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Dr. Woodrow "Woody" H. Sears
http://woodysears.googlepages.com/

Dr. Sears is the author of the five management skills books in the Front Line Guide series released early in 2007 by HRD Press. You can find them described on his website at http://woodysears.googlepages.com/.

 Woody Sears has been training managers and leaders since 1967. Tested in more than 200 organizations and presented in more than 100 public seminars, his techniques for resolving organizational conflicts have helped thousands of managers just like you to solve problems, develop employees, and enhance their personal effectiveness.

Early in his career, Woody was lucky to have been accepted as a resource person by Leadership Resources, Inc., one of the early behaviorally-oriented consulting firms. That provided opportunities to work with and learn from many of the scholars and consultants who were developing the framework for what subsequently became Human Resource Development. Chief among those mentors was Leonard Nadler, Woody's major professor in the doctoral program at The George Washington University. Professor Nadler coined the term HRD and is the creator of that academic and professional discipline. Those experiences followed a Master's program in change management at N.C. State, and a tour as a Marine officer.

Beyond consulting and presenting public seminars (mostly on project management), Woody has designed customized project management systems for a number of companies and government agencies. Throughout his career, he has worked to simplify essential management information so it's accessible to everyone.

One of the keys to simplification is to generalize, to demonstrate that pay-off behavior at work pays off at home, too; that workers and siblings and your own kids look to you for something, and when you can deliver it, your life becomes simpler and more successful.

What's the "it" others want from you? They want you to lead them to their success, their satisfaction, their security, and to acknowledge their contributions; to confirm them as individuals worthy of self-esteem!

That's all there is to it. There are some tools and techniques that will help you, all of them rooted in management theory, scientifically proven and validated.

That's why this material is important, and why the 2007 Front Line Guide series will be valuable to you. It provides the framework for no-nonsense, adult-to-adult ways to make short-interval training work and to give managers the tools to become conflict-resolving, in-house consultants. If you'd like Woody to share his ideas and experiences directly with your staff, he's just a travel-day away. Contact him at woodysears@gmail.com or at 370 6 99 26734 in Vilnius.

Woody will be teaching Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility in Fall, 2007, at the College of Social Sciences in Vilnius.