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!
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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