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Our Training Programs
- Presenting a Foster, Hicks program means working with Greg and/or Rick personally.
- Our programs are renowned for being fast-moving, community-building, inspiring events, and are all based on the research that is the foundation for our books - Choosing Brilliant Health, LeaderShock - And How to Triumph Over It, and How We Choose to Be Happy.
- Participants leave the programs feeling energized and motivated, and with new a set of practical, concrete and life-changing tools that can be immediately implemented.
- We collaborate with you to design a program specific to your needs.
We offer programs in three areas: Brilliant Health, Leadership, and Building High-Powered Teams.
Brilliant Health
- Choosing Brilliant Health (for individuals)
Based on our Brilliant Health system, participants learn how to integrate 9 behaviors into their lives to better manage stress, feel more positive and productive, and boost their immune systems for better health, faster healing, and more energy. - Creating a High-Energy Employee Culture (for leaders in organizations)
A step-by-step strategy for creating a healthy, motivated, energized, and productive workplace culture. - Implementing the Brilliant Health Model in Healthcare (for medical professionals to use with their patients and clients in their clinical practice)
- Raising Happy and Healthy Children Using the Brilliant Health system as a set of tools for parents and teachers to help develop motivated, happy, and physically healthy children.
Leadership
- Leadership for Executives
Provides tools and techniques that focus on the special issues faced by senior leaders in our complex business environment. - The Heart of Leadership (Our premier program for mid-level managers and supervisors)
Based on our powerful model for creating high-trust, high performance teams, participants learn how to deliver honest, clear communications, move through roadblocks, manage diversity of work style, and master tough coaching situations. - Personal Leadership
This program is based on the notion that for optimal success, employees at every level need to assume leadership behaviors. Fast-moving and interactive, it helps participants identify personal strengths, recast roadblocks, assume accountability, and align their intention with the values of the company. - Designing Business Strategies that Work
Participants learn to break through barriers to growth, profit and productivity by setting a strategy that expands business options and avenues for success, is clear and easy to understand, integrates team members into a cohesive group all working in one direction, and fully engages all stakeholders.
High-Powered Teams
- Creating a High-Trust, High-Performance Senior Leadership Team
Provides senior management teams with the behavioral roadmap to leading productive employees and achieving profitability by working together to collaboratively deal with the major issues and driving down through the organization a culture that promotes accountability and trust. - New Leader and New Team Integration
Quickly engaging a newly appointed leader with all team members; and then creating a unified "whole" with the individuals in a newly formed team. - Learning the Behaviors and Tools of The Excellent Team
Based on our team model, the group identifies and addresses obstacles to success and learns how to integrate simple tools to raise trust, increase levels of communication, and decrease triangulation. They walk out with a set of behavioral attributes and practices upon which they all agree. - Behaviors and Attitudes of the Safest Medical Teams
"Human factors" training for medical teams and departments to enhance patient safety and satisfaction.
What our clients say:
"Greg Hicks and Rick Foster are not only the most talented and inspiring trainers I know, they've also used their model of health to create the best template for leadership I've come across. It's practical, easy to follow, and panoramic in its implications. Their work has had a dramatic impact on me personally and a powerful effect on the many leadership teams they've trained throughout our organization."
—Valerie Aguirre
Vice President of Human Resources
Chubb & Son, Inc.
"Foster, Hicks & Associates is without doubt the most effective leadership development consulting company with which I have ever worked. I measure the quality of leadership and executive development consultants in terms of their ability to truly effect change. Foster/Hicks has been able to create positive, sustainable behavior change with hundreds of leaders within our organization. Both Greg and Rick are knowledgeable, approachable, and know how to balance support for the individual with an action orientation on behalf of the Company."
—Eden Feder
Executive VP of Human Resources
Zenith Insurance Company
"Greg and Rick blew us all away. With their dynamic presence and incredible roadmap for leadership and high-powered teams, they made our conference a smashing success. The evaluations said it all: A perfect 10."
—Dr. Joseph Mori, Chair
Silicon Valley Financial Institute Conference
(Attended by over 500 executives from over 30 companies.)
"Rick and Greg bring so much energy and enthusiasm to their work with people and organizations. Their style is simultaneously serious and humorous -- because the issues we deal with are serious, and humor helps us deal with them. Their tools and strategies are practical and powerful and have spanned my professional, personal, and community relationships in a positive way."
—Elizabeth Summy
Executive Director
American Society for Healthcare Risk Management
"With incredible showmanship along with their powerful and inspiring message, Foster and Hicks continually bring down the house at every event they've done for us. They are energizing and entertaining speakers who share powerful information that change lives. A standing ovation every time!
—Julie Ryan
Program Coordinator - Dept. of Finance and Accounting
San Jose State University
"Greg and Rick's keynote was the perfect opening and set the tone for our entire global conference. Their message was informative, entertaining, and brought us together as a cohesive group. Our audience loved it!"
—Joann Francavilla
Senior Manager of Education, Meetings and Membership
FCIB - Executives in Finance, Credit, and International Business
"A workshop with Rick Foster is engaging, entertaining (be prepared to have lots of fun), fast moving, flexible at a moment's notice, and incredibly instructive. The insights and practical tools that Rick imparts have the power to greatly improve one's life, both at home and in the workplace. His passion and energy are contagious and he has an amazing ability to connect with his audience. To work with Rick is to be the recipient of a wonderful gift.
—Kerry Eaton
Vice President, Patient Outcomes
St. Vincent's Medical Center
"Greg is blessed with a special ability to deliver a powerful message with humor and enthusiasm. People were glued to him and his wonderful model of leadership."
—Sandy Ludlow
Director, H.R.
Arvesta, Inc.
It is provided for educational purposes only. Always seek the advice of your physician or other medical
professional regarding a medical condition.
