Building Teams: The Lewis & Clark Approach
As organizations have attempted to become more efficient, many have turned to the creation of teams—self-managed teams, high-performance teams, cross-functional teams, and so on. Many such efforts have not been successful, despite the well-intentioned efforts of organizational leaders and followers. Much of this dilemma can be explained in terms of some basic realities regarding team motivation and performance. Using the lessons we have learned from two of our favorite explorers, Lewis and Clark, increase your knowledge of how to build stronger teams that achieve superior results.

Changing Organizational Culture in the Public Sector: The Lava Effect ©
Public sector organizations breed their own particular type of culture, one which often frowns on risk taking. In our world today, expectations from residents, elected officials, businesses, land developers and other key stakeholders interested in the delivery of public services, continue to rise. Learn how to meet these increased challenges and inject the principle of innovation into your organization, so that your people seek to not only do different things, but do things differently.

Employer Branding: It's a Whole Lot More than a New Logo!
The convergence of various trends - changing workforce demographics, retiring baby boomers, lack of skilled workers and use of the hiring freeze - offers the ideal opportunity for your agency to strengthen its Employer Brand. Top performers always have employment options and when the economy rebounds, the demand for talent will intensify. The challenge for your agency is when prospective candidates think of it as an employer, what comes to mind? Better yet, what do current employees think about their employer? Branding is increasingly receiving more and more attention today as a strategy to counter these forces and this session will outline the 5 Steps to Brand Strength.

From Typewriters to iPods: Communication across Generations
Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millenials - in organizations there is an unprecedented blending of generations resulting in communication challenges. This session will identify continuing trends in the workforce and subsequent impacts on the workplace, examine the unprecedented changes younger workers are creating in organizations, and what organizations can utilize to recruit and retain employees from all generations.

Get up, Get out and Get on it: Leading today's Workplace
Meetings, customers, elected officials, email, staff, the media, labor unions, voice mail – our daily work lives are so preoccupied with the urgent matters, we often neglect the area where we can exercise the most influence – our people. Join us for techniques and tips you can immediately use to overcome your version of information overload and begin investing your time, effort and energy in leading your people.

The Human Resource Professional as an Organizational Development Practitioner
More and more organizations are looking toward their HR Department for contributions toward business strategy, organizational design, and change management, all in their pursuit of optimal performance. Join us to discover how to disrupt the "we have always done it that way" approach and begin developing the requisite skills necessary for your organization's HR professionals to execute their new role effectively.

Human Resource's Future Impact: Redesign Your HR Competency
As more employers turn to outsourcing and hi-tech solutions for their administrative functions, HR professionals are facing greater pressure to demonstrate business acumen and new management skills in efforts to deliver value and drive results. Join us to learn what competencies are critical for you begin developing guaranteeing you a bright professional future.

Keys to Building Great Work Teams
Fostering teamwork is a top priority for many leaders and the benefits are abundantly clear: improved productivity, more effective execution of organizational priorities; and employee empowerment. Join us to learn how to use the Seven Keys to Building Great Work Teams in helping improve the performance of your organization's teams.

Leading Change isn't a Spectator Sport
During times of unprecedented change, leaders of organizations have the opportunity to refresh the focus and spirit of members of their workforce resulting in a higher-motivated workforce delivering superior service. This session focuses on identifying common scenarios related to managing change initiatives and how to translate the forces for change into a tailwind with practical, tactical and impactful ideas you can begin using tomorrow

Macro-Managing©: Why Is It Effective? -
Most of us recognize that micro-managing drives us and our people crazy, but have you ever considered how to work effectively macro-managing? Boost your capabilities and achieve better results, for yourself and your direct reports, by learning the art of macro-managing.

Managing Change: How to Break Free from the Prairie Dog Phenomenon©
Change management is one of the most talked about and yet most misunderstood subjects in the workplace. Employees have become so accustomed to the "flavor of the month" programs intended to change things for the better, that resistance to change can overwhelm good intentions. Change management is first and foremost, a term that refers to the task of managing change and in this workshop, participants will discover much is to be learned from prairie dogs in the effort to plan and manage change in a systematic fashion. Join us to learn how to disrupt the status quo and implement meaningful change.

Maverick Thinking: How to Inject Innovation into your Organization
Dramatic change is necessary today to disrupt the status quo and reject the "we've always done it that way" approach. This session focuses on providing a series of vitamins that characterize maverick thinking and inject passion and innovation into an organization's mind-set. New ways to rethink, reconnect, reinvent and redesign organizational strategy, service delivery, the workforce and achieving unprecedented results will be shared.

My Most Experienced People Are Retiring: How Do I Build a governmental Succession Planning program?
Effective organizations do not passively wait for the future; they create it by investing their time, thoughts, and planning in order to ensure the continuity of their leadership talent. Many organizations are, or will soon be, experience a leadership crisis as a large number of employees in upper and middle management positions, mostly Baby Boomers, will retire. Join us to learn an approach to Succession Planning that will help you determine the leadership your organization needs, methods to select and assess candidates, and create a succession pool. Particular areas covered in this workshop include: