The High Performing Teams program is designed for team members seeking to increase their available skill set, team leaders seeking to move their team to a higher level of performance, and senior executives with an interest in expanding teamwork throughout their organization. Participants will learn to reduce coordination costs and improve effectiveness of team decisions, recognize and overcome common group decision-making biases, and align team efforts with client and organizational demands.

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 session will cover high-impact strategies to influence and gain commitment from others effectively. The session will be highly interactive and provide practical tools and techniques to enhance your ability to gain support for your ideas and initiatives. Participants will complete the Influence With Impact self-assessment to better understand which influence tactics they use most frequently. Case studies will provide an opportunity for participants to practice using the key concepts and models before applying them to an on-the-job situation.

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.

This session focuses providing a concrete definition of executive presence and a nine dimension model for creating a more complete expression of it. Using discussion, video illustration, and small group activities, participants see exactly what others are looking for when evaluating executive presence and the specific things that can be done to improve the expression of it. They also see how authenticity, skill, and balance in expressing the nine dimensions provide the foundation for great leadership.

Effective leaders empower people in a way that prompts them to take ownership for their role and responsibility for their actions. Leaders also know what they need to do to get people to respond to them. What do successful organizations do to create in their people the ability to take ownership? How do leaders move from managing to leading so that people will follow? This session will not only give an insight into what successful organizations do, but will give practical tips on how to achieve it.

The objectives of this program are to provide participants with an understanding of negotiation and what makes a negotiator successful; to give participants the behavioral tools, strategies and tactics needed to create a win-win outcome; and, finally, to improve the negotiation skills of participants through an in-depth negotiation exercise where they will negotiate a work-related situation.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Critical Thinking describes the mental process of determining what to believe and what to do about our beliefs. Strategic Thinking applies this process to the future of the organization. This "minds on" workshop enhances the ability of the participants to think strategically by taking them through the seven components of a comprehensive process and providing tools and techniques to accomplish each of the components while considering their organization's multiple futures.