Individual Health and Balance: Key to Developing Leadership Capacity

For Executives, Facilitators, Consultants, Managers, Team Leaders, HR, OD specialists, and anyone engaged in leadership

The learning program includes 9 segments. Approximate times for your work with each segment are suggested, totaling approximately 26 hours of guided learning. The four real-time online sessions are spaced a week apart for the purpose of giving you integration and application time for your learning. Participants report that they feel as though they have the benefit of a month long learning experience even though the real-time online facilitated experience is only 4 hours per week for four consecutive weeks.

• Segment 1: Self-study video focused on your Business and/or Development Goal. Plan for 1 hour.
• Segment 2: Self-study video focused on  Find Your Starting Place. Plan for 1 hour.
• Segment 3: Self-study video focused on Foundations of Individual Health and Balance. Plan for 1 hour.
• Segment 4: Self-study video focused on Exploring Personal Purpose. Plan for 1 hour.
• Segment 5: Self-study video focused on Using the Medicine Wheel Tool to Strengthen Individual Health and Balance. Plan for 1 hour.
• Segment 6: Self-study video focused on Exploring Personal Power. Plan for 1 hour.
• Segment 7: Self-study video focused on Capacity Development via Noticing. Plan for 30 minutes.
• Segment 8: Real-time Online Sessions November 24, December 1, 8 & 15, 2023 (8 am - 12 pm EST - check local time zone) with facilitators Rachel Bolton and Birgitt Williams. Learning from the self-study videos is processed during the real time sessions. Additional topics pertaining to Individual Health and Balance as it relates to leadership capacity are covered. Total time 16 hours.
• Segment 9: Real-time online Mentoring Circle. 3 hours. Next Mentoring Circle April 19, 2024 (9am - 12pm EST)

What is the Invitation?

In personal life, we ask “if you are not in leadership of your life, who or what is?”. In professional life, we ask “to what degree are you using your leadership to be of the greatest value to your work?” Engaging in your leadership is a choice.

Once the choice is made to engage in leadership, you realize that leadership is for the long term. This requires growing your capacity to carry out your leadership. This applies whether or not you are in a formal leadership role in your organization.

By participating in your learning with the module Individual Health and Balance: a key leadership capacity, you equip yourself with tools, tips, practices, and a plan to grow and evolve your skillfulness and capacity for leadership. While learning with us, you feel your capacity growing, and you experience and practice new behaviors and patterns designed to keep you focused on your health and balance daily, weekly, monthly, seasonally, and annually.

We focus on leadership development as in leadership in action. This, of course, includes leader development, and so much more for successfully engaging in your leadership.

Why use this approach?

The world is complex. Demands on all individuals are high, often feeling too fast-paced keep up with. Because of the demands and stresses of leadership, you need to take extra care of your mental, spiritual, emotional and physical well-being. You need to have the capacity to operate at peak performance for the marathon that leadership is, over the long haul and not just for the short sprint. You need to be at your peak to make good choices and decisions that require your attention at almost every moment.

Using this approach, you will:

• discover simple and effective concepts, tools, and techniques to achieve individual health and balance
• experience simple-to-use techniques to support mental, emotional, physical and spiritual health and balance
• develop a plan and the capacity to use what you learn to realign yourself with health and balance whenever you notice yourself slipping or being bumped out of your health and balance
• increase the capacity for making good choices and decisions
• develop increased capacity for carrying out your leadership of your private and organizational life
• discern an understanding of the relationship of your inner growth with the change you are seeking in your life and in your organization
• experience a complete skill and knowledge module for consultants, managers and leaders that has benefit used on its own or in conjunction with other components of the Genuine Contact Program

Who needs to be involved?

Learning this module on your own develops the person.

Learning this module together with family members develops the individual and the family.

Learning this module together with team members develops the individual and the team.

This module is available in different formats to best suit the learner.

• Independent learning via self-study plus one-to-one mentoring with an authorized Genuine Contact Trainers.
• Group learning via self-study plus a real time online or onsite workshop with a group of people (an intact group like a leadership team or family, or a collective of individuals like a public workshop) to benefit from a diversity of perspectives and insights.
• Group learning via a real-time online or onsite workshop with a group of people to benefit from a diversity of perspectives and insights.

How does it work?

Learning in this module is offered through 6 phases of learning, based on the Evolutionary Spiral. One of the multi-use tools that make up the Genuine Contact Toolkit, the Evolutionary Spiral, it is offered here as a map of your learning and development.

1. Discernment: You will begin by establishing some baseline measures that capture your perceptions of your current state of health and balance from a holistic perspective. These baseline measures include identifying what you already know and do to maintain your health and balance.
2. Readiness: You will be presented with five beliefs to examine and consider their implications for your health and balance. These five beliefs inform five significant paths for expanding your capacity with your health and balance in a complex world.
3. Engagement: You will be taken through a series of activities to engage you with your health and balance. Each activity provides you with a unique lens to view your health and balance and to use the tool or technique provided to increase your capacity for greater health and balance.
4. Construction: You will have the opportunity to review all that you learned in this module, developing a plan that is uniquely yours for attending to and regenerating your health and balance daily, weekly, monthly, seasonally, and annually.
5. Implementation: You will have the opportunity to implement your plan, enhancing your learning through application.
6. Monitoring and Adjustment: The plan will include monitoring your progress using the baseline measures that you started with in this module and making adjustments either to how you are implementing your plan and/or to the plan itself. The module is designed with follow-on mentoring circles to support your ongoing learning, monitoring, and adjustment. These mentoring circles include group discussions facilitated by a Genuine Contact Trainer about what has been learned in developing and maintaining your health and balance, and your perspectives of health and balance as a key leadership capacity.