LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

To Strengthen Your Team

Investments in Your Human Capital

¨  When you choose to invest in your professional team, you reap the benefits of enhanced collaboration, improved performance, enhanced customer experiences, and higher levels of retention.

¨  In the post-recession economy, there are new pressures weighing upon the professional business model as a result of shrinking demand and expanding client expectations. Your people are your most important resource to meet these new challenges.

¨  To capitalize on new opportunities in the global market, business responses must be smart, innovative, swift, and efficient. No matter how technical the solution, the client decision-makers and product consumers will be human.

¨  Communication and listening skills, critical thinking, collaborative instincts, and leadership competencies are all essential ingredients for new global professional work teams. Negotiation and conflict resolution proficiencies will help keep projects on track even through unexpected bumps in the road.

¨  Best-in-class psycho-analytics paired with engaging training workshops and focused one-on-one executive coaching can help your team bring their best selves to the important services you provide your clients.

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Training and Analytics

¨  Hogan Analytics ¤  Selection and Predictive Hiring ¤  Executive Development ¤  Diversity Programs ¤  Partner Selection ¤  Personal Branding

¨  Training Workshops ¤  Effective Team Leadership ¤  Communication & Soft Skills ¤  Conflict Management ¤  Leadership Development

¨  Executive Coaching Programs

Investments in your team pay big dividends with improved performance, enhanced business development, and client retention.

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Bridge LS Uses Hogan Assessments The Gold Standard in Personality Surveys

¨  SELECT reports ¨  LEAD Series

¤  Potential (HPI)

¤  Challenge (HDS)

¤  Values & Motivators (MVPI)

¤  Coaching (Synthesis and Action Plan)

¨  Management Focus (Analyzes individual strengths and competencies across six distinct leadership domains)

¨  Team Report ¨  Flash Report

¨  In-Depth Personality Insights for Hiring, Promotion, and Partner Selection Processes

¨  Executive Coaching ¤  Addressing Derailing Behaviors ¤  Finding the Right Fit ¤  Leveraging Personal Strengths ¤  Improved Management Skills

¨  Workshops ¤  Blend personalized survey results with

Leadership Skills Training for the group ¤  Participants love individualized reports.

¨  Personal Development, Branding, and Action Plans

¨  Analysis of Team Composition and Improved Collaboration

Hogan Reports Applications

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Hogan Assessments

¨  Personality assessment is rapidly becoming a best corporate practice for selecting and developing high-performing professionals.

¨  The Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI) is the industry standard for measuring normal personality. From its roots at Johns Hopkins University, Hogan Assessment Systems has a 30-year history of successfully predicting employee performance and helping organizations identify and develop high potential executives. Ninety-five of the Fortune 100 companies now use Hogan Assessments for selection and leadership development, and 65% of Fortune 500 companies do as well.

¨  The premium Hogan product for professional development is the LEAD Series, which consists of four customized reports based on the individual’s scores on a three-part online assessment. HoganLead offers executives a clear understanding of their own performance capabilities, challenges, and core drivers, and provides them the strategic self-awareness that makes good leaders great.

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Hogan LEAD Series Reports

¨  The Potential Report outlines an individual’s day-to-day leadership style, describes behaviors typically associated with that style, identifies leadership competencies, and offers comprehensive development recommendations.

¨  The Challenge Report describes how leaders are likely to interpret the world and treat subordinates while under stress and pressure. The Challenge Report predicts how certain personality strengths may become derailing behaviors that interfere with the ability to build a cohesive and high-performing team. Recommendations are included to address personal blind spots.

¨  The Values Report explores the core values and motivators that ultimately drive a leader's behavior, aspirations, and expectations about life. What people value determines how they will lead; this determines the kind of environment a leader will create and the sort of organizational culture in which the person will do the best work.

