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TABIC has your solutions for executive coaching

TABIC can put together a cost-effective suite of tools for executive assessment, development and coaching. We address the needs of specific business and industry problems such as:

· Customer service in hospitals, nursing homes, retail, call centers, financial services organizations
· Employee selection tools for maximizing hires who will have direct customer interaction
· Identifying, hiring and/or training the best sales people for any industry for inside or outside sales
· Quickly assessing and determining training and motivation needs of potential and new supervisors and managers
· Managing conflict in the workplace
· Identifying and leveraging differences for productivity across cultures/subcultures, locations and functions in organizations
· Helping speed up and make mergers and acquisitions more effective

Contact TABIC to learn about the best tools for your business, including LIFO training and the Profile XT.

LIFO® Training Overview

What is LIFO® Training?
LIFO® Training is a performance improvement technology with numerous applications that leads to increased productivity, communication, and teamwork benefiting 8 million people in 20,000 organizations and 28 countries.

LIFO® Training enables people to:
• Understand their own orientation—their own special approach to work and relationships.
• Appreciate the diversity of ways other people approach work and relationships.
• Learn new strategies for managing their work, relating to others, and interacting in teams.

LIFO® Training...
• Focuses on strengths—on what is right about individuals and teams, not problems or weaknesses.
• Takes a quantitative view of strengths—too little, too much, and just enough.
• Enables people to manage their strengths to maximize productivity and minimize wasted effort.

LIFO training is for everyone.
• Delivers essential skills needed at all management levels.
• Benefits all departments and job functions.
• Fits into existing programs or stands alone.

LIFO® Training Experiences
1. Classroom Training:
Personal Productivity, Interpersonal Communication
2. Team Building: Team Diagnistics, Team Development
3. One-on-One Coaching: Individual Diagnostics, Individual Development

Training, OD, and Coaching Applications
• Leadership Development
• Problem Solving
• Change Management
• Strategic Planning
• Performance Appraisal
• Time Management
• Diversity Training
• Executive Coaching

Build Teamwork
• Inventory team strengths and utilize differences.
• Control team excesses and overcome team blind spots.
• Collaborate for more balanced information gathering, decision making, and resource utilization.

Bridge the Communication Gap
• Recognize other people’s communication preferences.
• Translate their communications so they answer the key questions in other people’s minds.

Break the Productivity Barrier
• Seek situations that bring our their best.
• Replace wasted effort with lean action.
• Avoid missing key information in problem solving.

Organizational Benefits
1. Multi-level Impract:
Deliver essential concepts and skills that increase the productivity at all organizational levels.
2. High Performance: Challenge both the most productive and the least productive people to do better.
3. Reduced Costs: Eliminate the cost of lost time from inefficient work styles, recurring problems, miscommunication, avoiding responsibility, and uncoordinated teams.
4. Quick Results: Accelerate cooperation, trust, and open communication for improved planning, decision making, and problem solving.

Individual and Team Benefits
1. Leadership Skills: Stay focused on achieving results when dealing with errors, problems, and unmet expectations.
2. Productivity Skills: Eliminate unproductive work habits and develop greater versatility for dealing with a wider range of tasks and responsibilities.
3. Problem Solving Skills: Generate a variety of alternative solutions to persistent, unresolved problems.
4. Communication and Teamwork Skills: Appreciate and utilize individual differences for greater team achievement.

Why LIFO Training is So Effective
1. Carefully Sequenced:
Create a high-trust learning environment. Promote progressive mastery of relevant skills, attitudes, and insights.
2. A common Language and Framework: Facilitate discussion and shorten learning time. Support many different training applications.
3. Surveys, Checklists and Written Activities: Identify what participants most need to learn. Generate ownership and clarity. Support practical action plans that lead to behavioral change.
4. Small and Large Group Activities: Encourage exploration of feelings and attitudes.
Enable feedback and generate commitment.
5. Practical Skills are Immediately Applied: Don’t stop with explanations or diagnostics.
Include proven techniques and action plans.
6. Thorough Research and Testing: Disseminate best practices from around the world. Ensure successful and enjoyable experiences for both trainers and participants.

LIFO Training is available online. Contact us to learn more!

Companies that have used LIFO training...
Aerospace: Hughes, Northrop, Rockwell, Rohr Industries, TRW
Communications: AT&T, Bell Atlantic, BellSouth, GTE, MCI, Nynex, US West
Consulting: The Athyn Group, Arthur D. Little, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, General Physics Services, Nielson Media Research
Education: American College of Physicians, University of California, University of Tennessee, Stanford University
Electronics: Hewlett-Packard, General Electric, IBM, Motorola, Picker International, Xerox
Financial: American Express, GE Capital, Westinghouse Credit, Fidelity Investments
Food Coca-Cola, General Foods, General Mills, Nestle, Pilgrim's Pride, Pepsico, Ralston Purina
Government: Alaska Dept. of Labor, City of Phoenix, U.S. Army, U.S. Dept. of Energy, U.S. House of Representatives
Petroleum & Chemicals: Amoco, Exxon, International Specialty Products, Mobil, Monsanto, Shell, Sun, Union Carbide
Pharmaceuticals: Bristol Myers Squibb, Hoffman-LaRoche, Marion Merill Dow, Rhone-Poulenc Rorer
Publishing: Advo Systems, Doubleday, Peterson Publishing, R.H. Donelley, R.R. Donelley Sons
Religion: American Lutheran Church, Baptist Sunday School Board, Fuller Theological Seminary, Servants of the Paraclete, United Methodist Church, United Presbyterian Church
Retail: Brooks Brothers, Circuit City Stores, JC Penny, Kids R Us, Saks 5th Avenue, Toys R Us
Transportation: CSX Transportation, Roadway Package Systems, Saudi Arabian Airlines, United Airlines
Utilities: Bonneville Power, Florida Power, Jersey Central Power and Light, Southern California Edison

Supplement Your LIFO® Training with The Profile XT

The Profile XT is a "total person" assessment that measures job-related qualities that make you more productive: Thinking and Reasoning Style, Behavioral Traits, and Occupational Interests. It is convenient and easy to use on the Internet.

TABIC also offers:

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