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February 15, 2012Dealing with Difficult People
Dealing with people at their worst is something we all do everyday, but that doesn't make it any easier. In this humorous, informative seminar, Dr. Kirschner shows you how to take the pain out of dealing with problem people by revealing the attitudes and behaviors that will help you solve people problems. This presentation shifts the focus from being reactive to proactive, from struggling with people to building relationships with them, from seeing what's wrong to doing what is right.
March 7, 2012Executive Presence Positioning Yourself for Success
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.
April 5, 2012Getting Outstanding Results Five Absolutes for Achieving High Performance
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.
April 18, 2012Strategy Execution Alternative Frameworks and Best Practices
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.
May 16, 2012Breakthrough Thinking for Breakthrough Results
In this workshop you will practice new ways to think, and to apply these techniques to a current challenge you're facing. We'll begin by clearly defining a specific business result you would like to achieve in the next 90 days. It could be resolving a problem, leveraging an opportunity, or promoting an innovation. Then, through a variety of different exercises - carefully balanced between group work and individual reflection - you'll practice 10 techniques for advancing your result.
June 13, 2012Acquiring 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.
July 17, 2012The 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.
August 7, 2012The 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.
September 12, 2012Managing 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.
October 3, 2012Keeping 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.
November 7, 2012Developing 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.
December 4, 2012Candid 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.

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