High Performance Leadership – Unleashing the Hidden Advantage latent in your organisation

David Powell

David Powell is an highly experienced speaker and former senior executive in the petro- industry sector and was a big success with members of my Chief Executive Forum, Academy Group 11 when he presented to them recently. He spoke enthusiastically and in great detail while at the same time writing on the easel and demonstrating his spatial intelligence … in great detail.

The concept of communicating corporate vision with pictures really came alive in David’s excellent two and a half hour talk. This is a fabulous workshop on long-term planning and the concept of “aliens of resistance” was unique to many of us.

Main take-away points included:

1. How to prepare a five year plan.
2. Root cause analysis training
3. Reverse planning i.e. starting with the end in mind.
4. The need to have team meetings to plan targets
5. ‘Aliens of resistance’ concept
6. How to create a PERT timeline
7. Creating the new game to inspire
8. Communicating vision using pictures

This was a very practical session with great takeaway value. We all enjoyed it enormously and I thoroughly recommend David Powell as a speaker.

Joe Adams

Joe Adams,
Chairman, Academy Group 11

The Academy for Chief Executives, a leading provider of experiential business learning® facilitates peer groups of CEOs and Managing Directors who meet together every month to network and take full advantage of experiential learning. To hear great speakers like this every month and engage in The Board You Could Never Afford®, or to find a local group near you, visit www.chiefexecutive.com.

 

Practical Performance Coaching

Steve Head

Steve Head gave chief executive mentoring and experiential learning group members (from Peter Pritchett’s Academy Groups 5 and 32) a very practical and powerful workshop on Practical Performance Coaching in July. Developed from Tim Gallwey’s “The Inner Game” and sports coaching experience, high performance coaching is the process by which the coach can allow an individual to discover more of their brilliance or talent.

The members went away with 5 main insights/action points:

• Focus on strengths not weaknesses. So much 121 work (and competency work in general) is focussed upon overcoming weaknesses – however, individuals generally achieve much more (and feel more fulfilled) when playing to their strengths;
• p=P-I (Performance = Potential – Interference (Tim Gallwey);
• Performance Coach works to reduce/eliminate the impact of the Interference (the negative self-talk, lack of real confidence etc). Skills Coach works on the techniques – which affects the potential;
• Much apparent confidence is “Conditional Confidence” – i.e. it depends upon context, tools, other people/situations – rather than Internal or True (unconditional) Confidence. We were encouraged to try this mantra: “I will do my very best with what I know now and when I know better I will do even better.”;
• We worked with the GROW model (Goals, Reality, Options, What next) and practiced how that might work. We then went onto GROW++ which adds consideration of Motive, Beliefs/Values and Resources.

Peter Pritchett, Chairman Academy Groups 5 and 32

The Academy for Chief Executives, a leading provider of experiential business learning® facilitates peer groups of CEOs and Managing Directors who meet together every month to network and take full advantage of experiential learning. To hear great speakers like this every month and engage in The Board You Could Never Afford®, or to find a local group near you, visit www.chiefexecutive.com.