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Recently
I had the opportunity to talk with Lance
Secretan, author of "Reclaiming
Higher Ground" and the brand new
book, "Inspire! What Great
Leaders Do." Lance will be
presenting at the 3rd Annual CoachVille
Conference in June. In this
interview, Lance shares tidbits from
years of research into what makes a
great leader, the distinction between
motivation and inspiration, and the
CASTLE principles that form the
foundation of Higher Ground Leadership.
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An
Interview with Lance Secretan
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 Welcome,
Lance. You have a brand new book
coming out, Inspire! What Great
Leaders Do. If you could capture
the major premise in your book,
what would that be?
Well,
the first major thought is that
we're living in a period of
intense fear; in fact, fear has
never been greater. We're
governed with a whole model
based on fear. This has given us
permission to regress in the way
we lead people, so that
leadership in our organizations
is also fear-based. The premise
of the book is that you cannot
inspire people when you're
afraid, and you can't be
inspired when your heart is full
of fear. In a fear-based
environment, we're all
desperately yearning to be
inspired-it's one of the
greatest human needs, and so we
find ourselves in a paradox.
You've
conducted a lot of research on
people you consider to be great
leaders.
Yes,
I identified all of the great
leaders that have lived in times
of fear. Many of them were
afraid. I wanted to
know what they did that was
unique and special about them
that set them apart and
attracted millions of people to
follow them, in contrast to the
models of leadership that we use
today.
Is
the book for anybody trying to
improve their qualities as a
leader, whether they're in an
organization or a solopreneur?
There
are probably as many leadership
models as there are stars in the
sky. My sense of leadership is
that when you strip away all the
external paraphernalia, what
you're left with in the very
essence, in the center, is
inspiration. Every great leader,
more than anything else, is able
to inspire other people. A
mother, for instance, whose
little baby falls down during
its first attempts to walk,
doesn't scream at the baby and
say, "You're an idiot; I'll
give you three more times and
then you're out of here!"
Instead, she picks the baby up
and says, "Aren't you
beautiful? I love you, and I'll
help you do this better next
time." And she does that
again and again, until finally
the child walks. We've lost that
idea in our organizations.
That's
so true. We don't create an
environment for exploration and
experimentation.
And
to be nurturing and
caring-that's what inspirational
leaders do. All great leaders
came from that place. Whether
you're a mother, a priest, a
nurse, a warden, a judge-any
place where you have a
relationship with others, you
are a leader. Inspire! is a book
for everyone in every part of
their lives.
It's
interesting because our founder,
Thomas Leonard, would often say,
"Everyone's a coach,"
and what I hear in what you're
saying is, "Everyone's a
leader."
Absolutely,
and everybody has a
responsibility to inspire
everybody else. After all, which
would you rather have? Would you
rather be married to someone
who's inspiring you all the time
or creating fear for you all the
time? Would you rather have a
boss who's inspiring or one who
instills fear? It's a
no-brainer, so the question
becomes, "Then why don't we
get it?"
Click
here for the full
interview
Lance
Secretan is one of the world's
foremost thinkers and teachers
of effective leadership. His
breakthrough ideas about how to
become inspired and how to
inspire others have led to the
transformation of individuals,
teams, communities, and
organizations. An author,
award-winning columnist,
corporate mentor, advisor to
corporations and governments,
and one of America's most
sought-after keynote speakers,
he frequently addresses
audiences around the world. The
former CEO of Manpower Limited,
he has been the ambassador to
the United Nations Environment
Program and Chairman of the
Advisory Board of the 1997
Special Olympics World Winter
Games.
To
learn more about Inspire! What
Great Leaders Do, please visit
www.secretan.com/inspire
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More
Free Classes Scheduled to Meet the
Annual Conference Speakers
David
Parker
Learn
how to Leverage Technology to Make Fund
Raising Easy and Effective
Tuesday,
April 27, 600PM ET; Tuesday May 4,500 PM
ET; Thursday, May 6, 1100AM3 ET.
In
this content packed class David will
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the positive implications it could have
for the coaching industry. Mission
Statement: ImpactAuction's mission is to
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leveraging technology to make fund
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ImpactAuction provides the tools and
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donations.
Mr. Parker has created and sold three
technology companies in the past ten
years. Each company has centered on
gathering the resources and people
needed to solve a problem through the
creative application of technology. Most
recently, he led the field of e-learning
by presenting a commercially viable
application of distance learning. He
founded WebED, the first company
dedicated to online continuing education
for school teachers nationwide.
Named
by Michael Moe of ThinkEquity (www.thinkequity.com)
(formerly of Merrill Lynch), and Rusty
Johnson of Deutsche Bank Alex, Brown, as
the top education prospect in 2000,
WebED (www.webed.com)
was sold to Canter, a Division of Sylvan
Learning. In 2003 the company continues
to follow the educational and sales
models originally presented by Mr.
Parker in 1998. Mr. Parker earned his
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and
M.A. in History at the University of New
Hampshire. Following an ROTC
scholarship, he served from 1983 to 1992
in the United States Air Force,
including an assignment to the USAF
Academy as Assistant Professor of
History.
