As a leader, you will be expected to influence others, including your team, your superiors, and managers in different departments, as you build support for change and implement new programs. This seminar will examine the qualities and skills of leaders who get "extraordinary" things done under tight time and resource constraints. We will discuss how to get people to embrace change, how to build trust and credibility, how to manage the politics of relationships, and how to inspire those around you to follow your lead.

We all face change every day. This seminar will help us better understand dramatic change and, more importantly, learn how to use that understanding to gain a competitive advantage. This practical and stimulating session will highlight opportunities for substantial productivity improvement even when faced with dwindling resources. Attendees will learn how to introduce change with minimal resistance, anticipate dramatic shifts, and discover the powerful role of leadership and vision during turbulent times.

This workshop offers a fresh and engaging look at emotional intelligence (EI). After exploring some of the theory behind EI, over the course of the day, participants will form small groups and examine, from a personal perspective, the core traits and capabilities that are part of EI. In these exercises participants will try to explore their own strengths and weaknesses in relation to the various components of EI, such as emotional self-awareness and empathy.

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.

This highly interactive workshop will focus on how we can manage differences in open and honest ways without conflict or argument. Shay McConnon combines academic theory and practical experience to bring fresh insights to work and domestic relationships with lots of humour and audience participation. This high energy, content rich workshop is packed with practical, workable ideas. Delegates will take away new approaches and imaginative solutions they can use immediately.

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 session will help participants define and distinguish leadership and management responsibilities in a technical or professional group or team. The session will also address how to first understand and then adapt to some of the unique motivational interests and viewpoints among technical and professional experts a leader is likely to encounter. Those in lead positions, technical project managers or those who have recently moved into managing a technical or professional function will find this session most helpful.

The marketplace is filled with "motivational myths" that are nothing more than dead ends on your road to success. They simply don't work. In this highly interactive program, you will learn what works and doesn't work in the field of personal achievement. You will learn time-tested, research-proven strategies that engage the full and willing cooperation of others; and you will leave the program with a set of simple, powerful, transformational skills that you can use immediately.

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.