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February 16, 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.
March 15, 2012Creating Your Own Success The Power of a Positive Attitude
This session is a unique, comprehensive habit-improvement program that mentally, physically, and emotionally improves your sphere of living. The program teaches specific techniques for making this an automatic part of your subconscious mind. It will help you eliminate self-defeating behavior and improve your self-confidence through positive, success-generating habits, putting you on the road to greater achievement and a more rewarding life. This one-day format highlights the popular three-day Successful Life Course featured positively on CBS News' 60 Minutes.
March 29, 2012Critical Thinking A Model for Avoiding Common Decision Traps
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.
April 17, 2012The Leader’s Voice Communication That Inspires Action and Gets Results
This workshop is designed for individuals who want to advance their communication skills beyond presentation or platform skills. It is useful for any person in a communication rich job role. Based on research over the past fifty years, some of it original to the author, it demonstrates how the best communicators inform, persuade, negotiate, inspire, coach, discuss, or debate across all communication situations - small group, large group, one-on-one, email, internal messages, or external messages.
May 1, 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.
May 24, 2012Challenging Conversations How to Listen and Speak with Confidence
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.
June 12, 2012Break Through the Overwhelm Focusing on Work that Makes a Difference
What if you, your team and your organization could do more Great Work and less of the busywork? In this practical, interactive workshop you'll: Come to grips with the difference between Good Work and Great Work; Understand the key three characteristics you need to do more Great Work; Find clues to your own Great Work; Tap into the power of projectization; Learn how to better balance the demands of your organization; and Identify five practical ways to stop the busywork.
July 17, 2012No Nonsense, No Excuses How Personal Accountability Promotes Success
This interactive program will take you through an effective and immediately useful education that instills personal accountability in the work environment. When the learning is applied and the three tools are used, personal accountability will result in less time spent managing and more time coaching and mentoring. You will take an Accountability Assessment on-line that starts your learning journey and receive feedback on the results at the session.
August 14, 2012Effective Conflict Resolution An Essential Leadership Asset
How a leader manages conflict and facilitates its resolution directly impacts the bottom line and the performance of those they lead. This hands-on course will prepare leaders to do three things: (1) to understand their conflict styles, strengths and areas for development; (2) to learn and apply three tools for effective conflict resolution; and (3) to reflect on and plan for managing an actual conflict they are experiencing in the workplace.
September 19, 2012Exploring New Mindsets for a New World The Changing Rules of Strategy
Prof. Gordon Hewitt will lay out a practical framework that demands a fundamental rethinking of: (1) what competition is now all about in today's complex global markets; (2) what strategy needs to be about, and how to give it credibility; and (3) what top managers need to do to steer their companies through uncharted competitive territory. Prof. Hewitt will also demonstrate why retreating to the "core" and improving incremental efficiency is not good enough.
September 28, 2012Political Savvy Advance Your Career by Expanding Your Influence
This seminar vividly brings to life the interplay of power, politics and influence - both upward and across the organization. We will debunk the stereotype of politics as emerging from an unethical manipulative underworld. The key is to know the strategies that enhance our impact on the organization. These strategies work hand-in-hand with the personal characteristics and tactics of leadership that we may already possess. Participants will learn to diagnose political styles and map political terrains.
October 16, 2012The SUMO Principles of Leadership
In this highly interactive and practical workshop, Mr. McGee will explore his main SUMO (Shut Up, Move On) principles and how they impact our ability to inspire others. His principles relate to any leader whose organisation would benefit from taking a fresh look at the following five key areas; Change, Relationships, Attitude, Motivation and Stress. Building on his background in behavioural and social psychology, he will give us time to reflect upon our behaviour and that of others and identify what hinders our effectiveness.
November 14, 2012Championing Your Ideas at Work Becoming Your Own Best Advocate
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.
December 5, 2012Reaching for the Next Level The Key Is Motivation, Cooperation and Trust
The best companies know they must engage the entire employee. To do that, however, the company must build a high-achievement, trust-filled culture. If that's what you want, this program is for you. Rather than focus on dry theory and speculation, this program will provide the exact tools you need to create the work environment you want. You will learn simple but powerful skills that you can take back to the job and use immediately. You will learn how to build trust, inspire others, and invite their full cooperation.

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