With the increasing speed, complexity and data availability in today's competitive environment, superior decision skills are more important than ever. This workshop will help you improve your decision making skills by offering behavioral insights into how people actually think and make decisions. It then teaches the advanced critical thinking skills and creative strategies needed to manage unfamiliar, highly complex problems or decisions that involve significant uncertainty.

The marketplace is filled with "motivational myths" that are nothing more than dead ends on your road to success. They simply don't work. In this highly interactive program, you will learn what works and doesn't work in the field of personal achievement. You will learn time-tested, research-proven strategies that engage the full and willing cooperation of others; and you will leave the program with a set of simple, powerful, transformational skills that you can use immediately.

In this session you will learn about the fundamental human behavioral styles, how those styles have different communication preferences, and how we can tap that knowledge to connect with persons of any preferred communication style. Participants will learn a proven five step approach that will enable them to speak so that audience members will listen, learn how to listen themselves, and also how to use this knowledge in "difficult" one-on-one conversations.

This session will focus on how to be an effective coach. A profile of "Coaching for Behavioral Change" will be presented and participants will learn the latest techniques for encouraging feedback to develop others (and to develop themselves). Participants will learn how to apply key concepts. The latest research on feedback and follow-up will be used to show leaders how to coach in a way that produces "guaranteed" results for both individuals and teams.

This dynamic, highly-interactive program brings da Vinci's genius to life through fascinating biographical and historical information, setting the stage for an introduction to seven principles for thinking "a la Leonardo." Participants will learn how to cultivate creativity every day, balance analysis with imagination, sustain continuous learning, embrace ambiguity and uncertainty, apply "systems thinking" to problem solving, and nurture creativity and innovation in the workplace.

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.