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The On-Demand Webinars allow you to view previously recorded webinars at your convenience 24/7. Fees are per viewing room/desk, not per person, so invite all key staff to participate for one low cost of $75 per Webinar. Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation E-mail with instructions for accessing the session and course materials. This link allows access to the session for a period of 15 days. If you are interested in a site license for multiple viewing locations, please contact us at webinars@ccl.org. Register for one of the following Webinars today!

Most Recent Webinar

Developing Your Conflict Competence
Conflict is inevitable in individual and organizational life. We often try to avoid it in hopes that the difficulty just disappears. Successful leaders know that if conflict is embraced rather than avoided it can lead to fresh opportunities, ideas, and solutions. This session provides an overview of the cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and normative approaches leaders (and others) can use to engage conflict effectively.

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Recorded webinars are listed below in alphabetical order.
A   B   C   D   E   F   G   I   L   M   N   O   P   R   S   T  U   V   W   Y

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Accelerating Performance: Linking Leadership and Strategy at Cardo FREE!
In times of rapid change, senior executives want to bolster bottom-line performance and continuously develop their organizations — and that calls for building leadership learning into the everyday execution of strategy. But how do you do that effectively?

Active Listening: Improve Your Ability to Listen and Lead
Listening well is an essential component of good leadership. You can become a more effective listener and leader by learning the skills of active listening. Working relationships become more solid, based on trust, respect, and honesty. Active listening is not an optional component of leadership; it is not a nicety to be used to make others feel good. It is, in fact, a critical component of the tasks facing today's leaders.

Adaptability: Responding Effectively to Change
In today's business world, the complexity and pace of change can be daunting. Adaptability is no longer a nicety or coping mechanism, but a necessary skill for leaders to develop in order to respond effectively to change. Even so, leaders rarely know what they can do to become more adaptable and foster adaptability in others.

Anatomy of Change: What's Your Style?
Do you see change as a danger, a challenge, or an opportunity? How people deal with change - both creating it and responding to it - is a function of identifiable preferences. The upcoming webinar session, delivered by Dr. Christopher Musselwhite, will present the research-based Change Style Indicator^®, a tool which measures three distinct styles of how individuals prefer to approach and manage change.

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Becoming a Conflict Competent Leader
Many of us experience "fight or flight" responses when it comes to conflict. Effective leaders, however, handle conflict in a constructive manner and enable others to do the same. These leaders also champion conflict competency in their organizations and find that conflict can actually work to their advantage, fostering new ideas and stronger teams.

Breakthrough Leadership
Ultimately, no matter what industry you're involved in, you are in the BREAKTHROUGH business! Every day you seek to breakthrough with customers to generate loyalty, satisfaction, and relationship. The key to lasting success in business is breaking through with your own team members so they eagerly embrace personal responsibility, committed purpose, and leadership.

Building a Collaborative Team
Dr. Edward Marshall, Senior Partner in Organizational Leadership at CCL will present an award-winning approach to building a truly collaborative team. Save time. Increase trust. Improve results. Increase productivity. Find out how this process works.

Building an Authentic Leadership Image
Many leaders assume that image building is superficial and therefore unimportant, but you can benefit from knowing how you come across to others and making improvements if necessary. This doesn't mean creating a false image, but recognizing genuine aspects of yourself that should be coming across to other people—but aren't.

Building Character: Strengthening the Heart of Good Leadership
This session offers practicing leaders and managers a more complete understanding of what character is, its importance in leading others, and how it can be further developed in one's self and in others. Gene Klann will explore the "Five E's: example, education, experience, evaluation and environment" and share insights from his new book, Building Character: Strengthening the Heart of Good Leadership.

Building Conflict Competent Teams - Conflict can be at the heart of teams' best ideas as well as their worst failures. This webinar, presented by Tim Flanagan and Craig Runde, looks at how teams can use conflict to enhance creativity, productivity and the quality of their decision-making.

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The Case for Leadership Development
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary leadership—and, therefore, leadership development. Yet believers in development are finding their advocacy falling on ears understandably deafened by the economic crisis.

Catch a Rising Star: Rescuing the Young and Clueless - An increasing number of bright young managers with unusually high levels of talent, intellect and ambition are rising to very senior levels of responsibility on an accelerated career path. Unfortunately, these young executives often arrive with gaps in the critical developmental experiences needed to hone them into authentic, mature and emotionally competent leaders.

