BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1@excellentcultures.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150721T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150722T170000 DTSTAMP:20150618T072624Z URL:https://excellentcultures.com/events/achieving-excellent-culture-works hop/ SUMMARY:Achieving Excellent Culture Workshop - July 2015 DESCRIPTION:[vc_row full_width="" parallax="" parallax_image=""][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_single_image image="5618" alignment="center" border_color= "grey" img_link_large="" img_link_target="_self" img_size="full"][vc_colum n_text][su_box title="Have You Met the Culture Monster?"]Chances are\, you have. He eats your best strategies\, creativity\, innovation\, team spiri t\, people and profits for breakfast.\n\nYou will learn both how to recogn ize him in your business and squash him. How to evaluate and improve your leadership abilities so that he stays squashed. The tools to master the he althiest and most effective ways to improve what you want to improve as a leader and change what you want to change for yourself and your team.\n[/s u_box][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nTuesday &\; Wednesday\, July 2 1 &\; 22\, 2015\n 8:00 am – 5:00 pm\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text ]\nSilver Cloud Hotel | 14632 SE Eastgate Way Bellevue\, Washington | (425 ) 957-9100\nEasy Access &\; Free Parking right off I-90\nCONTINENTAL BR EAKFAST &\; LUNCH IS PROVIDED\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][v c_row full_width="" parallax="" parallax_image=""][vc_column width="1/1"][ vc_column_text]\nThis workshop will specifically address:\nHow to countera ct the default culture of low performance and self over service in your te ams and organizations for increased results.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_te xt]\nWhat culture is and isn’t:\n\n Why and how culture really does “E at Strategy for Breakfast”\n How cultural mindsets control the reality o f what your people and teams either embrace or miss\n Why and where your p eople are resisting change\n What can and cannot be changed\n How to chang e what you want to change\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nHow your p ersonal\, leadership and organizational culture can cause:\n\n Blindness t o your own leadership ineffectiveness\n People kissing up and then doing t he opposite behind your back\n Buck passing and giving up accountability\n Resistance to change and anti-innovation\n Passive reactivity instead of proactive accountability\n Conflictive avoidance\, fear &\; the resulti ng inferior performance\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nParticipatin g leaders will:\n\n Receive a scientific culture assessment benchmarking t heir business culture against the highest performing in the world\n Gain c larity on the 2 basic types of organizational or team culture\n Learn the 3 warning signs of an default culture\n Identify the characteristics of an Excellent Culture and learn to build it\n Find out how to Win the culture war between default and excellent\n Identify and Understand:\n\n The Char acteristics of Intentionally Excellent Teams in Depth\n The stages of succ essful team growth and how to make the most of them for your team\n The co ncept of Real Accountability\n How to produce Voluntary Team Co-Accountabi lity\n How to Become effective at the skill of Self-Management\n\n\n\n[/vc _column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="" parallax="" parall ax_image=""][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]You will learn both how to recognize the culture monster &\; squash him and how to evaluate &a mp\; improve your leadership abilities so that he stays squashed.\n\nThis workshop will give you the tools to master the healthiest and most effecti ve ways to improve what you want to improve as a leader\, and change what you want to change for yourself and your team.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column ][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="" parallax="" parallax_image=""][vc_column w idth="1/1"][vc_column_text]\nWorkshop Speakers\n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_i nner][vc_column_inner el_class="" width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="5438 " border_color="grey" img_link_large="" img_link_target="_self" img_size=" medium"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner el_class="" width="3/4"][vc_col umn_text]Steve Gandara has spent over 3 decades helping leaders create Hig h Performance Business Cultures. He has served clients including Fortune 5 00 corporate executives\, business owners\, entrepreneurs\, labor-union le aders\, sales executives\, and educators\, as a professional leadership me ntor and business culture architect. Clients praise his expertise in helpi ng them devise strategies that build leaders and cultures that make up the dynamic and aggressive teams demanded in today’s global economy.[/vc_co lumn_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner el_id=""][vc_colu mn_inner el_class="" width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="5454" border_colo r="grey" img_link_large="" img_link_target="_self" img_size="medium"][/vc_ column_inner][vc_column_inner el_class="" width="3/4"][vc_column_text]Cher i Benson is a Certified Professional Coach and Facilitator with three deca des of experience in mentoring\, coaching\, team building and personal dev elopment. She has a long history of helping leaders discover and break thr ough limiting beliefs and structures. Her clients include CEOs\, CFOs\, En trepreneurs\, Professional Athletes\, Medical Professionals\, Artists\, an d Business Owners who have committed to the coaching process and achieved phenomenal results.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_ column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="" parallax="" parallax_image=""][vc_co lumn width="1/1"][vc_column_text]\nRoom Reservations\nSilver Cloud Hotel | 14632 SE Eastgate Way Bellevue\, Washington | (425) 957-9100\n\nWant to s tay overnight and save the morning commute? Guest room reservations for Si lver Cloud Hotel – Bellevue Eastgate may be made by calling (425) 957-91 00. Tell them you are with “Excellent Cultures” to receive a discounte d guest room rate.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width ="" parallax="" parallax_image=""][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]\ nPricing:\n$495/participant or $1995/5 participant[/vc_column_text][/vc_co lumn][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="" parallax="" parallax_image=""][vc_colu mn width="1/1"][vc_column_text]\nTo Register:\nFor single registrations up to a group of 4. In the Single Ticket Area\, pick the number 1\,2\,3 or 4 depending on how many individuals you are signing up.\n\nIf you have a gr oup of 5\, you receive a discount. Pick 5 in the Group Ticket Area and fil l in the required fields.\n\nIf you are registering a group larger than 5 please email zacg@excellentcultures.com and we will register for you.\n\nP lease fill out all of the required fields. You will receive an email confi rmation of your purchase. If you have any questions please email us at zac g@excellentcultures.com.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] LOCATION:Silver Cloud Hotel\, 14632 SE Eastgate Way\, Bellevue\, WA\, 98007 \, United States GEO:47.580077;-122.144093 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=14632 SE Eastgate Way\, Bel levue\, WA\, 98007\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Silver Cloud Hotel:geo:47.580077,-122.144093 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2@excellentcultures.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151021T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151022T170000 DTSTAMP:20150618T072804Z URL:https://excellentcultures.com/events/achieving-excellent-culture-works hop-october-2015/ SUMMARY:Achieving Excellent Culture Workshop - October 2015 DESCRIPTION:[vc_row full_width="" parallax="" parallax_image=""][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_single_image image="5618" alignment="center" border_color= "grey" img_link_large="" img_link_target="_self" img_size="full"][vc_colum n_text]\nWednesday &\; Thursday\, October 21 &\; 22\, 2015\n 8:00 am – 5:00 pm\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nSilver Cloud Hotel | 1463 2 SE Eastgate Way Bellevue\, Washington | (425) 957-9100\nEasy Access & \; Free Parking right off I-90\nCONTINENTAL BREAKFAST &\; LUNCH IS PROV IDED\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][su_box title="Have You Met the Cul ture Monster?"]Chances are\, you have. He eats your best strategies\, crea tivity\, innovation\, team spirit\, people and profits for breakfast.\n\nY ou will learn both how to recognize him in your business and squash him. H ow to evaluate and improve your leadership abilities so that he stays squa shed. The tools to master the healthiest and most effective ways to improv e what you want to improve as a leader and change what you want to change for yourself and your team.\n[/su_box][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_ro w][vc_row full_width="" parallax="" parallax_image=""][vc_column width="1/ 1"][vc_column_text]\nThis workshop will specifically address:\nHow to coun teract the default culture of low performance and self over service in you r teams and organizations for increased results.[/vc_column_text][vc_colum n_text]\nWhat culture is and isn’t:\n\n Why and how culture really does “Eat Strategy for Breakfast”\n How cultural mindsets control the reali ty of what your people and teams either embrace or miss\n Why and where yo ur people are resisting change\n What can and cannot be changed\n How to c hange what you want to change\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nHow yo ur personal\, leadership and organizational culture can cause:\n\n Blindne ss to your own leadership ineffectiveness\n People kissing up and then doi ng the opposite behind your back\n Buck passing and giving up accountabili ty\n Resistance to change and anti-innovation\n Passive reactivity instead of proactive accountability\n Conflictive avoidance\, fear &\; the res ulting inferior performance\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nParticip ating leaders will:\n\n Receive a scientific culture assessment benchmarki ng their business culture against the highest performing in the world\n Ga in clarity on the 2 basic types of organizational or team culture\n Learn the 3 warning signs of an default culture\n Identify the characteristics o f an Excellent Culture and learn to build it\n Find out how to Win the cul ture war between default and excellent\n Identify and Understand:\n\n The Characteristics of Intentionally Excellent Teams in Depth\n The stages of successful team growth and how to make the most of them for your team\n Th e concept of Real Accountability\n How to produce Voluntary Team Co-Accoun tability\n How to Become effective at the skill of Self-Management\n\n\n\n [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="" parallax="" pa rallax_image=""][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]You will learn both how to recognize the culture monster &\; squash him and how to evaluat e &\; improve your leadership abilities so that he stays squashed.\n\nT his workshop will give you the tools to master the healthiest and most eff ective ways to improve what you want to improve as a leader\, and change w hat you want to change for yourself and your team.[/vc_column_text][/vc_co lumn][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="" parallax="" parallax_image=""][vc_colu mn width="1/1"][vc_column_text]\nWorkshop Speakers\n[/vc_column_text][vc_r ow_inner][vc_column_inner el_class="" width="1/4"][vc_single_image image=" 5438" border_color="grey" img_link_large="" img_link_target="_self" img_si ze="medium"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner el_class="" width="3/4"][vc _column_text]Steve Gandara has spent over 3 decades helping leaders create High Performance Business Cultures. He has served clients including Fortu ne 500 corporate executives\, business owners\, entrepreneurs\, labor-unio n leaders\, sales executives\, and educators\, as a professional leadershi p mentor and business culture architect. Clients praise his expertise in h elping them devise strategies that build leaders and cultures that make up the dynamic and aggressive teams demanded in today’s global economy.[/v c_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner el_id=""][vc_ column_inner el_class="" width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="5454" border_ color="grey" img_link_large="" img_link_target="_self" img_size="medium"][ /vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner el_class="" width="3/4"][vc_column_text] Cheri Benson is a Certified Professional Coach and Facilitator with three decades of experience in mentoring\, coaching\, team building and personal development. She has a long history of helping leaders discover and break through limiting beliefs and structures. Her clients include CEOs\, CFOs\ , Entrepreneurs\, Professional Athletes\, Medical Professionals\, Artists\ , and Business Owners who have committed to the coaching process and achie ved phenomenal results.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][ /vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="" parallax="" parallax_image=""][v c_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]\nRoom Reservations\nSilver Cloud Hot el | 14632 SE Eastgate Way Bellevue\, Washington | (425) 957-9100\n\nWant to stay overnight and save the morning commute? Guest room reservations fo r Silver Cloud Hotel – Bellevue Eastgate may be made by calling (425) 95 7-9100. Tell them you are with “Excellent Cultures” to receive a disco unted guest room rate.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_w idth="" parallax="" parallax_image=""][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_te xt]\nPricing:\n$495/participant or $1995/5 participant[/vc_column_text][/v c_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="" parallax="" parallax_image=""][vc_ column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]\nTo Register:\nFor single registration s up to a group of 4. In the Single Ticket Area\, pick the number 1\,2\,3 or 4 depending on how many individuals you are signing up.\n\nIf you have a group of 5\, you receive a discount. Pick 5 in the Group Ticket Area and fill in the required fields.\n\nIf you are registering a group larger tha n 5 please email zacg@excellentcultures.com and we will register for you.\ n\nPlease fill out all of the required fields. You will receive an email c onfirmation of your purchase. If you have any questions please email us at zacg@excellentcultures.com.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] LOCATION:Silver Cloud Hotel\, 14632 SE Eastgate Way\, Bellevue\, WA\, 98007 \, United States GEO:47.580077;-122.144093 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=14632 SE Eastgate Way\, Bel levue\, WA\, 98007\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Silver Cloud Hotel:geo:47.580077,-122.144093 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4@excellentcultures.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160120T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160121T170000 DTSTAMP:20160119T035909Z URL:https://excellentcultures.com/events/achieving-excellent-culture-works hop-january-2016/ SUMMARY:ACHIEVING EXCELLENT CULTURE - January 2016 DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="6619" img_size="full " alignment="center"][vc_column_text]\nWednesday &\; Thursday\, January 20 &\; 21\, 2016\n 8:00 am – 5:00 pm\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_te xt]\nSilver Cloud Hotel | 14632 SE Eastgate Way Bellevue\, Washington | (4 25) 957-9100\nEasy Access &\; Free Parking right off I-90\nCONTINENTAL BREAKFAST &\; LUNCH IS PROVIDED\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][su_b ox title="Have You Met the Culture Monster?"]Chances are\, you have. He ea ts your best strategies\, creativity\, innovation\, team spirit\, people a nd profits for breakfast.