AMT GROUP - Developing Global Thinkers

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Andrew W. Silberman President & Chief Enthusiast	AMT PROFILE
	Our mission is "Developing Global Thinkers." We offer customized seminars and individual counseling in management skills and graduate school applications. AMT Group was created in 1992. The founders devoted themselves to forming a company where they could grow professionally with their clients. Based in Tokyo, AMT Group services individuals, companies and organizations in Asia and the United States. As our clients "spread the good word," we've built up our team of qualified professionals committed to AMT Group's ongoing mission. THE AMT APPROACH AMTGROUP training gives people the skills, expertise and insights they need to achieve success in the global marketplace. By participating in training designed to address specific areas of performance, managers and key staff can significantly improve their business effectiveness. Our purpose is Developing Global Thinkers. By offering a holistic approach to global management training, we are helping people raise their self-awareness and expand their vision, demystify foreign behavior, and enhance their business skills. We achieve this through our five Action Values: LISTENING to our clients in order to understand their needs and incorporate their feedback ENCOURAGING trainees to enthusiastically participate by presenting easy-to-understand, practical seminars EMPOWERING participants with expertise and confidence to ensure their continuous personal and professional development CREATIVITY in preparing programs that all participants will contribute to and benefit from BALANCE that enables people to address their strengths and weaknesses and achieve greater personal and professional harmony

	AMT SERVICES
	Management Training We can help you enhance your management style, create conditions for motivating yourself and your staff, empower yourself with a leadership mindset, and teach you how to coach and counsel your employees.
	Graduate School Preparation (GSP) We offer Graduate School Preparation services that guide you in selecting schools, creating resumes and essays, planning for interviews, and succeeding in master's degree programs.

MANAGEMENT TRAINING
	We offer customized seminars and individual counseling in management skills. Our purpose is "Developing Global Thinkers." Through integrating our five "action values": listening, encouraging, empowering, creativity and balance, we offer a holistic approach to global management training.
	LEAD!
	Focusing on key business issues? Motivation? Vision? Need to develop leadership skills or build new leaders within your organization? AMT Group helps leaders to articulate mission, vision and values, create concrete action plans, develop their staff and grow their own leadership attributes. The examples below are just a hint of how AMT Group can help lead you to success. "Discovery" (Mission, Vision & Values, Leadership Development) Three to 8 months, with groups of 5~40 rising managers meeting every one to two months for 2-3 days off-site with follow-up, one-to-one coaching at the office between sessions.
	Benefits include: • Members knowing their own and others' preferred social styles and how to flex to others when working in teams. • Solving case studies that increase intercultural appreciation and adaptability to change. • Articulating a concrete corporate mission and values statement. • S.M.A.R.T. goal setting and action planning • Improved coaching staff using the G.R.O.W. Model • Increased leadership effectiveness with the AMT Group LEAP LEAP™ (Leadership Effectiveness Attributes Profile) What qualities, values or characteristics are most important for your organization's leaders to demonstrate? AMT Group's Leadership Effectiveness Attributes Profile™ (LEAP) harkens back to the days of Benjamin Franklin, who reviewed his virtues daily. More recently, sports psychologist James Lohr created a competitive adjective profile for his athlete clients, including tennis legend Andre Agassi. LEAP™ was first practiced by AMT Group in 1998 and has since been introduced to hundreds of "LEAPers" in Japanese and multinational companies. It remains a cornerstone of AMT Group's leadership development. LEAP™ gives you the tools to develop and improve the leadership attributes you, your team or your organization need to succeed. LEAP™ shows you how to tie those attributes to concrete, measurable actions. LEAP™ is about taking turning ideas into action. "LEAP™ on the attributes you want to posses; they will be yours and will impress."

