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Unexpected Change: The New Order for Organizational Effectiveness
Have you ever refused a job offer? Insights for those who inspire others
Conundrums and Dilemmas: How to Assess Organizational Culture
Where Have All Leaders Gone? Why Leaders Don't Tell and Don't Ask About Retention
Work Life Balance Is Unattainable but a Good Blend is Possible
Got Health? Organizational and Executive Well-Being
A Few Simple Rules for Leading in a Complex World
The New $64,000 Question: Culture and Leadership
How to Lead Effectively in a Complex World
Discovery and Diversity in Leadership: Hopeful Reflections
Creating Leadership Legacies & Re-inventing Leadership Development
Executive Wellness: Putting Health into Leader and Leadership Development
How to Put Your Leadership Development Efforts on Track
Leadership when it Sizzles
Analysis, Feedback, and Change in Organizational Cultures
The Quest to Climb
Leadership Poison: Working with and Understanding New Research
Give Me a Break: Results and Outcomes in Leadership Development Work
Leaders and Leadership in Developing and Sustaining Organizational Cultures
Leading Salespeople: Making More of Leadership in Sales
Blending Work and Life: Considerations for Leaders Who Travel Frequently
Developing Others: Self, Others, and Organization in Perspective
Integrity at Work: Developing Leadership Capacity
Inspiring Others: Change Yourself, Change the World

Unexpected Change: The New Order for Organizational Effectiveness
This Teleseminar was conducted on October 20, 2006

This teleseminar will assist you to recognize how change influences organizational behavior. Additionally, insight from this seminar provides a context to create individual and organizational alignment. We will describe actions that enhance performance, build responsiveness to critical new situations, and contribute to ethical action.

Provide timely behavior feedback on performance related to change

Apply the principles of change management to develop individual and organizational performance

Apply ethical concepts to change management

Raise the level of consciousness to provide a new context for organizational change

Create systems to align employee desire and potential within the context of the organization

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Have you ever refused a job offer? Insights for those who inspire others
This Teleseminar was conducted on September 15, 2006

Everyday, a solution awakes to take-on organizational challenges. The renowned psychologist Abraham Maslow was fond of the asking a question to this effect: Have you ever refused a job offer? He speculated that the response to that question provided insight into factors of human motivation. We extend these concepts to move from the personal to the interpersonal to the organizational. Stress in today's world, and continuing and constant streams of demand and information, require that managers abandon historical contexts of motivating others. We share insights and action plans to inspire others to achieve.

Define and explain the concepts of inspiration, motivation, and performance

Describe the nature of motivation, organizational culture and know how they relate

Understand how organizational strategy influences approaches to inspiring others

Relate the concept of inspiration to innovation and understand how the are essential to organizational performance

Define inspiration and understand why it is an essential aspect of forward-looking organizations.

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Conundrums and Dilemmas: How to Assess Organizational Culture
This Teleseminar was conducted on August 18, 2006

Achieve change in real time by understanding the changing nature of performance. Culture is essential in the development of organizations that customers and employees alike love. Culture has an essential role in keeping good people and building brands that last. Culture is not a problem in the sense that it is something to be solved. Rather, culture by its dynamic nature needs to be understood and placed within actionable frameworks.

Take initiative to understand culture to benefit organizational objectives

Uncover the steps to own culture and leadership for forward progress

Seek nontraditional approaches that support organizational effectiveness

Apply new principles of culture to shape desirable employee behavior and organizational performance

Explain the fundamental aspects of culture and describe relevant models for assessment

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Where Have All Leaders Gone? Why Leaders Don't Tell and Don't Ask About Retention
This Teleseminar was conducted on July 21, 2006

When high-potential and high-performing contributors leave your organization, how do your leaders respond? Do they wave more money or more compensation? Are promises extended to those who are departing that don't apply to those who stay? Leading retention culture organizations have personal credibility and high integrity. Retention makes a significant payment to organizational performance.

Anticipate and plan for the future by understanding retention

Tackle difficult human resources challenges and make decisions that support retention cultures

Learn flexible and easy approaches to change culture from turnover to retention

Build positive relationships with multiple stakeholders in the development of retention cultures.

