We Tackle Your Real World Challenges when We Present at Your Company Events

Here are some examples to help you start to think about what you would like us to help you accomplish during your next business off-site:

1. At the end of the first quarter when the client was on track to meet financial goals for the year, the operations manager decided to convene two breakthrough meetings to develop big ideas that would add another $60.0 million in revenue for the year.

2.  A proactive and profitable business unit of a corporation had just won supplier of the year from Wal-Mart. They recognized the need to continuously innovate new product offerings and wanted more skill developed to do this. They had Lynda lead an off-site for their high performance managers who were being groomed to be promoted to President positions in other divisions. 

3. A  business unit of a major corporation with high strategic growth potential had Lynda lead a 3 day off-site to help develop strategies to more than triple their business to $1 billion in sales.

4. An R&D Manager of a major corporation needed to unlock the thinking of his global team of PhD's so they could become better at commercializing their research to secure the leadership edge. He had Lynda lead a 3 day off-site focused on developing their skill to think out of the box.

5. A crisis off-site meeting was called by the leader of a business unit that was either going to become obsolete or transform. They had been blind sided by new technologies. He had Lynda lead a meeting focused on the short term - what can we do to close multimillion dollar business deals before year end? He waited too long before taking this action, reinforcing Lynda's belief that innovation needs to become part of your routine business practice if you are to be more consistently successful.

6. A proactive Manager of Innovation had Lynda lead a special day to end up with one new product to prototype. The team ended up with many more that met their requirements, and were very excited. The President of the division had told the group at the start of the day they were wasting their time, and then left. This reinforced Lynda's belief that it is important not to let senior executives get in your way of innovating. They don't know everything.

7. A Packaging Manager was tasked with refreshing the packaging of a very well known consumable product. It hadn't been tackled in too many years to mention without being embarrassed. He convened an ideation session led by Lynda that included the packaging vendor, marketing, quality, and packaging staff. They ended up with a very good number of practical ideas that were doable. The packaging vendor was astonished to be invited to participate.

8. A proactive Marketing Manager of a Business Unit desperately in need of new products to maintain market share, convened an off-site and had Lynda lead the team to so many new ideas for doable products that met their requirements, they couldn't wait to get started on the follow up work. The President decided to take no action because the CEO had not instructed him to do so. The result? Business continued to drop. The frustrated marketing manager left the company for a more progressive one. The Corporation eventually sold off the business unit - not profitable enough.

9. A business unit Marketing Manager of a Fortune 500, responsible for planning the annual company conference attended by 200 of their top managers, had Lynda deliver 4 power sessions on "out-of -the- box" thinking. The groups were challenged to come up with new product ideas for their plastics. The ideas were reviewed at the end of the conference by a panel of judges and an award was presented to the group with the most powerful idea.

10. A nonprofit health care group serving the Latino population in Los Angeles had Lynda lead them to develop strategies to attract funding from new private sector sources. The result? A more powerful vision, strategy and programs aligned to meet the needs of their customers, while appealing to the corporate sector.

11. A government agency had just received new goals. Four task forces were appointed by the executive board to develop short and long term recommendations to meet the goals. Lynda led power sessions in conjunction with facilitation to jump start the teams - provide them with a framework so they could work together more quickly to meet their deadline.

These are just some examples of the off-site gatherings that we have led.

Here are some options we can deliver at your off-site:

1. Deliver training in a variety of powerful thinking tools with a heavy emphasis on application challenges. Unlock your thinking

2. Facilitate your team tough business challenges to arrive at reasonable solutions

3. Equip task force members with a process and tools to use during their work together to improve their productivity and the quality of their output

4. Design a special program for your group to meet your theme

5. Deliver an orientation to creativity and innovation - wet the appetite of your group

6. Test run a program you think will be helpful for your employee population - deliver a pilot program 

7. Help your team understand everyone has the potential to be creative and that there are tools to use that are systematic - innovation on demand

How would you like us to help you ensure you host your most powerful off-site gathering yet?  Call Lynda at 818-507-6055 or email info@LyndaCurtin.com to discuss ideas.