The speed at which your company's can transform itself, respond to new competition, or adapt to sudden changes in your industry is directly correlated to the extent that trust permeates your organization. In this training you learn the keys to building a change-ready, high-trust culture within your team or organization.

To build lasting trust within an organization, leaders must consistently show themselves to be trustworthy. Trustworthiness, in turn, depends on the leader's internal strength, including depth of character, core values, and a healthy ego. This training points leaders to the essential inner qualities they must develop in order to be consistently trustworthy under stress.

Why depend on external coaches? Develop your own in-house coaching talent. Basic and advanced courses available, including tailor-made trainings for your company or organization.

When leaders achieve their most striking results, five critical qualities always prevail.

• Focus
• Inspiration
• Resilience
• Sustained Drive
• Team Trust

Gain greater skill in practicing each of these essential 'FIRST' qualities.

Maximize the power of your communication by using both verbal and non-verbal cues to connect with your listener and build deeper rapport. Workshops for both public speaking and one-on-one communication.

Discover techniques used by creative geniuses like Walt Disney to develop innovative and imaginative breakthroughs in coping with complex problems.

As a credentialed trainer in the field of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Mike can provide basic level or advanced training in any of the dozens of powerful NLP techniques. Possible areas of training include:

• assuring the success of your personal goals
• creating resourceful inner states that allow you to perform at your best
• building deep and lasting rapport with anyone you meet
• reading and calibrating non-verbal feedback accurately
• aligning verbal and non-verbal communication to give greater impact to your message
• developing powerful platform skills as a speaker
• using presuppositional language and creative reframes to change your hearer's perspective
• using the "Meta Model" and the "Milton Model" to clarify communication and minimize misunderstanding

This is by no means an exhaustive list of topics, as Mike can customize a training on any of the dozens of NLP techniques. He will also conduct a complete NLP pratitioner or master practitioner training for groups of six or more. Each certification requires approximately 130 hours of training, spread out over several weeks.

Elsewhere on this web site we have answered many frequently asked questions about NLP.

The late Dr. Clare Graves developed one of the world's most comprehensive models for understanding human and organizational behavior. The model builds on the interplay of eight different systems of thought and value. Over time mankind has created these systems as coping mechanisms to deal with the complexity of our existence. (You can find more about Graves systems elsewhere on this web site.)

Mike is a nationally recognized authority and pioneering author on the Graves model and designs workshops appropriate for businesses, churches, non-profit organizations, or educational institutions.

Topics include:

• The worldview behind each of the Graves systems
• The values and priorities of each system
• The treasures to be found and traps to be avoided in each system
• How these systems clash within organizations
• The most effective management and leadership styles for each system
• Motivating workers or volunteers, based on their system preference
• Assigning duties and building effective work teams based on personal system preferences

Gain deeper understanding of what leads people to volunteer and what it takes to keep them involved long term in a volunteer organization.