The Institute of Advanced
Leadership's Home Page / A very wide
variety of areas you may wish to work on
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.
- 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
- 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
- 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 decision making formula(& how to value non
monetary considerations)
- 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
- 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."
- 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
- 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
- "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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