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EvolvingSuccess
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The Elements of Luck Optimization and Fault Tolerance for LeadersBased on the popular leadership handbook Optimizing Luck, EvolvingSuccess personnel will present LO+FT® , a leadership model capable of extracting the best from people under any circumstances...especially changing circumstances. What is equally important, this model of leadership can be the basis of behavior for ALL members of your organization. Your audience will hear:
Trends, Forecasting, and Futures in a LO+FT® -enabled BusinessOne of the most important aspects of LO+FT is observation. Good futurism is an observational discipline based on the analysis of historical trends, current effects of those trends in a given geo-political or market-defined area, and the projection of those trends and effects into the future. Futurism and its techniques of forecasting trends into 5 to 20 years time steps can be a vital part of designing a Luck Optimizing strategy for your organization. Your audience will hear:
The Elements of Corporate Culture Architecture for LeadersCorporate cultures are composed of the habits of all the members of an organization. With an understanding of the sources of these habits, a leader and design the organization's culture instead of letting it evolve out of control. Using the EvolvingSuccess Theory of Drive Satisfaction Strategies, leaders will learn how individuals connect their needs into organizational environments. This understanding allows leaders to design motivational strategies that guide the formation of work habits that build up team strengths leading to the successful completion of the organization's missions. Your audience will hear:
Selecting the Right People to Maximize LO+FT®Hiring is one of the costliest endeavors managers undertake. Yet, time and time again managers scratch their heads and wonder why their latest hire is not working out. It's not rocket science, is merely a matter of asking the right questions. Based on the popular leadership handbook Optimizing Luck, EvolvingSuccess personnel will present a proven method for developing LO+FT® oriented questions as well as a objective model for evaluating success factors and candidates. Your audience will hear:
How Delegation Leads to LO+FT®Effective managers know how to get the most from their people. Following the habits set forth in Optimizing Luck, this program will draw a direct correlation between management effective, employee development, and delegation. Your audience will hear:
Architecting Cultures of Productivity out of Cultures of StressChanging corporate culture is extremely difficult. However, corporate cultures fall into two broad classes: competitive cultures and collaborative cultures. Moving out of a stress-dominated culture into a culture of greater productivity most often entails moving the in-house culture away from unhealthy forms of internal competition to a new culture that builds constuctive habits of collaboration among workers. But this collaboration is not merely getting people to execute with better coordination. The greatest power of collaboration appears when people need to innovate, invent, or create. Money-making ideas form when people think through issues to find high-powered solutions, and this reinforces the transition from a culture of stress to a culture of productivity. Your audience will hear:
Corporate Culture Architecture for Multi-organizational PartnershipsFor all kinds of reasons using many different methods, organizations mutually agree to form teams and pertnerships. These multi-organization teams require a different approach to achieve success than that required to get a team of individuals working well. Two of EvolvingSuccess's people have done special work and research on multi-organitional success. Julia Loughran has worked extensively in the area of virtual teams mediated through Internet technologies. Gene Allen has built numerous multi-organizational ventures and written up the lessons learned in his book Collaborative R & D (with Rick Jarman, President of the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences). Your audience will hear:
Serious Games for Corporate Culture ArchitectureIncreasingly, serious games are being used to simulate various sociological phenomena, including business issues such as co-worker interaction, and the way businesses interact with markets. Games can be used for experimenting with the architectural design you may wish to implement in your organization. As such, they represent a safe way of playing with radical cultural ideas without committing to an extensive rebuilding and training program up front. Your audience will hear:
The Elements of Collaborative Culture for LeadersThe default culture for human groups, like all great ape cultures, is competitive. This means competitive within the group itself. A leader must consciously design and implement new habits of collaboration for the organization to master in order to move the organization to greater creativity and productivity. The primary value of collaboration is in the area of innovation, invention, and creativity. As a team learns more about the skills held by the team members, the team learns more about building solutions it couldn't previously conceive of. And the act of building innovative solutions together makes actual execution of the solution that much more efficient as well. Your audience will hear:
Using Performance Management to move from a Competitive to a Collaborative EnvironmentWhen it comes to managing employee performance, most managers are perplexed as to why employees do not do what they are supposed to do. The answer is complex and has more to do with motivation, feedback and consequences, than with their actual ability to do the job. Drawing from the Luck Optimization and Fault Tolerance strategy, your audience will hear:
Collaborative Culture Design for Multi-organizational PartnershipsAs emotionally difficult as it sometimes is for individuals to work collaboratively, the difficulties multiply greatly when the team is composed of large, proud, and greatly proprietary organizations. Keeping these kinds of multi-organizational ventures from flying apart on short notice is demanding, to say the least. Fortunately, examples of successful cultural designs for these types of partnerships already exist at EvolvingSuccess. Your audience will hear:
Serious Games for Team Building and CollaborationGames are becoming a great way to practice new skills. When it comes to building a team that can beat the competition, games provide the best exercises available. The great thing about games is that they naturally place the right emphasis between the legitimate need to compete and the inescapable need to collaborate as a team to beat the competition...the REAL competition in the world, not at home. Your audience will hear:
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