A Paradoxical Life
Have you ever noticed that many people do not believe in an unseen reality such as God, Angels the soul, life after, you know, the “D” word. Yet it is the unseen aspects of life that impact many people the most. Think about virtue, morals, and character. Our daily lives are lived and experienced in reaction to these unseen somethings or other. When I meet a stranger who manifests good character, life is good and I react to this reality in a certain kind of way. When I meet a stranger who manifests bad character, life is less good and I react to this reality in a different kind of way. Yet, character remains unseen but, nevertheless, experienced. Some people will argue with you about almost anything because it gives them an excuse for ignoring the social situations that require the most attention. —Ray Newkirk
Building upon my unique UlThule™ Leadership Mastery approach derived from real-life problem solving, I further engage in targeted evidence-based sessions that facilitate the rapid attainment of soft-skills mastery.
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The UlThule™ Leadership Mastery Difference
It is true that many leaders hire consultants, but many leaders hire consultants who do not fit well for their situations. Probably, every leader engages a consultant to solve a problem sometime. This is good because some consultants assist leaders with solving their problems. Not every consultant can assist leaders well enough to do this. Rather, these consultants may deliver excellent training and render a fine bit of advice. Unfortunately advice and a few dollars will get a Leader a hot cup of coffee, but not a problem solution. It is one thing to participate in a consulting session, but it is another to participate in a Leadership Mastery session that enables leaders to become empowered well enough to solve their problems themselves.
For a number of decades, Dr. Newkirk has assisted leaders throughout the world with unleashing their personal potency. This occurs not through advice-giving but through problem-solving. Highly potent individuals form and maintain more rewarding and loving relationships, forge enduring solutions, and increase human potency throughout the world. Employing a knowledge assistive Leadership Mastery approach formed through decades of problem-solving based on direct personal experience, Dr. Newkirk assists leaders with rapidly finding technical, contextual, and behavioral solutions that are directly relevant to their problem situations. Such a Leadership Mastery approach is transformative because it assists Leaders with acquiring skills not previously possessed. Such outcomes build the potency of each of Dr. Newkirk’s clients.
Rapid Problem Solving Through UlThule™ Leadership Mastery
UlThule™ Leadership Mastery presents a special way of realizing a leader’s or a Leadership team’s potential to deliver extraordinary problem-solving performance as a common practice. Rather than using difficult formulas, trial & error guesses, or taking blind shots in the dark, leaders can leverage UlThule™ Leadership Mastery to improve or other wise enhance their problem-solving skills. In each Leadership Mastery session, Dr. Newkirk shares insights and fosters concepts that expand and deepen the leader’s capacity for solving problems in rapid real time through the development of effective strategies as solution plans. Through UlThule™ Leadership Mastery , leaders begin to understand more clearly the limits and potential of their skills and capabilities and how these capabilities impact themselves personally, their followers, and their careers professionally. In this way, leaders achieve personal and professional growth. UlThule™ Leadership Mastery, therefore, is an interactive self-design process that assists leaders with building their personal potency and exceeding the limits of earlier self-imposed constraints.
Values, Morals, Ethics and all of these formative kinds of beliefs and behaviors serve to make us more fully human when we are guided by some of them and live by such guidance. But, and here is the big BUT, what is Applied Moral Wisdom? That’s the ticket people for a fully human life. How do we inform our morals? How do we become a morally wise people? Moral Wisdom remains merely an academic discussion unless we apply such wisdom in our daily lives. Dogs, cats, bats, rats, and kangaroos are not guided by moral wisdom, but human beings can be if they work at it. This is good to know the next time we see a human being walking his or her pet. This kind of knowledge can just possibly inform our behavior and give us some kind of hint of what to expect from the situation when the dog bares his or her teeth. —RLN
UlThule™ Leadership Mastery is Evidence Based
UlThule™ Leadership Mastery works because it is an intelligent and evidence-based way of looking at personal potency and the limits of personal performance. UlThule™ Leadership Mastery focuses on the experience of the leader, the goals of the leader, the environments influencing the leader’s life and the problems faced by the leader that require resolution during Leadership Development. However, it does this by considering the limits of the leader’s personal potency and the potential for going beyond these limits of personal potency. As we form all of these concerns into a single problem-solving environment, we see that UlThule™ Leadership Mastery as a philosophy for growth, is enabled by an advanced technology, and is concerned with changing the deepest experience of leaders.
