The Power of Collaboration—Cooperation and Cross-Functional Networking

This workshop teaches the skills necessary to work in collaboration with others to achieve personal and team success. Collaboration requires a higher level of commitment to other team members than participation in a simple cooperative way. This workshop uses a team polarity exercise to clearly and uniquely define the characteristics necessary to perform as a unity of one. An essential part of more effectively collaborating and networking is resolving, and ultimately using advantageously, the greatest unique challenge we may have with respect to working with others. This polarity exercise will show how to balance individualism with collaboration; and ultimately show that collaboration and teaming are the most important elements in maximizing performance, productivity, and profitable operation.

1. Learn the challenges and opportunities in comprehensively implementing collaboration as the dominant mode of operation.
2. Achieve a balance between collaboration and individualism.
3. Devise action strategies for implementing, improving, and maximizing cooperation, collaboration, and networking.

Leading in the 21st Century—The FuturePerfect Organization

Leading in the 21st Century requires two vital leadership skills that are essential for guiding your organization through accelerated "white-water" change–creative adaptation and leveraging human potential. Creative adaptation is the process of anticipating, embracing, and proactively creating the management principles and employee practices for exceptional performance in the future business environment. Leveraging human potential is the process of harnessing the knowledge, creativity and innovation, and high-performance skills necessary to operate as a future-oriented organization. In practice, the process of achieving this future-oriented organization—The FuturePerfect Organization–involves a three-step sequence. The first step is transformation from a linear-adaptive to a creative-adaptive mind-set. The second step involves the creative design of FuturePerfect principles and practices corresponding to the high-performance organization three to five years into the future. The third step is projecting one’s self into that future state and performing as though it exists in the present. This presentation is based upon Dr. Guillory’s co-authored book The FuturePerfect Organization—Driven by Quantum Leadership. It is presented as a keynote speech, conference breakout session, or an organizational seminar. The presentations are entertaining, interactive, and audience-focused.

Creating Sanity in the Midst of Chaos—Achieving Work-Life Quality and Balance

This presentation will focus on three major themes – making a personal inventory of your work-life quality and balance; taking personal responsibility for the present state of your life as a prerequisite for creating positive change; and designing the "script of your life" to be congruent with your innermost values. After defining what is meant by work-life quality and balance, participants will initially engage in an exercise to assess their present "quality of life." Then, they will participate in a simulation exercise that creates a difficult choice for a professional opportunity and how the choice will impact their personal responsibilities and relationships. This exercise will lead to an open group discussion culminating in a new paradigm for reconciling work and personal responsibilities. The final activity is to have each participant rewrite the "script of their life" by defining the dominant activities that are congruent with their innermost values in the areas of self, family, work and service. The workshop will be highly interactive, experiential, and fun!

• Learn what is meant by work-life quality and balance
• Assess the quality of your life and how well you support others
• Experience a simulation exercise to learn how to make crucial decisions involving work-life choices
• Experience what is meant by "support the whole person"
• Learn a new paradigm for achieving work-life quality and balance
• Learn how to plan, prioritize, focus, and execute your workplace responsibilities
• Discover the “crucial decision” you need to make to achieve the quality and balance you desire
• Define your innermost values and design a work-life plan that is consistent with them