Consulting, Coaching AND Collaborating
Optimal productivity and processes don’t come solely from “hacks” or positive thinking.
They’re about getting to know your team and figuring out the right solution for your situation.
Whether through interactive workshops or getting into the trenches together for embedded project work, P4P levels up your team’s philosophies and empowers them to put new approaches into practice immediately.
Workshops & Speaking
High-impact. Low-budget. Perfect for team offsites or lunch-and-learns that will leave your team excited and empowered.
As a guest speaker, I can supercharge your team’s tactics and approach through an interactive 1-hour workshop tailored to your top operational and cultural priorities.
These workshops can also each be delivered as personalized 1-on-1 coaching or can be expanded into longer series, regular office hours, or delivery alongside embedded project work.
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Your time is finite, and ruthlessly prioritizing and efficiently executing on your or your team’s top goals requires streamlined processes that are deeply adapted to the preferences and catalysts of each individual person.
In this workshop, tailored to the tools and approaches your team uses, we’ll use group discussions and hands-on team exercises to survey the key productivity practices of well-organized teams, interrogate the pitfalls of common approaches to meetings and digital communication, and identify your team’s preferred ways of working to ensure optimal collaboration.
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Actively cultivating a strong culture of continuous, direct feedback is essential for a team’s people to trust each other with their mutual growth goals and to achieve peak performance.
In this workshop, we’ll use group discussions and interactive examples to delve deep into the value of free-flowing feedback, practice how to deliver it effectively using my six principles of great feedback, learn how to receive and reflect on tough feedback, and explore different processes for building regular feedback hygiene into team operations.
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High-precision interviewing and hiring is a critical input to an organization’s long-term success, and optimizing outcomes requires interviewers to be active stakeholders in the hiring process and to be skilled in the soft skills and hard skills of maximizing the signal gathered during interviews.
In this workshop, we’ll use hands-on team exercises and interactive examples to rigorously shape facet-scoped hiring profiles, design carefully targeted question banks, execute effective followup questions, and evaluate candidates with clarity.
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If none of those are quite right, let’s build a bespoke workshop around the parts of my expertise that your team most needs. Get in touch via the form below for a free consultation.
Embedded Project Work
Let’s build together.
The best way to see how your team could work better is to get onto the frontlines and work with them. Get my expert help in building a process or completing a key business deliverable while I simultaneously diagnose and improve your team’s operations and culture.
Some example ideas are listed here, but these are far from exhaustive. Get in touch via the form below for a free consultation.
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As a standalone project, or in conjunction with other types of projects, my team productivity audit covers task management, communications management, prioritization, meetings and more.
While I work with your team, I’ll get to know them, briefly interview its members on their pain points, and sit in on its meetings and digital communication channels.
I’ll use my findings to leave behind custom written artifacts and a report with recommendations on the best approaches to improving your team’s efficiency.
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I’ll lead the design of a custom-tailored, scalable process, leveraging my decade-plus of expertise, including, but not limited to:
Configuring productivity software to meet your goals e.g. optimizing your enterprise task tracking software for your team
Writing new hire onboarding or user training materials that are accessible to and empowering of their audience
Designing center-of-excellence programs and knowledge management processes that preserve and scale what works for your organization while minimizing friction
I’ll complete a key workflow-ready business deliverable while creating necessary documentation and training materials that will serve the team not only for the use of and successive iteration upon the process, but also as a replicable gold standard of scalable knowledge capture for their next project.
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I’ll embed myself within or atop your hiring queue for a critical role, working with your team to lead the refinement or redesign of facet-scoped hiring profiles, question banks, and candidate evaluation in line with the rigorous standards of my “Raising Your Interview Game” workshop.
I’ll shadow and reverse-shadow your interviewers to identify and coach them upon areas of improvement in their interview soft skills and hard skills. I’ll leave behind robust documentation of the hiring profile, question bank and evaluation criteria that will serve the team not only for the use of and successive iteration upon the process, but also as a replicable gold standard of scalable knowledge capture for their next project.
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Testimonials
“We have a small in-house legal team at a growing and fast-moving company with scattered systems and processes. We needed to better leverage our working time to deliver maximal impact for our company. Mike parachuted in, quickly understood our needs and workflows, and helped us streamline our tooling and processes to bring order to our chaos. Mike is great to work with, trustworthy, and has materially improved our bang-for-our-buck for our team."
Brendan C., General Counsel"Mike Stein's principles on personal productivity really took my daily habits to the next level. Across each of the many digital tools and platforms I use every day, Mike delivered concrete tips and practices that helped me reclaim my time and my focus."
Zach T., Learning and Development Leader"Working with Mike was a masterclass in effective program management. He has an incredible ability to drive progress, build strong teams, and keep even the most complex efforts on track—all while maintaining a positive, solutions-focused attitude."
Stephen D., Senior Site Reliability Engineer