Vicki Simmons is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and holds certifications in Life Coaching, Leadership Development Coaching, Team Development, Ropes Course Low Elements, The Daring WayTM, Everything DiSCTM, Five Behaviors of a Cohesive TeamTM and Anger Management Facilitation. She has been in practice as a Woman Owned Business since 1988 and a Texas HUB since 2002. For over 25 years Vicki has had the privilege of working with individuals, businesses, organizations, for profit and non- profit institutions. She is passionate about her work and believes that organizations can create environments where people want to come to work and are passionate about what they do.Her strengths are in creating programs of lasting value utilizing her supervisory, coaching, and leadership skills. In 1988 she founded her company, Vicki Simmons, LCSW, in order to provide training, consulting, coaching and therapy services to individuals, businesses and organizations. In 1996 she renamed her company, Advantage Center Consulting. With specializations in peak performance and communication she has designed programs that build foundations for mastery in the areas of team development, effective management and leadership skills, stress and time management and change management.Vicki began her career as a psychotherapist and was regularly asked to provide programs to businesses for stress management, time management, conflict management and mediation. Over the past 25 plus years, Vicki has grown her business through listening to her client’s needs and developing programs or advancing their existing programs to help organizations grow and develop their people. Some of the programs that Vicki offers includes the Five Behaviors of a Cohesive TeamTM, Integro Institute's Leadership Development ProcessTM, Leadership Coaching ProcessTM, and Customer Focused CultureTM programs. She incorporates profiles and learning assessments such as DiSCTM, MBTI, Firo-B, The Birkman Method and Trust Inside AssessmentsTM into many of the programs she offers.An entrepreneurial spirit has kept Vicki on the leading edge of services and programs. She believes that learning is a choice and she chooses daily to engage with people who share a passion for personal growth and relationship growth, building better workplaces.
Based on the work of Patrick Lencioni’s international best-seller The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team® Powered by Everything DiSC® helps teams apply The Five Behaviors™ model of Trust, Conflict, Commitment, Accountability, and Results to drive team effectiveness and productivity. The program uses Everything DiSC, a tool that helps build effective team communication and relationships, to help participants understand their individual DiSC® style and discover how each style brings value to the team. The program includes: - Flexible Facilitation: 7 modules with over 40 minutes of video and annotated facilitator reports. - Choose the One-Day Facilitation Program or Three-Day Facilitation Program- Individual Profiles, participant handouts, take-away cards and activities- Podcasts, online resources, and a research report- Progress Reports and an Annotated Team Report for the Facilitator
Based on the work of Patrick Lencioni’s international best-seller, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and Carl Jung’s theory of psychological types, The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team Powered by All Types™ helps teams achieve greater effectiveness and productivity and understand how individual personalities and preferences contribute to the team’s overall success.The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team Powered by All Types is designed exclusively for teams within organizations that apply tools based on Jung’s theory of psychological types, like the MBTI instrument[1], as their preferred indicator of personality. This program creates a learning experience that helps teams understand how they score on the components of The Five Behaviors model: Trust, Conflict, Commitment, Accountability, and Results, and discover how each individual’s unique personality type brings value to the team. Building a cohesive, productive team takes work, but the payoff can be huge.
Gain the confidence and expertise to help organizations build trust, transform culture, and Rise Together™
Building teams in today's work environment is more complex than ever. Yet it’s teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage.
As a Five Behaviors® Certified Practitioner, you'll have the power to create a culture of teamwork, with high performing teams that elevate the entire organization and drive results.
The Five Behaviors® Practitioner Certification course is a virtual, two-week, learning experience designed for practitioners who want to deepen their level of expertise in The Five Behaviors.
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Upon successful completion of the exam, participants will earn the credential of The Five Behaviors Certified Practitioner, signaling proven competence in shaping cohesive and high-performing teams—knowledgeable in the language of The Five Behaviors.