IMS VIRTUAL LEARNING JOURNEY
These three-hour live, virtual programs offer interactive exercises, breakout discussion rooms, and much more. After each virtual program participants will receive a certificate of learning, signed by the IMS thought-leader, along with 30 days of access to our award-winning online Leveraged-Learning platform from AthenaOnline.
In addition, after the program, learners will receive additional materials to support their learning experience for the next 30 days. The learning journey culminates with a 30 to 60-minute live online group coaching session and discussion with the IMS expert, to help program participants with implementation strategies for what they have learned. Each participant will also receive a certificate of learning and CPE* credits.
Paid resigistrants who are not able to attend on the day of the program will be given access to a recording of the live session and will receive all of the other learning journey benefits, including the follow-up coaching.
UPCOMING VIRTUAL PROGRAMS
How to Stay Productive, Positive and Energized: 7 Steps to Greater Resilience
October 10, 2023 with Dr. Andrew ShatteThe rapid pace of change and unrelenting demand for your time can leave you feeling drained. This class is an excellent opportunity to "recharge your batteries" as a leader. Learn seven leadership strategies for helping both you and your team become more resilient and productive in times of adversity and change.
"The scientific research shows that more than education, more than experience, more than training, it's RESILIENCE that determines w...
How To think Strategically: Essential Skills To Increase Your Impact
October 12, 2023 with Dr. Louise KellyManagers at all levels are expected to engage regularly in strategic thinking. Those managers who consistently provide unique business insights that lead to their organization's competitive advantage will excel and often be rewarded with advancement opportunities. Strategic thinking is an open-ended activity, which makes it very challenging for some. It is helpful to have techniques and tools to expand one's capacity for strategic thinking and d...
The Accountable Leader: How to Build a Culture Where Everyone Owns the Results
October 17, 2023 with Linda GalindoIn today's work place, the concept of accountability has taken center stage as a vital business concern. Yet
it is all too often confused with punishment, fault-finding, blame, and guilt. If employees take ownership
for the success or failure of tasks, projects or initiatives, then an environment of trust, alignment,
communication and accountability can be created.
Personal accountability results in less time spent managing, and more ...
Difficult Conversations: A manager's guide to the toughest workplace and employee challenges
October 19, 2023 with Margaret MorfordThis program teaches essential skills which every manager needs to succeed. Learn proven strategies for having courageous conversations to tackle the toughest workplace and employee issues. Discover how to address performance problems and provide feedback with candor and grace. This will be a fun and interactive seminar with the goal of helping successful managers become even better.
Becoming a Leader: Strategies & Tools for New & Emerging Leaders
October 24, 2023 with Dr. Ellen Burts-CooperThis program focuses on equipping managers with the knowledge and tools they need to effectively manage people and increase productivity in their areas of responsibility. Participants explore basic managerial concepts, discuss common situations and challenges and learn how to apply specific strategies and tools to successfully manage people.
Dealing with Difficult People: Bringing Out the Best in Others
November 02, 2023 with Dr. Rick BrinkmanThis program is based on the best selling McGraw-Hill book Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst, co-authored by Dr. Rick Brinkman and Dr. Rick Kirschner, which has been translated into 25 languages.
Boosting Productivity: Time Management Tactics for Working Smarter
November 07, 2023 with Helene SeguraThis transformational program is designed for busy managers, project leaders, and senior individual contributors who are looking to operate more efficiently and strategically in order to maximize productivity. Whether you're working virtually, onsite or a hybrid, bolster your leadership ability and skills when you discover these critical strategies and tactics.
Inspirational Leadership: Cultivating Commitment, Collaboration and Accountability
November 09, 2023 with Ty BennettConsider the adage, "Old ways won't open new doors." The world of work has shifted and leading with power and trading on titles is no longer effective. In their place, partnership, communication, inclusion, and connection have become the game-changers. To stay current in a rapidly changing world, leaders need to learn how to "open new doors" by adopting new skills and challenging old mindsets. In this program Ty Bennett will teach you the strate...
Critical Thinking Skills To Improve Your Decision-Making
November 16, 2023 with Dr. Michael RobertoThis program shows you how to stimulate dissent and debate to improve your decision-making. Of course, conflict alone does not produce better decisions and improved results. Leaders need to cultivate debate and simultaneously build consensus. Whether you're a leader or a project team member, this program will help you leverage your team's immense untapped wisdom to make better decisions-and get better results.