View retention as an integral part of organizational life and not simply a new scorecard

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Work Life Balance Is Unattainable but a Good Blend is Possible
This Teleseminar was conducted on June 16, 2006

Work-life balance is an unattainable objective. Many pursue this objective when failure is certain. The new concept in this area is achieving a good blend of work and life. A blend concept affirms an optimal mix of work and life that supports a sense of well-being and a life without regrets.

Connect your work and life to produce personal well-being

Use available resources to manage activities that create effective work-life blend

Build positive relationships at work, at home, and in your community

Develop approaches for you, your team, and your organization that support effective work-life blend

Model the attitudes, behaviors, and practices that support work-life blend

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Got Health? Organizational and Executive Well-Being
This Teleseminar was conducted on May 19, 2006

We typically conceive of organizational health as a measure or product of organizational well-being and effectiveness. Additionally, we conceive of executive health in terms of regular check-ups and whole-person diagnostics. We are working at the frontier of bridging executive health and organizational health, contributing some of leading scholar-practitioner work in this area. Our hypothesis is that there is a significant connection between executive and organizational well-being. Practitioners responsible for leading healthy organizations benefit from this leading-edge work on wellness.

Determine characteristics of well-being - from an organizational and leader perspective

Assist others to make quick adjustments to new challenges using wellness principles

Stay up-to-date with key trends and opportunities in this area

Ensure the leadership and organizational decisions are made on wellness priorities

Employ resources to bridge and to coordinate the concepts of whole-person and whole-organization well-being

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A Few Simple Rules for Leading in a Complex World
This Teleseminar was conducted on April 21, 2006

Emails bounce off us like raindrops on a car windshield. Organizational memos and assignment announcements often go unnoticed. When everything is critical and urgent, absorption capacity either reduces or becomes an opaque barrier for change. We distill, based on our experience in dozens of leading organizations and with hundreds of leaders, simple rules for leading in a complex world. The results of our learning drive enormous benefit for those who lead.

Evaluate current states of leadership effectiveness - from self, to team, to organization

Learn techniques to lead with authority and authoritatively

Influence others by saying no and distinguishing musts from wants

Assert behaviors that contribute to culture and to the organizational agenda

Inspire others to contribute and to commit to performance without the hassles

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The New $64,000 Question: Culture and Leadership
This Teleseminar was conducted on March 17, 2006

Leadership and culture are synonymous. Did you ever work in organization where you absolutely did not fit? Do you ever tell prospects the failure to understand organizational culture will result in limited opportunity? Discussion of culture often causes busy executives to roll their eyes given the press of business. Discover how to engage leaders in culture discussions that count!

Identify the essential characteristics of organizational culture - and why those characteristics matter

Match culture dialogue to organizational results and outcomes

Incorporate knowledge of culture throughout the performance metrics of the organizations; move the culture discussion beyond a human resources agenda

Choosing cultural artifacts to make a difference; understand what's beneath the surface of organizational activity

Apply knowledge to evaluate culture effectiveness

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How to Lead Effectively in a Complex World
This Teleseminar was conducted on January 20, 2006

Leadership deepens employee commitment and advances organizational achievement. Organizations fail without leadership creating undesirable resource drain. Achieving success with today's challenges prepares an organization for future success. Effective leadership transforms organizations.

Differentiate between management and leadership and recognize the importance of both

Explain the importance of differing leadership styles in complex situations

Recognize the essential character of leadership development to organizational success

Produce a plan with goals and objectives to lead in a complex world

Devise methods and processes for leadership evaluation and growth

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Discovery and Diversity in Leadership: Hopeful Reflections
This Teleseminar was conducted on December 9, 2005

As the year draws to a close, Mike Horne will present a new agenda for the coming year and the remainder of the decade. Mike will consider his experiences in advancing agendas and in developing supportive structures that promote an ambitious agenda for organizational leadership. We'll reflect on the past to consider new organizational realities and changing economies. If you want prosperity in your organization, you'll join us for a discussion of five topics:

expanding leadership thinking in your organization - for benefit

beyond pools and slates: diversity in leadership development

reinventing the pyramid and the vertical climb

encouraging greater participation in organizational life and leadership

and, creating desirable retention cultures for leaders

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Creating Leadership Legacies & Re-inventing Leadership Development
This Teleseminar was conducted on November 18, 2005

On this day in November, Americans remember and honor war veterans. We take a decidedly different twist on that occasion, but use the power of memory to evoke learning on the long-term desire of many leaders: legacy. Additionally, we'll use the platform of memory to describe how individuals can reinvent stalled leadership development. Join in this discussion:

un-freezing stalled leadership development

sustaining leaders and creating sustainability in leaders

moving from heroism to legacy

creating the new leader development plan

and, accepting our results in leader development with intent to change.