¨  The Coaching Report is a comprehensive planning tool for individual leadership development. The Coaching Report integrates the information from the Potential, Challenge, and Values reports into a five-step planning process. By completing this process, a leader produces a powerful, personal development plan designed to foster professional growth.

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But before you can develop your team, you have to HIRE THE RIGHT PEOPLE.

¨  Everyone has made a bad hire. In fact, research shows that more than half of new employees fail. Considering a bad hire typically costs 150% of his or her annual salary, chances are you don't want it to happen again.

¨  We can help.

¨  Hogan SELECT tools identify candidates' hard-wired personalities, work styles, core drivers, and recognized patterns of behavior that could get in their way. Armed with this powerful insight, you can improve hiring decisions, increase productivity, and positively impact the bottom line. 

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For a Global Workforce…

Ø  Because Hogan Assessments are offered in more than forty languages, Hogan SELECT products can help ensure you are hiring the right people for your team notwithstanding language barriers that make interviews and resume analysis more challenging. You can compare apples to apples and make sure candidates have the personality characteristics required for fit and success.

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Trainings and Workshops

Customized training programs and workshops will address your organization’s specific challenges and goals. The following programs are good places to start:

¨  Effective Team Leadership: Understanding Your Strengths and Blind Spots ¤  Uses Hogan Management Focus Report to guide individual

development of team leaders. ¨  Conflict Resolution Training

¤  Uses the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode survey to identify team members’ individual approaches to conflict and builds skills to prevent and resolve disputes.

¨  Leadership Development for Women ¨  Understanding Your Team – A Prerequisite for

Collaborative Work ¤  Uses the Hogan Team Report to map team members’

leadership strengths, derailing behaviors, and motivational drivers.

¨  Negotiation Strategies for Improved Outcomes ¨  Using Email Wisely and Effectively ¨  Active Listening Skills ¨  Building (or Rebuilding) Trust

¨  Mastering Difficult Conversations ¨  Motivating Your Team

¤  Uses Hogan personality inventories to understand team members’ motives, values, and behavioral drivers.

¨  Confident Behaviors and Persuasive Communications

¨  Exploring Group Accountability: We Sink or Swim Together

¨  Mining Conflict for Enhanced Team Performance

¨  Creating a Respectful Workplace ¨  Working with Challenging or High Conflict

Personalities ¨  Leveraging the Power of Inter-Generational

Teams for Improved Performance ¨  What Neuroscience is Teaching Us about

Conflict, Alliance-Building, and Dispute Resolution

¨  Managing Stress in the Workplace ¨  Quieting Your Inner Critic ¨  Getting to Know Your Wisest Mentor

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Building Effective Teams (And Fixing Broken Ones)

TEAM-BUILDING WORKSHOPS are customized to address the firm’s unique opportunities and challenges. ¤  Best-in-class analytic tools (including Hogan Personality

Assessments, the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode instrument, and baseline employee engagement surveys) are available to assess team readiness for collaborative work and diagnose team strengths and deficits.

¤  Customized training sessions focus on missing links, such as trust, group accountability, respectful behaviors, conflict resolution skills, effective communication, intergenerational collaboration, and strategies to improve negotiated outcomes.

¤  Cutting-edge research in neuroscience, team dynamics, organizational effectiveness, motivation, diversity, and pedagogy is incorporated to maximize training impact and enhance results.

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Here’s what Bridge clients say: ¨  From Leadership Workshop Participants:  

¤  “I think this program was very helpful and provided a lot of insight into my personal strengths and weaknesses, with actionable recommendations for working on the weak points.”

¤  "The [Thomas-Kilmann workshops] gave us the language we needed to process the situation quickly and come to an understanding of how to do better going forward.”

¤  “I thought [the Hogan survey] was a very useful self-assessment tool. Every senior associate/junior income partner should be encouraged/urged/compelled to go through this workshop.”

¤  “This was very valuable - not only would I recommend it for other offices, but I think all Practice Group leaders, firm committee leaders and office heads should participate in this or something similar.”

