• Objective - To identify employee needs in order to influence higher levels of performance
• Intended For - Managers and front-line supervisors
• Time Required - 1 ½ - 2 hours
• Product Format - Instrument

#0938E1PR Achieving Peak Preview Pack / $66                                                                Includes: Manager Version, Employee Version, and Facilitator Guide

 #0938E1SK Achieving Peak Starter Kit / $139
Includes: 5 Manager Booklets, 5 Employee Booklets, and Facilitator Guide

What does it take to increase a person's satisfaction at work? Using the well-known, time-tested model of Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs, Achieving Peak Performance provides front-line supervisors and managers at all levels with a simple yet powerful tool for identifying employee needs. Using this information, managers are then able to positively influence employees toward higher performance levels.
  
Maslow's theory offers a very practical way of looking at motivation issues for individuals or teams. This approach makes good business sense: provide employees with goals they find meaningful and engage them in activities that satisfy their individual needs, and they will naturally feel motivated to perform at higher level.
  

Available in both Employee and Manager Versions, the Employee Version is aimed at increasing an employee's awareness of their individual needs. The Manager Version is designed to identify employee needs in an effort to motivate higher levels of performance. To provide the most powerful learning experience, we recommend using the Employee and Manager Versions in tandem. Achieving Peak Performance can also be used individually as a self-paced learning tool. Either way, your employees will experience greater job satisfaction and improved on-the-job performance.
  
The Employee Version includes the self-assessment, FAQ, and action planning. The Manager Version and facilitator guide includes discussion guidelines and sample dialogs, FAQ, action planning, sample training design, case studies, transparency masters, and more.
   

• Objective - To identify and enhance personal strengths in the area of visionary leadership
• Intended For - Organizational managers and leaders
• Time Required - 1-1/2 hours
• Product Format - Instrument

#0935E1S05 Comp Leader Participant Guide 5-Pack / $45
#0935E1F05 Comp Leader Feedback Form 5-Pack / $19
#0935E1FG Comp Leader Facilitator Guide / $60

While the need for visionary leadership is evident in today's organizations, the means to develop visionary leaders is lacking. The Comprehensive Leader assesses specific behaviors that demonstrate an in-depth understanding of strategic and visionary concepts so that participants can learn how to practice visionary leadership.
  
Overview
  
While the need for visionary leadership is evident in today's organizations, the means to develop visionary leaders is lacking. As a facilitator, you are faced with the formidable task of taking busy and often overworked individuals and unearthing their visionary potential. In order to accomplish this task, you need to do three things:

1. Create an understanding of visionary leadership

2. Train potential leaders in visionary behaviors

3. Motivate them to practice those behaviors

The Comprehensive Leader provides you with the tools you will need. Through a simple but potent model, the concepts of visionary leadership become plainly apparent. The Comprehensive Leader assesses specific behaviors that demonstrate an in-depth understanding of strategic and visionary concepts so that participants can learn how to practice visionary leadership. Finally, the personal and organizational benefits of comprehensive leadership are highlighted throughout.
  
Development
  
When the Research and Development team at HRDQ perceived the need for a fresh approach to leadership challenges in the mid '90s, we turned to a thorough review of the academic and practitioner literature, hoping to assemble a contemporary view of visionary leadership from the currently available thinking. What we found was not entirely helpful.
  
The problem wasn't so much a lack of information as it was an overabundance. Many of the models we reviewed were of the "kitchen sink" variety. They proposed lengthy laundry lists of recommended leadership characteristics or principles, but often failed to organize the components into a cohesive structure. Other sources (mostly autobiographies) fell into the category of "what I did as a leader that worked."
  
What was missing, from our point of view, was an easy-to-train model - one that was not too unwieldy but still captured the essence of visionary leadership. To make sense of the vast and varied literature, we asked ourselves a simple question: "What do you really need to know to be a successful leader today?" Our answers to this question became the genesis of The Comprehensive Leader, and the basis for a simple, elegant model that was intuitively appealing and could be applied to individuals in a broad range of leadership positions. From our new model we were able to identify measurable behaviors and draw clear prescriptions for personal improvement.
  
