Leadership & Executive Advantage

Programs

Specialized group experts provide executives with competitive advantages in the national and global marketplace. Programs or modules are individually customized specifically for your business.

Before designing workshops for your company, we work with you to determine:

  • What you and your business hope to accomplish
  • Your corporate mission and objectives
  • Who you'll include in the workshops
  • What length of time you have available
  • Where you prefer the workshops to take place

 

These elements will allow us to customize for you:

  • The specific faculty we'll include
  • The particular programs and modules we will use in designing your program
  • The slice of history we'll employ
  • The training facilities we'll use and the locations we'll visit

 

Themes and specific programs that can be explored include:

  • Change
  • Strategic Planning
  • Vision
  • Balance
  • Flexibility
  • Team Building
  • Leading vs. Following
  • Delegating Authority but not Responsibility
  • Accelerating the Decision-Making Process: Key to Success
  • Ethics
  • Motivation
  • International Cultural Reconnaissance
  • Effective Communication
  • Tolerance and Diversity
  • Creativity
  • Profit and Loss
  • Just in Time
  • Envisioning Total Costs
  • Useful Networking
  • Organizational Psychology
  • Classic Negative Leadership
  • Failure, Pain and Loss as Education
  • Lessons from History
  • Negotiation Skills
  • Quality Control
  • eDiscovery

Lessons from History

 

Learning from history to prepare for the future

 

Historians ask the perennial question: "What is the meaning of life--for people throughout time?" History is both the means and the material for understanding others and for defining ourselves. History offers an unlimited storehouse of valuable human experience. To understand the past we must attempt to know the human condition. To explore the human condition as it has evolved through time is an invitation to self discovery.

     

  • The Industrial Revolution
  • Historic Trends For Our Times
  • The Value of Change
  • Predicting the Future
  • The Price of Knowlodge
  • Baby Boomers - The Pig in the Python
  • Information-based Management
  • Projection, Prediction, and Prediliction

 

Some possible historical periods that can be explored and inspiration from the world's greatest leaders:
  • The very beginnings of our country in the 1600s
  • The revolution that changed the world in the 1700s
  • The expanding republic in the early 1800s
  • That bloody conflict of the 1860s
  • The turn of the century from the 1880s to the end of the Second World War
  • A progression from the 1600s to the end of the Second World War
  • Presidential Leadership
  • The Value of History
  • The Value of Science
  • Jefferson's Bible examined
  • Performance Management
  • The Wisdom and Wit of Winston Churchill

 

Inspiration from Thomas Jefferson:

"Light and liberty go together. Darkness provides ignorance and fear."
"If people would think for themselves and speak what they think, they would find they have more in common than they would otherwise believe."
"Enlightenment of man: keeping alive the flames of enlightenment."
"I enjoy the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
"Can self-government be maintained?"
"The earth belongs to the living generation."

 

Inspiration from Henry David Thoreau and Chuck Hansen:
  • Build Your Castles in the Air: Thoreau's Inspiring Advice for Success in Business (and Life) in the 21st Century - (Business and Economics)
  • More than 150 years after Thoreau penned his masterpiece, Walden is stunningly relevant to modern life, especially in business.
  • In Build Your Castles in the Air, Chuck organizes selected quotes from Walden by spheres of business life.
  • Combine the book with a thoughtful and often humorous reflective presentation from Chuck Hansen.

Location: Your Place or Ours?

  • Williamsburg, Virginia (Colonial Williamsburg Lodge)
  • Richmond, Virginia (The Jefferson Hotel)
  • Washington, D. C. (Many options)
  • Lexington, Virginia (Many options)
  • Harpers Ferry, West Virginia (Many options)
  • White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia (The Greenbrier)
  • Hot Springs, Virginia (The Homestead)
  • London, England (Many options)
  • Portland,
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Many options)

 

 

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