Create Cost Effective Training Solutions

If your training budget is not as large as you would like, it is still possible to develop your team. The key is to truly understand what behavioural changes will make the biggest impact on performance and get really creative with how the training solution is delivered.

1. Ask your team and your team's clients (internal and external) what behavioural change would make the biggest impact on performance.
2. Add your knowledge to the above
3. Select the behavioral change
4. Agree a performance goal for the change
5. Work with your team to come up with 7 different solutions to deliver this training (yes, seven)
6. Choose one solution - by analysing the balance of 'effectiveness' and 'cost'
7. Implement with Passion!

Experience has shown me that when I work with clients to come up with a variety of training method options we learn a great deal about the challenges of the team and arrive at a highly successful and cost effective solution. This solution may be entirely delivered by internal staff, by myself or a blend of both. If you'd like to understand more about how I could assist you with creating successful and cost effective training solutions - click here now

Innovate - the Steve Jobs Way

As you will no doubt already know, one of the worlds most influential evolutionaries, Steve Jobs has sadly passed away.

His massive success with Apple and Pixar was based on his ability to innovate and lead others to do the same.

Download this insightful free document outlining his 7 Key Principles of Innovation. I've found this very useful for my own evolution. Thanks Steve for this! and Carmine Gallo for putting it together

Join the Evolution - It's Exciting!
 
Kindest Regards,
Adrian

Open Heart Upgrade

It's been a fascinating few weeks for me what with running training programs, coaching, consulting, presenting at a conference in Fiji and squeezing in some great family time in the Easter Break. My son Louis, 13, is into surfing and surf photography so we spent some time in the waves and on the cliffs shooting videos together. My daughter India, 11 is a ball of energy and I got to hang out with her, surfing, baking, dancing to new music! and generally having a lot of fun, that is when I was not embarrassing her by wearing the wrong shirt! Teenagers soon.... 

                                                    Love Leads To Money

I want to share with you something that I'm extremely passionate about - setting and living your purpose. By doing this you will automatically upgrade your success in life and at work. Having been feeling a little off direction for a while I decided a few weeks ago to reset my purpose (the reason I do what I do) not only for my work but for my whole life. Using the 'Setting My Purpose' process I have devised, I realised that my new current purpose is 'To Open Hearts'. This is important to me because, by having an open heart, you are able to give and receive love and encouragement.  The latin word Couer, that courage is derived from, means heart. So by having an open heart, you are able to 'give heart' (en-courage) to others. The joy is that a group of two or more open hearted people actually grow each others hearts. They exchange encouragement and, because the hearts are open, the love can flow from one open heart and into the other open heart, growing its capacity for more encouragement. Cool isn't it!


So..... the lesson seems to be that by opening your heart, it will grow. You will have deeper more insightful conversations and exchanges with others and grow their courage at the same time which is a key leadership trait. My experience of being open hearted is that people really understand the intention of my communication- key leadership trait - and are inspired to positive successful actions - key leadership result .  I recently had some solid validation of this when I checked in at Brisbane airport for an international flight. I had my guitar with me which I use during my leadership conference keynote presentation "Compose Yourself'"©  and Air Pacific required a $50 fee to take a guitar, even though my total baggage weight was fine. I must have handled this news and the ensuing discussion in an open hearted manner as a few minutes later I was called to return to the counter where they asked for my red boarding pass and replaced it with a green business class one - upgrade! The person at the desk said it was for being a 'lovely man' (very touching!)  So I walked away very happy and it seemed our interactions had grown both our hearts despite the tricky content of the discussion. 

So, by having an open heart, your leadership capability will soar because people will just 'get you' so clearly and be inspired to be their best.

Join the Evolution - It's Exciting! 

Kindest Regards,

Adrian

Worlds Greatest Film Director - Leadership Style

Martin Scorsese, the acknowledged world's greatest living film director, uses one of the most powerful leadership tools to gain his success. Mr Scorsese has gained the loyalty and trust of hollywood's finest actors (Robert De Niro), editors, cinematographers and screenwriters who return time and again to work on his movies (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Aviator, The Departed). 

The secret to his success is that he uses coaching to draw out the best performances from his people. Coaching is the process of empowering and inspiring the individual to achieve outstanding results through questioning. 

For example, Mr Scorsese sets the purpose of a scene and lets the actors do a couple of takes. Rather than step in and tell the actors exactly what he wants he asks them questions such as :

1. How do you feel that take went?

2. Remind me of the purpose of the scene?

3. How well do you feel that take achieved the purpose of the scene?

4. What would you feel needs to happen next time to really achieve the purpose?

These questions draw out the experience and instincts of the actors who then implement their ideas, connect with the purpose and perform an excellent scene.

The same process applies to getting the best performances out of your people.

1 Set the Purpose of the situation

2 Coach

3 Monitor progress

4 Coach 

5 Complete/Review. 

If you and/or your leadership team are curious to learn how to coach effectively and release the innate ability of your staff, I will be running a Leader as Coach Public Program in a few weeks time. Register your interest now.

This powerful program can also be delivered in house exclusively for your leaders. Enquire how now.

Bring It All Together

Please accept this e-book gift of the collected leadership blogs of 2010 - packed with powerful real world leadership strategies, skills and mindsets - email address required.

Thanks for your support in 2010. I look forward to partnering with you 2011 and together achieving some really powerful and inspirational results.

Download Here Now 

Download and distribute to your peers, your team or your leaders. The content will encourage some very useful conversations.

Join the Evolution, It's exciting!

Kind Regards,

Adrian