NEW KeyNOTE

PLAYING TO WIN | Reframing Failure and the Secret of Success. In life, as in sports, it matters how you play the game and there's a big difference between "playing to win" and "playing not to lose". No matter what you do or where you do it, you want to In this entertaining and empowering engagement, Dr. J draws from experience as an executive, counselor, and NCAA coach to explore the uncommon mindset that distinguishes the best-of-the-best. He prepares participants to unlock their own greatest performance by

• Reframing failure in ways that prevent it from leveraging commitment and initiative, 

• Illuminating the dispositions that limit potential and prevent people from being and giving their best, and 

• Equipping people with the vision and courage to maximize the opportunities, responsibilities, and relationships that matter most.

NEW WORKSHOP / SEMINAR

LEAVING LIMBO | How to Prevent Feelings about Failure from Sabotaging Success. No one wants to fail, but you might be surprised to discover that your determination not to fail is the the biggest impediment to your success. In this engaging workshop, Dr. J reveals how your best intentions and deepest dispositions toward success and failure are holding you back and secretly putting a lid on what you and your team can accomplish. He reveals the hidden attitudes and reflexes that limit your success and provides strategies to overcome them and turn them around. This experience is full of “light-bulb” moments” and powerful realizations. It will awaken you and your team to new potential, and prepare you to step into it more effectively.

• Redefining the Relationship of Success and Failure

• Revealing LIMBO and its impact on Growth, Achievement, and Motivation

• Recalculating Risk and the Road to Success

• Recalibrating Recognition and Responses to Failure

• Stepping Up, Stepping Out, and the art of Failing Forward

NEW TRAINING SERIES

FINDING THE ON SWITCH | Supervision Strategies for Maximum Engagement, Performance, and Resilience. Try as you might, you can’t move people and projects to bigger things and better places without their cooperation. So, before you can unleash their full potential or find that extra gear, you need to find the “ON” switch. This training series explores psychological dynamics and practical strategies that help leader and teams unlock the best of themselves and others. It demystifies the art of turning people on and taking them someplace new, and It equips participants to create the unusual motivation, motion, and momentum that distinguish high performers and top teams.

Contents:  

1.  Carrots, Sticks, and Cattle Prods: A Crash Course in Motivating Others

2.  Building Buy-In: The Path to High Engagement

3. Empowering Others: Solving the “Doing Dilemma”

4. Finding Flow: Counter-Intuitive Secrets to Top Performance

5. Playing to Win (Instead of Playing Not to Lose)

6. Making Change: Tactics for Moving When Moving is Hard

NEW RESOURCE / Product

Two new resources are now available to support personalization and application of Dr. J’s book Fired Up! Kindling and Keeping the Spark in Creative Teams. Fired Up! continues to get rave reviews from leaders and members of every kind of team. Check it out here: Fired Up! Kindling and Keeping the Spark in Creative Teams. New Resources are:

Checking the Fire Assessment & Visualizer: This short inventory takes stock of the three components of the “Fire Triangle”-Oxygen, Fuel, and Heat- and enables leaders and teams to strategically turn up the burn in their teams.

Fired Up Discussion Guide: Many teams have chosen to read Fired Up! together as a team-building exercise or an opportunity to consider their experience, opportunities, and challenges together. In response to their requests, this resource helps participants take stock of their experience, and provides questions for consideration and conversation for each chapter of the book. It’s a powerful conversation-starter and prompt for stoking the fire in your team.