The Art of Detachment Project

A United States Marine turned business professional, Damian D. “Skipper” Pitts, President-CEO at The Bison Group Corporation, has been inspiring professionals in the business marketplace on the topics of leadership, organizational behavior, strategic planning, project management, team building, performance management, and Flawless Execution for more than 10 years. Throughout his professional career, he experienced his share of business failures, disappointments, dysfunctional behaviors, and frustrations as he struggled to find purpose in developing his personal leadership signature and voice.

To help others in similar situations, Pitts developed a project that has become a life within itself. The project’s design is to inspire and encourage individuals in leadership to step away from popular culture, face the challenges of leadership and organizational behavior, and convincingly acknowledge that many of their personal and professional problems exist because they simply do not adapt well to the changing circumstances of modern day strategies and best practices to become a Champion of Change.

The constructs of the project includes the following:

Publications

▪ The Art of Detachment: Breakthrough Principles to Transformational Leadership
▪ Building Great Teams: Charting the Path of Organizational Politics
▪ The Art of Detachment: 25 Strategies for Organizational Effectiveness (Jan 2008)
▪ The Elevator of Achievement: Determination Requires a “Choice” with author Renee’
Amoore (For Women, By Women)
▪ The Quilt: Cultural Voices with authors Patterson, Silverthorne, and Shird
(Contributing Author, Chapter 2 Transformative Education: Diversity Management:
Facing a Giant!)
▪ The Art of War & Business: Four Laws to HumanSigma (2008)
▪ Flawless Execution: Project Management the Marine Corps Way (2008)

White Papers

▪ Diversity Management: Facing a Giant!
▪ Building Great Teams: Charting the Path of Organizational Politics
▪ Conflict Management: LeaderShaping Open Doors
▪ The Art of War & Business: Four Laws to HumanSigma (2008)

Training (Personal & Professional Development)

The LeaderShaping Executive Development Program (Includes 35 different program topics in the areas of leadership, organizational behavior, transformative education, strategic planning, project management, Flawless Execution, diversity education, and team building maneuvers)

Performance Management Assessments

The Breakthrough TTI Performance Management Assessment Protocol (Includes 40 assessment instruments in the areas of executive & management coaching: leadership-organizational behavior, behavior and values, staff development, sales development, team building, customer relationship management, time management, communications development, tasking: maximizing workplace performance and best job, career planning, transformative education: administrator, teacher and student versions, family relationships: adult and young adult versions, organizational development and effectiveness: 180° & 360° view, organizational development, organizational health check: “BTO Proprietary Instrument,” general employment, health care management, emotional intelligence, and personalized coaching).

Keynotes

▪ The Art of Detachment: Breakthrough Principles to Transformational Leadership
▪ Building Great Teams: Charting the Path of Organizational Politics
▪ The Art of War & Business: Four Laws to HumanSigma
▪ The Art of Detachment: 25 Strategies for Organizational Effectiveness
▪ Workplace Motivators: Six Value Categories that Influences Greatness within your
Environment
▪ The Elevator of Achievement (with author Renee’ Amoore: For Women, By Women)
▪ Dynamic Communications with Style

The Project Benefits

▪ Tips for being a good team member in a high-stress environment
▪ How leaders can diffuse inter-office politics
▪ How to avoid office politics and succeed in today's team-based workplace
▪ Why understanding organizational dynamics is the key to building better teams
▪ How leaders can build quality teams in unique work environments (virtual
workplace, etc.)
▪ What the Elevator of Achievement means for women in the workplace
▪ How to head up a few floors on the Elevator of Achievement
▪ How to set business resolutions and become an achiever into the future
▪ Ten tips for getting the promotion you have been seeking
▪ How to incorporate positive self-talk into your workplace
▪ How workplace conflict is created and how it prevents the elevator from heading up
▪ Quiz: Are you toxic or nourishing in your work environment?

Understanding the criticality of performance management, The Art of Detachment Project engages participants with leadership and organizational behavior skills training and reward leaders who can improvise skillfully, rather than follow out-dated routines that deliver the same results. The program instructs through a nontraditional approach to learning strategy-execution. The project is committed to provide the tools to help participants with learning the outlined strategies, principles, tactical-philosophy, and application: Leadership Development & Organizational Behavior, which is grounded in the rigors of the United States Marine Corps discipline and training ethos.

The time has come for you and your organization to “conquer” challenges with a refreshed perspective to win in all you set out to achieve. The Art of Detachment Project offers an extensive bridge between the “what-is” (theory) and the “how-to” (practice) for immediate application – at a pricing point that limits your risk, but increases your abilities to begin a process improvement strategy.

The Art of Detachment Project and its “LeaderShaping Guiding Precepts” are “not” business as usual and offers one of the most stimulating “leader-to-leader” forums in the marketplace. Contact us by email today at: Tools@ArtofDetachment.com to sign up and/or to sign your organization up and become a proactive “Champion of Change” for every voice across your organization, community, and household!

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Refresh Your Leadership Signature as a New Year's Resolution

“LeaderShaping the Leader in You!”
The Bison Group’s Executive Education Programs
Executive Education Training Division
11 February 2008 – 1 May 2008
Philadelphia, PA

Leadership and organizational behavior can be a key differentiator of successful individuals and organizations. This program explores the personal leadership journey and the role that leadership plays in sustained growth, enabling you to rethink your approach to management, leadership, and leadership development. By examining and comparing leadership practices across a range of complex issues, you will acquire the tools and techniques to realize your leadership potential, establish your leadership signature, and drive measurable growth within your personal and professional lifestyle.

LeaderShaping is “not” business as usual and offers one of the most stimulating “leader-to-leader” forums in the marketplace. Send us an email today at: Sales@BisonGroupUS.com to sign up and/or to sign your organization up and become a proactive “Champion of Change” for every voice across your organization. You will not be disappointed!