\n\nYou will learn both how to recognize him in y our business and squash him. How to evaluate and improve your leadership a bilities so that he stays squashed. The tools to master the healthiest and most effective ways to improve what you want to improve as a leader and c hange what you want to change for yourself and your team.\n[/su_box][/vc_c olumn_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nThis workshop will specifically address:\nHow to counteract the default culture of low performance and self over service in your teams and organizations for increased results.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nWhat culture is a nd isn’t:\n\n Why and how culture really does “Eat Strategy for Breakf ast”\n How cultural mindsets control the reality of what your people and teams either embrace or miss\n Why and where your people are resisting ch ange\n What can and cannot be changed\n How to change what you want to cha nge\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nHow your personal\, leadership a nd organizational culture can cause:\n\n Blindness to your own leadership ineffectiveness\n People kissing up and then doing the opposite behind you r back\n Buck passing and giving up accountability\n Resistance to change and anti-innovation\n Passive reactivity instead of proactive accountabili ty\n Conflictive avoidance\, fear &\; the resulting inferior performanc e\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nParticipating leaders will:\n\n Re ceive a scientific culture assessment benchmarking their business culture against the highest performing in the world\n Gain clarity on the 2 basic types of organizational or team culture\n Learn the 3 warning signs of an default culture\n Identify the characteristics of an Excellent Culture and learn to build it\n Find out how to Win the culture war between default a nd excellent\n Identify and Understand:\n\n The Characteristics of Intenti onally Excellent Teams in Depth\n The stages of successful team growth and how to make the most of them for your team\n The concept of Real Accounta bility\n How to produce Voluntary Team Co-Accountability\n How to Become e ffective at the skill of Self-Management\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_colu mn][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]You will learn both how to recognize the culture monster &\; squash him and how to evaluate &\; improve your leadership abilities so that he stays squashed.\n\nThis work shop will give you the tools to master the healthiest and most effective w ays to improve what you want to improve as a leader\, and change what you want to change for yourself and your team.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/v c_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nWorkshop Speakers\n[/vc_column_ text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="54 38" img_size="medium"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_c olumn_text]Steve Gandara has spent over three decades helping leaders crea te High Performance Business Cultures. He has served clients including For tune 500 corporate executives\, business owners\, entrepreneurs\, labor-un ion leaders\, sales executives\, and educators\, as a professional leaders hip mentor and business culture architect. Clients praise his expertise in helping them devise strategies that build leaders and cultures that make up the dynamic and aggressive teams demanded in today’s global economy.[ /vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_ inner width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="5454" img_size="medium"][/vc_col umn_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text]Cheri Benson is a C ertified Professional Coach and Facilitator with three decades of experien ce in mentoring\, coaching\, team building and personal development. She h as a long history of helping leaders discover and break through limiting b eliefs and structures. Her clients include CEOs\, CFOs\, Entrepreneurs\, P rofessional Athletes\, Medical Professionals\, Artists\, and Business Owne rs who have committed to the coaching process and achieved phenomenal resu lts.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row ][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nRoom Reservations\nSilver Cloud Hote l | 14632 SE Eastgate Way Bellevue\, Washington | (425) 957-9100\n\nWant t o stay overnight and save the morning commute? Guest room reservations for Silver Cloud Hotel – Bellevue Eastgate may be made by calling (425) 957 -9100. Tell them you are with “Excellent Cultures” to receive a discou nted guest room rate.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_col umn][vc_column_text]\nPricing:\n$695/participant or $2995/5 participant[/v c_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nTo Register:\nFor single registrations up to a group of 4. In the Single Tic ket Area\, pick the number 1\,2\,3 or 4 depending on how many individuals you are signing up.\n\nIf you have a group of 5\, you receive a discount. Pick 5 in the Group Ticket Area and fill in the required fields.\n\nIf you are registering a group larger than 5 please email heathers@excellentcult ures.com and we will register for you.\n\nPlease fill out all of the requi red fields. You will receive an email confirmation of your purchase. If yo u have any questions please email us at heathers@excellentcultures.com.[/v c_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] LOCATION:Silver Cloud Hotel\, 14632 SE Eastgate Way\, Bellevue\, WA\, 98007 \, United States GEO:47.580077;-122.144093 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=14632 SE Eastgate Way\, Bel levue\, WA\, 98007\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Silver Cloud Hotel:geo:47.580077,-122.144093 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5@excellentcultures.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160323T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160324T170000 DTSTAMP:20160323T013257Z URL:https://excellentcultures.com/events/achieving-excellent-culture-march -2016/ SUMMARY:ACHIEVING EXCELLENT CULTURE – March 2016 DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="6606" img_size="full " alignment="center"][vc_column_text]\nWednesday &\; Thursday\, March 2 3 &\; 24\, 2016\n 8:00 am – 5:00 pm\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text ]\nSilver Cloud Hotel | 14632 SE Eastgate Way Bellevue\, Washington | (425 ) 957-9100\nEasy Access &\; Free Parking right off I-90\nCONTINENTAL BR EAKFAST &\; LUNCH IS PROVIDED\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][su_box title="Have You Met the Culture Monster?"]Chances are\, you have. He eats your best strategies\, creativity\, innovation\, team spirit\, people and profits for breakfast.\n\nYou will learn both how to recognize him in you r business and squash him. How to evaluate and improve your leadership abi lities so that he stays squashed. The tools to master the healthiest and m ost effective ways to improve what you want to improve as a leader and cha nge what you want to change for yourself and your team.\n[/su_box][/vc_col umn_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nThis wo rkshop will specifically address:\nHow to counteract the default culture o f low performance and self over service in your teams and organizations fo r increased results.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nWhat culture is and isn’t:\n\n Why and how culture really does “Eat Strategy for Breakfas t”\n How cultural mindsets control the reality of what your people and t eams either embrace or miss\n Why and where your people are resisting chan ge\n What can and cannot be changed\n How to change what you want to chang e\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nHow your personal\, leadership and organizational culture can cause:\n\n Blindness to your own leadership in effectiveness\n People kissing up and then doing the opposite behind your back\n Buck passing and giving up accountability\n Resistance to change an d anti-innovation\n Passive reactivity instead of proactive accountability \n Conflictive avoidance\, fear &\; the resulting inferior performance\ n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nParticipating leaders will:\n\n Rece ive a scientific culture assessment benchmarking their business culture ag ainst the highest performing in the world\n Gain clarity on the 2 basic ty pes of organizational or team culture\n Learn the 3 warning signs of an de fault culture\n Identify the characteristics of an Excellent Culture and l earn to build it\n Find out how to Win the culture war between default and excellent\n Identify and Understand:\n\n The Characteristics of Intention ally Excellent Teams in Depth\n The stages of successful team growth and h ow to make the most of them for your team\n The concept of Real Accountabi lity\n How to produce Voluntary Team Co-Accountability\n How to Become eff ective at the skill of Self-Management\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column ][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]You will learn both how to re cognize the culture monster &\; squash him and how to evaluate &\; i mprove your leadership abilities so that he stays squashed.\n\nThis worksh op will give you the tools to master the healthiest and most effective way s to improve what you want to improve as a leader\, and change what you wa nt to change for yourself and your team.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_ row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nWorkshop Speakers\n[/vc_column_te xt][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="5438 " img_size="medium"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_col umn_text]Steve Gandara has spent over three decades helping leaders create High Performance Business Cultures. He has served clients including Fortu ne 500 corporate executives\, business owners\, entrepreneurs\, labor-unio n leaders\, sales executives\, and educators\, as a professional leadershi p mentor and business culture architect. Clients praise his expertise in h elping them devise strategies that build leaders and cultures that make up the dynamic and aggressive teams demanded in today’s global economy.[/v c_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_in ner width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="5454" img_size="medium"][/vc_colum n_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text]Cheri Benson is a Cer tified Professional Coach and Facilitator with three decades of experience in mentoring\, coaching\, team building and personal development. She has a long history of helping leaders discover and break through limiting bel iefs and structures. Her clients include CEOs\, CFOs\, Entrepreneurs\, Pro fessional Athletes\, Medical Professionals\, Artists\, and Business Owners who have committed to the coaching process and achieved phenomenal result s.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][ vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nRoom Reservations\nSilver Cloud Hotel | 14632 SE Eastgate Way Bellevue\, Washington | (425) 957-9100\n\nWant to stay overnight and save the morning commute? Guest room reservations for S ilver Cloud Hotel – Bellevue Eastgate may be made by calling (425) 957-9 100. Tell them you are with “Excellent Cultures” to receive a discount ed guest room rate.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_colum n][vc_column_text]\nPricing:\n$695/participant or $2995/5 participant[/vc_ column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nTo R egister:\nFor single registrations up to a group of 4. In the Single Ticke t Area\, pick the number 1\,2\,3 or 4 depending on how many individuals yo u are signing up.\n\nIf you have a group of 5\, you receive a discount. Pi ck 5 in the Group Ticket Area and fill in the required fields.\n\nIf you a re registering a group larger than 5 please email heathers@excellentcultur es.com and we will register for you.\n\nPlease fill out all of the require d fields. You will receive an email confirmation of your purchase. If you have any questions please email us at heathers@excellentcultures.com.[/vc_ column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] LOCATION:Silver Cloud Hotel\, 14632 SE Eastgate Way\, Bellevue\, WA\, 98007 \, United States GEO:47.580077;-122.144093 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=14632 SE Eastgate Way\, Bel levue\, WA\, 98007\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Silver Cloud Hotel:geo:47.580077,-122.144093 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6@excellentcultures.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160525T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160526T170000 DTSTAMP:20160513T001221Z URL:https://excellentcultures.com/events/achieving-excellent-culture-may-2 016/ SUMMARY:ACHIEVING EXCELLENT CULTURE – May 2016 DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nA two day workshop catalyz ing personal and corporate innovation.\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\ nWednesday &\; Thursday\, May 25 &\; 26\, 2016\n 8:00 am – 5:00 pm \n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nSilver Cloud Hotel | 14632 SE Eastgat e Way Bellevue\, Washington | (425) 957-9100\nEasy Access &\; Free Park ing right off I-90\nCONTINENTAL BREAKFAST &\; LUNCH IS PROVIDED\n[/vc_c olumn_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row_content_no _spaces" parallax="content-moving" parallax_image="6676" el_id="exc-home-t estimonial" el_class="dark" css=".vc_custom_1461146465958{margin-bottom: 5 0px !important\;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nWhat Graduates are Saying\ n[/vc_column_text][exc_testimonial_slider cat="82"][/vc_column][/vc_row][v c_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][su_box title="Have You Met the Culture M onster?"]Chances are\, you have. He eats your best strategies\, creativity \, innovation\, team spirit\, people and profits for breakfast.\n\nIn this workshop you will learn both how to recognize him in your business and sq uash him in his tracks. Also\, how to evaluate and improve your leadership abilities so that he stays squashed. You'll acquire the tools to master t he healthiest and most effective ways to improve what you want to improve and change what you want to change for yourself and your team. All will re sult in a “Culture of Breakthrough Innovation” where you work.\n[/su_b ox][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_tex t]\nThis workshop will specifically address:\nHow to counteract the defaul t culture of low performance and self over service in your teams and organ izations to generate amazing innovation and breakthrough success.