Flexing Your Leadership Style 101 and 202
Flexing Your Leadership Style is a course designed to help participants recognize and develop their unique leadership styles. In this course, participants complete a self-assessment to identify their preferred leadership style and explore the strengths and potential disadvantages of each style. Through a variety of exercises and refection activities, participants deepen their understanding of self […]
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Focusing on Results
Team members naturally tend to put their own needs (ego, career development, recognition, etc.) ahead of the collective goals of the team when individuals are not held accountable. If a team has lost sight of the need for achievement, the business ultimately suffers. The pursuit of individual goals and personal status erodes the focus on […]
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Fostering Collaboration
Work environments with plenty of collaboration are conducive to the generation of novel ideas, beneficial for innovation and organizational improvement. Because not all individuals feel comfortable readily sharing opinions and ideas, leaders must cultivate an environment where sharing is safe and encouraged as part of the individual’s daily performance. Fostering a culture of consistent collaboration […]
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Future-Forward: Strength-Based Strategies for Innovation
During this highly interactive workshop, participants will gain a foundational understanding of a strengths-based approach to drive strategy and innovation initiatives. Through intentionally designed and choreographed conversations, participants will explore and experience an approach rooted in Appreciative Inquiry (AI) that they can immediately deploy to strengthen team dynamics, ignite creativity, and drive individual, team, and […]
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Having Crucial Conversations
Disagreements and high-stake conversations occur frequently in today’s business environment, and require effective handling for achieving desired outcomes. When stuck in a sticky situation, an individual must courageously speak up in critical moments for influencing the outcomes. Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, and Switzler’s Crucial Conversations compiles their 25 years of research on how to handle critical […]
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High Impact Leadership
Leaders endeavor to see into the future and create a strategy for an organization. In addition, they can communicate that vision in a way that excites and inspires. What remains to be done, however, is the work of making that strategy a reality; changing the output of strategic thinking into achievements. This course focuses on […]
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Innovation Ecosystem
Speaking of innovation as taking place within an “ecosystem” suggests the complexity of organically diffusing elements of innovation across an organization. All healthy and growing ecosystems consist of adaptive capabilities and diverse elements working as a whole, much like a healthy organization. To fully harness the idea of innovation, an organization must entirely embrace the […]
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Innovation Models: Fail Fast or Succeed
Many would identify failure as an undesirable outcome of an initiative. However, an innovative organization expects failure much more frequently than success. Innovative failure is only negative when nothing is learned in the process. Although failure is clearly not the objective in any strategic plan, it can provide learning that will help shape future plans […]
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IT Modernization – Leadership Development Workshop
We are in an era of revolutionary information technologies: Cloud Computing, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Computing, Internet of Things (IoT), Touch and Voice-driven User Experiences. Agile and DevOps methodologies and tools dramatically accelerate the rate of product and service development. The tools to modernize IT are plenty and powerful. IT Leaders in large corporate […]
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IT Modernization – Tipping Point Workshop
We are in an era of revolutionary information technologies: Cloud Computing, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Computing, Internet of Things (IoT), Touch and Voice-driven User Experiences. Agile and DevOps methodologies and tools dramatically accelerate the rate of product and service development. The tools to modernize IT are plenty and powerful. IT Leaders in large corporate […]
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Judgment and Decision Making
An organization’s success depends largely upon its leaders’ capacity for making strong and informed judgments. However, many leaders often rely on previously established patterns and habits (the precedent) when making a decision without considering all available information. It is hard work to consistently apply conscientious judgment and decision-making skills, but this is the hallmark of […]
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Leader is Coach
We believe that all leaders “show-up” more effectively, have greater influence with those around them, and have a more significant cascading leadership impact if they harness, promote, and diffuse a coaching mindset always. Leader AS Coach could suggest being a coach is simply one of the “hats” a leader wears; whereas, we typically use the […]
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