Yager Leadership & Team Development
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Yager Leadership
& Team Development
We formed in the early 1970s under the name Consulting Associates. Located
at that time in the Detroit Michigan area we began specializing in the
Assessment Center Method and in training and learning design. By the mid-seventies
our reputation had grown until we were identified by Training Magazine
as one of the "Big Three"in management training and selection.
With then partner Don Michalak we published the best-selling book Making
The Training Process Work (Harper & Rowe) based on the
workshop of the same name we were conducting and continued to conduct
for over 20 years through the University of Michigan Division of Management
Education.
Click here to purchase the new 2001 revised issue.In the mid-seventies
we were pioneers in the development of the quality movement. With then
partners Ron Kregoski and Beverly Scott we produced one of the first books
on the subject of quality and service improvement through teams (Dartnell)
and the first video based training process on quality management teams and Quality
and Service Improvement Methods (T.E.A.M.). Ed Yager moved to Park City,
Utah and subsequently formed Yager
Leadership & Team Development.
Over 300 clients, dozens
of customized training programs, numerous books and book chapters, and
hundreds of articles later we continue create the leader's
edge by selecting and developing world class leaders and leadership.
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the latest press release regarding Making the Training Process Work
Introducing Ed Yager
Ed has held positions in senior operations and store management, and in training management at the J.L. Hudson Company in Detroit (now Marshal Fields), and at the Ford Motor Company. He has been at the forefront of training, organization development and management assessment activities for his entire career. He represented Ford as a member of the Training Research Forum (a group of researchers and development specialists from firms like G.M., AT&T, Prudential, and a dozen others pioneering behavioral and competency based learning. He was a founding member of the Assessment Center Research Group, and a contributor to the Ethical Standards For The Conduct of Assessment Centers (a landmark document that was adopted by every federal agency, and related professional associations). He majored in education at the University of Detroit and Brigham Young University, has an Executive MBA from Michigan State, and a DBA from Indiana Northern University. He has spoken before 100's of training, H.R., management and professional conventions and associations, and has authored over 250 books, book chapters, articles, and customer training programs. He was an instructor for the renowned Management of Managers program (University of Michigan) for nearly 25 years involving over 10,000 participants, and is currently a visiting lecturer at the University of Utah, and an adjunct professor at Weber University. He has specialized in assessing, coaching, and evaluating managers and executives, leadership, team training and development, and customer service. His ability to apply sound adult learning principles and state-of-the-art leadership and team skills has made him an extremely effective coach and trainer. He served for 15 years on the Selection Committee for the HRD Hall of Fame.
| Yager
Leadership & Team Development Mission
To provide in a timely manner the highest levels of selection, quality, leadership, and organization effectiveness consulting services. Build within individuals and organizations the skill and ability to grow, to change, to improve service and quality, to become increasingly more effective and competitive, and to create jobs. Our Operating Principles We are responsible to our clients to deal ethically; to be current with technology and research; to work through and empower individual organization members; to develop collaborative team based work methods; to maintain confidences and to be open, honest, and straight forward in our dealings; to give our full attention to each client system as if it was our only client; to give our clients help with development and change that is within their best interest, and not that which is in our briefcase or on our shelf. We owe it to our clients to continually improve our own capabilities and competence. We limit our practice to those client systems whose purpose and commitment is to the betterment of its employees, its customers, its suppliers and its community, and whose practices contribute to the welfare of it various publics. |
Our
Sentiments Exactly! Ethics Do Matter!
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Our Unique Methods/Processes
Our broad base of experience, research, study, and skill cuts across all areas of organizational effectiveness. This provides us the insight, knowledge, vision, and perspective that is needed in evaluating and selecting managers, and in strategy, evaluation, leadership development, and planning processes.
We begin with a broad based assessment of your needs, goals and capacity.
We determine your strengths, weaknesses, capabilities, plans, and competitive position.
We then help your management team make decisions, resolve differences, plan the future, and implement changes, training or other interventions as appropriate.
We have the capability, experience, and tools to make your organization a benchmark.Yager Leadership & Team Development is a consulting and training firm dedicated to help you achieve your goals and objectives. We have been in business for over 30 years. When it comes to the design and implementation of solutions and achieving measurable results, few have the depth and breadth of our experience.
- We are not in the business of selling packaged programs or "fast food" seminars. Our work is customized to fit your needs, context, objectives, and current position.
- We have nurtured our reputation as among the most results oriented, ethical, and best informed firms in the U.S. Continuous research, study, and improvement is a primary objective.
A Few Words About Our Use Of The Adult Learning Model
Our background, our foundation, is in the advancement and application of adult learning principles and practices in all learning activities. We were among the first to write in detail about adult learning. We have worked and studied with legends like Likert, Herzberg, Lippitt, Knowles, Kirkpatrick, Tichy, Bennis, Rummler, Senge, and others.
- We emphasize participation in the learning process.
- We have an understanding that adults learn through the filter of past experiences and with already formed habits, assumptions, and biases about themselves, about others, and about their environment.
- We recognize the need to create a learning environment which emphasizes both self discovery, development, and increased confidence.
- Our sessions all include carefully managed and reinforced "walk through the change" processes. It can best be explained in three steps.
- Experience and Awareness - an exercise, instrument, case study, survey, role play, assessment, or other form of feedback must be provided in order for the individual to get a more objective and more clear understanding of his or her current view of the world, and of his or her skill level.
- Choices and Content - A presentation on the key points to be made regarding practices, theories, methods, expectations, concepts or other learning objectives follows the awareness. Learning about alternatives and options.
- Change - A plan for change based on adequate experience in mastering the new methods or practices that are important, and a method of follow-up and reinforcement.
New and revised:
A classic best seller MAKING THE TRAINING PROCESS WORK is available.
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PROCESS WORK" by Ed Yager and Don Michalak.
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