to effective leadership. This valuable training session delivers the in-depth knowledge and practical emotional intelligence skills you need to ensure that you are a strong, emotionally intelligent leader. You will learn how to apply emotional intelligence to specific leadership situations to increase confidence, improve teamwork, enhance communication, develop peak performance, build resilience, and protect your IQ with EI. Ty Howard will also provide you with current cutting-edge developments in leadership theory and practice, to help you better collaborate and manage conflict with a higher level of emotional intelligence.

Leading with Emotional Intelligence (EI) helps you to develop successful leaders with a greater level of self-awareness and emotional control as well as a better understanding of others. Emotionally intelligent executives, directors, managers, supervisors and professional staff are your greatest assets; they are more focused, disciplined, collaborative and productive.

11) Improving Effective Communication and Work Relationships Inside the Workplace
         (Build Upward, Downward and Across Communication Skills That Break Down Barriers to Effective Communication and Encourage Better Work Relationships)

Real leaders appreciate it when employees practice upward communication—taking the responsibility to communicate new ideas, innovations, conflict resolutions strategies, team cohesiveness practices, and better ways to get the work accomplished. This ability is essential during times of change or disorder, where responsibilities can change unexpectedly, and barrier after barrier can breakdown communication across the organization on all levels.

Improving Effective Communication and Work Relationships Inside the Workplace offers practical and immediately useable strategies for upward communication—as well as across and downward communication—to recover and improve effective communication, build stronger work relationships and deliver high-value results for yourself and your organization; no matter where you and your employee team members are positioned in the organizational chart.

12) Leading, Coaching UP, and Inspiring Difficult Employees to Consistently Peak Perform
         (Positive Intervention and Coaching Techniques for Turning Difficult Employees Around)

When an employee's behavior becomes difficult and unacceptable, it's important you step in and get your team member back on track right away. If you do not, performance and behavior problems can begin to erode and deflate the performance and positive energy of your team and organization before you know it.

Leading, Coaching UP, and Inspiring Difficult Employees to Consistently Peak Perform brings the essential behavior skills coaching strategies and engaging positive intervention practices right to your leadership group―inside of a dynamic and insightful training/general session delivered by Ty Howard. It will be like having a personal intense one-on-one business coaching session with a nationally recognized executive and management development consultant as he takes you through how to recognize and professionally communicate with your difficult employees, coaching and intervention strategies, the steps of a legally-sound discipline process, and more! Managing difficult employees and discipline issues are never easy, but it can become a confident and competent process once you learn these practical, proven and effective strategies for connecting with, coaching UP, inspiring, leading, and bringing your problem workers around to consistently peak perform.

13) Achieving Balance and Harmony at Work and in Life
         (Moving Beyond the Work-Life Balance Myth to Achieving Priorities and Getting More Production and Satisfaction Out of Your Day)

Everyone is seeking and talking about finding balance in their lives and their work—but you need to make the necessary changes and take action to make it actually happen! This session shares new tools, proven techniques, humor, engaging fun, music, and the necessary skills to get you organized so you can make the most of your work and life time with better balance.

The secret to productivity (without anxiety) lies in defining priorities and organizing your day, managing your time effectively and increasing how effective you are at completing each task. Mastering these skills will help you distinguish “hard” work from “smart” work and allow you to handle all your responsibilities like a person who is in better control of your life. Whether you find yourself with a case of “being busy - being busy, all the time,” are guilty of killing your own productivity with procrastination, poor planning and personal disorganization or need some tools for handling a seemingly endless string of interruptions, Achieving Balance and Harmony at Work and in Life was created to make you better organized, less stressed, add fun back to your work and life. This session will also move you beyond the work-life balance myth, re-ignite your passion for work and life, and help you get more out of each day.

14) Leading with a Better and More Inspired YOU
         (Solution-Driven Thinking Strategies to Increase Inspiration and Develop a Better YOU)

A transformation is underway in business leadership. In the past, leaders in business focused solely on deficits and results, what is wrong and how to make it right. That model works and has served well. Now, however, a profound shift is changing how we lead in business. From the 1960s to 1995, problem-focused studies outnumbered strength-focused studies by about 20 to 1. Over the past ten years, research has shifted to focus on joy, resilience, strengths, accountability and virtues, changing how we will be leading in the coming years. Leading with a Better and More Inspired YOU is an opportunity to learn the practical strategies and awesome benefits in inspired happiness and positive leadership.

Your own personal level of happiness is a vital key to how effective you are as an executive, director, manager, supervisor or emerging leader. We now know that happiness is also one of the most effective health interventions. Teaching your leadership team happiness and success habits skills will improve their physical and emotional health. Of course, you will learn about powerful and easy to apply strategies to become a better and more inspired YOU (person and leader). More than that, in this session, Ty Howard will guide and coach you individually, in small engaging groups, and together as a corporate leadership team on how to improve your effectiveness, relationships, passion, morale and happiness as a leader going forward. You will take home tools and a clear process to follow to encourage, empower, and inspire those you lead. You will also take home greater personal fulfillment, too.

15) Creative and Innovative Leadership

      — for Executives, Managers, Supervisors, and Team Leaders

This is not your ordinary (canned) leadership - slash - customer service course!

This is training for today’s leaders — people like you who are pulled in a million different directions, expected to get more done with fewer resources, and forced to cope with budget cuts, continuous changes, sudden crises, upset and abrasive customers, hiring and wage freezes, and much more. These tougher times call for creativity and innovation in leadership, customer service, morale boosting, and taking care of you.

Creative and Innovative Leadership for Executives, Managers, Supervisors, and Team Leaders will give you a tremendous edge when it comes to giving the optimal performance your customers and organization expect. In this half-day, full-day or two-day interactive, high-energy training, you’ll learn techniques for turbo-charging your leadership skills and getting your employees on track for optimal performance and a lot more productivity. You’ll learn how to create the kind of service persona that puts customers at ease, earns their trust and makes them feel good—whether on the phone or face-to-face. You’ll learn once and for all, how to continuously boost employee morale, and even more important, how to care for and tie into a better you.

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Ty Howard, Founding Principal and Chief Strategist of InspiraGen Institute in Baltimore County, Maryland, offers leadership training, solutions, and consulting services to help senior executives, directors, managers, and aspiring leaders enhance and strengthen their leadership skills and effectiveness. Ty Howard's Attitude Resources and Training Solutions. Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore County, Maryland, DC, District of Columbia, Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, North Carolina, Ohio, Maryland.