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THESE ARE SOME OF THE AREAS
WHICH PEOPLE IN OUR ONE-ON-ONE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM CHOOSE TO DO

Most of these areas can also be done as group training sessions.
If you'd prefer a single paragraph summarising each of our most popular group training programs, then click on this link.

  • P.S. Heaps of resources: books (B), cassettes (C), CD's, computer programs and videos (V) are provided at no cost.
  • N.B. This list is normally run through by me while sitting with a client. So some of the items listed are written as notes for me, and may be a little obscure without the additional explanation I would give when I'm actually sitting with you. So please feel free to write to me or call me (Tony Lenart) if you'd like any further information or explanation.

CONTENTS (In order)
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360 Degree Feedback
- Building A Development Plan
- Teamwork
- Leadership
- Conflict Resolution
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Accelerating Your Career Progression
- Communication
- Decision Making
- Time Management
- Becoming A Transformational Manager
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Running Effective Meetings Inc. A 360 degree Questionnaire & A Synergy Exercise
- Strategic Planning
- Finance
- Customer Service
- Strategic Planning

- Finance
- Customer Service
- Increasing Influence
- Sales - (Of Products &/Or Ideas)
- Understanding People (And Relating On A Deeper Level)
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Managing Your Manager
- Recruiting The Right Staff
- The Tom Peter's Business Simulation Game
- Presentation Skills
- Facilitating Change
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Making Your Organisation A Learning Organisation
- Reducing Stress (& Reactivity)
- Improving The Effectiveness Of The Board Of Directors
- Improving Marketing Effectiveness
- A Case Study Of A Phenomenally Successful Organisation
- Leadership Lessons From Quantum Physics*
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Personal Development

  • 360 DEGREE FEEDBACK
    • Various Additional Profiles could include - IQ, EQ, Brain Dominance, Locus of Control, Luscher Test, Self Esteem Inventory (net)

  • DEVELOPMENT PLAN
    • Learning Style Inventory + Personal SWOT analysis + "Getting to know you(rself) questionnaire + 360 degree feedback / Qualities of great mgrs / Future aims / Qualities needed for future job / Gap analysis
      • Include a 40% allowance for PD to work on the core elements that determine success.

  • TEAMWORK
    • Belbin's 10 team roles
    • Theory vs Practise
    • Formation & stages of team development
    • Characteristics of high performing teams
    • IBM's internet summary of concepts

  • LEADERSHIP
    • Empowerment
      • Video / Zapp! + Empowerment book / Servant Leadership videos & articles & Peter Block tape (& Synchronicity tape)
    • Leadership styles
      • - LSI / Integro
    • Different elements of leadership
      • i.e "What factors make great leaders" (inc. "Taking the lead" videos)
      • The findings of the Karpin Report
    • Situational Leadership / 4 Quadrant Leadership
      • Send out 6 questionnaires
      • Video on 4 QL
    • Overcoming employee resistance and game playing
      • Transactional Analysis (hooking the adult)
    • Accessing your employee's (and your own) motivation strategy
      • NLP strategies
    • Building a learning organisation*
    • For women - Being a powerful female & prospering in "a man's world".
      • B-The Male Power Myth + Anita Roddick's article from "Heart at Work"

  • CONFLICT RESOLUTION
    • Conflict Management Style Inventory
    • "I" Statements
    • The skills of conflict resolution & the Negotiation Model
      • Role plays, Video, Tape, Various Exercises etc

  • ACCELERATING YOUR CAREER PROGRESSION
    • "Secret of Creating Your Future" process (and video follow ups)
      • Ep 24 of "Taking the lead"
      • Materials from "What colour is your parachute?" and the other career books (1st Things 1st) + "Underlying Values" process.
      • Discussions on what ways they need to develop; what blind spots they may have (& doing the Johari window +Jung's shadow processes) & overcompensated +ves; and how to plan their career development & influence appropriate managers.
      • "Synchronicity" tape

  • COMMUNICATION
    • Understanding the way others think - and learning to talk their language
      • DISC
      • MBTI
      • Visual/Auditory/Kinesthetic
      • Metaprograms
    • Understanding the opposite sex. (Yes, it is possible!)
      • Many elements incl. John Grey videos & tape programs + other cassettes
        • Tapping in to your inner femininity/masculinity
        • Theories re shy attractive men, re women & men's roles in courting.
        • They ask me about anything they don't understand and I'll (try to) explain
    • The measure of communication
      • The measure of communication is the response you get
    • Increasing your power to get what you want
      • "How to win friends.." + NLP +The value of anger
    • Role play - e.g. dealing with someone who has a slack attitude.
    • LISTEN profile
    • Increasing clarity
      • Restatement of central idea
    • Active listening
    • "I" statements
    • Developing rapport
      • modelling physiology (Tony Robbins) & NLP exercises (Dr Brandon)
    • "Secrets of the great communicators" video
      • and Milo's tape and book on communication
    • Giving feedback well
    • Exercises - like those under "Presenting skills "

