Customized development programs for executive leadership.

 A series of Webinar sessions with approaches, techniques, and ideas for growing, sustaining, and reinvigorating your resilience and better managing your stress. Topics include energy management, keystone habits, managing stress and worry, engaging the relaxation response, stress hardiness, and mindfulness in action.

 Many modern leadership theories and approaches have evolved over the past 60+ years.  This course encapsulates the most effective aspects of these approaches and presents the essence and principles of leadership thought in an accessible and applicable way.  This workshop can also serve as the basis of an ongoing leadership development program which would include coaching groups and webinars over a 4-8 month program. 

 Most work happens in teams. To be effective, it is imperative that teams develop trust, the ability to collaborate, and hold discussions in open and creative ways while holding each other accountable. This workshop helps leaders of teams understand the importance of clarify common goals and apply approaches to building strategic process and understand team dynamics so as to optimize team performance.

 Conflict is a normal part of workplace interactions.  It can be healthy or destructive.  Understanding, recognizing and addressing conflict is a critical leadership skill. 

 The purpose of the Developing Direct Reports workshop is to help managers learn and practice the various skills important for developing employees.  Coaching skills are critical for successful management and team leadership.  This course provides a comprehensive program for understanding the practice of staff development. 

 Effective facilitation requires understanding the process and dynamics of groups.  A facilitator helps a group to free itself from internal and external obstacles so that it may more efficiently and effectively achieve its desired outcomes.  In this training participants will gain a deeper understanding of group dynamics and learn how to facilitate groups productivity.

 Designing and developing effective presentations challenge the presenter to coherently and systematically organize his or her thoughts and positions. Delivering presentations effectively supports accurate communication of ideas to both internal and external stakeholders.

 Critical thinking involves evaluating how we are thinking and then choosing a path of investigation that helps us find the best possible answers.  We practice critical thinking when we carefully and deliberately evaluate our own thought processes used to reach a conclusion.  Non-critical thinking leads to the wrong conclusions, going off in the wrong direction, and disagreements due to misinformation.  Critical thinking leads to developing the best solutions to problems, recognizing our own biases to guide self-improvement, identifying key issues, and giving sound arguments to create buy-in for our ideas. 

 Effective problem solving is critical to success at work. However we frequently jump to our first solution to a problem and don’t necessarily practice the effort necessary to find the best solution.  This course helps participants understand the pitfalls of our cognitive biases and provides the steps to apply for effective problem solving. 

 This workshop teaches management skills for effective meetings and understand the importance of a holistic approach to managing meetings.

 Strategic thinking is a tool to help confront change, plan for and make transitions, and envision new possibilities and opportunities.  Strategic thinking is a synthesizing process utilizing intuition and creativity.  The goal of strategic thinking is to develop an integrated perspective of an organization and its overall direction.

 Working in a constantly changing environment makes it difficult to implement ideas and create desired results.  Influencing people to buy-in to one’s ideas is often a challenge as people tend to be secure in the old ways of doing things.  In the Leading through Change workshop, participants will learn how to move an organization forward in the context of competing and conflicting ideas and agendas, and manage barriers, find resources and build management support.

 The Self and Time Management workshop teaches participants how to control work flow, build awareness about personal decision making and prioritization, and discover a new perspective on time and how we interface with it.

 Political savvy is intangible, elusive and quite often taken for granted.  But every organization demands it.  It has to do with understanding those unwritten rules of how things “really” work around here, the political circumstances in which to frame actions and decisions and unspoken corporate values.  Learn how being politically savvy can enhance your leadership approach to better achieve your personal and organization objectives.

 The Collaborative Leadership workshop will help leaders contribute more effectively to group performance and results.  Emphasis is placed on practical skills, tools, and strategies for fostering open and collaborative work and information exchange among team members.  It also teaches skills to deal with conflict, disputes, and difficult behaviors.

 The Robust Communication in Organizations workshop helps participants learn the basic building blocks to communicating clearly and effectively. 

 The Emotionally Intelligent Leadership workshop provides participants with the opportunity to develop the skills of Emotionally Intelligent Leadership and learn how to apply them in the many challenging situations that occur on the job.  The skills of Emotionally Intelligent Leadership are key to successfully influencing others in the workplace.  By understanding the interplay of the skills, and learning techniques to build these skills, participants will discover new ways to succeed at work.

 In the Dealing with Difficult People workshop participants will learn how to respond to and influence difficult people in a positive and effective way.