Workshop Topics   Over the past 25 years, Michael Seitchik has designed over 400 different workshops. Listed below is a sample of the workshops he has designed. Please note that these workshops were taught by a variety of faculty from leading business schools and consulting firms. By picking from a world-wide network of over 150 faculty, Michael is able to select from the best minds available and to offer a complete selection of topics as well as several different approaches to the same topic. Michael is not bound by one faculty member’s or one consulting firm’s approach to a topic. As an independent consultant, Michael Seitchik is able to provide the best minds on a broader array of custom topics than any business school or consulting firm. Topics he has designed include: Strategy Creation • Strategic Thinking for Executives: Decision Making in Complex Environments • Strategic Planning: Creating and Implementing a Vision and Strategy • Scenario Planning: Being Prepared for an Uncertain Future • Blue Ocean Strategy: Finding Uncontested Market Space • Competitive Dynamics: What it Takes to Win in the Marketplace • Strategic Alliances: Creating Value From Partnerships Strategy Execution • Implementing Strategy • Accountability: Clarifying Roles and Authority to Improve Execution • Mergers and Acquisition Integration: Beating What Kills Most Deals • Leading Change: How to Build Sustainable Change in a Constantly Changing World Top Teams • Executive Decision Making: Making Sound and Effective Decisions • Making Boards More Effective • The Quest for Synergy: Why, Why Not, and How • Centralization & Decentralization: How The Executive Committee Can Determine the Right Combination • Increasing Alignment in the Senior Management Team High Potential Development • Developing the Next Generation of C-Suite Executives • High Potential Talent: Developing Your Next Generation of Leaders • Business Acumen: The Integration of Strategy, Finance, Marketing and Operations Global Leadership • Global Leadership: Leading Across Cultures and Time • Creating a Global Mindset: Leading in a Global Context • Converting Global Presence into a Competitive Advantage • Working Across Cultures: Working and Leading Global Teams Finance • Finance and Accounting: How Finance Supports Strategy • Financial Acumen: How Your Decisions Impact The Bottom Line • Financial Management: Creating Economic Profit Marketing and Customer Intimacy • Strategic Marketing: Building Competitive Advantage • Brand Management: How to Use Brand Equity as a Competitive Advantage • Building Customer Intimacy: How Leaders Can Sharpen Their Customer Focus • Creating a Customer-Focused Organization Teams • Global Virtual Teams: Not Your Standard Teambuilding • Cross-Divisional Cooperation: Thinking and Leading from the Perspective of the Enterprise • Building High Performance Teams • Group Decision Making: Creating Engagement and Sound Ideas Without Wasting time • Leading in a Team-Based Environment Innovation and Creativity • Innovation: Leading Organic Growth • Innovation: Accelerating Growth Through Managing An Entire Growth Portfolio • Innovation Through Creative Collaboration • Innovation: Building a Culture of Innovation • Innovation: Creativity by Taking Risks • Innovation: From the Bottom Up • Customer Driven Innovation Leading • Engaging Leadership: How Senior Executives Can Maximize Buy-In and Consensus • Managing with Ambiguous Authority: Leading and Working in a Matrix Organization • Internal Influence: Problem Solving and Negotiation Skills with Peers • Executive Influence: Gaining Alignment on Key Issues • Conflict Management: Making Conflict Productive • Giving and Receiving Feedback: How Feedback Can be a Powerful, Positive Developmental Experience • Managing People: How to Bring Out and Support Maximum Performance • Leadership Styles: How They Impact Others for Better or Worse • Developing Others: Coaching and Mentoring Others for Enhanced Performance • Becoming a Manager of Managers: The Transition from Functional to General Managers He designs programs that change the way executives think and act.         Click here for a personal phone consultation with Michael Topics: ■  Strategy Creation ■  Stragety Execution ■  Top Teams ■  High Potential Development ■  Global Leadership ■  Marketing & Customer Intimacy ■  Teams ■  Innovation and Creativity ■  Leading