FranklinCovey® Seminars

FranklinCovey's Leadership Foundations

Are your high-potential employees ready to lead?
As the current generation of leaders marches toward retirement, many organizations are already finding it difficult to find qualified replacements.  The challenge lies in both the numbers and experience; there simply aren’t as many workers as will be needed to fill vacated leadership slots, and those potential managers who are available will only bring 5-10 years experience with them.
One of the ways organizations are preparing for this impending leadership crisis is to prepare existing frontline employees to take on larger roles as they grow with the organization.  This approach not only “future proofs” against a mass exit of experienced leadership, it gives organizations the ability to retain vital institutional knowledge, as well as attract and retain high-potential employees.

Outcomes:

Participants will be able to:

• Improve trust and influence with peers and superiors.
• Link their work to a clear and compelling team purpose.
• Implement a system for executing on critical priorities.
• Leverage the talents of peers and co-workers to achieve unprecedented results.

FranklinCovey's Leading at the Speed of Trust

Low Trust = Reduced Speed, Increased Costs

In today’s global economy trust-related problems like redundancy, bureaucracy, fraud, and turnover eat away at organizations profitability in the form of slowed productivity, diverted resources, and missed opportunities.  What’s more, a lack of trust among customers chips away at its brand reputation.

Trust: The Key Force in Today’s Economy

Historically, trust has been considered a “soft issue,” but new research is turning this age-old assumption on its head, demonstrating that trust has a measurable, observable, and relevant effect on an organization’s bottom line.  As Stephen M. R. Covey, author of the best selling book, The Speed of Trust, puts it, “The serious practical impact of the economics of trust is that…we are paying a hidden low-trust tax right off the top—and we don’t even know it!”

Leading at the Speed of Trust is a two-day workshop that raises trust from an often-ignored asset or liability to a strategic advantage in the marketplace.  This highly interactive workshop engages leaders at all levels in the real work of identifying and closing the trust gaps that exist in your organization.

Outcomes:
As leaders forge the path to a new culture of trust, organizations will reap immediate returns as well as enduring long-term returns in the form of:

• Increased speed to market.
• Increased shareholder value.
• Accelerated growth.
• Enhanced innovation.
• Improved collaboration.
• Stronger partnering.
• Better execution.
• Heightened loyalty.

FOCUS

FOCUS TIME MANAGEMENT

It's not the people who simply get things done who move their organizations forward. It's the people who never lose sight of the big picture and who know how to focus on their most important goals.

In one day, this powerful workshop will help you learn how to:

• identify and focus on your top priorities
• get more of the right things done in less time
• set guiding goals
• manage information better
• overcome procrastination
• take control of incoming information
• renew your enthusiasm
• energize and control your days

While at the workshop you'll receive your own Franklin planner. Simple to learn, flexible, and proven to work, the Franklin Planner helps you determine how to spend your time and energy, and successfully balance all the demands in your life - personal and professional.

NEW from FranklinCovey®

Leading Across Generations

For the first time in history, there are four distinct generations in the workforce: traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Gen Xers, and Millennials . . . all with their own perspectives, styles, and expectations. Participants will learn how to gain an understanding of the specific differences between the four generations in today's workforce; discover how stereotyping hinders communication and engagement; and know how to conduct a "Whole-Person Engagement Conversation."

Project Management (1-Day)

Ensure Your Project's Success from Start to Finish

Get it right the first time

Many organizations today face out-of-control costs due to projects that are full of changes, past deadlines, and over budgets. Companies are plagued by projects that constantly need fixing because they weren't managed right the first time.

With FranklinCovey Project Management™ training, you learn not only how to manage a project effectively but also how to balance multiple projects with your other tasks and commitments. As a result, you don't waste time on false starts or on corrections and additions later in the project.

Proven principles for any project's success

This illuminating one-day workshop provides an introduction to project and workload management. Designed for those with no previous project management training but who find that more and more of their work assignments are project oriented, this workshop focuses on projects of fewer than 100 tasks.

What you'll learn

• Proven methods for keeping projects on schedule and on budget
• How to increase support and buy-in to avoid unnecessary delays and rework
• Steps for recognizing and avoiding potential "hot spots"
• Available tools for increasing collaboration, communication, and accountability

One-day Workshop Includes:

• A Comprehensive Guidebook
• To Do Doing Done Book

Project Management (2-Day Workshop)

Ensure Success From Start to Finish

Many organizations face out-of-control costs brought on by projects that are full of changes, past deadline, over budget and that require more resources than originally projected. After learning and applying FranklinCovey's Project Management process, participants will feel better prepared to effectively start, manage and complete their projects, regardless of size, scope, budget, or previous project management experience.

Our unique approach encourages attendees to bring real projects for a truly hands-on experience. We invite whole teams to attend together, creating opportunities to unite and to learn solutions for specific challenges. The one-day training is ideal for those with no previous project management training and an increasing number of project oriented assignments.

FranklinCovey's Project Management workshop involves four-steps: visualizing, planning, implementing and closing. This proven approach helps project managers and their teams create, plan, implement, and complete successful projects on time and within budget.

• Decrease costs through better planning and less rework
• Hit project deadlines through smarter workload management
• Reduce time and money spent backtracking and redoing a plan
• Strengthen cooperation and buy-in from team members and stakeholders
• Gain greater control over a project's progress
• Focus on the right project at the right time
• Improve early recognition of potential problems and issues

What you'll learn

• Learn to implement the simple four-step project management process of visualize, plan, implement, and close.
• Learn interview tips for key stakeholders
• Create clear vision statements that reflect key stakeholder buy-in
• Discover how to break a project into manageable pieces to create a plan and a timeline
• Ensure that appropriate "go" or "no-go" decisions are made during that process
• Coordinate a project's workload into weekly and daily schedules
• Close projects by evaluating success and identifying future improvements
• Spend more classroom time with hands on exercises
• Take a more in-depth look at managing complex projects using additional tools such as Gantt charts and project initiation tools
• Dive deep into balancing constraints (time, schedule, and resources)
• Identify ways to control and track communication
• Spend time working and being coached on the actual project you bring to the training
• Take a closer look at risk analysis and hotspot plans

Core Competencies

• Visualize the project scope
• Plan for a successful outcome
• Implement a valid project plan
• Close the project and evaluate for improvement

Two-day Workshop Includes:

• A Comprehensive Guidebook
• To Do Doing Done Book

7 Habits for Managers

7 Habits for Managers

This two-day workshop focuses exclusively on the management applications of the 7 Habits, giving managers the tools to take initiative, resolve conflicts, and unleashes the talents and passions of their teams.

Designed to help managers and supervisors perform their roles effectively, this workshop will help you apply principles from the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People to create balance in a healthy, cohesive work environment.

What You Learn:

• How to resist overreacting to difficult situations
• The importance of responsibility, accountability, and commitment
• Skills for building real trust among coworkers
• How to become a resourceful, effective manager who quickly accomplishes goals
• How to manage yourself
• How to lead others
• How to unleash the potential of your team

What You Receive:

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Audio CD
  The concepts from this best-selling CD provide the basis for this workshop
• Participant Guidebook
  This 81-page manual is filled with examples and exercises that continue to enhance the learning process after the workshop is over
• Management Essentials book
  A 132-page book of resources for dealing with management challenges
• A world-class facilitator