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June 13, 2012
Acquiring the Leadership Attributes that Build High Performance
Today's organizations need leaders that can drive the business, lead the people and lead themselves. This session will examine the needs of the business, what people want from their leader and what qualities a leader has to motivate themselves. Participants will be able to assess themselves and identify the areas they need to develop to be more effective.
Mr. Paul Bridle
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July 17, 2012
The Idea-Driven Organization
Tapping Employee Ideas to Improve Performance
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.
Dr. Alan Robinson
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August 7, 2012
The One-Day MBA
Tools for Making the Best Decisions
All managers need a broad perspective to effectively deal with the complex challenges they face daily. To develop this skill, this one-day seminar presents many of the tools and techniques found in MBA programs today. Specifically, participants will examine how basic business processes drive financial results, learn how effective risk management can improve business planning and decision making, and explore how financial and non-financial measures can best be used to evaluate operating results.
Dr. Noah Barsky
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September 12, 2012
Managing Uncertainty
Using Dynamic Thinking to Improve Your Results
The uncertainties we face often obscure the best, most exciting opportunities available to us. Seeing beyond such uncertainties requires a very different approach to project management and implementation. Dr. Pearson's workshop will teach you how to: (1) develop and analyze multiple project scenarios; (2) craft nimble strategies with just the right amount of flexibility; (3) implement those strategies using an options approach; and (4) make real-time adjustments through dynamic monitoring.
Dr. Kathy Pearson
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October 3, 2012
Keeping People Motivated and Engaged in an Age of Instability
This program will focus on the key leadership skills necessary for you and your team to survive - and, yes, even thrive - in this age of instability. Specifically, this session focuses on strategies and techniques for communicating more effectively in times of change, including better ways to deliver bad news and ways to keep team performance strong in the face of adversity. We will identify motivational techniques that can sustain and energize your people - and yourself - in the most difficult of times.
Dr. Robert Bies
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November 7, 2012
Developing Resilience Skills for Work and for Life
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. This skill set has been used successfully by thousands of corporate managers to improve performance, positively impact the bottom line, relieve stress, and to ease tensions between work and home.
Dr. Andrew Shatté
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December 4, 2012
Candid Conversations
Discussing the "Hard Stuff"
Leadership ultimately comes down to conversation and connections, asking questions, listening to responses and consciously leveraging individual input and group conversation. In this seminar you will learn that all organizations have subjects that have become undiscussables and how to bring them to the surface. In this session, the group is guided through a highly interactive process of naming elephants, determining how they impact the organization and deciding what action to take.
Ms. Andrea Mayfield
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