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Leadership and Executive Development
Our wealth of experience is wide and deep, ranging from designing and delivering practical foundation courses for supervisors and emerging leaders to addressing the unique development needs of executive-level leaders in experiential, action-learning formats.
In business you get one of two things; results—or all the reasons you didn’t reach the results. We believe that the ability and agility of leaders are the cause of successful results—and the lack of is the reason for breakdown. And we know leadership ability can be strengthened at all levels.
What is Leadership Development
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Advanced Communication Skills
At the foundation of our work is our ability to teach and translate the fundamentals of effective interpersonal communication.
There is a direct correlation between the quality of business relationships and the quality of business results. Collaborative relationships between co-workers is a fundamental of business success. Relationships with customers depend in no small part on our ability to communicate trust in one-on-one interactions.
The Five Core Communication Skills
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Performance Management
In our view, performance management that functions as an active business management tool consists of three things:
- A process that is simple, and linked to business goals and expected behaviors.
- Development for managers in the core coaching and communication skills needed for effective, ongoing implementation.
- Commitment from leaders at all levels to instill accountability and discipline.
Our solutions are designed to address all three.
Experience
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Executive Coaching
We help individual leaders amplify natural strengths as well as transform limitations to achieve personal, professional and business success. Our approach is unique to each person.
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Custom 360°
Assessment
Our web-based
leadership assessment makes creating and launching
online 360°
surveys easy and effective. We provide a
professional assessment service that ensures your
360° process is a powerful leadership development
tool in your organization. We offer customized
surveys aligned with your company's leadership
competencies, for one participant or thousands.
Our custom
assessments will give your company the tools it
needs to assess leadership and management skills
that support your talent management or change
strategy.
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Process and Performance Improvement
Leaders say: “Of course our employees have the answer. Ask them to solve the problem.” Then when faced with acting on a front-line recommendation they often say: “We can not trust an employee to do that.”
Improvement in process and performance means change in how we think about power, authority and accountability in organizations. We don’t teach people to manage change, we create conditions in which they must manage change and thus they learn by doing.
Client Case Study
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Culture Change
When a restructure, merger or changes in the competitive landscape cause people to have to think and act in a dramatically different way, the task ahead can be daunting. We have a track record of producing results.
If you think being a silo-ed, hierarchical, authoritarian company is the way to competitive advantage, declare it so and act accordingly. There’s integrity in that. If you believe the way to win is through an organization that demonstrates uncommon agility, utilizes all of its brain reserve, and takes calculated risks, you must get people acting in alignment with that mission, and it can be hard work.
Client
Case Study
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Consulting Skills
The extent to which Training and Organizational Development, Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, and Information Technology function in concert with your company’s operating units directly impacts profitability, productivity and achievement of desired business results. Effective Functional Leaders are proficient in consulting to understand the needs of a company’s business units, facilitating the design of the right solutions to meet those needs. These “Internal Consultants” help organizations respond to change, creating a framework for success.
Advanced Consulting Skills Course
Consulting Skills Mastery Program
“Your biggest
competitor is your own
view of the future.”
Watts Wacker and Jim Taylor
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