UlThule™ Leadership Mastery never ends. Leaders begin the UlThule™ Leadership journey with the Dr. Newkirk but then continues the self-development journey throughout the leader’s lifetime as a high performance process of life-long skills development and emotional growth that is unique to each leader. The contextual and behavioral dimensions of each leader’s life makes the UlThule™ Leadership Mastery experience unique to each Leader.
People have changed significantly over the years. Technology has significantly impacted how people think, relate, learn, and form relationships and even how they make decisions about the most important issues of their lives. That age old question is still with us: “To Be Or Not To Be?” Dr. Newkirk designed his UlThule™ Leadership Mastery approach to assist leaders with finding answers to this deeply personal and very human question. It is the question that every human being seeks to answer one way or another, directly or indirectly, courageously or indifferently at different times in each lifetime. It is the “Problem for the Ages,” one might say, that Dr. Newkirk assists leaders with answering. Uncovering the right answer to this nagging question makes all the difference in the world to how well leaders prepare themselves for designing their futures as best they can.
Self-development never ends. It may slow down a bit, take a detour, hesitate, and even halt for a time. But it is there even in old age as people question the meaning of their lives and search for understanding as they face their failures and successes, their good times and bad and the meaning of it all. The problem of mortality is ultimately solved in living through it as an effective human being according to one’s capacity to do so. Nevertheless, the questions may change and the meanings of them may take on different priorities, but it is important to remember that the sense of meaning of one’s life and the results of one’ actions remind us that we are connected to a greater reality that unifies the experiences of one’s life with those of family, friends, and colleagues who, themselves, are making a similar journey that adds deeper meaning to one’s own life as it gives meaning to their lives. UlThule™ Leadership Mastery assists Leaders in this life-long journey reminding them that they are indeed potent individuals who contribute not only to the value of their own lives but to the lives of family, friends, and colleagues throughout one’s lifetime. This is not a meaningless sentiment, but it is the stuff that makes the history of humanity so powerful, and hopeful, and possible. In its small and seemingly insignificant way, UlThule™ Leadership Mastery serves as a positive force in the continuous unfolding of every leader’s life. This is worthy of note. To this end, UlThule™ Leadership Mastery delivers transformative solutions through in-person and digital sessions. UlThule™ Leadership Mastery succeeds because leaders develop the courage to be supportive and productive human beings. Among other benefits, UlThule™ Leadership Mastery can assist leaders with learning how to more appropriately:
Clarify the range of their influence on family, friends, and colleagues;
Build potent workplace relationships;
Develop levels of intimacy and trust appropriate to a specific situation and audience;
Control one’s reactions and priorities in awkward social and work settings;
Attain performance that is beyond the common limits of Peak Performance delivered by colleagues;
Generate curiosity in difficult situations through the use of intelligently guided questions, and
React in more appropriate ways that build confidence among family, friends, and colleagues. Take a minute to write an introduction that is short, sweet, and to the point.
A Dichotomous Life
People have become dichotomous personalities. Thanks to digital communications, they spend more time being connected to one another. Too bad they use such opportunities to become less connected to one another. I am sure you get my drift. One of the best weeks of my life was the week I did not use my cell phone. WOW, What a feeling! What a sense of freedom that was. I will never do that again. Being free from responsibility is not so great when your vision is driving you to create. An important part of me being me is me creating something. For me, being and doing is the same thing. If I am, I do. That’s it. How can we live and not want to achieve something scared, something deep, and something noble? Now that is an empty life. Love really is the answer, and love is sacred, especially when we love what is sacred - like you and me. And yet so many people spend their entire lives without ever experiencing the sacredness of being, because they have not known love. Their Moms & Dads failed them. That is where it begins. —Ray Newkirk
“Trust is a very difficult human virtue. Some situations absolutely require trust. Some situations do not require much trust. This virtue is one of those virtues that is so hard to find but so easy to lose. Even oil lamps do not help us much in our search for truth, and without truth, there can be no trust.” —Dr. Ray Newkirk
A Life in Motion - Dr. Newkirk Leadership Mastery History
Academically: Dr. Raymond Newkirk has earned doctorates in several specialties including the Psy.D., in Clinical Psychology, the Ph.D. with a double focus in Behavioral Science & Philosophy of Science, and the Ph.D. with Distinction in Systems Science with a focus on the Design of Human Activity Systems in High-Technology Environments.
