Tailored for Your Team's Growth
At The Pace Institute, custom workshops are designed to meet the unique goals and challenges of your organization. Whether your focus is on personal growth, professional development, or team dynamics, each workshop is crafted to deliver lasting, practical results. From interpersonal skills to leadership development, these engaging workshops equip your team with actionable skills they can immediately apply.
Sample topics include:
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Conflict Resolution Basics: Understand key strategies for addressing and resolving workplace conflicts effectively.
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Building Emotional Intelligence: Learn to recognize and manage your own and others' emotions for better workplace interactions.
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Workplace Bullying Prevention: Identify and address workplace bullying to create a safer and more respectful environment.
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Effective Feedback Techniques: Master the art of giving constructive feedback that promotes growth and improvement.
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Problem Solving from a Systems Perspective: Explore how to tackle workplace problems by understanding the larger system at play.
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Creating a Positive Workplace Culture: Explore practical steps to foster a supportive and positive work environment.
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Foundations of Trauma-Informed Care: Explore how trauma impacts individuals in workplace and service settings, and learn strategies to foster resilience, support well-being, and create a trauma-sensitive environment.
Workshops are fully customized to your team’s specific needs, whether you're aiming to improve individual and team communication, foster collaboration, or enhance leadership.

Flexible Formats
Workshops are flexible, allowing for customization based on your team’s schedule and preferences. Whether you need a short, focused session or an immersive multi-day experience, workshops can be delivered in the following formats:
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Virtual: Ideal for remote teams or those spread across multiple locations.
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On-site: Conducted at your workplace for convenience and minimal disruption.
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Off-site: Held at The Pace Institute’s exclusive venue in the Atlanta area, providing a retreat-like environment for deeper engagement.
Workshops can range from 1-hour Power Hour sessions to multi-day sessions, offering the flexibility to meet the specific needs of your team.

Virtual Power Hour
Convenient, focused staff development! Ideal for teams with busy schedules, the Power Hour virtual staff development workshops are designed to deliver impactful learning in just one hour. These sessions are perfect for lunch-and-learn events or quick learning sessions that fit seamlessly into your workday. Without the need for a long-term commitment, your team can gain valuable insights and practical strategies in a condensed format.
Power Hour sessions can accommodate up to 100+ employees and with its convenient format, Power Hour allows your team to receive the training they need without interrupting productivity - making it an ideal solution for large or remote teams looking to develop professionally while staying engaged in their day-to-day work.

