Winter 2014Workshop Catalog

Jean Ann Larson & associates

Phone: +1-800-823-4330

Email: info@jalarson.net

For more information visit us at http://www.jalarson.net

Leadership and Teams 4

Reengineering 6

Leading Change 6

Business Strategy / Growth 7

Professional Development 8

Building the Leadership Team – Getting Results – Dynamic

Communication – Behaviors and Motivators

This workshop helps executive teams and boards leverage their strengths and differ-

ent experiences to achieve greater outcomes, by helping them evolve into high-

performance teams that consistently achieve the most challenging goals.

Mastering Your EQ – Using Emotional Intelligence to Lead Change

Talent and skills will only take you so far. Learn practical steps to harness and im-

prove your emotional intelligence to get better results and improve your leadership

and better lead change in your organization and life.

Building and Maintaining Effective Project Teams for Project

Managers

The purpose of this workshop is to share proven best practices for building and

maintaining strong project teams to ensure consistent and higher levels of project

success.

Executive Team Development – Influencing, Leading and Getting

Results Through Others

This tailored series of workshops helps you and your team work more effectively

together in order to achieve better results for your organization. Topics include:

Make Your Team Rock! – Who are your team members and where does your

team stand? Includes a team DISC and the team perception assessment

Building Executive Team Accountability

Crucial Communication for Better Results

Building Collaborative Work Relationships Through Conflict Style Awareness

Time Management for Executive Teams

Delegating for Results for Executive Teams

Any of the component workshops can be delivered as a single workshop.

Leadership and Teams

From Technical Professional to Leader – Getting Work Done Through

Others

This hands-on, practical workshop helps technical professionals transition and grow

into successful, highly effective leaders through self-awareness and dynamic skill

building.

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Leadership and Teams

Driving Innovation: Understanding Your Team’s Creative Problem

Solving Profile

To truly innovate, you need more than brainstorming sessions. Each individual is

unique in how their express their creativity. This workshop introduces you and your

team to your team’s unique creative problem-solving profile, in order to harness it

to solve your thorniest problems.

Crucial Conversations© - How to Have the Conversations to Drive

Team Effectiveness, Accountability and Build Performance

This workshop introduces you to Crucial Conversations© and helps you build the

skills to have the high stakes critical conversations that will lead to better business

results.

Leading From the Field – Thoughts on Leadership from Those Who

Practice It – Based on Interviews with 100 Business Leaders

This executive briefing shares Dr. Larson’s research findings after interviewing a

cross section of leading, inspirational leaders in several industries. The findings in-

clude the key common leadership challenges faced by many leaders as well as crea-

tive ideas on how to address those challenges.

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Phone: +1-800-823-4330

Email: info@jalarson.net

Maximizing Healthcare Process Reengineering Engagements –

Redesigning Processes, Getting Results and Engaging Others

Improving processes is critical to improving results in healthcare, whether to improve pro-

cesses, reduce costs, improve patient safety, increase capacity or improve patient satisfac-

tion. However, what if you need to do more than just improve the process? What if you need

a completely redesigned process or even new processes to achieve your organization’s goals?

This hands-on, engaging workshop provides you the tools, the new mindset, techniques and

critical ingredients to help you successfully redesign your core business processes to achieve

dramatically improved outcomes.

Leading Cultural Change: It Starts With Me

This workshop geared to organizational change leaders provides best practice advice and

techniques for leading change in your organization. It helps you understand your strengths

and how you deal with change. It provides practical tips on how to transform yourself and

your organization. It includes an individual and team change readiness assessment.

There is a 1 hr. introductory version or a 4 hr. workshop available. This can be done as a

public session, or for the entire team where the results of a change readiness assessment

may be shared among team members.

An Overview of Industrial Engineering in Healthcare: A Guide to

Management Engineering Tools, Techniques and Best Practices

This seminar provides and overview of the use of Industrial Engineering tools and

approaches in the healthcare industry. It is based upon Dr. Larson’s book, Manage-

ment Engineering: A Guide to Best Practices for Industrial Engineers in Health Care.

Technical Consulting: The Insider’s Approach to Leading and

Influencing from Within

This workshop will provide you the critical skills you need to be an effective internal consult-

ant. It covers topics such as: understanding yourself and others’ perceptions, collaborative

communications with peers, laypeople and superiors, asking questions to troubleshoot and

collect information while building buy-in, dealing with resistance against your recommenda-

tions and managing conflict in project work. Through a customized assessment, each partici-

pant will begin the workshop with an understanding of their and others communication

styles, motivators, stressors and pitfalls to avoid when dealing with professional colleagues,

both peers and superiors.

Leading and Influencing Change

Reengineering and Process Redesign

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Orchestrating Success: Growing Your Organization Against the Odds

This workshop introduces you to the diagnostics, strategic discussion,

processes and implementation methods to beat the odds against

long-term business success:

Move your company from the start up stages to sustainable

growth

Engage every staff member in supporting key initiatives

Get focused on the critical issues that may be creating obstacles to

your growth

Have access to better tools for better decision making

Focus the company on not only driving prof its, but sustaining

them through developing people and improving processes

Clarify what is required of you as leaders as you adapt to the

needs of your growing company

Creating a Shared Vision

This workshop is designed to help your team create a collaborative

shared vision to move you confidently and effectively through indus-

try and or economic environment changes.

This workshop may be part of a strategic planning or executive

development series.

Strategic Planning — A Simple How-to Primer That Helps Develop

Your Strategy

This workshop provides an overview of the different approaches to

strategic planning and gets you and your team started on the strategic

planning process that is most effective for your organization.

Business Strategy and Growth

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Professional Transitions – From Surviving to Thriving, Learning and

Growing

This workshop helps you understand and leverage your personal

change profile while providing practical tools to help you learn and

grow through all of your professional transitions.

Work Life Balance – Focusing On What Matters Most or Balancing

Your Business and Personal Life

Work life balance is a challenge throughout our lives. This workshop

helps you focus on what matters most so you can effectively balance

how and where you spend your time.

Professional and Personal Development

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Phone: +1-800-823-4330

Email: info@jalarson.net