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$1,777.00Leverage your time for maximum effectiveness, make decisions, delegate work, increase output, and coach your team for maximum effectiveness.
- The difference between leadership and management
- Why “be authentic” is bad advice for leaders
- Manage your time for maximum leverage
- Effective delegation skills
- Prevent “reverse delegation”
- Teach your people to make good decisions
- Coaching skills and questioning skills
- Managing virtual teams
- Managing up – how to manage your boss
- The top 7 reasons employees leave (and how to fix them)
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$1,777.00Design and implement a disciplined hiring methodology to significantly increase your chances of hiring A-Players (top performers) for every role.
- The problem with Jim Collins’ “right people on the bus” concept
- Common hiring manager mistakes
- A simplified version of the Topgrading hiring method
- Create scorecards for every role in your business
- How to source great candidates
- Why I never look at resumes
- Interview candidates the right way
- Red flags to watch out for with candidates
- Decode reference checks and get the truth
- Build an effective onboarding process
- Grade and develop the talent on your team
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$886.00Properly scope projects, get commitments you can count on, make progress visible, and hold your team accountable for getting things done on time.
- Improve task compliance with good “task hygiene”
- Overcome the “planning fallacy” with premortems
- Scope Strategic Projects (Big Rocks) using the RACI model
- Projects roles and accountability
- Facilitate project meetings effectively to drive progress
- After Action Review debrief meetings
- Instill a “no-excuses” culture
- The importance of processes and checklists
- “Burn the Boats” to implement change
- Grading team performance
- Praise people the right way
- Hold people accountable for performance with “radical candor”
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$886.00Identify and improve your Metrics (KPIs), the critical success factors that drive the performance of your organization and functional teams.
- The benefits of having the right metrics
- Choose the right metrics for your business model
- The proven way to set performance standards
- Graphing and displaying metrics
- Facilitate metrics review meetings effectively to drive results
- Motivate your people with metrics
- The dark side of performance measurement
- Grading team performance
- Praise people the right way
- Hold people accountable for performance with “radical candor”
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$886.00Run well-structured meetings that keep everyone focused and engaged, hold people accountable for performance, and achieve your goals faster.
- Why most companies lack meeting discipline
- Do you need to meet? Do you need to attend?
- Understanding the ROI of meetings
- The meeting cadence of high-performance companies
- Proven agendas to run common meeting types
- Meeting preparation and prework
- The meeting facilitator’s role
- Overcome the 5 common dysfunctions of teams
- “Meeting rules” that drive superior outcomes
- The importance of making progress visible
- Praise people the right way
- Hold people accountable for performance with “radical candor”
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$3,559.00This advanced 20 hour course will teach you a step-by-step process to make robust strategic decisions and create a strategic plan for your organization in a simple format that will provide direction and focus for your team.
“The DIY alternative to having Stephen personally show up to facilitate your strategic planning sessions”
Over the past two decades, Stephen has facilitated thousands of strategic planning sessions. He previously managed a global team of more than fifty strategy consultants and has personally coached hundreds of companies in the USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand to implement their plans.
Some of the things you will learn include :
- BHAG: Create a compelling future vision for your company
- Core Values: Create clear rules that define your culture, and guide behaviors
- Core Purpose: Why you do what you do (beyond simply making money)
- Target Customer: Clearly define and focus on the needs of your ideal customer profile
- Value Discipline (Generic Strategy): Know what “game” you are playing and make sure you are playing to win
- Core, Context, and Non-Core (Products, Services, Activities): What to start doing, develop, acquire, stop doing, outsource, or not start at all
- Industry Analysis: Get a clear picture of how your industry is likely to evolve, and the moves you need to make to create a competitive advantage
- Long-Term (3-to-5-Year) Strategic Moves: The Top 3 moves to position your firm for industry competitive advantage
- SWOT Analysis: Perform a robust analysis on your company, the way an outside investor would
- Key Initiatives and Strategic Projects (Big Rocks): Short-term projects to address current issues and drive immediate progress
- Strategic Positioning: Carve out and “own” a niche category in your industry
- Key Benefits: Define the functional, economic, and emotional benefits you offer
- Reasons to Believe: Communicate real reasons for your customers to believe you
- Brand Promise: The blunt, overt promise that compels your target customers to take action
