• The Bison Distinction
• Transformational Thinking Paradigm
• Commitment to the World of Academia
• Community Involvement
• Bison’s Leadership Ventures
• Women’s Initiatives

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Bison Distinction

Bison’s custom initiatives are meant to connect with your specific business challenges. Throughout the process, the organization benefits from a mission-centric approach. Our mission is to create disciplined solutions that transform business organizations into intelligent enterprises. The solutions allow leadership to leverage development potential and strategies to form mission essential tasks for timely and profitable decisions. Using lesson’s found within the top executive tiers of the U.S. Marine Corps, the division teaches the required discipline to meet operational efficiency levels and goals quickly. In doing so, the required action plans are cost prohibitive and provides the needed muscle to gain ultimate supremacy for winning! 

Advantages of Bison’s custom approach include:

• Organizational Focus. The format of the initiative, as well as specific techniques and tools, are selected based on your organization's objectives and the issues you face. Our leadership forum’s provided feedback to help us design the applicable performance and critical thinking tools based on five task elements for organizational training. They are:
  
  

  1. Development of Best Practices.
  2. Implementation or Improvement of Essential Attributes.
  3. Responsibility to Achieve Business Process Execution “BPE.”
  4. Acknowledgment of Reengineered Policies and Processes for Progression.
  5. Mapping Sequences for Organizational “Affects” and “Effects.”

Defining a Purpose

To offer a focused training programs and custom solutions, Bison promises to engage the truth of “self” when building leadership value for the whole team.

This simply means that our initiatives go directly to the heart of the organization. Our Transformation Thinking Paradigm is defined as “Spirit to Lead, Courage to Follow;” becoming a Champion of Change is not easy by no means and Bison accepts the responsibility bestowed upon our teams for helping our clients journey to the next level. The training series offers a multiplicity of training assignments that instill discipline, goal orientation, and initiative, which are directed toward a pragmatic approach to successful operations for a lifetime of achievement.

The Master Principles

Our purpose in developing a system wide approach to successful organizational development is multi-tiered:

• Increase professional and ethical consciousness to leadership in growing structures.
• Assess awareness and responsibility of business processes within organizations and teams.
• Guide associates in making decisive decisions and ethical choices for growth to the organization.
• Assist organizational leadership’s functioning at the fullness of its untapped potential.

 

We recognize that for leadership to continue to mark its course in the profession of leading organizations, structures, and teams, a substantial accord is necessary among those who are in the positions to influence strategic growth and proactive change. The necessary values and ethics that must become an infectious behavior requires the “hardening of a fine metal,” forged in a furnace for exquisite excellence.

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Transformational Thinking Paradigm

Like Bison’s motto, The Courage to Lead – The Vision to Inspire, its Transformational Thinking Paradigm presents several lessons for a change to negative habits and thinking. The transition - if completed successfully, results in a journey through life with astounding achievements. Bison’s Transformational Thinking Paradigm delivers its message through a comprehensive text of provoking insight into the organizations culture. This text, “The Art of Detachment” presents parables of wisdom to be integrated into the lives of those seeking personal prosperity and professional development. In essence, finding greatness requires the seeker to find his/her voice, tap the untapped potential, and to become a specialist in the deployment of tactics for executing flawlessly in life.

Transformational Thinking offers enormous opportunity to acquire the necessary tools and techniques to both benchmark and enhance an individual’s potential leadership practice, as well as the relationships affected by their actions. Individuals who take the necessary steps to unlock their potential with strategic management skills will be encouraged and inspired. It will guide them on their journey as they venture down the path from “effectiveness” to “greatness” in finding their voice.

Using the Transformational Thinking Paradigm, you will understand the critical reasons for adopting a multi-tiered, system wide approach to successful organizational development. Adopting the paradigm within any system allows for significant takeaways. The takeaways that we are proud to point out from existing clients are as follows:

1. Increase professional and ethical consciousness to leadership in growing structures and promote character education for youth.
2. Assess awareness and responsibility of business processes in the organization and team association.
3. Guide associate members in making decisive decisions and ethical choices within the growth of the organization.
4. Assist organizational leadership’s functioning at the fullness of its untapped potential.
5. Assess and encourage shared leadership and execution tactics for getting things done and integrate strategies of successful leadership and team association.
6. Develop and articulate a shared vision across the organization and employ professional development to support the existing mission objectives of the organization.