CEO of Me: Managing Your Flexstyles and Work-Life Relationships More Effectively - Are you a segmenter or integrator or a volleyer? What is the style of your manager, co-workers or your family? Do you feel in control and satisfied with your style and has your way of working impacted your effectiveness at work? How people deal with flexibility - both using it and responding to others is a function of identifiable preferences.

Coaching for Results
Coaching is one of the foundational components for effective leadership and in achieving results. The most effective leaders know how to build and manage coaching relationships which result in a more results-oriented organization and motivated employees.

Coaching Skills for Leaders
Coaching is one of the foundational components for effective leadership. Coaching is also a critical key to sustainable leadership growth and development. The most effective coaches know how to build and manage coaching relationships which result in a more robust organization and motivated employees.

Coaching Tools and Tactics
As the importance of coaching continues to grow in today's challenging economic climate the need to fill our coaching tool kit grows even faster. This session provides an overview of proven coaching tools and will serve as a roadmap for further exploration.

Communicating Your Vision
Vision. What exactly is a vision? More importantly once you have a vision in place, how do you successfully communicate vision that offers lasting impact, direction, and meaning to those you are leading? We encourage you to bring to our Webinar a vision you are currently challenged to communicate to learn new strategies on how to implement your vision with long-term sustainability. Join the Center for Creative Leadership for an online event with faculty members David Horth and Talula Cartwright in gaining awareness and understanding on how to improve your effectiveness in communicating vision.

Creating Coaching Cultures
Seismic shifts in organizational performance are possible when coaching is engrained in the culture of the organization. Working cross functionally and interdependently is the direction businesses are headed in this global economy.

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Developing and Engaging Your Leadership Talent Across Generations
Your human capital has never been so important in the labor market. The current shortage of leaders in Europe makes it even more important to develop and retain your leadership talent than ever before. A global panic - driven by the shortage in leadership and the growing complexity of the workplace - is steadily moving organisations toward a recognized need for leadership talent development across generations.

Developing Leadership Talent
As the environment in which organizations operate has grown more competitive and demanding, the need for a structured and sustainable approach to developing leaders has increased markedly. Organizations need a development approach that serves their particular business needs and aligns with their other talent management systems.

Developing Your Conflict Competence
Conflict is inevitable in individual and organizational life. We often try to avoid it in hopes that the difficulty just disappears. Successful leaders know that if conflict is embraced rather than avoided it can lead to fresh opportunities, ideas, and solutions. This session provides an overview of the cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and normative approaches leaders (and others) can use to engage conflict effectively.

Developmental Assignments: Creating Learning Experiences without Changing Jobs
Shape your work and life experiences so that they provide opportunities to expand your leadership capabilities. Job moves are not the only route to developmental assignments; shaping your current job and nonwork pursuits may be a more practical way to stretch and grow as a leader.

Do Less and Accomplish More...Now!
You have a lot of information and "noise" coming at you all the time and sometimes you want a shut-off valve. You want to make more of a difference, working on only what truly matters. Right? Then you don't want to miss this webinar!

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Evaluating the Impact of Leadership Development
Scratch the surface of any successful organization and you'll likely find systems designed to evaluate how well it runs. Effective evaluations keep leadership development initiatives on track and contribute to organizational learning so that organizations remain responsive and resilient.

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Feedback That Works
No matter what level you occupy in an organization, timely, ongoing, accurate feedback is the best tool for improving yourself and helping others develop. Whether we are catching people doing it "right" or catching our people early in their mistakes to help them avoid bad habits, giving meaningful and effective feedback is an important component to helping people develop and to getting the job done.

Filling the Leadership Pipeline: The Discipline of Development
The looming talent shortage around the globe has become a favorite theme of the business media and a part of the backdrop against which we all do business. Moving beyond the hyperbole, it appears that many companies are experiencing a talent shortage, particularly when it comes to significant general management roles.

Fit to Lead: How Health and Fitness Support the Leadership Process
The nature of leadership and how business is conducted has changed drastically over the last decade. Frequent travel and long work days are the norm. With the advent and increased use of BlackBerry^™ and cell phones, the workplace has become increasingly portable. What has also changed, however, is an increasing awareness of the need to take physical care of oneself.

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Gaining Clarity About Political Organizations: Dispelling the Negativity of Organizational Politics
There are many different perspectives about the role of politics in organizations. Some people think politics is a necessary evil in organizations. Others believe organizational politics hinders them from promotions, pay raises, and other benefits. Still others think politics is a natural, normal, occurrence in the workplace.

