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. 

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.

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.

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:

• Examining the forces, internal and external, which are prompting organizations to pursue succession planning;
• Learning an approach to the Succession Planning and Management Process;
• Identifying The benefits of a well-executed succession planning process;
• Exploring the role of local government management professionals in facilitating the succession planning process within their own organizations;
• Clarifying the role for Human Resource Departments; and
• Reviewing Best Practices

Through the Looking Glass: The Future of your Human Resources Department -
Join us and learn ways to increase the value and effectiveness of the Human Resource Department.  Participants will learn how to translate the internal and external forces which are influencing the changing role of human resource practitioners from a traditional one occupied with administrative tasks to that of a strategic business partner focused on delivering valued-added services and contributing to organizational effectiveness.  Changing that role requires a different mix of activities and necessitates reconfiguring the HR function to support changing business strategies and organization designs.  Guaranteed to be highly interactive, this program will feature a variety of delivery techniques used to engage participants including skills practice, case studies, small group exercises, and handouts.

What Gets Measured Gets Done: Optimizing your Employees’ Performance -
Ever heard of the old saying ‘every organization is perfectly designed to achieve the results it delivers?’  It’s painfully true.  We reorganize, but little or nothing seems to change.  Join us to learn how to use the 5 Point Approach© in accelerating your people’s and your organization's performance.

When Training Isn’t The Answer -
Training tends to be the “silver bullet” for almost all employee-performance related issues, yet it is also one of the first areas impacted when budgets are reduced.  Inefficient work processes, shifting strategies, and poorly designed measurement systems, are only a few of the conditions that occur in organizations everyday that cannot be solved by training the employees involved.  In fact, skills and knowledge are the only two areas that training can truly impact.  Join us to learn how to identify when a skill or knowledge gap exists, what type of training might be the answer and when other solutions should be used.