Leadership Essentials Fast paced and highly experiential, The Leadership Essentials Workshop provides a strong developmental foundation for both new and seasoned leaders. More…

Leader as Coach A practical, highly experiential workshop designed to help managers and leaders excel at coaching others for high performance. The program challenges participants to engage in potent, performance changing conversations. More…

The Leader Speaks Great leaders make their voices heard. The Leader Speaks is designed to provide participants with the theory, application, practice and feedback necessary to significantly accelerate their communication effectiveness and have a positive impact on others in their organization and beyond. More…

by Joan Peterson

As a facilitator with a premier leadership firm, I have access to all the latest research on adult education and professional development. In our work in the leadership development arena, we are constantly in pursuit of how adults learn best. Overwhelmingly our research tells us that adults learn from both cognitive (thinking about concepts) and affective (feeling about experiences) sources. Workshops, coaching, lectures, reading and research are the classic sources for this learning. But we also learn a lot by simply watching others. Why? Because this is a rich source of both cognitive and affective learning. We are confronted with observable behavior (from which we create concepts and models) and are often personally affected by the experiences (learning by feeling). Read on…