Leadership Development and Corporate Training
We provide a menu of solutions that instill innovation, inspiration, excellence and efficiency into your company culture.
Our best trainings for teams and leadership development are :
The Essence of Communication The Essence of Courageous Leadership
We work to create a leadership development program that offers balance between our skills and your needs. In these workshops, we offer abundant opportunities for enhanced communications within the individual teams you employ. This promotes an increase in cooperation among teams.
The result will be smoother relations, increased cooperation and synergy, greater productivity, more empathetic communications, bolder and more courageous decisions, a better understanding of emotional intelligence and improved morale. And all of that leads to greater efficiency and effectiveness...both of which promote better reach, visibility and profits.
- Private half-, one-, two- or three-day events that promote Teamwork (cross functional and departmental)
- Improvement of Communication, Self-Esteem and Trust
- Empowered Goals and Visions
- Creation of Cooperation with Synergy
- DISC Leadership & Personality Profiles
- Improvement of Empathy and Emotional Intelligence
We utilize some common and many not-so-common elements to achieve tremendous results in a very short amount of time.
We play experiential games. We role-play, create simulations and then debrief after each element to allow for better integration of the ideas and concepts that have been experienced.
We use SuperLearning Techniques, which engage both sides of the brain for optimum learning and retention. This creates improved short-term results, easier integration and sustainability in daily responsibilities.
Benefits & Outcomes of Leadership Development:
- Enhance communications among team members with DISC Personality Profiles and Team Leadership.
- Improve team members' responses to one another.
- Advance team members' listening skills.
- Promote better synergy with your team.
- Learn how to take responsibility without blame.
- Create a harmonious atmosphere with diverse cultures and personalities.
- Establish an environment of innovation with more “whole brain thinking.”
- Align and engage the company with a single mission.
- Get measurable results with ongoing follow-up and accountability.
- Train business leaders to be more effective by acting "on purpose," with integrity, and demonstrating the traits they expect from their teams.
Below are examples of eight paradigms that are critical for any team wishing to achieve and sustain High Performance results...time after time, project after project!
We have tailored coaching programs for existing and ascending leaders, to teach them how to get more out of their direct reports, the teams they are part of, and the teams they lead.
COURAGE
We give a new definition to courage. We are redefining what it takes to be a courageous leader. Be bold and stand up for what's right! We help participants find their true selves, stand in their own power, and hold their heads up with integrity.
Empathy
We help leaders learn how to access their compassion for others and create a cycle of empathy instead of a cycle of ego. We give them tools to really hear each other and go behind the words to help build trust with one another. This also helps them to become more self-aware of their verbals and non-verbals, and how those communications impact outcomes.
Communication & Listening Skills
A conscious leader has remarkable listening skills. We teach these skills through several types of games so participants can listen more effectively, as well as identify the many listening blocks that hinder communication.
Emotional Intelligence
Fight, Flight and Freeze reactions are generated from our past experiences and can be relearned, to respond instead of react in stressful situations. When leaders “unlearn” their past reactions and are taught how to respond in new, more beneficial ways, everybody wins. We help develop skills for controlling and managing overwhelming stress, so our leadership development participants grow to become more effective communicators and leaders.
Personal Responsibility
This paradigm separates behaviors and thought patterns into two categories:
- Below the Line – Shame, Guilt, Laying Blame and Justification
- Above the Line – Responsibility
This involves the conscious ability to respond to any circumstance or event from the point of view of “How am I personally going to respond to this opportunity in this moment? What can I learn from it? How can I correct it or improve it? What role do I have in creating this? What is the best and most effective response I can offer at this time?” We give tools on how to respond instead of react. We demonstrate how below-the-line behavior wastes time and changes nothing.
Synergy
We play a simulation game that validates, with real data, to each participant, that 100% of the time a team will outperform the results of a random group of individuals. We introduce the term “Synergy” and we cover many insights about the differences in behaviors and results achieved by individuals, groups, teams and High Performance “Championship” Teams.
Scotomas, or Natural Blindspots
The exercises we use demonstrate, consistently, that there are some things that are obvious to one department but not to others. Everyone has hidden scotomas (blind spots) in their lives--at work and at home. These exercises help to develop a better understanding of other people’s points of view.
Trust and Cooperation
It's important to understand that when we do the work, the outcomes we expect aren't always instantaneous. Many times, they aren't what we expect at all. When you operate with integrity and trust in the process, we find that the outcome is exactly what is needed to create a win-win situation.
In addition to exploring the above Leadership Development Paradigms in depth, we also include:
- How to Act with integrity
- How to Create a timely feedback loop for accountability
- How to establish New Game Rules (how to respond instead of react)
- How to promote Authentic Leadership (genuine, transparent, fair, and ethical).
- How to do the Best Thing without waiting for perfection
DISC Personality Profiles / Communication Technique
- How to Communicate with one another (and get what you want)
- How to Motivate people effectively (with respect for their needs and fears)
- How to Read People based on behaviors (with a needs-motivated, observable behavior profile)
- How to Communicate in a more empathetic way (with customers and co-workers)
Our team has over 60 years’ experience in leadership development, team building, courseware development, empathy and emotional intelligence training, and transformational experiences for thousands of people and hundreds of companies around the world. Whether it's increasing sales; creating a culture of trust, courage and accountability; maximizing the leadership effectiveness of your management team...my programs provide effective tools and strategies that will empower your team to adapt to change (and GROW!) in challenging business environments.
Leadership Development Testimonials
★★★★★
"Essence of Courageous Leadership was one of the most fun and memorable workshops I have ever attended. It gave me new views and beliefs around business and allowed me to be open to receive more of what I wanted from all possibilities. Just a couple of weeks after the training, I received a promotion and increased my sales by 50%!"
- Amanda, Sr. Account Manager
★★★★★
“After my team attended Burge’s Team Building course, our communication was better with each other and we were able to resolve conflicts and come to resolutions easier. We trust each other more and our increased awareness has made us more productive.”
-Leslie, Business Owner, Body Awareness Studio
★★★★★
“I learned to use my voice and speak my truth. I was promoted in my company and my team became the most revenue-producing this year!”
- Vivian K., Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia