Level 5 Leaders' Academy

• Leaders’ dilemmas and simple operating rules
• The Jim Collins’ ‘Good to Great’ model in Polish context:
• First Who then What?
• “Level 5 Leadership”
• “The Hedgehog Principle” (focusing)
• “Natural discipline”
• Communication of change

Benefits for participants and companies:

The training enhances personal motivation to lead a team. It enables leaders to direct both their own and their subordinates development towards the optimal use of their respective greatest strengths and finest resources. It awakens the spirit of entrepreneurship among managers who, until now, considered their work in terms of processes and operations. It teaches how to shape the loyalty of employees and business partners.

Following the workshops, participants:

• Will have a better understanding of what creating and communicating an effective company’s strategy is all about
• Will be able to identify and define their company’s most effective areas of operations, as well as to define the company’s ‘Hedgehog Principle’ for their company’s benefit (focusing on competitive advantages)
• Will apply the optimal methods to select associates during the recruitment process and project implementation
• Will know how to control turn-over in their company

• “Stairs to heaven” and “Good Meetings” – advanced methods of influence and interpersonal communication
• Important and difficult internal conversations
• How to ethically apply the effective persuasion techniques
• How to distinguish influence from manipulation in practice and how to defend against manipulation in interpersonal relations

Benefits for participants and companies:

Gaining effective communication abilities will help participants establish good relations with their superiors, subordinates, associates and company clients. Participants will be able to apply rules of influence and persuasion techniques in a effective and, at the same time, ethical manner.

• The emphasis on negotiation skills, especially on the application and management of emotions in the negotiation process
• The so called paradox communication and influence techniques (“negotiation jujitsu and aikido”) as a supplement to the rational, logical approach based on excellent strategic preparation
• Two approaches: “arriving at YES” and “starting with NO”

Benefits for the participants and companies:

Increased self-awareness and self-confidence that allow to retain self-control when faced with crisis, deadlock and stress. Development of the ability to collaborate within a negotiation team and to achieve results in a manner that leads to deep satisfaction, including the ethical one.

• Profitable relations in sales and sales management
• Emotional marketing
• The Oldham – Morris personality-based relations model
• Individual management relations (B2B and in direct sales)

Benefits for participants and companies:

The participants learn new, effective ways of reaching people and building long-term relationships that survive deadlocks and crisis. Participants are able to establish business bonds with sensitivity and internal commitment, so that, in addition to business outcomes, they can generate maximum internal satisfaction.

The participants understand better, what the creation of profitable relationships entails and how these relations can benefit the organization. They establish and maintain such relationships with clients, that lead to concrete, measurable benefits to both parties.

• Managerial, educational, sales presentations
• Self-presentation and self-image management
• Interactive approach that takes into account the role of visual, audio and kinaesthetic factors
• The use of one’s emotions and personality style (and its limitations) in reaching the best possible results during presentations and speeches
• Stress, stage fright – the difficult situations during presentations and speeches

Benefits for participants and companies:

The participants learn to deliver presentations in a unique manner that differentiates them from their competitors. They can accomplish this at a reduced emotional cost, that is, with higher tolerance for stress.

The combination of the interactive approach, the so-called kinaesthetic attitude with great simplicity and high quality of graphics material is the secret of the visible success.

• Life / work balance
• How to maintain the effectiveness at work and family harmony
• Simple principles and rules of a good family life integrated with a professional career
• Rules that allow to define and plan the functioning of both a very healthy team and company, as well as a healthy family

Benefits for participants and companies:

As a result of the improved personal, friendship, emotional and family relations, the participants gain more energy that makes them more effective and satisfied at work. The training improves professional effectiveness and, simultaneously, enhance personal life satisfaction.

The participants discover that the Art of Presence is the key to both meaningful personal life and effectiveness at work…

• Energy management – stress and regeneration
• Leader’s energy advantage
• Concentration and decision making techniques in extreme situations (inspired by the MBSR method)
• Professional vs personal life
• The combination of the verified stress resistance and mobilisation, concentration and effectiveness techniques acquired from the work methodology of the special combat units as well as eastern combat and meditation systems.

The training conducted together with Tomasz Adamczyk (HSRT method – High Stress Response Training), the Sławomir Bubicz’s Hatha Yoga Academy, as well as Wojciech Eichelberger’s Psycho – Immunology Institute.

Benefits for Participants and companies:

Strengthening the inner power through deepened personal insight. Understanding the ability to manage the emotional stress mechanisms. Giving a new sense to your life, based on a coherent value system.

• Coaching and mentoring – a system approach in an advanced, growing company
• Full adjustment of the training method to the internal relations, sales and negotiation standards, as well as other factors that determine the basis for organization’s operations
• The application of the GROW method
• Fully personalised approach
• Train the Trainer – how to become a coach, a mentor or a counsellor?
• Psychological models in coaching

Benefits for participants and companies:

The participants of the in-class training in coaching, counselling and mentoring, become familiar with the system and process approach to the above mentioned methods, as well as employees’ skills development.

The individual coaching sessions for top managers are adjusted to their personal needs and, at the same time, effectively linked to the company competence systems and assessment / development centre processes. They focus on the development of selected skills of the top-level management.