[/vc_col umn_text][vc_column_text]\nWhat culture is and isn’t:\n\n Why and how c ulture really does “Eat Strategy for Breakfast”\n How cultural mindse ts control the reality of what your people and teams either embrace or mis s\n Why and where your people are resisting change and innovation\n What can and cannot be changed\n How to change what you truly want to change\ n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nHow your personal\, leadership and o rganizational culture can cause:\n\n Resistance to change and anti-innova tion\n Blindness to your own leadership ineffectiveness\n People kissing up and then doing the opposite behind your back\n Buck passing and givin g up accountability instead of innovating\n Resistance to change and anti -innovation\n Passive reactivity instead of proactive accountability and innovation\n Conflict avoidance\, fear &\; the resulting inferior per formance\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nParticipating leaders will: \n\n Receive a scientific culture assessment benchmarking their existing business culture against the highest performing innovation cultures in the world\n Gain clarity on the 2 basic types of organizational or team cult ure\n Learn the 3 warning signs of an unintentional default culture and how to address them\n Identify the characteristics of an Excellent Cultur e of Innovation and learn how to build it\n Find out how to Win the cultu re war between default and excellent\n Identify and Understand:\n\n The Characteristics of Intentionally Excellent Teams in Depth\n The stages of successful team growth and how to make the most of them for your team\n The concept of Real Accountability\n How to produce Voluntary Team Co-Acc ountability that results in innovation\n How to Become effective at the s kill of Self-Management Innovation\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/v c_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nWorkshop Speakers\n[/vc_column_ text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="54 38" img_size="medium"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_c olumn_text]Steve Gandara has spent over three decades helping leaders crea te High Performance Business Cultures. He has served clients including For tune 500 corporate executives\, business owners\, entrepreneurs\, labor-un ion leaders\, sales executives\, and educators\, as a professional leaders hip mentor and business culture architect. Clients praise his expertise in helping them devise strategies that build leaders and cultures that make up the dynamic and aggressive teams demanded in today’s global economy.[ /vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_ inner width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="5454" img_size="medium"][/vc_col umn_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text]Cheri Benson is a C ertified Professional Coach and Facilitator with three decades of experien ce in mentoring\, coaching\, team building and personal development. She h as a long history of helping leaders discover and break through limiting b eliefs and structures. Her clients include CEOs\, CFOs\, Entrepreneurs\, P rofessional Athletes\, Medical Professionals\, Artists\, and Business Owne rs who have committed to the coaching process and achieved phenomenal resu lts.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row ][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nRoom Reservations\nSilver Cloud Hote l | 14632 SE Eastgate Way Bellevue\, Washington | (425) 957-9100\n\nWant t o stay overnight and save the morning commute? Guest room reservations for Silver Cloud Hotel – Bellevue Eastgate may be made by calling (425) 957 -9100. Tell them you are with “Excellent Cultures” to receive a discou nted guest room rate.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_col umn][vc_column_text]\nPricing:\n$695/participant or $2995/5 participant[/v c_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nTo Register:\nFor single registrations up to a group of 4. In the Single Tic ket Area\, pick the number 1\,2\,3 or 4 depending on how many individuals you are signing up.\n\nIf you have a group of 5\, you receive a discount. Pick 5 in the Group Ticket Area and fill in the required fields.\n\nIf you are registering a group larger than 5 please email heathers@excellentcult ures.com and we will register for you.\n\nPlease fill out all of the requi red fields. You will receive an email confirmation of your purchase. If yo u have any questions please email us at heathers@excellentcultures.com.[/v c_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] LOCATION:Silver Cloud Hotel\, 14632 SE Eastgate Way\, Bellevue\, WA\, 98007 \, United States GEO:47.580077;-122.144093 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=14632 SE Eastgate Way\, Bel levue\, WA\, 98007\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Silver Cloud Hotel:geo:47.580077,-122.144093 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:7@excellentcultures.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160719T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160720T170000 DTSTAMP:20160718T184129Z URL:https://excellentcultures.com/events/achieving-excellent-culture-july- 2016/ SUMMARY:ACHIEVING EXCELLENT CULTURE – July 2016 DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nA two day workshop catalyz ing personal and corporate innovation.\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\ nTuesday &\; Wednesday\, July 19 &\; 20\, 2016\n 8:00 am – 5:00 pm \n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nSilver Cloud Hotel | 14632 SE Eastgat e Way Bellevue\, Washington | (425) 957-9100\nEasy Access &\; Free Park ing right off I-90\nCONTINENTAL BREAKFAST &\; LUNCH IS PROVIDED\n[/vc_c olumn_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row_content_no _spaces" parallax="content-moving" parallax_image="6676" el_id="exc-home-t estimonial" el_class="dark" css=".vc_custom_1461146361312{margin-bottom: 5 0px !important\;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nWhat Graduates are Saying\ n[/vc_column_text][exc_testimonial_slider cat="82"][/vc_column][/vc_row][v c_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][su_box title="Have You Met the Culture M onster?"]Chances are\, you have. He eats your best strategies\, creativity \, innovation\, team spirit\, people and profits for breakfast.\n\nIn this workshop you will learn both how to recognize him in your business and sq uash him in his tracks. Also\, how to evaluate and improve your leadership abilities so that he stays squashed. You'll acquire the tools to master t he healthiest and most effective ways to improve what you want to improve and change what you want to change for yourself and your team. All will re sult in a “Culture of Breakthrough Innovation” where you work.\n[/su_b ox][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_tex t]\nThis workshop will specifically address:\nHow to counteract the defaul t culture of low performance and self over service in your teams and organ izations to generate amazing innovation and breakthrough success.[/vc_col umn_text][vc_column_text]\nWhat culture is and isn’t:\n\n Why and how c ulture really does “Eat Strategy for Breakfast”\n How cultural mindse ts control the reality of what your people and teams either embrace or mis s\n Why and where your people are resisting change and innovation\n What can and cannot be changed\n How to change what you truly want to change\ n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nHow your personal\, leadership and o rganizational culture can cause:\n\n Resistance to change and anti-innova tion\n Blindness to your own leadership ineffectiveness\n People kissing up and then doing the opposite behind your back\n Buck passing and givin g up accountability instead of innovating\n Resistance to change and anti -innovation\n Passive reactivity instead of proactive accountability and innovation\n Conflict avoidance\, fear &\; the resulting inferior per formance\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nParticipating leaders will: \n\n Receive a scientific culture assessment benchmarking their existing business culture against the highest performing innovation cultures in the world\n Gain clarity on the 2 basic types of organizational or team cult ure\n Learn the 3 warning signs of an unintentional default culture and how to address them\n Identify the characteristics of an Excellent Cultur e of Innovation and learn how to build it\n Find out how to Win the cultu re war between default and excellent\n Identify and Understand:\n\n The Characteristics of Intentionally Excellent Teams in Depth\n The stages of successful team growth and how to make the most of them for your team\n The concept of Real Accountability\n How to produce Voluntary Team Co-Acc ountability that results in innovation\n How to Become effective at the s kill of Self-Management Innovation\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/v c_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nWorkshop Speakers\n[/vc_column_ text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="54 38" img_size="medium"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_c olumn_text]Steve Gandara has spent over three decades helping leaders crea te High Performance Business Cultures. He has served clients including For tune 500 corporate executives\, business owners\, entrepreneurs\, labor-un ion leaders\, sales executives\, and educators\, as a professional leaders hip mentor and business culture architect. Clients praise his expertise in helping them devise strategies that build leaders and cultures that make up the dynamic and aggressive teams demanded in today’s global economy.[ /vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_ inner width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="5454" img_size="medium"][/vc_col umn_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text]Cheri Benson is a C ertified Professional Coach and Facilitator with three decades of experien ce in mentoring\, coaching\, team building and personal development. She h as a long history of helping leaders discover and break through limiting b eliefs and structures. Her clients include CEOs\, CFOs\, Entrepreneurs\, P rofessional Athletes\, Medical Professionals\, Artists\, and Business Owne rs who have committed to the coaching process and achieved phenomenal resu lts.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row ][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nRoom Reservations\nSilver Cloud Hote l | 14632 SE Eastgate Way Bellevue\, Washington | (425) 957-9100\n\nWant t o stay overnight and save the morning commute? Guest room reservations for Silver Cloud Hotel – Bellevue Eastgate may be made by calling (425) 957 -9100. Tell them you are with “Excellent Cultures” to receive a discou nted guest room rate.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_col umn][vc_column_text]\nPricing:\n$695/participant or $2995/5 participant[/v c_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nTo Register:\nFor single registrations up to a group of 4. In the Single Tic ket Area\, pick the number 1\,2\,3 or 4 depending on how many individuals you are signing up.\n\nIf you have a group of 5\, you receive a discount. Pick 5 in the Group Ticket Area and fill in the required fields.\n\nIf you are registering a group larger than 5 please email heathers@excellentcult ures.com and we will register for you.\n\nPlease fill out all of the requi red fields. You will receive an email confirmation of your purchase. If yo u have any questions please email us at heathers@excellentcultures.com.[/v c_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] LOCATION:Silver Cloud Hotel\, 14632 SE Eastgate Way\, Bellevue\, WA\, 98007 \, United States GEO:47.580077;-122.144093 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=14632 SE Eastgate Way\, Bel levue\, WA\, 98007\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Silver Cloud Hotel:geo:47.580077,-122.144093 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8@excellentcultures.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161026T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161027T170000 DTSTAMP:20160513T001207Z URL:https://excellentcultures.com/events/achieving-excellent-culture-octob er-2016/ SUMMARY:ACHIEVING EXCELLENT CULTURE – October 2016 DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nA two day workshop catalyz ing personal and corporate transformation.\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_te xt]\nWednesday &\; Thursday\, October 26 &\; 27\, 2016\n 8:00 am – 5:00 pm\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nSilver Cloud Hotel | 14632 SE Eastgate Way Bellevue\, Washington | (425) 957-9100\nEasy Access &\; F ree Parking right off I-90\nCONTINENTAL BREAKFAST &\; LUNCH IS PROVIDED \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row_co ntent_no_spaces" parallax="content-moving" parallax_image="6676" el_id="ex c-home-testimonial" el_class="dark" css=".vc_custom_1461146282375{margin-b ottom: 50px !important\;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nWhat Graduates are Saying\n[/vc_column_text][exc_testimonial_slider cat="82"][/vc_column][/v c_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][su_box title="Have You Met the C ulture Monster?"]Chances are\, you have. He eats your best strategies\, cr eativity\, innovation\, team spirit\, people and profits for breakfast.\n\ nIn this workshop you will learn both how to recognize him in your busines s and squash him in his tracks. Also\, how to evaluate and improve your le adership abilities so that he stays squashed. You'll acquire the tools to master the healthiest and most effective ways to improve what you want to improve and change what you want to change for yourself and your team. All will result in a “Culture of Breakthrough Innovation” where you work. \n[/su_box][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_co lumn_text]\nThis workshop will specifically address:\nHow to counteract th e default culture of low performance and self over service in your teams a nd organizations to generate amazing innovation and breakthrough success. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nWhat culture is and isn’t:\n\n Why a nd how culture really does “Eat Strategy for Breakfast”\n How cultura l mindsets control the reality of what your people and teams either embrac e or miss\n Why and where your people are resisting change and innovation \n What can and cannot be changed\n How to change what you truly want to change\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nHow your personal\, leadersh ip and organizational culture can cause:\n\n Resistance to change and ant i-innovation\n Blindness to your own leadership ineffectiveness\n People kissing up and then doing the opposite behind your back\n Buck passing a nd giving up accountability instead of innovating\n Resistance to change and anti-innovation\n Passive reactivity instead of proactive accountabil ity and innovation\n Conflict avoidance\, fear &\; the resulting infe rior performance\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nParticipating leade rs will:\n\n Receive a scientific culture assessment benchmarking their e xisting business culture against the highest performing innovation culture s in the world\n Gain clarity on the 2 basic types of organizational or t eam culture\n Learn the 3 warning signs of an unintentional default cult ure and how to address them\n Identify the characteristics of an Excellen t Culture of Innovation and learn how to build it\n Find out how to Win t he culture war between default and excellent\n Identify and Understand:\n \n The Characteristics of Intentionally Excellent Teams in Depth\n The s tages of successful team growth and how to make the most of them for your team\n The concept of Real Accountability\n How to produce Voluntary Tea m Co-Accountability that results in innovation\n How to Become effective at the skill of Self-Management Innovation\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_co lumn][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nWorkshop Speakers\n[/vc _column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/4"][vc_single_image i mage="5438" img_size="medium"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/ 4"][vc_column_text]Steve Gandara has spent over three decades helping lead ers create High Performance Business Cultures. He has served clients inclu ding Fortune 500 corporate executives\, business owners\, entrepreneurs\, labor-union leaders\, sales executives\, and educators\, as a professional leadership mentor and business culture architect. Clients praise his expe rtise in helping them devise strategies that build leaders and cultures th at make up the dynamic and aggressive teams demanded in today’s global e conomy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc _column_inner width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="5454" img_size="medium"] [/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text]Cheri Benso n is a Certified Professional Coach and Facilitator with three decades of experience in mentoring\, coaching\, team building and personal developmen t. She has a long history of helping leaders discover and break through li miting beliefs and structures. Her clients include CEOs\, CFOs\, Entrepren eurs\, Professional Athletes\, Medical Professionals\, Artists\, and Busin ess Owners who have committed to the coaching process and achieved phenome nal results.