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Do your leaders ignite brilliance
and power innovation
with imagination, not fear?
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…with Courage to step up, reach out and get teams jazzed.
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Courage to lead™
Courage to lead™
A faster tempo. Tougher critics. Unpredictable rhythms. Complex orchestrations. Equip luminaries to step up and take charge.
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Ever work with a leader who jazzed his/her team? If so, you know the urgency and positive pressure s/he created. To bring out the best in your ensemble, overcome hurdles, sharpen up your thinking, power innovation.
Leaders who jazz things up have a magic touch. With a glance, a motion, a few words or critique, they flip the switch on these 5 Courage Activators:
- PURPOSE מכוונות. To see possibilities. Commit to audacious goals. "Get" why to step up and make a difference.
- WILL התלהבות. To energise, engage. Leap forward. Egg each other on. Spark confidence and optimism. Find joy and resilience.
- RISK מחויבות. To trust. Support. Show dedication. Stretch your comfort zone. Give up control. Negotiate for mutual gain more than self-interest.
- RIGOUR משמעת. So the right players work the right issues in the right sequence. Work them well. Use co-ordination tools. Orchestrate.
- CANDOUR פתיחות. To pay attention to key success factors. Take feedback. Speak up. Offer ideas. Sharpen up critical thinking.
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Take charge in the matrix
Take charge in the matrix
Soloists and ensembles. Diverse voices. Conflicting priorities.
Team mobilization™ equips leaders to step up and take charge.
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Flat hierarchies and parallel work streams have great potential -- for luminiaries who step up and take charge, empower and let go, discipline and engage.
Even in small enterprises, orchestrating in the matrix can be fraught with conflict. Even moreso for middle managers in large global corporations.
Team mobilization™ equips leaders to step up, reach out and take charge in the matrix — and flip the switch on:
- PURPOSE מכוונות. To see possibilities. Commit to audacious goals. "Get" why to step up and make a difference.
- WILL התלהבות. To energise, engage. Leap forward. Egg each other on. Spark confidence and optimism. Find joy and resilience.
- RISK מחויבות. To trust. Support. Show dedication. Stretch your comfort zone. Give up control. Negotiate for mutual gain more than self-interest.
- RIGOUR משמעת. So the right players work the right issues in the right sequence. Work them well. Use co-ordination tools. Orchestrate.
- CANDOUR פתיחות. To pay attention to key success factors. Take feedback. Speak up. Offer ideas. Sharpen up critical thinking.
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Wow and woo - win support from sponsors
Wow and woo - win support from sponsors
Wow and woo™. Apply the 5 Courage Activators when you present your business case to potential sponsors -- as an entrepreneur seeking funding or an internal luminary seeking support for innovation.
Connect quickly with your audience -- to spark imagination and connect with a common purpose and their highest aspirations.
Establish your credibility as you call partners to action — to lift your audience above fear and reluctance when you ask them to share your journey and take prudent reasonable risks.
Open candor so your Q&A is generative and productive — not an arm-wrestle to neutralize opposition.
Use rigor with step-by-step logic to make your case — and tell a coherent story, whether you have 30 seconds or 30 minutes to make your pitch.
And lift will — with a call to action that activates the courage centre in your audience's brain and a transfusion of the passion and enthusiasm you feel for your venture
Diversity Dialogues™ - sharpen your foresight
Diversity Dialogues™ - sharpen your foresight
Role conflicts, personality clashes, divergent technical and business demands. What can you do if conflicts create excessive noise or residual heat — and politicize decisions that should be taken with a rational forward-looking perspective?
Diversity Dialogues™ resolves role conflicts and personality clashes in a way that gets people to come together and make the most of yin-and-yang perspectives — rather than creating truces or turf boundaries. It lowers activation barriers so there is better interaction between interdependent parties and makes it possible for former rivals to challenge and sharpen up each others’ thinking.
We’ve facilitated Diversity Dialogues™ with individual partners or co-founders who have reached an impasse. We’ve used Diversity Dialogues™ so departments like engineering and operations, marketing and finance, quality and commercial confront differences partner and make better recommendations to senior management. Equip service providers and clients to partner better. And bridge gender, generational, and cultural differences. To see how you can use this proven method to get the most from diverse perspectives in your enterprise,
Courage Index™ - readiness assessments
Courage Index™ - readiness assessments
Courage Index™ -- our online assessment, feedback and development plan. To show you how to boost innovation-readiness, entrepreneurship and can-do possibility thinking. And deliver a tangible quick ROI.
In 4-6 weeks, you will get a profile of the business unit, cross-functional team or individual leader who needs to step up, ignite brilliance and power innovation. Or make room for a new CFO, CMO, or another thought-leader to bring new brilliance to your team.
