Resources
You are responsible for making a difference – making a contribution. You’re charged with making the right things happen and for keeping the wrong things from happening. You’ve been gifted with a certain amount of creativity, intelligence, fortitude and so on in order to do what you’ve done – and need to keep doing. We want to be a resource for you.
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The Peter Drucker Seminar
This 2 day senior management workshop is based on the latest thinking from business icon, Peter Drucker. This workshop is for management teams who are interested in a comprehensive planning session guided by the mind of Dr. Drucker. John Horton facilitates using video from his interview with Dr. Drucker (about a year before Drucker died) and a 43-page workbook. Topics covered: purpose, organized improvement, economic performance, management accountability and performance, objectives, people and performance, contribution, innovation, opportunities and risk, learning and leadership, and a look at the future.
Drucker Seminar…
The Next Generation of Leaders
We believe with Peter Drucker that, “leadership is a matter of behavior and practice and not a gift or charisma; it is responsibility.” This 2-year development process is for those individuals who are emerging as the next generation of leaders in your firm. It includes assessment/feedback, educational sessions, new experiences (coordinated with the firm) and exposure to people and processes they might not otherwise get. It involves some pre-work, assigned readings, class time and commitment of the firm and the individuals. Executive nomination required.
Next Generation…
Dysfunctions of a Team Workshop
This two day workshop is for management teams who are serious about improving their ability to function as a high performing team; it’s about becoming smart and healthy. Based on the work of Pat Lencioni in The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, this workshop is designed to get to the heart of the matter and to give the managers what they need for real and lasting improvement. There is some pre-work and post workshop follow-up sessions.
Dysfunctions Workshop…
Executives in Transition
This in-depth 90 to 120-day coaching process is for executives and managers who need to take charge in a new business environment. Whether headed for a new company in a new place or taking on new responsibilities in the same company, it is important to remember that fortune favors the prepared mind. This process is supported by a 75-page workbook that “lives on” after the coaching process is over.
Transition…
Going from Good to Great
This process is for management teams or executives who want to build a world class business based on the principles and practices contained in Jim Collins’ Good to Great. It begins with a 2-day workshop and continues with periodic scheduled follow up sessions and checkpoints for accountability, progress and additional support.
Good to Great…
Understanding How Others Misunderstand You
This half day seminar is designed to give management teams an understanding of how behavior patterns (theirs and others) have an effect on perceptions and performance. It produces improved interpersonal skills, communication and effectiveness. Some pre-work required.
Misunderstandings…
The Life Planning Process
This coaching process is for those individuals who have reached “success” and still have plenty of years in their life and life in their years who are beginning to think “Now what?”
Life Planning…
The Leadership Forum at Georgia Tech
Founded in 1996, this popular and highly rated executive program improves business performance through better thinking. It is designed to ensure fresh perspectives, new thinking, and challenging ideas from the world's best business thinkers. The Leadership Forum is for high impact leaders who are driven to make a difference and have a genuine interest in learning from the “best and brightest” as a means to that end.
Leadership Forum...
