Strategic Conversations: How to Lead, Influence, and Negotiate
This hour-long interactive workshop is designed to help HR professionals become better negotiators, influencers, and leaders who create value for themselves and their companies.
Attendees will:
Gain confidence and skill in leading ...
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How to Design Better Organizations: New Tools and Mindset for Strategy and Innovation
HR leaders must find new ways of responding to adaptive challenges in today’s world of increasing volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. They need to get comfortable with ambiguity and seek insight from a broader range of ...
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The Ugly Advantage: The Real Story about Influencing and Moving an Organization
The Ugly Advantage is about the rise of authenticity as a currency for attention.
It is about the need for HR to stand out in a noisy world. It is a real, raw conversation about the next level advantages you can implement through your HR life ...
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Persuasive Story Telling with Data
It was Mark Twain who popularized the quote, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.” It has also been said that, “data doesn’t lie; people do.” Data, when manipulated to bolster a weak ... Read more
Developing a Coaching Culture for Higher Performance
Today's managers say they give employees regular coaching, feedback, and accountability to reach new levels of performance, instead of managing performance by solely by conducting an annual or quarterly review. Employees seek authentic ... Read more
The Science of Talent
In many organizations, process is based on tradition, or so-called management wisdom, with little regard for the employee experience. In a 10-year career, an employee is bound to hear some 40 different ideas from HR and leadership about what ... Read more
Leadership in the VUCA Era: How to Harness VUCA to Produce Radical Innovation
In the era of VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity), decision making is very challenging for leaders because one can rarely foresee the consequences of business decisions. Traditional leadership (command and control) ... Read more
Curiosity killed … the Mindless Meeting? The Neuroscience of Response to Challenge and Upgrading Potential
Do you ever feel stuck when things at work go sideways, perhaps unsure of how to move forward, but confident that another meeting is not the answer?
Does the science behind your brain, nervous system and behavioral responses excite you?
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Succession Planning when Organizations Need Plan B
Everyone generally has a Plan A (which rarely works), but when we need a Plan B, how do we deal with the unexpected?
Changes in leadership happen, and the changes depend on the DNA of a new leader and deftly guiding them to ... Read more
Leadership Under Pressure: Getting Warrior Tough
As companies struggle with volatile conditions in the current changeable world of business, it is easy for leaders to become frustrated, stressed, and overwhelmed by constant emergencies and the digital-noise that never seems to stop. As a result ...
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Unstoppable Cultures: Creating and Sustaining Organizations of Enduring Greatness
Every company has a culture. For some, it's a culture of innovation -- new ideas that have never been tried. For others, it's about fun (birthday cakes and costumes are often involved). For others, it’s toxicity and gossip. ... Read more
Beyond Emotional Intelligence: Quantify Leadership Character's Impact on Business
Fred Kiel (author, Return on Character, Harvard Business Review Press, April 2015) and Amy Swenson (Leadership Character Strategist) will share groundbreaking Return on Character™ research ... Read more
Democratizing Leadership Development in the Digital Age
In today’s age of digital transformation, it’s more important than ever for businesses to have capable and effective leaders in place throughout the entire organization. As landscapes continuously shift and new technologies are ... Read more
Using Agile Design Thinking and Offering Management Disciplines to Create Compelling Personalized Learning Experiences
Learners today say they experience high fidelity, engaging and delightful consumer experiences every day, but they question whether learning experiences at work are appealing enough.
The digital age has changed the nature of work, the types of ... Read more
Live Jazz Leadership Workshop
Engagement and interaction are core aspects of this workshop flow. No music knowledge is needed to gain an understanding of how jazz principles and practices can promote creativity, strengthen leadership capacity, and elevate inclusive team ...
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Empower Your Current and Future Leaders to Develop True Influence
To maintain a competitive edge in today’s complex business landscape, companies must be able to create empowering workplaces where people come together to tackle challenges, courageously innovate solutions and execute with purpose in ... Read more
Terms of Engagement: Evidence-Based Employee Experience Strategies
Employee engagement initiatives are central components of most organizations’ talent management strategies. There is strong evidence linking engagement to performance, but overall levels of workplace engagement still hover near 30% ... Read more
Don’t Forget About Me, I Work For You, Too! Engaging the Part-time and Virtual Workforce
Do you struggle with keeping your teams connected? Are you facing challenges as you seek to communicate with part-time and virtual employees?
With current research identifying that nearly half of the American workforce is virtual in ... Read more
Driving Engagement and Fostering Connections Through Conversation
In 2018, Mars Wrigley Confectionery, the world’s leading manufacturer of chocolate, chewing gum, mints, and fruity confections was named to the 2018 FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® list, compiled by Great Place to ... Read more
Taking a Holistic Look at Employee Engagement: Well-being, Purpose and Performance
Organizations have been driving engagement initiatives and conducting engagement surveys for decades. There are now literally hundreds of studies demonstrating that highly engaged employees are more productive, deliver better customer ... Read more