Good News - We have a Crisis!: Seven Pointers to Finding Opportunity in Adversity - Nobody likes a crisis, but sometimes they happen for reasons entirely beyond one's control. Although there is danger, there is also opportunity - if you respond correctly.

Greater Than Yourself
In this program — based on his new book, Greater Than Yourself — Steve Farber shows that dedicating yourself to bringing others along so that they can achieve more than you is the ultimate way to boost talent, ramp productivity and create truly significant current and future leaders.

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Implementing an Effective Succession Process
Many organizations in North America and the rest of the world soon will be facing a significant number of retirements. And, simply put, there will not be enough people to replace those who are leaving. One of the strategies organizations are investigating and implementing involves various succession processes.

Influence: Gaining Commitment and Getting Results
Influence is an essential component of leadership. Your position in an organization and the power it gives you aren't always enough to motivate people to do what you ask. How do you influence others without organizational authority? Developing your influence skills can help you gain commitment from people at all levels: direct reports, peers and bosses.

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Leadership: Creating a Clear and Compelling Vision
Creating and communicating a strong vision are critical for anyone in a leadership position whether you are leading a project, team, division or the entire organization. The leader's ability to convey a strong image, inspire commitment, and lead change efforts is especially important when an organization is facing change and complexity.

Leadership for Sustainability: Exploring Global Responsibility
Globally responsible leadership asks business organizations to pay attention to the impact their operations have on the planet - requiring a systemic view addressing the diverse economic, social, and environmental issues involved with running an organization. Unfortunately, not much is understood about how leaders and organizations deal with these expanded and integrated principles of sustainability and corporate social responsibility.

Leadership Networking: Connect, Collaborate, Create
Networking is essential to effective leadership in today's organizations. Leaders who are skilled networkers have access to people, information, and resources to help solve problems and create opportunities. Leaders who neglect their networks are missing out on a critical component of their role as leaders. By seeing networking as an integral part of your role as a leader and by taking action to develop and nurture related skills, you begin to create benefits for yourself, your team, and your organization.

Leading Across Differences
Despite the growing challenges and opportunities created by our interconnected world, many people do not know how to lead in situations where there are misunderstandings or conflicts rooted in social identity differences.

Leading Dispersed Teams
The use of teams to complete organizational work continues to be a popular strategy world wide. Two of the common drivers for the use of teams are globalization and technology. These two drivers have allowed corporations to bring talented employees together in ways never imagined a decade ago. Linking together employees in Japan, India, Switzerland, the UK and North America, and calling them a team is common today. But is this group really a team?

Leading in 24/7
The real consequence of today's emerging science and technology is not gadgets but ever-increasing diversity and complexity in how people live and work. Understanding the challenges and opportunities presented by today's intense, demanding, 24/7 global environment is essential for those who hope to lead in the years ahead.

Leading in the Face of Change - In this session Dr. Kerry Bunker and Michael Wakefield explore the evolving leadership model and the leadership capacities necessary for today's leaders to be able to handle unintended consequences of organizational challenges such as reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and downsizings, and adaptation to globalization.

Leading Teams for Impact: Building Team Effectiveness in a Chaotic World - Oh no, another team meeting! Most of us have experienced the dread of being on (or even leading) a low performing, ineffective team. Considering how widespread and costly this phenomenon is, one wonders why we can't seem to get it right.

Life Entrepreneurship: Creating a Life of Significance and Increasing Your Team's Performance
Drawing from the nationally acclaimed book, Life Entrepreneurs: Ordinary People Creating Extraordinary Lives, this new Leading Effectively webinar from the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®) challenges participants to create lives and work of purpose, service, and significance.

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Making the Most of Talent: Tools, Techniques and Tactics
When you think of your personal potential, how do you put it in context with the broader organizational setting you find yourself working in today? How does an organization design and implement succession planning, leadership development and talent management systems? How does your team strategically take advantage of position openings? How does your own talent management process shift as external factors drive new business requirements?

Managing Leadership Expectations in a Global Role
One of the complexities of leading in a global setting is that people have different ideas about the essence of good leadership. It is hard to be effective when your image of effective leadership is very different from that of your colleagues. Differences in such expectations can cause significant problems in organizations.

Managing Leadership Stress - It may feel as if stress has always been with us, but the term was not applied to human beings until the 1900s. Before that time, stress referred to a concept in physics that explains the internal distribution of force within an object in reaction to an external load applied to that object.

