This seminar will show you how the best managers and organizations encourage, collect and implement large numbers of employee ideas. It will show you the principles involved, the benefits you can expect, and the pitfalls you could meet along the way and how to avoid them. Front-line ideas are a powerful engine that can help you attain performance excellence and generate sustainable competitive advantage. The best leading indicator of your unit's future performance is the number of implemented ideas you are getting right now.

Through fascinating examples from history, including the Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, and the tragedy on Mount Everest, this workshop will explore the following: the five myths of executive decision making; how to foster open debate; how to achieve "diversity in counsel, unity in command"; how to move to closure: overcoming the inability to decide; avoiding "analysis paralysis" and other pitfalls; how to gain the whole-hearted commitment to act; and how to address hidden doubts that could undermine your final decision.

The 5 P's of Leadership Brand® are Persona, Product, Packaging, Promotion and Permission. Each is explored in-depth, and leadership challenges that exist in each are discussed. Participants identify their 'achievable ideal' brand, and articulate it as a future target. Areas of developmental focus are identified (to move from current brand to future brand), and action planning in a live, round-robin format, takes place. Participants leave with specific next steps they can put into practice immediately following the session.

In this workshop you will practice new ways to think, and to apply these techniques to a current challenge you're facing. We'll begin by clearly defining a specific business result you would like to achieve in the next 90 days. It could be resolving a problem, leveraging an opportunity, or promoting an innovation. Then, through a variety of different exercises - carefully balanced between group work and individual reflection - you'll practice 10 techniques for advancing your result.

In this session you will learn 7 skills to boost your leadership abilities and to foster an atmosphere of your resilience for and in those you lead. You will receive a personal profile of your strengths and weaknesses across the 5 strengths that make an excellent and resilient leader - Integrity, Mentoring, Aligned Values, Results, & Connection to the job. This profile will direct your customized learning as you practice the leadership skills. In this fun and interactive session, what you learn about yourself as a leader will be revealing.

Renowned as an original thinker and thought leader in the fields of creative thinking and innovative leadership, Michael J. Gelb now brings his unique and compelling perspective to help you become a more effective communicator. For more than 30 years, Michael has consulted with organizations globally to help leaders develop the influence, persuasion and people management skills that facilitate creative change. He is the author of Present Yourself: Captivate Your Audience with Great Presentation Skills.

The five forces that will disrupt industries in the next decade are: Technology, Institutional change, Demographics, the Environment and shifting Societal values. These are the T.I.D.E.S. of change. This workshop includes well researched insights into the near future, packaged together with key trends, relevant and interesting facts, case studies and multi-media clips, and lots of opportunity for discussion. Detailed video introduction is available at: http://tinyurl.com/tidesvideo

The focus of this course is on managing the myriad of details that go into an effective work day and a successful professional career. Learn what top performers know, do and say about professional productivity and effective leadership. Organize your ideas, projects and tasks and learn how to prioritize meetings, emails, and professional goals. Practice specific time and action management strategies you can implement immediately at your desk and with your team.

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.

This seminar on "Contextual Leadership" will examine the personal, organizational, cultural and global variables that demand different leadership styles in different situations. Dr. Rhinesmith will use his experience, plus his research to illustrate ways in which leaders today need to adapt different styles for different contexts to be successful. He will also discuss what needs to be done to develop leaders who are able to switch from one context to another.

Fortune Magazine estimates that 70% of all strategies fail. Failure often occurs because of ineffective planning methods for turning strategies into executable projects. This session offers a breakthrough planning approach for clearly aligning projects with strategic intent to boost your odds of project success. You will learn a common language and a step-by-step process for designing successful projects, programs, and change initiatives.

Successful advocates know how important it is to clearly communicate their ideas, how their reputations shape how people respond to their ideas, how they need to build partnerships and alliances with others in getting ideas adopted, how they must "pre-sell" any idea long before formal meetings, and how to be persuasive and influential in meetings. We will discuss new research on each of those topics - research that offers you interesting and surprising ways to champion innovations in your organization.