Whenever you attempt to bring bold, innovative change to the work environment, you must first eliminate negative forces within your current status quo and replace them with new, more effective ways of working. That can be a challenging process. Laughingstock helps develop tools and strategies for implementing change through a series of Leadership Presentations that are unmatched in both quality and effectiveness.

Whether it’s change leadership, crisis management or boldly inspiring the enterprise, Laughingstock provides insights, awareness, and brilliant, effective tools. Tools for the Alpha Yak.

LEADERSHIP PRESENTATION #1
Extreme Leadership Workshop:
“Winning in the No-Win Scenario”

Jan Wilmot of the Boeing Company calls this module “The best and toughest game ever invented for senior leaders”. We call it “Kobiyashi Maru”, after Star Trek's famous no-win scenario.

We take three frustrating, impossible, mind-bending situations and put your leadership students squarely in the middle of all three. These are live, real-time, real-pressure dilemmas that must be dealt with and managed immediately. There’s only one problem: There is absolutely no way to win. In order to bring about anything positive, participants have to bring all of their leadership skills and competencies to bear.

Individuals and teams work through the three situations, which involve safety, disclosure, positioning, internal politics, public perceptions, stock price-everything. This is a one-of-a-kind laboratory that helps leaders at any level to develop and finely tune their skills of perception, communication, and action. See the Yak Grooming page for delivery options and pricing.

LEADERSHIP PRESENTATION #3
“THE MATRIX”

One of your key overseas factories has just suffered a major explosion, resulting in the death of four individuals, which results in a temporary shutdown. While local authorities conduct their investigation, a wildcat strike occurs in two other manufacturing facilities, forcing you to close those plants until a meeting with union chiefs can be arranged. Your chief competitor has issued a statement regarding your company’s poor safety record, and the organization you were about to partner with is threatening to pull out of the proposed joint venture. The board has called an emergency meeting in Chicago in order to discuss the fact that your stock-price is now in free-fall, and everyone is looking to you for answers. That’s because you are the President and CEO of the company, a position that you’ve held for only two short months. NOW WHAT?

The Matrix is all about the order of our moves & responses, the methods we employ to deal with such varied challenges, and, most importantly, the words that we choose to restore faith and confidence. Students are given a virtual chessboard of possible options; plus people, resources, and time. Both positive and negative consequences of your approach are immediately revealed, resulting in either more time to manage, or a decision by the board to relieve you of your command. Tough game. See the Yak Grooming page for the price of all this pain.