Mission Statement
Business Leadership & Strategic Performance Training/Enhancement
"Our objective is to assist individuals, companies and organizations reach optimal performance using innate skills and strengths within the larger framework of circumstance, workplace and community. Relevant and stimulating programs are customized to client requirement".
-Rodger Harding
Founder

Harding International and Associates Inc.
E-Mail
Telephone: +1 (416) 962 6700
9836 Keele Street
Vaughan, L6A 3Y4
Ontario, Canada
Client Comment
Selected Comments
"This seminar far exceeded expectation - Rodger is poised, articulate, respectful- He was dead on with his presentation and I would recommend him without hesitation." - S.M. Canadian Women in Communications (CWC)
"Your participation in our International/Asia Pacific FS Conference helped make it one of the best and more relaxed conferences we've ever had. Very effective facilitation! Thank you." - Paul Masse, Manager, Bombardier Aerospace
" I want to congratulate you on a job well done. A room full of lawyers is not the easiest audience to appear before, yet you ruled the room. You have that unique ability (gift?) to teach ideas without it being hard work. I found your personal style very relaxing yet challenging". - David Clarke, Chair, YLD Division, The Canadian Bar Association of Ontario
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Corporate Intelligence

CIA Harding International and Associates Inc.

Publication:
"In this compelling book by a former diplomat, you will learn the secrets (step by step) to developing an intelligence strategy by effective information gathering and analyzing, and then to delivering credible intelligence to senior management."|more...

Available from bookstores and online:
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Leadership Training
The Essence of Business Leadership Training -
Be the leader you are meant to be!

Toronto based Rodger Harding, applying leadership savvy learned from military, legal, diplomatic & business consulting experience has a proven record of enabling full leadership potential in scores of business folk. His clients range from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, national not-for-profit organizations & learning institutions.

The Harding Leadership training program raises awareness, validates and empowers the true essence of leadership. We enhance your ability to identify, strengthen and take full advantage of core leadership competencies, instilling legitimate confidence rather than reinforcing a preoccupation with outward presence. | more...
Training/Coaching
Training Program Design and Development
All Harding International and Associates Inc. programs are designed to:
  • Access existing innate and learned competencies/experience.
  • Enhance individual/team ability to meet current organizational requirement.
  • Accommodate changing environment and circumstance.
Our customized programs are built from scratch and will accurately reflect the unique context of corporate operations and identity. Training products that utilize the Harding Model are limited to one company per industry. This commitment ensures that training initiatives will result in strategic and competitive advantage - We encourage clients to safeguard our techniques and methodology as part of their intellectual property.| more...

LATEST NEWS/COMMENT

Maximizing Team Input: Finding out what they don’t know they know!

by Administrator 13.Oct.2010 13:38:00

As direct offshoot from our Corporate Intelligence Program we have successfully delivered a 2-day training pilot for this exciting and relevant new offering: 

The Situation  

A growing IT solution provider ready to move to the next level in terms of growth and steps to establish a clear competitive edge 

The Challenge 

Lack of available budget to hire required expertise 

The Task 

 To explore the availability of existing, but untapped expertise in the current team resource pool; An interactive discussion format allows for an organic/flexible evolution of team performance/results – This is not a canned/pre-set program. 

The Program Objectives 

·          Stocktaking of current team responsibilities existing and conscious team expertise and experience·          Via everyday and fun exercises, demonstrate to team members their innate ability to access unconscious knowledge and provide workable solutions

·          Up the ante, using newly learned techniques to explore real operational challenges/problems/objectives solutions and possibly arrive at sustainable and cost-effective solutions     

Short Term Results 

·          Clear individual ability to think laterally and access hitherto hidden or dormant expertise

·          Team preparedness to consider the bigger picture and cross job-description boundaries where necessary

·          Potentially workable solutions delivered within available budget 

Long Term Results 

·          Increased awareness of, and individual connection (across the board) to, service-oriented leadership

·          Enhanced/sustainable work ethic   

Should this program resonate, please call Rodger Harding for more information: (416) 962-6700 

The program respects client confidentiality at all times!

 “Expression is all we want… not knowledge, but vent: We know enough; but have not leaves and lungs for a healthy perspiration and growth” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (Selected Journals 1841-1877)

Success – Fruition of Dreams or Evolution

by Administrator 19.Feb.2010 11:55:00

In a society that increasingly heralds success in terms of wealth and status, it is small wonder that we are bombarded with clichéd recipes that promise foolproof avenues to turn desire into reality.

