What's New
This section includes a variety of information
to keep you apprised about what's happening at Strategic Partners, Inc.
and our partner firms. The Client Case Studies
page provides you with an overview of results organizations have achieved
by implementing solutions from Strategic Partners, Inc. and our partner
firms. The Articles page highlights recent
articles on issues that may be important to you and your organization.
The Featured Product or Service page provides
an overview of our featured product of the month. The Monthly
Feature highlights tips for improving organizational and career performance
in your organization.
Training and Consulting Tools
to JUMP START 2009
CONFERENCES
Strategic Partners, Inc., and our partner firms provide clients access
to some of the best-in-class conferences. Click
here for more information.
IN-HOUSE WORKSHOPS
With our 12 partner firms and 30 consultants, Strategic Partners, Inc.,
offers a range of training on a variety of subjects that address all of
the Federal Government executive core qualifications and an array of personal
development training solutions. Contact us about conducting a pilot workshop
before the end of the fiscal year.
TRAINING TOOLS, MATERIALS
 Strategic
Partners, Inc., provides our clients a range of training tools and materials,
some of which are featured below.
The Instant Expert Cards: Provided by the Learning
Café. Everything a manager needs to understand each generation
and take appropriate actions. In order to manage generational differences
effectively, managers should understand the different values, motivators
and preferences of each generation. The Instant Expert is a timesaving
solution for savvy managers. Each Instant Expert card quickly highlights
the key generational differences necessary to effectively manage, engage
and retain employees.
Set of 4 includes one for each generation - $25.00
Generations over Time Timeline: Provided by
the Learning Café. This foldout timeline defines and describes
the four generations. It’s a handy quick-reference guide to understanding
and appreciating the events and trends that shaped each generation. The
reverse side of the timeline highlights the evolution of American business
Packages of 10 - $25.00
Engaging a Changing Workforce Playbook: The
participant playbook is a rich, comprehensive resource. It contains vital
information about each workplace generation, key characteristics and actions
that need to be on every Manager's 'to-do" list. This might be of
interest to someone who wants to set up some self paced study or team
discussions around generations.
$66.00 for each playbook
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SELF-ASSESSMENT TOOLS
The Leadership Assessment Instrument™ (LAI™)
The Leadership Assessment Instrument™ (LAI™)
measures the critical capabilities required for high performance leadership.
Developed in partnership with Warren Bennis, it provides a platform for
various applications such as feedback, coaching, succession planning and
individual development planning. Participants find that the instrument
cuts to the heart of their roles and leadership challenges: the capabilities
they look for in others, expect from themselves, and often wished they
had achieved but have been unable to articulate or develop. Whatever your
needs for the leadership and executive development, the LAI™ is
the tool you can trust to drive conversation, commitment, and action.
The Leadership Development Guide for the LAI™ includes exercises
for enhancing and demonstrating leadership skills, daily practice suggestions
for use both on and off the job, and self-study resources for continuous
development.
1 – 20 $39.95 each
21+ $34.95 each
Development Guide $49.95 each
BUY THE COMPLETE SET FOR ONLY: $79.95
360 Assessment Pricing: $275.00 person
Interaction Style Profile: Self-Assessment
Leaders and team members must consistently communicate and
work with people who have a variety of interaction styles.
Seventy-five percent of the people we deal with are different than ourselves.
It is important to be flexible and tailor speech, body language, and approach
so that others become more open to listen and accept ideas. This is especially
important in critical business situations, such as when you are selling,
problem solving, working on a team, or providing customer service.
When you can spot cues and subtle differences in the way people interact,
you can effectively deal with team members, employees, peers, and customers.
$25.00/person
Webinar Pricing Information: $3,000.00 for up to 24 participants
Organizational Savvy: Self-Assessment
What is the Organizational Savvy Self-Assessment? A quick
screening tool to survey your abilities in 12 categories of high-integrity
organizational politics.
