LEADERSHIP EMPOWERMENT SEMINAR USING EQ* & SQ**

Participants

Leaders and potential leaders in business, government, and NGOs

Objectives

Recent research among managers has shown that Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is 2.6 times more predictive of executive success than Intellectual Intelligence (IQ).*    Now, with the recent introduction of SQ (Spiritual Intelligence), it is being proposed that a more enduring foundation or source for high EQ would be high SQ**

This leadership empowerment seminar is unique in its emphasis on utilizing both EQ and SQ as foundational disciplines toward personal and managerial effectiveness.  Participants’ work attitudes and values are transformed from within the individual, thus resulting in greater productivity but more importantly greater fulfillment and satisfaction.

Specifically, the areas of inner transformation are targeted along the following:

1. Leadership Effectiveness.  Participants will learn how to provide the inspirational Value-Centered leadership and management required to bring into action the Vision, Mission, Strategies and Goals of Your Organization.

2.Teamwork.  Participants will acquire the necessary Attitudes, Beliefs, and Values for unifying Your Organization’s management team in working together harmoniously and synergistically towards the fulfillment of its priorities.

3.Excellence.  Participants will learn the basic tenets of Total Quality Management (TQM) as a means of professionalizing the management and leadership of the organization.  They will also learn how to experientially integrate these Values of Excellence with Your Organization’s Vision/Mission statement, live these Values, and become role models for all other employees of the firm.

4.High Level Wellness.   Participants will learn the principles for living a life of stress-free peak performance integrating holistically one’s physical health, emotional and spiritual well-being, thus reducing possibility of executive burnout and illness.

*Robbins & Decenzo, Fundamentals of Management, 3rd ed., Prentice-Hall, 2001
**Zohar and Marsall, Spiritual Intelligence: The Ultimate Intelligence, Bloomsbury Press, 2000.

Major Topics Covered

There are 3 major phases of this 3 day Seminar:  Phase 1 covers Diagnosis & Prognosis, Phase 2  is Letting Go of Barriers, and Phase 3 is Creating Your Future Using Universal Principles. Phase 4 is applying the techniques for Designing and Manifesting What You Want.

1. Terms of the Learning Contract (Ground Rules)
2. Overview of the entire seminar: what to expect, what not to expect, taking responsibility for the results of the seminar.
3. Transformational leadership compared to the traditional approaches to leadership, team building and total quality management
4. Distinctions: IQ, EQ, and SQ as predictors of managerial success
5. The bicycle analogy -- empowerment and other training emphases (knowledge, skills, and attitudes)
6. Anatomy of the Mind and the process of socialization or conditioning
7. Whole Brain Learning: balancing the right and left hemispheres of the brain
8. Creative leadership through whole brain management
9. The Law of Cause and Effect: How our beliefs, values, attitudes, assumptions, and expectations (i.e., our paradigms) determine our perceptions, behavior and reality.
10. Why awareness is always the first step towards personal and organizational transformation
11. The ego-mind distinct from the super-conscious Mind or Authentic Self
12. Our fear-survival mechanism game and the persona or masks we wear
13. Trust – the foundation for a positive experience
14. Expanding our comfort zone: How can we discover and fully express our highest possibilities as a leader and manager?
15. The true meaning of Personal Responsibility: The locus of personal power
16. Building a “sense of ownership” for each team player: (a) accountability, (b) initiating and completing a cycle
17. Who are our true customers?
18. Total Quality Management (TQM) is impossible without a paradigm shift
19. Achieving peak performance without stress, strain, or struggle
20. Wholistic (integrating physical, mental/emotional and spiritual) approaches to managing stress and achieving High-Level Wellness.
21. “Kaizen” – How can we keep moving from one level of excellence to the next?
22. Clearing the obstacles to expressing our highest potentials as managers and as a company
23. Discovering our self-limiting and self-defeating core beliefs
24. Techniques for reprogramming towards greater empowerment and satisfaction
25. What it takes to create meaningful, nurturing, and productive relationships with customers and prospects: the modern approach to relationship sales and marketing
26. Healing conflicts through authentic communication
27. Healing past hurts: The art of letting go
28. Techniques for effective communication: (a) create versus “react” as victims, (b) aggressive versus assertive, (c) mastering non-defensiveness, (d) arguments versus disagreements, (e) there are always two sides to every issue
29. Values-Centered Service Excellence – The new paradigm
30. The role of values in enhancing the worker’s peak performance and job satisfaction
31. Discovering our hierarchy of values: (a) personal values, (b) team values
32. Life Purpose, Mission, Vision, and Task
33. Identifying our Team Mission, Vision, and Guiding Principles
34. Clarifying our personal goals and team goals