Your Courage Index™ profiles:
- Strengths you already have to ignite brilliance and encourage innovation
- New ways to face adversity, so the heart of innovation beats even stronger
- Inhibitors that foster fear and discourage innovation, which you can change
- The expected ROI you can achieve -- with courage to boost innovation
The Courage Index is delivered online with GroupMind Express -- ensuring confidentiality and data integrity. It can be supplemented with video or live interviews, and questions that focus on your organization's unique values, success behaviors and core competencies.
The Courage Index looks beyond the past and present. It gives you a window into the future -- to create inflection points that change your trajectory and catapult your success to an even higher level.
Your Courage Index delivers more than a report. It gives you a call to action -- mobilizing your leaders to dream larger, reach higher, leap further and ignite brilliance, to power innovation. Like the calls to action that catapulted the StartUp Nation onto its miraculous success trajectory.
Courage Institute™ - action workshops
Courage Institute™ - action workshops
Courage Institute™. High-impact learn-by-doing leadership workshops. Unlock the power of matrix management to ignite brilliance and power innovation. With versions for:
- Your corporate university -- so high-potentials reach out and power innovation
- Departments or business units to step up and orchestrate in a matrix structure
- Cross-functional teams to seize new opportunities or solve tougher problems
- Accelerating transformational change-management or strategy execution initiatives
- Lifting your executive MBA beyond theory -- with practical know-how
Courage Institute workshops apply the 60-30-10 formula -- which tells us that leaders master innovation with hands-on experience (60%), with feedback and coaching (30%) and with ideas and insights (10%). They make learning fun. And, with the 5 Courage Activators as a roadmap, they make new skills stick.
Simulations, innovation exercises and practical hands-on application bring the best of Israeli innovation to your enterprise -- possibility thinking, ingenuity, out-of-the-box problem solving, refining fresh ideas with robust pressure-testing.
Action learning gives your managers concrete practical tools — to raise the bar today — along with greater self-awareness, peripheral vision, depth and sharper predictions. Peer coaching and application give you more than fun and provocative new ideas. They deliver a tangible quick ROI.
Bring together a team of high-potential leaders, key executives, project orchestrators or thought leaders in finance, safety, QA, computational chemistry, marketing or any other discipline. Carve out the time for a blend of online webinars, live meetings and peer coaching. You'll send them away with more courage to step up, reach out, let go, empower and ignite brilliance.
Coaching OnCourage™ - lift your career
Coaching OnCourage™ - lift your career
Got a plan? One month to catapult your career with 1:1 Coaching OnCourage™. Build an IDP (Individual Development Plan) to take charge of your career. To advance to the next level -- and the one beyond that. To look beyond the skills that brought you to your current pinnacle of success, so you go even further. And thrive on the adversities that used to leave you stuck or stumped.
A single coaching session can prepare you for a difficult conversation, a high-stakes presentation, a failure-is-not-an-option pep talk, call-to-action or a change-leadership or accelerated performance initiative. In extreme situations, you can regain your composure and approach frustrating encounters with a higher unflappable level of emotional intelligence.
Or incorporate the 360-feedback you received and the insights you got from your latest personality profile. With a personalized development plan ato apply your insights and ideas, you can break through your personal barriers and help others break through theirs.
With shadow consulting and just-in-time huddles, lift the courage of the people you need to mobilize – by flexing your automatic reactions to optimize your impact. All of which gets the heart of innovation to beat stronger.
1:1 Coaching OnCourage has equipped senior executives to think through and implement organizational changes. It has equipped cross-functional team leaders to step up and take charge with influence not authority. And has accelerated the development of high-potential talent grooming themselves for new and more expansive leadership roles.
Human Capital Consulting
Human Capital Consulting
Business development. Through our network of contacts, we can help you raise capital -- and manage it wisely. Have a great idea or breakthrough innovation that's looking for a funding, development or go-to-market partner? We can mobilize the right people to help.
Scale up smartly -- for now and the future. In the Start-Up Nation, ventures are known for being capital-efficient. As architects for growth, we'll work with you to think out of the box, invert the pyramid, re-architect your matrix and see how you can get to the finish line faster, better and more capital efficiently -- in a way that's true to your values and that builds a solid foundation for your future business growth.
The courage to face tough decisions -- when what got you here won't take you there. Future opportunities may require something different from your past success formula. We can help with:
- new talent that's needed for key roles, and new ways to promote from within
- shedding excess expenses or outsourcing non-core functions
- revamping your business model or your go-to-market strategy
- new alliances and partnerships — for capital, know-how or a global reach
- flat nimble matrix structures and virtual teams. to break down silos
- new benchmarks and accountabilities in a performance management system
- executive compensation so you profit from the enterprise growth you create
The courage to redefine your own role. If you're an entrepreneur or the head of a function or business unit, growth may require something different of you and your team. To keep pace with growth. Ignite brilliance. And rekindle your own joy, by managing your enterprise instead of letting it manage you.
Your Human Capital Consulting Partners. For business and organization development that builds courage, ignites brilliance and pops innovation --
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