Encourage and inspire organizational associates to find their voice; in doing so, they will encourage and inspire the entire organization to find its voice, increase performance levels and ultimately the bottom line, and decrease defects within business process levels and Talent Management protocols

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Bison’s Commitment to the World of Academia

In an era of high stakes accountability and rising expectations, Bison’s team of educational trainers brings a leadership development resource to contemporary educators, elementary thru university and collegiate studies, to assist them with the tough but critical job of reforming and restructuring schools.  Strengthening the leadership capability of those responsible for instructing America’s public and private schools, colleges, and universities (including faculty and administration) Bison’s Academia team is poised to do its part for educational reform that stimulates excellence.  

Special Program Features

Bison offers the same program models available to organizational and corporate clients, but with a strategic difference: they are customized to focus on contemporary educational leadership studies delivered by experienced trainers. Leaders within the world of academia are provided with an opportunity to reflect on strengths and developmental needs by instructing nontraditional programming that promotes excellence. Specifically designed and selected individual assessments sharpen insights about the impact of their own behaviors. In additional to being exposed to cutting edge behavioral research around leadership behaviors, they also participate in realistic, intensive "action learning" experiences that bring alive their typical responses within the context of the complex, high pressure world of educational leadership.

Cost

Bison recognizes the special financial challenges facing organizations throughout academia and offers them discounted program rates. Program costs vary with content and design; our goal is to create high quality programs that are affordable.

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Bison’s Commitment to the Community

The teams at Bison all share a years of tradition for giving back to the communities in which we live and work. With a significant training and developmental commitment, dedicated talent management and a steadfast commitment from organizational leadership, community involvement is a business imperative and a strategic priority for the Bison Group.

Our focus is on community professional development. Contributing much more than process management and process improvement services, we get right in the trenches and fight it out with community leaders. As a requirement for the organization, each associate seeks out community service opportunities to add value from specific disciplines. This creates a range of benefits and features that may not be available to the sponsoring organization for successful completion of the project. We strongly encourage our people to volunteer their time and talent, we recognize them for doing so, we reward them for encouraging others to get involved and we actively seek new and strategic opportunities to advance the causes that are important to our people and to have a positive impact on our communities.

A commitment to help solving problems across the Bison footprint
Our approach to community involvement is to focus on community needs where we can apply the skills and assets we use every day to help our clients solve complex problems. We think we can make the most lasting impact by helping organizational leadership work to solve social problems and deliver real results.

Youth Initiatives
Are you wondering what youth initiatives is all about? Youth Initiatives is a cross-community youth work project which aims to awaken hope, inspire initiative, and to develop the analytic, research, and self-expression skills that young people need to think critically about their world and to engage actively in U.S. democracy. The main focus of this initiative is to utilize music, literature, and classic film within a collegiate environment to begin preparing for their post-secondary educational years. The components are designed to advance opportunities and resources for youth through initiatives for school reform and after-school programs.

Perhaps no single group in society is as marginalized and vilified, blamed and even feared, as the young people who are fueling the future today. Despite falling juvenile crime rates, the perception remains that young people continue to be a threat to U.S. society. In the education and criminal justice systems, such thinking has led to increased zero-tolerance policies, which have had detrimental effects on the most vulnerable youths. Yet young people are an enormous resource to society for seeking solutions to pressing social issues and creating social change.

Youth Initiatives works to integrate low-income youth into the democratic process by supporting strategies that develop advocacy, self-expression, leadership, team building, and critical-thinking skills. The program’s key strategies in this regard are youth-generated media and formal debate. In addition, the Bison Group is a partner in a national initiative, Achievement Matters with the National Urban League, which seeks to improve education by restructuring low-performing middle to high schools and developing small, effective learning environments.

Bison makes an impact during a summer leadership youth experience. Bison’s introduced its Achievement Matters Experience; a program that facilitates excellence thru character education to the state of Delaware in August 2006. The program expressed a solution-centric youth training program that was successfully integration into the Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League's "MWUL's" own Achievement Matters system. The program was designed to support 12 months of programming beginning with a military style leadership camp for students within the city limits of Wilmington, DE. 

Progressing Corporate Involvement into the Future  
We believe that community involvement is not only the right thing to do; it’s good for business and supports strategic growth. We support ideas that encourage societal developments, as well as various national organizations who share the mission of helping businesses become community leaders. The objective for Bison is to become a significant leader in this area and to encourage other business organizations to maximize their contribution to their communities and to society where they have a presence.

The Achievement Matters Experience
This is not your traditional youth training program, as it presents a non-traditional approach to learning using strategies from within the United States Marine Corps. The approach is simple, yet complex: Framing the future one child at a time! See what happens when organizations collaborate to employ a proactive approach for mentorship within the lives of tomorrow’s leaders.

