What is the singular most important
set of skills your leadership team members must have if you truly want your company to
be and remain competitive in today's corporate environment?
A set of skills so obvious, that at first it seems completely
unnecessary to spell them out.
Even though these skills are essential for a powerful, cohesive
team...the
majority of leadership team building programs, even the most
elite, completely ignore them or do not know they exist.
What are these essential skills?
Before we spell them out, there is one fact that is absolutely
essential to understand.
Today's fast paced and constantly changing
corporate environment demands peak performance by your leadership team. Long hours,
budgetary pressures, managing employees and a host of other
challenges are everyday realities.
The pressure to perform often results in team members sacrificing their personal
needs; physical, emotional, mental and spiritual, for what
they believe is the good of the company.
The end result is often teams whose
members are not optimally productive or efficient, who handle conflict poorly, who
have little or no investment in the team's mission and are
at serious risk for burnout.
In fact, many of these once
hard working and dedicated people may begin to entertain
thoughts of leaving the company altogether...
...and even if they don't leave the company physically,
their minds and hearts are just not in their work.
Today, there are plenty of good programs out there that
promise to bring your people together into a cohesive team,
one that works collaboratively and effectively. Perhaps
you or your team has experienced one of these programs yourself,
in the form of a seminar or perhaps even a team retreat.
These programs address such fundamentals as improving communication
skills, time management, conflict resolution, building trust
and a myriad of other topics designed to get your team working
together, rather than just being a group of individuals who
all report to the same person.
As vital as these skills are for successful team functioning,
leadership team building programs all ignore one absolutely
fundamental truth.
One simple truth...
Teams are composed of individuals...
And if those individuals do not have
an effective, powerful plan to build personal, emotional,
physical and spiritual resiliency, all the team
building in the world will not, and cannot, transform them
into the highly effective, cohesive team they could be.
Their potential, both as individuals and as team members,
is forever lost.
Chances are, your leadership team members are dedicated
professionals, doing everything they can to be the best,
for themselves, their team and their company.
That dedication often includes
working long hours, handling complex negotiations, dealing
with difficult people and situations and finding workable
solutions to urgent problems.
That same dedication can
also mean working through lunch, working late hours,
taking paperwork home in the evening, working on weekends,
forgoing sleep and sacrificing personal and family time
for the good of the company.
After all, that's what it takes to be a member of a successful
leadership team, right?
Wrong...
dead wrong.
Please don't misunderstand. Your team members want the best
for their company and for themselves and they are willing
to sacrifice almost anything to see that happen.
The problem is, what they are sacrificing is themselves.
And without them, your company is dead in the water.
Most people believe that by working themselves to exhaustion,
they are ensuring the success of their company...
while in reality the only things they are ensuring are
- mediocrity
- poor judgement
- and bad business decisions.
They believe that by increasing their working hours they
are increasing their productivity...
while in reality they are hard at work undermining, not
only their own success, but the success of the very company
they work for!
Big Business is not Immune
Even a business as big as NASA isn't immune. The elite team
of scientists and engineers who made the ill
considered decision not to replace the space shuttle Challenger's O-rings was
suffering from sleep deprivation. They
were pushing against a deadline to get that rocket off the ground. And get it
off the ground they did...for 73 unforgettable seconds.
The cost in lost dollars was in the billions and the cost
in lost lives...well, you get the picture.
Management experts estimate the cost of replacing a key
team member at seven times their annual
salary. A loss, that if addressed
in time, is totally preventable.
The research results are clear. An investment
in wellness pays off...big time. Companies who implement wellness programs
for their employees see, on average,
a 300% ROI. That's a
3 dollar return for every dollar spent. Dollars gained in
less sick time taken, in lowered health insurance costs and
in increased productivity. Now that's a sound return on investment.
Many organizations do a great job of bringing in programs
for their team, targeting specific health related
behaviors such as smoking, lack of exercise and poor diet.
But by far the greatest benefits are realized when
participants deeply integrate change over multiple areas
of their lives.
And it goes without saying that you invest in training seminars
for your team on such topics as communication, team coherence
and the like without so much as blinking. It follows that
an investment that will increase your team's resiliency and
wellness is simply sound business sense.
That's where the R Factor for Leadership Teams comes in.
The R Factor™ Stress Resiliency Program for Leadership
Teams focuses on the unique pressures that your team faces
everyday.
The R in R Factor™ stands for resiliency...the
ability to bounce back from the energy robbing, harmful,
and sometimes deadly effects of constantly working to bring projects
in on time and within budget, trying to balance work and
home life, attending seemingly endless meetings and negotiating
in a sea of constant change that is reality
in the corporate world today.
Team members will learn effective,
powerful ways to diffuse the encompassing harmful effects
of stressful pressures on their minds and bodies, which impact how they feel, react
and perform. The emphasis of our R Factor™ program
focuses on optimizing the outcome of using these techniques.
When your team enrolls in the R Factor™ they can
expect to:
- Identify their personal stress response and learn how
to use it to their advantage.
- Learn how to identify unrecognized strengths.
- Clarify resiliency goals: physically, mentally, emotionally
and spiritually.
- Master the “coach approach” to goal setting
and achievement.
- Increase work productivity and satisfaction.
- Discover obstacles and supports in reaching identified
wellness goals.
- Achieve as high as 90% of their top priority goals.
- Master a simple but powerful method to keep their cool
in high-pressure situations.
- Learn to coach themselves, as well as coach
employees who report to them.
- Immediately reduce stress levels by training on
a cutting edge biofeedback
tool .
- Increase their individual heart rate variability
to achieve cardiac conherence.
- Improve the quality of their decisions by learning
to access whole brain thinking (with the Mastery
level program.)
All R Factor™ coaching and training
is done by phone, from the convenience of your team members'
home or office. Best of all, there are no travel expenses
and sessions are scheduled at each participants' convenience.
Initially, each team member will spend 90 minutes with
their personal R
Factor™ Wellness
Coach, where they will set their personal goals
for the program. Next, they will receive powerful, immediately
effective training on one of the most effective, scientifically
proven stress reduction instruments available today.
Each
team member will work with their R Factor™ Wellness
Coach,
one on one, to design and implement a practical, workable
wellness and resiliency plan that they can stay with
for the rest of their lives. A plan that you and your
team can take to the bank in terms of the long-term value
this program will have for your team members and for
your organization.
All R Factor™ work, in addition to telephone
sessions, is supported by email communication with the participants'
personal R
Factor™ Wellness Coach, as well as by written
and downloadable audio materials. We suggest that team
members meet with their coach every other week, giving
them plenty of time to implement their plan between sessions.
Although the R Factor™ program is usually completed
in 12 sessions, the lessons your team will learn about themselves
will last a lifetime.
