Counter to what many think, personal branding is not about creating a false image for the outside world. It's about gaining clarity on your strengths, passions, values and skills and using this self-awareness to drive greater value for your career and the company. To achieve your goals, you must demonstrate your value through everything you do and make an indelible mark on your internal and external constituencies. You must build a powerful and pervasive reputation among team members and with everyone with whom you interact.

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 organisation would benefit from taking a fresh look at the following five key areas; Change, Relationships, Attitude, Motivation and Stress. Building on his background in behavioural and social psychology, he will give us time to reflect upon our behaviour 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 introduce you to best current thinking concerning strategy execution; it will explore best practices across diverse industries, and, importantly, it will introduce you to diagnostic frameworks that you can apply to "live" business issues. Emphasis will be placed on three inter-related areas: 1. increasing your "execution IQ"; 2. identifying and managing "strategy accelerators"; and 3. "execution driven leadership practices". This seminar is designed as a master class for both executives and high potential managers.

As the business environment continues to change, emotional intelligence skills will become increasingly important in determining who succeeds and who fails. This presentation will help participants develop the emotional intelligence competencies required by a position of leadership. Participants will assess, develop, and apply their own emotional intelligence and will learn how to cultivate emotional intelligence in their organization.

One of the top problems in the work world today is the failure to distinguish what is "noticed" (the facts of the situation) from what is "imagined" (opinions, thoughts, evaluations, conclusions). Think of how often people operate and make decisions as if their opinions are fact rather than exploring the real truth. This misdiagnosis becomes even more exacerbated when people have different agendas, goals, and backgrounds. This workshop will demonstrate tools and techniques for improving open, honest communication and provide a forum to practice them.

The purpose of this session is to show attendees how their organizations can use desktop tools to make better decisions in a wide area of business problems. With the ability to change parameters easily and conduct "what if?" analyses, attendees will see how sensitivity analysis can be used to gain valuable insights into the economic implications of the solutions. Bottom line: Executives and managers will gain an excellent appreciation for how desktop tools can be used to improve the quality of decisions made in their companies.

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.

In this seminar, Mr. Krippendorff teaches the five key strategies that have been proven to drive growth, and will show participants how to build their own organizational playbook filled with time-tested approaches. This unique program blends fundamental strategic concepts with cognitive science, systems thinking, and Eastern philosophy into a practical set of tools. Mr. Krippendorff will introduce the role that strategic narratives play in business strategy, and attendees will leave with a set of tools to help them consistently identify and seize opportunities others overlook.

In a VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity) world, you must rethink and abandon many of the command-and-control notions of leadership learned in more predictable conditions. This program will explore the latest research on the neuroscience of change and how the brain attempts to make sense of complex situations and learn the skills, behaviors and best practices to improve their leadership effectiveness in times of rapid change, unpredictable outcomes, intricate marketplace dynamics and fuzzy intelligence.

In this practical program, you'll also learn how to use timely information, sincere acknowledgement and targeted questions to influence your people's opinions and decisions. You'll explore how ego and issue stakes can help you adjust your influence strategy. Learn how to overcome resistance with appropriate and timely criticism balanced by support. You'll learn how to take a stand and confront problems in a way that builds your relationships.

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.

A profile of "Coaching for Behavioral Change" will be presented and participants will learn the latest techniques for encouraging feedback to develop others (and to develop themselves). The concept of empowerment will be analyzed from a practical, real-world perspective. Participants will learn how to apply key concepts, and the latest research on feedback and follow-up will be used to show how leaders can coach in a way that produces guaranteed results for both individuals and teams.