Leadership

Dercar and Smith offers training, coaching, and consulting in developing leadership skills for professional and organizational success.  In every organization there is a compelling need for strong, courageous, and compassionate leadership. Team and organizational performance results from effective leadership -- the kind of strength, character, authenticity, and motivating vision and coaching that leads people to work cohesively, passionately, and effectively to achieve their goals.

Our programs are designed to develop your leadership strengths using a combination of media, dialogue, research, action learning, and practice. We combine the emotional strength and vision of an artistic venture with the precision and process improvement focus of a multi-million dollar project.

We work with leaders, executives, and aspiring leaders to develop these key leadership skills and competencies:

• Select and hire the best people
• Develop vision, purpose, and values that engage and commit your people
• Coach and follow-up to drive peak performance
• Support development and learning
• Build cohesive and highly effective teams
• Manage human resource opportunities and issues
  
• Challenge with courage and compassion
• Provide relevant and appreciated rewards and recognition
• Optimize your results and achieve your goals
  

We bring experience from developing leaders at major organizations including AIG, GE, and Aon.  You can enroll in one of our public workshops, contact us about personal coaching, or bring us to your organization to leverage enhanced leadership skills with your team.

We work with Fortune 500 companies and creative not-for-profit organizations to develop transformational leadership at all levels from front-line supervisors to executives. Our core series of workshops is Developing The Art of Leadership and provides knowledge, discovery, and practice in today's leadership essentials:


Developing The Art of Leadership
A complete program for front line leaders

Leading teams and organizations today requires a balance of the creativity of an artist and the process precision of management. Supervisors, managers, pastors, consultants, professionals -- we're all leaders seeking to influence outcomes and inspire people. How we do that makes the difference between effort and success.

This ten session program will help you develop the skills that are most essential for leaders today. Using a combination of independent study, reading, coaching, action learning, and classroom dialogue you will explore, discover, and practice the competencies that drive organizations toward transformational results.

Each session is 3.5 hours long and includes a complete workbook.

1. Leadership Foundations
2. Recruiting for success
3. Building effective teams
4. Conversational Leadership
5. Conflict Resolution
6. Coaching and Feedback
7. Leading Effective Meetings
8. Presentation Skills for Leaders
9. Leading Change and Innovation
10. Developing productivity and shared leadership
    

For more information about public workshops, or to bring this program to your organization, please contact Doug.

For more information, contact us here.

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You may also be interested in how to:

• Develop your singing and speaking voice

• Interview fearlessly for auditions, jobs, or the media

• Develop your communication skills

• Develop your leadership skills
  

• Achieve your goals

  
 

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Copyright 2008 Dorinda Dercar and Doug Smith.