Leadership Education and Mentoring
Art Petty trains and mentors early career professionals and select audiences on developing as leaders and senior contributors:
- Early career
- New leaders
- Product Managers
- Product Managers
- Marketing Managers
- Technical professionals
Petty’s highly specialized workshops and programs for different types and levels of professionals are designed to provide practical, real-world guidance and immediately usable ideas and approaches for the tough issues of leading, managing and driving results.
- Creating a Sustainable Strategy and Execution Culture
- Leadership Mastery for Technical Professionals
- Leadership Mastery for New Leaders
- Considering the Move to Leadership for Aspiring Leaders
- Succeeding and Leading as a Project Manager
- Succeeding and Leading as a Product Manager
- High Performance Trade Show Marketing Practices for Event Managers
- Feedback Mastery-The Art and Science of Delivering Feedback
- The Nonprofit Leadership Series (for Executive Directors, Volunteer Managers and Boards)
- Coaching services (team or individual to support all of the programs)
Workshops are available in half-day, single or two-day events or split into multiple-sessions and delivered over an extended period of time. Some program are available in an On-Line format. All programs include optional follow-up coaching or consulting services.
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Contact Art Petty via e-mail or at 847.612.8420 to discuss your needs.
Workshop Overviews:
*Creating and Sustaining an Effective Strategy & Execution Culture
This workshop and the supporting materials are designed to help you realize a proven and practical approach to gaining value from strategic planning activities. Emphasis is placed on creating a sustainable program, building around the Voice of the Customer and avoiding the pitfalls and execution gaps that often detract from the value of strategic planning programs. E-mail Art for More Information!
- In-person and distance coaching and consulting services available for this program.
*Leadership Mastery for Technical Professionals
Effectively developing new leaders is a critical issue in technical environments where individual contributors are often thrust into the unfamiliar role of leading others. This highly interactive workshop helps technical professionals at all levels develop an understanding of the skills and approaches needed to succeed as leaders and to succeed at developing leaders on their teams. E-mail Art for More Information!
- In-person and distance coaching and consulting services available for this program.
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*Considering the Move to Leadership-for Aspiring Leaders
All too often, we thrust our valued individual contributors into one of the most difficult of all roles-leading others, without providing proper context for the challenges and rewards of leading. The results for everyone involved can be disastrous. This program and the supporting developmental assignments challenge the individual to investigate the role of the leader and the critical differences in skills and work required to lead effectively versus that of the individual contributor. Ideal for anyone considering the move to a formal leadership role. E-mail Art for More Information!
- In-person and distance coaching available for this program.
- AVAILABLE NOW AS A BUILDING BETTER LEADERS DISTANCE LEARNING PLUS PROFESSIONAL MENTORING PROGRAM!
*Leadership Mastery for New Leaders
This highly interactive program is ideal for any organization or team seeking to improve the effectiveness of first-time leaders. The program content is based on the 2007 book, Practical Lessons in Leadership-A Guidebook for Aspiring and Experienced Leaders by Art Petty and Rich Petro. Participants develop a clear understanding of the true role of a leader, gain insights into and solutions for common early-leader pitfalls and develop their skills for delivering feedback, and effectively leading and managing others. E-mail Art for More Information!
- In-person and distance coaching and consulting services available for this program.
- AVAILABLE NOW AS A BUILDING BETTER LEADERS DISTANCE LEARNING PLUS PROFESSIONAL MENTORING PROGRAM!
*Succeeding and Leading as a Project Manager
The role of Project Manager is quickly gaining influence as a critical position for executing on key organizational initiatives. While Project Managers are well-educated in best-practices processes for developing and managing the technical issues of a project, studies indicate that over 80% of the challenges surrounding successful project execution are people issues.
This highly interactive program leverages Petty’s experience teaching Project Management at the MBA level as well as teaching informal leaders the approaches and techniques of success. Content is highly tailored to the world, issues and language of the Project Manager. E-mail Art for More Information!
- In-person and distance coaching and consulting services available for this program.
*Succeeding and Leading as a Product Manager
Product Managers shoulder a remarkable amount of responsibility for organizational success, often playing a critical role in shaping and executing market and competitive strategies. Part of the challenge of the Product Manager is to establish a high degree of personal credibility and foster productive relationships across functions and silos in organizations. Mastering the art of informal leadership is essential for success as a Product Manager.
This highly interactive program is based on Petty’s over twenty years either serving as or leading Product Managers in a variety of technology and manufacturing organizations. Petty marries his practical leadership approaches to the unique situation and challenges of the Product Manager. Participants leave prepared to better leverage and manage their informal leadership influence for results. E-mail Art for More Information!
- In-person and distance coaching and consulting services available for this program.
*High Performance Trade Show Marketing Practices
With marketing budgets under intense pressure and even more intense scrutiny, everyone from the CMO to the Event Manager (and the CEO and CFO!) are concerned about maximizing the effectiveness with this long-standing and large budget tactic. This workshop introduces tools to implement a rigorous event selection process and to ensure cross functional collaboration both in planning and on the floor. And since the trade show battle is won on the floor, the program provides detailed guidance for optimizing floor performance through booth leadership, message-mapping, careful lead qualification, customer involvement and even social networking involvement. E-mail Art for More Information!
- In-person and distance coaching and consulting services available for this program.
*Feedback Mastery
Research indicates that even the most experienced leaders dislike or avoid giving constructive feedback in the work environment. Most leaders have never been trained on how to deliver feedback, yet properly delivered, it is a powerful leadership tool that shapes behavior and fuels performance improvement.
Participants learn to properly plan and deliver feedback discussions and to deal with the most challenging feedback scenarios. Ideal for new leaders, the program is also adaptable for senior managers seeking to improve performance and strengthen the performance culture of their teams and organizations. E-mail Art for More Information!
- In-person and distance coaching and consulting services available for this program.
*The Non Profit Leadership Series
All of the above programs and several additional workshops focusing on improving Board performance are available for nonprofits. Petty works closely with several nonprofit associations in the greater Chicago-area to deliver leadership and strategy programs for volunteer managers, executive directors and boards.
Particular emphasis is placed on core issues of the nonprofit, including: strengthening the mission, developing relationships in the community and board and management team development. E-mail Art for More Information!
- In-person and distance coaching and consulting services available for this program.
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