This workshop adjusts attitudes about power and politics, confronts naiveté about organizational dynamics, and provides practical strategies for building organizational impact. Those strategies include ethical lobbying, addressing hidden agendas, promoting yourself with integrity, and respecting turf and ego. This session is designed to benefit those well-intentioned individuals whose lack of political skills leaves them vulnerable to being underestimated, sabotaged, and denied credit for their ideas and work.

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.

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.

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".