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column] [/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nRoom Reservations\nSilver Cl oud Hotel | 14632 SE Eastgate Way Bellevue\, Washington | (425) 957-9100\n \nWant to stay overnight and save the morning commute? Guest room reservat ions for Silver Cloud Hotel – Bellevue Eastgate may be made by calling ( 425) 957-9100. Tell them you are with “Excellent Cultures” to receive a discounted guest room rate.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row ][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nPricing:\n$695/participant or $2995/5 partic ipant[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_t ext]\nTo Register:\nFor single registrations up to a group of 4. In the Si ngle Ticket Area\, pick the number 1\,2\,3 or 4 depending on how many indi viduals you are signing up.\n\nIf you have a group of 5\, you receive a di scount. Pick 5 in the Group Ticket Area and fill in the required fields.\n \nIf you are registering a group larger than 5 please email heathers@excel lentcultures.com and we will register for you.\n\nPlease fill out all of t he required fields. You will receive an email confirmation of your purchas e. If you have any questions please email us at heathers@excellentcultures .com.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] LOCATION:Silver Cloud Hotel\, 14632 SE Eastgate Way\, Bellevue\, WA\, 98007 \, United States GEO:47.580077;-122.144093 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=14632 SE Eastgate Way\, Bel levue\, WA\, 98007\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Silver Cloud Hotel:geo:47.580077,-122.144093 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:13@excellentcultures.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161102T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161103T170000 DTSTAMP:20161026T213100Z URL:https://excellentcultures.com/events/achieving-excellent-culture-novem ber2016/ SUMMARY:ACHIEVING EXCELLENT CULTURE – November 2016 DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nA two day workshop catalyz ing personal and corporate transformation.\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_te xt]\nWednesday &\; Thursday\, November 2 &\; 3\, 2016\n 8:00 am – 5:00 pm\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nHarmony Hall at Wesley Manor\ n1555 North Main Street\, Frankfort\, IN 46041\nCONTINENTAL BREAKFAST & \; LUNCH IS PROVIDED\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_w idth="stretch_row_content_no_spaces" parallax="content-moving" parallax_im age="6676" el_id="exc-home-testimonial" el_class="dark" css=".vc_custom_14 61146282375{margin-bottom: 50px !important\;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nWhat Graduates are Saying\n[/vc_column_text][exc_testimonial_slider cat= "82"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][su_box title ="Have You Met the Culture Monster?"]Chances are\, you have. He eats your best strategies\, creativity\, innovation\, team spirit\, people and profi ts for breakfast.\n\nIn this workshop you will learn both how to recognize him in your business and squash him in his tracks. Also\, how to evaluate and improve your leadership abilities so that he stays squashed. You'll a cquire the tools to master the healthiest and most effective ways to impro ve what you want to improve and change what you want to change for yoursel f and your team. All will result in a “Culture of Breakthrough Innovatio n” where you work.\n[/su_box][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_r ow][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nThis workshop will specifically address:\n How to counteract the default culture of low performance and self over ser vice in your teams and organizations to generate amazing innovation and br eakthrough success.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nWhat culture is and isn’t:\n\n Why and how culture really does “Eat Strategy for Breakfa st”\n How cultural mindsets control the reality of what your people and teams either embrace or miss\n Why and where your people are resisting c hange and innovation\n What can and cannot be changed\n How to change wh at you truly want to change\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nHow your personal\, leadership and organizational culture can cause:\n\n Resistan ce to change and anti-innovation\n Blindness to your own leadership ineff ectiveness\n People kissing up and then doing the opposite behind your ba ck\n Buck passing and giving up accountability instead of innovating\n R esistance to change and anti-innovation\n Passive reactivity instead of p roactive accountability and innovation\n Conflict avoidance\, fear &\ ; the resulting inferior performance\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\ nParticipating leaders will:\n\n Receive a scientific culture assessment benchmarking their existing business culture against the highest performin g innovation cultures in the world\n Gain clarity on the 2 basic types of organizational or team culture\n Learn the 3 warning signs of an uninten tional default culture and how to address them\n Identify the characteri stics of an Excellent Culture of Innovation and learn how to build it\n F ind out how to Win the culture war between default and excellent\n Identi fy and Understand:\n\n The Characteristics of Intentionally Excellent Tea ms in Depth\n The stages of successful team growth and how to make the mo st of them for your team\n The concept of Real Accountability\n How to p roduce Voluntary Team Co-Accountability that results in innovation\n How to Become effective at the skill of Self-Management Innovation\n\n\n\n[/vc _column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nWor kshop Speaker\n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/4" ][vc_single_image image="5438" img_size="medium"][/vc_column_inner][vc_col umn_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text]Steve Gandara has spent over three d ecades helping leaders create High Performance Business Cultures. He has s erved clients including Fortune 500 corporate executives\, business owners \, entrepreneurs\, labor-union leaders\, sales executives\, and educators\ , as a professional leadership mentor and business culture architect. Clie nts praise his expertise in helping them devise strategies that build lead ers and cultures that make up the dynamic and aggressive teams demanded in today’s global economy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inne r][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nPricing:\n$695 /participant or $2995/5 participant[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][ vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nTo Register:\nFor single registrations up to a group of 4. In the Single Ticket Area\, pick the number 1\,2\,3 o r 4 depending on how many individuals you are signing up.\n\nIf you have a group of 5\, you receive a discount. Pick 5 in the Group Ticket Area and fill in the required fields.\n\nIf you are registering a group larger than 5 please email heathers@excellentcultures.com and we will register for yo u.\n\nPlease fill out all of the required fields. You will receive an emai l confirmation of your purchase. If you have any questions please email us at heathers@excellentcultures.com.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] LOCATION:Harmony Hall at Wesley Manor\, 1555 North Main Street\, Frankfort\ , IN\, 46041\, United States GEO:40.2937774;-86.51203220000002 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=1555 North Main Street\, Fr ankfort\, IN\, 46041\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Harmony Ha ll at Wesley Manor:geo:40.2937774,-86.51203220000002 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:14@excellentcultures.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161206T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161207T170000 DTSTAMP:20161026T213110Z URL:https://excellentcultures.com/events/achieving-excellent-culture-decem ber-2016/ SUMMARY:ACHIEVING EXCELLENT CULTURE – December 2016 DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nA two day workshop catalyz ing personal and corporate transformation.\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_te xt]\nTuesday &\; Wednesday\, December 6 &\; 7\, 2016\n 8:00 am – 5:00 pm\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n2727 Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway #1005\nDallas\, TX 75234\nLUNCH IS PROVIDED\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column ][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row_content_no_spaces" parallax="con tent-moving" parallax_image="6676" el_id="exc-home-testimonial" el_class=" dark" css=".vc_custom_1461146282375{margin-bottom: 50px !important\;}"][vc _column][vc_column_text]\nWhat Graduates are Saying\n[/vc_column_text][exc _testimonial_slider cat="82"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_c olumn_text][su_box title="Have You Met the Culture Monster?"]Chances are\, you have. He eats your best strategies\, creativity\, innovation\, team s pirit\, people and profits for breakfast.\n\nIn this workshop you will lea rn both how to recognize him in your business and squash him in his tracks . Also\, how to evaluate and improve your leadership abilities so that he stays squashed. You'll acquire the tools to master the healthiest and most effective ways to improve what you want to improve and change what you wa nt to change for yourself and your team. All will result in a “Culture o f Breakthrough Innovation” where you work.\n[/su_box][/vc_column_text][/ vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nThis workshop will specifically address:\nHow to counteract the default culture of low perfo rmance and self over service in your teams and organizations to generate a mazing innovation and breakthrough success.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_te xt]\nWhat culture is and isn’t:\n\n Why and how culture really does “ Eat Strategy for Breakfast”\n How cultural mindsets control the reality of what your people and teams either embrace or miss\n Why and where you r people are resisting change and innovation\n What can and cannot be cha nged\n How to change what you truly want to change\n\n[/vc_column_text][v c_column_text]\nHow your personal\, leadership and organizational culture can cause:\n\n Resistance to change and anti-innovation\n Blindness to y our own leadership ineffectiveness\n People kissing up and then doing the opposite behind your back\n Buck passing and giving up accountability in stead of innovating\n Resistance to change and anti-innovation\n Passive reactivity instead of proactive accountability and innovation\n Conflict  avoidance\, fear &\; the resulting inferior performance\n\n[/vc_colum n_text][vc_column_text]\nParticipating leaders will:\n\n Receive a scient ific culture assessment benchmarking their existing business culture again st the highest performing innovation cultures in the world\n Gain clarity on the 2 basic types of organizational or team culture\n Learn the 3 war ning signs of an unintentional default culture and how to address them\n Identify the characteristics of an Excellent Culture of Innovation and le arn how to build it\n Find out how to Win the culture war between default and excellent\n Identify and Understand:\n\n The Characteristics of Int entionally Excellent Teams in Depth\n The stages of successful team growt h and how to make the most of them for your team\n The concept of Real Ac countability\n How to produce Voluntary Team Co-Accountability that resul ts in innovation\n How to Become effective at the skill of Self-Managemen t Innovation\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_colu mn][vc_column_text]\nWorkshop Speaker\n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_ column_inner width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="5438" img_size="medium"][ /vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text]Steve Gandar a has spent over three decades helping leaders create High Performance Bus iness Cultures. He has served clients including Fortune 500 corporate exec utives\, business owners\, entrepreneurs\, labor-union leaders\, sales exe cutives\, and educators\, as a professional leadership mentor and business culture architect. Clients praise his expertise in helping them devise st rategies that build leaders and cultures that make up the dynamic and aggr essive teams demanded in today’s global economy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_co lumn_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_colu mn_text]\nPricing:\n$695/participant or $2995/5 participant[/vc_column_tex t][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nTo Register:\n For single registrations up to a group of 4. In the Single Ticket Area\, p ick the number 1\,2\,3 or 4 depending on how many individuals you are sign ing up.\n\nIf you have a group of 5\, you receive a discount. Pick 5 in th e Group Ticket Area and fill in the required fields.\n\nIf you are registe ring a group larger than 5 please email heathers@excellentcultures.com and we will register for you.\n\nPlease fill out all of the required fields. You will receive an email confirmation of your purchase. If you have any q uestions please email us at heathers@excellentcultures.com.[/vc_column_tex t][/vc_column][/vc_row] LOCATION:Acuity Systems\, Inc.\, A Sandler Training Center\, 2727 Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway #1005\, Dallas\, Texas\, 75234\, United States GEO:32.9111313;-96.88588649999997 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=2727 Lyndon B. Johnson Free way #1005\, Dallas\, Texas\, 75234\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TI TLE=Acuity Systems\, Inc.\, A Sandler Training Center:geo:32.9111313,-96.8 8588649999997 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:10@excellentcultures.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170215T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170216T170000 DTSTAMP:20160915T052106Z URL:https://excellentcultures.com/events/achieving-excellent-culture-febru ary-2017/ SUMMARY:ACHIEVING EXCELLENT CULTURE – February 2017 DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nA two day workshop catalyz ing personal and corporate transformation.