When to Use The Comprehensive Leader
  
The Comprehensive Leader was designed for widespread use. A variety of leaders can benefit from the instrument.

Leadership Level - This instrument is appropriate for individuals in a broad range of leadership positions, including:

• team or department leaders
• middle managers
• senior-level contributors
• individuals without permanent supervisory responsibility but who play a leadership role

Organization Type - We generalized the language of the instrument and supporting materials so that leaders in a variety of settings will find the model applicable. These settings include:

• private sector companies
• government
• educational institutions
• non-profit organizations

Training Perspective - The Comprehensive Leader is also flexible enough to be used at various stages of leadership development programs. The instrument can be used:

• as the sole basis for leadership training. The model provides enough depth to create a leadership initiative in an organization
• as a complement to other leadership models. Ideas for building bridges between our model and other popular leadership models are presented in the Facilitator Guide
  

       
  

  Who Should Attend:       Experienced managers and leaders Recommended Group Size:       "Before going through the program, I had my doubts about whether it would be worthwhile. It was! Team Leader Training™ has turned out to be so necessary and so valuable. HRDQ has made a believer out of me!"    Barbara Kwiatek, Licensing Manager, ASCAP            With so many theories of leadership, how do you know what to put in your programs?     HRDQ has solved that problem with a comprehensive leadership course aimed at leading teams under 21st century conditions. What most organizations need now is a person who can help others learn to lead themselves, a person who is skilled in teaching others to do their jobs better and to work effectively in the context of an empowered team. For most supervisors and managers who have been leaders of traditional work groups, the new leader role may seem a little unnatural. This is a significant and complex behavior change that does not come easily to most supervisors and managers. Team Leader Training can pave the way for this change. Team Leader Training is designed to help experienced managers from traditional organizational backgrounds make the transition to a style of leadership more suitable to empowered, high-performance, self-directed, or self-managed work teams.     Team Leader Training participants will: Develop a new leadership orientation emphasizing facilitative behaviors. Empower team members to assume a greater share of the leadership and team management responsibilities. Align a team to its mission, vision, and short-term performance goals. Organize high-performance teams through role clarification and negotiation. Create effective, high-performance operating processes. Foster effective interpersonal and inter-team relationships.

  Learn how you can implement Team Leader Training™ in your organization!        Call us at 800-987-2463.

• Objective - To identify and assess team-leadership skills
• Intended For - New or potential leaders of high-performance or self-directed teams
• Time Required - 2 hours
• Product Format - Instrument

#0930E1S05 Team Leader Survey Participant Guide 5-Pack / $45
#0930E1F05 Team Leader Survey Feedback Form 5-Pack / $20
#0930E1FG Team Leader Survey Facilitator Guide / $60

The Team Leader Survey provides leaders or potential leaders of self-managing teams with the opportunity to gain a clear understanding of their skill level in interacting with their teams. The Survey is a 360° feedback tool. That is, leaders not only evaluate themselves but may also receive feedback from the team members they lead, their peers, and/or their managers. 
  
Leaders will learn useful information about themselves, recognize some of their strengths, identify some areas they want to change, and commit to specific action plans to aid in their development. In addition, the entire survey process can open the lines of communication between the leader and others in the organization.

• Objective - To experience the benefits of a facilitative leadership style
• Intended For - Managers and leaders of work groups or teams
• Each Game Trains - 3 teams of 5 people
• Time Required - 1-1/2 to 2 hours
• Product Format - Game

#0260E1KT Mars Surface Rover Leadership Version Kit / $475
Complete Game Includes:  3 boxes of reusable parts /batteries / 3 stopwatches / 15 participant guides / 4 calculators / 1 tablet of 30 price sheets / 1 set of 3 reusable leader roles / 15fun buttons / facilitator guide / convenient tote box
#0260E1S05 Mars Surface Rover Leadership Version Participant   Guide 5-Pack / $26
#0260E1KT3  Mars Surface Rover Deluxe Kit / $650
Everything you need to run both team & leadership games! Deluxe Kit Includes:
3 boxes of reusable parts / 3 stopwatches / 3 batteries / 4 calculators / 15 leader
participant guides / 20 team participant guides / 2 tablets of price sheets / 3 screens /     18 reusable task sheets / 3 reusable leader roles / 35 fun buttons / 2 facilitator guides
(one for each version) /  convenient tote box

