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Ralph Jacobson has a fresh, counterintuitive perspective on leadership and change - one that has real staying power. Audiences leave with a practical and useful framework and the language and tools that will enable them to build collaborative leadership in their personal, professional, and community lives. Leaders that use his approach to leadership find that reframing their future not only becomes possible, it is significantly easier. Read more...

Leadership development workshops

Every day, leaders face issues for which they have received little or no training. They often confuse managing with leadership. They may want to operate more effectively. They may want to partner with peers across the organization, but perceive the barriers and risks to be great. The Leader's Toolbox® offers solutions to all management levels. We show people how to take an idea from concept through fruition to make meaningful and lasting change. Read more...

Consultation and support

We help people become more productive by helping them learn how to work together more collaboratively. We help you meet the needs of your customers by helping your people produce new products/services more effectively. We build the power of your organization to be responsive in a fast changing world.
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Performance management system

Most organizations view performance appraisal as an administrative necessity to accomplish pay increases. Yet, they struggle to have people focus their work and to implement new projects and strategic initiatives.

Our performance management system ensures that employees are engaged and focused on the most important work and that managers have a way of ensuring performance accountability. Our system turns the conventional approach on its head. Most systems are retrospective in orientation—ours is prospective. Most systems are top down—ours is both top down AND bottoms up. Most systems are designed to determine what the salary increases should be—ours is to ensure that people are focused and aligned. Our process can be tied to changes that you want to make to the overall organizational culture so that you can create the kind of organization that will thrive in your marketplace.

We have gone one step farther. To facilitate the process, our clients have installed our system on their servers so making it easy for the parties to update the form throughout the year. This also facilitates leadership access so that they can stay abreast of what has been accomplished and what projects may be falling behind.

Organization leadership survey

By the time they find themselves in higher level positions, most leaders have received significant feedback regarding their personal strengths and weaknesses. Rather, they should be taught to understand the levels and qualities of required leadership behaviors in the organization as a whole. Knowing this provides the true lever for unleashing the people power to overcome the challenges faced by the organization in its marketplace. Guided by the direction of the strategic plan and fueled by the power of leadership, they are prepared to sail their organization through uncharted waters. Read more...

We give people the ability to fix things for good and make them better forever!