\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_te xt]\nWednesday &\; Thursday\, February 15 &\; 16\, 2017\n 8:00 am – 5:00 pm\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nSilver Cloud Hotel | 14632 SE Eastgate Way Bellevue\, Washington | (425) 957-9100\nEasy Access &\ ; Free Parking right off I-90\nCONTINENTAL BREAKFAST &\; LUNCH IS PROVI DED\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row _content_no_spaces" parallax="content-moving" parallax_image="6676" el_id= "exc-home-testimonial" el_class="dark" css=".vc_custom_1461146282375{margi n-bottom: 50px !important\;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nWhat Graduates are Saying\n[/vc_column_text][exc_testimonial_slider cat="82"][/vc_column] [/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][su_box title="Have You Met th e Culture Monster?"]Chances are\, you have. He eats your best strategies\, creativity\, innovation\, team spirit\, people and profits for breakfast. \n\nIn this workshop you will learn both how to recognize him in your busi ness and squash him in his tracks. Also\, how to evaluate and improve your leadership abilities so that he stays squashed. You'll acquire the tools to master the healthiest and most effective ways to improve what you want to improve and change what you want to change for yourself and your team. All will result in a “Culture of Breakthrough Innovation” where you wo rk.\n[/su_box][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc _column_text]\nThis workshop will specifically address:\nHow to counteract the default culture of low performance and self over service in your team s and organizations to generate amazing innovation and breakthrough succe ss.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nWhat culture is and isn’t:\n\n Wh y and how culture really does “Eat Strategy for Breakfast”\n How cult ural mindsets control the reality of what your people and teams either emb race or miss\n Why and where your people are resisting change and innovat ion\n What can and cannot be changed\n How to change what you truly want to change\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nHow your personal\, leade rship and organizational culture can cause:\n\n Resistance to change and anti-innovation\n Blindness to your own leadership ineffectiveness\n Peo ple kissing up and then doing the opposite behind your back\n Buck passin g and giving up accountability instead of innovating\n Resistance to chan ge and anti-innovation\n Passive reactivity instead of proactive accounta bility and innovation\n Conflict avoidance\, fear &\; the resulting i nferior performance\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nParticipating le aders will:\n\n Receive a scientific culture assessment benchmarking thei r existing business culture against the highest performing innovation cult ures in the world\n Gain clarity on the 2 basic types of organizational o r team culture\n Learn the 3 warning signs of an unintentional default c ulture and how to address them\n Identify the characteristics of an Excel lent Culture of Innovation and learn how to build it\n Find out how to Wi n the culture war between default and excellent\n Identify and Understand :\n\n The Characteristics of Intentionally Excellent Teams in Depth\n Th e stages of successful team growth and how to make the most of them for yo ur team\n The concept of Real Accountability\n How to produce Voluntary Team Co-Accountability that results in innovation\n How to Become effecti ve at the skill of Self-Management Innovation\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc _column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nWorkshop Speakers\n[ /vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/4"][vc_single_imag e image="5438" img_size="medium"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width= "3/4"][vc_column_text]Steve Gandara has spent over three decades helping l eaders create High Performance Business Cultures. He has served clients in cluding Fortune 500 corporate executives\, business owners\, entrepreneurs \, labor-union leaders\, sales executives\, and educators\, as a professio nal leadership mentor and business culture architect. Clients praise his e xpertise in helping them devise strategies that build leaders and cultures that make up the dynamic and aggressive teams demanded in today’s globa l economy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner] [vc_column_inner width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="5454" img_size="mediu m"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text]Cheri Be nson is a Certified Professional Coach and Facilitator with three decades of experience in mentoring\, coaching\, team building and personal develop ment. She has a long history of helping leaders discover and break through limiting beliefs and structures. Her clients include CEOs\, CFOs\, Entrep reneurs\, Professional Athletes\, Medical Professionals\, Artists\, and Bu siness Owners who have committed to the coaching process and achieved phen omenal results.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_colu mn][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nRoom Reservations\nSilver Cloud Hotel | 14632 SE Eastgate Way Bellevue\, Washington | (425) 957-910 0\n\nWant to stay overnight and save the morning commute? Guest room reser vations for Silver Cloud Hotel – Bellevue Eastgate may be made by callin g (425) 957-9100. Tell them you are with “Excellent Cultures” to recei ve a discounted guest room rate.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_ row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nPricing:\n$795/participant or $3475/5 par ticipants[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_colu mn_text]\nTo Register:\nFor single registrations up to a group of 4. In th e Single Ticket Area\, pick the number 1\,2\,3 or 4 depending on how many individuals you are signing up.\n\nIf you have a group of 5\, you receive a discount. Pick 5 in the Group Ticket Area and fill in the required field s.\n\nIf you are registering a group larger than 5 please email heathers@e xcellentcultures.com and we will register for you.\n\nPlease fill out all of the required fields. You will receive an email confirmation of your pur chase. If you have any questions please email us at heathers@excellentcult ures.com.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] LOCATION:Silver Cloud Hotel\, 14632 SE Eastgate Way\, Bellevue\, WA\, 98007 \, United States GEO:47.580077;-122.144093 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=14632 SE Eastgate Way\, Bel levue\, WA\, 98007\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Silver Cloud Hotel:geo:47.580077,-122.144093 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:16@excellentcultures.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170410T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170410T120000 DTSTAMP:20170213T221537Z URL:https://excellentcultures.com/events/leadership-calibration-lite-april -2017/ SUMMARY:LEADERSHIP CALIBRATION LITE - April 2017 DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nCulture Eats Strategy For Breakfast -Peter Drucker\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nApril\, 2017 | Monday\, April 10th\nLocation: Old Stony: 301 E Clinton St\, Frankfort\ , IN 46041\nPrice per leader: $1500\nDeadline for sign-up is Friday\, Febr uary 17th\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stre tch_row_content_no_spaces" content_placement="middle" parallax="content-mo ving" parallax_image="8060" parallax_speed_bg="1"][vc_column][vc_column_te xt css=".vc_custom_1482789052089{padding-top: 150px !important\;padding-ri ght: 100px !important\;padding-bottom: 150px !important\;padding-left: 100 px !important\;}"]\nCreating High Performance Businesses by Bringing out t he Greatness in People\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_ column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1482303708433{padding-top: 40px !im portant\;padding-right: 40px !important\;padding-bottom: 40px !important\; padding-left: 40px !important\;}"]\nLeadership Calibration Lite &\; MoL o Process\n\n Leader's Anonymous Diagnostic Assessment\n 1/2 Day Leaders hip Calibration Workshop\n Private Confidential 1:1 Coaching &\; Actio n Planning\n Trusted Facilitator Selection &\; Training for More-Of Le ss-Of (MoLo) Feedback\n Facilitated MoLo Meeting for Salient Feedback\n Leader Debriefed on Summarized MoLo Feed back for Action\n 60 Day Anonymo us Online Progress Survey\n\nExpected End Results\nImproved Communication\ , Decreased Misunderstandings\, Improved Culture\, Decreased Turnover\,  Increased Employee Retention\, Increased Employee Engagement\, Increas ed Performance[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc _column_text]72% of leaders lead in a manner that produces defensive behav ior. Unfortunately these same leaders have no idea what they’re doing to cause this or how to change it.\n\nThe Leadership Calibration Process pro vides actionable data comparing the leader’s desired outcomes with those of his / her followers using scientific data to identify specifically wha t needs to change for improvement to take place. Once identified\, each le ader is provided with the tools to have targeted conversations with their followers resulting in actionable change that generates sustained increase d performance.\n\nThe LC Lite Process helps each participating leader lead more constructively\, thus increasing engagement\, innovation\, collabora tion\, teamwork and overall performance improvement. The included workshop \, 1-on-1 confidential coaching\, More of-Less of communication meetings a nd follow-up assessment guarantee sustainable change in both employee enga gement and leadership effectiveness.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] [vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner gap="30"][vc_column_inner width="1/2"][vc _column_text]\nLeader’s Anonymous Diagnostic Assessment (see attached Bu siness Culture MRI)\n\n Completed online anonymously by leader and design ated followers / colleagues (raters).\n Includes comprehensive 13 Page wr itten report identifying basis for systematic improvement in specific targ eted areas as defined by the leader’s desired outcome as well as their i mpact on others’ performance.\n Each Leader’s effectiveness is examin ed in twelve different behaviors (see attached Business Culture MRI).\n\nL eadership Calibration Workshop (1/2 Day)\n\n Interactive introduction to effective Leadership concepts as defined by the assessment develops a read iness for coaching.\n Provides thorough understanding of all feedback rep ort formats and factors that drive individual results.\n Establish collec tive motivation to improve leadership and create high performance business culture\, engagement &\; effectiveness.\n\nPrivate Confidential 1:1 Co aching &\; Action Planning\n\n Armed with the results from the diagnos tic assessment\, a one-and-a-half-hour\, 1-on-1 confidential coaching sess ion for each participating Leader by a certified Excellent Cultures’ sea soned professional.\n Coaching analyzes the gaps between the feedback pro vided by others and the Leader’s desired ideal performance vision.\n Ea ch Leader receives a definitive picture and benchmark of his/her leadershi p effectiveness.\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner wi dth="1/2"][vc_column_text]\n\n The process culminates in creation of an a ction plan with targeted specific results for review in upcoming More of-L ess of conversation with those who provided effectiveness data in the lead er’s assessment helping create change necessary to attain ideal.\n\nLead ership Calibration Lite Coaching Process – End Results:\n\n The Leaders hip Calibration Lite Coaching Process serves as the foundation for the Mor e of Less of (MoLo) feedback communication process with survey respondents .\n The MoLo process operationalizes the coaching criteria to guarantee s ustainable leadership effectiveness improvements.\n\nTrusted Facilitator S election &\; Training for More Of-Less Of (MoLo) Feedback\n\n Each par ticipating leader selects a trusted facilitator from among their colleague s or workforce.\n Excellent Cultures trains facilitators to be effective in the communication and delivery of the More-Of Less-Of (MoLo) Feedback P rocess.\n Each participating facilitator meets with their designated lead er and builds a plan for the MoLo Feedback Meeting.\n\nFacilitated MoLo Me eting for Salient Feedback\n\n Each facilitator meets with assessment fee dback contributors of each participating leader to receive and record spec ific actionable coaching for designated leader.\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_c olumn_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]\nLeader Debriefed on Summarize d MoLo Feedback for Action\n\n Facilitator shares specific More of-Less O f Feedback with designated leader.\n Each leader interacts with their fac ilitator and contributors to identify specific “do more of this” and “less of that” feedback from their contributors.\n Dialogue results i n identifiable target changes that both leaders and contributors are willi ng to assume accountability for making. Designated changes can be anything from communication styles to daily management practices to overcoming fal se perceptions based on previous folklore or assumptions.\n Leader grants permission to contributors to keep them accountable for agreed upon chang es by calling them on slip ups until new and improved habits\, relationshi ps\, trust areas and behaviors become ongoing habitual unconscious compete nt realities.\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n60 Day Online Anonymou s Progress Survey\n\n Each contributor completes online progress survey a ssessing leader’s progress in making designated changes as identified in the MoLo Process.\n Each leader reviews their progress or lack of progre ss as identified in the data.\n Each leader meets again with their contri butors\, discusses progress or lack there of in specific areas\, redefines accountability areas and goes to work on continuous improvement of define d areas.\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nExpected End Results\n\n I mproved Communication\nDecreased Misunderstandings\n Improved Culture\n Decreased Turnover\n Increased Employee Retention\n Increased Employee E ngagement\n Increased Performance\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_ro w][vc_row][vc_column width="1/2" offset="vc_col-sm-offset-3"][vc_column_te xt]\nContact Us to Participate\n[/vc_column_text][gravityform id="18" titl e="false" description="false" ajax="true" tabindex="25"][/vc_column][/vc_r ow] LOCATION:Old Stony\, 301 E Clinton St\, Frankfort\, IN\, 46041\, United Sta tes GEO:40.2801653;-86.5089203 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=301 E Clinton St\, Frankfor t\, IN\, 46041\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Old Stony:geo:40 .2801653,-86.5089203 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:11@excellentcultures.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170518T170000 DTSTAMP:20170411T220717Z URL:https://excellentcultures.com/events/achieving-excellent-culture-may-2 017/ SUMMARY:ACHIEVING EXCELLENT CULTURE – May 2017 DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nA two day workshop catalyz ing personal and corporate transformation.\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_te xt]\nWednesday &\; Thursday\, May 17 &\; 18\, 2017\n 8:00 am – 5: 00 pm\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nSilver Cloud Hotel | 14632 SE Ea stgate Way Bellevue\, Washington | (425) 957-9100\nEasy Access &\; Free Parking right off I-90\nCONTINENTAL BREAKFAST &\; LUNCH IS PROVIDED\n[ /vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row_conte nt_no_spaces" parallax="content-moving" parallax_image="6676" el_id="exc-h ome-testimonial" el_class="dark" css=".vc_custom_1461146282375{margin-bott om: 50px !important\;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nWhat Graduates are Sa ying\n[/vc_column_text][exc_testimonial_slider cat="82"][/vc_column][/vc_r ow][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][su_box title="Have You Met the Cult ure Monster?"]Chances are\, you have. He eats your best strategies\, creat ivity\, innovation\, team spirit\, people and profits for breakfast.