Maximizing the Potential of Yourself and Your Organization: Strategic Leadership in Action
Has today's complex world left you wondering how you and your organization can be successful in the long run? Strategic leadership is the key. In this session, you will learn a common definition for strategic leadership. You will assess yourself, your team, and your organization on key factors for strategic leadership. You will learn practical ways to enhance strategic leadership in yourself and in your organization.

Measuring ROI in Leadership Development FREE!
In an era of economic downturn, layoffs and hiring freezes, budget cuts, mergers and consolidations, and outsourcing of learning functions, we must show the value of learning and development. In particular, investments in leadership development can improve bottom-line financial performance, help organizations to attract and retain talent, drive a performance culture, and increase organizational ability.

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A New Map of Leadership: Global Trends Impacting Leaders and Leadership Development
"The world is flat." "We are at a tipping point." "The keys to the kingdom are changing hands." "We must reset our rule sets." "All we have is the next 24 hours." No matter if it is the words of Friedman, Gladwell, Barnett, Pink, or Enriquez, it is clear that our world is fundamentally shifting, that a new age is upon us.

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Organizational Innovation: Making it Happen in Your Company
Organizations are seeking to be more innovative in response to the challenges of our times. Developing a sustainable organizational capacity for innovation requires a systemic approach that deals with the cultural, environmental, and systems issues needed to not only stimulate new ideas but channel those ideas into valuable products, services, and processes.

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The Pillars of Successful Executive Leadership: What We Know About Senior Leaders and What it Means for Your Development
What if you had hundreds of senior leaders at your disposal all willing to answer your questions about how to achieve executive success? What would you ask them about being a top leader? What would they say about important topics such as performance, integrity, and relationships?

The Politics of Innovation: What It Really Takes to Move an Idea into Action
A new idea might be brilliant and even a need might be seen, but somehow the idea gets stuck in the system and takes forever to get to market. From over 30 years of experience as an innovator and as a student of innovation, David Horth will address the thorny subject of accelerating ideas through the minefield of the organization.

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Responses to Change: Leading People Through Transition - If you want to lead people to somewhere new, then you need to meet them where they are. One of the prevailing constants in contemporary organizational life is the experience of compounding waves of complex transition and change. The best laid plans for organizational and structural change are frequently undermined by a failure to exert strong leadership around the softer people issues.

Retiring the Generation Gap
How different are the generations, really? Everybody knows that the "generation gap" between younger and older people causes stress and frustration at work. Are the differences people complain about just a big misunderstanding, or are they real? And most important, how can you use similarities and differences among the generations to be a more effective leader within your organization? Jennifer Deal explains what can be done to retire the generation gap. Based on seven years of research on more than 3,000 leaders, Retiring the Generation Gap reveals the truth about generational conflicts at work - and what you can do about them.

Root Causes for Understanding Conflict
Conflict, of course, can be caused by an individual behaving in a manner that another individual finds unacceptable. This interpersonal cause of conflict is one that we are all aware exists and we attempt to manage it with greater or lesser effectiveness. This webinar, however.will focus on the other causes of conflict.

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The Secret Language of Leadership
How do you persuade people to want to adopt something new, something different, even something a little strange? How do you spark enduring enthusiasm for a cause, even in difficult, cynical skeptical audiences? In this session, Steve Denning, author of The Secret Language of Leadership, will show what's involved using stories to engage staff or clients quickly and compellingly and spark action.

Selling Your Ideas to Your Organization
You've got an idea that you want to sell to your organization. Maybe it's a project that you want to be in charge of. Or maybe it's a piece of a bigger project that you want to move forward. It could be an improvement on an existing process or just something that you believe will make your group, team, or organization function better. You want others to understand and endorse your idea, to line up in support of it before you take it "public".

Selling Yourself Without Selling Out
Hard working individuals and groups are often not adequately recognized for their skills and contributions. Self-Promotion is an important skill to gain visibility, communicate value for you and your team and is essential to being an effective leader. Unfortunately, a 2005 CCL survey confirms that many leaders associate self-promotion with bragging, showing off or selling out. At the same time, self-promotion is seen as important to career success.

Seven Keys to Successful Mentoring
Both mentors and mentees realize many benefits from mentoring, as do organizations that encourage, structure, and support mentoring. Effective mentors develop the leadership capacity of their mentees while increasing their own skills. They transfer their knowledge and expertise back into their organizations.

Seven Keys to Leading in Turbulent Times - Globalization, talent shortages and roller coaster market dynamics are just a few of the complex challenges facing today's businesses. How can leaders thrive in this turbulent environment? Research by the Center for Creative Leadership shows a new set of leadership skills will be crucial for success.