Facilitative leadership has become an important force in moving to team-based organizations. But before traditional leaders can make this change, they need to know what facilitative leadership is-and how it differs from what they have been practicing in the past. The original, award-winning Mars Surface Rover is a great training game for teaching facilitative leadership skills.
  
Facilitative Leaders:

• Concentrate on teaching rather than directing others.
• Focus on helping others learn and develop.
• Provide guidance when a group is struggling or needs direction.
• Lead by asking questions rather than giving orders.
• Manage interactions between groups to provide their group with the best work environment.

How the Mars Surface Rover Leadership Version is played:
  
Three teams are assigned the task of building a prototype vehicle for ferrying astronauts across the surface of Mars. Using private instructions, team leaders lead their teams either passively, traditionally, or facilitatively. At the end of the game, teams race their finished vehicles. The fastest, most efficiently built rover most often belongs to the team with the facilitative leader!
  

Participants will:

• Learn how a facilitative leadership style generates a team atmosphere of trust, respect, open communication, and productivity.
• Discover the drawbacks of traditional (autocratic) or passive (uninvolved) styles of leadership.
• Understand the important balance between too much and too little authority.

Use the Mars Surface Rover Leadership Version to:

• Help new leaders incorporate facilitative leadership into their developing style.
• Retrain traditional leaders.
• Assist managers who oversee several teams or coordinate teams.

The Facilitator Guide includes step-by-step training instructions, answers to frequently asked questions, transparency masters, and an optional training design that allows all 3 teams to be led by facilitative leaders.
  
What to Order

Order one Mars Leadership Kit (#0260E1KT) for up to 15 players or 3 teams of 5 players each. The Mars Leadership Kit includes: 3 boxes of reusable parts (batteries included), 3 stopwatches, 15 Participant Guides, 4 calculators, 1 tablet of 30 price sheets, 1 set of 4 reusable leader roles, 15 fun buttons, Facilitator Guide, and convenient tote box. For more than 15 players at once, you should order: Set of 5 Participant Guides for Mars Leadership Version (#0260E1S05), Extra Parts Box (#0260E1GP), Extra Fun Button 10-Pack (#0260E1B10), and an Extra Tablet of Price Sheets (#0260E1P06).

Mars Surface Rover is a great training game for teaching facilitative leadership skills. The Team Version is just as effective and fun! You can order the Team Kit, Leadership Kit, or get both in our value-packed Deluxe Kit. If you are already a Mars Surface Rover Leadership Version owner, upgrade to the Deluxe Kit today! 

• Product Format: Paperback - 192 pages

#0929E1BK   Walking The Empowerment Tightrope / $20

Find the balance between empowered work groups and appropriate leadership strategies with this provocative book. A comprehensive mix of learning exercises, action plans, and behavioral theory, Walking the Empowerment Tightrope focuses on 25 cognitive and behavioral factors identified as key to the development of high group performance. Also included are appendices that offer information on such related topics as self-managing teams, effective facilitation, organizational roles, and problem solving.

Chapter Highlights: 

• Empowerment and High Performance 

• The 25 High Performance Factors 

• Action Ideas for the 25 Factors 

• Focus on System Change, Not Individual Change 

• Survey Feedback: Turning Data Into Action

• Objective - To measure the extent to which respondents view themselves as empowered
• Intended For - All types of leaders
• Time Required - 1-1/2 hours
• Product Format - Instrument

Profile Preview Pack / $65   Includes: Leader Version, Employee Version, and Facilitator Guide
#0536E3SK Empowerment Profile Starter Kit / $140
Includes: 5 Leader Version, 15 Employee Version, and Facilitator Guide