The Organizational Savvy Self-Assessment is a 60-item rating instrument
that yields an Overall Organizational Savvy Score and 12 separate Skill
Set Scores. The 15-page Scoring and Interpretation Guide provides a profile
of your strong points and gaps. For each of the 12 Savvy Skill Sets, you'll
receive analysis that includes:
- Your Skill Set score and rating as Proficient, Capable, or Vulnerable
- A review of the five assessment items that comprise the Skill Set
- An explanation of the Skill Set's purpose and impact
- Specific pointers and recommendations for improvement
- A list of related chapters in the book, Survival of the Savvy
Who Is It Aimed At? The Self-Assessment is meant for executives, managers,
professionals, or individual contributors who want to measure their skill
level and better understand the components of ethical politics on the
job and in other organizational settings.
$25.00/person
Webinar Pricing Information: $3,000.00 for up to 24 participants
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 Hogan
Development Survey – HDS: The Dark Side
of Personality
The Hogan Development Survey (HDS) assesses
eleven behavioral tendencies that impede work relationships, hinder productivity,
or limit overall career potential. These career derailers - deeply ingrained
in personality traits - affect an individual's leadership style and actions.
When under pressure, most people will display certain counterproductive
tendencies or risk factors. Under normal circumstances these characteristics
may actually be strengths. However, when an individual is tired, pressured,
bored or otherwise distracted, these risk factors may impede effectiveness
and erode the quality of relationships with customers and colleagues.
The Hogan Development Survey identifies tendencies that are often referred
to as the dark side of the personality - what we see when people are stressed.
Hogan Assessment Systems delivers the results of the Hogan Development
Survey in an interpretative report. The report provides detailed HDS graph
with definitions of the eleven dimensions and can also provide the following
information:
- Provides insights about the candidate's behavior that could potentially
undermine or inhibit performance
- Offers suggestions for leading more effectively
- Identifies factors that detracts from the candidate's ability to
perform as a leader
- Pinpoints risk factors that may impede effectiveness and erode the
quality of relationships
- Provides scale-by-scale interpretation of scores
- Provides developmental recommendations for high risk zones
- Provides a graphic report of the candidate's assessment results
- Summarizes leadership challenges and provides ideas for moderating
them
$175.00/person for the tool
Webinar Pricing Information: $3,000.00 for up to 24 participants
Daily Leader’s Essential Toolkit
This exclusive toolkit consists of a comprehensive set of
tools, assessments and resources for ongoing development.
$199/person (for on-line access or hard copy)
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WEBINARS
Click here to find
out more information regarding Strategic Partners, Inc., public workshops
and showcases. In addition, you may be interested in some of the following:
Webinar Series Descriptions
Mastering The Three Key Moments of Networking
Learn what to do and say to start and build relationships at the events
you attend, both inside your organization and in professional groups.
Stand out in a crowd as someone who remembers names and is easy to talk
with. Learn how to explain what you do in a way that’s memorable,
conversational, and that teaches people to trust in your character and
competence so they want to help you and do business with you. Steer small
talk to uncover resources and opportunities. Advance through the 6 stages
of trust building by knowing what’s appropriate to do and say at
each stage. Devise a plan to have more contact with people you’d
like to become your Advocates.
Showcasing Your Expertise With Stories
Stories stick! Learn how to find, construct, and tell examples, vignettes,
and stories that highlight your expertise and your firm’s services.
Use stories to teach your colleagues, managers, clients, peers, and friends
what to count on you for, what to ask you for, and what opportunities
and information to send your way. Learn to pepper your conversation with
stories – without bragging or hot-dogging! Make telling stories
a conversational habit.
Following Up: The Most Misunderstood Ritual in Networking
You met someone once. Now what? How can you develop that relationship
without being too pushy - or too passive. Learn the one thing to do that
makes follow up easy. Be prepared to be spontaneous by having an agenda
in mind before you enter a room full of people. Master the 5 goals of
follow up. Learn how chemistry, commitment, and commonality create opportunities
to re-connect naturally. Devise a plan to have more contact with people
you’d like to become your advocates. Advance through the 6 stages
of trust building by knowing what’s appropriate to do and say at
each stage.
