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 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.

To help participants increase their communication flexibility, this session will focus on the three keys to unlocking successful communication. First, we will consider what motivates people to behave the way they do. Second, we will explore the communication skills we use unconsciously with people who get along with us, and then learn how to consciously use those skills with difficult people. Finally, we will see how to deal with 10 types of behavior that make certain people unbearable to work with.

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.

A profile of "Coaching for Behavioral Change" will be presented and participants will learn the latest techniques for encouraging feedback to develop others (and to develop themselves). The concept of empowerment will be analyzed from a practical, real-world perspective. Participants will learn how to apply key concepts, and the latest research on feedback and follow-up will be used to show how leaders can coach in a way that produces guaranteed results for both individuals and teams.

Successful organizations operate on the edge of chaos and embrace risk, error, and ambiguity, while practicing strategies that reduce the need for doing, undoing, and redoing. You will learn key strategies and practical tools to give you the adaptive capacity to work creatively with change and uncertainty. We will discuss strategies for tapping the human potential for creative thinking, from the inception of ideas to their transformation into practical business strategies and innovations.

The participants will role play and examine real life issues within their own organization, and can apply the tools to both internal and external relationships. Common issues such as compatibility, differences in decision making approaches, communication, conflict resolution and more are addressed for attendees who are in management as well as those who are in the middle of the organization and often have little choice as to who they can partner with, whether internal or external.

In this highly interactive and practical workshop, Paul McGee will explore his main SUMO (Shut Up, Move On) principles and how they impact our ability to inspire others. His principles relate to any leader whose organisation would benefit from taking a fresh look at the following five key areas; Change, Relationships, Attitude, Motivation and Stress. Building on his background in behavioural and social psychology, Paul will give us time to reflect upon our behaviour and that of others and identify what hinders our effectiveness.

Organizations are faced with increased global competition and a constantly changing business and technological environment. This, in addition to the pressure to increase profits while managing schedules and budgets, makes negotiating internally and with outside organizations essential. Talented negotiators outpace their competitors in business because, while building lasting relationships, they get desired results. This seminar will provide the tools and skills necessary to learn how to negotiate in order to meet your organizational goals.