\n\nIn this workshop you will learn both how to recognize him in your business a nd squash him in his tracks. Also\, how to evaluate and improve your leade rship abilities so that he stays squashed. You'll acquire the tools to mas ter the healthiest and most effective ways to improve what you want to imp rove and change what you want to change for yourself and your team. All wi ll result in a “Culture of Breakthrough Innovation” where you work.\n[ /su_box][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_colum n_text]\nThis workshop will specifically address:\nHow to counteract the d efault culture of low performance and self over service in your teams and organizations to generate amazing innovation and breakthrough success.[/v c_column_text][vc_column_text]\nWhat culture is and isn’t:\n\n Why and how culture really does “Eat Strategy for Breakfast”\n How cultural m indsets control the reality of what your people and teams either embrace o r miss\n Why and where your people are resisting change and innovation\n What can and cannot be changed\n How to change what you truly want to ch ange\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nHow your personal\, leadership and organizational culture can cause:\n\n Resistance to change and anti-i nnovation\n Blindness to your own leadership ineffectiveness\n People ki ssing up and then doing the opposite behind your back\n Buck passing and giving up accountability instead of innovating\n Resistance to change and anti-innovation\n Passive reactivity instead of proactive accountability and innovation\n Conflict avoidance\, fear &\; the resulting inferio r performance\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nParticipating leaders will:\n\n Receive a scientific culture assessment benchmarking their exis ting business culture against the highest performing innovation cultures i n the world\n Gain clarity on the 2 basic types of organizational or team culture\n Learn the 3 warning signs of an unintentional default culture and how to address them\n Identify the characteristics of an Excellent C ulture of Innovation and learn how to build it\n Find out how to Win the culture war between default and excellent\n Identify and Understand:\n\n The Characteristics of Intentionally Excellent Teams in Depth\n The stag es of successful team growth and how to make the most of them for your tea m\n The concept of Real Accountability\n How to produce Voluntary Team C o-Accountability that results in innovation\n How to Become effective at the skill of Self-Management Innovation\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_colum n][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nWorkshop Speakers\n[/vc_co lumn_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/4"][vc_single_image imag e="5438" img_size="medium"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"] [vc_column_text]Steve Gandara has spent over three decades helping leaders create High Performance Business Cultures. He has served clients includin g Fortune 500 corporate executives\, business owners\, entrepreneurs\, lab or-union leaders\, sales executives\, and educators\, as a professional le adership mentor and business culture architect. Clients praise his experti se in helping them devise strategies that build leaders and cultures that make up the dynamic and aggressive teams demanded in today’s global econ omy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row ][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nRoom Reservations\nSilver Cloud Hote l | 14632 SE Eastgate Way Bellevue\, Washington | (425) 957-9100\n\nWant t o stay overnight and save the morning commute? Guest room reservations for Silver Cloud Hotel – Bellevue Eastgate may be made by calling (425) 957 -9100. Tell them you are with “Excellent Cultures” to receive a discou nted guest room rate.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_col umn][vc_column_text]\nPricing:\n$795/participant or $3475/5 participants[/ vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nT o Register:\nFor single registrations up to a group of 4. In the Single Ti cket Area\, pick the number 1\,2\,3 or 4 depending on how many individuals you are signing up.\n\nIf you have a group of 5\, you receive a discount. Pick 5 in the Group Ticket Area and fill in the required fields.\n\nIf yo u are registering a group larger than 5 please email heathers@excellentcul tures.com and we will register for you.\n\nPlease fill out all of the requ ired fields. You will receive an email confirmation of your purchase. If y ou have any questions please email us at heathers@excellentcultures.com.[/ vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] LOCATION:Silver Cloud Hotel\, 14632 SE Eastgate Way\, Bellevue\, WA\, 98007 \, United States GEO:47.580077;-122.144093 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=14632 SE Eastgate Way\, Bel levue\, WA\, 98007\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Silver Cloud Hotel:geo:47.580077,-122.144093 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:12@excellentcultures.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171017T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171018T170000 DTSTAMP:20170411T220710Z URL:https://excellentcultures.com/events/achieving-excellent-culture-octob er-2017/ SUMMARY:ACHIEVING EXCELLENT CULTURE – October 2017 DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nA two day workshop catalyz ing personal and corporate transformation.\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_te xt]\nTuesday &\; Wednesday\, October 17 &\; 18\, 2017\n 8:00 am – 5:00 pm\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nSilver Cloud Hotel | 14632 SE Eastgate Way Bellevue\, Washington | (425) 957-9100\nEasy Access &\; F ree Parking right off I-90\nCONTINENTAL BREAKFAST &\; LUNCH IS PROVIDED \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row_co ntent_no_spaces" parallax="content-moving" parallax_image="6676" el_id="ex c-home-testimonial" el_class="dark" css=".vc_custom_1461146282375{margin-b ottom: 50px !important\;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nWhat Graduates are Saying\n[/vc_column_text][exc_testimonial_slider cat="82"][/vc_column][/v c_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][su_box title="Have You Met the C ulture Monster?"]Chances are\, you have. He eats your best strategies\, cr eativity\, innovation\, team spirit\, people and profits for breakfast.\n\ nIn this workshop you will learn both how to recognize him in your busines s and squash him in his tracks. Also\, how to evaluate and improve your le adership abilities so that he stays squashed. You'll acquire the tools to master the healthiest and most effective ways to improve what you want to improve and change what you want to change for yourself and your team. All will result in a “Culture of Breakthrough Innovation” where you work. \n[/su_box][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_co lumn_text]\nThis workshop will specifically address:\nHow to counteract th e default culture of low performance and self over service in your teams a nd organizations to generate amazing innovation and breakthrough success. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nWhat culture is and isn’t:\n\n Why a nd how culture really does “Eat Strategy for Breakfast”\n How cultura l mindsets control the reality of what your people and teams either embrac e or miss\n Why and where your people are resisting change and innovation \n What can and cannot be changed\n How to change what you truly want to change\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nHow your personal\, leadersh ip and organizational culture can cause:\n\n Resistance to change and ant i-innovation\n Blindness to your own leadership ineffectiveness\n People kissing up and then doing the opposite behind your back\n Buck passing a nd giving up accountability instead of innovating\n Resistance to change and anti-innovation\n Passive reactivity instead of proactive accountabil ity and innovation\n Conflict avoidance\, fear &\; the resulting infe rior performance\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nParticipating leade rs will:\n\n Receive a scientific culture assessment benchmarking their e xisting business culture against the highest performing innovation culture s in the world\n Gain clarity on the 2 basic types of organizational or t eam culture\n Learn the 3 warning signs of an unintentional default cult ure and how to address them\n Identify the characteristics of an Excellen t Culture of Innovation and learn how to build it\n Find out how to Win t he culture war between default and excellent\n Identify and Understand:\n \n The Characteristics of Intentionally Excellent Teams in Depth\n The s tages of successful team growth and how to make the most of them for your team\n The concept of Real Accountability\n How to produce Voluntary Tea m Co-Accountability that results in innovation\n How to Become effective at the skill of Self-Management Innovation\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_co lumn][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nWorkshop Speakers\n[/vc _column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/4"][vc_single_image i mage="5438" img_size="medium"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/ 4"][vc_column_text]Steve Gandara has spent over three decades helping lead ers create High Performance Business Cultures. He has served clients inclu ding Fortune 500 corporate executives\, business owners\, entrepreneurs\, labor-union leaders\, sales executives\, and educators\, as a professional leadership mentor and business culture architect. Clients praise his expe rtise in helping them devise strategies that build leaders and cultures th at make up the dynamic and aggressive teams demanded in today’s global e conomy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_ row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nRoom Reservations\nSilver Cloud H otel | 14632 SE Eastgate Way Bellevue\, Washington | (425) 957-9100\n\nWan t to stay overnight and save the morning commute? Guest room reservations for Silver Cloud Hotel – Bellevue Eastgate may be made by calling (425) 957-9100. Tell them you are with “Excellent Cultures” to receive a dis counted guest room rate.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_ column][vc_column_text]\nPricing:\n$795/participant or $3475/5 participant s[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nTo Register:\nFor single registrations up to a group of 4. In the Single Ticket Area\, pick the number 1\,2\,3 or 4 depending on how many individu als you are signing up.\n\nIf you have a group of 5\, you receive a discou nt. Pick 5 in the Group Ticket Area and fill in the required fields.\n\nIf you are registering a group larger than 5 please email heathers@excellent cultures.com and we will register for you.\n\nPlease fill out all of the r equired fields. You will receive an email confirmation of your purchase. I f you have any questions please email us at heathers@excellentcultures.com .[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] LOCATION:Silver Cloud Hotel\, 14632 SE Eastgate Way\, Bellevue\, WA\, 98007 \, United States GEO:47.580077;-122.144093 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=14632 SE Eastgate Way\, Bel levue\, WA\, 98007\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Silver Cloud Hotel:geo:47.580077,-122.144093 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20@excellentcultures.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171115T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171116T170000 DTSTAMP:20170911T205959Z URL:https://excellentcultures.com/events/achieving-excellent-culture-novem ber-2017/ SUMMARY:AVITUS ACHIEVING EXCELLENT CULTURE – November 2017 DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nA two day workshop catalyz ing personal and corporate transformation.\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_te xt]\nWednesday and Thursday\, November 15 &\; 16\, 2017\n 8:00 am – 5 :00 pm\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nPlaza Center | 10900 NE 8th Str eet\, Bellevue\, Washington | (425) 633-3333\nEasy Access &\; Garage Pa rking\nCONTINENTAL BREAKFAST &\; LUNCH IS PROVIDED\n[/vc_column_text][/ vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row_content_no_spaces" para llax="content-moving" parallax_image="6676" el_id="exc-home-testimonial" e l_class="dark" css=".vc_custom_1461146282375{margin-bottom: 50px !importan t\;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nWhat Graduates are Saying\n[/vc_column_ text][exc_testimonial_slider cat="82"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_col umn][vc_column_text][su_box title="Have You Met the Culture Monster?"]Chan ces are\, you have. He eats your best strategies\, creativity\, innovation \, team spirit\, people and profits for breakfast.\n\nIn this workshop you will learn both how to recognize him in your business and squash him in h is tracks. Also\, how to evaluate and improve your leadership abilities so that he stays squashed. You'll acquire the tools to master the healthiest and most effective ways to improve what you want to improve and change wh at you want to change for yourself and your team. All will result in a “ Culture of Breakthrough Innovation” where you work.\n[/su_box][/vc_colum n_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nThis work shop will specifically address:\nHow to counteract the default culture of low performance and self over service in your teams and organizations to g enerate amazing innovation and breakthrough success.[/vc_column_text][vc_ column_text]\nWhat culture is and isn’t:\n\n Why and how culture really does “Eat Strategy for Breakfast”\n How cultural mindsets control th e reality of what your people and teams either embrace or miss\n Why and where your people are resisting change and innovation\n What can and cann ot be changed\n How to change what you truly want to change\n\n[/vc_colum n_text][vc_column_text]\nHow your personal\, leadership and organizational culture can cause:\n\n Resistance to change and anti-innovation\n Blind ness to your own leadership ineffectiveness\n People kissing up and then doing the opposite behind your back\n Buck passing and giving up accounta bility instead of innovating\n Resistance to change and anti-innovation\n Passive reactivity instead of proactive accountability and innovation\n Conflict avoidance\, fear &\; the resulting inferior performance\n\n[ /vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nParticipating leaders will:\n\n Receive a scientific culture assessment benchmarking their existing business cult ure against the highest performing innovation cultures in the world\n Gai n clarity on the 2 basic types of organizational or team culture\n Learn the 3 warning signs of an unintentional default culture and how to addres s them\n Identify the characteristics of an Excellent Culture of Innovati on and learn how to build it\n Find out how to Win the culture war betwee n default and excellent\n Identify and Understand:\n\n The Characteristi cs of Intentionally Excellent Teams in Depth\n The stages of successful t eam growth and how to make the most of them for your team\n The concept o f Real Accountability\n How to produce Voluntary Team Co-Accountability t hat results in innovation\n How to Become effective at the skill of Self- Management Innovation\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row ][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nWorkshop Speakers\n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_ inner][vc_column_inner width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="5438" img_size= "medium"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text]St eve Gandara has spent over three decades helping leaders create High Perfo rmance Business Cultures. He has served clients including Fortune 500 corp orate executives\, business owners\, entrepreneurs\, labor-union leaders\, sales executives\, and educators\, as a professional leadership mentor an d business culture architect. Clients praise his expertise in helping them devise strategies that build leaders and cultures that make up the dynami c and aggressive teams demanded in today’s global economy.