Communication Strategies with Strategic Peers: Secrets to reducing the common communication gaps found amoung the "CXOs"
Reduce the communication gap between C-Level Strategic Partners. The difference between a mediocre CIO and a very effective CIO is the ability to interact judiciously in the political and strategic arena of the C-level executives. Become a star CIO and take an influential seat at the table. This module will teach you how to develop the political, marketing, and interpersonal skills you will need to be an effective CIO, develop your strategic alliances, and shine.
Whether a new or seasoned CIO, you will exit this module with a strategy for becoming better integrated into the political decision processes of the corporation, with an enhanced ability to allign with the other C partners. You will take a greater proactive leadership role to strategically create wealth in the company and gain credibility in the eyes of other Cs. This will enable you to become invaluable in helping them accomplish their strategic initiatives while gaining the support for your own.
Management Development: How to be a successful IT Executive Coach and develop total allignment within your department
Learn to adapt your coaching style to fit your departments needs. One coaching style doesn't fit all. Coach each individual the way they need to be developed, in a communication style they can understand and accept. Improve your listening techniques with the members of your staff. Develop a style taylored to each party, so that they really feel heard whilie delivering and receiving authentic and constructive feedback. This results in clear and mutually accepted goals with renewed levels of trust.
With enhanced soft skills, time is saved, ambiguity turns into clarity, communication flow reduces stress ---renewing synergy and support. Building this relationship system really can be fun and produces lasting personal and professional outcomes.
Extreme Turnaround Tactics: Well structured customized processes rescue dysfunctional situations
Learn the tools to resurrect your IT organization. Unravel the puzzle of disruptive people and political issues by fixing, improving, and bridging the communication gaps distorying the productivity of the enterprise. In each turn-around assignment, there are always difficult, misunderstood people and situations that are complicated, untenable, and downright need to be changed fast and NOW?
We will enter the picture, and masterfully decipher the who, what, how, and why of the dysfunctionality. Together we'll create a strategy to clean up the mess, and return the focus of the IT staff to legitimate business and user requests. You'll be able to take the reigns and courageously purge under performance and jump-start positive energy for innovation to unford. Immediately clean up poor morale, recruit easily, reduce IT turnover, save the time of useless mircomanagement, needless interventions, redress trust, and allign the IT department with the Business Blueprint.
Project Management: Hidden ways to reduce costs and increase the strategic value
Although we know that the map is not the territory, this map for project management success includes clarification and review of 8 strategic portfolio areas for success:
- Definition of Roles
- Responsibilities
- Standards and Policies
- Evaluation
- Resources
- Goals and Objectives
- Control, Monitoring
- Measuring
- Continuous Improvement
Stress Management: Powerful methods for ending the endless loop of stress.
Unmanaged, the effects on one stressfull unresolved situation will spill over and infect everything you do rendering you a less effective leader and strategic partner in the corporation. However your mind, uninhibited by these stress invaders can access information faster than a computer? Stress is the number one inhibitor of your mind's natural process. This program teaches you a few simple techniques which enable you to take contol of your mind, lower your anxiety, and become completely attentive to the situation at hand.
De-stressing yourself also reduces the impact of your stress on others. They may not tell you strain your anxiety causes. With these techniques, you will end the endless loop of stress causing more stress. Your positive affect will be felt in all spheres of infuluence and offer you different pathways to resolve tensions.
Commitments of Leadership: Self-knowledge is a necessary anchor for leaders
This program Identifies the "Ten Commitments" for successful leadership and the ingredients for achievement. Participants gain greater insight about themselves by increasing their understanding of their own strengths and limitations. The program shifts from personal exploration to practical leadership competencies.
Participants learn to:
- Accept responsibility for consequences of behavior
- Refine objectivity in the decision making process
- Build relationships and trust within the culture
- Value and acknowledge the creativity of others
- Strengthen interpersonal communication and take calculated risks
- Distinguish between perception and reality
- Develop listening skills which increase productivity
- Understand the link between behavior and values
- Increase focus and decisiveness
Navigating Change: Weathering the ride
Develop new tools and insights to manage yourself in a different way through choosing alternative beliefs, assumptions, feelings and values you bring to the change. Discover how personality traits are often determinants of receptivity to change, what you can control and what you cannot. Bring equanimity, humor, persistence and vision while you feel the emotions of the change cycle: shock fear resistance acceptance.
Be part of a team of leaders who manage change by planning for the short term roller coaster of adjustments, and longer term innovations. By weathering the uncertainty of changing conditions, your branding as a high-performance IT leader will be ensured
Presentation Skills: How to position, organize, and present with style based upon your personality
This very unique presentation skills program includes how your personality style impacts your presentation skills. Learn skills to help you “UNthink” , connect more emotionally, have more physical energy, be more relaxed, control vocal energy with volume, and use vocal variety to avoid boring monotone. In other words, how you represent yourself (your branding) comes across through your interpersonal skills which impact your ability to deliver presentations (mass communication). Identify and use different approaches for different purposes of speaking. Knowing your audience determines whether to speak to inform, speak to influence, or to speak diplomatically such as with a confrontational audience. Learn how to “buy time”, and answer spontaneous questions.
Conflict Resolution: The Power of Turning Conflict into Innovation
This highly experiential and practical workshop is for both new people and veterans interested in avoiding conflicts and resolving them. You will learn conflict resolution in the context of your own group dynamics, and in your own setting, so that you can both mediate disputes and coach others. Program content includes focus on your mind set, language and process skills you bring to the mediation process. In addition, you discover what blocks communication and what promotes it, especially in the context of dealing with difficult people. Of paramount importance is understanding conflict management styles, and learning strategies to manage yourself and others. This includes listening, framing/re framing, and handling strong emotions – on both sides. Joint problem solving and win-win negotiation will be top of mind.
With greater harmony, work will be smoother, more efficient and effective. Due to your problem-solving and conflict resolution, constructive relationships with staff ensue, resulting in conserving time and energy
The Art of Team: Blending Individual Strengths Exponentially
This program concentrates on improving behavior and communication among team members by identifying the strengths, limitations, blind spots, and consequences of behavior. Transforming a group of disparate people into a collaborative team is an art. Balancing the many strengths inclusively drives the innovation forward.
Wining Negotiation Skills: A cornerstone for leveraging IT value, decision making and delivery
NEGOTIATION SKILLS: A cornerstone for leveraging IT value, decision making and delivery
To enable you to shift from being a technology provider into a strategic partner, being smart during bad times includes mastering the art of negotiation. You can build skills and habits in your operation in IT which will carry over to good times around the corner.
This program for CIO's and Senior IT executives enhances your clarity and capability to engage in strategic negotiation with calmness and great equanimity. Learn to develop agreement with regard to the many areas that require your extreme diplomacy, including the negotiation of effectively reducing costs, optimizing service levels, strengthening security and aligning IT investments with business needs.
In a safe setting, you will:
- Understand some basic principles about what negotiating is and what it is not
- Evaluate the power of people and situational research for launching success
- Develop trust as a powerful asset and determinant of positive results
- Create a win-win attitude for reaching mutually beneficial outcomes
- Identify and your values, forecasting your conduct at the negotiating table
- Reduce international and electronic misunderstandings
- Streamline the art of dealing with difficult and tough negotiators and situations
The value of mastering the art of negotiation means that you will have greater peace of mind, increased collaboration and harmony among the IT team and others in the enterprise, and improved personal and business relationships.
