The Corporate Institute is committed to working with organizations that need to develop improved leadership, and more supportive teams capable of dealing with change in an evolving global economy.

• Build stronger teams
• Develop improved communication
• Improve leadership effectiveness
• Empower participants to integrate their learning experience to the work environment

We offer a range of land and sea based activities, all designed to bring corporate decision makers together to develop strategy and build more supportive energized corporate teams. Training is conducted in locations throughout the United States. Our locations allow for a combination of intensive seminars, discussion and team building along with the opportunity to participate in a range of outdoor activities in a stimulating environment.

Contact us at:

(570)389-2100

Executive Director – Brett Simpson – bsimpson@bloomu.edu

Director Emeritus – Roy Smith – rhsmith100@gmail.com

www.corporateinstitute.org

The Corporate Institute offers the following solutions:

Workshop Modules

• Personality Profile
• Communications
• Dealing with Conflict
• Building your team
• Leadership

Coaching for Managers

“To be a successful executive, one must be able to take charge of his/her authoritative role comfortably, to manage the inevitable ambivalence of subordinates and the rivalry of peers and superiors, and to avoid being caught up in the regressive behavior of the work group he/she leads.”

Harry Levinson, The Levinson Institute, Harvard Business Review

Coaching for Functional and Cross Functional Management Teams

In a changing global market, it is crucial that cross functional and functional teams communicate needs and expectations in clear concise terms.

Strategic Planning

Strategic planning is an essential undertaking for any enterprise if it is to successfully navigate the uncertain and unknown territory that lies ahead.

Participants are actively engaged as a group throughout the process, sometimes in smaller, rotating dyads. This approach allows for a range of ideas and opinions to emerge and be considered.

Experiential Team Development for Functional and Cross Functional Teams

Team-building training sessions are experiential – “hands-on” – and are designed to develop stronger more supportive teams capable of dealing with challenging situations and decision-making. Team-building training allows participants to be more aware and confident of their role in a group and how they can be most effective in contributing to team performance.

Recent programs we have run for our clients include:

General Dynamics

Our work at the Red Lion plant in York, PA, is focusing on improving and better integrating cross function teams to contribute significantly more to the company’s lean management goals.

St. James Health Care

A two-day training that addressed improving inter-departmental communications within the system, developing necessary skills for dealing with adversarial relationships, and how to build an effective team.

JDK Management

A team-development training session that addressed optimum ways of building loyal and productive teams, and communicating more effectively between teams in an organization that has geographically dispersed locations.

ISS Solutions, Geisinger

A presentation to 120 clinical engineers and technicians who are responsible for maintaining medical equipment in five states.  Issues addressed were:  Dealing with the Unknown; Building Your Team; Attitude is Everything; Collaboration; and communicating with colleagues at geographically dispersed locations.

United States Postal Service

The Corporate Institute recently completed a training with managers from the Central Pennsylvania region of the United States Postal Service at Split Rock Resort in the Poconos.

Southern Health

Succession planning strategies with Southern Health and the senior management team, and a day of cross-functional team-development for 25 line managers.  Program based out of  the Roanoke Hotel in Roanoke, Virginia

PPL Controllers Department

One hundred and eight members of the PPL Controllers Department participated in a half day of team-building training at the Split Rock Resort in the Poconos.

Our current and former clients include:

Alumax
American Home Foods
Bell Atlantic
Best Line Leasing/Equipment
Bio-compatibles Eye-care Inc. Bloomsburg Mills
Blue Cross
Central Penn Leadership
Chamberlain Manufacturing
CLS Facility Services
College Misericordia
Colonial Metals
Columbia Montour Home Health
Cornell Iron Works, Inc.
Cornell Storefront Systems, Inc.
Danville State Hospital
Decorator Industries
Del Monte Food
Deluxe Homes
Dillon Floral
Dollar Tree Stores
Dunn and Bradstreet
Fairchild Semiconductor
First Columbia Bank and Trust
Geisinger Medical Clinic
Health America, HMO
Heinz Pet Products
Hershey Park
Highlight Magazine
IBM
ING Direct
JDK Management
Jevic Trucking
Kawneer Company
Kleerdex Company
Lackawanna County Courts
Leadership Wilkes-Barre
Lockheed Martin
Magee Rieter
Medical Management Services, Inc.
Merck Chemicals
Millers Mutual Insurance
PA Bureau of State Parks
Pennsylvania Power and Light
PNC Bank
PPL Comptrollers Department
PPL Power Generation
Press Enterprise
Proctor and Gamble
Prudential Retirement
Reader’s Digest
Wed-Net
Rudis Group International
Southern Health Services
SW Michigan College
Summit Manufacturing
Susquehanna Health Services
Thomson Consumer Electronics
Towanda Hospital
Twinlab
Vanguard Financial
Williamsport Hospital
Wise Food
World Presidents Organization
Young Presidents Organization

Testimonials

“The team-building has helped us resolve company issues more effectively and efficiently with less tension. Everyone has a clearer understanding of other departments’ needs and wants. This has led to increased cooperation between departments and a better team approach”

Sandra Weber
Vice President – HR and Information Systems

“The Corporate Institute has given our 52-year-old company a new direction of teambuilding, employee empowerment and communication among the entire Colonial Metals Company family.”

Phillip Serls
President and CEO – Colonial Metals Company

“The expectations are more clearly defined, there is an increased level of trust between department managers, and we are much better at defusing potential conflict. It is difficult to notice as it’s happening, but in reflection the change is very dramatic.”

Kevin Asti
Plant Manager – Kleerdex Corporation

“There is such a significant change in our group for the better. I know that things we say now would not have been said six months ago, and no one walks away angry. We are not afraid to commend or criticize and so so without the fear of repercussion. It helps the company because we can get work done more efficiently in a much more pleasant atmosphere.”

Robert Farishon
Engineering Manager  – Chamberlain Manufacturing, Inc.

“Creating high functioning teams is a necessity in the global marketplace. We are familiar with a lot of team-building training programs. The Corporate Institute Program far exceeds anything we have seen.”

Floyd Warner
President – PA Chamber of Business and Industry

“I’ve been through many of these programs, and entered this skeptical. The results exceeded our expectations with regards to improved communication and interpersonal relations This has been a great benefit to our company”

Mike Davis
Senior Vice President – Underwriting and Marketing

“Communications and team building exercises that the Corporate Institute developed for our staff enhanced our ability to make significant changes to our business”

Robert J. Lyon
President and CEO – Millers Mutual Insurance