Influence

Transform

Achieve

Grow

Middle Managers of today become the Leaders of tomorrow

Succeed

Cultivate

Adapt

Motivate

Our Coaching System, Journey of Heroes uses an IAC model that can transform your middle managers and front line supervisors to highly effective leaders in 90 days. Our starting now actions target fight or flight behaviors, which are the main drivers for leadership failures in complex organizations.

Middle Managers Learn To

Invite

their supervisors to share power with them using effective communication, competence, and empathy to develop trusting relationships

Attract

collaborative power from those they supervise by building trust and empowering their followers

Cultivate

collaborative power in the work culture by only demonstrating behaviors that reduce fear and increase collaboration.

With this approach you will develop a

Cascading Effect

and increase your organization’s workforce

Effectiveness!

  • • The quality and quantity of communication

    • Mission statements moving to center stage

    • Preferred behaviors such as respect and dignity

    • Professional relationships

    • Clear and achievable performance expectations

    • Leaders providing support without giving up power

    • Problem-solving becoming a team sport

    • Productivity and smart work rules as opposed to mediocrity

    • Group members becoming involved in creating outcomes

    • Group members accepting more responsibility over time

    • Employees’ ability to deal with adversity

    • In discussing ideas for improvement

    • Team members becoming very good at what they do

    • Leaders growing to very high levels of effectiveness

    • Group members having confidence to make decisions and know when to include their supervisor

    • Continuous improvement strategies becoming an organic function

  • • Implemented a list of behaviors that increase group collaboration

    • Identified a list of behaviors that decrease group collaboration

    • Smartly addressed and eliminated the causes of fear generation in the work environment

    • Trained every group member to an expert level in collaboration and technical competency

    • Clearly understood objectives that are directly supported by that person’s training

    • Smooth productivity by removing roadblocks, adjusting workloads, and setting reasonable deadlines with clear expectations as part of every delegated task

    • Leaders who train others in the use of a systematic problem-solving process in order to neutralize deeply embedded cognitive biases, fallacious reasoning, and emotional blocks

    • Leaders who privately hold individuals accountable to collaborative behaviors and publicly advance ambitious but achievable objectives

    • Leaders who assist in performance recovery when inevitable errors come to pass

    • Leaders that recognize the exceptional performance events of their direct reports, so this same performance is encouraged to be repeated in the workplace by them and others

  • • Negative human behaviors

    • Fear-caused behaviors

    • Inappropriate, toxic behaviors

    • The need for expensive direct supervision

    • Ego Mentality

    • Complex policies, procedures, and instructions on how to do day-to-day operations

Testimonials

  • "Bob's capacity to distill complex and challenging issues into systematic approaches to solutions is near genius. Over the 25 years I have known Bob professionally, he has consistently achieved measurable improvements in staff development and productivity, team focused direction, and success where success is hard to derive."

    Teresa Herrera, General Manager

    Silicon Valley Clean Water

  • " A short time after I began applying these tools, I felt a positive shift in my outlook, and in the way others perceived me."

    Todd Phillips, Reception Supervisor

    Pacific Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Hospital

  • “Bob has crystalized these into a specific recipe for anyone who wants to become a truly inspiring leader.”

    John Schwarz, Founder

    JHS Consulting

  • “… all these attributes which can now provide any leader the instructions necessary for their successful collaborative power grab, if they merely follow the instructions provided”

    Todd Beecher, P.E. Founder

    Beecher Engineering, Inc.

  • “During Bob’s presentations I found my head moving up and down in agreement and mentally holding on while experiencing a tour de force of tried-and-true concepts and rules for the road of becoming a super employee and an effective human being.”

    Ray Busch, Facility Manager (Ret.)

    City of Hayward, California

  • “His collaborative approach helped us find ways to make this complex project work for both wildlife and people. When we ran into problems with a contractor Bob used his skills of dealing with difficult people to help us solve our problems. We couldn’t have done it without his help.”

    Mendel Stewart Chief of Budget, Performance and Workforce

    United States Fish and Wildlife Service

  • “He has a large toolbox of strategies on how to get a team working together. He does his homework and comes with a plan that works. I don’t recall ever second-guessing his methods or the outcome.”

    Mike Joyce, Principal

    Kennedy/Jenks Consultants

  • "Bob Donaldson is a tough and fair-minded person with years of experience in negotiating and representing the public good. California Wildlife Foundation has witnessed first hand his ability to take a complex issue and multiple party interests and bring projects to successful completion, on time and on budget."

    Janet Cobb

    Executive Officer, California Wildlife Foundation

  • Bob is able to condense the best from decades of study and his own experience with transforming and organization and individuals, and deliver it in concentrated, immediately usable packages."

    Ray Busch, Facility Manager (Ret.)

    City of Hayward, California