	CONNECT
	..with your clients. Connect with your people. How would better internal and external communication help your business to reach its goals? AMT Group focuses on giving you the tools to develop better relationships within your organization, and better rapport with your customers and contacts. Build your teams. Build your client relationships. Build a winning business. Teambuilding Individual departments (usually 10~20 staff) for 1 to 2 days out of the office – teams get to know each other better and gain a fuller understanding of management's plans. This is an environment where learning takes place personally and professionally, both "top down" and "bottom up."
	Benefits include: • Knowing each other’s personality, temperaments, and how to flex when working in teams. • Teamwork awareness as we foster a deeper understanding through mixed team activities; better understanding of roles and goals. • Increasing creative thinking and action within the organization. • Rising employee satisfaction levels. Participants and management create action plans for resolutions, with follow-up. Sales Training, Meetings & Presentations We bring together cross-functional teams or small groups of sales professionals for 2 days plus follow-up (within a month to ensure improved sales). Participants benefits include: • Creativity activities and structure to assist in sales, presentation and meeting planning and execution • Communication styles and presentation tips for greater impact • Team facilitation of best sales practices including role-plays • Individual goal-setting and methods to increase energy and motivation Intercultural Communication & Conflict Resolution Our specialists coach participants as they explore styles and values in an intercultural work setting. We present cutting edge research of how culture influences work-styles and values. Participants overcome cultural differences as they learn models and methods for positively resolving conflict. Through active role-play, participants simulate challenges and demonstrate mastery by presenting an original case study.

	ENERGIZE
	Looking for a boost of energy to revitalize yourself or your team? AMT Group delivers interactive, energizing training to improve your physical, mental and creative energy. We can help you inspire creativity, control your time and manage your energy. Creativity, Energy & Change Management AMT Group trainers deliver modules focusing on creative use of energy and brainstorming for effective change management. Related exercises include: • Whole brain thinking, Mind-Mapping • Energy Management • EQ (Emotional Intelligence) • Embracing Change, Becoming a Change Agent IMA!™ (Immediate Materials Action!) How can you change your approach to time and increase efficiency? Can you change your work habits to be more effective? How high is your motivation to make these new processes part of your life? *AMT Group’s IMA! develops efficiency and effectiveness skills that will empower you to:* • Organize your desk space • Proactively respond to new correspondence • Create habits to become more efficient with current and new information. • Prioritize tasks for increased efficiency • Create IMA! methods for better organizing • Improve productivity

	PRO-ACT
	Thinking about a career move? Are you preparing members of your team to suceed in a global business environment? Could one-on-one coaching help generate better results? AMT Group works with individuals, teams and organizations preparing for change. Look ahead, think ahead, take action: proact. Below is a sample of how AMT Group can help. Your Personal Trainer It can be lonely at the top - often there’s no one in the organization who can listen to a leader’s challenges to inspire solutions. AMT Group can serve as your “Corporate Coach” for one-on-one sessions. Your purpose may be to improve communication skills or management expertise, offer feedback and analysis, or work through sensitive issues. Your AMT Group coach will normally be a senior AMT Group counselor with over a decade of tested one-on-one coaching results. Global Readiness Profile™ (GRP) Have you ever wondered, “How ready is my staff to meet the challenges of global competition?” It’s hard to know, and harder still to quantify. Yet to do just that, some leading firms are employing a powerful new tool: the Global Readiness Profile™. GRP gives you concrete results on both soft and hard skills your staff will need to succeed. Since 1992, AMT Group has focused on a single purpose: “Developing Global Thinkers!” We created the GRP to screen your staff for global assignments, to assess their readiness to work in international teams, or to function in any international environment. With this effective tool, you can identify top candidates, provide your staff with objective feedback from a neutral source, and encourage development in specific areas you believe are most critical to their success. The full Global Readiness Profile includes: • Self Assessment Profile (with graph & analysis) • Supervisor Assessment Profile (with graph & analysis) • Business Communication Profile (with graph & analysis) • Standardized English Test Score Interpretation (usually the TOEIC or TOEFL or Phone Pass) • Recommendations for an improvement plan

AMT LOCATION
	Visit our Yotsuya office in the heart of Tokyo, just a 3-minute walk from JR Yotsuya Station From JR Yotsuya Station Kojimachi Exit, go east down Shinjuku Dori until you come to a Mitsui Sumitomo Bank and our local coffee shop, Cafe de Crie. From the Namboku Line, follow the signs to JR lines (exit #3) then walk through Yotsuya station to Kojimachi exit. Turn left at Cafe DeCrie and proceed down the lane until you find Shimboji Temple on your right and our red staircase on your left. Please come to room 302.

