Leadership Expertise 101

Entrepreneurial leaders do not have a mindset that adapts to failure. Things go wrong, of course, but entrepreneurs don´t call them "failures" they call them "glitches, mistakes, bungles, setbacks" – but not failing.

When one such entrepreneur was asked about the hardest decision he ever had to make, he answered that he didn´t know what a hard decision was. An entrepreneur will approach decision-making with the idea that there´s a strong likelihood that he/she will be wrong. This doesn´t dissuade them – to the contrary they just do the best they can and worry about handling obstacles as they arise.

Here's a few entrepreneurs:

Business Improvement Solutions is a Training and Development company in Alberta. Our specialty is helping businesses to increase their effectiveness by improving the way that people perform at every organizational level. Great people are at the core of any great company. Our mission is to help people develop in ways conducive to achieving organizational and personal success. We achieve this through performance management consulting services, training seminars, leadership programs, e-training solutions and informative books. All of these products and services help to develop and improve people and, consequently, their organizations.

Our organization provides all the leadership and management training for the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology´s Corporate and International Training Department. We have developed one of the most fundamental leadership training programs available in 23 countries through their department.

Dan MacDonald www.bisconsulting.ca

We have experience with strategic leadership development at scale.

Competence based development, where the learner takes responsibility for their learning.

Immediate traction by application of learning in practical situations by syndicates and individual learners.

Prof Louis van der Merwe www.CIL.net

Great Leadership is an award winning blog about leadership and leadership development, written by Dan McCarthy, a Manager of Leadership and Management Development at a Fortune "Great Place to Work", "Training Top 125", and "High Impact Learning" (HILO 80) company. Dan is also a member of the SmartBrief on Workforce Advisory Board.

Readers include the corporate workplace, including managers, human resource, training, and organizational development professionals, consultants, and coaches. Top 50 Google result for "leadership development".

Dan McCarthy

Leadership Advantage is an established executive consulting firm dedicated to helping leaders and their organizations achieve sustainable success through continuous improvement of individual and team performance, satisfaction, and results. Our state-of-the-art programs and advanced learning technologies provide the navigational tools for organizations to establish clear and agreed upon direction, execution and support. We provide expert guidance to help leaders through the uncertain waters of change that inevitably arise from the improvement of performance at the personal, team, and organizational levels.

Our services include: Executive Coaching, Leadership Development Programs, Executive Team Alignment Offsites, Culture Change and Change Management, OD Consulting, Management Training, 360° Assessment and Feedback, Candidate Assessment & Evaluation, and Succession Planning.

David Lassiter www.leadershipadvantage.com

MTD Training (www.mtdtraining.com) are the management training specialists. They have trained over 20,000 staff from over 800 different organizations. MTD focus on providing techniques and strategies that work in the real world for crazy busy managers and leaders of all levels. MTD provide a wide range of management training courses and programmes that will enable your new and experienced managers to maximise their potential by gaining or refining their management and leadership skills.

Their team of highly skilled and experienced trainers and consultants have all had distinguished careers in senior management roles and bring with them a wealth of practical experience to each course. At MTD Training they will design and deliver a solution that suits your specific needs addressing the issues and requirements from your training brief that best fits your culture, learning style and ways of working. MTD's programmes are delivered when and where you need them! They believe that training should be fun, highly interactive and provide "real world" practical techniques and methods that you can use back in the office - and that's exactly what MTD provide.

Sean McPheat www.m-t-d.co.uk

Our laser focus is to partner with our clients to release trapped value in leaders, teams, and organizations. Creating sustainable and differentiated value is at the core of our client organizations. However, even throughout significant success, value is unwittingly trapped. Partnering to unleash the full extent of the power within is the work we do. Thomas Edison said "opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." We agree and are committed to working side-by-side with our clients "in the trenches" to co-create breakthrough change and growth.

We release trapped value within leaders, teams, and organizations. This is the primary way in which we create value for our clients. We do not impart value. We do not force value. We do not rearrange things to create the appearance of value. We intervene, partner, and facilitate in ways that release the value that is unwittingly trapped within. We build and enhance the existing untapped capabilities and capacities. Most troubling organizational problems are rooted in a lack of cooperation, alignment, or collaboration – potential that is ever-present and underutilized. We have rare, distinctive competence and vast experience in the areas of change, leadership, teams, and facilitation. In these areas, we serve as catalysts for our clients, enabling significant breakthrough learning and enhanced capacities and capabilities.

Dave McCleary www.FlawlessLeaders.com