We are at the Crossroads of life more often than we think. Often, something unexpected comes along and radically changes our thinking. This gain in insight and shift in reasoning often ignite a range of decisions that lay out a new path of understanding about our lives. —Dr. Ray Newkirk
The Dr. Ray Newkirk Crossroads Program
Designed to Navigate the Pitfalls & Tarpits of a Leadership Career
Crossroads Program Objectives
First Objective: Build your effectiveness as a professional contributor to the success of your organization.
Second Objective: Safely acquire potent softskills to improve Leader, team, and organization performance.
Third Objective: Grow from an ad hoc or de facto Leader into a well informed and experienced professional Leadership Mastery Specialist.
Seminar One: Mastering the Leadership Environment
Putting Your Stake in the Ground
Building Your Framework for Success
Critical Success Factor Models for Effective Leadership Mastery
Fundamentals of High-Impact Leadership
Seminar Two: Mastering Hidden Skills of Leadership Success
Understanding Your Followers
Clarifying Follower Expectations
Moving From Beliefs and Values to Character
Beyond the Basics
Seminar Three: Developing Successful Leadership Skills
Building Authentic Cooperation
Returning to the Basics
Going to the Core
Mastering the Core Competencies of Leaders & Teams
Seminar Four: The Leadership Side of Leader Success
Leading to Make Powerful Decisions
Mastering Leading to Encourage People to Change
Attaining Leadership and Mentoring Success
Mastering the Leadership and Leader Environment
Using Leadership to Enhance Your Team Building Program
Seminar Five: Leading in Turbulent Environments
Defusing the Confusing
Leading Difficult Followers
Using Leadership to Overcome Turbulence in Organizations and Teams
Seminar Six: Leading Better through UlThule™ Leadership Mastery
Great Performance is Counter-Intuitive
Attaining UlThule™ Performance
Seminar Seven: Refining Communication Skills for Leadership Success
Leadership is Communicating
Seminar Eight: The Role of Intelligences and Emotions in Leadership Success
Doing the Hard Work
Minding the Spirit
Leading Followers with Influence to Change Minds
Understanding Emotions to Enable People to Change
Self-Awareness through Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence Requires Emotional Understanding
Seminar Nine: Coaching for Career Self-Renewal
Where Do You Go From Here?
Managing our Crossroads of life sounds complicated already, doesn’t it. At times like this, it is good to sit back and listen to how we feel. Our emotions, after all, reveal a lot about our deep seated values. —Ray Newkirk
LEADERSHIP PRESENTATIONS
Delivered more than 150 presentations, courses, and seminars to Corporate, Government, Military, and Association leaders in Rome, Italy, Namur, Belgium, Manila, Philippines, London, England, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saidi Arabia, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Atlanta, Ga., Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y., Los Angeles, CA., Phoenix, AZ. San Francisco, CA.
Subjects Included the Following:
Ulthule Leadership™ * Leadership Performance * Organization Design * Information Technology * Ethnic Diversity * Leadership Quality * Strategic Leadership * Discovering Core Values of Leadership * Problem Solving * Artificial Intelligence * Leading Organization Change * Improving Leadership Performance * Building Successful Workgroups * Mobilizing Innovation and Change * Building Follower Performance * Bases of Leadership Competence * Evolutionary Guidance Systems * Leadership as a Human Activity System * Software Development Methodology * Methodology Design
LEADERSHIP PRESENTATIONS & PUBLIC SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
UlThule™ Leadership© * Discovering Core Values© * Leading Organization Change© * Improving Leadership Performance© * Building the Successful Work-Group© * Mobilizing Innovation and Change© * Building Group Performance© * The Bases of Competence© * Evolutionary Guidance Systems© * Technology in Learning© * Developing Intellectual Capital© * Social Cognition in Performance© * The Strategic Training Department© * Establishing a Performance Program© * The Internet Action Learning Model© * Mindfulness in Human Performance© * Models of a Learning Architecture© * New Methods of Design Inquiry© * The UlThule™ Organization©
ORGANIZATION PERFORMANCE SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
The UlThule™ Organization© * Total Performance Management© * The Design of Work-Group Systems© * The High Performance Environment© * Work-Group Performance Evaluations© * Work-Group Change Management© * High Performance Development© * Human Systems Management©
Systems Models Approach©
LEARNING &TRAINING PERFORMANCE SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Technology in Learning© * Developing Intellectual Capital© * Social Cognition in Performance© * The Strategic Training Department© * Establishing a Performance Program© * The Internet Action Learning Model© * Mindfulness in Human Performance© * Models of a Learning Architecture© * New Methods of Design Inquiry©
Representative Seminars, Workshops, and Speaking Engagements per Client
Part One
Building Effective Business Relationships - Mindmaker Inc.
Designing Your IPO Success Path - Mindmaker, Inc.
Critical Steps to Establishing a Corporate Spinoff - British Airways
Management Effectiveness Analysis - Burns Philp
Executive Information Systems - Digital Consulting
Leadership Effectiveness Analysis – AT&T
Metamethodology Design, The Foundation for Tomorrow - Executive Forum
Establishing the Client Server Environment - Specialty Brands
Program Management in Client Server Computing – Systems Integration Solutions, Inc.
Developing Your Business Continuity Plan - Specialty Brands
Software Development Productivity - National Computer Center. P.I.
Computer Operations Management in the 1990s and Beyond - IBC, London, Rome
The Hypergrowth/IT Workshop - Dell Computers
The Disruption Model of Strategic Planning - Dell Computers
Redesigning the Corporation as a Cluster Organization - PQ Group, Netherlands
Design of Workflow Systems - PQ Group, Netherlands
Integrating Human Resources Planning with the I/T Strategic Plan - IBC, London
Representative Seminars, Workshops, and Speaking Engagements per Client
Part Two
The Strategic Implementation of Client/Server Computing - Doctors Company
Designing the Corporate Human Resources Information System - Sola Optical
Establishing the Business Continuity Organization - Sola Optical
Total Quality Management and ISO 9000 - AT&T
Testing, Validation, and Verification of Software - Technology Transfer, Rome
Quality Assurance and Control - Jeddah, KSA & IBC, London
Implementing Software QA and QC - Matson Navigation
Establishing Change Control and Configuration Management - Walt Disney
Enterprise Architecture Planning and Design - Burns Philp
Developing Your Corporate Business and Systems Plan - IBC, London
Designing and Conducting Computer Performance Evaluations - Nations Bank
The Design of Executive Information Systems - DHL
Security for Distributed Information Systems - IBC, London, Rome, Amsterdam
The Capacity Management of Computer Systems - IBC, London
Ten Steps to Becoming a Technical Leader - AT&T
The Design of Global Communications Networks using the Distributed Access Model - IBC, London
Cybernetics, Living Systems Theory, and Organizational Behavior - Cyber. Congress, Namur, Belgium
Methodology Design via Potent MetaMethodological Approach – Digital Consulting, Atlanta, GA
Rapid Problem Solving through Applied Intuitive Solutions™ - UCF Incubator, Orland, FL