SUCCEEDING IN A MATRIX™
How to thrive in complex organizations
Succeeding in a Matrix™ enables individuals to develop and maintain a powerful network of key relationships. This network is the critical differentiator between the most successful people in business today and everyone else. Succeeding in a Matrix™ helps participants:
- Enhance their effectiveness in large, global, complex organizations
- Align goals across diverse stakeholder groups
- Navigate cultural differences to achieve results
- Exercise influence without formal authority
- Break down organizational silos
- Leverage short-term conflict to strengthen long-term relationships
FOSTERING COMMUNICATION FOR SUCCESS™
Fostering Communication for Success™ helps participants identify what, how, and with whom they need to communicate to maximize their individual and organizational effectiveness. Fostering Communication for Success™ helps participants:
- Identify the key stakeholders with whom they most need to communicate
- Build critical communication skills
- Select and utilize the most efficient method of communication
- Plan and conduct effective one-on-one and team meetings
- Appreciate and adjust for the impact of cultural differences on communication
- Communicate effectively in virtual environments
LEVERAGING CONFLICT FOR SUCCESS™
Leveraging Conflict for Success™ gives participants the insights, tools, skills, and confidence they need to leverage the inevitable conflict they encounter. Leveraging Conflict for Success™ helps participants:
- Assess their current preferences, strengths, and weaknesses in dealing with conflict
- Leverage short-term conflict to strengthen long-term relationships
- Recognize how their behaviors may be contributing to conflict with others
- Engage in productive conflict and develop flexibility to adjust their style to best match each conflict situation
- Develop skills for engaging in difficult conversations with peers, direct reports, and more senior colleagues
INFLUENCING FOR SUCCESS™
Influencing for Success™ gives participants the insights, tools, skills and confidence they need to influence others more effectively Influencing for Success™ helps participants:
- Identify the key stakeholders they most need to influence
- Recognize their influencing preferences, strengths, and weaknesses
- Gain flexibility in utilizing all available influence opportunities
- Develop individual plans for influencing up to 8 key people
- Build the skills to most effectively influence others across a wide variety of contexts
COACHING FOR SUCCESS™
Coaching for Success™ gives global business professionals the insights, tools, skills, and confidence required to effectively coach others. Coaching for Success™ helps participants:
- Recognize their coaching preferences, strengths, and weaknesses
- Enhance their feedback and listening skills
- Identify the key stakeholders they most need to coach and develop
- Build the skills required to most effectively coach and develop others across a wide variety of contexts
- Create detailed plans for coaching specific individuals
GOAL SUCCESS FOR TEAMS™
Goal Success for Teams™ empowers teams to raise their level of performance through an intense feedback-based development experience. Goal Success for Teams™ helps team members:
- Enhance communication
- Develop deeper levels of trust
- Surface and address disagreement and conflict
- Align individual, team and organizational goals
- Understand, appreciate and leverage differences
- Celebrate successes
PRESENTING FOR SUCCESS™
Presenting for Success™ gives individuals the ability to present information and ideas clearly, concisely, and with maximum impact. Presenting for Success™ helps participants:
- Assess their strengths and weaknesses as presenters
- Hone all aspects of their presentation skills
- Craft more engaging presentations
- Inspire and motivate audiences
- Improve body stance, movement, and facial expressions
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT FOR DEPARTMENT CHAIRS™
Leadership Development for Department Chairs™ offers Deans and Chief Academic Officers the opportunity to enhance the leadership competency of their institution. Leadership Development for Department Chairs™ covers key leadership competencies including:
- Influencing others in an academic setting
- Leveraging conflict to accomplish results
- Coaching others to achieve strategic goals
- Delivering feedback and listening skills
- Soliciting input in decision-making
- Managing cultural differences
- Leading in a complex institution
EXECUTIVE COACHING™
Goal Success Executive Coaching™ is a powerful tool for both professional and personal development. Just as amateur and professional athletes benefit from coaching, so do leaders at all levels of organizations. Goal Success Executive Coaching™ helps executives:
- Enhance their overall leadership effectiveness
- Solve business challenges and implement needed changes
- Increase self-awareness regarding the perceptions created by their interpersonal style and behaviors
- Build a network of organizational relationships
- Achieve their personal and professional best