On The Leading Strand

Here to help you be your best.  Here to help you stay in the lead.

Introductory Seminars • Interactive Workshops • Executive Trainings • Consulting Services

Building the skills to deliver solutions for your business through training and consulting.

Where to Start

Training Series: For new businesses, small businesses, and start-ups looking to take control of their operations.

Soft Skills for Great Leadership

Training Series: For great leaders who are always developing and improving their skills and those new to leadership.  

Let's do it Together

Consulting for process and operations excellence available for great teams looking for longer-term engagements.

Where to Start

This training series will help your team learn to develop their own tools, processes, and practices for excellence in lower-volume environments.  Do you love the size of your small business and want the benefits of professional infrastructure without the cost of enterprise systems?  Is your start-up ready for the next step in development?  
 

Building Customer Relationships

Learn to design your own infrastructure for service tracking, customer engagement planning, and satisfaction analysis tools.

Process Management

Learn how to build out procedures for process development, management, and change control with a robust Continuous Improvement program to deliver escalating success.

Materials Management

Learn to take control of your materials management through procurement strategy, risk management, purchasing management and analysis, inventory system design, and a robust vendor management system.

Quality Systems

Learn to build robust TQS (Total Quality System) program to support and propel your business with excellence.

Soft Skills for Great Leadership

This training series will help your team have a most productive and rewarding experience through great leadership and collaboration skills.


Motivate the Technical Team

Learn and practice key motivation techniques, based on top social economics research.

Cultivate Positive Attitudes

Learn how to hire, train, and create an environment that supports a culture and team full of positive attitudes.

The Art of Listening

Listening for understanding is vital to build great relationships with customers, colleagues, and consultants.  Learn about the importance of listening and develop better and more productive listening skills.

Giving Great Feedback

We grow from feedback when it is thoughtful, specific, and actionable.  Gain techniques and confidence for offering feedback.

Managing Conflicts

Conflicts are part of healthy discussion among passionate people doing important work.  Learn how to handle these in helpful and constructive ways.

Assembling the Super-Team

Learn to hire great people who bring value and momentum to your team.

Communicating: Meetings, Emails, and Beyond

Cultivate strong and effective skills in communicating from quick digital notes to orchestrating team communication in meetings.

Consulting Services

Solutions-oriented consulting available for process engineering, project design, and operational improvement.