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.

Today's leaders are faced with a daunting challenge: maintaining performance and profitability while at the same time evolving their organizations to accommodate the new structures and technologies demanded by the networked economy. This highly interactive workshop will help leaders to assess their personal readiness - and that of their organization - to take advantage of the opportunities presented in today's unprecedented environment of change and innovation.

This seminar will explore how managers approach the process of change and guide them through a systematic analysis of how to accelerate real and rapid performance improvement. This dynamic hands-on and interactive learning experience will establish the numerous similarities between Rapid Performance Improvement and a Two-Minute Drill in American football. This parallel creates a powerful metaphor for leaders to make successful change happen faster.

Effective coaching requires leaders to establish meaningful relationships in which they can engage in uniquely positive, candid and demanding conversations aimed at producing significant performance improvements. This seminar incorporates the very best practices employed by professional coaches and draws upon our extensive knowledge of experiential leadership development. Taught through a series of lectures, interactive exercises and practices, workshop participants will also be guided through The Leader As Coach model.

Doing what comes naturally - what millions of years of evolution have programmed us to do - may be perfectly normal, but it's not necessarily healthy. Where, in the headlong "progress" of the human race, do you really fit in? Take a minute to find out, and find yourself, in this workshop devoted to the proposition that a whole, healthy, heartfelt life is something that each of us must and can learn-and earn-anew. This workshop will open your eyes to a whole new perspective on balancing work and life.

Developing the high potential of women requires a new paradigm for understanding leadership, power and influence, along with a reassessment of the effectiveness of male and female skills in a changing environment. As a result of the examination of key issues, a new paradigm for efficacy emerges. Participants will explore new strategies for achieving leadership, power and influence by integrating a balanced and flexible use of the leadership skills necessary for success.

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.

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.

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 to best be used to evaluate operating results.

Participants will examine the root causes of the overload (you own a lot more of that than you think you do!), and how to take back control, one day at a time. The tips, tools and next steps all come from years of researching how people just like you successfully managed their own workflow. But come prepared to be challenged. We will uncover and address your biggest limiting beliefs about control, time, workflow, getting everything done, and what truly matters.