¤  “Extremely valuable. I'd like to see this in other offices, perhaps especially targeted to mid-level leaders and more senior leaders?”

¤  “Great event!” ¤  “This was a very interesting program! ¤  “The individual results are so valuable. This is information that I can use right away in my practice to

be a better team leader.” ¤  “The speaker was engaging and kept the pace moving without becoming difficult to follow.

The written materials were very useful and I expect to refer back to them again.” ¤  “Thank you so much for facilitating such a thoughtful workshop this morning. It was on-point and

very meaningful for our members. I especially wanted you to know that I received very positive feedback and compliments (to share with you) from my colleagues.”

¤  “That was so much fun! Thank you!”

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Here’s what Bridge clients say: ¨  Consulting, Mediation, and Conflict Management Clients:

¤  Laura Grisolano has been a godsend to us! Laura has a talent for understanding diverse perspectives. She is brilliant, kind-hearted, and has been instrumental to my core team’s progress toward improving interpersonal skills and group dynamics. I first worked with Laura during a mediation session for the governing board of a tax-exempt organization in Chicago. I was so impressed with her ability to deal with the intense egos involved in that situation, that I hired her to help with manager training and succession planning for my company in California. My only regret is not having met her decades ago. -- Family Business Owner

¤  Thanks again for a productive day. Your orderly, purposeful mediation format, your legal/business grasp, and your inter-personal skills, make you an astoundingly effective and efficient mediator. You make it look easy--but that's clearly because you bring so much experience, education and training to the table. I truly admire your skills. -- Equity partner in family-owned real estate development firm

¤  Congratulations on achieving this settlement agreement. I'm very impressed with the level of detail regarding expected steps and also with the emphasis on mutual respect and public generosity… Thank you for your help with this dispute. Everything seems to have gone well and I'm so glad you all were able to get this done in the one day session. -- Senior Administrator, Northwestern University

¤  I love how you took the time to be present, patient, and personal with each one of us.  I especially liked how you modeled listening and paraphrasing of what each person said.  Then you asked the person if there was anything else.  People felt listened to. In our wrap-up meeting this morning, unanimously, we all agreed you did a wonderful job of mediating for us. Thank you for your gift! -- Global Nonprofit Board Member

¨  Executive Coaching Clients: ¤  “I had the good fortune to experience the Hogan Assessments program as conducted and coordinated by Laura

Grisolano. The Hogan Lead Series has sincerely been transformational in both my professional and personal life… The Hogan Assessments program is an authentic glimpse into personal behavior and provides a transparent look-in-the-mirror for professional success. I highly recommend the LEAD series for anyone who wants to enhance their effectiveness.” -- Sports Management Executive

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Schedule Your Complimentary Consultation

¨  A complimentary phone call or in-person conference will identify your firm’s unique needs and explore how we can help you achieve your goals.

¨  Based in Chicago, Bridge Mediation & Leadership Solutions serves clients nationwide, with all travel expenses billed at cost.

¨  Programs are customized to meet your budget. Pilot projects offer an opportunity to begin on a smaller scale.

Bridge founder Laura M. Grisolano – an attorney, mediator, and leadership development expert - delivers and supervises all programs. - U Chicago Law - Northwestern Mediation - Sidley Austin LLC - Claremont McKenna Trustee - Adjunct Faculty & MBA Advisory Board, NCC

¨  Additional Bridge Associates are available to support large programs or meet requirements for special expertise. For example, ¤  Partner Retreats ¤  Special skills development,

e.g. public speaking ¤  Counseling

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Bridge Mediation & Leadership Solutions LLC 200 S. Main Street Naperville, IL 60540 (630) 234-3905 - o (626) 487-3052 - d LauraGrisolano@BridgeADR.com

¨  Mediation ¨  Conflict Management Consulting ¨  ADR Program Design ¨  Leadership Development

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