Toolbox Seminars

Lead Like Me- Understanding Different Leadership Styles

Ethics and Morality

Needs Analysis

Understanding Difficult People

Objectives: Change Management describes the characteristics of leadership in change as a human event and discusses various effects on individuals. Through case study and group participation, we explore the dynamics of change within groups of people and within organizations, and the effects of change on a formal organization. Identify crucial themes that drive change, categories of change within organizations, and apply this knowledge to leading and managing the change. Discussion of various change strategies and selecting strategies appropriate to specific situations within the workplace are presented.

Objective: Setting the Foundations of the Team; Establishing Expectations; Identifying When to Lead, Follow, or Hand-off; One Size Doesn’t Fit All – Using the Right Motivation for the Right Person; The Dangers of Overused Feedback; Accountability – Whose Job Is it; Building a Level Playing Field.

Objectives: Identify the characteristics and styles of leadership. Understand the roles of a leader. Review the importance of mission, vision and value statements. Explore how a leader creates a culture. Examine specific ways to develop leadership skills. Practice coaching and communication skills employed by a leader.

Objective: Create and develop the best leadership style to control the situation you are in.

Objective: Topics covered: Establish Expectations, "Tough Love" – Providing Negative Feedback, Developing Effective Evaluation Standards, Determining Roles and Responsibilities, Understanding Employee Mentoring, Preparing for Hostility, Withdrawal and Sabotage, Digging Down to the Root of the Problem.

This course is directly linked to the Executive Management Seminar. Based on works by Peter Schwartz, The Art of the Long View, we will discuss the direct and indirect influencers to change. Identify and develop methods of where and how to research information that provides insight into the influencers. How, when combining "Systems Thinking" and "Scenario Based Planning", teams and organizations can develop strategic business plans to prepare for change.

Objective: A course designed to develop those leadership skills necessary to make it through those times when it seems that all is against you. This course is not about changing your leadership style or teaching you the one technique that will solve all your problems. It is about giving you a different perspective on leading in ways that you might not have heard or thought about before.

"Houston, we have a problem!"

These words, spoken by astronaut Jim Lovell, remind us of the Apollo 13 story. An explosion aboard a space capsule 200,000 miles from earth. The mission changed from landing men on the surface of the moon to returning the 3-man crew safely to earth, against unbelievable odds. The mission has been called a "successful failure". An exciting and motivating story, for sure. But what can we learn from this event in our nation’s history that we can apply to business today? Apollo 13 Leadership training teaches the 13 key leadership learnings from the Apollo 13 mission.