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March 22, 2010Leading vs. Managing The Difference Is Key to Your Success
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.
April 13, 2010Critical Decision Making The Role of Constructive Conflict
Through fascinating examples from history, including the Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, and the tragedy on Mount Everest, this workshop will explore the following: the five myths of executive decision making; how to foster open debate; how to achieve "diversity in counsel, unity in command"; how to move to closure: overcoming the inability to decide; avoiding "analysis paralysis" and other pitfalls; how to gain the whole-hearted commitment to act; and how to address hidden doubts that could undermine your final decision.
May 19, 2010Achieving Rapid Performance Improvement The Two Minute Drill Approach to Leadership
This seminar will explore how managers approach the process of change and guide them through a systematic analysis of how to accelerate real and rapid performance improvement. This dynamic hands-on and interactive learning experience will establish the numerous similarities between Rapid Performance Improvement and a Two-Minute Drill in American football. This parallel creates a powerful metaphor for leaders to make successful change happen faster.
June 9, 2010The One-Day MBA Tools for Making Better 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 to best be used to evaluate operating results.
July 22, 2010How to Profit from Challenging Conversations Fostering Excellence
It's tempting to avoid difficult conversations at work. They feel uncomfortable; they seem risky. The issue is how to conduct these conversations with skill. In this program, you'll identify a specific, challenging conversation that you intend to have at work in the next 30 days; then you'll learn the skills to manage it effectively. Throughout the workshop, you'll apply new tools, tactics and techniques to your situation. The purpose of the workshop is to jumpstart your conversation.
August 24, 2010Keeping It Simple Doing Less While Achieving More
Participants will examine the root causes of the overload (you own a lot more of that than you think you do!), and how to take back control, one day at a time. The tips, tools and next steps all come from years of researching how people just like you successfully managed their own workflow. But come prepared to be challenged. We will uncover and address your biggest limiting beliefs about control, time, workflow, getting everything done, and what truly matters.
September 22, 2010Using Political Intelligence to Build Relationships and Increase Your Influence
In this seminar, we will frankly discuss political challenges and identify the attitudes and skills needed to address them successfully. If you have to sell ideas to management, deal with difficult personalities, implement complex projects, or please demanding executives, then this workshop can help you achieve your goals. Through interactive activities, you will learn to increase your personal leverage, master the art of "managing up", and avoid career-killer behaviors.
October 21, 2010Breakthrough Ideas How to Think Strategically
This session will explore a break-through way of looking at strategy and focus on how we actually learn to think strategically. Four key issues are addressed in this seminar: Why do organizations need strategic thinkers? What is a strategic thinker? Who is a strategic thinker? And how can strategic thinking be developed? You'll learn to re-define your thinking about strategy and practice some techniques for becoming more agile and innovative in your thinking about strategy.
November 16, 2010Creating a Climate of Courage Keeping Your Organization Focused and Productive
This session focuses on what every leader can do within their organization to build leadership courage from the C-suites to the front lines which will address both customer needs and employee needs. Participants will learn the latest techniques for encouraging leadership courage in others (and to develop it themselves). Participants will learn how to apply key concepts, and create an organization that responds to change with flexibility and success.
December 7, 2010Taking Ownership of Your Success Personal Accountability, Your Team and You
Based on taking a Personal Accountability Assessment you will develop your personal vision of excellence and learn techniques for changing your "habits" of performance execution to achieve your goals. You will apply 3 keys for sustaining accountability during projects and change efforts including the development of "recovery plans", a process for holding others accountable and a technique for overcoming the "wall of fear".

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