Seminars

Each seminar and meeting is developed to accomplish specific goals in each client's unique culture.

Recent Projects

Assessment: Assess your starting point. Review improvement, creativity, and innovation capability. Review market trends and customer needs. Review company planning process and goals. Outline and prioritize cultural barriers to creativity and innovation. Establish improvement goals for creativity and/or innovation.

Benchmarking: Benchmarking is all about learning "what's possible". Target, document, and improve your processes, and identify valuable benchmarking partner resources. Improve targeted processes throughout your organization by learning to identify and compare your processes with partners in other organizations who have created more efficient and effective alternatives.

Developing Meeting Facilitators: Build on-site, self sufficient meeting facilitators capable of supporting effective meetings company-wide. Most often follows strategic planning, scenario planning, problems solving, or creative thinking skills seminars.

Process Improvement Skills: Help work teams build and practice an effective problem solving methodology. Students practice using process and techniques to improve company processes while developing the company's improvement methods.

Initiating and Building Improvement Teams: Learn to initiate and support your organization's improvement teams. Learn how to prepare your Leadership Team, identify and prioritize your improvement team projects, use quality improvement tools, deal with team development issues, and monitor, support, and reward teams.

Waste Search - Process Redesign: Improve processes throughout your organization by learning to identify and replace sources of waste with new value-added steps. This hands-on seminar presents and practices a variety of techniques focusing on waste elimination to improve processes while working on real company issues.

Project Management: Companies are learning that to remain competitive they must implement changes on an ongoing basis. Many of these companies are assigning functional and cross-functional project teams to complete these changes in the least amount of time with limited resources. This seminar provides an overview of how to prepare your Project Managers to plan, manage, budget, track, and successfully complete company projects.

Resolving Conflict: Somewhere along the way we discover that others don't always see things the same way we do. We seem to be in conflict. Conflict is in large part the emotional reaction we experience when we think a particular way. Sometimes conflict is disabling, preventing future progress. Sometimes conflict is laughable upon discovering a misunderstanding. This hands-on seminar provides a number of exercises to help you develop approaches and skills that allow you to move past conflict and work more effectively, both in one-on-one relationships and group situations.

Strategic Planning: Learn to create an operational planning document that guides company leaders and employees, and improve the executive team's ability to identify, prioritize, and assign opportunities, and contribute to improved company performance.

Scenario Planning - Consider Alternative Futures: The value of this technique comes from the deep dialogue that the different scenario stories provoke. The alternate views generate new insights about a company and their future. Thinking this way helps prepare the contributors to notice and consider emerging ideas before others even perceive any change.

Creative Thinking Skills - Out of the Box and Onto the Bottom Line: A modern understanding of creativity recognizes techniques are available to assist anyone who knows how to use them. Effective creativity techniques deliberately mix up paradigms while addressing real problems and opportunities to proactively generate lots of new ideas. These techniques can be used at will whenever individuals or teams recognize they need more ideas.

Six Thinking Hats; The Management Tool for Building the Innovative Organization: This seminar helps help business executives break out of their 'thinking ruts' using techniques found in Dr. Edward de Bono's landmark book, Six Thinking Hats. This is an excellent technique to suspend judgment while considering all of the aspects of an alternative before making a decision.

Lateral Thinking; Innovation With Approaches to Individual and Corporate Creativity: Lateral Thinking is listed in the Oxford Dictionary: "A way of thinking which seeks solutions to intractable problems through unorthodox methods or elements which would normally be ignored by logical thinking." Lateral Thinking is a method for cutting across patterns and changing concepts and perceptions.

Leading Change: This seminar is a sequence of hands-on, interactive exercises between company team members using new techniques to help you learn about and practice more effective ways to think about, and decide about, change and improvements This seminar will help you feel and act more comfortably about change, help you handle change in a positive and productive way, and help you generate attractive alternatives about any change that comes your way.

Culture & Behavior: Leaders use a structured technique to talk about the behaviors of their direct reports that do and do not contribute to company performance. The exercise results with an organization-specific list of promoting and restraining behaviors which become the standards for your organization's preferred leadership behaviors.

* Please note that while this speaker's specific fee falls within the range posted at the top of this page (for Continental U.S. based events), fees are subject to change without notice. Also note that most celebrity keynotes begin in the $25,000 and up range (most list "Contact for Fee Schedule"). For current fee information or international event fees, please contact your Speakers Platform representative.