Yager Leadership & Team Development
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We formed in the early 1970s under the name Consulting Associates. Located
at that time in the Detroit Michigan area we began specializing in the application
of the Assessment Center Method, as well as and in the best
practices in organization performance and in training and learning design. By the
mid-seventies our reputation had grown until we were identified by Training
Magazine as one of the "BigThree"in management training and selection.
With then partner Don Michalak we published the best-selling book Making The
Training Process Work (Harper & Rowe) based on the workshop
of the same name which we were conducting and continued to conduct for over 20
years through the University of Michigan Division of Management Education.
Click here to purchase the 2001 revised issue.In the mid-seventies
we were pioneers in the development of the quality movement. With then
partners Ron Kregoski and Beverly Scott we produced one of the first books
on the subject of quality and service improvement through teams (Dartnell)
and the first video based training process on quality management teams and Quality
and Service Improvement Methods (T.E.A.M.). Ed Yager moved to Park City,
Utah and subsequently formed Yager
Leadership & Team Development.
We continue to create the leadership
edge by selecting and developing world class leaders and leadership.
Introducing Ed Yager
Ed has held positions in senior operations and store management, and in training management at the J.L. Hudson Company in Detroit (now Macy's), and as a senior HR Executive and at the Ford Motor Company. He has been at the forefront of training, organization development and management assessment activities for his entire career. He represented Ford as a member of the Training Research Forum (a group of researchers and development specialists from firms like G.M., AT&T, Prudential, and a dozen others pioneering behavioral and competency based learning. He was a founding member of the Assessment Center Research Group, and a contributor to the Ethical Standards For The Conduct of Assessment Centers (a landmark document that was adopted by every federal agency, and by related professional associations). He majored in education at the University of Detroit and Brigham Young University, has an Executive MBA from Michigan State, and a DBA from Indiana Northern University. He has spoken before 100's of training, H.R., management and professional conventions and associations, and has authored over 250 books, book chapters, articles, and customer training programs. He was an instructor for the renowned Management of Managers program (University of Michigan) for nearly 25 years involving over 10,000 participants, and is currently a visiting lecturer at the University of Utah, and an adjunct professor at Webster University. He has specialized in assessing, coaching, and evaluating managers and executives, leadership, team training and development, and customer service. His ability to apply sound adult learning principles and state-of-the-art leadership and team skills has made him an extremely effective coach and trainer. He served for 15 years on the Selection Committee for the HRD Hall of Fame.
Ed has personally assessed or implemented assessment processes for Ford, AT&T, Boeing, Intermountain Health Care, McKesson, American Suzuki, and dozens of others. He has served on the faculties at Wayne State University, the University of Michigan Graduate School, Clemson University, the University of Pittsburgh, and Brigham Young University.
| Yager
Leadership & Team Development Mission
To provide in a timely manner the highest levels of selection, quality, leadership, and organization effectiveness consulting services. Build within individuals and organizations the skill and ability to grow, to change, to improve service and quality, to become increasingly more effective and competitive, and to create jobs. Our Operating Principles We are responsible to our clients to deal ethically; to be current with technology and research; to work through and empower individual organization members; to develop collaborative team based work methods; to maintain confidences and to be open, honest, and straight forward in our dealings; to give our full attention to each client system as if it was our only client; to give our clients help with development and change that is within their best interest, and not that which is in our briefcase or on our shelf. We owe it to our clients to continually improve our own capabilities and competence. We limit our practice to those client systems whose purpose and commitment is to the betterment of its employees, its customers, its suppliers and its community, and whose practices contribute to the welfare of it various publics. |
Our Unique Methods/Processes
Our broad base of experience, research, study, and skill cuts across all areas of organizational effectiveness. This provides us the insight, knowledge, vision, and perspective that is needed in evaluating and selecting managers, and in strategy, evaluation, leadership development, and planning processes.
We begin with a broad based assessment of your needs, goals and capacity.
We determine your strengths, weaknesses, capabilities, plans, and competitive position.
We then help your management team make decisions, resolve differences, plan the future, and implement changes, training or other interventions as appropriate.
Yager
Leadership and Team Development
Copyright 2002-2009