IMS/Detroit - 2013 Programs
Dr. Noah Barsky The One-Day MBA: Delivering World-Class Results
Quick RegisterNew and seasoned managers alike need a broad perspective to effectively deal with the complex challenges they face daily. To develop and promote this skill, this one-day seminar presents many of the tools and techniques found in quality MBA programs today. Specifically, participants will examine how basic business processes drive financial results, learn how effective risk management can improve business planning and decision making, and explore how financial and non-financial measures are best used to evaluate operating results. Frontline managers also will learn what e-business really means for their own unique operating environment.
Dr. Noah Barsky is currently a professor at the Villanova University School of Business, and periodically teaches as a visiting professor for the INSEAD MBA program in Europe. His research and teaching focus on performance measurement, business planning, risk assessment, and contemporary financial reporting issues. He earned his undergraduate and masters degrees from Penn State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. Dr. Barsky delivers executive programs, management training, and educational seminars for various business organizations and professional associations in North America and Europe.
Dr. Chip Bell The Leader’s Role and Responsibility as Mentor
The only sustainable competitive advantage of tomorrow will be the capacity to outlearn your competition. Future leaders will be those who focus on cornering unique talent and nurturing portable wisdom. This means managers must become mentors to all the employees they influence. The winners of tomorrow will be those who build powerful partnerships for learning. They will be those who can effectively transfer relevant experience, communicate cutting-edge competence and foster insight-producing discovery. This spirited, hands-on session focuses on the timely tools and pragmatic techniques for being a learning coach.
Dr. Chip Bell is a senior partner with The Chip Bell Group and manages their Dallas, TX office. Prior to starting CBG in 1980, he was Director of Management and Organization Development for NCNB, now Bank of America. Dr. Bell is author or co-author of such best-selling books as Magnetic Service, Service Magic, Customers as Partners, Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service, and Managers as Mentors. His work has been featured on CNBC, CNN, NPR, Bloomberg TV, and in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, USA Today, Fast Company, Inc. Magazine, Entrepreneur and Business Week.
Mr. Rick Brandon Organizational Savvy: Increasing Your Influence and Impact (NEW DATE)
Leaders of companies claim politics isn’t important or doesn’t exist. Yet, every day, results and careers in organizations suffer from power plays, inflated egos, turf battles, hidden personal agendas, deception, and bad mouthing. Successful leaders know how to manage organizational politics and use it to their benefit. This workshop adjusts attitudes about power and politics, confronts naiveté about organizational dynamics, and provides practical strategies for building organizational impact with integrity (e.g., ethical lobbying, addressing hidden agendas, promoting yourself with integrity, respecting turf and ego, etc.). This session is designed to benefit those well-intentioned individuals whose lack of political skills leaves them vulnerable to being underestimated, sabotaged, and denied credit for their ideas and work.
Dr. Rick Brandon earned his Ph.D. in Counseling and Management at the University of Arizona, his M.A. in Educational Psychology from St. Lawrence University, and his B.A. in Psychology from Case Western Reserve. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses for the University of Bridgeport, College of Saint Rose and the University of Arizona. Dr. Brandon has consulted, educated, and presented at companies worldwide. From start-up e-commerce businesses to blue chip companies, his clients include Citibank, The Prudential, Pfizer, Charles Schwab, Chase Manhattan Bank, The Gap, Kodak, Apple Computer and Walker Interactive Systems.
Mr. Paul McGee The SUMO Principles of Leadership
In this highly interactive and practical workshop, Paul McGee will explore his main SUMO (Shut Up, Move On) principles and how they impact our ability to inspire others. His principles relate to any leader whose organization would benefit from taking a fresh look at the following five key areas; Change, Relationships, Attitude, Motivation and Stress. Building on his background in behavioral and social psychology, Paul will give us time to reflect upon our behavior and that of others and identify what hinders our effectiveness. Paul's aim is to provide a memorable, motivational, moving-on experience for delegates, which equips them with 'real world' practical ideas that they can implement immediately. Inspired by the Albert Einstein quote, “The definition of genius is the ability to make the complex simple”, Paul communicates in a clear and simple way, insights and ideas that are profoundly important to us as leaders.
Mr. Paul McGee is an international speaker, best selling author and creator of the brand SUMO: Shut Up, Move On. Building on his background in psychology and experience of working in 25 countries to date, he brings a fresh perspective to common sense. His Mancunian style of motivation is both practical and entertaining, as he addresses issues around dealing with change, handling pressure, motivating staff and delighting customers. His clients include BBC Television, HSBC Bank and Shell. His work has received praise from a variety of quarters including World Cup Winning Coach, Sir Clive Woodward, and the former head of the CBI, Sir Digby Jones. His goal is simple. He wants to help people achieve better results in life and have more fun in the process, as he seeks to deliver a memorable, motivational, moving on experience.
Dr. Paul Friga Improve Your Real-Time Decision Making: Recognizing Our Blindspots
Over the past 30 years, researchers have made dramatic progress in assessing how, when and why bad decision-making takes place. In fact, theories have developed that articulate predictable manners of behavior in this area. This seminar will focus on understanding “blindspots” that lead to poor decision-making by executives and remedies that can mitigate the damage in organizations. After a discussion on the latest theoretical findings on this topic, the participants will work in teams to develop stories of blindspots at work based upon their experience (and/or current news stories). The participants (with the assistance of Dr. Friga) will also present tactical suggestions on how the blindspots could have been avoided (and will be avoided moving forward).
