Top Team Development
We offer a flexible process carefully tailored to your leadership team’s specific needs. We will help your senior team foster a “leadership culture” throughout your organization that raises the productive capacity of your enterprise–using existing resources–to a significantly higher level.
Our preferred platform is the conceptual model, advanced 360º feedback assessment, culture survey, and customized executive team workshop developed by The Leadership Circle™.
Management Development Workshops
The following workshops complement the fundamental competencies presented in our core program, The Skillful Leader, competencies that managers need to be effective leaders who get results.
- Boosting Your Team’s Performance
Teaches group dynamics and practical team skills. - Coaching Poor & Marginal Performers
How to handle those difficult performance-related conversations. - Running Effective Meetings
Cease squandering time and enthusiasm in meetings. - Leading Change without Migraines™
Just-in-time learning for managers who are about to lead a change challenge or opportunity. - Core Communications Skills
All the basics to be an effective communicator. - Dialogue Skills
Bring different points-of-view together for better decisions and working relationships - Managing Up
How to build a successful relationship with your boss…and above
Executive Coaching
After an initial assessment, including 360º feedback, our coaching sessions typically include a customized mix of the following:
- Discussions
- Role playing
- Skill modeling by the coach
- Observing the client in action (e.g. meetings, typical interactions)
- Targeted feedback from coach
- Challenges to client’s existing perceptions, beliefs and approaches
- Support and encouragement
Facilitation
Fulcrum will work with your intact management group, project team, or self-directed work team to address specific challenges. We design and facilitate senior team off-site retreats and even entire department team-building events.
In addition, to satisfy a wide range of client needs, we offer conduct specialized facilitative processes such as:
- Team Building Facilitation
- Kick-Starting Your Team
- Facilitation for Departments
- Aligning and Focusing Your Unit
- Inter Group Dialogue Facilitation
- Open Space Facilitation
- Partnering Facilitation
- Business Process Improvement
- Change without Migraines™ Consulting
Experiential Learning Events
Unlike classroom training workshops, participants become fully involved in engaging, high-energy simulations of challenging work related situations. Then, through a focused debrief discussion, they analyze the impact of their behavior and apply concrete lessons back to their workplace.
- Getting in the Groove®
Collaborate creatively in the midst of continual change. - Terra Nova™
Foster a work culture of execution. - Gold of the Desert Kings®
Develop a maximizing mentality around using limited resources - Promises Promises®
Break down “silos” within your organization. - Council of the Marble Star®
Achieve maximum results while maintaining quality relationships.



Ian is an experienced presenter, group facilitator and executive coach. Through his keynote presentations, highly interactive workshops, and custom-designed team-building practice, he helps his clients leverage their investment in their managers and teams. 