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"People-Awareness" and "Self-Awareness" form the foundation for leveraging human energy towards any chosen undertaking: Motivation, desire, interests and abilities aligned with innate strengths and talents, core-values and a desired self-image for you the leader a well as for each person involved and contributing.

Your own innate pattern of perception may present you with opportunities, possibilities, or necessities which start to resonate with you. As a leader, your success is directly related to how much each involved person wants the same outcome. While internal reasons and motivations are most likely going to be different for each contributor, you want the intensity of motivation to be as high as possible and each person's ability to fill a crucial role in your undertaking. It's the foundation for a "global-win" in addition to just a "win" for you.

But what kind of leadership are you going to apply? Depending on your innate patterns, you may have a preference for doing what you have seen work before and which you deem appropriate. Or you may improvise as each minute calls for without giving it much thought because you know what's needed in the moment. Or you may paint a vision, have people truly get it, feel connected to it and then relentlessly and consistently drive towards making the vision become reality, differentiating yourself from how things used to be done before. Or you may undertake an enormous achievement in ways that will reveal themselves through more thorough understanding.

In both Western and Eastern cultures, culture used to be regarded as a heritage to honor and perpetuate. While cultures are an important part of humanity, the necessity of globalization begs the question of "which culture to adopt". The choice needs to look at "what we want to achieve" and be pragmatic, leaving room for individual expression and allowing for people to give their very best.

Hence company culture can no longer be immovable if the company wants to succeed. "This is not how we do things around here" needs to become a thing of the past. It is more important to focus on valid long-range decisions well informed by knowledge at all levels, and get people around a coherent vision they can relate to and identify with. Then all levels move consistently without self-contradiction into the direction of the vision, adapting globally and organically as reality and learning calls for.

The proper culture emerges by itself around a coherent system of actions at all levels, all pointing towards the decided achievement with high levels of motivation for every employee involved.

Every achieved and meaningful milestone for the company's success is an opportunity to celebrate what's working and reflect on learning. Celebration is viewed by people differently. Some value a brief but honest moment of acknowledgment and recognition, others starve for extravagant activities outdoors and yet others may prefer a social event.

For success to continue, the important point is to involve every contributor and have them know and feel that they have been an integral part of the achievement and reward them with what they yearn for the most, as initially discovered and understood all along the way filled with hard work. Money matters, and so does the symbolic meaning they need to feel.

Coaching is different from Mentoring, because we don't tell experienced people what to do. Instead we help them make new connections, see new ways, so they can come up with solutions even better than we could imagine. It's the best possible teamwork! People can’t imagine beforehand how they will grow.

Decision Makers, Leaders and Managers benefit greatly from understanding how People-Awareness, Self-Awareness, Leadership and Communication all play together towards long-term company success. We co-facilitate Retreats around company-specific challenges and goals in addition to our Workshops.