Strategic Thinking

Working with Executive Skills of Others

The unique skillsets in your team have a major influence on daily operations, relationships, and performance. Learning your team members’ strengths, and them learning yours, creates an opportunity for more effective task management and reduced personal tensions. The resulting improvement in job satisfaction and relationships will have a measurable impact on overall productivity. Course Quick ...

Use Executive Skills to Combat System Overload

The constant in-stream of information is a stress in itself, even before you start strategizing, making decisions, and executing. Controlling information overload is crucial to maintaining an effective level of focus and energy. Your executive skills will suffer when you’re mental inbox is overflowing. This course will discuss how boundaries, resources, and management can regulate ...

What ARE Executive Skills Anyway?

Executive skills are not a C-suite exclusive. They’re for everyone. They’re the cognitive skills that help you make strategic decisions, regulate your behavior and emotions, and apply your strengths to your tasks to reach goals. When you’re faced with a problem or opportunity, it’s your cognitive skills that determine how you’ll react and whether you’ll ...

Part 3: Become a Productivity Pro

So HOW do you leverage your assets and diminish your liabilities? You can’t possibly work on every productivity practice, but you can pick two or three you want to become a “pro” at or at least experience and demonstrate improvement to others. This is part 3 of “Doing the Right Things Right” Series.  This course will ...

Part 2: The 3T Leadership Assessment

There are three major activities that constitute what leaders and managers “do” – where they spend their time. This course introduces the 3T Leadership Assessment Model to sort key effectiveness practices into three main categories: Think, Team, and Tactics. These practices are a realistic depiction of what you must do to execute in today’s environment. ...

Part 1: How the Effective Executive Spends Time

Are you spending your time where you should be spending your time? Learning to do the right things right takes more than following a checklist or set of rules. To learn and change, you have to be self-aware, to practice using new skills, and to focus your efforts where they’ll have the greatest impact. This is ...