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Leadership Coaching Series
This series is ideal for your key team players especially middle managers. The Leadership Coaching Series uses a competency based development process (including inQ® Competency Based Assessment). That means we work with people on the core skills and competencies most associated with successful leadership including: communication, coaching skills, influence, teamwork, and creativity. No other program is designed to provide the kind of personal insight, team experiences and personal coaching necessary to develop leaders for today and tomorrow.

Ideal Candidate:
Experienced middle manager wanting to take their leadership skills to the next level

Next Start Date: September 22, 2010 (class is for 5 consecutive Wednesdays, 11 am – 5 pm)

Management Incubator
The Management Incubator is a development program for emerging leaders in your organization ---both new managers and employees being considered for promotion to management. Through competency based leadership assessments, experiential learning, individual coaching and development planning, the Management Incubator gives participants reliable information about their leadership style and potential challenges, strengths and weaknesses as emerging leaders in your organization.

Ideal Candidate:
Successful individual contributors recently promoted or being considered for promotion to supervision/management

Next Start Date: October 12, 2010 (class is 4 consecutive Tuesdays, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm, plus a project day)

For more information or to register, contact Shannon D’Gerolamo at (225) 278-1114 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Top 3 Reasons Why Being Strategic is Important in Uncertain Terrain

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You need a Plan - Strategic planning allows you to develop a map - nothing quells unrest like a good plan of attack and aligned communication. It’s the best way to get all your key stakeholders moving strategically in the same direction.

Challenging times are an opportunity to be better, create more effective processes, uncover and solve problems, move in new directions or create new products. Be proactive vs. reactive by engaging in a strategic planning process --looking for tactical advantages to set you apart, be more efficient, or save money.

Slow down, to speed up – for many companies the market uncertainty of 2009 made many organizations short term focused ---nose to the grindstone and get through the year. While that helped companies get through the short term, now may be the perfect time to slow down and spend a day or two getting your bearings as a leadership team and make some strategic longer term plans.

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inQ® is a succession and development planning software application that allows your company to reduce its risk in 90 days or less by targeting your most critical positions and identifying your key talent. In addition to capturing and organizing your critical succession planning information, inQ® offers a cutting edge development planning tool that ensures your potential successors have high impact development plans and stay on track to achieve their development goals. inQ® also includes a performance management tool.

inQ® incorporates the best practices in succession planning and allows you to achieve the following objectives:

Strategically capture, manage and plan development, succession planning, and other talent management information
Quickly reduce your organizations’ risk of losing key talent, knowledge, and skills
Sustainability - build your talent pool for the future
Simple, objective tools to determine key positions and high potentials
A cutting edge development planning tool that puts accountability in your succession plan
Best practice focus on developmental events for high potentials
Performance management that can be customized to fit your needs and supports SMART Goals, Cascading Goals, and Behavioral Competencies
Excellent reporting options for your Board of Directors and leadership team

Schedule your demo today! Contact Bill Phillips at 225-266-6370/ This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Devin Lemoine at 225-205-5300/ This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Executive Coaching: Top 4 Ways Executive Coaching Can Help Your Business

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1. Enhance Performance

Coaching is the perfect way to take a key contributor to the next level of performance.

"Business coaching is attracting America's top CEOs because; put simply, business coaching works. In fact, when asked for a conservative estimate of monetary payoff from the coaching they got... managers described an average return of more than $100,000, or about six times what the coaching had cost their companies." -- FORTUNE Magazine

2. Fix a problem/issue

Sometimes people need help to identify and rectify an issue that is keeping them from being as effective and efficient as they could be.

"I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their full potential." -- Bob Nardelli, CEO, Home Depot

3. Succession planning

Coaching is the perfect way to groom high potential high performers for next level contribution.

"In a 2004 survey by Right Management consultants, 86 percent of companies said they used coaching to sharpen skills of individuals who have been identified as future organizational leaders." -- Excerpt from "What An Executive Coach Can Do For You" Harvard Business School.

4. Talent Retention

Make no mistake, even in a tough economy, talent can always leave and competition will still recruit. Providing coaching for potential succession to your High Potential High Performers is a great way to help them see you are serious about their contribution –and want them around! That can make the difference between keeping and losing your talent.