With the increasing speed, complexity and data availability in today's competitive environment, superior decision skills are more important than ever. This workshop will help you improve your decision making skills by offering behavioral insights into how people actually think and make decisions. It then teaches the advanced critical thinking skills and creative strategies needed to manage unfamiliar, highly complex problems or decisions that involve significant uncertainty.

This workshop is designed for individuals who want to advance their communication skills beyond presentation or platform skills. It is useful for any person in a communication rich job role. Based on research over the past fifty years, some of it original to the author, it demonstrates how the best communicators inform, persuade, negotiate, inspire, coach, discuss, or debate across all communication situations - small group, large group, one-on-one, email, internal messages, or external messages.

This session will cover high-impact strategies to influence and gain commitment from others effectively. The session will be highly interactive and provide practical tools and techniques to enhance your ability to gain support for your ideas and initiatives. Participants will complete the Influence With Impact self-assessment to better understand which influence tactics they use most frequently. Case studies will provide an opportunity for participants to practice using the key concepts and models before applying them to an on-the-job situation.

Strengthen your ability to effectively plan and execute products that successfully deliver organization goals and benefits. Learn to use best practice methods for turning good ideas into executable plans, even with complex and difficult issues. This session equips leaders and teams at all levels with a proven approach for planning and executing critical products and projects, based on concepts from Terry Schmidt's breakthrough book Strategic Project Management Made Simple: Practical Tools for Leaders and Teams (Wiley, 2009).

In today's complex, changing business environment, those managers and organizations that can innovate will thrive. But the foundations for innovation remain shrouded in misconceptions for many. In this workshop we will explore the keys to boosting creativity and innovation throughout the organization. Participants will learn how to deal with swift changes by learning to stimulate higher levels of innovation, finding and removing obstacles, and personally leading the charge. Those attending the workshop will shatter the myths and misconceptions about creativity, and will learn effective strategies to unleash the potential creativity and innovation within themselves and their organizations. This session is highly interactive with opportunities for participants to both explore and apply these ideas to their own situations.

To help participants increase their communication flexibility, this session will focus on the three keys to unlocking successful communication. First, we will consider what motivates people to behave the way they do. Second, we will explore the communication skills we use unconsciously with people who get along with us, and then learn how to consciously use those skills with difficult people. Finally, we will see how to deal with 10 types of behavior that make certain people unbearable to work with.

This seminar will introduce you to best current thinking concerning strategy execution; it will explore best practices across diverse industries, and, importantly, it will introduce you to diagnostic frameworks that you can apply to "live" business issues. Emphasis will be placed on three inter-related areas: 1. increasing your "execution IQ"; 2. identifying and managing "strategy accelerators"; and 3. "execution driven leadership practices". This seminar is designed as a master class for both executives and high potential managers.

Sharing knowledge integrated from research in multiple fields, including neuroscience, organizational behavior, psychology, sociology, history and his firm's proprietary research Mr. Stallard describes the "The Connection Culture" that every organization needs to thrive for sustained periods of time. During this session, you will learn: what motivates individuals to give their best efforts; the six human needs to thrive; the five elements of a Connection Culture; and best practices of individuals who create Connection Cultures.

Leadership ultimately comes down to conversation and connections, asking questions, listening to responses and consciously leveraging individual input and group conversation. In this seminar you will learn that all organizations have subjects that have become undiscussables and how to bring them to the surface. In this session, the group is guided through a highly interactive process of naming elephants, determining how they impact the organization and deciding what action to take.