Experienced, dynamic, and effective teaching have been a hallmark of our team from the beginning. By providing training in various formats (seminars, lectures, and workshops) organizations can learn how to apply the principles necessary to mature an organization. This includes training in the same areas in which we offer consulting. We can tailor our offerings to meet your needs. We have performed full day seminars, webinars, and video-conference-based training. We can provide introductory level training or go into a deep dive utilizing hands-on practice. Since we also offer consulting and facilitation services, our training opportunities can be a precursor to assisting your organization in implementing an improvement effort.

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Topic Offerings

Putting strategy into strategic planning

Covers the following topics in detail. Any of the below topics can stand on their own as a teaching topic.

• Vision vs. Mission
• Goals vs. Objectives
• Creating a living strategic plan
• # 1 Job is helping your most valuable asset be successful in life

Vision Setting - How To Change The World

A study on the power of vision. How visions have been used to change the world, most times outliving the owner of the vision. Also covers how to create a personal and/or business vision. Practicum portion includes the development of visions for each student for their personal lives or designated organizations.

Metrics - an organization's maturity barometer

How to use metrics. Includes the definition of metrics, using metrics for process improvement, and the pros and cons to using metrics. Discusses the concepts to using metrics - not a statistics based approach. Covers Setting and maintaining expectations.

Sharing the Wealth: Career Planning/Coaching the Individual

Setting a motivational, exciting, inspiring, direction-setting vision is not only essential for an organization but also for an individual. It's a necessity for any entity which is striving to do great things. If you only want to survive, or to just continue meeting your mission, you don't need a vision - nor a strategic plan for that matter. The key is to create a vision that creates passion in your audience and, more importantly in you. Also covers Personal Strategic Planning.

Professional Development

Like champion athletes, champions need development plans to maintain peak performance. This offering introduces the differences between training, education, and development plans. The concept of positional training vs. personal development will be addressed. From the basics for developing a training plan to how and when to measure skills, this covers all of the basics to Training, Development, and Education plans - stressing the benefits to everyone when the worker is developed in a holistic manner. Explains how best to use the plans and how, as living documents, they are a constant tool for coaching, mentoring, and counseling.

Using performance management tools or how not to use measures of improvement for performance management!

Introduces some of the more common tools for performance management and then moves to a new model of coaching. Examples will be given using sports coaching analogies. Will cover why data gathered should NOT be used...and how and when it can.
The following topics are based on our book, "Why Organizations Struggle So Hard To Improve So Little: Overcoming Organizational Immaturity," Praeger, Santa Barbara, CA, 2010.

Why do organizations fail to improve? - Explaining the concept of Organizational Immaturity

An introduction to the concepts captured in "Why Organizations Struggle So Hard To Improve So Little: Overcoming Organizational Immaturity." Helps students understand the real reasons for many organizational failures to improve. Includes discussion of how Organizational Immaturity is a product of many factors including: culture, size, past experiences, etc.

Understanding the Organization - Assessing the organization
How to determine if the organization is suffering from Organizational Immaturity

Covers the assessment process and tools in "Why Organizations Struggle So Hard To Improve So Little: Overcoming Organizational Immaturity." Covers how improvement methodologies skip over the Organizational Immaturity level and how the tools they provide for measuring the progress of the organization can still be used to identify Organizational Immaturity. Also discusses the use of annual assessments to measure the progress of the organization.

How to do the "impossible"...The concept of Champions

Explains why it is tough for highest levels of leadership to NOT want enterprise-wide change. Covers basic tenets - people want to improve, people want to do well ... leadership has to find a way to help them do so...not force them to do it the leaders' way. Introduces a new paradigm of what "organizational improvement" means. Rather than measure a specific change effort, measure that each area shows some improvement in some area. Explains how to make improvements happen in an immature organization.

If you can't find the topic you are looking for, contact us.  If we don't offer the training, we will help you find someone who does.

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