Become an Intellectual Ferret
Do you want to increase employee engagement with your business and reduce those who look for other jobs by 59%?
Do you want to see a 38% gain in productivity over the average?
If you want to learn the evidence-based approach to raise employee performance 32% greater than average- you’ve come to the right place.
Companies in the top quartile of leadership outperform other organizations by nearly 2x before EBITDA.
Companies that develop leaders during significant transformations are 2.4 times more likely to hit performance targets.
Companies that invest in coaching have a mean ROI of 7x of the initial investment.
The bottom line:
The American Society for Training Development (ASTD) did a study which found an increase of only $680 in a company’s training expenditure per employee generated on average a 6% increase in total shareholder return the following year.
That same study revealed the companies in the top quarter of the study group had 24% higher profit margins, 218% higher income per employee, and 26% higher price-to-book ratio than the companies in the bottom quarter of the study group.
That’s why you should care about investing in your people and in your leadership.
You might ask, “What if I invest in my people and they leave to work for my competitor?”
What if you don’t invest and they stay?
You may think you don’t have the time to invest in training and development.
If you don’t invest your time to develop your human capital, you reduce your organization’s intellectual, social, organizational, and financial capital. Your people are your only sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace.
How prepared do you feel for leadership roles and responsibilities?
What about your managers and supervisors? Are they ready to handle the volatile, uncertain, and chaotic world around them?
Most importantly- how engaged are your frontline employees with your company’s purpose?
We have solutions geared towards developing your people at all levels of your organization.
Workshop & Seminar Catalog
Leadership Development
CEO Succession Planning
What is the number one job of a Board of Directors? CEO Succession Planning. It’s also the #1 challenge facing organizations today.
Change Management
Are you facing change at an unprecedented rate? If you answer “yes” then our Change Management workshop is for you & your team!
Ethics: A Question of Character
This workshop is designed to make you think, perhaps about things you never have before. It is designed to get you started down the road…
Fundamentals of Critical Thinking
What is critical thinking? Some people incorrectly think it is being critical of other people’s thinking…and nothing could be further from the truth.
Fundamentals of Decision-Making
We use evidence-based research to provide you the tools to make effective decisions, whether you are a front-line employee or occupy the corner office.
How to Be a Better Leader and Lead a Richer Life
Life is not a zero-sum game. You don’t have to take actions at the deficit of work, family, community, or self. We can help you…
How to Be a Focused Leader
You will explore how to become a focused leader based on research by Daniel Goleman. What would you gain if you could hyper-focus on the…
How to Become an Effective Board of Directors
Are you ready to make your Board of Directors more effective? Our workshop explores key pieces to make your board better than ever!
How to Become an Effective Executive
Are you operating as effectively as you can? Our workshop can help you become the effective executive your business needs you to be!
How to Become Creative and Innovative
This workshop explores how to create a culture of creativity and innovation, a culture that generates new ideas and translates those new ideas into new…
How to Deal With a Culture of Overwork
Does your team feel overworked? In our workshop we explore 5 causes of overwork and can help your team get back into balance.
How to Deal with Rejection
In this seminar, we explain why rejection hurts, why we fear rejection and the consequences of that fear, common reasons for getting rejected, and most…
How to Develop and Write a Mission Statement
What is a mission statement? This workshop will guide you through the process to develop and write a mission statement that matters.
