Founded in 1985, Barnes & Conti offers training programs in the areas communication, coaching, change management, team-building, and innovation skills. It integrates organizational consulting and executive coaching with practical, research-based training programs. Its programs and services are designed to develop the interpersonal, leadership, and managerial skills that support entrepreneurial success, high quality, and rapid innovation. Its programs can be presented in a variety of formats for intact teams or as open sessions. The company operates through a core staff and partners in North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. The company is headquartered in Berkley, CA and has more than 50 employees.

A select list of Barnes & Conti’s training programs is listed below:

Exercising Influence: Building Relationships and Getting Results program teaches influence skills using exercising and fitness as a metaphor so that participants can develop strength, focus, and flexibility as influencers. Exercising Influence is also available in Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Thai, and U.K. English.

The Art of Communication is a skill-development program that is focused on creating shared meaning and a common language. Participants will practice three aspects of communication: message, style, and structure. They will develop their communication skills and strategy, gain insight into their communication style and its impact, and recognize and test the assumptions that underlie their worldview and that of others.

In Managing Innovation participants will learn to incorporate innovation management skills and processes into their jobs by absorbing the results of research on exceptionally innovative organizations and put that knowledge to work through structured activities, cases, and skill practice.

The Intelligent Risk-Taking workshop is designed to help move ides from vision to action. In this program, participants learn a model which will enable them to become more creative, innovative, and successful by making better risk-taking decisions for themselves and their organizations.

Distance Learning

Barnes & Conti has teamed up with Cisco WebEx in order to deliver its programs over the World Wide Web to one or more computers in workplace. The distance learning versions of its programs take advantage of WebEx's rich multi-media capabilities, and feature two Barnes & Conti trainers per program…..read more