Note from Art: Thanks as always for your readership, conversation and comments.  And thanks to our remarkable clients who inspire us, push us and challenge us to keep innovating. They also allow me to fund my blogging efforts (a true passion) and for that, I am grateful!

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It’s been a busy time for new program development with more to come this spring.

Here’s a snapshot of the latest workshops (decision-making, feedback mastery) and a quick peek at some early summer offerings, including a new book, and new on-line course content and coaching offerings:

Available Now!

New! Effective Decision-Making Program(s):

Improving decision-making quality and speed in this hyper-competitive and incredibly challenging global business environment is a clear priority for project teams and management groups.

This program helps individuals, leaders and teams (management or project) learn how to recognize and fight off critical decision-making traps, and how to improve discussion quality leading up to a decision.

An Association Executive offered after participating recently in the program: “You helped make this one of our most successful spring meetings ever.  I know that everyone not only enjoyed, but got substantial helpful information from your program. I thought it was terrific!”

Visit the detailed page for Effective Decision Making or contact Art to discuss a program.

Updated! Feedback Mastery Program:

A key component of creating great leadership, team and company performance is ensuring that the tough performance topics are effectively addressed. Whether you are an individual leader, a project or program leader or a senior executive, your ability to deliver timely and effective behavioral feedback is critical to your success.

I’ve delivered this program to Fortune 50 clients, management and project groups in smaller firms and I’ve coached individual leaders on improving their mastery of this communications power tool. You will leave this program with improved confidence in your ability to immediately deliver effective, constructive feedback.

Visit the detailed Feedback Mastery page to learn more, or contact Art to discuss a program.

Available Formats for Both Programs:

  • Full-day workshop (can be split over multiple sessions)
  • Half-day accelerated program
  • Association and Keynote formats (45 minutes to 2-hours)
  • Optional Coaching services for individuals and groups.

Coming Later this Spring/Early Summer

New Distance-Learning programs in leadership, project management and creativity.

We’re partnering with a leading provider of on-line programs, and coupling my coaching services with their on-demand distance learning tools to provide you with a rich learning and developmental experience.   Look for an April announcement.

Live On-Line Small Group Leadership Discussion Groups and Live On-Line Workshop programs.

We’re working with a talented technology executive and entrepreneur who is pushing the envelope on how people work, learn and forge productive relationships in an on-line world, and we will be one of his first clients with the new tools.  This is “beyond webinar” type of engagement, and of course the focus is on how to develop, how to grow and how to advance as successful leaders and managers in your careers.

My Forthcoming Book: Leadership Caffeine-Ideas to Energize Your Professional Development

Created very much in the spirit and format of Kawasaki’s Reality Check, Leadership Caffeine draws upon 90 essays here at Management Excellence, but does it with a twist.

The essays are all edited, annotated and importantly, organized in sections ranging from, “Surviving the Tough Days,” to “In Pursuit of Greatness,” to “Building and Leading High Performance Teams”, “Developing Yourself” (and 8 other sections) for your instantaneous, at-a-glance jolt of ideas and energy.

My goal is for this book to become a valued and frequently referenced (and wildly highlighted and dog-eared” part of your practical leadership and career library. Availability: Summer, 2011.


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Art Petty coaches, trains and speaks on leadership development, high performance team development, feedback and decision-making. Drop Art a note to talk about a workshop program, speaking need or coaching opportunity.