Consulting, Workshops & Training

NEW! Communication Strategies for Scientists and Engineers. Scientists and engineers are already trained to have great technical skills. This course provides them with the next level of skills they need for effectiveness and success in the workplace and academia.

NEW! Leadership-Improv. Just as Toastmasters helps you improve your presentation skills, Leadership-Improv helps you improve your leadership skills. Meet weekly or bi-weekly, learn while laughing!

Individual Coaching. Our experts will meet with you one-on-one for leadership development, executive development or professional development

Leadership. Our experts meet with your leadership team to hone their skills over a 3-month period.

Culture. Our experts work with your executive team to align your culture with your strategy in a 2-day offsite.

Diversity. Our experts guide your team to see, in concrete and visceral ways, how diversity of approach, problem-solving, thinking skills, helps the team to be more productive.

Business Innovation Initiatives. Our experts take you through the process of dealing with disruptive innovations and helping you build the processes for business innovations that yield measurable results.

"Leading Innovation," Our experts provide you with the tools and strategy to build your organization’s innovation capability and improve its ability to adapt to changing technologies and markets.

"Rolling Out an Innovation Initiative," Our experts will coach you through the process of defining your innovation framework and the tasks required for a successful roll out.

"What is Your Role in Innovation," Where do your strenghts play best in an innovative organization? Are you the Visionary, the Catalyst, the Troubleshooter or the Producer in your team? All types are necessary for the successful delivery of products; the question is, where do you best fit?

"Maximizing Team Effectiveness." We work with your executive team to increase productivity, saving you time and improving decision making.

"Effective Use of the Chief Techology Officer to Drive Innovation," Our experts work with your executive team to facilitate the effective use of your CTO.

"Leading Multi-Generational Teams," We work with your teams to understand how to better capitalize on the strengths and values of each generation in the workforce.

"Engineering Leadership Institute," offered through the University of Texas, Texas Executive Engineering Education, provides an in-depth program to train leaders in technology in communications, negotiation, team-building, dealing with difficult people, managing up, and many more skills needed for making the successful transition from "engineer" to a leadership role.

Consulting, Workshops & Training

Workshops and training present opportunities to examine key  topics with your team. These sessions are customized to reflect your current challenges.

Workshops are appropriate for senior executives or development groups. We facilitate half-day to three-day sessions.

Contact Leslie Martinich at 512.423.5121 to discuss your needs and how Competitive Focus might help you.

 

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