Organizational Leadership
As opposed to the Personal Management section, this area of the catalog looks at improvements that will generally be of concern to large groups of people within the organization and will assist them in becoming much more productive and successful.
Index of topics in "Organizational Leadership"
An Introduction to Strategic Planning (McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series)
- Leaders and Leading (McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series)
- How to Motivate Every Employee (McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series)
- Making Teams Work (McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series)
- Myers-Briggs Personality Type and Work Teams
- Managing in Times of Change (McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series)
- Building a High Morale Workplace (McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series)
- Stimulating Thinking and Innovation at Work
- Conflict Resolution (McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series)
- Finance for Non-Financial Managers (McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series)
- Budgeting for Managers (McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series)
- The Manager’s Guide to Effective Meetings (McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series)
- E-Mail @ Work
- Corporate Entrepreneurship - Can it Help Your Company?
- The Unique Issues Involved in Family Businesses
An Introduction to Strategic Planning (McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series)
(Full Day)
Successful corporate strategy must be strong enough to meet the needs of the marketplace, yet flexible enough to quickly adapt when that marketplace changes. This course outlines a field-proven framework you can follow to design and implement such a strategy and strengthen your organization's competitive advantage while ensuring buy-in and implementation by every worker, at every level. Encompassing every stage of the strategic process, this tactic-filled seminar tells you what you need to do to:
• Define your businesses
• Understand your opportunities and threats
• Set feasible goals and objectives
• Create the strategies to achieve your objectives
• Communicate the strategy and obtain commitment
• Integrate across functions
• And more
Leaders and Leading (McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series)
(Full Day)
"What makes a great leader?" Thousands of workers in both North America and Europe were asked that one simple question. Their top responses were compiled into this course. The ability to lead is far more than just a natural gift. Study after study shows that leadership is a concrete and learnable skill, one that can be acquired and honed by studying and applying specific proficiencies, attitudes, and habits. In this seminar, you will be provided with competencies and guidelines identified time and again as essential for becoming an effective and extraordinary leader, including:
• Focus on results
• Cultivate interpersonal skills
• Lead organizational change
• Learn from mistakes
• Develop your people
• Be open to new ideas
• Build strengths
• Fix fatal flaws
• Be accountable
• And more
How to Motivate Every Employee (McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series)
(Full Day)
Think about the managers who most influenced your career. They were successful because they infused employees--and organizations--with passion for work and motivation to achieve. This seminar will provide you with creative and ready-to-use tools and techniques for ensuring that same enthusiasm, energy, and employee morale. Look to this course for workplace-tested techniques to:
• Turn employees into partners
• Encourage intelligent risk taking
• Offer incentives and morale boosters
• Build trust
• Encourage accountability
• Attack de-motivators
• Make employees want to stay
• And more
Making Teams Work (McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series)
(Half Day)
In today’s fast-moving work environment, teams are the way that work gets done in nearly every organization. This seminar will outline a series of rules and guidelines for molding individual team members into a solid, functioning group. You will learn how to build innovative and successful teams by showing team members how to:
• Forge a clear, common goal
• Clarify member responsibilities
• Collaborate
• Make solid decisions
• Manage differences
• Trust each other
• And more
Myers-Briggs Personality Type and Work Teams
(Half Day)
Whether you view the Myers-Briggs Type (MBT) Indicator as an analytical system used to evaluate personality types. It is grounded in psychology, and understanding your employees’ MBT can be a powerful tool to help you get the most out of your work teams. Topics covered include:
• Background
• The MBTI
• Four Letters and a World of Meaning
• Putting Interpersonal Relationships into Context
• Type at Work
• Using MBT to Play to Your Strengths and Minimize Your Weaknesses
Managing in Times of Change (McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series)
(Half Day)
While change is essential to your organization’s survival, it can also breed instability, stress, and even anger in your workforce. This seminar shows you how to help managers and employees understand the benefits of change and accept and perform within their new environment and responsibilities. You will learn lessons detailing strategies to:
• Communicate and personify the benefits of change
• Isolate and clarify areas of impact
• Measure and acknowledge progress
• Get team members involved
• Empathize without always agreeing
• And more
Building a High Morale Workplace (McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series)
(Full Day)
Employees with high morale perform at significantly higher levels. And whether your organization is experiencing good times or bad, it is you--the manager--who is responsible for creating and maintaining superior employee morale. So how can you, as a manager whose success depends on the performance of your employees, ensure consistently high enthusiasm, energy, and employee morale? Building a High Morale Workplace shows you how to create a fun, synergistic work environment, one designed to inspire superior employee commitment and performance, by:
• Building quality, one-to-one relationships with your employees
• Giving--and getting--valuable feedback
• Helping employees regain lost morale during difficult times
• And more
Stimulating Thinking and Innovation at Work
(Half Day)