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Executive Wellness: Putting Health into Leader and Leadership Development
This Teleseminar was conducted on October 21, 2005

This teleconference will unite Mike with a noted health and wellness educator. Together, Mike and his guest explore the relationship between executive well-being and leadership development. They present an emerging, actionable model, to link wellness to leadership development. This promises to rearrange your thinking and actions on wellness and leadership development. Join us to consider:

combining well-being with leadership development: emerging approaches

practical models for healthy leadership development

letting go of negative habits to re-energize leaders and leadership development

positioning organizations for positive outcomes in leader well-being

and, making more of executive wellness for corporate profit and organizational effectiveness

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How to Put Your Leadership Development Efforts on Track
This Teleseminar was conducted on September 16, 2005

If we want efficiency in leadership development, we have to begin with the idea of effectiveness. Too many developing leaders fear risk and therefore stall learning. Leadership developers can be risk-adverse employees as the seek acceptance and approval. The factors combine to produce leadership development efforts that are unsatisfactory and under-fulfilling! We'll consider five elements in this discussion:

roles for leaders and leadership developers: in perspective

culture making on the part of leaders and leadership developers

the unholy alliances of clients, experts, and consultants: what it means for you

making more of who you are: building decision and decisiveness in leader development

and, adjusting assumptions about leaders and learning for organizational benefit

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Leadership when it Sizzles
This Teleseminar was conducted on August 5, 2005

In the summer, it's hot! Leaders are adept at confrontation but sometimes unskilled at managing crises when they occur. In this powerful action-packed hour, we'll consider factors that contribute to healthy development in times of personal and organizational crisis. We'll learn why some succeed in this turbulence and why others can't move beyond the mention of confrontation. Join us for this discussion of five topics:

adjusting power styles and getting clear on outcomes

risking friendships and advancing self-interests

standing still in the face of powerful influencers and influences: costs without benefits

jump-starting controversial issues and distinguishing controversy from confrontation

and, changing who you are to bring more to your life and to your organization

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Analysis, Feedback, and Change in Organizational Cultures
This Teleseminar was conducted on July 15, 2005

Join Mike Horne and a special guest to review groundbreaking research into organizational cultures. Mike and his guest will describe a revolutionary approach to assessing organizational culture. This approach utilizes feedback as a basis for organizational action. As a method, it is deceptively simple in implementation and rich in terms of return on value. In this seminar, we consider five items:

analyzing cultures in the absence of quantification -- predictable results

creating structures for feedback and change in cultures

aligning individual, team, and divisional structures for cultural change

positioning cultures for desirable outcomes

and, moving forward with sweeping changes in culture

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The Quest to Climb
This Teleseminar was conducted on June 17, 2005

Have you ever heard or experienced a "climber?" These individuals seek to advance and to acquire additional power, prestige, and reference in organizations. Some perpetually climb, others fail in their pursuits, and still others arrive in significant organizational leadership positions. In leadership development work, professionals seek to level access to opportunity and to foster strong individual development. These approaches may "turn-off" climbers to leadership development while posing issues for development professionals. The consequences for groups and other social systems can be significant. This lively session engages your consideration of values in theory and values in practice, as we consider these items:

Diagnosing leadership development issues and categorize talent opportunity

Engaging the "climber" in leadership development to create opportunity

Energizing leader and leadership development efforts by blending development pools

Learning from climbers and the impact on leadership development

and, assessing the crossroads of ambition and expression

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Leadership Poison: Working with and Understanding New Research
This Teleseminar was conducted on May 13, 2005

