New two-day seminar! You’ve never experienced training this focused on your unique role as a high-level leader
Executive Leadership:
Strategies & Solutions Discover effective top-level leadership tactics that will inspire commitment … motivate employees and staff … and produce optimal results for your organization In just two transformative days, you’ll develop the executive skill set you need to: ■ Build and inspire a team that gives its all ■ Engage employees and aim them in the same direction— toward your vision ■ Weigh risks and rewards and make the right decision every time ■ Lead by ethics, values and principles ■ Guide the financial drivers of performance and profit ■ Build relationships to increase your support
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No one ever said leading at the top is easy. For executive level only … Executive Leadership is intended for upper-level executives and senior managers who are seeking fresh solutions to their leadership challenges. It will benefit every leader at the executive level, no matter how long you’ve been in your position, what industry you’re in or the size of your organization. Be aware that the material isn’t designed for new managers. This course requires prior leadership experience and the willingness to build on your management foundation in a fast-paced, interactive environment.
Your time is now to become a more admired, more respected and more effective executive leader
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hen you’re leading at the highest levels of an organization, there’s a lot riding on what you do and how you orchestrate it. It’s a complicated job with enormous pressure and demands. And your skill requirements increase with your ever-expanding responsibilities. Certainly, you must know how to build great teams, make solid decisions, inspire employees and strategize. To exhibit real executive leadership, you must also be skilled at overcoming obstacles, seeing the big picture, persuading stakeholders, developing and communicating your vision and so much more.
You know the issues all too well. What you need are solutions. We’ve created a powerful advanced leadership development experience that delves into the toughest challenges you face now—or will in the future—and the various ways you can handle them. This bold, new training is designed exclusively for upper-level executives and senior managers who are required to step up and face the realities of highly competitive markets … an ever-changing global environment … and operational difficulties and uncertainties they never imagined. Give us your undivided attention for two career-changing days. In return, we promise you’ll gain dozens of ideas you’ve never even considered before to help you: ■ Recognize—and play to—your strengths ■ Transform your knowledge—apply what you already know to different situations ■ Build an all-star team ■ Gain the support of stakeholders and investors ■ Infuse values, ethics and principles into every action ■ Create a more innovative, flexible and adaptive culture ■ Use inspirational communication to advance your vision ■ Think differently about problems and find new, innovative solutions ■ Adopt a tough-minded approach to financial and operational performance ■ Solve the retention-turnover dilemma Don’t let anything hold you or your organization back. Spend two days with us and discover executive strategies that will unblock your progress and improve your impact and effectiveness at the highest levels of leadership.
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How to make your mark in your complex role.
Inspire, engage and achieve greater results. This workshop is layered with strategies for effective leadership at all levels and in every situation—packaged in a fresh and exciting format. Arrive with your current leadership challenges in mind and together we’ll find the solutions. We’ll challenge your thinking with penetrating questions, work through ideas until you let go of preconceived notions and then find pathways that weren’t visible to you before. Through thought-provoking discussions, hands-on exercises and personal reflection, you’ll learn how to look at things with a fresh eye, challenge the status quo and take risks to deliver exceptional performance. Working alongside other upper-level leaders, you’ll find great minds don’t think alike: Many say the unexpected insight and lessons learned from this elite group alone are worth the price of admission.
The 5 fronts of effective leadership: Are you getting the results you want? 1. Bottom-line performance 2. The highest utilization of employees 3. Surviving and thriving in competitive markets 4. Positioning the organization for success in an ever-changing global environment 5. Guiding leadership teams to a more successful future Ultimately, succeeding on all five fronts is your responsibility. So be sure to carve out time to find out how the best leaders wear all these hats and succeed. Register today.
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A Business Case for Motivation and Engagement Successful leaders understand that the impact of employee engagement has been increasing over the past few years: • High-engagement companies reported that total shareholder return was 19% above the average in 2009. In low-engagement companies, the return was 44% below average.
—Hewitt Associates, 2010
• 13% of employees in North America indicated that there was no way they would stay with their current employer. (Up from 7% in the same survey three years earlier.)
—BlessingWhite, 2011
• 32% of employees said they intended to seek employment elsewhere within the next year.