Social Identity: Knowing Yourself, Leading Others - The context of leadership has changed. Traditionally, leaders worked in organizations in which people largely shared a common culture and set of values. Today, leaders must bring together groups of people with very different histories, perspectives, values and cultures. Your understanding of social identity-both your own and that of others-is critically important in today's workplace.

The Speed of Change, the Value of Trust
We know that over 75% of change processes fail. Failure creates slowness, which can be very damaging to a company's strategy. In this webinar, we will explore how to dramatically increase the possibilities of success in your change processes, whether they involve restructuring, merging, ERP systems, or product development cycles.

Staying on Track: Five Tips All Leaders Need to Know - Managerial derailment, or the premature firing, demotion, and/or failure of a manager, can cost organizations thousands, if not millions of dollars in direct and indirect costs. The Center for Creative Leadership's study of managerial derailment stands the test of time, as it has shown that there are five behaviors associated with derailed managers.

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10 Truths About Leadership - Many leaders remember those life-changing moments when it suddenly became crystal clear what had to be done to reach their organizations' goals. It wasn't until Pete Luongo was faced with that one epiphany in his life that he recognized that all results are based upon behaviors appropriate to the circumstances.

Transforming Your Organization: The KONE Story FREE!
Are you trying to drive lasting change in your organization? Are you succeeding? There's a good chance you're not — and you are far from alone. Most organizational change efforts fail. But when they are done right, they can take companies to new levels of performance.

True North: Leadership in the 21st Century
An enormous leadership vacuum exists today-- in business, politics, government, education, religion, and nonprofit organizations. Yet there is no shortage of people with the capacity for leadership.

The Truth About Sucking Up: How Authentic Self-Promotion Benefits You and Your Organization
Why do organizations reward the most vocal or most visible even if they aren't the most qualified? This is a critically important question. Beyond bruised egos and a free-floating sense of unfairness lies a larger organizational problem: when the wrong people get noticed and rewarded, organizations suffer.

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Unleashing Effective Innovation: The Power of Creative Leadership - In today's turbulent business environment, companies will not thrive without the relentless pursuit of innovation. Just knowing that, however, is not enough. The bigger question is how to make innovation work for you. We believe creative leadership is the answer.

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The Versatile Leader: Make the Most of Your Strengths Without Overdoing It
While self-help gurus urge leaders to "focus on strengths," a hidden danger lies behind this seductive advice. Ironically, a leader's strengths often prove to be his or her undoing. You've heard of the phrase, "strengths become weaknesses." But many leaders don't really grasp how placing great faith in what they are good at can cause them to go overboard and get out of balance.

Visual Explorer: A Tool for Making Sense of Complex Organizational Challenges Using Creative Dialogue
Have you ever been frustrated in getting a group to pay attention to something important? What do you do when people talk past each other? Visual Explorer is a versatile method for helping people to listen deeply to each other.

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Why 360-degree Feedback Initiatives Fail - Over the past 20 years the growth of 360-degree assessment within organizations has been explosive. When used correctly, these feedback tools can be a valuable source of self-awareness for managers and executives and help employees set a path for their own development.

Women in Leadership: Navigating the Narrow Band and the Balance Beam
In the Breaking the Glass Ceiling research originally performed in 1987 conducted by the Center for Creative Leadership, it was clear that women walk a narrow band in many organizations. They have to be strong and assertive but not too aggressive. This narrow band has widened but it hasn't disappeared. Join us to learn more about these issues and walk away with concrete strategies to fuel your own success.

Writing Your Managerial User's Manual
There is increasing interest in accelerating executive onboarding and ensuring that new managers are able to hit the ground running with their new teams, within the first 90 days or sooner. In this interactive discussion, we will explore how a "user's manual," a document that an executive creates describing his or her managerial expectations, style, and preferences, can greatly assist the team in quickly getting to know the new manager better.

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Yes You Can! Innovating Despite Constraints FREE!
You are a leader charged with coming up with innovative solutions to opportunities. But you feel constrained by your organization's processes, lack of resources, top leadership support or a myriad of other forces.

Your Talent is Watching: The Impact of Leader Behavior and Decision Making During Turbulent Times
This webinar will look at best practices in talent management and how organizations are struggling to maintain those practices in a down economy. You will learn about CCL's 'view from the pipeline' research that focuses on how people feel and experience being identified as a high potential.

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