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True leaders are more than glorified, titled paper-pushers.  They know that their team’s performance is the key to the success of any goal or opportunity.  We base all of our managerial programs on the coaching concept.  A good leader is first and foremost an effective coach. 

If you are not bringing value to your team, they will  see no value in you.  An effective coach knows this and strives to bring value to every interaction they have with the team.  Our programs bring this concept to the processes and skill sets that will make a difference in you, your team, and the collaborative results you achieve.

Management & Leadership

Success Modeling

 

Most managers we have talked to know that planning is key to successful outcomes...but few do it.  Why?  Part of the problem is that managers these days wear multiple hats.  They push papers, crunch numbers, react to this crisis or that “top priority” and then...everything changes.

Managers need simple tools that can help them plan quickly, are flexible enough to adapt to changes, and that can help drive the department and company goals and values.  Success Modeling is one of these tools.

After an introduction to the model, managers will build an applicable success model they can take back and use immediately.  Other tools include a skill set assessment tool that can be used to evaluate how the team members are utilizing the skills and processes they are expected to use.

Success Modeling involves customized tools and exercise that reflect their world.  To ensure application back on the job, completed success models should be shared with upper management and team members.  Measurement and assessment is built into  each model.

In-Visioning for Managers/ Value-Added Meetings

 

These two programs are complimentary to each other.

In-Visioning—Presentations That Work is the basis for In-Visioning for Managers.  The program is adapted to complement management and executive presentations.

Value-Added Meetings is a program designed to help managers hold meetings that bring value to the team or attendees.

Too many meetings are simply numbers or book of business reviews.  Others are an excuse to gather everyone together to read the latest memos.  None of these are “meetings”...they are drive-by shotgun blasts of info that a) most attendees probably already know or b) if they really need to know, they could probably read it themselves.

A Value-Added Meeting has four elements:

1. New insights and solutions for current challenges and problems.

2. Opportunities for employees to learn and master processes, models, tools, and behaviors that deliver success.

3. A forum to build and refresh your Success Model and plan.

4. A forum to recognize and celebrate the team’s accomplishments.

Value-Added Meetings provides a process for holding both formal and informal meetings that add value, whether a weekly 10-minute review or an hour long goal setting, or an informal gathering at someone’s desk.

Custom Coaching Programs for Skill Sets, Processes, and Behaviors

 

TCB Cameron Consulting believes that the only effective training program is the one that has the full support and follow-up of the management team.  Without the manager coaching the employees in the skills, processes, and behaviors desired, training becomes just a nice time, a day off and a waste of money and resources.

Using a collaborative coaching process, we build custom programs and executive summaries that bring the management team to the forefront of the process.  Simple and innovative tools and models are used to build goals, assess progress, and correct behaviors, keeping employees on track toward the ultimate goals of the team, department, and company.  As one of our clients put it:

“I can’t overplay how important the coaching piece (of the new process implementation) was.  With the managers reinforcing the skills, it kept the vision alive each and every day.  The best of them started using any chance they could to reinforce the skills needed or correct behaviors contrary to (the process).  It became part of the culture.”

These programs range from 1/2 to full day programs or longer, depending on whether management will attend the actual program or an executive summary program first.  Either way, the goal is to support and transfer the skills from the classroom and workbook to job at hand.