Instructor Led Development Training in Massachusetts, USA

Enhancing Your Emotional Intelligence Today's leaders need more than technical ability and IQ to effectively lead and inspire others. It is critical that they bring Emotional Intelligence to bear on issues facing their workforce. Through this intensive skill-building and tools-based course, learn how to enhance your self-awareness, build trust, rediscover the power of empathy, and build additional Emotional Intelligence capabilities.  more...

Linkage's Leadership Academy ...on of the Linkage Leadership Academy is to accelerate the development of leaders so that they can reach higher levels of success and produce better results for their organizations. The Academy accomplishes this by developing essential competencies and skills, introducing new approaches and global best practices, and inspiring personal commitment to leadership development. The Leadership  more...

Linkages Change Master Certification Program This Certification program teaches you to implement Linkagea ™s Agenda for Change, a toolsbased approach that unifies groups, creates excitement, and is aimed at flawless implementation. This approach will successfully integrate with current change initiatives that your organization may be undertaking including Lean and Six Sigma. After completion of this program, you will be certified to  more...

Change Leadership How Leaders Drive Organizational Change Learn a step-by-step process for leading successful change, gaining greater commitment, removing obstacles to change, and assessing your organization's overall readiness to take on the challenge of change. As a participant, built-in discussions, activities, assessments, simulations, and application to your very own real-world changes will help embed the learning and ensure your skill development.  more...

Connecting as a Leader Communicating for Impact Effective leaders use every conversation to highlight their points of view, achieve goals, influence change, impact behaviors, and strengthen relationships. This accelerated blended learning program leverages a two-day face-to-face program, along with our virtual classroom to help leaders improve their communication strategies, maximize the impact of every interaction, and achieve business  more...

The Coaching Leaders Certification Program Difficult to master, coaching is a critical capability that requires practice, support, and continuous learning. Linkage has been specializing in leadership coaching for over twenty years, successfully guiding individuals, teams, and Fortune 500 organizations to drive behavioral change in alignment with their business strategy. The Coaching Leaders Certification Program is based on our extensive  more...

What Got You Here Won't Get You There Linkage is proud to bring you this practical one-day program featuring coaching guru, Marshall Goldsmith a world authority in helping successful leaders get even better. Hear from Marshall Goldsmith about how to unlock the keys to your professional success and use proven tools and processes to identify limiting behavioral habits. Reap the added benefit by working to improve yourself as a leader  more...

Today's HR-Designs for Strategic Partnerships CEOs want a proactive HR department that operates at the strategic rather than tactical level. As businesses become more complex and leaders are forced to rise to the occasion during times of uncertainty and change, it is vital that HR does the same. Some HR organizations have gone through the process of fundamentally re-purposing what they do and why they exist, but little has been shared on  more...

Systems Thinking To be effective as a leader today, making connections between seemingly separate, unconnected events, factors, and processes is imperative. In this highly interactive program, we help you understand and simplify these complex, dynamic business problems so that you can deal with them at the root of the cause. By using a variety of approaches and tools, including a classic simulation (The Beer  more...

Strategic Thinking More than ever, todaya ™s leaders require the ability to execute tactically, as well as work and think strategically. The key lies not just in individual skills, but also in the ability to engage others in an ongoing strategic process. Come to this program to discover your capabilities as a strategic thinker, gain an understanding of the key components of strategic thinking, and apply  more...

Organizational Analysis and Design The design of an organization can impact everything, from proper work flow to ultimate success at the bottom line. Participants in this program will learn the dynamics, processes, and challenges inherent in analyzing and designing an organization to achieve business results. Explore a systematic approach for guiding an organizational design effort from problem identification, to design  more...

Leading Organizational Transition Train-The-Trainer Program Even with a solid change strategy in place, plans are abandoned, implementation is delayed or employee resistance is unexpectedly high. Proper management of the human side of change is the critical missing link in change initiatives. In exclusive partnership with William Bridges & Associates, Linkage offers the highly-acclaimed Three-Phase Transition Model to address the human side of change.  more...

