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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

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Not sure if your team needs this workshop? Take this 5-minute assessment to find out where your expectation gaps are...

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.

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