LIVE & LEAD THE AUTHENTIC LIFE YOU WANT

About this Course

Living and leading the authentic life you want will create a meaningful and fulfilling life. Advanced neuro-brain science demonstrates the neuro-plasticity of the brain and tools to improve your performance as a leader. This program will give you the knowledge and tools for the skills you need to lead and be fulfilled in all four life areas which include; at work, at home, in the community, and in your private self (mind, body, and spirit). You'll explore the core principles of leadership and learn the skills you need to bring them to life. You learn how to find a greater sense of purpose, see how to convey values with stories, learn how to manage attention, feel less stressed, lead through serving others, and more. You'll see these skills illustrated in the inspiring yet imperfect lives of six remarkable leaders (your choice You'll have the opportunity to assess your own leadership skills, and learn simple, proven exercises to practice them. By the end of this course, you'll have the tools you need to develop your skills so you can grow as a leader in all areas of your life and create greater harmony among them.

SKILLS YOU WILL GAIN

• Design your life with purpose phases
• Build a finish design of your Unique talents (in all life areas)
• Character-driven leadership through “compassion”
• Human-value driven daily practices for maximum transparent and comfort integrity
• Living by your “inner and outer design”
• Compassionate leadership design and application

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week 1: (3 hours)

This module is designed to introduce you to the core principles of leadership from the point of view of the whole person, describe the 18 skills that bring these principles to life, and provide you with a self-assessment tool to determine your skills and establish a baseline for your development. Through top leadership case studies. Learning and practically applying the skills of envisioning your legacy, weaving together the “loose” strands of your life, and seeing new ways of doing things. Gain greater confidence as gain understanding of the leadership principles of being real, being whole, and being innovative, know the skills needed for improving your performance as a leader in all parts of life, identify your strengths and weaknesses, and learn exercises for building your capacity to envision your legacy with integrity, and integrate new ways of doing things.

Week 2: (2 hours)

This module is designed to help you understand and develop the six leadership skills of conveying values through stories, building supportive networks, resolving conflicts, holding yourself accountable, applying all your resources, and focusing on results. While reviewing transformational leaders you will build your final leadership design and practice its fulfillment. By the end of this module, Learn how to organize your life story using this final design and how you will implement it in your current roles in all life and work areas. Your story will convey your values to all the lives you touch and while practicing you will receive confirmations from both within and outside yourself in all life and work areas. Applying the “design’ you will learn how to create and sustain the best plan for holding yourself accountable, build supportive networks, apply all your resources in pursuit of important outcomes and goals, focus on results, and resolve conflicts among the different parts of life.

Week 3: (2 hours)

During this segment you will learning and apply, through practice, the six leadership skills of:

• aligning actions and values
• managing boundaries intelligently
• embracing change courageously
• knowing what matters
• helping others
• challenging the status quo.

These skill sets will be identified in your leader role models for final edits within your genuine values and practice these skills in action as they nurture and build “service to others” mindsets in those around you in all areas of life. By the end of this module, you'll learn exercises for clarifying your ideal self to know what really matters, finding the larger meaning in what you do so you act in ways that are consistent with your values, managing boundaries so you reduce distractions and pay attention to who matters most, leading through helping others, questioning the status quo, and building the courage to embrace change.

Week 4: (3 hours)

In this segment, you will learn and practice the essential leadership skills of embodying values consistently, clarifying expectations, and creating a culture of innovation. You'll see how these skills are applied in the leadership of chosen leaders (your own and others). You’ll learn how to combine all 18 leadership skills to make full use of your talents and passions to serve others and lead the life you want, no matter what your work setting, family circumstances, or cultural background. By the end of this module, you'll learn exercises for embodying your values no matter where you are, developing a process for identifying what people really want from you, and using teaching as a way to create cultures of innovation at work, at home, and in the community.

INFLUENCING WITH INTEGRITY SUCCESSx

About this Course

What does it mean to be influential? How does one persuade others to pursue a unified goal? How does one leverage power? In this course, you’ll learn how to develop influence and to become more effective in achieving your organizational goals. To begin, it is important to understand and align with what is integrity whose meaning implies trustworthiness implies trustworthiness and incorruptibility to a degree that one is incapable of being false to a trust, responsibility, or pledge. It implies tried and proven honesty or integrity.