How to Get Your Team to Do What It Says It’s Going To Do
Why do we so often fail to achieve our goals? We miss opportunities to act, we lose confidence, and we let other competing gals distract…
How to Handle Stress
In this seminar, we explore what stress is (and isn’t), how stress affects the brain, causes of stress, how to cope with stress. By understanding…
How to Make Time for Work That Matters
Time is something we could all use more of. While we can’t change how much time we have, we can change how we choose to…
How to Motivate Your Employees
Do you want to make more money? Do you want to become more valuable to your organization? Do you want to discover your secret weapon…
How to Plan
Do you know how to plan? In our live workshop, you will discover the true value in the planning process by developing a plan based…
How to Set and Achieve Goals
Do you have trouble setting and achieving goals? Does your organization consistently fail to meet goals? We use evidence-based principles, not urban legends, to provide…
How to Write a Business Plan
Do you know the six elements of a good business plan? Our course walks you through the aspects of a business plan to generate meaningful…
John Maxwell’s 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth
This workshop, based on the work of Dr. John C. Maxwell, explores the 15 laws of growth that will help you become a lifelong learner…
John Maxwell’s Becoming a Person of Influence
Whatever your vocation, you can increase your impact by becoming a person of influence. Through this workshop you and learn simple ways to spread influence.
John Maxwell’s How to Be a REAL Success
In this workshop you will come to understand the four key areas needed to become a REAL Success, and a better leader in your industry.
John Maxwell’s Intentional Living
This workshop is both practical and inspirational, with the goal to motivate participants to become proactive in their lives and to make a difference in…
John Maxwell’s Leadership Gold
This workshop is based on Dr. John C. Maxwell’s experience of leading for over 40 years. You won’t find dirt in the workshop- you find…
John Maxwell’s Put Your Dream to the Test
This workshop helps you transform your dream from a vague notion of an ideal future into a clear picture of where you’re headed in life.
John Maxwell’s Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Learn
This workshop helps light the path to a more fulfilling life by examining loss, not from measuring what one does not have, but how loss…
Success Depends on Execution
The two key areas the success depends on are behaviors & processes. In our course you will learn the principles behind successful execution in these…
What Makes a Leader?
Psychologist Daniel Goleman has studied nearly 200 companies and we present his research to help you recognize the qualities that make you a leader.
Your Purpose
Why do you do what you do? What’s the driving force behind your life? Ultimately, what is your purpose? This evidence-based seminar will help guide…
Professional Development
21st Century Talent Spotting
21st-century talent spotting is about the tricky business of hiring and promoting the leaders your company needs for the future. We draw on research and…
Authenticity Paradox
With public confidence low, it’s critical that executives come across as genuine and believable. That’s why authenticity is now seen as a touchstone of effective…
Big Data: The Management Revolution
What, exactly, is big data? How does it differ from the information companies have relied on for decades? How can they use it to their…
Blue Ocean Strategy
It’s important to realize that the business universe consists of two kinds of markets: red oceans and blue oceans. Red oceans represent all the industries…
Build an Innovation Engine in 90 Days
Building an innovation engine is about how to set up a system for generating innovation, using a lean process that Scott Anthony, David Duncan, and…
Can You Say What Your Strategy Is?
The reality is that too many executives cannot summarize their company strategy. And if they can, they’re unsure if people throughout the ranks understand it…
Harnessing the Science of Persuasion
Over the past several decades, experimental psychologists have learned through research that the science of persuasion is governed by several principles that can be taught…
Hidden Traps of Decision-Making
There are well-documented traps that affect our decision making. We draw on insight and advice from the classic HBR article “The Hidden Traps in Decision…
How Managers Become Leaders
This is one of the thorniest challenges leaders face: stepping into their first role running a whole enterprise. We draw on research and insights from…
How Netflix Reinvented HR
Recently, Netflix has gotten a lot of attention for its pioneering HR practices. We take a look at the company’s approach and how it evolved,…
How to Find Your Customer’s Jobs To Be Done
We explore how you can find your customers’ “jobs to be done”—a concept closely related to Clay Christensen’s theory of disruption.
