PROGRAM CONTENT

Team Facilitation/Group Dynamics - Exercise/Discussion (Project Phoenix)
Participants are challenged to select a general manager for an operation from eight candidates. The exercise focuses on the critical role of team facilitator and outlines productive and dysfunctional aspects of team operations. Participants are given a tool for assessing the current effectiveness of their team.

Leadership Assumptions - Exercise & Debrief
Participants challenge their assumptions about leadership against the consensus of a wide body of research. Participants experience team facilitation issues, group dynamics, team synergy and consensus decision issues.

Executive Effectiveness Profile - Instrument Analysis
Each participant receives a detailed 360˚ look at his/her effectiveness in the eyes of the boss, team members and peers from back at the workplace. This process is a course highlight which forces participants to consider characteristics which currently contribute to their leadership effectiveness and suggestions for future change.

Selecting “A” Players - Presentation/Discussion
Selecting top talent is perhaps the most important activity leaders perform. This section gives participants a framework for increasing the odds of selecting or promoting “A” players.

Challenge Driven Team Building System - Presentation/Discussion
The focus is on the stages high performing teams move through and the challenges which must be overcome as participants are given a comprehensive planning template and diagnostic model which will allow them to develop highly effective teams at any level.

Performance Driven Leadership System - Presentation/Discussion
This important section covers methods of diagnosing the development level of associates and choosing the most appropriate style of supervision. Participants also learn a structured feedback for results system as a way of using the concepts in the workplace. A counseling analysis model for dealing effectively with poor performance is also covered as is a template for associate career development.

Organization Culture - Presentation/Discussion
Using the 16 dimensions of the Organization Environment Index, participants are given a tool to diagnose the kind of work environment their people work in and methods to improve it over time.

Lost Mines - Exercise & Debrief
One of the most exciting and challenging simulations ever created, teams must wisely manage their limited resources in a pressure-packed and hostile environment. Exercise highlights the critical nature of situation diagnosis, planning, goal setting, decision-making and leadership. Also explored are dealing with multiple priorities, risk assessment, risk mitigation and small team dynamics under pressure.

Project Leadership - Exercise/Discussion
Participants are tasked with planning a project and selling their ideas to their peers in an interactive simulation. Concepts of team synergy emerge when participants learn to focus on team structure and process. A template for effective project management is a valuable by product of the exercise.

Associate Engagement - Presentation/Discussion
Using the Associate Engagement Index participants are given insight into six areas which cause associates to actively engage in their work and six areas which cause them to disengage.

Bases of Influence - Presentation/Discussion
Lateral influence skills or the ability to get others not under a leaders direct control to do what needs do be done is the focus of this module.

Interpersonal Effectiveness/Conflict Handling - Presentation/Discussion
Using information provided by the Interpersonal Preferences Profile, participants learn about their predominant interpersonal style and its impact on motivation, presentation effectiveness and conflict management.

Management Style Preference Index - Instrument Analysis
Participants receive feedback on 16 dimensions of personality which affect leadership effectiveness. Then participants learn a model to increase the use of eight constructive dimensions and minimize the use of four passive and four aggressive styles.

Understanding The Generations - Presentation/Discussion
This module seeks to layout the key differences causing conflict among baby boomers, generation x and millennial workers.

Why Talented Executives Fail - Presentation/Discussion
This segment details the key reasons talented executives fail to reach their full potential.

The Twelve Habits of Trustworthy Leaders - Presentation/Discussion

Eleven Deadly Errors in Creating Plans - Presentation/Discussion

Using Linkedin to Build a Professional Network - Presentation/Discussion

Searching for the Holy Grail - A Balanced Life - Presentation/Discussion

Negotiating Performance Parameters - Exercise/Discussion

Taking Over a New Organization - Presentation/Discussion

Turning Around a Poor Performing Organization - Presentation/Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Location/Dates:
February 23-25, 2015 - San Diego, CA @ Hilton San Diego Bayfront
June 8-10, 2015 - Location TBA
September 28-30, 2015 - Location TBA

Tuition - $2,895.00
Includes 3 nights lodging, 3 breakfasts, 3 lunches, 3 dinners, all instruction, course material and assessments. All participants are required to stay at the conference center.
We accept Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, and corporate checks.

Cancellation Policy - Cancellation within 45 days of the start of the program will result in a $2,000.00 cancellation fee. (No Exceptions)

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