Leading From a Distance focuses on the factors that are most important for remote leadership and provides practical tools and guidelines that virtual team leaders can use to enhance their own and their team's effectiveness. Leading From a Distance is based on OnPoint's groundbreaking global study which identified the factors that differentiate the most effective virtual leaders and geographically dispersed teams.

This interactive program will take you through an effective and immediately useful education that instills personal accountability in the work environment. When the learning is applied and the three tools are used, personal accountability will result in less time spent managing and more time coaching and mentoring. You will take an Accountability Assessment on-line that starts your learning journey and receive feedback on the results at the session.

Successful organizations operate on the edge of chaos and embrace risk, error, and ambiguity, while practicing strategies that reduce the need for doing, undoing, and redoing. You will learn key strategies and practical tools to give you the adaptive capacity to work creatively with change and uncertainty. We will discuss strategies for tapping the human potential for creative thinking, from the inception of ideas to their transformation into practical business strategies and innovations.

In this highly interactive and practical workshop, Mr. McGee will explore his main SUMO (Shut Up, Move On) principles and how they impact our ability to inspire others. His principles relate to any leader whose organization would benefit from taking a fresh look at the following five key areas; Change, Relationships, Attitude, Motivation and Stress. Building on his background in behavioral and social psychology, he will give us time to reflect upon our behavior and that of others and identify what hinders our effectiveness.

This is a highly interactive program with numerous opportunities for participants to adapt the content to their work situations. Participants will learn: 

(1) Benefits of and practices of highly effective teachers, coaches and mentors; 

(2) The importance of storytelling and how to leverage stories for teachable points; 

(3) 12 multi-purpose teaching and facilitating methods; 

(4) How to implement a peer coaching process; and 

(5) Different forms and best practices of effective mentoring.

This seminar will focus on understanding "blindspots" that lead to poor decision-making by executives and remedies that can mitigate the damage in organizations. After a discussion on the latest theoretical findings on this topic, the participants will work in teams to develop stories of blindspots at work based upon their experience (and/or current news stories). They (with the assistance of Dr. Friga) will also present tactical suggestions on how they could have been avoided (and will be avoided moving forward).

In this program you’ll discover your own clear sense of purpose and ignite an invigorating, contagious enthusiasm that never fizzles out. You’ll boost your own self-confidence, deflect the negativity around you, take smart risks, and achieve your goals … without losing your balance. In essence, you’ll learn to set an example that is worth following.