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Foundation

 


Leadership . . .

"The need for effective leadership exists in
every area of our life; on the athletic field, in
the academic world, in business and industry
and in our homes.

Leadership is not a magnetic personality,
nor is it making friends and influencing people.
 
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher
sights, the raising of a person's performance
to a higher standard, the building of one's
personality beyond its own normal, self-
imposed limitations; it's a demonstrated
commitment to another's true success.

If through your example and your actions you
inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more
and also become more, then you are a true leader." 
                                  
                                         Jim Abbondante
 



The Challenge . . .

"You can dream, create, design, and build the most wonderful idea
in the world, but it requires 'people' to make the dream a reality."
                                                              Walt Disney

The real difference between success and failure in any company
or organization, of any kind, can always be traced back to the
question of how well the organization brought out and then
utilized the natural creativity, the energies and the unique
talents of its people.



The Primary Question . . .

Are your managers working hard - or are they - working smart?

According to studies conducted by the American Management Association,
over 87% of the problems that occur in most organizations today can be
traced back to people issues rather than process issues. With that in
mind, consider the following important questions . . .

Do your managers really understand the many important differences
that exist between managing processes vs. leading, influencing and
developing the people they work with on a daily basis?

How much more effective would your managers be if they really
understood their people as well as they understand every other
part of their business?

How much more productive would your organization be if your managers
knew how to create a genuine desire on the part of each one of their
people to really want to perform up to their full potential?

How much more profitable would your organization be if your managers
knew how to cause the people they manage to really care about and
genuinely commit to the success and growth of your business?

Are you really achieving the maximum return possible - the return
you really should be experiencing - on what you are currently 
investing in your people?



The Solution . . .

The Leadership Institute is a results-oriented research and development
organization dedicated to providing companies with the information and
tools necessary to be able to better understand and more effectively
utilize their most important and valuable resource, their people.

We combine exhaustive research, proven leadership principles and effective
management processes with the most up to date learning technologies available
today to help business leaders find ways to 'accelerate the growth' of their team members while working with them on a daily basis to achieve the important goals and objectives of their organization. 

Ultimately, we help companies and organizations achieve a much greater return
on what they're already investing in their most valuable resource, their people,
while helping them develop their future leaders today.



The Advantage . . . .

All of our strategic training and development processes have been designed to make internalizing new information and perfecting new skills much easier and much faster in comparison to what is typically experienced when utilizing the traditional approaches
to training that have become the 'norm' in the industry over the years.

Traditional training programs typically include high quality content combined with excellent delivery, but a measurable return on an organization's investment in training
can be achieved only if and when the information is comprehended, retained, recalled
and effectively utilized when it is actually needed.

Accelerated learning strategies have been designed into each of our unique training
and development processes to facilitate a more rapid and effective knowledge transfer and to significantly increase the retention of the information covered for application in the work environment. In addition, participants are also provided with coaching on an individual basis to insure their success with the information internalized during their training sessions.

Each of our programs have been designed to inform, equip and move participants through a process of significant personal change, a genuine paradigm shift, as they begin experiencing new patterns of success as the result of their involvement in our unique, results-oriented programs.



Special Service . . . 

Welcome to our 'no fluff' web-site . . .
(our electronic classroom & brochure!)

Our team's web-site has not been designed to be viewed as just
another traditional 'sales-oriented' site but as a valuable resource
that you will want to plan to visit on a regular basis.

Our objective is to provide you with the kind of insight that will prove
to be both interesting, educational and helpful; and we've attempted
to organize it in a way that will make it easy for you to locate what
you might be looking for.

Plan to visit regularly to take advantage of the information, insight, and the
various methodologies that will be included in the articles that will be
added
on a regular basis; articles on leadership, management, sales, influencing,
motivating and developing people in many
different environments, and
also the articles on relationship selling, accelerated learning skills and
information management for busy professionals. 


And, by the way, if you happen to have any suggestions regarding how to
make this site more valuable, practical or more user friendly, or should you
need any additional information or assistance of any kind, please do feel
free to let us know at ' Contact Us ' or call 800-955-0109.


Special Thanks . . .

We would like to express our sincere appreciation and heartfelt thanks
to Dr. Howard Conatser, Dr. Larry Lea, Dr. Orv Owens, Zig Ziglar, and
Tom Hopkins without whose consistent example and encouragement
we certainly would not have achieved the success we have.

In addition, we would also like to thank each of our many clients and
their participants whose feedback has proven extremely valuable to
our ability to continually improve our processes and increase the
value we are able to provide.


"As you build your people . . . they will build your organization."


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