Developing Leaders

We invite you to take a more in-depth look at the powerful methodologies we use to conduct our consulting work. Our advanced training and specialized expertise have allowed us to assemble a high-impact set of tools, techniques, and processes. Contact Us, and you'll get a free, close-up look at how we do what we do and why it's so effective.

Enhancing Effectiveness: Coaching Managers, Professionals and Leaders

Even if Executive Coaching were to cost $50K - which it doesn't - it would be barely a rounding error to invest in the coaching of a key player who has the responsibility for millions of dollars and for critical human resources. Find out how our four-phase Coaching cycle works and how it will help key players in your organization turn potential into performance.

Caution: Career Derailment Ahead

Why do even key, talented employees flounder or derail? In the vast majority of cases, career derailments occur because an individual has a psychological blind spot that is all too visible to others. However, both patience and termination are extremely expensive responses to a potential derailment situation. Read this White Paper to learn about a significantly more effective solution and one that is dramatically less expensive than some combination of patience and outplacement.

Is Your Organization Changing as Fast as Your Business is Changing?

It's no secret that over the past 10 years or so virtually every business and every working person has been buffeted by constant and relentless transitional - and, at times, even transformational - forces. However, the key to competitive advantage in these tumultuous times is still not broadly acknowledged. Review this White Paper and learn how our unique capabilities can help your organization extend and maximize its competitive advantage during these most challenging of times.

Managers and Developers in the Information Age

As organizations move into the new millennium, many are more keenly aware than ever of the primary challenge of our age: mastering permanent white water (i.e., mastering change) in order to remain competitive. Key to this mandate is the design of powerful human performance methods. And, central to this challenge is the re-engineering of our Leadership Development Programs. Learn from this White Paper what the underlying parameters and objectives must be to ensure that your organization achieves its strategic business results.

Executive Coaching: An Investment in Creating Masterful Leadership

As a result of the chaotic and transformational business environment of the '80's and '90's, the art and science of management has also been radically transformed. Read this White Paper and learn what the six primary leadership roles are now. Our firm knows how to help leaders and leaders-to-be hone their leadership acumen by showing them how to improve in four critical areas: Mental Agility, Interpersonal Finesse, Change Mastery, and Goal Orientation.

Firm Talk: The Art of Partnership in Professional Service Firms

Herding cats is an easier proposition than running a professional service firm, which is among the most difficult types of organizations to both manage and lead because of the nature of the types of people who typically inhabit them. This White Paper is built around a case study that illustrates how to install a powerful process that can and should be adopted by all organizations, professional service firms and otherwise.

Executive Development and Succession Planning

Strong executives and leaders don't grow on trees. They are, instead, grown by leading-edge companies that have the foresight and strategic clarity to provide their high-potentials the nurturing and the developmental experiences required to mature into high-impact contributors in their organizations. Discover in this White Paper what the four most reliable and valid predictors are of leadership potential. Further, find out how to design and implement a potent Succession Planning Process.

Hiring by Design, not by Chemistry

Every new hire will ultimately contribute either to moving your business forward or to holding it back. The acquisition of intellectual capital has quickly become the primary competitive advantage for most companies as they enter the new millenium. So, why handicap your organization's drive to acquire new talent by not exploiting the most advanced technology available for selecting the strongest and best-fit candidates and for avoiding costly selection errors? Learn from this White Paper how our firm, with its proprietary methodology, can identify critical information about job finalists that most hiring managers are unable to dig out.