Above and Beyond Initiative
Looking to integrate social solutions within the community? Look no further; Bison’s Above and Beyond Initiative, a four year project, is designed for specializing in the development of social ventures. The initiative supports government and governmental agencies, foundation, educators, faith-based and nonprofit organizations, policy makers and students in learning about sustainable development and citizenship for community youth using the finest military strategies available for meeting this objective.

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Bison’s Leadership Ventures

Bison’s Leadership Ventures are experiential learning opportunities for clients, community leaders, students, and managers who are interested in attending a Bison Leadership Challenge and Advanced Management Executive Program. Co-sponsored by industry and business leaders, the leadership ventures include programs that range from experience derived and designed from the United States Marine Corps Air and Ground Campaign, otherwise known as the “MAGTAF.” 

The ventures establish a rigorous leadership & team building training regiment for the organizational community unlike any offered in the marketplace. The experience focuses on five major segments to engage the ultimate truth of the individual and teaches the importance for building leadership value for the whole team. The training series offers a very unique business programming protocol, contributing a multiplicity of discipline, goal orientation, and leadership & team building initiatives. All training segments are directed toward a pragmatic approach to successful governance and multiple levels of lifetime achievement. 

Concentration: Developed as a leadership & team building educational program, Bison’s Leadership Ventures stands by its mission: “To improve overall organizational performance through critical thinking settings while shaping the future for extreme excellence.” The experience promotes a strong core value that teaches candidates lessons of self-discipline, team unity and the essentials of being a dynamic leader. Here, participants undergo a development of personal values where character is exemplified to transform them into responsible members of a team unit.
The program instructors believe that participants are forged in a furnace of shared discipline and rigors of academic and physical training. This intense experience creates bonds of comradeship and standards of conduct so strong that participants will let nothing stand in their way throughout life’s journey.

Task Assertions: (i) Leadership and coordination of comprehensive instruction delivering excellence in training; (ii) Improvement of best practice; (iii) Responsibility of individual appreciation to the crucial role of team leadership for achieving and establishing superior processes, and (iv) An aiding respect and importance of values acknowledged through Protocol, Process and Profitability teams, organizations, and an individual’s future life experiences.

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Women’s Initiatives

The Bison Group launched its Leadership Ventures for Women. This dynamic program is poised for adding a refreshed breadth to the women's leadership initiative. It is an intensive, individualized program designed by and for women in developed leadership roles and executive C-suites. In today’s turbulent business world, some women find themselves in complex environments where the formulation and execution of business strategy are more critical than ever before. The Leadership Ventures for Women presents cutting edge and unique content taught by faculty who are renowned in their field. Participants will learn techniques from the “elevator affect” to understand the competitive structure of an industry and their own position in the industry. Moving up is said to be a promotion, a rise in status or success; moving down a loss and sideways a lateral move, status quo. The program incorporates an introduction to military and corporate experience and strategy to provide the tools for women at all levels to get off at the right floor in life and for moving your career in the right direction.

During the Leadership Ventures for Women you will learn to:

• Assess the value of strategy options.
• Improve your ability to recognize key strategic issues.
• Learn the “elevator affect” to drive ownership of corporate strategy through effective communication.
• Identify and compare your organization’s core competencies with those of your competitors.
• Develop systems and processes for coordinating activities across business units and functions.
• Avoid the classic mistakes in thinking about strategy by avoiding all buzz words.
• Apply the Prometheus LeaderShaping Process - the four forces analysis to your career and organization.
• Determine organizational requirements of strategy and adapt your systems to new execution methods.
• Make decisions on entry, based on the company’s strategic assets and liquidity value.
• Analyze diversification strategies.
• Understand vertical integration, rank & file.
• Draw links between strategy formulation and implementation - The Leadership Signature!
• Predict the “Future Picture” and impact of industry evolution and better anticipate competitive reactions.
• Ensure your personal and professional vision & mission is in alignment - analyze industry structure.
• Integrate creativity into a tactical-philosophy that translates into positive organizational behavior.
• Recognize which competitive advantages can be sustained and which to let go.
• The Leadership Ventures for Women Program Outline

Alpha Phase: Professional Analysis and Positioning

• Personal framework for analyzing the structure and your position in life
• How to increase your level of personal prosperity and professional development (Transformational leadership and organizational behavior to increase return on investment – your time and energy!)
• How the competitive position of a firm determines its level of performance and yours

 

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