Dear Colleague:

Authentic Leadership is Never Ever Boring

Leadership and consulting are entrenched in the corporate landscape.  While Leaders and consultants have traditionally assisted business clients over the last several decades, probably centuries, the 21st Century has witnessed the rapid spread of these professionals into every avenue of corporate, government, and private life.  Considering the varieties of background and qualification, the levels of experience, records of achievement, limits in knowledge, skill, and proficiency, and depth of developmental histories, I must ask “What compels Executives to select their particular Leaders and consultants?” 

My experience reveals that many claiming to be Leaders and consultants have actually fallen into these professions by default.  On closer examination, I have found that they lacked even the most rudimentary emotional and professional development required for success in such demanding life altering roles. Indeed, many consulting firms and corporate organizations had appointed individuals to these vital positions even though they had not been adequately prepared for the responsibilities characteristic of Leadership and Consulting.  Beyond this, I further discovered that people had begun their careers as in Leadership and Consulting merely by fiat fully lacking the requisite training, exposure, experience, or record of success that enables one to make the leap from technician to professional Leader or consultant.

Obviously, this is not the best situation for any person or organization.  The status quo is ineffective for the people who depend on them and unfair to the Leaders and consultants who must suffer through this situation. Whether you are seeking to increase productivity, build powerful teams, or leverage your best talent to advance critical projects or systems, give me a call to assist you with developing your Leadership and consulting capabilities.  Over the last 45 years, I have worked with the most complex organizations imaginable as they faced their most serious challenges in human performance.  Working together, I enabled them to arrive at the successful conclusions they required.

From Leadership, consulting, training, and development services, to project deliverables, V-learning programs, and E-books library, you can rely on a record of success to deliver the results you desire.  In addition to a in-depth range of services, I also offer a powerful set of seminars in several areas of effectiveness, including Leadership, Consulting, Program Management, and most importantly, Leadership Effectiveness.

Talk to me the next time you need a Leadership or Consulting Specialist.  I focus on transforming clients into professional Leaders and consultants.  Open yourself to the experience, knowledge, and skill available to you to more rapidly facilitate your success.

You are invited to contact me directly at rnewkirk@smilc.info. I look forward to discussing your challenges – and exploring your path to overcoming them.  I am ready and able to match your needs to the appropriate solution. Give me a call whenever you want to gain some fresh insights.

Potent Leadership is about the

Right Kind of Connections

Have you ever made the connection between a person’s behavior and that person’s character? If you want to know who a person is, pay attention to what that person does to himself or herself and other people. You will uncover a lot of mystery by doing this because you will have unmasked that person’s character. Think about it. But, it is only the beginning of understanding another person. There is more to understanding any person than this single aspect of character. —RLN .

As a Leadership Mastery Specialist, I Assist Leaders in the Following Four Ways

1. Work With Individuals

• Assist Leaders:

• Assist Executives

• Identify and develop people of high potential

• Transform managers into leaders

• Transform technical professionals intro technical leaders

2. Deliver Good-of-Fit Projects:

• Assess new-hire candidates

• Evaluate pre-promotion candidates

• Assess succession candidates

• Conduct in-placement evaluations

• Conduct career-path development evaluations

3. Troubleshoot:

• Turnaround faltering individuals

• Prevent unwanted departures of key employees

• Facilitate creative out-placement

• Resolve interpersonal conflicts

• Defuse potentially litigious situations (sexual harassment, etc.)

• Intervene in emergency mental health situations.

I Work With Teams and Organizations

1. Conduct Organization Studies:

• Assess the organization’s vital signs by surveying employees

• Customize diagnostic studies to identify high-impact development opportunities throughout the organizations

• Inventory managerial bench-strength with various assessments

2. Implement Strategic HR Objectives:

• Create alignment and ownership

• Maximize retention and commitment

• Manage change

• Develop a Leadership oriented workforce

• Transform workgroups into high-performance teams

3. Offer Strategic Support Services:

• Design performance management protocols

• Introduce Virtual-Learning to the design of Leadership Development Programs

• Implement competency studies in Leadership Consulting

• Customize measurement instrumentation

• Design high-impact Leadership Development Programs for HR staff to implement

• Build specialized test batteries for hiring to specific job specifications

• Facilitate retreats, workshops, seminars, and other meeting formats with high innovation requirements