17 Mar, 2008

Daryl Ogden     Julie Androshick

This issue of Growth Edge features two articles that describe exciting new Kenning offerings – a cutting edge Consultative Problem Solving program, and an innovative Sail Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) program.

The former, first delivered in January as a successful pilot, teaches Kenning clients how to apply sophisticated problem solving skills employed by the world’s leading management consulting firms to their home organizations; the latter adapts and extends the widely used MBTI approach for business and professional development by applying the instrument within a sailing context and taking it to the high seas.

The final article – the third of three in a series of articles published in Growth Edge on leadership development by Kenning partner and noted executive coach, Neil Stroul, poses, and answers, the question that should be on any successful leader’s mind: “What’s Next?”

So what’s next for you? This issue of Growth Edge. Enjoy!

17 Mar, 2008

Following up on a highly successful pilot version of our Consultative Problem Solving (CPS) program in January, Kenning Associates will once again offer CPS at Atlanta’s Emory Conference Center Hotel, from June 23-27, and at Princeton's Nassau Inn, from October 6-10.

January’s CPS program brought together 20 participants, including teams from leading organizations such as JP Morgan Chase, LaFarge, and Check Free. For one dynamic week, these participants served as management consultants of the fictional “Herald Consulting Group,” where they were tasked with solving the daunting strategic challenges of Billy’s Sporting Goods Company.

17 Mar, 2008

Julie Androshick 

Imagine a rigorous one-day team building event that promises to optimize the functioning of you and your colleagues. Add sun, wind, spray, and beautiful views from onboard small yachts that provide dynamic, engaging, high-energy “classrooms”, and you have a program that is optimized for fun—and learning. Now, stop imagining, and read on to discover how to bring all these elements together for your organization.

17 Mar, 2008

Neil Stroul

This is the final article in a series of three. The premise of the series is to explore leadership development through an elegant framework of three essential questions:

What matters? What’s missing? and What’s next?

Within the context of each question, a leader’s developmental challenge is to explore what we call the “inner” and “outer” game, to learn how to see the “story” which underlies how the leader thinks and acts, and ultimately to create a coherence or alignment between all three questions, and the inner and outer games.