—APA, 2011
• 70% of American workers were not engaged or were actively disengaged with their jobs and workplaces costing U.S. employers $450 – 550 billion in lostView productivity each year. the complete
—Gallup, 2013
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This two-day training event will show you the important role you play in keeping employees connected and productive in 2015—and the steps you need to take to ensure the future success of you and your organization.
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Executive Leadership Seminar Agenda
Visualize the leader you want to be How to find true success in your business by developing a new skill set that motivates people and gets results. ■ Take an honest look at the leadership strengths and limitations you bring to your role ■ The critical leadership core competencies every great leader has mastered ■ How to adopt a leadership style that enables you to adapt to any person and situation ■ Discover innovative ways to better leverage personnel and resources—opportunities you may have been missing out on until now ■ Integrative thinking: How you approach a complicated problem determines the success of your solution ■ How curiosity—surprisingly—can become your competitive advantage
Define your strategic mindset and create an adaptive culture Your organizational blueprint—a reflection of your vision, mission, values and beliefs—should be instilled into your managers and employees to put everyone on the same track. ■ Identify your “dominant strategy” and how to fully capitalize on it ■ How to target the best opportunities for short- and long-term growth ■ Use your influence to inspire a positive company-wide mindset of success ■ The organizational performance scorecard—your tool for letting everyone know how they’re doing at all times ■ The incredible benefits of an adaptive organizational culture—and how to build one ■ Confidently lead others through change even when you’re struggling with it yourself ■ Facilitate an innovative, agile and responsive culture in a company still clinging to old habits ■ Learn to make change—in technology and economics, at home and across the globe—work for you
Break through communication barriers to gain trust and respect Zero in on one of your most important roles—communicating confidently and effectively with staff members, colleagues and customers. ■ Build trust and develop powerful relationships using superior communication skills ■ Understand why people buy into ideas—and why they don’t—so you can convince others to follow your vision ■ Learn advanced presentation techniques used by today’s most successful professional speakers ■ The classic principles of persuasion … how and when to use them to win over anyone, from your board to the media ■ How to lead engaging, participative and productive meetings and discussions
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Program Hours: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. each day
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Manage organizational risk and adjust your business decisions accordingly Why you should challenge traditional risk management theories and consider a new, adaptive approach to risk. ■ Understand what risk management really is ■ Identify your organization’s risks—and risk tolerance ■ Avoid missed opportunities that come with business plan misalignment ■ Perform a true and honest cost-benefit analysis ■ Break through red tape and move forward … as only a true leader can ■ Emotional intelligence in the corner office: How to fulfill the emotional requirements of executive decision making ■ Proven decision-making models and how leaders use them as they grow and evolve ■ Dynamic decision making: Integrating facts, experience and intuition ■ Red flags that tell you when it’s time to call in an expert
Who should attend? Upper-level managers, executives and administrative decision makers looking for answers to their toughest leadership challenges and techniques for achieving greater results.
