Simple Joy of Leadership

It is common to hear someone complain about the lack of decision making. The problem here is that you do not hear much about the type of decision that should be made. There are nearly ten types of decisions that people can make, after proper analysis of course. —RLN

Simple Joy Seminars and Workshops

Mastering the Hidden Skills of Leadership Success - A Multi-Seminar Program

What is Leadership? 

  1. First Objective:  To see others more clearly.

  2. Second Objective:  To see ourselves more clearly.

  3. Third Objective:  To build better relationships.

  4. Fourth Objective:  To lead successful teams.

Seminar One:  Building Your Framework For Success

Module One:  Why Bother?

Module Two: Core Competencies of Successful Leaders

Module Three:  CSF Models for Effective Leaders & Consultants

Module Four:  Attaining Follower, Team Trust and Confidence

Seminar Two: The Core Soft-Skills of Success

Module One: Return to the Basics

Module Two: Changing Self-Image

Module Three: Building Assertiveness

Module Four: Energizing Teams

Seminar Three: Success Through Cooperation

Emotionally healthy people cooperate more than they go it alone.

What does cooperation mean to you, and what is the road to it?

First Objective: Understand the art and skills of cooperation.

Second Objective:  Better manage negative and failure oriented behaviors.

Third Objective:  Become a more powerful leader, and consultant.

Overview:

We will examine difficult situations and the people who cause them.

We will explore techniques and methods for reducing negative situations.

We will clarify our role in influencing others.

Overcoming Prejudice

Improving Commitment

Motivating People

Changing Emotional States

Building Authentic Self-Esteem

Eliminate Self-Destruction 

Seminar Four: CSF Models for Effective Innovation & Change

What We Are Here to Learn:

Mobilize innovation & change

Refine people-skills

Improve team building skills.

Enhance personal insight.

What We Are Here to Explore:

What it takes to be innovative.

How to lessen the pain of change.

How to achieve higher levels of performance.

First Objective:  Build your effectiveness as a professional contributor to the success of your organization.

Second Objective:  Safely acquire potent soft-skills to improve organization & team performance.

Third Objective:  Grow from an ad hoc or de facto Leader & consultant into a well informed and experienced professional Leadership & Consulting specialist.

Seminar Five: Understanding the Value of Being Prudent

You are here to learn more about being a more powerful person by getting along better with yourself and others.

You are here to gain insight into your capabilities in mastering difficult situations with other people.

First Objective: Building the Prudence of Teams

Second Objective:  Building Your Communications Skills

Third Objective:  Building Your Social Skills

Seminar Six: CFF Models for Effective Innovation & Change

From the perspective of effective interpersonal relationships, we will explore the art of:

Building generosity

Overcoming irrational guilt

Building self-responsibility

Balancing emotional life

First Objective:  Learn methods to build authentic generosity,

overcome irrational guilt, build self-responsibility, and balance emotional life.

Second Objective:  Apply these methods to developing effective interpersonal relationships.

Third Objective:  Become a more responsive leader.

Seminar Seven:  Going to the Core

Overview: Ways to gain respect and overcome faults

The content is derived from the development of soft-skills that impact leadership

These methods work when you really learn to apply them

This seminar focuses on two core soft-skills of leadership and consulting:

Conquering Anger

Enhancing Respect

Building the respect of yourself and others.

Eliminating the anger of yourself and others.

Integrating these soft-skills with previous soft-skills.

Your performance objectives for mastering the content:

First Objective:  Master the art of respect

Second Objective:  Control negative situations

Third Objective:  become more effective

Establishing Respect

Acknowledging Faults

Conquering Anger Take a minute to write an introduction that is short, sweet, and to the point.

Seminar Eight: Touching the Spirit

Overview:  Motivation is an “Inside Job”.

We will explore how to raise interest levels in oneself and others.

Background of material:  The material emerged from the experience that

people become desensitized to almost anything over time.

Clarifications: Motivation comes from the inside. 

I can not motivate anyone.  I can only give a reason for a person to motivate themselves.

This seminar continues the challenge of enabling others to

Master the Difficult Social Skills that make success possible and effectiveness a reality.

You are here to learn new ways to master yourself, difficult situations, and the expectations of others.

Why I am covering this:  Why not?  We can never have enough interest.

