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Today's companies regularly encounter challenges resulting from organizational and external change. Change is a valuable opportunity for growth and development both for company leaders and for employees. It is the force that powers the wheel of progress. In order to stay on top, organizations need to mine the spirit of innovation and leadership from within the organization while retaining a clear direction and focus.
Where leadership is at the hub of an organization, the expressions of core strengths of leadership are it's spokes. A lack of leadership development will cause imbalance and the wheel of progress to wobble.
In organizations having a solid hub and well developed leaders, the organization will move smoothly and effortlessly without conflict or excessive tension.
We assist in the alignment of internal values which balance the wheel. Skilled leaders develop inner skills first and then learn how to express these inherent core values in everything they do. CEO's and executives who have developed of all aspects of their inner and outer character ensure a workplace that is truly inspiring.  | Foundations of Leadership CharacterValues are the guiding principles of operation for companies and individuals. All too often they become plaques which are pinned to the wall and seen as wishful thinking by most employees.
Virtues are the behaviors that allow us to honour our values and provide the framework for all value and principle centered actions.
Character is the regular and consistent exercise of our behaviors over a long period. |
Using a character building approach to leadership modeling, Executives develop new programs for the organization which encourage development of character as a root of motivation. Where as many programs view change as the root of problems, the character building approach views change as a catalyst to a new leadership and organizational paradigms.
How does character have an impact? "By demonstrating the power of trust, respect and encouragement, ... Garth was very quickly able to help those he worked with to try new approaches and to expand their way of thinking... Those who received direct coaching continue acknowledge the benefits they've gained both on a personal and business level."
Neda Moeini
Senior Vice President
Group of Goldline
What do we do?
Our program of coaching and workshops helps leaders to learn how to lead through encouraging, positive interaction, and helps them to call upon the most positive and powerful qualities of their employees. When leaders are regularly coached, developmental shifts are natural.
What's Possible?
As leaders learn a new approach to interacting and sharing character building approaches, employees begin to adopt similar approaches. Imagine what would happen if your staff used character building approaches in all of their work: - What would happen if your customer support staff felt it their responsibility to always be Courteous and Helpful no matter how difficult the customer?
- What might happen if your Management team was always trusted by staff and more importantly the staff was also trusted and respected by Management no matter how difficult the situation?
- What would it be like if each member of the staff took full responsibility for ensuring excellence their work and never blamed others for their problems?
- How might production be impacted if staff members were motivated by their own internal desire to provide service rather than external motivators like the promise of more money?
- How would potential customers view your reliability and integrity if you developed a reputation for always standing by ethical principles even if it meant losing certain accounts?
We assist business leaders and managers to lead by inspiring action. We demonstrate how to access the employee "will" to develop charager and use deeply rooted sources of motivation. By helping leaders to understand the dynamics of their own internal motivation, we assist them to build a more productive, self motivated and happy workforce.
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