For Companies

Cultura Development:

• Is corporate culture just the sum of all tolerated bad habits?
• Clear values, clear ethical principles—standards by which we measure ourselves.
• Culture is demonstrated, reinforced through communication, and actively upheld.

Mission, Vision, and Strategy:

• Why we exist: Mission
• Where we want to be in a few years: Vision
• How we get there: Strategy and sub-strategies
• Strategy implementation is a sequence of projects.

Smart Meetings:

• The never-ending complaints about meetings.
• The root problem: showing up unprepared, muddling through, and letting things fizzle out.
• How can we make meetings effective, efficient, and elegant?
• The secret weapon:  (Prepare, Execute, Follow-up).

Delegation and Control

• The cardinal sin: delegation without a clear mandate.
• Control must be built into the assignment.
• The challenge of estimating effort.
• Using project structures.
• The problem of reverse delegation.

Talent Development:

• The FBH formula: Find, "Bind", and Hold employees.
• The deal: We make each other successful.
• The challenge of competency development.
• Why technical skills alone are usually not enough.

Team Development:

• Why most teams aren’t really teams—at best, they are loosely coordinated workgroups.
• The cost of team development.
• The value of team development.