The ability to lead is the ability to influence others. We train leaders at all levels how to maximize their influence, gain more respect, loyalty, and effectiveness in leadership.
In a recent study, the Lore Institute found that 80% of large companies use executive coaches to develop leadership, enhance emotional intelligence, and insure success at times of significant transition. In addition, 96% of organizations reported that individual performance improved since coaching was introduced.
We develop leaders by focusing on the individual person, their talents, and maximizing their potential to meet your organization’s mission. Development of people helps your organization achieve increased creative energy, efficiency, productivity, engagement, and team building. It also increases influence from the top and cultivates leadership from anywhere in your organization.
PROGRAMS
Building Wellbeing
Developing the Leader Within You
Leadership and Self Deception: How to Think Out of the Box
Top Down Management Style; Building or Bullying Your Organization?
Leading and Facilitating Discussion Groups
Successful Leading through Wellness
Possibility Thinking; How to Make the Shift
Building Wellbeing – Have you been burned by previous attempts to “do the right thing” offering popular health care fads to your employees with little or no success? Measureable results, accountable participants, and a program that addresses all aspects of whole person wellness – mind, body and spirit – are essential to improve your employees’ wellbeing and your organization’s bottom line. We use the Wellness Inventory, an innovative, online, whole person wellbeing and personal development program. The Wellness Inventory is a foundational system to build organizational as well as individual wellbeing through 12 dimensions of life. It improves self-responsibility and inspires motivation to achieve a higher level of wellness while holding down expenses. LEARN MORE
Developing the Leader Within You – What is a leader? What skills does it take to become an effective leader and how does one acquire these skills? What are the different levels of leadership? These questions and more are investigated in this leadership development program. Individuals seeking to advance in organizations will develop a personal growth strategy that will equip them with necessary skills for gaining the influence necessary to begin or enhance their advancement in the organization.
Leadership and Self Deception: How to Think Out of the Box – People move into leadership positions with perspectives and methods of interacting with others based upon experience, education, environment and multiple other factors. These factors serve to limit thinking, communication, creativity, vision, and problem solving ability. This development program empowers people to increase their influence and ability to lead others by equipping them with rationale, strategies and tools for thinking “out of the box” and increasing the performance, engagement, productivity, and creative problem solving of those they work with.
Top Down Management Style: Building or Bullying Your Organization? - Strong leaders of organizations are often remembered long after they leave an organization, for better or worse. This development program, through the self reflection and personal discovery process, takes a long look at top down management. Recognizing that leaders must recognize their strengths and their weaknesses, it focuses on how and why the authoritarian leadership style often crosses the line into bullying. In crossing that line it often breaks rather than builds the organization. It helps the leader build personal improvement plan to sharpen and strengthen strategic organizational skills.
Leading and Facilitating Discussion Groups
Group discussions can be extremely frustrating, and unproductive, if not guided correctly by a leader. Group dynamics must be managed constructively. This development program equips people with facilitation skills that are necessary to guide individuals within a discussion group to meaningful participation, engagement, and productivity resulting in increased management and employee engagement. The techniques explored are necessary additions to any leader or manager‘s tool belt.
Possibility Thinking; How to Make the Shift
People and organizations are often plagued by limited thinking and doubt. Why is it that when we get an idea or set a goal we are initially excited and energetic then loose our enthusiasm and vision as we face the hurdles that are in our path? Equipping leaders with a strategy for maintaining a fresh perspective despite hurdles, and learning how to avoid the pitfalls that often destroy great ideas before they get off the drawing board is the subject of this program. Shift into possibility thinking and watch your organization take off!
Successful Leading through Wellness
Effectively managing, motivating, leading, and inspiring co-workers and staff to contribute their best to the organization in a sustained fashion often proves to be elusive to good leaders and managers. Cultivating a culture of employee engagement from top to bottom through a program of employee wellness is the subject of this development program. Constructing a support program focusing on the twelve dimensions of wellness combined with measureable accountability, improves profitability, reduces absenteeism and turnover, and motivates employees to not only be a part of the team, but actively contribute to it.
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