Leading the Team You Inherit
Leading the team you inherit is the challenge of taking over an established team. We explore the insights of Michael Watkins, expert on leadership transitions…
Make Exit Interviews Count
Exit interviews are an organizational tool that’s widely used but not well executed. We draw on the thinking of Everett Spain, of the U.S. Military…
Marketing Myopia
It’s important not to define the company’s product as its business. Levitt refers to that kind of thinking as “suicidal product provincialism.” The way to…
Navigating the Cultural Minefield
Whether we work in Dubai, New York, or New Delhi, we’re all part of a global network. In this seminar, we help you understand this…
Professionalism
What is a profession? What distinguishes a professional? How can you demonstrate professionalism? We explore the classic and new definitions of a profession, then look…
Reinventing Performance Management
Where do performance review systems fall short? Why do they fall short? What can we do to improve them? We look in depth at how…
Reinventing Your Business Model
Great business models can reshape industries and drive spectacular growth. This seminar addresses the two major issues businesses have with their models.
Save Your Rookie Managers From Themselves
We look at classic challenges faced by managers early in their careers—and how their bosses can help when those managers stumble. We discuss the 5…
Six Habits of Merely Effective Negotiators
We look at ways to increase your effectiveness as a negotiator. Six habits can get in the way. They’re common mistakes. We explore them, and…
The Discipline of Business Experimentation
There is a reliable way to evaluate new initiatives: Conduct rigorous experiments. In our seminar, we teach you how to follow a rigorous business experimentation…
What Great Managers Do
We’ve all heard the expression “the best boss I ever had”—but what does that actually mean? What behaviors do great managers execute?
What’s Your Scarcest Resource?
How do you get the most out of your company’s scarcest resource, time? We share with you the insights to help your organization change the…
Why Organizations Don’t Learn
Organizational learning is crucial to competitiveness but hard to sustain. We draw on a decade of research across a range of industries and explore tactics…
Why Strategy Unravels—And What To Do About It
Why Strategy Unravels — And What To Do About It. In this seminar we will discuss the underlying causes of strategy failure and how to…
Workforce Development
2009 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC)
Our 2009 International Energy Conservation Code workshop is a one-day workshop that covers the various elements of the 2009 IECC.
2012 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC)
Our workshop covers the 2012 International Energy Conservation Code, and can take place over the course of one day. Find out the important changes and…
2015 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC)
Our workshop covers the 2015 International Energy Conservation Code, can take place over one day, or be taken online. Find out the important changes and…
Advanced Building Diagnostics: Psychrometrics
Our Advanced Building Diagnostics: Psychrometrics workshop discusses the psychrometrics behind the case study, ‘The Case of the Moldy Attic’. Discover the root causes and help…
Customer Service
In this workshop, we explore the nine elements of Customer Service that enhance performance and communication skills, as well as much more.
Energy Rater Training
Our live Energy Rater workshop consistently produces successful students with deeper understanding of their job as an energy rater, includes field training, test proctoring, and…
ENERGY STAR v3.0/3.1 Rev 8
The ENERGY STAR Certified Homes Program is the premier national label for energy-efficient new homes – all based on the latest government-backed standards and a…
Fundamentals of Sales
Our Fundamentals of Sales workshop covers the 12 attributes of a great salesperson, 6 principles of influence, the 2 types of knowledge salespeople need to…
Fundamentals of Sales: Attributes of a Salesperson
The first online course in our Fundamentals of Sales workshop, this focuses on the Attributes of Successful Salespeople.
Fundamentals of Sales: Behaviors of a Salesperson
Welcome to the fifth course in the Fundamentals of Sales series. You will learn how goals should be based around behaviors – not outcomes. There…
Fundamentals of Sales: Business Knowledge of a Salesperson
This fourth course course in our Fundamentals of Sales workshop covers key business knowledge a salesperson should know, as well as important character traits to…
John Maxwell’s Everyone Communicates, Few Connect
If you want to succeed, you must learn how to connect with people. And while it may seem like some people are just born with…
Ophthalmic Scribe Certification Course
This course will prepare you for the Joint Commission on Allied Health Personnel in Ophthalmology (JCAHPO) OSC exam, an open-book and notes test. Certified ophthalmic scribes are important for…
Work Ethic
What is work ethic? Why does it seem that the younger generations don’t have the same work ethic as older generations? Our workshop discusses the…
