The OAD Programs

Seminars

OAD LLC and its Associates provide half-day to four-day seminars on the interpretation and use of the OAD Survey, Job Analysis, and Leadership Effectiveness.

Every seminar is tailored to the needs and realities of client participants and their respective organizations. Survey results of the participants and employees are used to discuss actual situations, opportunities, potentials, and problems. Abstract theories of personality and individual, group, and organization behaviors are kept to a minimum and integrated into present and planned realities.

Scheduled seminars are either closed – only participants from a specific organization may attend, or open – the seminar is open to participants from all client organizations.

The OAD Seminar provides in-depth education into personalities and behaviors in the workplace

• which contribute to or inhibit superior job performance,
• how the job and its environments effect individual and group behaviors,
• how people create and respond to organizational cultures,
• why people gravitate to and are most productive in various kinds of structures and reward systems,
• situationally effective leadership and communication styles,
• job analysis techniques,
• appropriate selection and placement methods.

The Leadership Effectiveness Seminars have two categories

Effective Management combines the basic required skills for first line supervisors and managers with an understanding of own and others’ work and interaction styles. When, who, and how to manage others –

• the qualities that contribute to or inhibit superior performance within specific jobs,
• why people act and react the way they do,
• how to construct, organize, and manage specific jobs,
• situational leadership, management, and communication styles,
• motivation – the two-tier process.

Effective Leadership is designed for senior level executives who require a better understanding of how organizations evolve, grow, and retract due to the "human condition". Change, or lack thereof, are responses to external influences - marketplace, competitive, political, social, and legal forces; and, more frequently, responses to internal influences -

• beyond skills and experience – how personalities affect and define performance,
• creating, defending, and changing organizational cultures and subcultures,
• change versus stability – when, where, how,
• personality, behaviors, and values,
• situational leadership and communication styles.

Consulting Support

Subsequent to seminar attendance consultancy support is provided to all seminar participants and client companies to help implement the information learned and ensure the proper usage of the OAD Survey. All of our associate consultants have years of experience in various areas of senior management in different industries.