Professionally: Dr. Newkirk has enjoyed an extensive career rising in the ranks from computer operator to CEO and Chairman of the Board. He has led teams implementing new technologies that transformed entire industries including Banking & Financial Services, Logistics, Software Development, Computer Manufacturing, and Coaching & Consulting. As an Entrepreneur, Dr. Newkirk launched Bay University, the first for-profit Internet-Oriented, Virtual Learning company in the country. He served as COO of Mindmaker, the A/I company that won “Best of Comdex” two years consecutively back in the late 1990s. He even served as Vice Chairman of the Board for a start-up funded by Anthony Quinn, the well-known actor.
Leadership Mastery Specialist: Dr. Newkirk has actively engaged in Leadership Effectiveness on a global basis for more than 40 years. His area of interest is simple: Problem Solving. What else is there? Dr. Newkirk maintains that anyone who seeks out Leadership Mystery assistance is facing a problem that requires resolution. Dr. Newkirk has a pet peeve. He does not like to “HELP” clients. He says that “HELP” is such an over used word. He maintains that clients require assistance, not really help. He sees “help” as such a weak word that misrepresents the situation of nearly every client. Clients need an edge, fresh insights, clarification, new direction, improved behaviors and skills, fresh ideas, a safe environment for discussing career questions, personal resets, emotional clarifications, independent assessments, but not “help”. “HELP” is what people need when they are drowning. People who have the resilience to seek out Leadership Mastery assistance and begin the process are not yet drowning. They are still working on building their lives by solving problems that the really need to solve. They are asking for assistance. They are still taking care of themselves. They are still making course corrections. Clients may sometimes think that they are drowning, but they are not. They do not need advice. They require a solid program of guided Leadership Mastery.
Dr. Newkirk founded his Dr. Newkirk & Associates Stress Management Clinic early in the 1980s and began his career as an Leadership mastery Specialist. Since that time, he has assisted leaders in countries in the Middle East and Europe to Asia and the USA sharing insights and assisting them with more rapidly resolving many different kinds of problems. He is the Founder and developer of the Applied Intuitive Solutions™ (AIS™) approach to coaching success.
Certification: Dr. Newkirk founded the National Certification Council for Coaching Professionals™ (NCCCP™) and defined its Certification Process. We certify the coaching profession at four levels:
Certified Coaching Assistant, CCA
Certified Coaching Director, CCD
Certified Coaching Consultant, CCC
Certified UlThule™ Coaching Specialist, CUCS
NCCCP™ offers several different tracks for each certification level to assist you with developing your coaching expertise. Each track defines the qualifying criteria for certification at each level taken from five different areas of knowledge and experience including: (1) academic education; (2) coaching experience; (3) continuing education from related body of knowledge, (4) consulting experience in coaching for the CCC level of certification, and (5) self-directed Coaching education in the business of coaching. The following section discusses the different areas of knowledge and experience.
Academic Education: May be met by a wide variety of specialties including in the arts and sciences including but not limited to psychology, sociology, communications, education, science, business, and management. See the Definition Section for additional information on academic requirements.
Coaching Experience: This qualification is met by professional coaching experience over the past five years with individuals, teams, and organizations in profit and non-profit settings where at least 50% of the coaching involved individuals and the remainder with teams. See the Definition Section for additional information on coaching experience requirements.
Continuing Education: Education and training over the past five years consisting of seminars, workshops, college courses, and vocation training offerings that keep you informed of trends in coaching and consulting. NCCCP’s formal Body of Knowledge contains a large number of subject matter areas and subareas that are recommended to meet this requirement. See the Definition Section for additional information on continuing education requirements.
Consulting Experience: May be met by consulting to groups, individuals (one-on-one), conducting workshops, presenting seminars, publishing professional articles, engaging in classroom instruction, supervising coaches in training, and managing five or more coaches during one or more engagements. See the Definition Section for additional information on consulting experience requirements.
Leader Education Program for Leadership Professionals: The LEPLP consists of 180 hours of educational learning, 180 hours of experiential learning, and 90 hours of actual Leadership as a qualifying practicum.
For any questions or concerns, please contact Dr. Ray directly at rnewkirk@smilc.info
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