Influential and successful leaders like Eleanor Roosevelt or Washington Post publisher, Katharine Graham, were true to their core values and beliefs. They led through personal conviction, gaining power beyond their formal authority. Participants will examine their personal value propositions, assess their strengths and identify their leadership style. Questions and practice sessions will focus on leadership challenges drawn from participants' experience. Participants will leave this session empowered to be authentic leaders.

(Note: Participants are asked to complete online prework for this session at least one week in advance.) Participants will discover how to improve their problem solving, creative thinking effectiveness, management approach, communication impact, strategic thinking skills, leadership of diverse people and increase business growth in a slowing economy. Participants will receive a comprehensive full color personal profile report at the session after completing the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument® - HBDI® online.

This program will examine some key ways in which generations differ and how we can avoid some the 'traps' of intergenerational stereotyping as we seek to build effective working relationships. We shall explore how age-diversity is driving new employer/employee expectations and what we can do to manage these expectations, as well as how our own preferences, values, and backgrounds can help or hinder our effectiveness in communicating and working intergenerationally.

The focus of this seminar is on planning, organizational design and human resource decisions that are critical to the successful implementation of strategy. We will develop a logical model of key implementation activities, with emphasis on understanding the important steps in the implementation process. Upon completion of this seminar, you will be better able to identify the structural and planning decisions that affect the attainment of strategic objectives.

Recent research suggests that criticism is perhaps the most powerful and neglected business skill, that it causes more conflicts at work than disputes over power, pay, and promotion, and that most of us are inept at giving and taking criticism productively. This intense program will focus on how to transform the necessary exchange of criticism from a taboo act and a destructive and demoralizing encounter into a positive, motivating, mutually beneficial experience that encourages trust, heightens self-esteem, and boosts productivity.

More than ever, resilience is a critical competency at work, at home, and in balancing the two. In this session you will learn 7 skills to change your thinking for greater resilience. You will receive a personal profile of your strengths and weaknesses across the 7 inner strengths that make up resilience. This will direct your learning in the session as you practice the resilience skills. Decades of research show the power of our thinking to influence what we feel and what we do.

Organizing your objectives and commitments is a basic requirement for effective work. However, most models for doing this do not stand up to the speed, volume and intensity of transactions of sophisticated professionals. This workshop will define a workable method for "clearing the decks": freeing up your attention to maintain strategic focus, balance and creative thinking, and as a means of ensuring that things really get done.