Assessment Tools Offered to support Employee
Development
The DiSC® Assessment is a powerful tool designed to help leaders understand their behavioral tendencies and communication styles, enabling them to lead more effectively. By identifying leadership traits, DiSC provides leaders with practical insights into how they interact with others, make decisions, and manage challenges.
It focuses on four primary leadership styles - Dominance (D), Influence (i), Steadiness (S), and Conscientiousness (C) - helping leaders adapt their approach to enhance team dynamics and drive success.
Key benefits of the DiSC® Assessment for leaders include:
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Self-Awareness: Leaders gain a deeper understanding of their natural style and how it impacts their leadership approach, communication, and relationships with team members.
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Improved Communication: DiSC helps leaders adapt their communication style to better connect with and motivate diverse teams, ensuring that messages are clear and well-received.
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Tailored Leadership Development: DiSC highlights specific areas for growth, allowing leaders to develop key leadership behaviors such as creating vision, building alignment, and championing execution—three core principles of leadership success.
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Team Collaboration: By understanding the different DiSC styles within a team, leaders can foster a more harmonious and productive work environment, leveraging individual strengths for better collaboration and performance.
The DiSC model is particularly effective for leaders at all levels, offering insights into how personality shapes leadership behaviors and how adjustments in communication and management can result in stronger teams and improved outcomes.
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A validated, research-based assessment that measures performance in five areas:
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Trust
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Conflict
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Commitment
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Accountability
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Results
Powered by Everything DiSC®, the Five Behaviors
Assessment and facilitation experience helps participants understand how to bring together individual personalities and preferences to build cohesive, high-performing teams.-
The Hogan Assessment is a globally recognized tool for leadership development, providing deep insights into personality, leadership potential, and workplace behavior. With over 30 years of experience and backed by hundreds of validation studies, Hogan is trusted by organizations of all sizes—from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies—to improve leadership effectiveness, individual development, and team dynamics.
The assessment suite focuses on two key components of personality: identity and reputation. Identity represents how we see ourselves, while reputation reflects how others perceive us. Understanding both is essential for leadership development, as who we are shapes how we lead.
Key benefits of the Hogan Assessment include:
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Strategic Self-Awareness: Leaders gain insights into their work style traits, core values, and potential derailment risks, helping them manage their behavior to increase workplace success.
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Leadership Style: By understanding their personality, leaders can refine their leadership style to better align with their team’s culture, driving employee engagement and improved performance.
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Team Effectiveness: Hogan also provides insights into how leaders fit within a team or organizational culture, ensuring that leadership development supports team dynamics and overall organizational success.
Widely used for leadership development at all levels—from middle management to the executive suite—the Hogan Assessment helps leaders grow through strategic self-awareness and better manage their impact on teams and the organization as a whole.
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The Real Colors® Personality Assessment is an easy-to-use tool often integrated into workshops and team retreats. It categorizes personalities into four distinct types such as planning (Gold), empathy (Blue), innovation (Green), or adaptability (Orange). The assessment tool increases self-awareness and can also be used in a team setting to enhance understanding of one's team dynamics.
Key benefits for leadership development include:
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Self-Awareness
Leaders identify their strengths and potential growth areas, leading to more authentic and effective leadership. -
Improved Communication
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Balanced Decision-Making
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Effective Team Empowerment
Leaders learn to support each color’s unique needs, motivating their team and creating a collaborative environment.
Real Colors® equips leaders with tools to connect meaningfully with their team, enhance cohesion, and lead with adaptability and empathy.
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The Social + Emotional Intelligence Profile® (SEIP) is a comprehensive, scientifically validated tool that helps leaders understand and improve their emotional and social intelligence—skills essential for building stronger teams, enhancing workplace relationships, and leading effectively. The SEIP measures 26 critical competencies that contribute to emotional and social intelligence, including self-awareness, empathy, conflict resolution, and relationship management.
Designed for leaders at all levels, the SEIP is available in both an individual and 360 assessment format, offering valuable feedback on how others perceive a leader’s emotional intelligence. The 360 assessment gathers insights from colleagues, supervisors, direct reports, and other key stakeholders, providing a holistic view of a leader’s social and emotional intelligence.
Key benefits for leaders include:
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Self-Awareness: SEIP helps leaders identify emotional triggers and understand how their behavior impacts others, allowing them to manage their emotions more effectively in the workplace.
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Improved Relationships: Leaders can enhance their ability to communicate with empathy, navigate conflict, and foster stronger, more collaborative relationships with their teams.
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Targeted Development: SEIP provides actionable insights into areas of strength and development, offering personalized suggestions for growth in emotional intelligence that directly impact leadership effectiveness.
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Leadership Growth: With a focus on the four-quadrant model—self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management—leaders gain a clearer understanding of how to lead with emotional intelligence, creating a positive and productive team culture.
The SEIP's detailed reports provide not only an in-depth analysis of emotional and social intelligence competencies but also practical development tips and action steps that leaders can implement immediately. These assessments help leaders cultivate the skills they need to lead with empathy, emotional intelligence, and insight—key attributes of successful leadership in today’s workplace.
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The Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI®) is a powerful tool for leaders aiming to deepen their understanding of how conflict-handling styles—competing, collaborating, compromising, avoiding, and accommodating—shape interpersonal dynamics. By highlighting their preferred style and its impact, the TKI® enables leaders to reflect on and adapt their conflict approach to better guide team interactions, making it invaluable for leadership development. Through a brief online assessment, individuals respond to 30 statement pairs, producing a 10-page report that uncovers their preferred style and provides personalized analysis.
Key features of the TKI® report include:
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A clear explanation of behaviors associated with each of the five conflict-handling modes
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A personalized analysis with a 2-page deep dive into the individual’s primary style
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Practical guidance on when each style may be most effective and suggestions for leveraging less preferred styles
For leaders seeking a broader team perspective, the TKI® Team Report builds on individual insights to map out the team’s collective conflict styles, showing how each person’s preferences align with or diverge from the team dynamic. This allows leaders to foster cohesive, productive team interactions by adapting strategies to each member’s unique approach.
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Step One
Initial Consultation
Step Two
Proposal Outlining
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Sign Agreement
Step Four
Sevices Begin