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MANAGEMENT TRAINING TOOLS
	DiSC – DIMENSIONS OF BEHAVIOR
	In the 1920s, US psychologist William Moulton Marston was interested in observing how normal people behave in their daily lives. Based on his research, four distinct dimensions of behavior were modeled: Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Conscientiousness. Although everyone has a preferred behavior style with (possibly) a strong secondary style, we actually use all four styles to varying levels as we assess and re-assess each new environment we enter. It is important to remember DiSC is not a personality test. Your personality is a complex mixture of your genes (DNA) plus your life experiences such as up bringing, schooling and hobbies. DiSC looks at behavior, the result of your personality mixing with a particular environment. As our environments are regularly changing so our behavior changes in different situations. While you may not be able to change your fundamental personality, you can change the way you decide to respond to new environments.

	EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE (EQ)
	EQ has caught the business world by storm since Dr. Daniel Goleman's groundbreaking books; Emotional Intelligence and Working with Emotional Intelligence were released in the late 1990s. Defined simply as our ability to manage our relationships and ourselves effectively, this approach to human behavior is now a growing measure for determining career and life success. Why are Fortune 500 companies in Japan and around the world screening for emotional maturity for management fast-tracking and overseas assignments? As long as we continue to work with others, emotions and our ability to build positive relationships will dictate how successful we are. AMT Group’s module on EQ is built upon self-reflection and exercises to immediately increase empathy and listening skills of participants. Combined with Japan’s first domestically designed EQ test, the EQS is linked to business outcomes and approved by the Japanese Psychological Association. AMT Group offers a chance for organizations to identify the skills that star employees possess so to hire smarter and maximize employee suitability at work. If you are interested in learning more about your EQ with an EQS/ESIS test please contact us to learn more

	TEAMBUILDING
	Every individual reacts differently to a team environment depending on the overall task, their own assignment and the other members that make up the team. In Commercial Success, members of your team gain insight into how they normally would act and feel in a real-life team dynamic while using their creativity and imagination. Within set time frames, your team creates a creature or symbol with provided supplies that represents the spirit of your company. To promote this symbol, each team develops its own television commercial to be performed as the finale. Commercial success provides a relaxed enjoyable atmosphere for members of your team to not only interact and learn more about each other but also clearly define your identity as a company. Contact us to learn more.

	GRADUATE SCHOOL PREPARATION (GSP)
	Graduate school will shine as a highlight of your life. It’s a chance to open your mind, to find life-long friends, to learn and to grow. The first step to your dreams begins now - preparing your applications. With AMT Group, you can hire a winning coach and a proven team who will help put acceptance letters in your mailbox. At AMT Group, we know how hard you work on your applications, and how much you’ve invested in your goals. We teach you the skills you need to plan and prepare winning applications to your dream schools. “How do I write a great resume?” “How do I make my essays unique?” “How can I stand out from other applicants?” “ How do I convince a school to accept me?” Trust your AMT counselor to light the path for you. It’s hard, rewarding work, and we’re ready when you are. Contact us to learn more.

ANDREW'S AX
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	Read newsletters on management training topics such as team building, sales & communication, leadership & management, personal & professional development. August 2007 Competent! English PDF version HTML version Japanese PDF version HTML version June 2007 Incent! English PDF version HTML version Japanese PDF version HTML version April 2007 Read! English PDF version HTML version Japanese PDF version HTML version For previous editions, please log at the AMT Flash site.
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AMT TEAM