[/vc_column_te xt][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_colum n][vc_column_text]\nPricing:\n$795/participant or $3475/5 participants[/vc _column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nTo Register:\nFor single registrations up to a group of 4. In the Single Tick et Area\, pick the number 1\,2\,3 or 4 depending on how many individuals y ou are signing up.\n\nIf you have a group of 5\, you receive a discount. P ick 5 in the Group Ticket Area and fill in the required fields.\n\nIf you are registering a group larger than 5 please email heathers@excellentcultu res.com and we will register for you.\n\nPlease fill out all of the requir ed fields. You will receive an email confirmation of your purchase. If you have any questions please email us at heathers@excellentcultures.com.[/vc _column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] LOCATION:Plaza Center\, 10900 NE 8th Street\, Bellevue\, Washington\, 98004 \, United States GEO:47.6178819;-122.19404099999997 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=10900 NE 8th Street\, Belle vue\, Washington\, 98004\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Plaza Center:geo:47.6178819,-122.19404099999997 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:18@excellentcultures.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180220T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180221T170000 DTSTAMP:20171207T192316Z URL:https://excellentcultures.com/events/achieving-excellent-culture-febru ary-2018/ SUMMARY:ACHIEVING EXCELLENT CULTURE – February 2018 DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nA two day workshop catalyz ing personal and corporate transformation.\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_te xt]\nTuesday and Wednesday\, February 20 &\; 21\, 2018\n 8:00 am – 5 :00 pm\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nPlaza Center | 10900 NE 8th Str eet\, Bellevue\, Washington | (425) 633-3333\nEasy Access &\; Garage Pa rking\nCONTINENTAL BREAKFAST &\; LUNCH IS PROVIDED\n[/vc_column_text][/ vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row_content_no_spaces" para llax="content-moving" parallax_image="6676" el_id="exc-home-testimonial" e l_class="dark" css=".vc_custom_1461146282375{margin-bottom: 50px !importan t\;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nWhat Graduates are Saying\n[/vc_column_ text][exc_testimonial_slider cat="82"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_col umn][vc_column_text][su_box title="Have You Met the Culture Monster?"]Chan ces are\, you have. He eats your best strategies\, creativity\, innovation \, team spirit\, people and profits for breakfast.\n\nIn this workshop you will learn both how to recognize him in your business and squash him in h is tracks. Also\, how to evaluate and improve your leadership abilities so that he stays squashed. You'll acquire the tools to master the healthiest and most effective ways to improve what you want to improve and change wh at you want to change for yourself and your team. All will result in a “ Culture of Breakthrough Innovation” where you work.\n[/su_box][/vc_colum n_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nThis work shop will specifically address:\nHow to counteract the default culture of low performance and self over service in your teams and organizations to g enerate amazing innovation and breakthrough success.[/vc_column_text][vc_ column_text]\nWhat culture is and isn’t:\n\n Why and how culture really does “Eat Strategy for Breakfast”\n How cultural mindsets control th e reality of what your people and teams either embrace or miss\n Why and where your people are resisting change and innovation\n What can and cann ot be changed\n How to change what you truly want to change\n\n[/vc_colum n_text][vc_column_text]\nHow your personal\, leadership and organizational culture can cause:\n\n Resistance to change and anti-innovation\n Blind ness to your own leadership ineffectiveness\n People kissing up and then doing the opposite behind your back\n Buck passing and giving up accounta bility instead of innovating\n Resistance to change and anti-innovation\n Passive reactivity instead of proactive accountability and innovation\n Conflict avoidance\, fear &\; the resulting inferior performance\n\n[ /vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nParticipating leaders will:\n\n Receive a scientific culture assessment benchmarking their existing business cult ure against the highest performing innovation cultures in the world\n Gai n clarity on the 2 basic types of organizational or team culture\n Learn the 3 warning signs of an unintentional default culture and how to addres s them\n Identify the characteristics of an Excellent Culture of Innovati on and learn how to build it\n Find out how to Win the culture war betwee n default and excellent\n Identify and Understand:\n\n The Characteristi cs of Intentionally Excellent Teams in Depth\n The stages of successful t eam growth and how to make the most of them for your team\n The concept o f Real Accountability\n How to produce Voluntary Team Co-Accountability t hat results in innovation\n How to Become effective at the skill of Self- Management Innovation\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row ][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nWorkshop Speakers\n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_ inner][vc_column_inner width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="5438" img_size= "medium"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text]St eve Gandara has spent over three decades helping leaders create High Perfo rmance Business Cultures. He has served clients including Fortune 500 corp orate executives\, business owners\, entrepreneurs\, labor-union leaders\, sales executives\, and educators\, as a professional leadership mentor an d business culture architect. Clients praise his expertise in helping them devise strategies that build leaders and cultures that make up the dynami c and aggressive teams demanded in today’s global economy.[/vc_column_te xt][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_colum n][vc_column_text]\nPricing:\n$795/participant or $3475/5 participants[/vc _column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nTo Register:\nFor single registrations up to a group of 4. In the Single Tick et Area\, pick the number 1\,2\,3 or 4 depending on how many individuals y ou are signing up.\n\nIf you have a group of 5\, you receive a discount. P ick 5 in the Group Ticket Area and fill in the required fields.\n\nIf you are registering a group larger than 5 please email heathers@excellentcultu res.com and we will register for you.\n\nPlease fill out all of the requir ed fields. You will receive an email confirmation of your purchase. If you have any questions please email us at heathers@excellentcultures.com.[/vc _column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] LOCATION:Plaza Center\, 10900 NE 8th Street\, Bellevue\, Washington\, 98004 \, United States GEO:47.6178819;-122.19404099999997 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=10900 NE 8th Street\, Belle vue\, Washington\, 98004\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Plaza Center:geo:47.6178819,-122.19404099999997 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:17@excellentcultures.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180523T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180524T170000 DTSTAMP:20170803T221534Z URL:https://excellentcultures.com/events/achieving-excellent-culture-may-2 018/ SUMMARY:ACHIEVING EXCELLENT CULTURE – May 2018 DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nA two day workshop catalyz ing personal and corporate transformation.\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_te xt]\nWednesday and Thursday\, May 23 &\; 24\, 2018\n 8:00 am – 5:00 pm\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nPlaza Center | 10900 NE 8th Street\ , Bellevue\, Washington | (425) 633-3333\nEasy Access &\; Garage Parkin g\nCONTINENTAL BREAKFAST &\; LUNCH IS PROVIDED\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_c olumn][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row_content_no_spaces" parallax ="content-moving" parallax_image="6676" el_id="exc-home-testimonial" el_cl ass="dark" css=".vc_custom_1461146282375{margin-bottom: 50px !important\;} "][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nWhat Graduates are Saying\n[/vc_column_text ][exc_testimonial_slider cat="82"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column] [vc_column_text][su_box title="Have You Met the Culture Monster?"]Chances are\, you have. He eats your best strategies\, creativity\, innovation\, t eam spirit\, people and profits for breakfast.\n\nIn this workshop you wil l learn both how to recognize him in your business and squash him in his t racks. Also\, how to evaluate and improve your leadership abilities so tha t he stays squashed. You'll acquire the tools to master the healthiest and most effective ways to improve what you want to improve and change what y ou want to change for yourself and your team. All will result in a “Cult ure of Breakthrough Innovation” where you work.\n[/su_box][/vc_column_te xt][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nThis workshop will specifically address:\nHow to counteract the default culture of low performance and self over service in your teams and organizations to gener ate amazing innovation and breakthrough success.[/vc_column_text][vc_colu mn_text]\nWhat culture is and isn’t:\n\n Why and how culture really doe s “Eat Strategy for Breakfast”\n How cultural mindsets control the re ality of what your people and teams either embrace or miss\n Why and wher e your people are resisting change and innovation\n What can and cannot b e changed\n How to change what you truly want to change\n\n[/vc_column_te xt][vc_column_text]\nHow your personal\, leadership and organizational cul ture can cause:\n\n Resistance to change and anti-innovation\n Blindness to your own leadership ineffectiveness\n People kissing up and then doin g the opposite behind your back\n Buck passing and giving up accountabili ty instead of innovating\n Resistance to change and anti-innovation\n Pa ssive reactivity instead of proactive accountability and innovation\n Con flict avoidance\, fear &\; the resulting inferior performance\n\n[/vc_ column_text][vc_column_text]\nParticipating leaders will:\n\n Receive a s cientific culture assessment benchmarking their existing business culture against the highest performing innovation cultures in the world\n Gain cl arity on the 2 basic types of organizational or team culture\n Learn the 3 warning signs of an unintentional default culture and how to address th em\n Identify the characteristics of an Excellent Culture of Innovation a nd learn how to build it\n Find out how to Win the culture war between de fault and excellent\n Identify and Understand:\n\n The Characteristics o f Intentionally Excellent Teams in Depth\n The stages of successful team growth and how to make the most of them for your team\n The concept of Re al Accountability\n How to produce Voluntary Team Co-Accountability that results in innovation\n How to Become effective at the skill of Self-Mana gement Innovation\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc _column][vc_column_text]\nWorkshop Speakers\n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inne r][vc_column_inner width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="5438" img_size="med ium"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text]Steve Gandara has spent over three decades helping leaders create High Performan ce Business Cultures. He has served clients including Fortune 500 corporat e executives\, business owners\, entrepreneurs\, labor-union leaders\, sal es executives\, and educators\, as a professional leadership mentor and bu siness culture architect. Clients praise his expertise in helping them dev ise strategies that build leaders and cultures that make up the dynamic an d aggressive teams demanded in today’s global economy.[/vc_column_text][ /vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][v c_column_text]\nPricing:\n$795/participant or $3475/5 participants[/vc_col umn_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nTo Regi ster:\nFor single registrations up to a group of 4. In the Single Ticket A rea\, pick the number 1\,2\,3 or 4 depending on how many individuals you a re signing up.\n\nIf you have a group of 5\, you receive a discount. Pick 5 in the Group Ticket Area and fill in the required fields.\n\nIf you are registering a group larger than 5 please email heathers@excellentcultures. com and we will register for you.\n\nPlease fill out all of the required f ields. You will receive an email confirmation of your purchase. If you hav e any questions please email us at heathers@excellentcultures.com.[/vc_col umn_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] LOCATION:Plaza Center\, 10900 NE 8th Street\, Bellevue\, Washington\, 98004 \, United States GEO:47.6178819;-122.19404099999997 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=10900 NE 8th Street\, Belle vue\, Washington\, 98004\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Plaza Center:geo:47.6178819,-122.19404099999997 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:19@excellentcultures.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180919T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180920T170000 DTSTAMP:20180828T152821Z URL:https://excellentcultures.com/events/achieving-excellent-culture-septe mber-2018/ SUMMARY:ACHIEVING EXCELLENT CULTURE – September 2018 DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nA two day workshop catalyz ing personal and corporate transformation.\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_te xt]\nWednesday and Thursday\, September 19 &\; 20\, 2018\n 8:00 am – 5:00 pm\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nPlaza Center | 10900 NE 8th St reet\, Bellevue\, Washington | (425) 633-3333\nEasy Access &\; Garage P arking\nCONTINENTAL BREAKFAST &\; LUNCH IS PROVIDED\n[/vc_column_text][ /vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row_content_no_spaces" par allax="content-moving" parallax_image="6676" el_id="exc-home-testimonial" el_class="dark" css=".vc_custom_1461146282375{margin-bottom: 50px !importa nt\;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nWhat Graduates are Saying\n[/vc_column _text][exc_testimonial_slider cat="82"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_co lumn][vc_column_text][su_box title="Have You Met the Culture Monster?"]Cha nces are\, you have. He eats your best strategies\, creativity\, innovatio n\, team spirit\, people and profits for breakfast.\n\nIn this workshop yo u will learn both how to recognize him in your business and squash him in his tracks. Also\, how to evaluate and improve your leadership abilities s o that he stays squashed. You'll acquire the tools to master the healthies t and most effective ways to improve what you want to improve and change w hat you want to change for yourself and your team. All will result in a “Culture of Breakthrough Innovation” where you work.