First Objective:  Improve our interest levels

Second Objective: Improve the interest levels of others

Third Objective: Become more effective raising interest levels

Seminar Nine: Mastering The Difficult Skills 6 Defusing the Confusing

Overview:

Defusing passive-aggressive behavior

Overcoming lateness

Defusing the Confusing

Seminar Ten: Moving From Beliefs & Values to Character

Overview: The relationship of belief to values

The art of understanding the belief and values  of other people

This is not a seminar in psychotherapy, but it can be a seminar in character development

This seminar takes you beyond the everyday understanding of trust and confidence so that you can more appropriately engage each attribute of your character.

It frees you from the constrains of uninformed behavior.

You will learn an approach for clarifying the nature of trust and confidence with others.

You will learn how to gain T&C, how to keep them, and how to lose them.

I will cover:  The entire trust and confidence paradox.

Why I am covering this:  To simplify your interpersonal relations and improve your odds of becoming a more effective person.

Beliefs & Values Continuum

Transformation

Building Loyalty

Your performance objectives for mastering the content:

First Objective: Identify your core beliefs and the related values.

Second Objective: Recognize how your professed beliefs and values conflict with your behaviors.

Third Objective:  Relate to yourselves with integrity (quit deceiving yourself).  You are who you are, this is you beliefs and values in action.

You have mastered this seminar when you meet the following performance objectives:

First Objective:  Identify core beliefs.

Second Objective:  Relate your values to these beliefs.

Third Objective:  Listen to you emotions.

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Seminar Eleven: Core Competencies of Teams

We are here to learn how to kindly defuse Complainers:

Chronic Complainers and How to Manage Them

We all complain sometimes, this is not about us.

This seminar leads you through several methods that reduce the negative impact of complainers.

This seminar transforms complainers into contributors.

This seminar defuses the damage caused by complainers before the situation collapses.

First Objective: Improve listening skills.

Second Objective: Reduce complaining.

Third Objective: Lead the complainer to effectiveness.

Fourth Objective: Defuse Complaining

Seminar Twelve: Paving Your Road to Success II

Module One: Fundamentals of High-Impact L&C  Understanding Your Follower

Module Two:  Common Organization Performance Models

Module Three: The Organization-Human Systems Continuum

Seminar Thirteen:  Putting Your Stake in the Ground

The Subject of the Seminar Series is Soft-skills Building for Enduring Success.

This series covers the framework, models & powerful techniques of authentic L&C.

We offer this series, because soft-skills are central to building & leading successful teams.

Where do you go after you have tried everything?

This seminar series will teach you what Leadership & Consulting (L&C) actually is.

You will see that it is both an authentic psychological discipline and applied art.

The Motivation Design Process.

The Different Roles & Responsibilities of L&C.

Seminar Fourteen:  Fundamentals of High-Impact Leadership

Attaining Follower Trust & Confidence

Seminar Fifteen: Living The Gentle Life

This series will assist you in:

Making sense of your spiritual life

Gaining deeper understanding of negative behaviors that can impede spiritual progress.

Gaining powerful insights into defining attitudes of spirituality

Overcoming behaviors that impede spiritual progress

Overview:

You will explore the spiritual life in-depth.

You will learn about the Presence of the Sacred.

You will clarify central concepts about spirituality and holiness

You will lean an approach for growing in the Presence of the Sacred

This seminar is about how to enjoy your spiritual life by gaining gentleness.

Emotionally healthy people are more gentle than others.

What does gentleness mean to you, and what is the road to it?

First Objective:  Build your understanding of the relationship between spirituality and an effective life.

Second Objective:  Safely acquire insights and practices that enable you to

live a fulfilling life by enjoying being in the Presence of the Sacred.

Third Objective:  Advance in growth from spiritual childhood to spiritual adulthood.

This seminar explores ways to:

Develop gentleness in spiritual life

Increase self-esteem and forgiveness

Reduce the drive for Spiritual Self-Destruction

First Objective: Understand the art and skill of being Present to the Sacred.

Second Objective:  Eliminate negative and failure oriented behaviors that impede spiritual life.

Third Objective:  Increase one’s openness and receptiveness to the Grace of God.

Fourth Objective:  Eliminate negative and failure oriented behaviors that impede spiritual life.

Fifth Objective: Increase one’s openness and receptiveness to the Grace of God.

Requirements for Gentleness

Living the Gentle Life

You have mastered this seminar when you meet the following performance objectives:

First Objective:  Recognize self-defeating behaviors of yourself that impede spiritual progress

Second Objective:  Determine ways to reduce or eliminate negative behaviors

Third Objective:  Cooperate with God

Seminar Sixteen:  Core Competencies of Teams

First Objective:  Improve listening skills.

Second Objective:  Reduce complaining.

Third Objective:  Lead the complainer to effectiveness.

