This program will focus on strategies and tactics for coaching two key employee groups found in every organization: the 'high-potentials' and the 'B and C' players. High potential employees have different needs than the B and C players on your team. This session will focus on how to coach, motivate and develop each individual on your team for maximum effectiveness. Participants will learn systems and methods to develop high potentials for current and future success. We will also analyze coaching techniques designed to get the most from B and C players. Attendees will learn how to apply these concepts to engage and motivate every member of your team.

Strengthen your ability to effectively plan and execute products that successfully deliver organization goals and benefits. Learn to use best practice methods for turning good ideas into executable plans, even with complex and difficult issues. This session equips leaders and teams at all levels with a proven approach for planning and executing critical products and projects, based on concepts from Terry Schmidt's breakthrough book Strategic Project Management Made Simple: Practical Tools for Leaders and Teams (Wiley, 2009).

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.

In this session you will learn 7 skills to boost your leadership abilities and to foster an atmosphere of your resilience for and in those you lead. You will receive a personal profile of your strengths and weaknesses across the 5 strengths that make an excellent and resilient leader - Integrity, Mentoring, Aligned Values, Results, & Connection to the job. This profile will direct your customized learning as you practice the leadership skills. In this fun and interactive session, what you learn about yourself as a leader will be revealing.

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.

Counter to what many think, personal branding is not about creating a false image for the outside world. It's about gaining clarity on your strengths, passions, values and skills and using this self-awareness to drive greater value for your career and the company. To achieve your goals, you must demonstrate your value through everything you do and make an indelible mark on your internal and external constituencies. You must build a powerful and pervasive reputation among team members and with everyone with whom you interact.

This session will help participants define and distinguish leadership and management responsibilities in a technical or professional group or team. The session will also address how to first understand and then adapt to some of the unique motivational interests and viewpoints among technical and professional experts a leader is likely to encounter. Those in lead positions, technical project managers or those who have recently moved into managing a technical or professional function will find this session most helpful.

This is a highly interactive program with numerous opportunities for participants to adapt the content to their work situations. Participants will learn: (1) benefits of and practices of highly effective teachers, coaches and mentors; (2) The importance of storytelling and how to leverage stories for teachable points; (3) 12 multi-purpose teaching and facilitating methods; (4) how to implement a peer coaching process; and (5) different forms and best practices of effective mentoring.

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.

One of the top problems in the work world today is the failure to distinguish what is "noticed" (the facts of the situation) from what is "imagined" (opinions, thoughts, evaluations, conclusions). Think of how often people operate and make decisions as if their opinions are fact rather than exploring the real truth. This misdiagnosis becomes even more exacerbated when people have different agendas, goals, and backgrounds. This workshop will demonstrate tools and techniques for improving open, honest communication and provide a forum to practice them.

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.