Making Conversations Flow
Wish you felt more comfortable and competent as a conversationalist? Learn
3 skills that are guaranteed to make conversations flow: asking good questions,
listening generously, and telling success stories. Review how to find
and tell success stories – without bragging – so that people
naturally learn more about your services, your expertise, and your character
and competence. Learn how to begin conversations with “strangers.”
Learn 5 ways to end conversations - with the future in mind. And get comfortable
joining groups of people who are already talking.
$1,200.00 each webinar
Webinar: Improve Your Productivity by Organizing Your Workspace:
Taming the Paper Tiger Whether you want to get more done
-- or work fewer hours -- the key to your success is managing your time,
your space, and your information – in other words, an organized
office. Your ability to complete any project is directly related to your
ability to find what you need when you need it – whether it’s
an attachment to an e-mail or a fail-safe system of what you need to do
so nothing falls through the cracks.
This webcast will include specific proven techniques to help you:
- Manage your e-mail instead of letting it manage you
- Create an organizing SYSTEM (Saving You Space Time Energy Money)
- Decide what to keep and what to throw away
- Determine if, when, and how to go “paperless”
- Eliminate physical clutter in your office (and your life)
- Implement The Magic 6™ in your office
- Increase your productivity by 10-25% the first day you get back to
the office with one simple tool
- Assist other people be more organized
- Recover quickly from unpreventable interruptions
$3,500.00
Webinars – 90 minute sessions for each of the above tools
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 PUBLIC
WORKSHOPS
Strategic Partners, Inc., provides our clients a range of public workshops
on a variety of topics. Click
here for more information.
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DIVERSITY CALENDARS
 2009
Honoring Differences Diversity Calendar
Practical. Essential. Affordable.
The 2009 Honoring Differences Diversity Calendar has features that make
it a practical diversity tool.
- 12 months of detailed, factual information on practices and events,
holidays and observances for most world cultures
- Hundreds of detailed summaries and descriptions.
- 3-section sidebar index each month simplifies information searches
- Religious, Cultural, and Country index monthly
- Full index to all entries for easy cross-checking.
- 'How-To' introduction provides helpful information on how to identify
and honor cultural and other significant dates.
One Calendar: $16.95
Box of 25: $423.75
Box of 50: $847.50
Box of 50 2009 Honoring Differences Diversity Calendar with Honoring Differences
Connection Cards: $860.45
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KEYNOTE SPEECHES
 Clients
have accessed our cadre of best-in-class facilitators and presenters to
kick off a training session conference or special event. Contact us to
learn more about finding the right solution for your event.
When you have a large group of employees together for a meeting and need
a speaker to engage them and focus their thinking on how effective communication
affects their productivity, image, and results, call us.
- Communicate with Confidence®: From Boardroom to Bedroom
- The Gender Communication Gap: "Did You Hear What I Think I Said?"
- Communication Clues and Cues for Rave Reviews: The 10 Communication
Strategies Every Leader Needs to Know
- Get a Life Without Sacrificing Your Career: How to Find Balance and
Increase Productivity
- Your Signature Life™
- Communicating CARE to Customers
Pricing information: $545.00/person
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TRAINING ROI ASSESSMENTS
MetrixGlobal® Application and Impact Evaluation
Do you need to know how your learning program has changed behavior or
impacted the organization but you don’t have time or a lot of money
to find out?
Strategic Partners Inc. is proud to offer, for a limited time only, a
special price for the award-winning MetrixGlobal® Application and
Impact Evaluation. MetrixGlobal® is a unit of Cylient, LLC, one of
SPI’s partner firms.
This evaluation answers two key questions that leaders have about learning
programs:
1. How have participants applied what they learned to the work environment,
e.g., what new behaviors and actions have resulted from their participation
in the learning program?
2. How have these new actions impacted the business in terms of intangible
and tangible benefits?
This is how it works: MetrixGlobal will email you a cover letter with
a link to a web-based survey. You email this cover letter to the program
participants. That’s it. In about four weeks MetrixGlobal will send
you a report that will help you tell the story of how the learning program
added value to the business.
For a limited time, this service is being offered for $5,000. Please
contact SPI to learn more about this exciting offering.
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