All management workshops are customized to fit the culture and needs of client companies; workshops are held in-house at the client site.

Here is a partial list of topics which can be adapted to fit your needs.

In addition to these half-day or full-day skill building workshops described below, for more experienced executives we offer three-day and five-day off site leadership development conferences.  These are designed for [more]

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Change Management
Organizations are in a constant state of adapting to their clients, competitors, and internal constraints.

Compassionate Communication
Based on the model used in international conflict, Compassionate Communication establishes a simple yet challenging model for conveying your needs, and understanding others’.

Conflict Management
This workshop will describe 5 typical conflict styles, and provide opportunities to discover your preference.

Delegation
Now that you manage other people you have the opportunity to create much greater results, by enrolling others and making sure they accomplish what is needed.

Difficult Conversations
Most conflicts start out with this mistaken idea: the conflict is about who is right and who is wrong.

Empathic Intelligence
Empathic Intelligence is an essential element in Emotional Intelligence, which now has over 20 years of research proving its relevance in business and success.

Facilitation for Leaders
Convening groups of talented people to create ideas and solutions is an essential activity of management.

Five Dysfunctions of a Team
In this workshop, based on Lencioni’s “Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team” a series of activities, integrated with the business you conduct every day, raises teams to high functioning teams.

Influence
At every interaction, people offer us clues about what is important to them.

It's Okay to be the Boss
The old Theory X style of bossing people around barking orders, went out with the new. 

Ladder of Inference; Advocacy & Inquiry
This workshop presents two seemingly simple yet very powerful aspects of effective communication.

Manager as Coach
Managers have an extraordinary opportunity to develop staff and delegate more, which can be increased and optimized.

Managing Style Differences
The key to effective management is developing the ability to have other people act motivated to make a valuable contribution to your group’s results.

Managing Your Boss
Experienced and skilled managers have an opportunity to extend their reach and the value delivered to their organizations by bringing a broader view to their role.

Meeting Management
The activity most associated with advancing work and detracting from work!

Motivation
Employees first and foremost work for a boss; therefore if they quit, they quit the manager, not the organization.

Myers-Briggs
The most widely trusted and used personality style inventory can be conducted in a half day training, enhancing communication skills across your organization.

Needs & Requests
Most dissatisfaction derives from not being clear about what you are really needing, and then asking for it in a way that will be seriously considered.

Performance Reviews
Performance Reviews are the annual opportunity for management to be clear about expectations, and let employees know where they stand.  Learn how to conduct a Performance Review that motivates.

Recruitment: Core Competency & Selection
For hiring, and project teams, core competency is a discipline with defines the key qualities needed in a specific role.

Strategic & Personal Relationships
At work and at home we all have relationships of practical contact, and those of meaningful connection.

Strategic Vision
As a senior manager, your value to the organization will be directly linked to how aligned you are to the firm’s strategic vision.

Team Roles
Sometimes we take on a certain role, such as “devil’s advocate,” or opposer, and then get stuck in the role and play that part repeatedly.

Team Development Stages
When a new work group convenes for a new project, there are natural stages of development.

Values, a Four-Part Model
One way of understanding the motivation that drives us is a four part model called Temperament.

Whole New Mind
To stand out from the crowd, tomorrow’s leaders are going to have to learn six essential skills, as described in this compelling book by Daniel Pink.

Your Brain At Work
This workshop will highlight the tips on maximizing the available brainpower you have, by anticipating situations that will use significant resources, and planning in order to maximize your access to ideas and decisions.