Leading vs Managing: The Difference is Key to Your Success
November 30, 2023 with Ann TardyThis session will explore the essential strategies and techniques required to powerfully lead and manage simultaneously from the same role. Being a manager is one of the most arduous and yet most valuable roles in any organization. The challenge lies in dealing with the expectations of those above and below you while also contributing to people's success around you. When you master this, you will discover how to impact any organization from the m...
Leading the Way: Overcoming Challenges and Mastering Strategies of Exceptional Women Leaders
December 05, 2023 with Larraine SegilWomen leaders have encountered significant challenges in the past. Some of those challenges continue to present daunting barriers. Yet some women have overcome these impediments and lead significant companies and organizations. What do they do differently? How can you learn from their strategies and lessons? Leading in a multi gender, multi-generational workplace is a challenge for both men and women - there is a lot to be learned by all.
Be the Leader that People Will Follow
December 07, 2023 with Dr. Robert BiesIn these most challenging times, people are looking for leadership. They are looking to you for leadership. There are three core leadership skills that are critical to be the leader that people will want to follow-building trust, storytelling, and delivering bad news.
In these times of turbulent change, building trust is more important than ever. This program will focus on identifying the "enemies" of trust (e.g., incomplete communication, inc...
Leadership Communication Essentials: Navigating Trust, Conflict, and Feedback
December 12, 2023 with Deborah Grayson RiegelBeing a successful leader requires having conversations that are difficult, not to mention important, awkward, tricky, meaningful, and powerful. The goal isn't to avoid these conversations; it's to find ways to have these conversations effectively. This program will provide you with proven strategies to excel at the top three communication challenges leaders face every day.
Leadership Essentials: 5 Skills that Lead to Success
January 18, 2024 with Dr. Richard OsibanjoIn today's ever-evolving business landscape, it's essential for professionals to have a strong understanding of key leadership skills in order to truly be successful. But with the sheer amount of knowledge and information required to become an effective leader, how do you know what's really important?
Winning Well: The 6 Most Important Leadership Skills to Master
January 23, 2024 with Karin Hurt and David DyeDo you ever wish your team had more energy, would get more done, or solve problems on their own? In this highly-interactive program, you'll learn six proven approaches to build high-performance, high-engagement teams. Based on Karin Hurt and David Dye's Book, Winning Well, this program will leave you with practical, easy-to implement techniques to be a more influential and effective leader.
Working Smart: Managing Priorities and Mastering Workflow
January 25, 2024 with Dr. Jason WomackYour work days are different now. There's as much (or more) to do as always, and to add to the pressure you feel, uncertain times lay ahead. Some priorities you are managing because they are in your job description. Other priories have been thrust upon you, while you handle the daily workflow of email in between attending phone and video meetings. How are you doing? Are you feeling more stressed than you want to be right now? During this session,...
Smarter Choices: Use Strategic Thinking to Boost Your Influence
January 30, 2024 with Alex BrueckmannIn today's constantly changing world, leaders and managers are constantly searching for innovative methods to achieve success. The question that frequently arises is how can we make sound judgments and distribute resources more strategically. Is there an alternative to excessive planning, busy work, and never-ending task lists?
Dealing with Difficult People: Turn Tension into Collaboration
February 15, 2024 with Dr. Michelle BrodyDifficult colleagues show up at work in many forms and lead to frustration and lower productivity. What can be done about a micromanaging, undermining, uncooperative or thwarting colleague? Team members who get impossibly defensive when you try to offer feedback? The intuitive methods leaders use to manage "difficult coworkers" often backfire, resulting in vicious cycles of worsening behavior.
How To Use Emotional Intelligence for Success
February 22, 2024 with Jen ShirkaniStudies show a direct correlation between high emotional intelligence (EI) and successful leadership. In this program you will learn about the dimensions of EI and why it is essential for engaging and motivating others. Discover how to achieve better results in your work relationships by applying EI to understand the emotional component of your interactions. Don't miss this opportunity to gain the knowledge required to elevate your leadership ski...
