Magnovo Training Group

Magnovo—the word sounds like it has an ancient meaning; but its meaning has grown out of what the company does. So Magnovo means professional development and superlative team building. Executive presence coaching and effective conflict management training. That’s Magnovo. Since Jackson started, the corporate American landscape has changed, and so has the need for innovative leadership skills, team building strategies, and conflict management acumen. Jackson’s mastery of DiSC personality profiling as well as his innate ability to “get” where Millennials are coming from has made him and his team indispensable to many Fortune 500 CEOs around the country.

Team building in a pandemic: COVID-19 is the catalyst for a whole new business model in terms of training and reinforcing policies, rules, and regulations. With people sheltering in place and working from home, everything from recruitment to termination is being reinvented. Employee training, supervision, and evaluations must be completely tailored to suit home environments where parents are working and children may be home-schooled in the same room. Workstation configurations and cybersecurity must be addressed in these living spaces. Experts predict that businesses of all sizes will have to incorporate gamification tools to train and supervise employees in living spaces where they may be easily distracted. Gaming tools must be designed and developed with easy learning curves in order to facilitate the retention of important information and the mastery of new work assignments as needed. Magnovo is well ahead of the current gamification curve and has been for years.

“The truth is, Magnovo is as much about charitable giving and corporate social responsibility as it is about leadership development among the titans of industry in corporate America.” And gamification—that is, friendly competitive activities between small teams—has been part of his team building strategy from the start. As Jackson puts it, “The words ‘team building activity’ can send shudders of horror and dread through the hearts of many corporate workers. But our activities are user-friendly, fun, and best of all geared toward each team ‘winning’ gifts to donate to needy families in each company’s hometown. “Food, sports gear, school supplies, stuffed toys, bikes,wagons, wheelchairs—we match each team’s passions with families in need. This puts a whole new spin on ‘team building’ for our clients because absolutely nobody can resist the chance to make a real difference in another person’s life. So our games and charitable workshops are our most popular events.”