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Robert Harris is now providing some of his training programs in partnership with the University of Toronto, School of Continuing Studies. This enables people to take his training programs through public offerings. Our first University of Toronto course on Powerful Negotiating Skills will be offered on Saturday June 13 and June 20 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. The cost to attend this program is $499.00.

For more information, please contact Robert Harris at rhr@idirect.com or the University of Toronto, School of Continuing Studies.  These programs will also be offered in the fall of 2009 in the evenings.

(The 5 C’s of Selling)

This past week (February, 2009), I had the pleasure of delivering a seminar for a national sales conference in conjunction with my close working colleague, Bill Smalley.   Bill is an expert on sales and marketing and speaks on these topics globally. continue

There is a critical organizational level, frequently overlooked and under-appreciated, that gets even less attention during tough economic times – “middle management”. continue

“This month, the world got very excited with the election of Barack Obama as the next President of the United States of America.   I must confess, I have never watched so much CNN as I did for the 18 months leading up to this significant event.   Given all my work in the areas of creating change, moving past conflict, and engaging a critical mass of stakeholders in a new vision, I was intrigued by Obama’s very different, yet highly effective approach to getting others onside. continue

A few months ago, I was asked to speak at a corporate event involving the announcement of some major changes both to the organization’s structure and employees’ roles and responsibilities.   About 200 senior managers and executives were in the room. continue

The second printing of Change Leadership: Inform, Involve, Ignite! will be available in late 2008.

The highly successful book by author Robert Harris provides illustrations, models, tools and templates to succeed at organizational change.  It particularly focuses on the “people” challenges inherent in any change situation.  Change Leadership: Inform, Involve, Ignite! provides chapters on how to help middle managers succeed at change, how to communicate difficult news in a way that fosters understanding and buy-in, and how to overcome resistance and create a critical mass of energy and momentum necessary for change to succeed.

To order or learn more about the book, click here.

Robert Harris Resources delivered 2 presentations on Change Leadership at this year’s Leadership Summits.  The week long event starting October 23rd was attended by executives and managers of Service Ontario, Ontario Government. continue