“Excellent knowledge and delivery! What I liked best about your program was the down to earth, practical advice.” Rick Arnold
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"It was a very informative session that generated a lot of thought …we need to focus less on "skills and experience" and concentrate more on the "fit". You hit the nail on the head when you said that we can train for skills but not on values and work ethic." Dawna Hannan Oxford Networks |
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Dynamic Learning Experiences
You want custom programs and action-oriented executive meetings designed to get to the heart of addressing your challenging strategic leadership issues.
Contact us about facilitating your next executive meeting, planning retreat or leadership conference.
Building Stellar Executive Teams
Expertise + Personal Styles = Winning Leadership Combination
Great organizations are led by executives that can demonstrate the dynamics and results of collaborative teamwork to the rest of the organization. Just how does an executive team come together? Typically the CEO will handpick managers who are recognized for their expertise and assume they will gel as a cohesive team. However, power plays, personal agendas and career aspirations of even the best top managers can sabotage good intentions and result in chaos. Stellar executive teams don’t just ‘happen’ – they are carefully crafted for a winning combination of talent and styles capable of shaping organizational culture and getting things done.
Retreat to Advance
Trout Don't Swim in the Ocean!
Catapulting Your Business to the Next Level with an Organization-fit Employee Strategy
One of the most compelling indicators of an organization’s future viability and growth is a highly talented, engaged workforce. capable of making a successful transition to the next level. The strategy? Looking beyond skills and experience to match values, personality and work ethic to your unique culture. Trout don’t swim in the ocean. If you want to catch them, you have to know where to fish! If you are looking for the right employees for your business you have to know where to look! Trusting the effectiveness of general Internet or newspaper ads is like throwing a line in the ocean and hoping a trout will swim by and bite! Learn more effective techniques for luring and landing the people you need to grow and succeed!
Star Power!
Building a High Performance Culture
Top performing organizations have many things in common, but the most important differentiation of companies that consistently outperform their peers is treating their employees as a significant, if not the source of competitive advantage. They understand the important concept of “employees who are valued, add value.” Not only are employees valued, but nurtured and courted on a continuous basis, especially when times are tough. Find out more about the three common value propositions and the business imperative of having the right culture to support them, and why treating people as assets means a straight line to the bottom line!
One-Two-Three Innovate!
Developing a Flexible, Resilient Organization
Truly successful companies are resilient, able to bounce back from setbacks and positively respond to change in order to innovate and thrive! “Take a picture” of your current level of organizational agility by assessing the three stages of resiliency CORE, SPEED & COMMITMENT and then work together in this facilitated hands-on workshop to address specific areas for improvement that will have the most significant business impact.
Working Successfully with (Almost!) Anyone
Preventing Unproductive Conflict in Organizations
Without conflict innovation would be impossible, growth would be limited and life would be pretty boring! However unproductive conflict between people can be detrimental to the health of any organization. Resolving it – or better yet, nipping it in the bud – has to do with a willingness to be cooperative (helping others get what they want) and assertiveness (getting what you want). Explore why conflict happens and learn how talented people with very different styles can better appreciate the value of those differences and work together effectively to deliver stellar performance results.