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1. Winter 2014
Workshop Catalog
Jean Ann Larson & associates

2. Phone: +1-800-823-4330
Email: info@jalarson.net
For more information visit us at http://www.jalarson.net

3. Leadership and Teams 4
Reengineering 6
Leading Change 6
Business Strategy / Growth 7
Professional Development 8

4. 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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5. 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

6. 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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7. 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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8. 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