\n[/su_box][/vc_co lumn_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nThis w orkshop will specifically address:\nHow to counteract the default culture of low performance and self over service in your teams and organizations t o generate amazing innovation and breakthrough success.[/vc_column_text][ vc_column_text]\nWhat culture is and isn’t:\n\n Why and how culture rea lly does “Eat Strategy for Breakfast”\n How cultural mindsets control the reality of what your people and teams either embrace or miss\n Why a nd where your people are resisting change and innovation\n What can and c annot be changed\n How to change what you truly want to change\n\n[/vc_co lumn_text][vc_column_text]\nHow your personal\, leadership and organizatio nal culture can cause:\n\n Resistance to change and anti-innovation\n Bl indness to your own leadership ineffectiveness\n People kissing up and th en doing the opposite behind your back\n Buck passing and giving up accou ntability instead of innovating\n Passive reactivity instead of proactive accountability and innovation\n Conflict avoidance\, fear &\; the re sulting inferior performance\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nPartici pating leaders will:\n\n Receive a scientific culture assessment benchmar king their existing business culture against the highest performing innova tion cultures in the world\n Gain clarity on the 2 basic types of organiz ational or team culture\n Learn the 3 warning signs of an unintentional d efault culture and how to address them\n Identify the characteristics of an Excellent Culture of Innovation and learn how to build it\n Find out how to Win the culture war between default and excellent\n Identify and U nderstand:\n\n The Characteristics of Intentionally Excellent Teams in De pth\n The stages of successful team growth and how to make the most of th em for your team\n The concept of Real Accountability\n How to produce V oluntary Team Co-Accountability that results in innovation\n How to Becom e effective at the skill of Self-Management Innovation\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_ text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nWorkshop Sp eakers\n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/4"][vc_si ngle_image image="5438" img_size="medium"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inn er width="3/4"][vc_column_text]Steve Gandara has spent over three decades helping leaders create High Performance Business Cultures. He has served c lients including Fortune 500 corporate executives\, business owners\, entr epreneurs\, labor-union leaders\, sales executives\, and educators\, as a professional leadership mentor and business culture architect. Clients pra ise his expertise in helping them devise strategies that build leaders and cultures that make up the dynamic and aggressive teams demanded in today ’s global economy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_ row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="9020" img_s ize="medium"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_tex t]Michael Clifton is an exceptional\, internationally experienced leadersh ip coach\, facilitator\, speaker and trainer. With over 30 years\, 20 coun tries and 150 companies\, he solves “people issues” to improve busines s performance. His bottom-line\, root-cause approach shows leaders exactly how to stop chasing symptoms or simply tweaking performance around the ed ges. He applies practical tools that get to root causes\, produce real tra nsformation\, immediate results and change people’s lives.[/vc_column_te xt][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_colum n][vc_column_text]\nPricing:\n$795/participant or $3475/5 participants[/vc _column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nTo Register:\nFor single registrations up to a group of 4. In the Single Tick et Area\, pick the number 1\,2\,3 or 4 depending on how many individuals y ou are signing up.\n\nIf you have a group of 5\, you receive a discount. P ick 5 in the Group Ticket Area and fill in the required fields.\n\nIf you are registering a group larger than 5 please email heathers@excellentcultu res.com and we will register for you.\n\nPlease fill out all of the requir ed fields. You will receive an email confirmation of your purchase. 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He eats your best strategies\, creativity \, innovation\, team spirit\, people and profits for breakfast.\n\nIn this workshop you will learn both how to recognize him in your business and sq uash him in his tracks. Also\, how to evaluate and improve your leadership abilities so that he stays squashed. You'll acquire the tools to master t he healthiest and most effective ways to improve what you want to improve and change what you want to change for yourself and your team. All will re sult in a “Culture of Breakthrough Innovation” where you work.\n[/su_b ox][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_tex t]\nThis workshop will specifically address:\nHow to counteract the defaul t culture of low performance and self over service in your teams and organ izations to generate amazing innovation and breakthrough success.[/vc_col umn_text][vc_column_text]\nWhat culture is and isn’t:\n\n Why and how c ulture really does “Eat Strategy for Breakfast”\n How cultural mindse ts control the reality of what your people and teams either embrace or mis s\n Why and where your people are resisting change and innovation\n What can and cannot be changed\n How to change what you truly want to change\ n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nHow your personal\, leadership and o rganizational culture can cause:\n\n Resistance to change and anti-innova tion\n Blindness to your own leadership ineffectiveness\n People kissing up and then doing the opposite behind your back\n Buck passing and givin g up accountability instead of innovating\n Passive reactivity instead of proactive accountability and innovation\n Conflict avoidance\, fear &am p\; the resulting inferior performance\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text ]\nParticipating leaders will:\n\n Receive a scientific culture assessmen t benchmarking their existing business culture against the highest perform ing innovation cultures in the world\n Gain clarity on the 2 basic types of organizational or team culture\n Learn the 3 warning signs of an unint entional default culture and how to address them\n Identify the characte ristics of an Excellent Culture of Innovation and learn how to build it\n Find out how to Win the culture war between default and excellent\n Iden tify and Understand:\n\n The Characteristics of Intentionally Excellent T eams in Depth\n The stages of successful team growth and how to make the most of them for your team\n The concept of Real Accountability\n How to produce Voluntary Team Co-Accountability that results in innovation\n Ho w to Become effective at the skill of Self-Management Innovation\n\n\n\n[/ vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nW orkshop Speaker\n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/ 4"][vc_single_image image="5438" img_size="medium"][/vc_column_inner][vc_c olumn_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text]Steve Gandara has spent over three decades helping leaders create High Performance Business Cultures. He has served clients including Fortune 500 corporate executives\, business owne rs\, entrepreneurs\, labor-union leaders\, sales executives\, and educator s\, as a professional leadership mentor and business culture architect. Cl ients praise his expertise in helping them devise strategies that build le aders and cultures that make up the dynamic and aggressive teams demanded in today’s global economy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_in ner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nPricing:\n$7 95/participant or $3475/5 participants[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_ro w][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nTo Register:\nFor single registrati ons up to a group of 4. In the Single Ticket Area\, pick the number 1\,2\, 3 or 4 depending on how many individuals you are signing up.\n\nIf you hav e a group of 5\, you receive a discount. Pick 5 in the Group Ticket Area a nd fill in the required fields.\n\nIf you are registering a group larger t han 5 please email heathers@excellentcultures.com and we will register for you.\n\nPlease fill out all of the required fields. You will receive an e mail confirmation of your purchase. 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He eats your best strategies\, creat ivity\, innovation\, team spirit\, people and profits for breakfast.\n\nIn this workshop you will learn both how to recognize him in your business a nd squash him in his tracks. Also\, how to evaluate and improve your leade rship abilities so that he stays squashed. You'll acquire the tools to mas ter the healthiest and most effective ways to improve what you want to imp rove and change what you want to change for yourself and your team. All wi ll result in a “Culture of Breakthrough Innovation” where you work.\n[ /su_box][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_colum n_text]\nThis workshop will specifically address:\nHow to counteract the d efault culture of low performance and self over service in your teams and organizations to generate amazing innovation and breakthrough success.[/v c_column_text][vc_column_text]\nWhat culture is and isn’t:\n\n Why and how culture really does “Eat Strategy for Breakfast”\n How cultural m indsets control the reality of what your people and teams either embrace o r miss\n Why and where your people are resisting change and innovation\n What can and cannot be changed\n How to change what you truly want to ch ange\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nHow your personal\, leadership and organizational culture can cause:\n\n Resistance to change and anti-i nnovation\n Blindness to your own leadership ineffectiveness\n People ki ssing up and then doing the opposite behind your back\n Buck passing and giving up accountability instead of innovating\n Passive reactivity inste ad of proactive accountability and innovation\n Conflict avoidance\, fea r &\; the resulting inferior performance\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column _text]\nParticipating leaders will:\n\n Receive a scientific culture asse ssment benchmarking their existing business culture against the highest pe rforming innovation cultures in the world\n Gain clarity on the 2 basic t ypes of organizational or team culture\n Learn the 3 warning signs of an unintentional default culture and how to address them\n Identify the cha racteristics of an Excellent Culture of Innovation and learn how to build it\n Find out how to Win the culture war between default and excellent\n Identify and Understand:\n\n The Characteristics of Intentionally Excell ent Teams in Depth\n The stages of successful team growth and how to make the most of them for your team\n The concept of Real Accountability\n H ow to produce Voluntary Team Co-Accountability that results in innovation\ n How to Become effective at the skill of Self-Management Innovation\n\n\ n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_tex t]\nWorkshop Speakers\n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner wid th="1/4"][vc_single_image image="9261" img_size="medium"][/vc_column_inner ][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text]Steve Gandara has spent over four decades helping leaders create High Performance Business Cultures. H e has served clients including Fortune 500 corporate executives\, business owners\, entrepreneurs\, labor-union leaders\, sales executives\, and edu cators as well as nonprofit and clergy leaders\, as a professional leaders hip mentor and business architect.  Clients praise his expertise in helpi ng them devise strategies that build leaders and cultures with a relentles s commitment to excellence making up the dynamic and aggressive teams dema nded in today's global economy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row _inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/4"][vc_single_image image=" 31713" img_size="medium"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][v c_column_text]David Kobelin is a Certified Professional Coach\, internatio nal speaker\, and trainer. He has spent over 35 years successfully encoura ging\, equipping\, and empowering leaders and their teams. Providing clari ty and clear step by step goals\, David enables his clients to meet and ex ceed their desired performance results.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner] [/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nP ricing:\n$795/participant or $3475/5 participants[/vc_column_text][/vc_col umn][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\nTo Register:\nFor single registrations up to a group of 4. In the Single Ticket Area\, pick the nu mber 1\,2\,3 or 4 depending on how many individuals you are signing up.\n\ nIf you have a group of 5\, you receive a discount. Pick 5 in the Group Ti cket Area and fill in the required fields.\n\nIf you are registering a gro up larger than 5 please email heathers@excellentcultures.com and we will r egister for you.\n\nPlease fill out all of the required fields. You will r eceive an email confirmation of your purchase. 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He has served clients including Fortune 500 cor porate executives\, business owners\, entrepreneurs\, labor-union leaders\ , sales executives\, and educators as well as nonprofit and clergy leaders \, as a professional leadership mentor and business architect.  Clients p raise his expertise in helping them devise strategies that build leaders a nd cultures with a relentless commitment to excellence making up the dynam ic and aggressive teams demanded in today's global economy.[/vc_column_tex t][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1 /4"][vc_single_image image="31713" img_size="medium"][/vc_column_inner][vc _column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text]David Kobelin is a Certified Pro fessional Coach\, international speaker\, and trainer. He has spent over 3 5 years successfully encouraging\, equipping\, and empowering leaders and their teams. 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He ea ts your best strategies\, creativity\, innovation\, team spirit\, people a nd profits for breakfast.\n\nIn this workshop you will learn both how to r ecognize him in your business and squash him in his tracks. Also\, how to evaluate and improve your leadership abilities so that he stays squashed. You'll acquire the tools to master the healthiest and most effective ways to improve what you want to improve and change what you want to change for yourself and your team. 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He has served clients including Fortune 500 corporate executives\, business owners\, entrepreneurs\, labor-union leade rs\, sales executives\, and educators as well as nonprofit and clergy lead ers\, as a professional leadership mentor and business architect.  Client s praise his expertise in helping them devise strategies that build leader s and cultures with a relentless commitment to excellence making up the dy namic and aggressive teams demanded in today's global economy.[/vc_column_ text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width ="1/4"][vc_single_image image="31713" img_size="medium"][/vc_column_inner] [vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text]David Kobelin is a Certified Professional Coach\, international speaker\, and trainer. He has spent ove r 35 years successfully encouraging\, equipping\, and empowering leaders a nd their teams. 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