| Dates | Location | Tuition |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 2009 - Jan 29, 2009 | Philadelphia | $6,950 |
Volatile and intensely competitive, today's marketplace demands high-energy leaders and agile, resilient teams who can translate their strengths into competitive advantage.
Learning how to leverage your own strengths and draw out the talents and abilities of others is a "must have" leadership skill.
Research shows that leaders who take a strengths-based approach not only optimize performance, they create a more engaged workforce. Engaged employees are more productive, more profitable, safer, and more innovative. They also achieve nearly double the customer satisfaction scores and experience half the usual turnover rate.
Based on the latest research and proven best practices, Positive Leadership: Leveraging Strengths to Optimize Performance prepares you to:
- Leverage your leadership strengths to deliver the highest level of performance.
- Gain skills and strategies for maximizing productivity, engagement, and retention.
- Develop an action plan for leveraging individual, team, and organizational strengths.
The program helps leaders create hotbeds of vitality and productivity within their organization — precisely the skills that identify leaders for rapid advancement.
This highly experiential, interactive program enables executives to identify and capitalize on key strengths to achieve top performance — from themselves, their teams, and their organizations.
Through a variety of self-assessments, you identify and experience your core strengths, and learn how and when to apply them. You discover the latest research and best practices in strengths-based leadership — focusing on what individuals and their teams do best — and why the approach is so effective for achieving results.
The workshop approach gives you hands-on practice with tools and processes that boost positive energy and productivity within individuals, across teams, and throughout organizations. And at the end, you’ll prepare your own 100-day action plan designed to keep you on track for delivering positive results back on the job.
The program is designed primarily for leaders who want to optimize performance, or executives responsible for managing talent or organizational development.
We encourage companies to send cross-functional teams of executives to leverage the application and value of the program. Additional group benefits are available when four or more participants attend a program.
- Achieve top performance by leveraging your signature strengths as a leader.
- Inspire your team to higher levels of productivity and engagement.
- Contribute more to the bottom line by serving as a catalyst of your organization's resources.
- Live out your leadership vision in a more positive way.
- Create aspirational energy and a better future for your stakeholders — in your organization, your community, and your family.
JOSEPH RYAN, PhD
Adjunct Professor of Management,
The Wharton School
Dr. Ryan has held management positions in strategic planning, business development, and organization development with GE, GTE, and ARAMARK. He has also worked as a consultant in the Kepner Tregoe Strategy Group and at the Wharton Center for Applied Research.
He holds an MBA and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and attended the GE Crotonville executive education program.
The Marcus Buckingham Company
With a focus in applied measurement systems, McCashland founded TalentMine®, a performance-based online measurement system that helps employers understand and manage their people and culture to improve service quality, employee retention and business results. Through TalentMine, McCashland teams with practice leaders and research experts to systemically increase client partner results through appointing, developing, and enabling the talents of individuals across the enterprise.
Prior to founding TalentMine, McCashland served as a senior executive for the Gallup Organization, where she developed and led a management consulting team. She spearheaded Gallup's early research on employee engagement and worked as the lead consultant on Best Buy with Marcus Buckingham. Her research with Best Buy, Nortel, 3M, Kodak and numerous other organizations helped to uncover the consistent behaviors driving business performance and customer loyalty in the work place. Buckingham and McCashland have developed a Strengths Engagement Track (SET) to assist associates and managers in applying their individual strengths at work. The SET survey is featured in Marcus Buckingham's latest best selling book Go Put Your Strengths to Work.
McCashland has served as the lead consultant for clients including Health First, Riverside Health System, Scripps Health, Memorial Health System, Baptist Health, Wells Fargo Bank, HomeBanc Mortgage Corporation, IKON Office Solutions, Bank of Montreal, Associates First Capital, Republic Industries, Sprint, Marriott, Caterpillar, and Southwest Airlines.
She received a bachelor's degree in marketing and journalism and her masters in qualitative and quantitative research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She completed her doctorate in organizational leadership at the University of Southern California, where she graduated first in her class.
KARLIN SLOAN
Experienced as a keynote speaker, she is a frequent presenter on the topic of executive leadership development. She has been featured on ABC News Network's MoneyScope, Fox Channel Five's Good Day New York, and Boston Cable Network's The Art of Coaching. Her client list includes Allstate, Leo Burnett, MTV Networks, Interbank, Starcom MediaVest Group, NYU Stern School of Business, Jose Cuervo International, and the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas.
As an active member of the executive coaching community, Karlin is a member of the Executive Coaching Summit and the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations. She has published articles in OD Practitioner magazine, ASTD’s Leadership and Organization Development Newsletter, and The International Journal of Coaching in Organizations, as well as writing the “Executive Coach” column for Executive Travel Magazine.
Karlin holds a BA from Mills College, an MA in clinical psychology from the Professional School of Psychology in San Francisco, and executive coach certification through the William James Institute Center for Executive Coaching. She has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and numerous other publications as an expert in workplace behavior. Fortune Small Business Magazine recognized Karlin for her consulting work with organizations following the terrorist attacks of September 11th. She is a 2007 U.S. delegate to the Prince of Wales’s Business and the Environment Programme.