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HIGH
LEVEL EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP COACHING
1 on 1
Coaching
Turning Points: A Course of Action |
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A Course of Action is a superachiever coaching program
examining executive performance management measures and is specifically
designed for use in the business context. It achieves transformative leadership
in industry results by exploring both personal and professionally related
issues; barriers of change management which influence our thinking, our
decisions, and our effective leadership styles; the way others react to us; and
particularly those mechanisms that cause us to hesitate to make
decisions—a major source of personal and organizational stress and
ineffectiveness.
The course is 25 to 30
hours of one-on-one training (depending on the individual) with a single
instructor examining your experiences, beliefs, assumptions and automatic
reactions to issues around topics such as control; dichotomies like
success/failure, right/wrong and good/bad; communication; guilt; help; problem
solving; goal setting and obstacles to attaining goals; leadership; emotions
and change.
This course embodies a
personal decision making grid + problem solving activity action plans. Although
designed to be "up close and personal," intensive, soul-searching and
challenging, the process is fun, as opposed to agonizing. One of the elements
of the course's success is the highly efficient process that moves you through
examination, understanding and resolution very quickly. Each topic closes with
a sense of satisfaction, new understanding, and new ways of operating. Learning
Center trainers have developed very successful ways of helping even the most
reticent manager see the value of the process and become fully involved with
passionate and courageous leadership skills.
How to
Improve Executive Presence:
The training is offered
in two formats: the intensive 4 to 6 consecutive day approach, or 1 to 2
consecutive day time periods scheduled over 1 to 3 months. Either format is
effective. Course includes an interactive one-year maintenance/follow-up
process to reinforce successful application of renewed attitudes and actions.
An optional leadership/management 360 degree feedback assessment system is
available for modest additional cost. Many executives have succeeded in getting
through behavior glitches with A Course of Action, converting
frustration in their career path into a promotion.
Modules include:
Control: An
in-depth examination of the limiting paradigms of control including
manipulation, fear, and avoidance. You will discover how to focus and leverage
energy in the most effective manner while eliminating ineffective habitual
behaviors through conscious choice.
Life Dichotomies:
How do we gain flexibility and increased potency in those areas of life where
we notice conflicts to achieving our potential? You will clearly identify
limitation patterns and gain increased control with prejudices and negative
judgments about success and failure, strong or weak, good or bad and other
significant life dichotomies. Immediate strategies are developed to reverse any
"blame syndrome" tendencies and for developing self-management skills in
leadership.
Extending and
Receiving Help: How can we maximize our ability to be collaborative,
regardless of position in career and/or family hierarchy? This module
highlights all aspects of help exchange and enhances our motivation and skill
level to better help ourselves and our associates. The cycle of stubborn,
inappropriate independence is explored. Relevant topics of effective
delegation, employee empowerment and stress management are appropriately
addressed.
Problem Solving and
Goal Achievement: Details the fundamental practices leading to achievement
of short and long term goals with team conflict resolution strategies. Using
emotional intelligence leadership, the aspects of solving problems (or not
solving) are examined including the fears of failure and success and the
personal drive necessary to act. A unique and useful model of goal achievement
is developed with a subsequent inventory of personal "grey areas" or
non-resolved challenges listed. All non-resolved challenges will then be
organized via written action plans within the framework of the goal achievement
model. With this simple-yet often overlooked-process of
bringing closure to tasks, one of the most practical needed
leadership areas of improvement is addressed.
Communication:
Often the primary interpersonal dynamic causing personal and organizational
stress, and yet the most powerful and effective practice that leads to closure,
peace of mind, and success. This module is more than lesson plans for
improving communication skills: All aspects of the communication cycle are
examined including past and present problems and emotional obstacles;
culminating with leadership as a result of effective communication delivery
skills, giving the ability to communicate anything to anyone appropriately and
with confidence.
Success and
Failure: How do we build progressively on success without somehow
undermining our efforts? Sometimes we perceive successes as costly and do
everything possible to avoid agonizing defeats. No matter what we do, success
doesn't seem to follow. This module helps to put you back on the most direct
strategic path to maximize your ability to be successful. You will discover how
to deal with and progress from wins and losses without being addicted to
either.
