Achieving Outstanding Results - Making Teams Work!
Everything in business is about TEAMS. Team Management, team work, team performance, team players, and even team incentives for pay. Overcoming the team disfunctions are some of the most challenging work hurdles to reaching solid performance and outstanding results! Past Programs List
Developing Leadership Effectiveness
Leadership is a term used to describe the skills required by today's professional when overseeing key tasks and relationships within an organization. To be effective in leadership, one must also possess the ability to project a values-based professional demeanor, the talent to motivate others toward success, and the knowledge to communicate and support the organizational vision and mission. This professional development seminar examines one's personal effectiveness as a leader and offers methods to improve. The session explores the innate values that drive one's leadership style, offers critiques for one's ability to communicate clearly, and identifies actions that may lead to more meaningful results in the one's leadership role. Past Programs List
Dynamics of Effective Teams and Team Leadership (Advanced Team Management)
This seminar helps industry professionals assess the best practices for successfully developing, analyzing, and effectively leading teams. High performance teams require coordinating individual efforts toward a desired group outcome. Being a high performance group requires that the team leader and team members effectively demonstrate leadership. Seminar leader provides systematic and clear methods for team members, leaders and stakeholders to assess the effectiveness of team interaction and performance; techniques to manage conflict and effectively communication; to establish practical and realistic goals and milestones; and to motivate team members into a higher performance group. Attendees learn to identify relationship and task-oriented leadership skills; assess the effectiveness of team leaders; and utilize methods to drive high team performance. Designed for individuals and teams involved in corporate or professional teaming environments, this program teaches skills, methodologies and techniques through hands-on exercises, case studies, and highly interactive lectures and by providing attendees with skills and abilities that may be applied right away. Past Programs List
Effective Business Communication
Numbers crunching, heavy infusions of capital and seductive management systems do not propel business forward...people do. Assertive expression, conflict management and negotiation skills are critical for effective business communication. Learn to satisfy the interest of all parties, build relationships and clearly define your professional "I"dentity in this one-day program. This program is designed for mid-to-top level managers, team leaders, professionals and executives. Past Programs List
Essentials of Clear Communications
Numbers crunching, heavy infusions of capital and seductive management systems do not propel business forward…people do. Effective expression (verbal, written and through body language), managing conflict and employing negotiation skills are critical for effective business communication both as an individual and in a group setting. Participants learn to more effectively communicate by identifying and satisfying the interest of all parties, building relationships and clearly defining their professional “I”dentity. This one day program is designed for mid to top level managers, team leaders, professionals and executives. Past Programs List
Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Professionals
The performance report or "box score" of a business is found in its accounting and financial statements. Knowing how to interpret those statements, and how to communicate in financial terms, can be the key to truly contributing to your business’ success. In this professional development seminar program, participants learn a clear, practical approach to understanding financial terms, reading basic financial statements, and understanding statement interrelationships. Throughout the program, assessing the 'health' of one's business is discussed and methods identified that may make a positive financial impact to business performance. Participants learn to analyze their own financial statements, and those of their competitors, suppliers, and customers. Business efficiencies and financial decisions such as new equipment investments, new product process investment, and various acquisitions methods that reduce costs with limited capital investment are discussed. Attendees learn to communicate more effectively with finance managers and professionals in the budgeting and strategic planning processes of their organization. Information learned in this session can be applied immediately upon return to your company. Past Programs List
Integrating Multiple Tasks: A Woman's Real World Approach
This workshop addressed the challenges faced by professional women who must integrate their time with the roles and responsibilities of family duties, career demands, civic interests, personal desires, and more. Past Programs List
Optimal Organization and Time Management Skills
During this session, participants will learn fundamental time management basic skills in order to accomplish specific goals set for self and others. The facilitator of this session will encourage the participants to consider their time management and organizational skills in relation to priority setting, clarity of purpose on tasks or projects, meeting attendance, following directions, and multi-tasking. After completing this half-day session, participants will have developed the skills to focus on goals and prioritization and to c reate a plan to achieve results, using tools that will enable you to manage time more effectively. Past Programs List
Project Organizational Dynamics and Analytical Techniques (Advanced Project Management)
Project decision-making, risk management and control pose difficult and complex tasks to project managers. Seminar leader Stan Portny provides special guidelines and techniques for developing appropriate information that supports project decision-making and timely information that accurately motivates team members. Attendees will explore how to create and maintain a dynamic project team environment, how to support project decisions with benefit/cost analysis and risk management; how to understand the key parts of effective project management information systems, and how to control projects with earned value analysis. The session includes individual and group exercises, interactive discussions, case studies and practical applications. Past Programs List
Project Product, Schedule, Resource Planning and Control (Basic Project Management)
Successful project management requires meeting team members' expectations regarding outcomes, time frames and resource expenditures. Seminar leader Stan Portny provides clear, systematic and easily understood guidelines for the complex and often technical elements of planning and controlling a project from the beginning through performance to closure. Past Programs List
Supply Chain Finance: Best Practices and Applications
Supply Chain Finance is an emerging science that provides the next frontier for manufacturers and retailers to gain an advantage over their competitors. As the pressure to improve in all performance areas is relentless and challenging, world class organizations must focus on combining the talents of finance, procurement, and supply chain professionals to deliver continuously better results and increase profits. This workshop program bridges the alignment gaps that are often found between supply chain, operations, and finance. Attendees establish a common language that can be shared across the disciplines. Further, best practices of supply chain management are presented while attendees focus on the appropriate application of financial techniques for cost management, risk management, working capital management, and financial investment analysis. Concepts are reinforced during the session with hands-on exercises and cases. Financial and operational improvement is emphasized throughout the course. Past Programs List
Supply Chain Management Seminars: Integrating Suppliers and Customers into Key Supply Chain Management Processes
The ability to incorporate internal and external suppliers and customers into the company supply chain is rapidly becoming a key competitive requirement. This course examined best-practice methods by providing a working knowledge of integration, the customer and supplier's role in the process, and the enablers and barriers that companies encounter. Attendees developed a plan to identify and pursue supplier and customer integration opportunities at their own companies. Past Programs List
Teamwork: Working Together for Results
Results in business are achieved through team efforts. Team leaders and team members can foster outstanding results by assuring seven key practices are in place. These seven key practices are: aligning purpose, designing the appropriate structure, enhancing communication and listening skills, seeking commitment, fostering collaboration, assuring the development of appropriate interpersonal skills, and developing a ‘spirit d'corp.' Past Programs List
Tools of Project Management
Planning and controlling the outcomes, timeframes and resource expenditures for a project requires utilizing key tools for project management including network diagrams, Gantt charts, linear responsibility charts and more. This workshop is designed for managers, team leaders and team members of any size project who seek to complete their projects within budget and on time. The session includes practical applications explained through clear, systematic and easily understood guidelines to align people and skills intellectually and emotionally and create the high performance that leads to project success. Past Programs List
