Consulting

The “how” of building your leadership and management mastery

Deliberate practice is the mega skill for achievement

We can’t predict what will happen but we can manage the risk of surprise and shape pathways of personal and organizational success. Our formal education equipped us well with hard skills but the working environment also requires political, team and management smarts. These achievements can be sharpened with a special kind of practice – deliberate practice used by elite athletes, musicians, scientists and others who have mastered their crafts.

It’s the strategic thinking part of a strategic plan that’s the toughest to pull off

Senior managers come to us to facilitate productive debate and well thought out decision making on strategic direction. Using inclusivity as the guiding principle and a multitude of creative tools and techniques to deepen thinking, we steer the thought process from end-to-end. A dynamic “living plan” is our aim to focus priorities and keep the flywheel of progress and prosperity on course.

No strategic plan or change will get off the ground without the right kind of execution

Getting from here to there is no small feat. It takes courage by all and steady, patient leadership and management. The journey is perilous with many unknowns. It can be expensive if the “how” of the pathway is done without mastery level skills.

There is now a fast growing science behind leading change and other leadership challenges. If practiced “deliberately” the proven skills reduce uncertainty, build realistic confidence and morale, yield intelligent decision making and allow for “turning on a dime” to meet the unexpected.

Within and customized to their own organizational setting, we teach managers and top leaders the skills of mastery for navigating change – small or large – at a team, division, department or organizational level. Drawing on cross-disciplinary research into how our minds work, we provide easy-to-remember concepts and practical tools to maintain momentum while navigating change in choppy waters.

Check out our companion website for more information, http://www.pickardlaws.com or contact Linda Pickard at lpickard@pickardlaws.com