When we stop sabotaging ourselves, research has shown that:
– we use mental and emotional energy more effectively – 90%
– we’re better at teamwork and collaboration – 92%
– we have increased happiness – 85%
– we manage stress better – 91%
– we have improved self-confidence – 83%
– we’re better at conflict management – 85%
Learn how to increase your mental fitness and reap tremendous personal and professional benefits.
Registration is now open for the next Positive Intelligence® Mental Fitness program starting September 17. Program is based on Shirzad Chamine’s Positive Intelligence® work.
Leaders in transition face a steep learning curve with high expectations and often receive insufficient support to be successful in their new role. In fact, research has shown that nearly 50% of leader transitions fail.
A leader in a new role must quickly adapt to new processes, perspectives, and expectations. There is also an expectation for them to ramp up their skills fast and build new key relationships. Leaders often struggle in any one or more of these areas.
These struggles create risks that can have immense impacts on the business as they can reduce productivity, performance, and engagement of the incoming leader and out further into the organization.
Not addressing these struggles, impact not only the transitioning leader, but their direct reports, partners, other internal as well as external stakeholders including customers.
If this is you or your new and emerging leaders are struggling, then our Leader Foundations Leadership Academy program will be beneficial.
The Leadership Academy is a customized program specifically created to support new leaders build a solid foundation to succeed in their new roles.
The leader will interact with other leaders in a similar situation and will develop or strengthen the required skills to level up and increase their effectiveness.
Your organization may be eligible for up to $100,000 to help train your employees.
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You’re not in full command of your mind. If you were, you would choose to entirely silence the Saboteurs in your head.
If you were in full command of your mind, you would:
Choose to not stress out over what you can’t control
Push away self-doubts
Recover from disappointments immediately and
Spend little time in anger, regret, or blame.
If you’re able to do this congratulations! If you’re not, get back in the driver’s seat to build your self-command muscle and shift from a negative to a positive mind set.
Enroll in the Positive Intelligence®: Mental Fitness Foundation Program https://redworkscoaching.com/services/executive-coaching/positive-intelligence-increasing-your-mental-fitness/6-week-mental-fitness-foundation-program/
The program starts May 28.
Your organization may be eligible for funding through the Canada-Saskatchewan Job Grant or the Re-Skill Saskatchewan Training Subsidy.
Have greater professional and personal achievements
Have more satisfying relationships
Experience better health and
Greater happiness
Enroll in the Positive Intelligence®: Mental Fitness Foundation Program to:
Develop greater mastery over your own mind
Quiet the negative and
Activate the positive region of your brain.
The next program begins May 7.
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Saboteurs are the voices in your head that generate negative emotion in the way you handle life’s everyday challenges. They represent automated patterns in your mind for how to think, feel and respond.
Saboteurs cause all of your stress, anxiety, self-doubt, frustration, restlessness, and unhappiness. They sabotage your performance, wellbeing and relationships.
Perhaps you have a strong Judge Saboteur that beats you up repeatedly over mistakes, wakes you up in the middle of the night worrying about something, or you judge others or your situations.
Known as the Master Saboteur, your Judge works with one or more Accomplice Saboteurs to hijack your mind and cause most of your setbacks.
You can’t defeat an adversary you don’t see or one that pretends to be your friend. The first step to conquering your Saboteurs is to identify them and expose their lies and limiting beliefs.
Sign up for the three-minute Saboteur Assessment to discover your saboteurs. https://redworkscoaching.com/services/executive-coaching/positive-intelligence-increasing-your-mental-fitness/
George was seen as an up-and-coming leader in the organization. People who worked for him liked and respected him. Senior leaders saw his potential and wanted him to attend the company’s leadership development workshop.
George was ecstatic. He loved the organization and wanted to move up and contribute as much as he could. He saw this opportunity as a positive step in that progression. Plus, he had some challenges in his job that he hoped he could learn how to deal with more successfully.
After he found out he was slated to attend the workshop, George didn’t hear anything more about the training until about a week before it began. With the workshop details in hand, he was excited all over again. Excited, that is, until he looked at his calendar and saw how much he had to do prior to the start of the workshop.
Because the training meant so much to him, he was determined to be focused while he was there, so he worked really hard to get all of his projects caught up before he left for the workshop.
George loved the workshop! The facilitator was great, the content was helpful, and the food was even good! He was very motivated by the new ideas and the people he met. His confidence level increased as they practiced some of the things they learned. As an outcome of the program, he built an action plan. He left the two-day workshop completely stoked about what he had learned and how he would be able to apply it.
After the Workshop
George woke up the next morning and reviewed his action plan. He was excited because he knew what he would do to become a better leader starting today.
Back at work, he fired up his computer and checked his voice mails – 23 messages.
His heart sank a little. As he listened to the messages, taking notes as needed, he opened up his emails and found an even more depressing sight – 91 emails. Giving them a quick glance, they all required him to read, work through and respond.
After getting a cup of coffee, George went to say hello to his team. This took awhile because they had questions and issues they wanted to discuss with him. By 9:15 am he was back at his desk, ready to tackle all the phone and email messages including seven new emails that had come in while he was out.
By 3:00 pm he had mostly forgotten about his action plan and only remembered it when he saw the document in his briefcase. He took it out and looked at it wistfully. He was still committed to working on those items, but they would have to wait awhile, as the next project meeting was all day tomorrow.
Reviewing the Situation
Perhaps the situation above sounds familiar to you – a willing learner, a well-designed workshop, and a person excited about their action plan.
Admittedly, this story might be a bit too rosy, not everyone who attends training will be as excited and motivated as George. In the end, though, it doesn’t really matter because a highly motivated person like George won’t get as much from this effort as he could.
Why?
Because while most leadership development programs focus on developing great training, that is a small part of the overall likelihood of success. Why? Because, training is an event, but learning including leadership development is a process.
We don’t learn important, complex life skills in a brief instant. We don’t learn to play a musical instrument in a one-day workshop.
From a training event, we can have insights, be inspired, get ideas, approaches, checklists, and knowledge.
Skills, however, develop over time and not in a one-shot, one-time training course regardless of how well it is designed or how awesome the trainer is. It’s not a one and done activity that someone can check off their to-do list. Learning new skills come with practice and application.
Leadership development is a process and as long as those efforts are training events, the return on those investments will never be high.
Make your leadership development process more successful
To make your leadership development process, whether for yourself or your organization, be more successful, the Leader Foundations Leadership Academy is a customized program specifically created to support new leaders build a solid foundation to succeed in their new roles.
This interactive, practical learning and implementation program will get leaders up to speed fast. They will identify skills they need to develop or strengthen to level up and increase their effectiveness.
For more information about the Leader Foundations Leadership Academy please visit: https://redworkscoaching.com/services/executive-coaching/leader-foundations-leadership-academy/
It’s common to switch careers multiple times in your adult life. If you are currently standing at a crossroad, or are in the midst of another type of life-transition, you don’t need to navigate it alone.
Receiving support and advice to guide you on your way will increase the likelihood of a smooth and seamless transition.
As an executive and accredited professional coach, I support clients to improve their thinking, gain clarity, and create positive and powerful changes to achieve their greatest potential in both their personal and professional lives.
Send me a message today to find out how I can help you.
Happy to have our article, Local Business Leader Transition Research Finds that Businesses Could Lose Millions, in The Edge Magazine’s blog.