March 11 - 13, 2010

Do you ask yourself:

• What if I could walk into a room with my executive team and sort out emotional reactions from substantive concerns?
• What if I could find a way to integrate my personal sense of who I am with the leadership style I aspire to?
• What if I was able to respond to conflict constructively rather than defensively?
• What if I was able to inspire accountable choices among my staff rather than feel like I was always policing their behavior?
• What if I really choose to lead, and not just survive?

Come with Questions
Leave with Insight
Arrive home with a strategy

This life-altering, 2-day intensive provides you with a strategic approach to accountable leadership and conflict engagement.

Take Away’s:

• Your Accountability Assessment score
• Your Conflict Dynamics Profile
• One-on-one coaching
• Collaborative engagement skills to apply on Day 1
• Clarity of your personal vision - to engage others
• An ongoing Community of Practice with like-minded leaders

Deadline for Registration: February 5, 2010

Due to the in-depth nature of this program, space is limited

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It’s not often that an executive can put a point of view about personal accountability in hilarious and concrete terms.
Read this story, if you are not too busy relating, you’ll likely be laughing your head off.
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With the toughest economic downturn in recent history, the issue of accountability has taken center stage.

Listen to this interview and grab a few quick hints on not falling into the victim trap.

http://thejob.podbean.com/category/accountability/

http://www.expressnightout.com/content/2009/11/linda-galindo.php

How many fine print notices do you get a day, week, month or year?

Do you know what just happened with the new credit laws, insurance changes or banking / mortgage lending stuff that will likely result in a new document coming your way with a lot of FINE print?
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Now is the time to dig deep and take a hard look in a magnifying mirror at your best and worst traits as the “leader” of your organization. If you are getting the results you want, be accountable. If you are not getting the results you want BE ACCOUNTABLE. No question it takes courage but you have more support than you may think to do the hard thing.

Read the full article at Utah CEO Magazine »

I have now reached my limit on the comments I get when I tell people I have two teenage daughters. Here are the most recent responses: “Yikes!”, “You poor thing”, “Oh, man are you in for it now, my teenagers turned into monsters and did not re-emerge until their late 20’s”, “You have teenage girls?! Oh, that has to be awful”.

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Then for you…Scheduling a Busy Day is Baloney, Focus on Priorities and Be Accountable

Busy, busy, busy…the mantra of a lot of frustrated professionals I know. They also have another trait in common – they NEED a high level of activity as much as they need to breathe. Without a lot going on they become highly irritated and stressed so they get up and get busy creating more busy to keep busy and out of stress.
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Healthcare reform without personal accountability as a major part of the equation is not going to work.

The focus in healthcare reform is to lower cost, ensure access to everyone and deliver quality care. All of that seems “out there” and not within my control as healthcare providers talk about how massive and complex the problem is.
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“The only thing you don’t understand about the situation is that the situation just changed.” – Putnam Investment advertisement

The moment the pilot of the US Airways bird-stricken plane understood the situation, he went into success mode. Was there a moment of “we’re screwed”? Not according to his recounting. He left the hoping and praying to the 155 on board and fulfilled the role he trained for his entire life, successfully landing a distressed airplane. No pilot trains as if nothing is going to go wrong; quite the opposite.
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