Program Overview

In a global knowledge economy, the source of highest value is the creative engagement of the whole person: body, heard, mind, and spirit. However, most of our organizational and management practices are based on an industrial model where people are treated as things. Even though we may agree intellectually to the value created by unleashing the full creative potential of people, our practices do not reflect that. We are still trapped in an industrial age.

Great leaders have the mind-set, skill-set, and tool-set necessary to unleash the highest talent and capability of people against the organization\'s most important priorities. These are found in the "Whole-Person Paradigm" and the 4 Imperatives of Great Leaders.

Leaders unleash talent and capability by carrying out the 4 Imperatives of Great Leaders in a "whole person" way. These 4 Imperatives are sequential in that one builds upon another. They are also simultaneous, meaning that you must constantly pay attention to all four in order to sustain outstanding performance.

 

Learning Objectives:

Inspire Trust to build credibility as a leader, so that people will trust you with their highest efforts.
Clarify Purpose to define a clear and compelling purpose that people will want to offer their best to achieve.
Align Systems to create system of success that support the purpose and goals of the organization, enable people to do their best work, operate independently of you, and endure overtime.
Unleash Talent to develop a winning team, where people's unique talents are leveraged against clear performance expectations in a way that encourages responsibility and growth.
 

Program Overview for How to Create an Exceeding your Personal Best Environment

This seminar will give you the tools and exercises that will clearly demonstrate how to migrate performance to higher levels and to sustain those higher levels. Participants will receive value in two ways: they will learn how to utilize the tools and strategies to enhance the performance of the people they interact with and they will learn how to utilize the tools and strategies to enhance their own performance.

 

Learning Objectives:
Isolating and identifying key elements of success
Strategies for rewarding incremental improvement
Distinguishing between "within" person and between person competition
The power of multi-level feedback
Implementing an "autopsies without blame" process
Maximizing performance through incorporating a habit acquisition model
 

Jeff Sucec, principal and co-founder of Performance Potential, Inc., has spent more than 20 years working with organizations in a variety of industries. He has extensive experience in providing executive coaching and consulting.
 

Program Overview for Effective Decision Making

While incorporating and encouraging creative techniques, the decision-making model presented in this seminar is based on a rational process model. Through case studies, class discussion and the participants’ job-related applications, methods and techniques will be transferred for improving the quality and effectiveness of decisions.

Learning Objectives:
Frame decisions, based on their purpose
Gain consensus on decisions and actions
Generate creative solutions and actions
Manage the risks associated with decisions
Cut through data needed to make decisions
Increase confidence in recommendations
Appraise complex situations and set priorities
Apply these methods to your own issues, decisions and performance challenges
 

Program Overview

This session will provide students with the tools needed to strengthen their personal response to change, stress, and adversity. Additionally, participants will learn how to create a work culture that encourages and develops psychological hardiness among their direct reports and co-workers.

 

Learning Objectives:
Remain calm under pressure
Cope well with high levels of ongoing disruptive change
Sustain good health and energy when under pressure
Avoid “burnout”
Maintain a sense of humor, optimism and positive feelings during rough times
Focus your energy on problem solving and moving forward
Learn from mistakes and adversity
Bounce back quickly from setbacks
Overcome adversities
Change to a new way of working or living when an old way is no longer possible
Leverage misfortune into a transformational life experience
 

Dr. Bruce Fisher will facilitate this program. Bruce is an industrial/organizational psychologist who serves a director of the IIT Leadership Academy. He also directs the Center for Research and Service, which is a consulting unit of the Institute of Psychology. He serves as an adjunct faculty member in the Institute of Psychology and Stuart School of Business, teaching classes in leadership and management assessment. Prior to joining IIT, Bruce was a partner in a Chicago-based consulting firm. Throughout his 25 year consulting career, he has focused his practice around leadership development, executive coaching, and organizational change management.