  • DECISION MAKING
    • IQ Tests & Brain enhancement software.
    • Brain dominance profile (on computer & paper instruments; + Video)
    • Edward De Bono's thinking game
    • Decision making procedures that substantially improve the quality of decisions made
      • S>N>T>F
      • Edward De Bono's 7 hats
      • Brain Dominance
    • Understanding our innovation profile
      • The CARE profile
    • The decision making formula(& how to value non monetary considerations)
      • Prob. x cost benefit
    • Lateral thinking
      • The Paradigm video and game
      • List as many ways to restate problem (& the "sheet of paper" exercise)
    • Enhancing Intuitive Decision Making
      • Edison & Graham Bell's method / Materials from the Asia Pacific Human Resource Convention
    • Brainstorming

  • TIME MANAGEMENT
    • The true value of your time
    • Substantially improving your effectiveness
      • What are your goals, priorities, weak areas?
      • Database for delegation (filed by person, project and time goals are completed)
      • Reframe as abundance of great things to do
    • Covey's "1st Things 1st" system (+ tape sets & books on delegation & time mgmt.)
    • Overcoming procrastination
      • Articles on this, plus chaining anchors

  • BECOMING A TRANSFORMATIONAL MANAGER
    • What is a transformational manager / what sort of results do they achieve?
    • Developing trust / "Beyond Empowerment" - how to catalyse transformation / Quantum Physics & Leadership* / Dropping the ego while maintaining power / Harnessing the power of love / Overcoming fear - the cancer of most organisations
      • Finding the "essential you" / Developing Trans-egoic witness consciousness (or even higher levels of consciousness)
    • Case Study of Mahatma Gandhi
    • Servant Leadership - (Videos, Essays, Case study) + "Synchronicity" tape

  • RUNNING EFFECTIVE MEETINGS inc. a 360o Questionnaire & a Synergy exercise

  • STRATEGIC PLANNING
    • A method that substantially improves results
      • My Indian method + Creating the Future Process
    • Visioning - corporate or personal
      • Vision/Goals/etc
    • Values Alignment
      • Eliciting the hierarchy making the hierarchy well formed & changing values
    • SWOT analysis
    • Where you add value - corporate or personal
    • TTL video

  • FINANCE
    • Using my books 'Financial Decision Making ' & 'Acct'g for the Sales & Mktg Mgr."
      • "Taking The Lead" videos

  • CUSTOMER SERVICE

  • INCREASING INFLUENCE
    • NLP, Sales skills etc.
    • "How to Win Friends and ..." + exercises re taking on board, and presenting from different viewpoints & VAK, MBTI styles + WIIFM


  • SALES - (of products &/or ideas)
    • Give materials from Zig Ziglar / Og Mandino
  • The 5 step sales model (incl. rapport, predicate matching, strategies, anchoring, establishing value, reframing, Sleight of Mouth)
  • Overcoming call reluctance
    • TLT, Values, Strategies, Submodalities, Anxiety Cure, Going for 50 "No's", Making a commitment to someone important, taking small steps, breathing & centring, power moves.
  • Centring
  • Dealing with stress
  • Customer Motivation Styles: what motivates each type of customer to buy
    • MBTI & DISC & Metaprograms for salespeople (+ Strategies)
  • Tom Hopkins' program + Paul Keatley's Sales Problem Solver
  • Marketing - Jay Abraham / The lessons of SVDP, etc.
  • Sales Breakthrough Session

  • UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE (and relating on a deeper level)
    • MBTI,
    • DISC,
    • Metaprograms
    • Love exercise and compassion
    • General PD

  • MANAGING YOUR MANAGER
    • MBTI, H/O of Peter Drucker's article, General insight into your mgr's psyche

  • RECRUITING THE RIGHT STAFF

  • "TOM PETER'S BUSINESS SCHOOL IN A BOX" - Business Simulation Game or Edward De Bono's "Mind Pack", or the Cash Flow Game, the Stockmarket Game, the Transformation Game, or the Johari Window Game.

