Seminars

Being An Emergent Leader

It is often thought that leadership is about what you do. It is not. Leadership is about being a leader. It’s not about what you do. It’s really about who you are. In other words, it’s about “being.” And “being” is essentially an emergent process.

Being-ness is a state that when experienced, is often described as “flow.” It’s an elusive state that is not easy to “click into” and easy to fall out of when you’re not on top of your game. Yet “getting there’ is process that can be mastered…over and over again.

The other thing about leadership is that no matter how great you are, there’s always the next level. You want to be focused on where you are and how you are getting to where you want to go. It helps to know where you want to wind up.

Much of leadership is about assessing, mitigating and taking risks. The emotional context and tone that the leader sets….internally and with others is crucial. Being a leader is not manipulating, demanding or forcing people to follow your lead.

It’s creating a compelling future with the right emotional context around the risk such that it becomes the choice your team embraces.

Entrepreneurial Achievement: What It Takes To “Make It”

Entrepreneurs must be able to manage multiple processes, challenges, and people each day. To do this effectively, they have to cultivate the right attitudes. They must develop habits that support them, take care of themselves in spite of many demands, and work tirelessly to maintain some semblance of balance in their lives.

Entrepreneurial leaders need to protect the company by thinking about what could go wrong. They need to help their staff see that they can “succeed” in the face of many failures. Leaders need to encourage everyone and yet, remain resilient. They need to be able to psychologically handle the discrepancy between where the company is – and where they want to take it. They have to be willing to try, fail, and try again. They need to be unswervingly dedicated in the face of change, uncertainty and often, struggle.

Entrepreneurs need to be very focused – and to be able to keep their eye on everything that’s happening around them. Ultimately effectiveness is based on leadership and is key to the process of building a company of lasting value. Learn more about how these mindsets can be developed at any point in life.

Executive To Entrepreneur: Making the Transition

Executive To Entrepreneur is a transition many are making in mid-life today. Yet how can those who have risen to top levels in the corporate world translate their skills into such an undefined, creative, and risky environment? In fact, many of the skills they’ve developed that enabled them to flourish as an Executive are the opposite of the skills they need to succeed as an Entrepreneur.

Former Executives turned Entrepreneur, find it is quite different to execute within a corporation with a staff and a budget, than it is as an entrepreneur, often alone and with inadequate capital. New outlooks, skill sets, and internal resources need to be developed. All of these mindsets are like muscles that can be strengthened once identified.

Life Design Topics

Designing Your Life

Designing your life is a profound, proactive, ongoing process. It certainly does not mean simply “decorating” it. Many people have tried that an wound up with lives that look great on the surface, yet aren’t deeply satisfying.

Design has more to do with internationality, than simply aesthetics. Good design should encompass both function and form. Since design involves arranging various elements to produce something specifically desirable, being a designer of anything (architecture, cars, fashion, or interiors, or even a meal) involves a clear understanding of the components, effect and results desired.

The key to successful design is thoughtful analysis and planning to create something worth having, being, or doing. When the process of design is ignored or rushed, the results are less than spectacular. Most people would consider it absurd to begin building a home without a design and a plan…yet very few consciously design the one thing that is ultimately most important to them. Their life.

Now you can design your life and plan it so that every part of it works for you and it all goes together...in the ways that you want. Remember, good design is rarely an accident and should not be left up to chance.

Design your life. It matters.

Designing Your Self

Designing Your Self is a powerful Personal Process…

Does how you look express the best of who you really are? Do you see a congruent and authentic image in the mirror? Is powerful self-expression natural for you? Rebel Holiday developed an “inside-out” process called Designing Your Self, facilitated with more than 6,000 men and women over 20 years, which allows you to consciously design your self-concept and become the person you have always wanted to be.

It doesn’t have to be a mystery. There are patterns in the physical characteristics of men and woman of all nationalities. This pattern, named “Human Visual Design” is the key to visual harmony.

Imagine the confidence and ease of knowing exactly what looks good on you and why. From the “big picture” to the fine details, every aspect of your image can be congruent, appropriate, and right for you.