This dynamic, interactive and hands-on learning experience will: provide specific tools to help leaders better understand the causes of managerial failure; equip managers to better focus their people and themselves on desired outcomes; help leaders effectively equip their people to perform at higher levels; demonstrate the importance of creating a working environment that fosters better results; encouraging managers to maximize people power and will make a strong case for developing both people and processes in your quest for better results.

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.

In this session, women leaders will examine their own profile of success and areas for development. They will also focus on the key ingredients that continue to hold women back: not developing and articulating a leadership vision, not paying attention to the political landscape, and not strengthening the breadth and depth of relationships. They will leave this session with practical tools and individual insights to apply in their current roles.

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.

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 workshop is designed for individuals who want to advance their communication skills beyond presentation or platform skills. It is useful for any person in a communication rich job role. Based on research over the past fifty years, some of it original to the author, it demonstrates how the best communicators inform, persuade, negotiate, inspire, coach, discuss, or debate across all communication situations - small group, large group, one-on-one, email, internal messages, or external messages.

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.

These are challenging times in our business world today. The ways in we have taught our leaders to lead is simply not working. These times are calling for a new type of leader – one who is able to quickly see and radically accept the reality of the situation, conserve team energy, and use it instead to impact reality. Ms. Wakeman rocks audiences with her new wave of Reality-Based Leadership™.

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.

Successful advocates know how important it is to clearly communicate their ideas, how their reputations shape how people respond to their ideas, how they need to build partnerships and alliances with others in getting ideas adopted, how they must "pre-sell" any idea long before formal meetings, and how to be persuasive and influential in meetings. We will discuss new research on each of those topics - research that offers you interesting and surprising ways to champion innovations in your organization.

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.

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.