Today's rapidly changing workplace requires managers to leverage the talents and brain power of their team members. This energizing, highly interactive session will provide you with practical tips, tools, and proven strategies for developing powerful interpersonal skills. You will learn how to fulfill the potential of yourself and your team members, increase the level of trust, boost morale, and build a peak performance workplace.

Recent research suggests that criticism is perhaps the most powerful and neglected business skill, that it causes more conflicts at work than disputes over power, pay, and promotion, and that most of us are inept at giving and taking criticism productively. This intense program will focus on how to transform the necessary exchange of criticism from a taboo act and a destructive and demoralizing encounter into a positive, motivating, mutually beneficial experience that encourages trust, heightens self-esteem, and boosts productivity.

Influential and successful leaders like Eleanor Roosevelt or Washington Post publisher, Katharine Graham, were true to their core values and beliefs. They led through personal conviction, gaining power beyond their formal authority. Participants will examine their personal value propositions, assess their strengths and identify their leadership style. Questions and practice sessions will focus on leadership challenges drawn from participants' experience. Participants will leave this session empowered to be authentic leaders.

In this workshop you will practice new ways to think, and to apply these techniques to a current challenge you're facing. We'll begin by clearly defining a specific business result you would like to achieve in the next 90 days. It could be resolving a problem, leveraging an opportunity, or promoting an innovation. Then, through a variety of different exercises - carefully balanced between group work and individual reflection - you'll practice 10 techniques for advancing your result.