  • PRESENTATION SKILLS
    • Paul Keatley's videos
  • Exercises
    • Projection of voice - progressively increasing on a football field
    • Peripheral Vision / Talking about something easy while in peripheral vision / Presenting in peripheral vision / Presenting in a rhythm
    • Other exercises from NLP Trainer's Training (as per Dr Thomas' book)
    • My exercises designed for Malaysia (incl using pauses).
    • Modelling Martin Luther King - and others on "Secrets of the Great Communicators" video
    • Developing Power exercises (including the board break)
    • TLT + Limiting Decision + Anxiety Cure for Presenting
    • Lots of practise

  • FACILITATING CHANGE
    • The change game
    • The processes everyone goes through during corporate change
      • The 7 stages of grief
      • The life cycle of companies (Adizes' teachings)
        • Video on "The Change Dynamic"

  • MAKING YOUR ORGANISATION A LEARNING ORGANISATION
    • Senge on video, book, tapes, brief book summaries, & IBM's internet summary of concepts

     

  • REDUCING STRESS (& Reactivity)
    • Stress Profile
    • Meditation
      • Understanding "D" behaviour, Yoga, 10 day challenge, Self Esteem development (incl 7 intelligences), Primary values, Hypnosis, "I'd eat more ice cream" story, Disappearing Technique.
      • Reducing reactivity includes collapsing anchors


  • IMPROVING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
    • Questionnaires on Board & meeting effectiveness, Development Assessments, Orientation, Training, Clarification (& Questionnaire) on roles, Legalities etc.

  • IMPROVING MARKETING EFFECTIVENESS
    • incl. The "Quantum leap" Program of Jay Abraham (24 tapes & 2 Workbooks)

  • A CASE STUDY OF A PHENOMENALLY SUCCESSFUL ORGANISATION
    • THP Inc.: A micro org. with massive muscle and massive results
      • Strategic Planning In Action / Identifying what's missing, and underlying causes / Paradigm Shifting / Creating catalytic results / Changing human dynamics
        • See Red & Green file in THP pile in downstairs cupboard (& computer file called "THP Methodology")

  • LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM QUANTUM PHYSICS*

    • Using Prof. Margaret Wheater's cassettes / maybe contact the Australian Transpersonal Society for Swimme's videos / Show Deepak Chopra / Chaos theory - work on the simple underlying factor and you create order out of chaos - and shift everything - even a butterfly across the world / Holotropic universe / Managing the field & consciousness - instead of trying to control outcomes / (Attraction principles) / Prigogine - overcoming entropy / 100th monkey - Critical Mass

     

  • PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
    • Personal Breakthrough Sessions
    • Personal Mastery Sessions
    • The "Creating Your Future" Process
    • Increasing your energy dramatically
      • 10 day challenge, and meditation
      • Deepak Chopra's "Staying Young" program, & "Perfect Health" video + TLT, Erasing Limiting Decisions, Louise Hay tapes
    • + Overcoming ill health & disease
      • As above + The mind/body connection, Reiki, Disappearing technique, Hypnosis, Energy Healing + Books on various healing methodologies + "Heal your Life" & related tapes, books & videos (+various weight loss materials & programs) - videos, tapes, recipes etc) + Dzogchen Healing Meditation
    • Bringing the best out in your children
      • PET, "7 Habits of highly effective families" book, tapes & Oprah, Parenting videos + "Time to Grow" & "Family" videos; "Magical Child-Magical Adult" cassettes + John Bradshaw materials
    • Having a great relationship (and becoming even more loving)
      • Jansen Newman book & tape & processes + processes in my file + Oprah's video + "Dear Abby" video + Relationship questionnaire from the net + Day 24 of Tony Robbins + the partner's love strategy (&/or attraction strategy + Dating Questionnaire on internet) + Various love processes & books etc + John Bradshaw tapes on love + Non-attachment (& our vows & agreement) + what real love is etc.
    • + Understanding, relating and influencing the opposite sex
      • John Grey stuff
    • "Know Thyself" - see 360o feedback & other profiles, inventories & tests
    • Overcoming blocks to success
      • Time Line Therapy & Values work
      • Inner Child Work / Gestalt / Core Transformation / Kinesiology / Behavioural, Cognitive , Psychoanalytic & Humanistic Psychology / Breath work / Active meditations
    • Successful parenting (of your kids at home... and also those at work)
      • "Raising Happy Kids" video, "Toddler Taming", "Joseph Chiltern Pearce" and John Bradshaw videos & PET book.
    • Using your spirituality (if you have a particular leaning this way) to help you be a better manager.
    • Increasing your power and assertiveness (including a board break)
      • Changing beliefs / overcoming personal blocks / increasing assertiveness / The authentic purpose of the parts you dislike in yourself / public speaking practise / challenging taskings / abseiling etc / motivational stories - about others - and about me / loads of videos, CD's, tapes, books & other resources
        • See "Personal Power Weekend" Agenda in "My outlines"
    • + Increasing Self Esteem
      • As above + Hypnosis - live+video+tape , Nathaniel Brandon's processes, Core Transformation, Mirror Meditation, Eye Gazing, Removing Limiting Decisions, Changing Beliefs, Behaviour Therapy
    • Learning to be happy (unlike the "Great mass of men {& women} who lead lives of quiet desperation")

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