Culled from years of experience and the best in current management research and practices, we condense a tremendous amount of organizational learning into this powerful quartet of performance topics: Strategy/Planning, Organizational Culture/Community, Leadership, and Group/Individual performance.

All presentations are conducted by Ph.D.-degreed facilitators at your site, unless otherwise arranged. To help assure that your learning objectives are met or exceeded, we conduct pre- and post-session evaluations. Investment: begins at $139 per day, per participant, depending on group size, and location. Sessions are tailored to your organization’s needs. Multiple presentation discounts are also available, please inquire.

Maximizing Strategy, Planning and Performance

Strategy and Planning Workshop (two-day workshop)

Overview of a powerful approach to strategic planning—for your organization’s executive team. Also available for professional associations/leadership groups.

This learning experience for senior leadership begins with a strategy foundations workshop, including establishing your business idea, stating your values and narrating the vision. The first day also includes a two hour values assessment session with the CEO. Day 2 explores broad strategies, business environment and competitive analysis. Use as a standalone workshop for laying the foundation for your strategy and planning, or as a prelude to a strategy and planning process we assist you in designing and facilitating.

Results-driven Marketing Communications Planning (half-day seminar)

For entry level marketing professionals or non-marketing professionals with marketing communications responsibility

How do you gain an apples-to-apples comparison of media impact? Is the impact of PR measurable? How can you achieve synergistic impact with advertising and PR? Gain insights to these and other key questions and methods.

Strategies for Maximizing Focus Group, Product Use and Customer Satisfaction Research (half-day seminar)

For non-research professionals who purchase research services

A vital introduction to the research methods most used in business, especially in the area of constituent feedback and satisfaction, and tips for getting the most value from a marketing research budget.

Maximizing Organizational Culture and Performance

We Are, We Say, We Do: Deciphering and Shaping Your Organization’s Culture as a Strategic Asset (full day workshop)

For your organization’s executive team

Organizational culture may be the most misunderstood dimension of leadership responsibility and the number one cause of failure in mergers and acquisitions. What is organizational culture? What stumbling blocks and opportunities does it create? Facilitated assessment and workshop help leaders understand how to decipher and shape the organization’s culture as a strategic asset.

Are We a Community? A 21^st Century Model for Sustaining Performance
and Competitive Advantage (full day workshop)

For your organization’s executive team

Complexity and continuous change in contemporary organizational life have forced us to abandon the outmoded hierarchical, command-and control view of leadership, management and organizational life. But what takes its place? The system framework of organizational community may well be the key to sustained performance and advantage in your organization’s future. Participants learn how to use tools that identify what Organizational Community is, what it does, how it forms, where your organization plots on a continuum, and assess how to develop community in
strategic ways.

Building a Team (half-day workshop)

For professionals who lead or participate in work teams

Why do some teams fail? What are some proven methods for building effective teams? This interactive workshop will provide you with answers to these and other key questions and methods, so that you are well equipped to build more effective teams.

Maximizing Teamwork and Team Spirit (half-day workshop)

For professionals who lead or participate in work teams

Learn techniques and strategies for maximizing your teams’ spirit and productivity. Team leaders and entire teams will benefit from this dynamic workshop experience. Business casual attire recommended.

Maximizing Leadership and Performance

The Leader Within (full-day seminar)

For professionals interested in enhancing their leadership skills

In order to compete in a furiously paced global marketplace, smart organizations recognize the importance of developing integrity and leadership capabilities throughout the organization. This unique seminar illustrates the vital link among clearly expressed organizational values, leadership, customer service and performance; inspires participants to such leadership; and provides a systems thinking framework for organizations to allow values-driven leadership to flourish.

Transforming Good to Great (full-day seminar)

For your organization’s executive team

Drawn from the research-based findings of Jim Collins in his best-sellers Built to Last and Good to Great, participants learn why “good is the enemy of great,” and learn methods for capturing their best possible future and translating vision into action.

Leadership and the Power of Scenarios and Storytelling (half-day workshop)

For professionals interested in enhancing their leadership skills

Few business communications methods carry the power and impact of scenarios and stories, authentically and effectively told. In this workshop, leaders learn how effective scenarios and stories can shape organizational culture and future strategic action, how to identify key scenarios, heroes and legends, and how to effectively capture and convey these organizational truths in scenario and story form.

Forging Productive Relationships with Constituents (half-day workshop)

For professionals interested in enhancing their leadership skills

Relationship-building is a vital yet under explored dimension of leadership. In this workshop, participants learn how to identify and act upon relationship building opportunities with the variety of constituents the organization serves, as they build their leadership skills.

Maximizing Individual Performance

Choosing Wisely: The Art of Making Decisions (half-day workshop)

For professionals interested in enhancing decision-making skills

How are the best decisions made? Head? Heart? Rational? Intuitive? Are two heads always better than one? What are the dynamics, risks and payoffs of group decision-making? These questions are explored through interviews and experiential process. We provide best practices from several organizational and cultural contexts. Participants create their own next steps to take back to their organization for implementation.

Appreciative Conflict and Complaint Resolution (half-day workshop)

For professionals interested in enhancing conflict resolution skills

The dance of conflict is an opportunity. It can enhance an organization’s creativity, quality of work-life and performance. It can clear negativity and improve relationships. In this session participants explore how to transform adversity into positive power. Use of mediation and group facilitation are practiced to seek resolution to difficult interpersonal conflicts in the workplace.

Writing Memos that Inspire Action (half-day workshop)

For professionals interested in enhancing business writing skills

Although the focus is on the short form of business writing—the ubiquitous memo--professionals can enhance their business writing skills overall in this engaging workshop. Find out how to lift your written communications from boring and forgettable to memorable and inspiring.

Presenting Speeches that Inspire Action (half-day workshop)

For professionals interested in enhancing oral communications skills

Professionals interested in enhancing their oral communications skills will benefit from this fast-paced workshop, regardless of speaking experience or comfort level. Find out how to deliver memorable speeches that inspire people to action.

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