Dr. Paul Friga is a professor at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches courses in management consulting and strategy. He also serves as the Director of the Consulting Concentrations for undergraduates and MBAs. He researches strategic decision-making, knowledge transfer, intuition, management consulting processes and entrepreneurship and has presented at numerous conferences throughout the world. He is the recipient of the Indiana University Trustee Teaching Award (2008), IU Kelley School of Business Innovative Teaching Award (2006), and the UNC Kenan-Flagler Ph.D. Teaching Award (2001).
Dr. Alan Zimmerman The Productivity Payoff: How the Best Leaders Bring Out the Best by Example
If it’s true that the best leaders lead by example, what example are you setting? Do your coworkers look at you and say they want to be more like you? Do your team mates look at your behavior and feel inspired by what they see? Hopefully yes. When leaders don't "practice what they preach," it can be almost impossible for a team to work together. After all, you can’t trust a leader who says one thing but does another. You’ll boost your own self-confidence, deflect the negativity around you, take smart risks, and achieve your goals … without losing your balance. In essence, you’re going to learn how to set an example that is worth following. But please be warned. This is not a sit-back-and-listen type of lecture. This is a highly interactive program with a strong emphasis on practical skills that really work. So you’ll actually use the skills during the program to ensure your use of the skills after the program … on the job as well as at home.
Dr. Alan Zimmerman is Founder and President of the Zimmerman Communi-Care Network, Inc., an international consulting, coaching and speaking firm. In that position, Dr. Zimmerman has delivered more than 2,000 programs in 48 states and 22 countries. Dr. Zimmerman has a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in Interpersonal Communication and Psychology. He has written several books and hundreds of articles on motivation, communication, change management, work-life balance, team relationships, customer enthusiasm, positive attitudes, workplace negativity, and conflict resolution. Dr. Zimmerman taught at Mankato State University, Emporia State University, and the University of Minnesota for 15 years. His clients include such major corporations and organizations as 3M, AAA, Abbott Laboratories, American Express, DHL, IBM, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Steel, Mayo Clinic, and Merck.
Mr. Bob Treadway Next Level Leadership: Six Key Skills for Success
Next-level leaders bring more to their organization than their peers. Next-level leaders are recognized as strategic human assets who are indispensable - and first in line for promotion. This practical and engaging session will teach participants techniques that allow them to see around corners, anticipate the next big things, and make wise decisions that hold up in situations of uncertainty and volatility. Participants will sharpen skills in forecasting, learn how to pick key issues and early signals from a flood of information, reduce uncertainty to manageable levels, think in the future tense, and multiply intelligence through structured collaboration. Participants will start building their own executive scanning system, learn the best questions to ask in uncertainty, and practice making wise decisions with incomplete information. The key skills participants learn in this session, added to operational expertise, will enhance their influence and value to the organization and their colleagues.
Mr. Bob Treadway has been a guest lecturer and faculty for executive education sessions at the University of California-Berkeley, Loyola, Illinois State, Oregon State and Kansas State Universities. Through his 16-year tenure on the faculty of the Institute for Management Studies he has educated thousands of Fortune 500 managers. He is a member of the Association of Professional Futurists, a charter member of the Society for the Advancement of Consulting, and was awarded the National Speakers Association's highest earned designation as a Certified Speaking Professional. Mr. Treadway possesses a unique ability to integrate forecasts for effective strategy development. Most of his practice is focused on executive sessions with directors and top management in think tank, brainstorming, future visioning, decision-making, and strategic planning projects.
Dr. Clint Longenecker Getting Outstanding Results: Five Absolutes For Achieving High Performance
Getting better results on an ongoing basis is becoming a leadership mandate in nearly every organization around the world. This seminar is designed to help business leaders develop a framework with which to systematically increase their personal effectiveness and ability to achieve higher levels of performance. This dynamic, interactive and hands-on learning experience will: provide specific tools to help leaders better understand the causes of managerial failure; equip managers to better focus their people and themselves on desired outcomes; help leaders effectively equip their people to perform at higher levels; demonstrate the importance of creating a working environment that fosters better results; encouraging managers to maximize people power and will make a strong case for developing both people and processes in your quest for better results. Leaders attending this program will walk away knowing how to improve their performance and deliver better results when they go to work the very next day. NO SPECTATORS ALLOWED!
Dr. Clinton Longenecker is an award winning educator, is one of “America’s leaders in the area of rapid performance improvement” and is the Stranahan Professor of Leadership and Organizational Excellence in the College of Business Administration at the University of Toledo. He has recently been described by Career Publications as, “one of America’s very best executive educators” and “one of the top motivational speakers in the U.S. who can blend cutting edge research, common sense, humor and conviction into a real and inspiring call for better performance that can help us all!” His teaching and research interests are in leadership, organizational success, and all facets of performance improvement. He has been the recipient of eighteen outstanding teaching and research awards during his academic career and several industry awards including the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2004.
Since 1994 over 26,000 managers and executives have participated in our Detroit and Lansing monthly programs. Our “best-in-class” faculty speakers have designed their development workshops to improve your performance as an individual and a leader. If you can not find what you are looking for, please contact us.
Last Updated 05/21/13