PROGRAMS

A life-giving community for leaders and a pathway to live your life’s work.  This is a Chicago based women executive group who are passionate about leadership.  Not a one-fits-all program for leaders but a challenging and compelling experience for Directors and Vice Presidents who desire community on their leadership journey.  Find out more about being a member of this exciting community at www.executivejane.com.

We deliver custom programs for leaders and organizations with the objective of developing effective leaders and accelerating their growth.  Contact Kathryn Tack, Executive and Leadership Development Coach for keynote speaking and workshops at our contact page.VISION TO REALITY – Vision, Does It Matter?A leadership process facilitated by Kathryn Tack to support you in articulating your most clear and compelling vision for you and/or for your organization.  The heart of great leadership is the ability to craft and articulate a compelling and meaningful vision and create personal, interpersonal and organizational alignment with that vision.  How clear, tangible, inspiring and motivating is your vision for yourself and/or your organization?STRATEGIC PLANNING – Tools that Effect ChangeKathryn Tack brings her talent and skills to help you and your team engage in a process in combining its best hindsight and foresight to align initiatives and action. “If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them.  Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.”  The tools you are about to learn will effect real and positive changes on your business. 

LEAD – For Effective, High-Performing Leaders

A leadership development course for one executive or an entire executive team

Based on Bill George MBA Course:  Finding Your True North:  A Leadership Guide 

If you are a corporate learning officer, you may be asking?  “How can I bring a course in leadership development for my MBA, executive education, in-house training, or even undergraduate students?”  This is the course.

A model to help leaders understand who they are and why authentic leadership is the key to their success.   In this highly engaging, practical approach to discovering the ingredients of great leadership will culminate in creating a leadership development plan and actions necessary to take for your ensuing future as leader

THE ART OF SELF-LEADERSHIP –  The single, most important aspect of leadership.

This workshop will teach you and/or your team the necessary skills it will take to lead others by leading yourself well.  Author Dee Hock challenged leaders to calculate how much time and energy is necessary to give in each direction of leadership.  His recommendation will shock you.  Self-leadership has become a buzz-word among the most effective leaders and a fundamental truth of good leadership.

THE ART OF TEAM BUILDING – Moving from Work Groups to High Performing Teams.

In the course of working with executives and their teams, it has become clear that teamwork in most organizations remain elusive.  This facilitative team building is based on the work of experts Jon Katzenbach, “The Wisdom of Teams” and Patrick Lencioni’s gripping analysis of what makes teams work, “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team”.

THE FIVE BEHAVIORS OF A COHESIVE TEAM™is the result of the partnership between Wiley Workplace Learning Solutions and best-selling author Patrick Lencioni. Together we have created a team development program with a simple goal—to help team members understand, embrace, and put into practice The Five Behaviors that make up a cohesive team.

TRANSITIONS AND MANAGEMENT OF – Making the Most of Change

From hiring and succession planning, we provide the critical services needed to transition your people and organization through the complexities and difficulties of change.  We help you understand the difficulties ahead and translate that understanding into practical actions you can take.  As well as, deal with nonstop change, both organizationally and personally and provide another case on which to test your new tactics.

 

ASSESSMENTS –  Insightful Individual and Team Leadership Assessments.  Providing online testing packages.  Advising on the best selection of instruments to obtain your needed profile information.

Executive and Career Assessment –   A guided discovery process designed to maximize career and life satisfaction, achieve leadership, career potential and enhance organizational contribution.  Beginning with self-assessment, based on Insights – a personal and professional Self-Assessment Model, Individual Talents Analysis, psychological assessment and as appropriate 360 degree reference assessment.

Personality Profiles – Personality is the essence of who you are as a unique individual.  Knowing your personality characteristics will help you better understand your actions, feelings and relationships with others as a leader.

• DISC Personality and Portrait Predictor – a 5 page DISC report predicting behavior and attitudes.

• Golden Personality Profiler – a robust 17 page report centered around the Jungian 4 letter types of Meyers-Briggs.

• Personality Factor Profile – a more detailed 21 page DISC report.

• Job Perception Inventory – an instrument reporting job perception in the DISC format.

Leader Portrait and Play Book – predicts your level of leadership capacity in each stages of leadership.  Knowing this information before you are in that stage will allow you to make timely adjustments in your leadership style or draw on support in those areas from others. 

 

For more information on Programs and Assessments, contact Kathryn.