Grow your bottom line and improve your financial picture Finances become a bigger and more important part of your job the further you advance—how to measure and maximize efficiency. ■ Pinpoint the financial factors that deserve your constant attention ■ Evaluate and allocate your resources for maximized results and happy stakeholders ■ Key indicators in budgets and financial statements that will tell you when tough management action is necessary ■ Identify your critical measures of financial and operational performance and how to use them ■ Tough-minded financial leadership: Be realistic, objective and courageous when you need to ■ 4 things tough-minded leaders do differently
Coach and guide your most valued asset—your people—and reap the benefits of their best efforts How to become a key talent expert as you develop a Human Capital Development (HCD) strategy that ensures the right people are in the right places with the right motivation and authority. ■ HCD: What it is and why it’s important to your strategic plan and future profitability and growth ■ Measuring the effectiveness of your HCD program ■ Spotting top talent and bringing them into the fold for a winning team ■ How to give your team direction, trust them to follow through and then let go ■ Boost employee commitment, retain your best people, minimize the high cost of turnover and help your best talent get even better ■ Surprising new data about retention and engagement and what it means in your organization ■ Your biggest opportunities to reduce turnover and increase innovation and productivity ■ Understand the pivotal factors that play into motivating, engaging and retaining employees ■ Assess the ROI of employee training and professional development … and untapped opportunities for your company to grow ■ Strategic alliances: Why they are critical to your success and tips for building, guiding and changing them as circumstances change
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Most leaders at the top struggle with the same kinds of perplexing problems: ■ How do you build the right team, the right mission, the right culture? ■ How do you base all your actions and decisions on values and ethics? ■ How do you inspire a success mindset in others? ■ How do you engage every employee—from top to bottom—in your mission? ■ How do you keep everyone focused on what matters? ■ How can you develop your emotional intelligence and use it to guide your decision making? ■ How do you integrate everyone—from board members to hourly employees—into one high-performance team? ■ How can you lead change and transition with self-assurance and optimism? ■ How can you always act with an eye on the future? ■ How can you optimize people across every part of your organization—front office, back office, IT, customer service, sales? ■ How can you identify and exploit opportunities ahead of your competitors? ■ How can you build relationships that support your strategy and goals? Spend two days with us and find out how the best leaders overcome these obstacles … respond to problems … break out of “in-a-rut” thinking … and achieve operational excellence. It’s your chance to refresh your outlook and rejuvenate your enthusiasm for a higher level of success. Register today.
Gain skills, strategies and solutions for the uncertain leadership road ahead. In this highly participative training, you’ll roll up your sleeves and refine both your personal and professional skills. You’ll start by frankly assessing your leadership strengths and areas that need development, including what to change and what to keep. You’ll deepen your awareness of obstacles that are holding you and your organization back and consider the best ways to overcome them. You’ll also examine what you can—and must—do to effectively lead at the higher levels of your organization. We cover it all—including how to motivate others to excel, set direction, draw strength from difficult change, manage risk and make it pay off, build a strong network of support, gain engagement throughout your company … and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. By the end of the second day, you’ll emerge with a personal action plan based on your goals to guide your continued growth as a leader and your organization’s future success.
Your satisfaction guaranteed! Your complete satisfaction is important to us. If you’re dissatisfied for any reason, let us know right away—we’ll issue you a refund or arrange for you to attend another SkillPath program. It’s that simple.
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Registration Information Your tuition is tax deductible. Even the government smiles on professional education. All expenses of Continuing Education (including registration fees, travel, meals and lodging) taken to maintain and improve professional skills are tax deductible according to Treasury Regulation 1.162-5 Coughlin vs. Commissioner, 203 F2d 307. Cancellations and substitutions. Cancellations received up to five working days before the seminar are refundable, minus a $25 registration service charge. After that, cancellations are subject to the entire seminar fee, which you may apply toward a future seminar. Please note that if you don’t cancel and don’t attend, you are still responsible for payment. Substitutions may be made at any time. Continuing Education Credit: SkillPath offers Continuing Education Credits based on program length and completion in accordance with the National Task Force for Continuing Education guidelines for attendance at our seminars (save this brochure and your Certificate of Attendance). Please contact your professional licensing board or organization to verify specific requirements. You may also contact us at 1-800-873-7545 for additional assistance. SkillPath is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be addressed to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 150 Fourth Avenue North, Suite 700, Nashville, TN 37219-2417. Web site: www.nasba.org. This seminar qualifies for 12 CPEs. Previous work experience and/or background knowledge should be obtained before attending this seminar. Program level: Intermediate. For more information regarding administrative policies such as complaint and refund, please contact our offices at 1-800-873-7545.
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SkillPath can deliver this executive workshop right to your door, customized for you and your leadership team.
In fact, we can provide tailored, you-pick-the-day training on any program pertinent to your organization’s training goals. Or let our staff of professional trainers add sparkle to your next corporate or association meeting with a stimulating keynote speech designed just for you. Whether you have 3 or 300 people to train, SkillPath is the answer. For complete details and a no-obligation quote, call 1-800-873-7545 and ask for the on-site training department.
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New two-day seminar! You’ve never experienced training this focused on your unique role as a high-level leader
Executive Leadership:
Strategies & Solutions Learn the keys to effective top-level leadership that will achieve greater results for you and your organization Enroll at www.skillpath.com or call 1-800-873-7545
