Move Your Career Forward with a Building Better Leaders Program
Welcome to the Building Better Leaders site, home of Art Petty’s training and mentoring services. Art and the team at Building Better Leaders work with professionals below the “V” or “C” levels to support their development as leaders and senior contributors.
Our clients are typically highly motivated individual contributors or mid-level managers focused on increasing their contributions to their organizations and to growing their careers.
Senior Contributor is our way of describing an individual that is actively working to develop his or her skills for leading, critical and strategic thinking, executive presence and operational execution. These skills are all critical to climbing the ladder and ultimately breaking through to a “V” or “C” level role.
How We Help:
We work with individuals and groups to create personalized, sustained professional development programs that blend training, workplace application of core concepts, feedback and on-going mentoring.
Programs are typically conducted through a combination of distance learning tools plus personal mentoring (telephone or teleconference) and for groups, periodic workshop and live forums. Note: delivery methods vary by program-see the individual program description for specifics.
More than Training or Coaching:
True professional development takes place over an extended period of time through exposure to new approaches and tools and supported by feedback and mentoring. The programs are designed to do just that: expose you to both classic and cutting edge management and leadership thinking and approaches and then challenge you to apply the ideas in your own organization.
Training plus application plus mentoring and feedback delivered over a period of time, all combine to create a significant learning and developing experience for you or for you and your team.
Core Topics:
- Developing as a leader and as a follower
- Developing and leading high performance teams
- Improving decision-making skills
- Creating executive presence
- Developing lateral influence
- Enhancing critical, creative and strategic thinking skills
- Improving your ability to connect with others
- Managing upwards
- Enhancing negotiation skills
- Getting “Stuff” Done-Relentless Execution
Note: actual content varies by program and subject to customization to meet the needs of you or your group. See specific program listings for details.
What You Should Expect:
You gain the benefit of Art’s 25 years developing and leading great teams and great businesses in technology around the globe. You will be challenged to rethink and in many case reinvent your approaches to leading, presenting yourself, making decisions and driving results. You gain Art’s passion for developing great professionals along with the lessons-learned from his experiences developing market-dominating businesses.
You should expect to be challenged and supported in all of the areas essential for your professional development as a senior contributor.
Are You Read to Talk About Your Future Success?
Call Art at 847.612.8420 or drop a note via e-mail to discuss your professional development needs and how to get started.
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