This Senior-level Workshop/Retreat features one-on-one and group interaction among top executive decision makers who bring diverse viewpoints.

Who: C-Suite Executives, Key Senior Leaders and Emerging Leaders

When: March-April 2010

Where: Park Vista Resort, Gatlinburg, Tennessee

Size: Limited to 18 participants

The Retreat format integrates participants' experiences with time-tested concepts and proven processes to ensure enlightened management practices.

Self-assessment analysis along with feedback input from three direct reports and workshop participants makes for a transforming learning experience.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• Identify participants' ideas about managerial effectiveness - the "best way" to make decisions, communicate, motivate, etc.
• Introduce and apply validated models of personal and organizational effectiveness
• Compare personal experiences and behavioral science models giving participants data-based insights into current and potential effectiveness
• Provide opportunities for participants' self-appraisal of their managerial practices
• Link the retreat experience to the "real world" and to "real people" via direct reports' appraisals of managers' practices
• Present a broad base of behavioral science so managers may make enlightened choices about personal interactions

VALUE ADD-INS

Food and Lodging is included in the retreat fee.

• ProfileXT Total Person Assessment with Personal Coaching
• 360 Degree Feedback Assessment
• SkillBuilder Action Planner
• Three (3) One-Day follow-on Workshops in 2010

See the overview and register today! Call 865-675-5901

The next Project Management Breakthroughs (PMB) Workshop is scheduled for:

March 15-17, 2010 in Kingsport TN

Project Management Breakthroughs training goes beyond the standards in the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), the recognized learning designation in this field. Each participant who completes this workshop receives 21 PDUs (Professional Development Units) recognized by the Project Management Institute.

All Knoxville PMB workshops are held at our Advanced Leadership and Productivity Center (ABLPC) at 215 Center Park Dr, Suite 1600, Knoxville 37922.

The Kingsport TN PMB workshop will be held at the Eastman Employee Center at 400 S Wilcox, Kingsport TN 37660.

PMB workshops are facilitated by Richard Sogawa, PE. Rising to Executive Vice President of Hydro Ontario, Mr. Sogawa was responsible for billions of dollars in project management work. He used the PMB process to manage those projects with record-breaking success. As an internationally-recognized authority on the PMB process, he continues its use with clients all over the world. His dynamic leadership of this workshop always exceeds expectations.

If you are a buyer, purchasing agent, sales rep, negotiate contracts, project manager or a manager, you can benefit from attending our two-day Negotiating Breakthroughs workshop. Our next workshop is scheduled for:

Fall 2009

at our Advanced Leadership and Productivity Center in West Knoxville.

You will learn:

• A process to approach any negotiation
• How to determine the "tension for change" of both parties
• How to create a "shopping list" for negotiating variables
• How to determine which variables are your "aces"
• How to be sure you never give away anything without getting something in return
• How to have a win/win opportunity every time you negotiate

Call us at 865-675-5901 for further information.

• My "In" Box is "Out" of Control.
• Managing my Tasks is "tasking".
• My calendar is not working for me or being shared effectively by my co-workers.

Thousands of people at all levels have learned to automate e-mail, communicate better, control and complete tasks and schedule meetings more easily using Outlook.

Each participant receives a personal coaching session at their workspace with their own computer.

Working Sm@rt with Microsoft Outlook Dates:

• Tuesday, February 16, 2010
• Thursday, March 25, 2010

You must be registered to attend. Knoxville workshops are held at our Advanced Business Leadership and Productivity Center located at 215 Center Park Dr, Suite 1600, Knoxville 37922.

If you have a laptop, please bring it to the workshop and make the changes to Outlook directly on your laptop.

If you would like to schedule a dedicated workshop for your company or department, please contact us and we can make that happen.

"Employee engagement first. It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can survive over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it".

Source: Business Week Online: May 8, 2006, How Healthy Is Your Company? By Jack and Susie Welch.

What is the Alternative to Employee Engagement?

• Higher employee turnover
• Diminished performance
• Lost training dollars
• Lower morale

Benefits of an engaged workforce include:

• Retention rates increase
• Innovation and collaboration are enhanced
• Customer satisfaction levels increase
• Over time, the results are reflected in concrete bottom line results, share value and ROI

You can conduct a Workplace Engagement Survey rather quickly and at a cost of just $9 per employee. Contact us and we'll provide you with the specifics.

Now is the time to find out how engaged is your workforce.

Have you hired someone who said they were a pro using a software program or other such skills and then found out after you hired the individual that they weren't a whiz at all?

We now have over 1100 skills tests online that can check for the level of expertise you need to properly evaluate whether the person can do the job as you need it done. Combine this with our ProfileXT job assessment and you have a winning combination.

Check out the catalog of skills test at the link below and then call us to set up a demonstration.

email: greg.maciolek@imrtn.com

phone: 800.262.6403

web: http://www.integratedmanagementresources.com