Introduction to Organizational Development To compete in todaya ™s marketplace, organizations must design and implement the structures, processes and systems that will allow their people to flourish and that will spur change and growth. In this program, receive an introduction to the discipline of organizational development, a simple yet effective lens to help you properly view organizational change and learn how to apply a core OD  more...

High Impact Relationships Enhance Your Emotional Intelligence The ability to build trusting relationships distinguishes those who flourish from those who falter. This program enables leaders to build the emotional intelligence skills they need to create trusting and productive relationships for greater results. Using an experiential learning approach, adopted from Dr. Scott's work at Stanford University Graduate School of Business, you practice leading-edge  more...

Designing and Implementing Leadership Development Systems When it comes to developing the leaders within your organization, the stakes are high and the potential payoff is enormous. Through our hands-on approach, learn how to design and implement the critical elements of a leadership development system that integrates career planning, fast track development programs for high potentials and succession management.  more...

Consulting Skills Every day, consulting extends throughout organizations on an informal and formal basis. In its more challenging manifestation, consulting requires the ability to build a trusted relationship and provide advisory services to others. Through this program, learn how to consult effectively from experienced consulting professionals who have developed a process to construct, contract, engage, and  more...

Coaching for Business Leaders Coaching is the most effective technique a manager can employ to enhance individual and team performance. In the current economic environment, managers are challenged to get the best from each and every individual. This program is specifically designed to train business directors and front-line managers on how to coach their direct reports and teams to high levels of performance to achieve  more...

Develop a Sustainable Mentoring System Mentoring can reduce unwanted turnover, guide new employees, ease leadership transitions, and accelerate the development of high potentials to improve business results. In this program, learn the latest best practices for building, developing, and sustaining a reliable, broad-impact mentoring system that delivers results for both individuals and organizations.  more...

Leadership Level Facilitation Delivering Dynamic Leadership Training Among the most challenging training situations is leading learning programs for managers and leaders who have limited time- and high expectations. Being at your best in the moment and giving yourself every potential advantage before stepping into the room are critical to your success. In this experiential program, receive best practices, effective tools, and innovative facilitation approaches to  more...

Best Practices in Succession Management Succession management is the critical determinant of success and marketplace longevity for organizations. Too often, however, such planning is left to the last moment. Bring your own real-life succession challenges and work with William Rothwell, a noted thought leader who has consulted with more than thirty multinational corporations. Leverage Linkage experts, best practice succession  more...

Succession-Are you Ready Economists predict that the crest of a wave of simultaneous retirements in 2011 will result in a global demographic crisis. Marshall Goldsmitha s latest book, Succession: Are You Ready? addresses this timely, critical issue from the perspective of the outgoing executive and the future executive. Most organizations struggle with the simple concept of succession planning because it is not tied  more...

Strategies to Win Talent War Talent management is becoming the key strategic priority and challenge of leaders who are committed to execution, collaboration, and high performance. In this dynamic two-day workshop, prepare to face that challenge through Linkagea s groundbreaking Talent Diamond methodology which explores acquisition, development, retention, and placement.  more...

Driving Innovation Train-The-Trainer Program In todaya s competitive environment, an overwhelming 90% of U. S.-based companies cana t maintain a level of growth that satisfies their shareholders. Listening to their customers, keeping an eye on competitors, and investing in research and development is not enough to sustain long-term success. Participants of the Driving Innovation: Train-The-Trainer Program will become certified to deliver  more...

Business Rules and BDM 101 Incorporating Business Rules and Decisions into BPM BDM and SOA ...ed business rule projects or projects targeted for system development. Aimed at project managers and key project people, this tutorial is the fastest and simplest way to get started on a business rules project. The course introduces the discipline of Business Decision Management (BDM) where business rules are managed in the context of Business Processes. Organizations need not purchase any new  more...

