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How We Work
Custom Learning Experiences for Your Organization
We organize our efforts around the needs of you, our client.
Our specialty is delivering high-impact learning experiences that address the most compelling business challenges of your organization. We can help you clarify meaningful objectives from which to design a custom solution, usually through a combination of interviews, assessments, and analysis. Based on your needs and a clear set of objectives, we then design a solution that may integrate a number of methods (classroom, virtual, group, experiential, action learning, simulations, cases, coaching) as needed to best strengthen the leadership capacity of your executives.
The learning experiences we design include:
- Speakers and keynotes
- 1–3 day programs
- Strategic engagements
For more information, please call Karl Johnson, Assistant Dean, at 612-626-5366, or email karlj@umn.edu.
Speakers and Keynotes
Speaking engagements take many shapes and forms and so do our services. Our speakers all exhibit the high quality associated with a top-tier business school like Carlson. Clients are able to choose talent for their events from the finest portfolio of thought leaders, professional business speakers, trainers, and consultants. All are experts in their fields and great public presenters who have been selected based on their ability to match the audience type, objectives, and energy of the client.
Recent speaker topics include:
- Managing Across Cultures
- Leadership Agility
- Common Attributes of Great Leaders
- The Business Case for Emotional Intelligence
- Making Persuasion and Influence Work
- Ethical Leadership: Aligning Mission, Purpose, and Process
- Executive Sales Leadership
- Selling Across Styles
- The Politics of Innovation
- Leading Transformative Change
- Accelerating the Integration of Acquisitions
- Creating a Growth Engine within Your Established Business
- Best-Practices in Strategic Talent Management
- Power Mentoring
- Strengthening Strategic Foresight
- Harnessing Collective Intelligence and Crowd Sourcing
1–3 Day Programs
Many clients contact us to address their leaders' challenges with specificity, speed, and ease of use. They may choose a single program or even some subset of an existing 1–3 day offering. Other clients wish to build an internal catalog of offerings for their leaders and partner with us as a quality outsource to provide many different offerings.
In either case, our current and vast portfolio of programs allows us to meet most needs with a targeted solution on short notice. Clients are able to choose options from the finest portfolio of thought leaders, professional business speakers, trainers, and consultants. All are experts in their fields and great public presenters who have been selected based on their ability to match the audience type, objectives, and energy of the client.
Upon request, Carlson can provide further detail on these program modules:
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Managing Across Cultures Authentic Leadership Emotional Intelligence The Art and Practice of Leaders Coaching Leaders Influencing People, Teams, and the Organization Making Persuasion and Influence Work Enhancing Executive Presence A Voice for Leadership Personal Operations Management Critical Thinking and Communication Creating and Leading High Performance Teams Managing Leadership Paradoxes Leading Effective Change Identifying and Overcoming Competing Commitments Performance Management: Managing Difficult Conversation Advanced Business Communications for Executives |
Creating and Executing Strategies Creating a Growth Engine within Your Established Business Assessing How Your Business Adds Value The Politics of Innovation The Logic of Strategy Corporate Innovation Challenges of Doing Business Internationally |
Leadership through Quality: Strategy and Execution Fundamentals of Marketing Strategic Marketing Strategic Pricing Finance for Non-Financial Managers Talent Management Strategies Mergers and Acquisitions: Creating Shareholder Value Operational Excellence: Keys to a Competitive Advantage Corporate Transformation through Strategic IT Creating a High-Performance Organization |
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Strategic Engagements
Our strategic engagement work begins with a client's business goals to ensure that the net result accelerates development of the organization as well as its leaders. Often solutions are created to support new strategic opportunities and challenges, ensuring that learning activities (coaching, stretch assignments, and team projects) challenge participants to broaden their skills and perspectives as needed to drive a client's business objectives.
Client Cases
- Developing leaders and values within a growing coordinated care player
- Increasing strategic capacity within a diversified energy, grains, and food company
- Aligning values and leader success within a manufacturer of windows and doors
- Developing general managers within a healthcare insurance company
- Supporting service quality leadership within a gaming enterprise
- Strengthening physician leadership within a healthcare provider
- Broadening associates' business perspective within a law firm
Facilities
Our services include the ability to host events for between 15 and 300 attendees. Please contact us to discuss available rooms/auditorium and food service options for your event or conference.