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.

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.

This program introduces a dynamic approach to collaboration: Collaborative Competition™, which is founded on the principle that competition can be an opportunity to learn, evolve and excel - and it can be a collaborative experience. Collaborative Competition™ originated in competitive sports where athletes form alliances with diverse colleagues, and it has been proven equally effective for leaders in all industries as a core strategy for enhancing performance and team results.

Expand your reach and vision beyond the boundaries of your own efforts! Achieve your objectives with the assistance of others! Develop your skills, confidence and determination as you explore the amazing designs and practical patterns of the Art of Persuasion. In this seminar, you will learn to approach people with an ability to hear what has not been said, an awareness of what moves and motivates, a determination that what gets communicated is exactly what you intend, and the confidence to get it across in a compelling and meaningful way.

This seminar will focus on understanding "blindspots" that lead to poor decision-making by executives and remedies that can mitigate the damage in organizations. After a discussion on the latest theoretical findings on this topic, the participants will work in teams to develop stories of blindspots at work based upon their experience (and/or current news stories). They (with the assistance of Dr. Friga) will also present tactical suggestions on how they could have been avoided (and will be avoided moving forward).

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.

Effective coaching requires leaders to establish meaningful relationships in which they can engage in uniquely positive, candid and demanding conversations aimed at producing significant performance improvements. This seminar incorporates the very best practices employed by professional coaches and draws upon our extensive knowledge of experiential leadership development. Taught through a series of lectures, interactive exercises and practices, workshop participants will also be guided through The Leader As Coach model.

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.

The purpose of this session is to provide managers from all departments with an understanding of financial reports, financial performance measures (ratio analysis), financial markets (risk and return measures) and the integration of finance and operations. The session is intended for middle and senior managers interested in how financial management can impact their decisions and opportunities. The session assumes no prior background in finance.

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.