Leadership: What happens to us when we become immersed in the
frustrations of daily living? How do we listen and follow directions? How do we
empower ourselves to take control and not be victims of our circumstances? This
powerful topic of the characteristics of leadership is taught through an
exercise never to be forgotten. You will gain insights into the emotional
influence of power in leadership; the essence of leadership; and becoming a
more effective leader, follower and initiator to appreciate life's everyday
activities.
Guilt: Often
described as "emotional baggage" from the past, the burden of guilt can be a
prime distraction to maximizing personal self esteem and potential in the
present. With this topic, you engage in a process that describes the anatomy of
how the mind holds on to guilt thoughts and even more important, how to let go
of them and be free. Truly enlightening.
Better Personal
Relationships: All aspects and problems concerning interpersonal
relationships are covered in the course. An exploration of key assumptions and
feelings lead to a renewed perception of how good any relationship can be, what
choices are available and the components of effective decision
making.
Emotions: Was there ever a course offered that helped us better
understand what the emotions are and how to manage them effectively? This
program does it with potency measuring emotional intelligence and work. The
emotions of fear, sadness, anger, joy, passion, apathy and the roles they play
are thoroughly examined. You will gain the ability to express and control
emotions influenced by past events. Indeed, access to proper emotional
expression is not only a powerful career tool, it enriches life in
general.
Automatic Solutions: If you have ever noticed unwanted
patterned responses or habitual reactions occurring in your life, this module
will help break the cycle. From a series of questions, your particular set of
automatic solution paradigms will become clearly outlined and appreciated.
Beyond understanding, you will gain flexibility and freedom in acting and
reacting.
Change, Adjustment,
and Expansion: A Course of Action is designed to help you in
managing barriers to change, while initiating changes and adjustments so that
you experience a more fulfilling and satisfying life. This session serves to
stabilize all that you have gained from the course, to adjust to new potential,
and to acknowledge your expanded courses of action.
Support Articles: The
following Library articles provide useful input related to this training
course:
- Score
your strengths and weaknesses with our online leadership skills assessment
survey. These are areas A Course of Action will address.
- Leadership and Learning: Inflexibility can
be converted to new learning through the 5 stages of the creative process for
decision making. A Course of Action covers this and other areas of
business and personal management.
- How to Change: Your organization or team may
be dramatizing its own fears by imposing change, rather than managing buy-in.
With A Course of Action you can become a change management specialist.
Bring change through effective one on one consulting. Contact Learning Center
today for a price quote.
- Relationship, peer mentoring, and the
new face of leadership.
To learn more about
professional confidence coaching with A Course of Acton, please contact
Arky Ciancutti at
coaching@learningcenter.net.
- "Even
more important to me than these techniques has been the self-knowledge I
developed during our sessions. I have never experienced such enlightenment
before, and I have been through a good deal of training of one kind or another.
I recommend this Course of Action training to many people, and will continue to
do so."—Robert Paar, The Dexter Corporation
- "As the
view of my interactions with others has been broadened, so also has my view of
myself. I have changed. I have had my children comment on my changes. I believe
that I have changed at my work as well in a positive and productive way. I feel
this from the response I am getting from others as well as my own feelings.
While somewhat hesitant at first, perhaps fearing that my standards,
principles, and nature were going to be somehow "altered" in ways that I would
not like, I highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to see themselves
and others as they really are, to develop interactions based on understanding,
trust, respect, and integrity."—Ed Seguine, Guittard Chocolate
Company
- "Nice
Ventures had retained The Learning Center in April 2000 to help address
executive team dynamics that were having an adverse effect on the company's
ability to hold mid-management to critical profit and loss objectives. The
company, while under severe financial stress, made a decision that without the
ability of the executive team to work together effectively, the company would
not be able to survive. In addition to monthly sessions with the top mid-level
managers, we also enrolled several key executives, including myself, in
individual sessions to help them function more effectively as leaders (the
individual course focus being in key areas of leadership, communication,
control, and commitment). These experiences helped navigate through periods of
great uncertainty and economic stress. I strongly recommend The Learning Center
and their team to companies with similar issues."—Laurie Thomas, Nice
Ventures, Inc.
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