This program will focus on the key leadership skills necessary for you and your team to survive - and, yes, even thrive - in this age of instability. Specifically, this session focuses on strategies and techniques for communicating more effectively in times of change, including better ways to deliver bad news and ways to keep team performance strong in the face of adversity. We will identify motivational techniques that can sustain and energize your people - and yourself - in the most difficult of times.

In a world whose course is uncertain, how can a corporation or business capture a disproportionate share of the future value to be created as their industry evolves? This is the key strategic challenge for corporate and business leaders. The objective of this one day seminar will be to explore the ways in which US or European based businesses attempt to meet this challenge. The seminar will be positioned at the intersection of strategy, leadership and finance, and will rely heavily upon the exploration of best practices.

Collaboration has never been more important than it is in today's challenging business environment. Collaboration increases engagement, innovation, productivity, and organizational competitiveness. But collaboration doesn't happen without great leadership. Collaborative leaders must understand how to create an environment in which people choose to participate and contribute. Inspiring, interactive and energizing, this session will give you the insight and skills to build collaborative relationships within your team and throughout the organization.

In this very experiential seminar, top executive coach and inspirational speaker Manfred van Doorn will examine what distinguishes great leaders from merely good ones and what kinds of principles are essential to truly great leadership. Participants will also explore what concrete changes they need to make in their own leadership styles if they are to mature and develop as leaders, and along the way they will be treated to a lively set of examples from documentaries and movies.

Personal success and fulfillment requires you to learn how to think like an innovator; and innovation is now more important than ever. This program introduces Edison's Five Competencies of Innovation. They are: (1) Solution-Centered Mindset; (2) Kaleidoscopic Thinking; (3) Full-Spectrum Engagement; (4) Master Mind Collaboration; and (5) Super-Value Creation. Each competency will be brought to life with specific, practical "take-home" applications. This program is readily adaptable to specific organizational challenges.

This course demonstrates that all companies may be viewed as 'people businesses' and that managing financial capital is equivalent to managing human capital for bottom-line results. The foundation on which this proposition rests is 'employee engagement'. There is overwhelming evidence in the academic and professional literature showing the linkage between employee engagement and shareholder value creation. Hence the identification and management of the main drivers of employee engagement are necessary for bottom-line results.

Effective coaching requires leaders to establish meaningful relationships in which they can engage in uniquely positive, candid and demanding conversations aimed at producing significant performance improvements. This seminar incorporates the very best practices employed by professional coaches and draws upon our extensive knowledge of experiential leadership development. Taught through a series of lectures, interactive exercises and practices, workshop participants will also be guided through The Leader As Coach model.

Participants will examine the root causes of the overload (you own a lot more of that than you think you do!), and how to take back control, one day at a time. The tips, tools and next steps all come from years of researching how people just like you successfully managed their own workflow. But come prepared to be challenged. We will uncover and address your biggest limiting beliefs about control, time, workflow, getting everything done, and what truly matters.

Prof. Gordon Hewitt will lay out a practical framework that demands a fundamental rethinking of: (1) what competition is now all about in today's complex global markets; (2) what strategy needs to be about, and how to give it credibility; and (3) what top managers need to do to steer their companies through uncharted competitive territory. Prof. Hewitt will also demonstrate why retreating to the "core" and improving incremental efficiency is not good enough.