Modernizing Requirements Gathering Reshaping the Approach to Business Analysis ...siness rules engines and SOA. Additionally, the agile development movement and IT-centric methods for analyzing and designing software solutions don't accurately represent how business processes, rules, events, knowledge and human to system interaction fit together. This prevents the creation of a cohesive business solution design that can be understood by the business analysts and their  more...

Building a Business Architecture using Value Chains Value Streams ...to direct and guide process design/ improvement, software development, and package configuration initiatives, resulting in higher levels of efficiency and lower levels of rework in any software or systems life cycle. Guided by the strategy, this new and expanded view of the enterprise provides keen insight into innovative thinking, thereby improving enterprise performance. This class is  more...

Service Oriented Integration SOI Standards Technologies and Best Practices ...nd - where feasible a a single platform for application development and integration. Service Oriented Architectures promise to improve every aspect of integration. Seamless B2B interactions, allowing companies to establish new business relationships and processes without the tedious grunt work that is usually involved when incompatible applications need to exchange information. The same  more...

SOA 101 The Foundation for Cloud Computing ...been investing in SOA for the past five years but now the development of more rigorous methodologies and technologies a and the maturing of standards a are making SOA accessible to everyone. SOA is an example of a software architecture. It can be defined as a software design and implementation methodology for creating loosely coupled, coarse-grained business services. These business  more...

Using Simulations to Increase Process Efficiency Organizations always need to figure out how to do more with less. They need to be more productive with fewer people or scale to meet higher volume levels. There are many ways to optimize resources, increase services or production, and impact the bottom line. This course will show you how to streamline processes in service, office, engineering and production environments by 50-150%. Simulations  more...

Training for New Managers Being promoted to management is no picnic. 35% of executives interviewed by Robert Half and Associates in 2009 cited unhappiness with management as the reason good employees quit. 40% of newly promoted managers and executives fail within 18 months of starting new jobs, according to research by Manchester, Inc. 53% of managers and executives brought on board from outside are gone within a year,  more...

Life Transformation Program The program will begin with an initial consultation. You will receive an electronic text and a workbook. If you desire print media, an additional cost applies for the materials and shipping. After you have completed module 8, weekly consultations will begin on application of the Discreation Process. Some will finish in 6 weeks, some will take longer. If the program is not completed in four  more...

The MIS Audit Leadership Institute This five-day, fast-track program has been specifically designed to provide senior-level audit leaders with the strategic approaches and critical skills they need to successfully guide the audit function in 2012 and beyond.  more...

Using Risk Assessment to Build Individual Audit Programs In this revealing three-day seminar you will learn how to use risk assessment -- generally applied to annual audit plans -- to help build individual audit programs that will boost auditor productivity and provide the control assurance required by Sarbanes-Oxley. You will explore the differences between traditional, control-based risk assessment and a new, business risk-based approach that  more...

IT Audit School ...ely audit existing application systems, new systems under development, mainframes, and distributed systems. Focusing on a top-down, risk-based approach to auditing application system transactions, you will master techniques you can apply to all types of applications from batch, to on-line, to real-time systems. You will leave this intensive seminar with a solid foundation in the basics of  more...

Auditing Business Application Systems This three-day seminar is designed for financial, operational, and information technology auditors who need a technical and operational understanding to audit automated business applications. Focusing on a top-down, risk-based approach to auditing application system transactions, you will master techniques that can be applied to all types of applications from batch to on-line to real-time systems.  more...

IT Auditing and Controls ...n auditing currently installed systems, new systems under development, and the various activities within the information technology department. In addition, you will learn techniques for auditing automated systems and examine the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on IT audit. You will leave this session with a solid foundation in the basics of information technology as they apply to audit and  more...

Advanced Auditing for In-Charge Auditors In this three-day session you will learn all of the elements involved in traditional and operational risk-based auditing from the unique perspective of the in-charge position. With your peers, you will review such concepts as audit program flexibility, risk assessment, priority setting during fieldwork, and effective oral and written communications of audit findings. This course covers  more...