Business and Professional Growth
Leaders need to refresh their thinking and methods for doing things from time-to time with the help of an outside view. As Dr. W. Edwards Deming said: "Understanding comes from outside… Knowledge from outside gives us a view of what we're doing, what we might do, a road to improvement, continual improvement… Far better, more trustworthy, is an outside view… It is only by that outside view that we get ahead."

Problems You Worry About
Leaders have many concerns, chief among them are sales growth, enterprise value, leadership development and succession, strategy and execution, and driving change. These are perpetual concerns because of changing circumstances, uncertainty about the problem that needs to be solved, and the facts that are needed to settle on workable solutions. To meet these challenges in the digital era, make people as much of the core of your outlook, capabilities, and leadership as technology. Invest in talent to outperform others. Develop Human Intelligence in tandem with Artificial Intelligence: HI + AI.
Online Course Concept
These short online courses seek to convey factual, practical information for the purpose of being better informed, to make better decisions, and to reduce the number and severity of unique and recurring problems. Business without all the busyness. The goal of your participation is to obtain a few high-impact key takeaways that can be implemented immediately to improve the general health and fitness of the organization. A secondary goal is bilateral learning between course instructor and participants. Learning from each other helps us both improve what we do, in furtherance of a productive relationship.
Benefit of Online Courses
No airline travel, no hotel, no rental car, no time away from work, no time away from home, self-paced learning, no-stress learning environment.
Delight in the Uniqueness
It makes no sense to offer more of what has long been available in the training marketplace. It has to be better. Consequently, these online courses carve out new and unique content spaces based on decades of original research and management experience in industry. In addition to unique subject matter, it includes an impressive depth of analysis and insight that easily and always connects to the “real world.”
You Decide
Basic - Prerecorded video, US$39.
Plus - Prerecorded video plus one hour of live follow-up discussion via Zoom or MSTeams. US$39 plus US$200.
Premium - Live interactive online delivery for a group (10-20) of participants with break-out sessions via Zoom or MSTeams. Contact Bob Emiliani for details.
Take one course to satisfy a specific need or take all four courses as a comprehensive program of skills development for the various leadership levels in your organization. Note: There is a two-week time limit to complete online courses.
Speed Leadership is a new and innovative way to understand and improve leadership for the digital era. It looks at leadership from a process perspective rather than traditional behavioral and personality perspectives. Video in three parts, total time of 1 hour and 37 minutes. Learn more.
How do you create a great business strategy, one that is hardened against the usual problems or even failure? By removing the unseen defects from strategy and execution. How do you do that? By analyzing the weaknesses other companies have in both their strategies and execution. Video in three parts, total time of 2 hours and 19 minutes. Learn more.
How do you make kaizen part of the daily work of employees to creatively solve problems and prevent their recurrence? First, understand the mindset, deeper concepts, and meaning behind kaizen. Video in four parts, total time of 4 hours and 27 minutes. Learn more.
Organizations need to change, yet change is invariably far more difficult than it ought to be. Why does this happen and what can be done about it? Where does inertia come from and how can it be conquered? Video in four parts, total time of 3 hours and 47 minutes. Learn more.