Lynn Reed Associates, Inc.

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Lynn Reed leads an international management consulting firm that specializes in improving organizational performance through the design and delivery of customized leadership and organizational development processes. He works with all levels of professional and management staff, from entry level trainees up to the board of directors in some of the largest and best performing financial institutions in the world.  His ability to engage participants in both classroom and virtual settings is second to none.

• Executive Boot Camp is a five-day program designed to provide high potential delegates in the organization with thinking skills, processes and frameworks for developing business strategy, solving problems, making decisions, leveraging creative thinking, improving communication and team effectiveness.
• Leadership and Management Foundational and Advanced Skills: a series of proven, standalone skills development modules that can be combined to create programs meeting the exact needs of the client, both in content and duration.  We offer modules covering capabilities and frameworks for motivation, goal setting, feedback, coaching with situational leadership, developing business strategy, solving problems, making decisions, leveraging creative thinking and improving communication.
• 7 Triggers to Yes is a persuasion approach that fills that critical gap: Science-based guidelines for how to craft the most persuasive possible communications, making it easier, faster, and more reliable to achieve the 3 Cs of customer acquisition: Capture, Captivate, Convert.
• Building High Performing Teams (TeamStart) process to define and clarify mission, vision, value proposition, goals, strategy, roles, processes and relationships for newly formed or intact teams.  We employ a model of Team Effectiveness to diagnose and develop high-performing teams.  We dramatically improve the quality of working relationships across the team by using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to highlight and provide insights into members’ communication and decision-making preferences.
• Meeting Facilitation Masters: both in-room and virtually - we are also experts in the application of meeting effectiveness tools such as Six Thinking Hats , Lateral Thinking , personality type assessments, leadership/team effectiveness methods - and can leverage these techniques as needed to guide the group interaction toward the desired outcome(s).  We have the group dynamics skills, the pragmatic approach and the humor needed to make your meetings highly engaging and in most cases, even fun.
• The Six Thinking Hats (Parallel Thinking) is a one-day course designed to teach the techniques developed by Dr. Edward de Bono to radically improve the way individuals and groups think, communicate, engage and make decisions. The Six Thinking Hats method introduces a common language which enables parallel thinking across the organization.  Proper application of this technique dramatically improves participation / engagement, meeting and decision-making productivity and opens the door to creativity across the organization.
• Lateral Thinking techniques have been applied many times with great success in both revenue generating and support functions to solve real problems by providing a structured approach to help people really “think outside the box”. Lateral Thinking (Creativity) tools are frequently used to generate ideas to improve organization performance, to enhance retention of key employees and to improve productivity and organization performance.  Lateral Thinking  is frequently combined with the Six Thinking Hats course to form the Course in Creativity.  This program can be expanded to include facilitated application for intact project and process improvement teams.
• Leading Organization Change (LOC)  seminar is designed to help managers and individual contributors better respond to organization change driven by market upheaval. The program focuses on improving communication around the nature of change and enhancing the resiliency of management and staff during change, both developing and supporting real change leaders.  LOC clarifies the linkage between key organizational initiatives, the marketplace imperatives driving these changes and the impact of corporate culture (values and behavior) on an organization’s ability to adapt to change.
• Situational Leadership provides a framework designed to significantly improve the effectiveness of coaching and developing people to become high performing team members.  This intensive, fast-paced program teaches managers how to assess each employee’s developmental level on each major task or goal for which they are responsible using the Situational Leadership model.  The manager adapts their style to maximize the effectiveness of the coaching interaction. 
• The Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is one of the most proven and powerful instruments of its type in the world.  We apply it with an exceptional level of expertise to enhance individual and team effectiveness, leadership development and interpersonal relationships (e.g. communication, relationship-building, persuasion skills, conflict management, decision-making, influencing others).
• Emotional Intelligence (EQ-i 2.0) is a one-day workshop designed to be delivered to intact teams, team leaders and individual contributors to help them understand and apply the concept of Emotional Intelligence in order to enhance the process of building and improving communications and working relationships across and beyond the members of a team. The course is highly interactive and delivered at a rapid pace. Profiles can be created to guide thinking for optimal performance in certain roles, for hiring, mobility and promotion.
• Executive Coaching the emphasis is on building high performing top talent, applying our extensive and global executive coaching knowledge, techniques and experience to provide critical support to your present and future leaders.  Often, the “critical flaw” that holds many potential senior leaders back is not about their business acumen, product knowledge or other “hard skills”.  Most likely, it is a failure to build relationships both horizontally and vertically across the organization and/or the ability to deal with a high degree of cognitive complexity that holds key executives back and prevents them from moving up to the next level.  Our executive coaching process involves clarifying the specific objectives of the coaching engagement, a thorough diagnosis of developmental gaps and the application of psychometric and leadership assessment tools and techniques to achieve the objectives of the engagement.
• Keynote Addresses: We deliver outstanding keynote addresses, each one designed to inform, motivate, inspire and set the stage for whatever meetings or tasks are to follow. All our presentations are designed to drive home a serious message in as captivating and light-hearted a manner as appropriate. Standing ovations are not uncommon. Recent topics of interest among our client base include: Driving Culture Change, Creativity and Innovation, Customer Focus, Motivation and Commitment, Sales and Influencing Clients, Leadership Development, Building High-Performing Teams, Communication and Relationship-Building.
• Community and non-profit support: We frequently help non-profit service leadership teams and their highly committed professionals apply powerful communication and decision-making techniques often available only to major for-profit organizations.  These tools and processes can have a significant impact on the efficiency and effectiveness with which these organizations operate – increasing the likelihood that they will accomplish their key objectives.