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The Cramer Institute offers ABT consulting, training and coaching services that meet the complex needs of today's leaders, teams and organizations. Our projects range from coaching a key executive or leadership team to facilitating culture changes in global organizations. In every case, we customize our validated processes and signature programs to fit the specific objectives of our clients.

Staying On Top When Your World Turns Upside Down

We've created a 4-session self-study program that is currently available for purchase. Here's how it works:

Participants receive four 60-minute podcasts (streaming content also available) that reveal ABT mindset management practices that shift the way you respond--in the privacy of your own thoughts, in every conversation, interaction and circumstance--to ignite possibilities and to minimize problems.

Session 1: Increase The Power Of What You Think, Say And Do

ABT gives you insights into how to link your actions to your most deeply held values, beliefs and mission in life. The world's top leaders know one thing: acting from a place of purpose and passion makes whatever you do more compelling and more effective. From learning how to tap your unique suite of talents and strengths, to learning how the significant events in your past can play a part in your future success, Session 1 shows you how to use yourself as a more powerful instrument of change and goal achievement.

Session 2: Become A Compelling And Respected Center Of Influence

ABT equips you with strategies that expand your ability to enroll others, inspire their commitment and foster new levels of trust and cooperation. Concrete ABT practices for acknowledging and appreciating others out loud, for finding common ground and for giving others credit for their contributions will build your influence repertoire well beyond the arts of persuasion and debate.

Session 3: Extend Your Impact--Even In Challenging Situations

ABT offers you concrete methods of overcoming obstacles and leveraging problems and mistakes for all they are worth. ABT skills expand your impact showing you how to harvest lessons learned, how to savor rewarding experiences, and detect small, subtle signs of progress. After Session 3, every action you take will intensify the impact you are able to make.

Session 4: Discover The Secrets To Creating Future Results--RIGHT NOW!

ABT provides you with a step-by-step process for creating the future you want in the present moment. Asset-Based Thinking practices show you how to live in the present and the future simultaneously. Your actions will be targeted for today, not for someday or tomorrow. You will learn how to use secret power of storytelling to illuminate the opportunities and realities of your future-come-true right before your very eyes, in the details of your 24/7 life.

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Colleen Moore is available to assist in the purchase of podcasts or answer any questions you may have: 314-725-0500 x22

Asset-Based Thinking Essentials

In this dynamic half-day workshop, participants will solidify their understanding of the theory behind ABT and how ABT applies to business. They will experience ABT in action and obtain tools that are immediately accessible in order to bring ABT to life. They will also have an opportunity to practice ABT responses in a wide variety of archetypal business and personal situations. ABT Essentials is the quick and efficient way for all employees and managers, at all levels, to learn the ABT principles and practices that will help your organization move to its next level of effectiveness.

For open enrollment sessions:
Class Size: 8-20 participants
Cost: $350

For customized programs, please contact us.

Asset-Based Thinking Leadership Forum

Leaders from a wide range of organizations, including for-profit, non-profit and educational institutions, will participate in an intensive group learning called The Asset-Based Leadership Forum.

Leaders discover their unique combination of assets for enrolling others and moving their agendas forward. We call this a leader's signature presence. Going forward, leaders can better use themselves as instruments for positive change. In this program, they hone their skills in making formal presentations, facilitating meetings, and engaging in challenging one-on-one interactions using the tools of Asset-Based Thinking.

The Asset-Based Thinking Leadership Forum meets for one full-day session followed by one half-day session. Each person participates in intensive group learning experiences facilitated by an ABT certified coach.

For open enrollment sessions:
Class Size: 6-10 participants
Cost: $2,500

For customized programs, please contact us.

Power and Presence

Participants learn to craft and deliver high-impact presentations by using the very same tools effective actors and psychologists use in their communication repertoire. Each person who participates learns how to move an audience to action. They learn how to be inspirational and motivational, to express themselves in a way that changes the mind and hearts of those they address. Participants practice their presentations and receive real-time, in-depth feedback from skilled facilitators and from their peers. Participants learn to see what works for every speaker and how to incorporate others high-impact communication strategies into their own presentations.

For open enrollment sessions:
Class Size: 6-7 participants
Cost: $2,250

For customized programs, please contact us.

When Faster-Harder-Smarter is Not Enough: Six Steps for Achieving What You Want in a Rapid Fire World

Step into an exhilarating, practical program that shows participants how to create possibilities and opportunities in the face of a high-speed, pressure-filled life. Learn an infinitely adaptable six-step process that can be used to streamline obligations and re-infuse one's life and work with achievements that matter most on a personal level. Participants will discover how to maintain stamina and energy, how to stay optimistic during setbacks, and how to tap reservoirs of resilience and creativity to reach their most highly-valued goals.

For customized programs, please contact us.

Courageous Conversations

This 5-step process will teach you how to have open, honest and authentic conversations about issues that are difficult to discuss. You will discover how to create trustworthy, authentic working relationships with this tested and proven methodology. Identify and manage barriers to individual and organizational success. Create the conditions for better decision-making and collaborative teamwork.

For customized programs, please contact us.

The Philosophy of Courageous Conversations

The success of an organization is intrinsically tied to the success of its people. The success of its people, in turn, is intrinsically tied to the quality of the leadership. Therefore, the more leaders can develop competence in having open, honest and authentic conversations in one-on-one meetings, with groups or teams, and with the entire organization the more the organization will benefit and prosper. As individual leaders build their capacity to conduct successful Courageous Conversations, they set the bar high for others and create a culture where it becomes standard to speak authentically and collaborate effectively.

Individual 360 Feedback Assessment

In this process, a TCI consultant interviews the individual's stakeholders and synthesizes the findings in an in-depth report that includes anonymous verbatim comments presented in such a way as to preserve authority. It is an enlightening, insightful profile of asset categories that the individual may or may not currently recognize. It also includes an account of one or more developmental opportunities, or the ifference that could make the difference This report is intended to illuminate how the leader is currently adding value to his/her stakeholder groups, and is used as a collaborative tool for creating a relevant and concrete development plan. This is frequently the precursor to an ABT Executive Coaching process.

Executive Coaching

ABT Executive Coaching provides leaders with real-time feedback that allows them to see their assets and aspirations clearly. Consequently, executives are able to leverage their talents and newly acquired skills more strategically when it comes to developing and enrolling others, shifting the organizational culture and advancing the goals of teams and the entire organization.

The hallmark feature of ABT Coaching is our five-to-one approach. At TCI, we encourage executives to spend five times more effort and attention on learning how to leverage talents and strengths than they do on how to close gaps. We identify one developmental opportunity for the executive to master that will make a significant difference. We call this aspiration the difference that will make the difference.

All ABT Executive coaching engagements are highly customized 3-6 month processes that address the preferences, interests and needs of each person.

For customized programs, please contact us.

Teleseminars

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