Ad nauseam we hear of attuning vibrations, the power of positive thought, the laws of attraction etc. We are asked to compile scrapbooks, paste pictures and write journals that give concrete expression of our every material want.  As humans we are naturally imperfect. Do we know what we want? Do we really know what is best for us in the long term? Is it not wiser to set and strive for strive for concrete goals, while factoring in a flexible acceptance or even surrender to what happens, able to  reset goals in accordance with current circumstance. Perhaps the old adage “Be careful what you ask for … you might well get it” had its origin in this reality.  

Imagine a world where everyone could achieve success just by visioning or willing it to happen? The danger of this thinking is the so prevalent sense of entitlement that equates desire with expectation and the right to have!  

Uncertainty and the wild-card factor are a given - They should be managed rather than wished away ... Surely they make life challenging and interesting?  

 

Creativity Defines Leadership Style

by Administrator 04.Oct.2009 11:25:00

Enjoy a fun session painting on canvas. The experience will allow an exploration of:
 
·          Innate thinking that underpins your leadership expression
·          How your leadership style impacts on others
·          The difference between management and leadership
 
What’s involved!
  
·          A 3-hour time investment
·          The creation of an original artwork (2-hours)
·          Individual or group (4 maximum) sessions
·          Intensive debrief with Rodger Harding (1-hour exchange of ideas, recorded for participant reference)
·          $300.00 (all paints, brushes and canvases included)
·          Wine and snacks add to the relaxed atmosphere
 
 
How this approach to leadership training came about!
 
 A young CEO, describing her management team as iconoclastic, recently asked me to come up with a relaxed and intimate leadership course that would be completely different, yet relevant. It was important to her that each person would walk away with a better knowledge of, and confidence in, their own leadership style.
 
As my own artistic ventures have distinctly allowed me to understand how creative thinking influences my approach to people, situations and crises. This is particularly true when faced with unchartered territory, or scenarios that have unfolded in an unexpected fashion. I decided to experiment with a real-time painting session that would allow each participant to evaluate their own leadership style. It was a great success.
 
Feedback showed that the 4 participants benefited by:
 
·          A positive realization of innate, yet untapped, creative thinking
·          A conscious awareness of the difference in individual approach to the task 
·          An understanding of the parallels in workplace decision-making and project management
·          An awareness of the importance of creative thinking when faced with required interpretation, analysis and task execution within set time and resource parameters
·          A conscious realization that management is a component of leadership
 
Call (416) 962-6700 for more information
 
 
Seema has never painted before - It was impressive to note how her work reflected full response to environment & available resources, as well as audio and verbal stimulus

 

Women & the Psychology of Leadership

by Administrator 31.Aug.2009 06:07:00

Rodger Harding is proud to have been invited by Adriaans & Associates to present a full day workshop that will explore and demystify the role of Women in Leadership

 

Date: Friday November 20, 2009.

Sheraton Centre Toronto,

123 Queen Street West, Toronto

 

·          Full day leadership workshop 8:00am-4:30pm (lunch served)

·          Cocktail networking session 5:00–7:00 pm

·          Draw— 2 tickets to South Africa sponsored by South African Airways

 

Rodger Harding’s empowering insights reflect an exciting life lived on three continents. His experiences have fuelled a firm conviction that individuals are totally unique and deserve to be accommodated for who they are rather than who they are expected to be. His particular passion for recognizing, accessing and enabling deserving Canadian women, is clearly demonstrated through his long standing professional development engagement with the nation-wide Canadian Women in Communications (CWC) Professional Development & Mentorship Program.

Rodger is a gifted storyteller – His riveting presentations are uniquely interesting, entertaining, and memorable!

 

"Do not follow where the path may lead.

Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Muriel Strode

The Evolving Context of New Media - Rodger Harding interviewed for ACTION!

by Administrator 05.Aug.2009 06:18:00

Rodger Harding was recently interviewed by Natalia Malysheva of Natole Productions as part of her latest documentary that explores the evolving context of New Media in the film, broadcast, news and entertainment arenas. Her questions were insightful and thought provoking.  

Action!  is an interactive documentary that aims to present the numerous challenges faced by Canadian independent producers in the process of launching new media projects.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJVWwb1v8aw

News: Canadian Achievers

by Administrator 09.Oct.2007 20:58:00

Rodger Harding featured as a Canadian Achiever   

Rodger Harding was delighted to be featured as a Canadian Achiever.

Dick Drew writes contemporary stories of living Canadian Achievers - To read "Canada's Enthusiastic Immigrant" please visit:

Canadian Achievers 



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