Are creativity and innovation necessary evils in today’s business world or should management embrace them? Do you have trouble getting creative solutions from your team? Creativity and innovation are the drivers of change and adaptability in organizations. Without them, we would not have the tools to be able to adapt to a competitive landscape that is constantly moving and changing. This seminar will show you how to generate new ideas and find ways to break out of the analytical ruts that even the best people get into. The end result will be an ability to improve individual and organizational performance, stimulate innovation and creativity and get world-class results from your organization and its people. You will learn:
• The obstacles to creativity and innovation in your organization
• How to apply creative thinking techniques to improve innovation
• How to encourage your employees to use creativity in solving problems
• Brainstorming techniques to foster creative thinking and generate innovative solutions
• Powerful tools to reward innovation in your organization
• And more
Conflict Resolution (McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series)
(Full Day)
Workplaces are changing. As interpersonal rules of conduct become looser and time deadlines become tighter, conflict resolution is gaining importance as a management issue. Organizations that recognize today the necessity of strategically managing internal conflict will be one step ahead in tomorrow’s increasingly competitive business environment. Before minor skirmishes become full-blown wars, learn these tools and techniques:
• The four primary tasks of preventive mediation – with two important tools to help you perform those tasks
• Practical tools for mediating conflicts between others
• Proactive techniques to frame conflicts as Win-Win opportunities when possible – and what to do when this is not possible
• And more
Finance for Non-Financial Managers (McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series)
(Full Day)
Before you can accurately assess a company's strengths and weaknesses, you must understand the language of finance. Finance for Non-Financial Managers will allow you to comprehend and speak that language by giving you a fundamental knowledge of where your organization's numbers come from, what they mean, and what you can do to improve them. This seminar will provide you with plain-English lessons covering the basics of accounting, financial statements, and budgeting. Packed with tips and insights, this guide to the essentials of accounting will show you how to:
• Put numbers in context
• Read and understand footnotes
• Determine if inventory is too high
• Ensure that sales are recorded properly
• Use key ratios
• Understand what an auditor does
• Learn where to go for answers
• Spot potential problem areas
• And more
Budgeting for Managers (McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series)
(Full Day)
Though many managers have vast experience dealing with people and are experts in their field, they are often novices when it comes to managing money. Budgeting for Managers starts with the basics of a simple expense budget and gives you everything you need to know to create, present, and track a budget with a spreadsheet or accounting package. We will give you the knowledge and confidence you need to take charge of money, and work alone or with a team to bring success to both your company and your career. From definitions of fundamental accounting terms to techniques for working within your budget and managing money with your team, this course will take you through the basics and beyond so that you can:
• Negotiate for the money you need
• Create budgets for growth or downsizing
• Track your budget and measure work results throughout the year
• And more
The Manager’s Guide to Effective Meetings (McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series)
(Full Day)
Meetings can either be the bane of employee life or they can help facilitate the cooperation needed to efficiently and effectively work together. Let us provide you with a step-by-step template for energizing your next meeting, and transforming it from a roomful of clock-watching individuals into a collaboration of involved and enthusiastic partners. Look to this course for field-proven techniques and strategies to:
• Begin each meeting with purpose--and end it with accomplishment
• Head off time-wasting interpersonal conflicts and turf battles
• Learn how to use technology to hold "virtual" meetings
• And more
E-Mail @ Work
(Half Day)
How are employees supposed to be using email at the office? After all it is the company’s computer, the company’s email address, the company’s network and the company’s time! This half-day seminar addresses the use of email in the workplace as a tool to promote your business, not as a tool to forward the joke of the day. How often to people consider the consequences of using email improperly? What are the business functions of using email at work? You may never use your email account the same way again!
Corporate Entrepreneurship – Can It Help Your Company?
(Full Day) - Also available as sustained coaching
Referred to as Corporate Entrepreneurship, Corporate Venturing, or even Intrapreneurship is the practice of entrepreneurial skills and approaches by or within a company. Employees, perhaps engaged in a special project within a larger firm are supposed to behave as entrepreneurs, capitalizing upon the resources and capabilities of the larger firm possesses. Capturing a little of the dynamic nature of entrepreneurial management can be quite valuable in otherwise static organizations. Coverage will include:
• Defining Corporate Entrepreneurship
• Building the culture
• Building the structure
• Resource allocation
• Identification, implementation and success models
The Unique Issues Involved in Family Businesses
(Full Day)
Are Family Businesses really different from other companies? In what ways? Can you manage a family business for maximum effectiveness without alienating some of the family members? These are just a few of the questions family business owners routinely deal with. This course will expose you to some of the major differences between family businesses and non-family businesses as well as provide you with a series of factors that a family business must face in order to be successful through more than a single generation. Topics include:
• What makes a family business unique?
• Leadership styles for owners and spouses
• Succession and succession planning
• Estate Planning – tax and continuity
• Family business governance mechanisms
• Lessons from great family companies
• And more