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	Leading the New Generation


	Coaching High Potentials


	Leadership Team Alignment


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	New Leader Transitions


	High Performance Teams

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Improving Leadership Impact

Successful managers are acutely aware that when they change their own behaviors, their employees are more likely to follow suit. Improving your effectiveness as a leader requires that you are an active participant in the change process, altering your own behavior as a leader to extract the desired behaviors of your team.

To effect positive change, you must also analyze how to approach talent management, how your teams perform, determine how best to lead and develop the next generation, and how to successfully coach your “high potentials.”

This section covers these topics and more, showing you how CLG’s executive coaching and approach to behavioral science can help you effectively lead your company to new levels of success.

"Whether you are in a turnaround situation or keeping a well-oiled machine rolling forward, the emphasis on behavior is what puts points on the board, builds credibility with employees and customers, and leads to sustainability."

- David Moran
President and CEO
Heinz North America
"Whether you are in a turnaround situation or keeping a well-oiled machine rolling forward, the emphasis on behavior is what puts points on the board, builds credibility with employees and customers, and leads to sustainability."

- David Moran
President and CEO
Heinz North America
"Behavior is a key enabler!"

- Dave O'Reilly
Chairman and CEO
Chevron Corporation
"Setting strategy is the easy part. Successfully executing strategy is where great leaders are made."

- William R. Johnson
Chairman, President and CEO
H.J. Heinz Company
"The behavioral approach has made a huge difference in our organization. The before/after is startling... We have more than tripled earnings in a very competitive industry-the proof is in the pudding."

- Don Hamm
President and CEO
Assurant Health
"By simply understanding why people do the things they do enables leadership to create an environment where tapping discretionary performance is the key to exceeding business results... It gets to the heart of what we should be doing as leaders."

- Delores L. Conway
Leadership Development Manager
CIGNA Healthcare
"I truly believe this is the key to the high levels of performance we are looking for."

- Mary Ann Zigler
HR Business Partner
Blair Corporation
"Culture is driven by leaders' behavior. These are the differentiators that distinguish the truly great companies, where people are energized and accomplish extraordinary things."

- Tom DiDonato
EVP, Human Resources
American Eagle Outfitters, Inc.
"...using these behavioral tools has proven to be highly successful in engaging the hearts and minds of our leaders. The outcome enabled the environment for a positive cultural change...leading to superior business results."

- Roland Kell
General Manager
Chevron, Pascagoula Refinery
"The principles and tools of behavioral science have helped us improve behaviors-especially leadership behaviors-for better performance throughout the company."

- Jim Tighe
Former Manager
Corporate Quality, Chevron Corporation
"...I was never exposed to the behavioral science underlying why people perform or choose not to act. Now I understand how consequences drive everything we do."

- Phil Sprick
Strategy Execution Coach
Stewart Enterprises
"We feel so strongly about the behavioral approach to strategy execution that we embedded it into our cornerstone leadership development experience for our most senior managers, and our leaders responded by calling it 'the best leadership development experience of their careers.'"

- Harvette Dixon
Director, Learning and Development
PPG Industries, Inc.