35. Internalizing the following values:

• Passionate service to customers (both internal and external)
• Sense of ownership
• Sense of urgency
• Urgency obsession with quality
• Zest for living, zest for work
• Internal communication – keeping everyone informed
• Courage to confront major issues
• Pride in being part of your organization – sense of belonging to one firm
• Continuous improvement or Kaizen
• High levels of energy and participation
• Integrity
• Win-win
• Commitment or taking a stand
• Cleanliness in thought, body, and surroundings
• Personal responsibility or accountability (absence of blame)
• Making a positive difference in the lives of others (sense of contribution)
• Authentic communication or communication from our Authentic Self
• Proactive (as opposed to reactive) in all aspects of decision making and problem solving
• Self-discipline
• Self-confidence that emanates from belief in an omnipresent Higher Power
• Professionalism
• The art of collaboration or teamwork
• Creativity and innovation
• Ability to focus on the positive aspects of change
• Focus on substance as opposed to form

36. New Paradigms of Leadership and Management: Enlightened, Principle-Centered, and Transformational Leadership
37. New approaches to empowering your workers
38. Managing self-destructive emotions: anger, resentment and revenge
39. The secret formula for producing results
40. Commitment to action steps to implement learnings from the seminar

Unique Features of the Leadership Empowerment Seminar

• Experiential and highly participatory – Participants are given opportunities to experience various tools, and techniques as opposed to standard lectures and transparency presentations. Experiential vs. Conceptual Learning. Managerial insights are brought to the surface.

• Up to date - Covers latest thinking on leadership and management practices, including EQ (emotional intelligence) and SQ (spiritual intelligence) as better predictors of managerial success.

• Whole-Brain Learning - Uses advances in new learning technologies that integrate both the left and right brain hemispheres for accelerated learning

• Wholistic - The whole person is fully engaged throughout the learning process, i.e., physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

• Practical and enjoyable.

• Empowering, motivational, and inspirational – Participants will emerge energized and motivated to take the next action steps.

Format

PHASE 1

This is a 4- day strictly lived-in seminar/workshop.  In order to provide the necessary intensity of focus as well as the environment conducive to teamwork and productive interpersonal relationships, everyone must commit to being fully present during the entire duration of the seminar.

Day #1 -- Training sessions begin on Day #1 at 8 AM  and will end at around 9 PM. 

Day #2, 3 and 4 -- Training resumes on Days 2, 3, and 4 beginning with early morning physical gentle stretching exercises at 6:00 AM.  Training session will run continuously  and will end around 9:00 PM. Dinner will be served before participants leave for home on Day #4.

PHASE 2

This is one-day follow up seminar to be conducted approximately one or two months after Phase 1.

Venue

Any out-of-town venue with countryside atmosphere that is conducive to relaxation, concentration and reflective thinking.

What to Bring

For sitting in training sessions, wear loose, comfortable casual clothes.

For early morning exercises, wear stretchable exercise clothes (such as shorts or jogging suits, etc.).  Bring a large towel or an exercise mat to use in stretching exercises.

To ensure the confidentiality of the sessions, tape-recorders and cameras are not allowed in the training room.

Above all, bring an Open Mind.

Master Trainer - Dr. Andre San Agustin

Recipient of several awards on Teaching Excellence from major U.S. Universities, Dr. Andre’s current commitment is to change the mindsets of Filipinos towards greater empowerment to achieve personal and organizational effectiveness

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