This word is one of the least practiced for most in society today yet if we look at the root word you can see why. Let us review the etymology of this word from Latin. The word integrity evolved from the Latin adjective “integer”. Integer’s meaning in Latin is meaning “whole or “complete”. It is defined as an “undivided or unbroken completeness”, or a state of being complete or whole. When used to describe a person, it refers to the concept of living by one’s values and principles.
In this course the door will open to “living by one’s values and principles”. This living principle in life is what holds “influence” in every word, thought and action. Living in integrity will always bring harmony and balance into life and all business transactions once this integrity is unveiled and upheld in daily living.

Influence requires the employment of “integrity” both internally and then externally. To maintain integrity of human values and principles the chosen expression of “influence” is simply a tool and not the destination. With ethics the ability to utilize your unique character’s moral principles to guide the outcome precisely within the context of “serving the whole”.

You will learn how to understand the framework of ethics, power and influence with integrity to materialize the agreed outcomes and goals for the benefit of all concerned. This course will provide advanced nonverbal and verbal skills as tools of power and influence in which you will exercise the how to develop your skills of persuasion and leverage. By the end of this course, you’ll know your own strengths and how to use them to get what you need, how to gain power and influence, and how to leverage relationships and alliances to achieve your goals in both business and in life. The dynamics of effective networks will be explored for expanding your realms of influence. You will experience greater power and influence with integrity that will bring great fulfillment, beyond your expectations.

SKILLS YOU WILL GAIN

• Verbal and nonverbal communications mastery
• Communications mastery with generational profiles
• Communication mastery with peers and management
• Communication mastery in public speaking
• Communication mastery with Board
• Powerful confidence in your Authenticity
• Successful in leading Change across all sectors

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week 1: (3 hours)

In this module, we’ll begin by defining influence. You’ll weigh the pros and cons of proactivity and political ability, and find the right balance to get any job done within your organization. You’ll learn different models of power structures and dynamics, and discover the importance of flexibility, situational awareness, and agency. By the end of this module, you’ll be better able to analyze organizational structure, recognize processes within your organization that need improvement, and use your power of influence to optimize these processes.

Week 2: (3 hours)

In this module, you’ll examine social networks and relationships, and learn how they can help you accomplish your organizational goals. You’ll be able to differentiate between dense and disconnected networks, and weigh the benefits and costs of diversification within your networks. Then you’ll learn about both successful strategies and common pitfalls in cultivating a network and see how authentic generosity will build reciprocity in your networks and vice versa. You’ll also explore coalitions and how alliances between parties with different perspectives can be very effective and efficient in achieving mutual goals. By the end of this module, you’ll learn effective strategies for networking, coalition-building, and leveraging, and will be able to form strong alliances and relationships both inside and outside your organization.

Week 3: (3 hours)

This module was designed to help you develop your persuasive tactics and rhetoric to increase your influence. By discussing historical examples of classical principles of persuasion—from Aristotle to the six SUCCESS factors—you’ll learn what makes ideas memorable and be able to craft effective messages of your own. You’ll assess your own strengths and weaknesses in influence tactics by taking the Leverage Inventory survey. You’ll also explore statistical analysis examining the relative effectiveness of soft, hard, and smart power strategies. By the end of this module, you’ll be able to employ a toolbox of approaches to gain power and influence and be prepared to bring the right leveraging skills to any situation.

Week 4: (3 hours)

In this module, you’ll examine the ethical implications of persuasion and the responsibilities that come with having a powerful leveraging toolkit. By looking at examples of our own unconscious biases, you’ll gain a better understanding of where your perspective and values stand. You’ll learn how to find the right balance in making the necessary tradeoffs while exerting sustainable influence. Through exploring different hypothetical scenarios in the Hard Questions Survey, you’ll form strategies to avoid common pitfalls while leveraging influence. By the end of this module, you’ll have a deeper understanding of the ethics of persuasion and influence, and be able to make difficult decisions that are more aligned with you and your organization’s values.

Individual session will be required to “fine-tune’ the integration on a personal and professional level.

Weekly: (1.5 hours)