Jack Ricchiuto / Workshops
Several managers in our management development class made it a point to seek me out with feedback on Jack's presentation. The term "excellent" sums it up. / Gary Lazaroff / VP Human Resources, St. Vincent Charity & St. John West Shore Hospitals
All of Jack's workshops share the same core qualities:
- They are based on the leading edge thinking in the field
- They present practical and immediately applicable principles and practices
- They are focused on the actual contexts, challenges, and opportunities of participants
- They blend experiential and conversational learning
- They are grounded in strengths-based approaches to learning & development
- They integrate the best knowledge presented in his 6 books
- They can be presented in 1 or multi day formats, or packaged in brief presentations
Here are some of Jack's more common workshops and common topics addressed
Strengths-based Leadership
For all levels of leadership from team leaders to executive and senior leaders, both in organizations and communities / introductory and advanced levels available
- What the research says about what sets high performance teams apart
- Leading with vision and passion
- Making the transition from manager to leader
- Sustaining a strengths-based approach to every single dimension of leadership
- Designing optimum work environments and cultures
- Leader as relationship and social network builder
- Strengths-based coaching, hiring, meeting facilitation
- A design approach to championing innovation & a learning organization
- Facilitating accountability and highly engaged people
- Developing the capacity of people & the next generation of leaders
- 3 ways to help teams become faster & smarter together
- Leadership assessment
Smarter & Faster Together
For teams and groups in organizations and communities, helping people become more collaborative, aligned, and productive
- Trust building and restoration
- Getting people to a common purpose and vision
- Using communication tools for knowledge sharing & collaboration
- Building all 4 kinds of value in social networks
- Engaging people's best in communication
- Decision & responsibility sharing
- Getting people outside their silos and pigeon holes
- Fostering open and generative conversations
- Moving people toward an asset-based culture
- Team Assessment
Project Management
For project sponsors, project leaders & managers, and project teams looking for a PMBOK-based overview of best project management practices / addressing 2 dozen core issues and introducing 60 key distinctions
- How to scope, schedule, staff, structure, and resource projects
- Managing change and risk in projects
- Doing feasibility studies to vet high return on investment projects
- Preparing teams for project success
- Root cause and R&D projects
- Facilitating post-project reviews
- Using collaborative web technologies and tools in project management
- The role of leader in project success
- Best practices for getting projects to be on target, on time, and on budget
- Project management assessment
The Practices of Smart Design
For teams and organizations designing anything - new products, processes, workflows, physical layouts, organizational structures and cultures, programs, services, events, partnerships, collaborations
- Why design is the core of all organizational growth & effectiveness
- Making the transition from a deficiency to a design culture
- Best practices design models
- Managing design as process
- Why & how empathy is foundational to smart design
- Creative abrasion / the value of personality diversity on design teams
- Engaging asset, positional, and generative value in design projects
- Tools for helping people develop their creativity & innovation capacities
- Designing with resource constraints & requirements conflicts
- Generative thinking assessment
Board Effectiveness & Capacity Building
For non-profit and profit boards in organizations and communities, CEO's and Executives working to build and re-build their boards
- What board leaders & members need to know in order to be effective in their roles
- The key to effective relationships between organization and board executives
- Approaches to building board capacity and succession plans
- Managing board productivity and value to the organization
- Fiscal and legal responsibilities of boards to their organizations & stakeholders
- Effective tools and methods for board communication & engagement
- Best practices and leading thinking on enterprise (business & strategic) planning
- A strengths-based approach to board leadership
- New models of structuring committees and projects on boards
- Board effectiveness assessment
Building Community
For emerging and formal leaders and members of communities engaged in visioning, planning, and small acts where people can co-create a different future together, based on Peter Block's work
- An overview of the kinds and success indicators of community
- Conversations that prevent and promote building of community
- Suggestions for exploring compelling possibilities
- Building the core of community - trust
- How to translate dreams and vision into present-time small acts
- Guidelines for successfully managing projects of any scope
- How to do asset mapping with individuals & entities
- Sustaining a strength-based approach to community building
- The art of invitations and introductions
- Building social networks & using collaborative technologies
- The roles of formal & emerging leaders & experts
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