Leadership

Relationships for Group Success

A group’s success fundamentally depends upon how its individual members work together, and individuals work more effectively and enjoy their work more when they have genuine personal relationships with their colleagues. Relationships for Group Success helps participants to stop seeing colleagues merely as vice presidents or lower-level managers and to start seeing them as human beings. Great for resolving common problems that arise from cross-functional collaboration and geographic separation, Relationships for Group Success sparks a culture of generosity and accountability to help participants do the following:

• Help each other succeed in both professional and personal pursuits,
• Have more fun in the workplace,
• Facilitate direct, honest communication for resolving conflict, and
• Contribute to the firm’s success by proactively building relationships with people inside and outside the organization,
• And more that will lead to increasing employee retention and shareholder value.

Accountability and Conflict

As powerful as it is to create true intimacy and practice abundant generosity, there’s more to being a successful leader today. In relationships with subordinates, peers, and superiors, there's also a need for transparent feedback and constructive criticism, even if it's not the easiest thing to do. Drawing lessons from Keith Ferrazzi’s experience with accountability groups from his days an undergraduate at Yale to the ongoing monthly meetings inside FerrazziGreenlight, “Accountability and Conflict” helps participants turn these difficult conversations into an integral piece of maintaining relationships. Participants learn why people are much more resilient than we presume, why it's their responsibility to let people know when they underperform, and how to set up a process for continuing this crucial, transparent communication.

Cross-generational Leadership: Mixing Boomers with Generations X, Y, and Beyond

Are you tired of hearing people in your organization say, “They don’t get it,” or “That’s not the way we used to do it”? Competing in today’s marketplace demands not only the effective use of cross-functional teams but also cross-generational ones. Cross-generational Leadership helps participants recognize the different motivations and needs of baby boomers and Generations X and Y that derive from familiarity with technology, education background, and cultural differences. Participants then learn models and tactics to deal with these challenging issues so these groups will work in harmony and contribute to your organization’s strategic objectives.