	CORE TEAM
	AMT Group was created in 1992. The founders devoted themselves to forming a company where they could grow professionally with their clients. Based in Tokyo, AMT Group services individuals, companies and organizations in Asia and the United States. As our clients "spread the good word," we've built up our team of qualified professionals committed to AMT Group's ongoing mission of "Developing Global Thinkers." Andrew W. Silberman - President & Chief Enthusiast Quentin O'Mahony – Senior Management Trainer Yasue Watanabe – Management Trainer Joshua Rhodes – Management Trainer Kinji Ihara – Senior Consultant for Management Eriko Tamura – Assistant Sales and Training Tanja Bach – Management Training Specialist Makiko Nakayama – Management Training Specialist For profiles and more information, please log on to the AMT Flash site. SPECIALIST TRAINERS As far back as 1996, AMT Group began expanding its services by employing specialists in intercultural communication and leadership. Each specialist brings a unique combination of business and training that we match to client needs. As an AMT Group client, you will always be able to contact a core team member assigned to your company for consistency and follow-up. We work with you to staff each training project with the combination of core "AMT Group Stars" and "Specialists" to meet your needs. Ken Kawarazaki – Management Training Specialist Mieko Kobayashi – Management Training Specialist Kaoru Omiya – Management Training Specialist Dan S. Nestle – Specialist Adam Komisarof – Management Training Specialist Kimi Komisarof – Management Training Specialist Joshua Rhodes – Management Trainer For profiles and more information, please log on to the AMT Flash site. GRAD SCHOOL COUNSELORS AMT Group scored its first big successes with Graduate School Preparation, and our service has grown steadily by word of mouth since 1992. Our counseling helps aspiring candidates gain acceptance letters and then to thrive in their graduate studies. AMT Group clients dig up their strengths and present their "best selves" in their own words on application essays and interviews. Our counseling process develops the communication skills required to create application packages that win entry into the top business and other graduate schools around the world. Joshua Rhodes – Graduate School Preparation Quentin O'Mahony – Graduate School Preparation Ned Freed – e-counselor For profiles and more information, please log at the AMT Flash site.

WHAT IS NEW?
	AMT NEW TRAINING ROOM Click here
	THE STAR SCORE CARD AMT Group’s Core Team of Stars has created a system to acknowledge each other for taking initiative in one of its five Action Values: Listening, Encouraging, Empowering, Creativity, and Balance. If someone demonstrates this value sometime during the week, any other Star can award them a point on the Star Score Card. Each person gets a brief report on what they have contributed from the rest of the team at our SURF! Meeting each Monday morning. Stars have been lighting up the Score Card! Click here AMT GROUP BOOK CLUB Since all of our Core Star Team is continuously trying to feed our brains with the newest development material out there, we decided to initiate the first AMT Book Club. As of March, we will be exchanging ideas and practical uses of reading material to be used in our training, communicating with clients, and working together in our team. Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point has been chosen as our first topic of discussion. Check it out! Click here

RECOMMEND READING
	The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell Authors: Malcolm Gladwell Reviewer: Joshua Rhodes, March Book Club This book takes an in-depth look at how trends get started. Using examples from the worlds of business, education, fashion, and media, Gladwell paints a detailed picture of how the dynamics of groups can be understood and influenced. Each of our Stars took away some interesting points that could be applied at AMT Group. For presentations and one-on-one communications, The Tipping Point adds insight into delivering a strong visual message and understanding “conversational rhythm.” In relation to company culture, Gladwell also emphasizes the importance of the subtle details when initiating change. For example, New York’s declining crime rate is partially attributed to cleaning up the graffiti in the subways! Finally, The TP left a lasting impression on all of us in regards to behavior and controlling your own environment. Each AMT Group member agreed with the idea that we can change our behaviors both in the office and at home by understanding our surroundings and how that affects our reaction to them. For the full recommended library, please please log on to the AMT Flash site

Good to Great

Authors: Jim Collins

Reviewer: Quentin O’Mahony, April Book Club

This is the book that looked at 1000s of publicly listed corporations in the United States and discovered 11 companies that consistently outperformed the market average by three times over a 15 year period from the late 80s to the beginning of this century. It was encouraging to learn that a couple of Collins’ elite 11 are recent AMT Group learning and development partners.

What we found to be most relevant from the book for our friends in the Tokyo business community are three fold: The right people, a culture of discipline and a Level 5 Leader. Great companies focus on getting the right people on the bus and the wrong people off it. First who then what, leads to great organizations. Next he found it imperative that for great success an organization stay the course of a vision. A company may need to adjust to the sometimes brutal reality of the market place but never change direction as discipline creates enormous momentum. Finally, those truly great companies are led not by superhuman leaders but by focused individuals who put the company before their own personal success.

We at AMT Group hope you can help your team move from good to great in the year ahead.

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