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Organizational and Personal Development Programs
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30 Session Topics

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​Each session varies in length based on multiple factors (number of participants, level of need and participant subject knowledge, topic priority, combining topics, etc.)
 
This list is available to help you understand some of the topics we cover and to provide you with a “menu” from which to choose those topics you feel are most pertinent to your organization.  Each topic stands alone and can be used as a workshop or breakout session.
 
Understanding Your Leadership Style
            Why do you lead the way you do.
 
Excellent Leaders
            What do they look like?
 
Intrapreneurship
            Your business or just your job?
 
Differences Between Management and Leadership
            You can manage things and people and not be a leader
 
Managing What Matters
            Budgets, boundaries and bottom lines
 
Values to Vision
            Aligning activities and beliefs to reduce stress in yourself and others
 
Focus on Results to be Achieved not Tasks to be Performed
            Using Position Results Descriptions vs Job Task Descriptions (task focused)
 
Resolving Conflict Between Direct Reports
            When and How to intervene
 
Living and Working Together
            The Art of getting along
 
Overpowering the Pirates of Productivity
            Time Management for Leaders on managing priorities while dealing with time thieves.

Planning
            Individual and Group – long range and short term
 
Communicating a Plan and Telling “The Story”
            Inspiring and challenging your people with your organizations story
 
Inspiring Creative Thinking
            A proven process that stimulates even those who say they aren’t (creative)
 
First Impressions
            An honest look at what others see
 
Effective Coaching
            When to Coach & When to Direct
 
Developing Leaders Within Your Group
            Leadership doesn’t require a title
 
Building Quality Relationships With Your Team
            Understanding the what, why and how of their differences
 
Leaders Listen
            What are you listening for and how to resist solving others problems
 
Preventing Conflicts Before They Explode
            Learning how to, as Barney Fife said, “Nip it in the bud”.
 
Change Management
            Getting to Change before it gets to you
 
Leadership Presentation Skills
            What it takes to get people to want to listen to you
 
Meetings That  Matter
            Why is more important than when, how or who.
 
Interviewing For Leaders
            How to identify leaders to add to your team
 
Leadership Etiquette
            The little things make a big difference in the office or attending a function.
 
Delegating For Results
            It’s so much more than just passing the buck.
 
Performance Management
            Making Annual Reviews meaningful
 
Self-Taught
            What books are you reading, who and what are you studying and using?
 
Your Life/Work Balance
            All work and no play make Jack, Jill, and everybody else miserable.
 
Learn to Customize Your Own Personal Development Plan
            Maintaining a high level of curiosity and growth
 
Learning to Teach Leadership
            It is a win – win when we teach what we need the most.
 
Customs and Cultures
            Dealing with the cultural differences in a global society

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  • Home
  • Speaking
    • Topics
    • Our Philosophy
    • Introduction for Al
    • Introduction for Margaret
  • Training
    • The Training Process
    • Programs
  • Meeting Planners
    • What Others Say
    • Fees, Expenses & Travel
  • Contact Us