The end of 2004, and the beginning of the 2005, ushered in more work on "toxic" leaders and toxic leadership. The number of new book titles, articles, and speeches on this topic was increasing. Despite our enduring fascination with leaders and leadership development, the topic of leadership "poison" has never been featured as prominently as it is today. What's going on? Does it have something to do with new and emerging organizational forms or increasingly long workdays? We've moved beyond the ideas of "good" and "bad" leaders and leadership (if it was ever a relevant conversation) to exploring in deeper ways the pathologies of leaders in organizational environments. We consider five topics in this session:

understanding what matters to C-level executives and your organization

deepening the results of leadership development through selective approaches

fostering the intersection of leadership development and other knowledge acquisition

finding a place for "yourself" in leadership development

and, measuring the value of leadership development

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Give Me a Break: Results and Outcomes in Leadership Development Work
This Teleseminar was conducted on April 15, 2005

In the course of our work, we've met few professionals who aren't concerned about the outcomes and results of their work. In the world of human resources development, where the workday literally never ends, the quest for meaningful results is often elusive. Despite elusive results, the outcomes of leadership development work are profound. Partnerships in leadership development are central to the creation of positive individual, organizational, and social outcomes. Join us for this hour of discussion to focus on these objectives:

understanding what matters to C-level executives and your organization

deepening the results of leadership development through selective approaches

fostering the intersection of leadership development and other knowledge acquisition

finding a place for "yourself" in leadership development

and, measuring the value of leadership development

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Leaders and Leadership in Developing and Sustaining Organizational Cultures
This Teleseminar was conducted on March 11, 2005

Leadership and culture are two sides of the same coin? Why do some organizations really seem to "get it," while others struggle daily to claim their soul and identity. Participants in this workshop discover keys to building performance cultures that sustain long-term advantage. In this seminar, we consider the impact of leadership and management in advancing and hindering the development of desired cultures. Additionally, we consider how culture informs and shapes important choices and decisions in organizations.

identifying organizational culture: what to consider and where to look

moving beyond analysis and scholarly distinction by putting culture to work

changing organizational cultures and building employee investment

and, developing returns on cultural audits and studies; letting leaders lead

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Leading Salespeople: Making More of Leadership in Sales
This Teleseminar was conducted on February 11, 2005

Do you lead salespeople or have accountability to sales associates in your organization? Are you concerned with issues of retention and increasing revenue? We'll consider tailored strategies for leading in sales environments. Learn the factors that generate leadership credibility in sales. We'll consider:

uncovering the factors for leadership success in sales environments

de-mystifying leadership characteristics and qualities

blending drive and encouraging passion

eliminating barriers to performance

and, how leaders can produce more

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Blending Work and Life: Considerations for Leaders Who Travel Frequently
This Teleseminar was conducted on January 14, 2005

Mike will share specific strategies for leading from afar. As a noted columnist on travel and leadership, he'll share the secrets that successful leaders have discovered. If you find that your work takes you "away" from the office, you'll gain relevant action steps for your immediate consideration and implementation. We'll consider:

finding the right forces for leading from afar

implementing strategies for success while on the road

discovering joy in travel and leadership

recognizing diversity in leadership and travel

and, why work life blend is essential for the leadership and your organization

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Developing Others: Self, Others, and Organization in Perspective
This Teleseminar was conducted on December 10, 2004

Most leaders we know are enriched from experiences of developing others; they discover enormous personal satisfaction in developing others. Discover the elements that help to cultivate personal and organizational talent. Begin to put these ideas and skills to use in your organization immediately after the teleconference. We'll consider:

discovering sources of talent in others

digging in for the long haul to produce timely performance

getting out of the way of talent

nurturing others: different views

and, why development is today's primary leadership challenge

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Integrity at Work: Developing Leadership Capacity
This Teleseminar was conducted on November 12, 2004

Integrity is one of the most discussed and least understood topics in leadership. Acts of integrity create loyalty among followers and customers. This teleconference illustrates factors that promote and impede leadership integrity. We'll consider:

profiling the current leadership crisis of integrity

assigning integrity as a performance dimension

creating a relationship between integrity and organizational success

fostering integrity in followers

and, why all leaders are called to integrity

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Inspiring Others: Change Yourself, Change the World
This Teleseminar was conducted on October 15, 2004

Motivating others begins with an understanding of personal biases and drives. In a fast paced hour, you will be introduced to key concepts in motivation theory, and learn to inspire others to improved performance. This topic consistently enriches those who begin to apply inspirational principles in their personal and professional lives. We'll consider:

discovering sources of inspiration

identifying de-motivators to performance

moving beyond carrots and sticks

distinguishing between recognition and appreciation

and, why inspiration is essential to leadership

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