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  • Process: A Success Focus
















    “One cannot teach a man anything. One can only enable him to learn from within himself.”

    Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)




    Purpose:

    To build a freestanding pillar using one newspaper and masking tape.



    Background:

    One of the core elements of leadership and peak performance is defining your goals in a measurable way. In this process, you will have the opportunity to explore how goals…
  • Process: Pillars of Performance
















    Purpose:

    To build a freestanding pillar using one newspaper and masking tape.



    Background:

    One of the core elements of leadership and peak performance is defining your goals in a measurable way. In this process, you will have the opportunity to explore how goals affect levels of performance.







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  • Process: Creating Critical Mass








    Purpose:
    This process provides an experiential metaphor to the actions and impact of creating critical mass. It explores the leadership behaviors and emotions experienced when you shift your actions to influence the actions of others towards a new outcome.

    Background:
    How does one woman, in one of the best known cities in America, teach convicted felons basic work and social skills while housing them in one building without guards, without therapists, and…
  • Process: Collaboration: Harnessing The Ideas of Many









    Purpose:
    To demonstrate the
    * Need for collaboration in the achievement of goals and objectives
    * Benefits of seeking beyond your own organization for new ideas and solutions

    Background:
    When you hear the word, “collaboration,” what comes to mind? You may visualize yourself working with a small group of people to solve a common challenge. Often these groups of people are colleagues within your department or organization. Sometimes they represent multiple…
  • Process: Unleash Your Creative Potential








    Purpose:
    This tool provides a different approach to brainstorming. It allows you to unleash your creativity by allowing free association of thoughts and the use of non-standard forms of communication; such as colored markers, pictures, and images.

    Background:
    For many, creativity feels like an elusive task. You may look at yourself, your relationship, and your existing challenges and see the same solutions. You walk into a brainstorming session or a planning…
  • Process: Driving Leadership into Culture











    Purpose:
    This tool will enhance the training impact for individuals and organizations by linking the skills and tools provided in any Rapport Leadership training course to the behaviors and actions needed to achieve goals and maximize results.

    Background:
    “Knowledge is power.” This is a statement many people have heard and used over the years. Yet, the real power in knowledge comes from the application of the knowledge: using the tools and skills learned to…
  • Process: Upping the Ante









    Purpose:
    To execute the strategy and process of choosing high stakes investments in order to grow your business and create breakthrough results for your company or organization.

    Background:
    “Live out on the skinny branches…that’s where the fruit is.” This statement by Will Rogers has been used by many to symbolize the essence of taking risks. In Rapport Leadership classes, this idea is used as an anchor for you to step out of your comfort zones and develop your…
  • Process: Networked for Rapport








    Purpose:
    1) Inter-relationships needed for collaboration and the achievement of goals

    2) Necessity to enhance communication, teamwork, and feedback

    3) Impact of creating rapport and the behaviors that strengthen relationships

    Background:
    In his book, Social Intelligence, Daniel Goleman states that you are “wired to connect.” In other words, humans have a biological need to be social and to interact. Yet, in today’s business and social environment, you depend…
  • Process: From Conventional to Creative









    “The things we fear most in organizations -- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances -- are the primary sources of creativity.”
    Margaret J. Wheatley


    Purpose:
    To provide the opportunity to practice creative questioning through brainstorming.

    Background:
    Many people have talked themselves into believing they are not creative. Pablo Picasso said it this way, “All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” The truth is…
  • Process: From the Classroom to the Culture











    Purpose:
    To use the information and tools from your Rapport Leadership Creating a Breakthrough Culture guide to enhance your organization’s business results and further develop a breakthrough culture.

    Background:
    At Rapport Leadership International, our clients have taught us some of the most successful approaches to ensuring their training investments provide the maximum impact on their organizations. Often, success starts before a class date is…
 
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