Fourth Objective:  Defuse Complaining

Seminar Seventeen: Becoming A Gentle Executive

Many speak about spirituality, but live as if there is no tomorrow.

Many speak about holiness, but say little about how to become holy.

There is a burning desire for many executives to live a spiritual life, and even to become holy.

This series offers a unique program for presenting yourself to the Sacred, for assisting you along your way to practical holiness, which is the ultimate plan for your life.

This series will assist you in:

Making sense of your professional life with an expanded perspective

Gaining deeper understanding of negative behaviors that can impede spiritual and executive progress.

Gaining powerful insights into defining attitudes of spirituality in executive life

Overcoming behaviors that impede spiritual progress

The Spiritual Approach to Executive Life

Spirituality through Gentleness

Seminar Eighteen: Understanding the Roots of Great Performance

UlThule™ Performance

Intelligence is not enough

Performance is not enough

UlThule™ Forever

Seminar Nineteen: Leadership For Career Self-Renewal

Time To Move On To The Bigger & Better Opportunity

Laying the Foundation to Your Career Self-Renewal

Listen To Your Dreams

Articulation of a Life-Time

Reframing Your Mind

Evaluating The Path

Linking the Perception with the Reality

Identifying the Relevant Conditions

Asking the Right Questions

Self-Development & Beyond

Timing Is Everything

Success or Failure through Emotions

Documenting Important Matters

Hitting Your Visions, Dreams, Missions, or Goals

Seminar Twenty: Building Personal Potency 

You are here to learn more about being a more powerful person by getting along better with yourself and others.

You are here to gain insight into your capabilities in mastering difficult situations with other people.

First Objective: Building the Prudence of Teams

Second Objective:  Building Your Communications Skills

Third Objective:  Building Your Social Skills

Building Team Prudence

Building Communications Skills

Building Social Skills

You have mastered this seminar when you meet the following performance objectives:

First Objective:  Prudence – what do you think?

Second Objective:  Communications – what do you think?

Third Objective:  Socially relatedness – what do you think?

Cultivate Potent Leadership

Seminar Twenty-One: Professional Maturity Requires Focus

The Focus Life-Cycle

Focusing for Improved Control

The Focus Formula of Success

The Environment of Focus

The Power of Focusing

Changing Your Life Through the Your Power to Focus

The Rule of Attention

The Rule of Appreciation

The Rule of Appreciation

The Rule of Appreciation

The Focus Formula of Success

The Environment of Focus 

Seminar Twenty Two: Understanding Emotions to Lead People to Change

Relationships between Values and Emotions

Unconscious Connections

Behavior, Emotions & Values

Relationship Living

First Objective: Better Understand the emotional life of the person

Second Objective: Develop a deeper understanding of the nature of emotions

Third Objective: Better integrate values, emotions, and behaviors.

Seminar Twenty-Three: Mastering the Psychology of Focus

We are presenting this series because:

The more you learn, the more powerful you  become at resolving the unexpected.

You make better decisions and forge powerful relationships.

You want to build a mature organization.

You better manage important aspects of your life.

Seminar Twenty-Four: Using Leadership to Enhance Mentoring

Mentoring Character

Mentoring Maturity

Mentoring Intelligence

Mentoring for Productivity

Mentoring Cultivation

Mentoring Clarity

Finding Authentic Success
Through Mentoring

Creativity in Mentoring

Intuition in Mentoring

Relationships in Mentoring

Ethical Mentoring 

Seminar Twenty-Five: Mastering the Art of Persuasion

A Persuasion paradox

Three characteristics of Persuasiveness

Techniques of Persuasion

Gifts of Persuasion

The Liking Principle

The Creditor Personality

The Reciprocity Rule

The Contrast Principle

The Anchor Point Traps

Defending Yourself Against Unwanted Persuasion 

Seminar Twenty-Six: Communicating for Success

The Paradox of Human Communications

Communicating for Success  

Seminar Twenty-Seven: The UlThule™ Way Beyond Peak Performance

The Process of Developing Really Great Performance

The Experience Trap

UlThule™ Development 

Seminar Twenty-Eight: Becoming A Gentle Soul

Introduction

The Spiritual Approach to Life

Spirituality through Gentleness 

Seminar Twenty-Nine: Putting Your Stake in the Ground

Introduction to Leading & Consulting

Defining Leading

Understanding Deliberate Practice

Seminar Thirty: Core Competencies of Successful Leaders & Consultants 

Clarifying Follower Expectations

Mastering the Leadership & Mentoring Environment

Distinguishing Leaders from Consultants

Cultivating Potent Leadership

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