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.

The Accelerating Implementation Methodology (AIM) is a systematic and structured process for managing the human elements of all kinds of large-scale organizational changes, such as mergers/acquisitions, organizational restructurings, culture changes, and Lean implementations. By predicting, managing and expediting the human elements of these changes, step-by-step, managers and executives can have more impact with less effort. Organizations can target their scarce resources to have maximum impact and accelerate Return on Investment.

This practical seminar develops skills for planning, leading, and following up on Candor Conversations about expectations and agreements. We tackle both the smoother, preventive discussions around clear upfront Agreements, as well as the most stressful of work discussions - Constructive Confrontations. We'll provide antidotes for someone repeatedly breaking an agreement - instead of giving up, blowing up at the person, or burying the issue.

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.

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.

Organizing your objectives and commitments is a basic requirement for effective work. However, most models for doing this do not stand up to the speed, volume and intensity of transactions of sophisticated professionals. This workshop will define a workable method for "clearing the decks": freeing up your attention to maintain strategic focus, balance and creative thinking, and as a means of ensuring that things really get done.

This program is aimed at both new and experienced managers and leaders-from team and functional managers through more seasoned executives, as well as the coaches who work with these individuals, and it is designed to have immediate practical application. As a result of the program, you will help ensure your success during the critical transition into a new leadership role, minimize common derailing factors and accelerate your learning curve. You will also practice and take away a minimum of six tools that you can use tomorrow.

In the age of empowerment, teamwork and constant change, there is no more valuable skill for leaders to develop than effective communication. In this workshop you will learn how to quickly connect with an audience, how to sell people on listening, how to keep your presentation from sounding rehearsed even when it is, and how to craft a message that gets results. You'll learn how to deal with tough audiences and how to use humor, participation and stories effectively.

Passionately devoted customers see value in highly emotional and experiential terms. Their word-of-mouth advocacy will enhance your unit's reputation, giving you greater resources, the very best people, and access to the key influencers in your organization. This session reveals the factors essential to creating passionately devoted customers--internal or external. This fast-paced, highly interactive seminar leaves participants with exciting insights and relevant tools ready to be implemented the day after.

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 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.

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.

Personal success and fulfillment requires you to learn how to think like an innovator; and innovation is now more important than ever. This program introduces Edison's Five Competencies of Innovation. They are: (1) Solution-Centered Mindset; (2) Kaleidoscopic Thinking; (3) Full-Spectrum Engagement; (4) Master Mind Collaboration; and (5) Super-Value Creation. Each competency will be brought to life with specific, practical "take-home" applications. This program is readily adaptable to specific organizational challenges.

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.

The most capable don't always succeed; the ones who project their ability do. In this seminar you'll acquire new tools to develop your own style of strong and direct executive effectiveness and leadership. You'll become even more memorable, impressive, credible, genuine, trusted, liked, cool, calm, confident, charismatic, and competent in your professional and personal life.

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.

As the business environment continues to change, emotional intelligence skills will become increasingly important in determining who succeeds and who fails. This presentation will help participants develop the emotional intelligence competencies required by a position of leadership. Participants will assess, develop, and apply their own emotional intelligence and will learn how to cultivate emotional intelligence in their organization.

This program is dedicated to simplifying strategy around 4 Ps - Positioning, Priorities, Payments, and Performance. Using the latest strategic frameworks utilized by the Fortune 500 corporations and the world's most prestigious consulting firms, complemented by case studies and current news stories, we will develop those strategic capabilities necessary to be a successful business leader today.