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The One-Day Workshop That Changes How Your Team Talks About Everything.

Most workplace friction starts with one thing: unspoken or mismanaged expectations.

This psychology-based workshop gives your team a repeatable, practical skillset for setting, aligning, and resetting expectations — with anyone, in any situation.

Trusted by Teams Across Leading Organizations

JCQuintana Books | Public Speaker and Author
JCQuintana Books | Public Speaker and Author
JCQuintana Books | Public Speaker and Author
JCQuintana Books | Public Speaker and Author
JCQuintana Books | Public Speaker and Author
JCQuintana Books | Public Speaker and Author
JCQuintana Books | Public Speaker and Author
JCQuintana Books | Public Speaker and Author
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JCQuintana Books | Public Speaker and Author
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JCQuintana Books | Public Speaker and Author

Workshop Details

  • Duration: 8 hours (including breaks)

  • Goal: Equip participants with a repeatable, practical framework for discovering, aligning, managing, and negotiating expectations — using human-centered design and behavioral psychology principles applied to their own real-world challenges.

Agenda

Phase 1 — Introduction

(Hours 1–4)

  • Icebreaker: "The power of well-managed expectations"

  • Objectives and expected outcomes

  • Introduction to the 7 Expectation Conversations

  • How to use the Human-Centered Toolbook

  • Understanding Social Exchange: How humans set Value Expectations

  • How Culture Impacts Value Expectations: The influence of individual, national, and organizational culture

  • Group Activity: Setting your value baseline

Phase 2 — Immersion

Hours 5-7

  • Defining Engagement Expectations: How humans create value through co-creation

  • Discovering Accountability vs. Skill Dynamics

  • Transparency Expectations for Building Trust

  • Experience Expectations: Why physical, virtual, and emotional experiences matter

  • Group Activity: Building an expectations canvas

Phase 3 — Approach & Application

Hours 7-8

  • Applying the 7 Expectation Conversations framework to your specific challenges

  • Building an expectations-centered dialogue practice you can use immediately

  • Defining next steps: How to embed expectations management into every customer, employee, and partner interaction

  • Group Activity: Crafting your personal expectations action plan

 

This workshop is ideal for:

  • L&D and HR teams looking to build lasting communication and alignment skills across their organization

  • Customer experience and customer success teams managing complex client relationships

  • Cross-functional teams navigating technology implementations or organizational change

  • Leaders and managers who need a better approach to setting and resetting expectations with their people

  • Anyone who wants to close the gap between what's expected and what actually gets delivered

What Participants Are Saying

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100% participation and spontaneous laughter!
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Incredibly insightful frameworks for productive expectation conversations!
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The investment pays for itself in customer and employee retention!

The framework behind this workshop is taught in 34 U.S. business school curricula.

Ready to bring JC to your next event or organization? Let's talk

jc@jcquintana.com
Nashville, TN

© 2024-2026 by JC Quintana

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