Mastering Your Thinking: The Link Between Critical Thinking and Your Need to Perform
February 27, 2024 with Dan PontefractLeaders are busy. Super busy. It's not as though that's going to change. In reality, people have become experts at doing - constantly being on to perform - causing us to minimize the importance of creative and critical thinking, of ideating and sound decision making. We need to sort out a much better investment in our time to make it happen.
Becoming a Leader: Strategies & Tools for New & Emerging Leaders
February 29, 2024 with Dr. Ellen Burts-CooperThis program focuses on equipping managers with the knowledge and tools they need to effectively manage people and increase productivity in their areas of responsibility. Participants explore basic managerial concepts, discuss common situations and challenges and learn how to apply specific strategies and tools to successfully manage people.
Flipping the Switch: Unleash the Power of Personal Accountability
March 12, 2024 with Kristin LindeenWhen an individual chooses to grow in Personal Accountability, using the powerful tool called the Question Behind the Question (QBQ!), the all-too-human and costly traps of complaining, victim thinking, entitlement, procrastination, finger-pointing, and blame are reduced and even eliminated. Only then do organizations enhance productivity, sales, teamwork, communication, morale, creativity, safety, staff engagement, and problem-solving.
Leading the Best Team Ever: Strategies for Managing On-site, Hybrid & Remote Teams
March 14, 2024 with Dr. David BurkusWhy are some teams more motivated, more innovative, and more successful than others? Why do some groups of talented and seemingly compatible people fall short against lesser teams with less suitable members? And why are we still so surprised about which team members excel, and which ones fail?
Powerful Women Leaders: How to Connect, Engage and Succeed
March 19, 2024 with Dr. Debbye Turner BellIn spite of this age of unprecedented access and opportunity for women in
the workplace, women still lag far behind men in positions of power and leadership. This course
will help women leaders and emerging leaders identify necessary tools for leadership, hone
communication and negotiation skills, understand the role of emotional intelligence and cultural
competence in achieving success, and harness the power of networking.
Communicating with Influence and Impact
March 26, 2024 with Stacey HankeIn today's virtual, in-person and hybrid world communicating with influence is harder and more critical than it's ever been. How you communicate determines whether others see you as credible, knowledgeable and trustworthy. Without doing this effectively, you inhibit your maximum potential to influence, increase profits and cultivate long-term relationships.
Mastering Tough Conversations: Communicate Best When It Matters Most
April 09, 2024 with Neil StakerThis program is incredibly practical and engaging. You'll learn why most approaches fail in these tough situations and gain insights into what actually works. There will be lots of opportunities to practice to ensure what you learned translates to improved results back at work. Fun, active, and incredibly engaging, this program takes solid social science and makes it actionable.
Boosting Productivity: Time Management Tactics for Working Smarter
April 11, 2024 with Helene SeguraThis transformational program is designed for busy managers, project leaders, and senior individual contributors who are looking to operate more efficiently and strategically in order to maximize productivity. Whether you're working virtually, onsite or a hybrid, bolster your leadership ability and skills when you discover these critical strategies and tactics.
Leading vs Managing: The Difference is Key to Your Success
April 16, 2024 with Ann TardyThis session will explore the essential strategies and techniques required to powerfully lead and manage simultaneously from the same role. Being a manager is one of the most arduous and yet most valuable roles in any organization. The challenge lies in dealing with the expectations of those above and below you while also contributing to people's success around you. When you master this, you will discover how to impact any organization from the m...
Dealing with Difficult People: Bringing Out the Best in Others
May 07, 2024 with Dr. Rick BrinkmanThis program is based on the best selling McGraw-Hill book Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst, co-authored by Dr. Rick Brinkman and Dr. Rick Kirschner, which has been translated into 25 languages.
Leading Technical And Subject Matter Experts: Making An Impact Through The Work Of Others
June 11, 2024 with Crystal KadakiaYears of study and hard work allowed you to become an expert in your field, and eventually a leader of experts. But leading a talented team of highly educated analytical people (engineers, IT teams, financial analysts, accountants, scientists, insurance underwriters, lawyers, health providers, etc.) brings unique challenges. The attention to detail which made you a great expert can, if left unchecked, cause others to perceive you a "micro manager...
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