Corporate Leadership and Team Building Seminars - “Leadership Under Sail”

Are your Leadership Teams utilizing yesterdays “Black and White” concepts? Leadership Under Sail is your opportunity to move up to “High Definition” 

The Santa Barbara Sailing Center has partnered with People First a leader in leadership performance learning systems. This partnership is proud to offer “Leadership Under Sail” an exclusive program designed to enhance and strengthen today’s leaders and leadership teams.

Seminar Objectives:
Your custom program will address today’s leadership challenges through a combination of in-class and on the water sailing activities designed to take your colleague’s leadership skills and actions to a new level to effectively build or sustain profitability in today’s turbulent economic times.

This Seminar is designed for:

• Any company that values an aligned, focused and results-oriented team
• Organizations looking for an energizing way to strengthen a total team effort
• Those needing to lead organization change
• Any corporate team that needs to understand the powerful connections between the team building environment of seamanship and leadership

Team Development:

• Faster time to productivity and performance
• Ability to deal with conflict, with the end result being a win win solution
• Generate greater team stability through interpersonal versatility
• Better problem-solving and decision making methods
• Facilitating groups and building teams

Enhanced Listening and Communications:         

• Communicating effectively
• Greater clarity among teams
• Better listening and communication
• Reduce conflict, and tear down “organizational silos”

Problem Solving Skills:

• Better quality solutions and an ability to “think out of the box”
• Quicker implementation of solutions
• Productive and quality responses to conflict

Develop the 5 key traits to leadership effectiveness:

• Challenge the process
• Inspire a shared vision
• Enable others to act
• Model the way
• Encourage from the heart

The ultimate goal of Leadership Under Sail:

• Create an environment of collaboration and partnership to ensure effective working relations
• Develop a shared vision to create alignment and direction
• Ability to identify leadership and team strengths
• Foster teamwork and team trust in order to benefit the total organization
• Ability to lead during times of change in a down economy
• Encourage a “People-Service-Profit” way of leading successful teams   

Personality Profile: 
Larry Silverman, President
People First, Leadership and Performance Learning Systems

Larry is currently the President of People First, the provider of executive training programs specializing in leadership, team building, and performance learning systems. He is also a professor at Antioch University in Santa Barbara, and the University of San Francisco, College of Professional Studies within the department of Organizational Behavior where he specializes in courses in leadership and advanced management programs.

Before starting People First in 1997, Larry had a career of nearly three decades with both Federal Express and Continental Airlines where he served as Director of Training having held senior level positions in both sales and marketing.   He has lectured extensively throughout the United Sates, South Pacific, and Asia on the subjects of leadership and change management.

Larry obtained his masters degree in Organizational Development at the University of San Francisco.  He obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California where he majored in business. In addition, he is an avid sailor having earned three key sailing certificates from the American Sailing Association. Larry is very well versed not only in his sailing abilities as an effective skipper but can effectively demonstrate how these leadership skills are synonymous with the concepts of leadership and teamwork that are vital for success in today’s ever-changing business environment.

Sample one-day workshop itinerary:

Reservations:

• For reservations, or to discuss your objectives and our program, please feel free to call toll free: (800)350.9090 or (805)962-2826

• The direct email to our Teambuilding Department is: sherry@sbsail.com