His
educational interests centered on
innovators and entrepreneurs and how
their ideas are adapted and sometimes
become mainstream. He is a charter
member of the Rotary Club of Greater
Georgetown, Massachusetts, and can also
be found many weekends portraying a
British revolutionary war soldier of His
Majesty's 10th Regiment of Foot (www.redcoat.org)
Click
here
to register!
Michael
Port & Hal Macomber
The 7 Steps to Inventing, Designing and
Completing Your Signature Project
Wednesday, April 28, 2 pm ET
 Michael
is on a crusade for the success of
solo-professionals and is especially
well known for his passion, personality,
point of view (and unrelenting sense of
humor). Under the banner of Michael Port
& Associates, LLC (www.michaelport.com),
he provides seminars, keynotes, training
programs, coaching and a popular e-zine
to solo-professionals, helping them
build thriving businesses. His expertise
lies in the areas of personal brand
identity development and producing
remarkable projects. Michael's mantra:
be bold be brave be yourself for profit
and fun!
Hal
is a partner with Greg Howell in the
consulting company Lean Project
Consulting, Inc. He also operates a
coaching practice as G2G Assocs., LLC.
Through these two entities he is
delivering services to a variety of
industries and situations: defense,
power generation, construction,
fabrication, entrepreneurs, and other
coaches. Hal studied economics and
operations research at Lowell Tech, the
former UMass Engineering School. He went
on to get an MBA from Boston University
in operations management. Hal's
preoccupation with operations
effectiveness finally paid off when he
learned about workflow, Fernando Flores'
linguistic-action reinterpretation of
work.
In
this content-packed tele-class Michael
and Hal will share about
what a Signature Project is, how to
create one and have it make your name in
the world.
Click
here to register!
Maria Andreu
Pull Yourself Forward - Creating a
Mastermind Group That Brings You Into
Your Greatness
Tuesday, May 4, 2:00PM ET
Maria E.
Andreu, founder of Andreu Marketing
Solutions, came to learn about marketing
solutions the old-fashioned way: she
needed clients and didn't know how to
find them. Listening to the conventional
wisdom got her much frustration and few
clients. She then embarked on a
self-education plan which many years and
thousands of hours of research and
implementation later yielded the system
on which Andreu Marketing Solutions is
based.
With her unique history as a business
owner and solopreneur, Maria understands
the challenges of professionals who are
looking to get more clients. She's
spoken to groups across the U.S. and
Canada and has developed programs like
her highly-regarded Client Attraction
Marketing ProgramTM and
Making Money Online for ProfessionalsTM.
Her first book with a working title of Making
Money And Getting Clients Online
will be in bookstores in September,
2004. A staff writer for
WhoWhatWhere Magazine since 2002, Maria
has also published an electronic
newsletter to 10,000 avid subscribers
and writes on topics of business growth,
marketing and personal development.
Maria's professional training comes from
her study at Coach University, as well
as the Graduate School of Coaching.
She is Chapters Director for Coachville
chapters worldwide, as well as
co-Community Host for the Self
Employment System. She has served
as President of the North Jersey Coach
Alliance.
In
this content packed class Maria will
share about how to use a Mastermind
Group to focus on marketing, publicity,
promotion, idea generation, keeping
fresh, supporting one another and
creating extraordinary magic in your
life and your business.
Click
here to register!
Lance
Secretan
Inspire: What
Great Leaders Do!
Monday, May 10, 8:00PM ET
Lance Secretan
teaches an approach to management and
leadership that improves organizational
performance by transforming individuals,
working relationships and the working
environment. He is a dynamic, uplifting
speaker with the experience of a former
CEO and a message that inspires people
to bring their true and vibrant selves
to their work.
Lance speaks with
the authority of personal success as a
business leader himself. As its CEO, he
built Manpower Limited into one of the
largest employers in the world. He then
retired at 40 and, in the early 1990s,
created the Secretan Center, devoting
himself to teaching Higher Ground
Leadership(sm) full-time. He has been a
professor of entrepreneurship at two
universities and an award-winning
columnist for IndustryWeek.
He's written ten
books on various aspects of Higher
Ground Leadership(sm) and a new book is
due later this year.
Lance
Secretan will show us how to inspire
others and ourselves. Based on a
lifetime of research, Lance Secretan
takes us on a compelling journey to
discover what all great, inspiring
leaders have known: their Destiny (Why I
am here on Earth), their Cause (How I
will be while I am here and what I will
stand for), and their Calling (What I
will do and how I will use my talents
and gifts to serve). He shows us
clearly, using concrete examples of
successful leaders he has worked with,
many of whom are from healthcare and
dentistry, how we can do it, too.
Click
here to register!
Please
stay tuned for more classes each week or
check the listings at http://www.thomasleonard.com/teleclass/detail2.lasso?id3=2058
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Re-creating
the Moment
11
CD Set from the first Certified
Coach Intensive
About
the set
 Includes
the 2 full days from the first Certified
Coach Intensive plus the recording of
the Sunday brunch on the "future of
coaching".
This is Thomas at his best. If you
knew and loved him, you'll enjoy having
this historic moment on CD for your
listening pleasure. If you never
met Thomas this is a wonderful way to
hear him and learn from his amazing
wisdom.
This is the only time that the complete
Coaching System was explained in one
program - including the
communication stylepoints which were not
covered in subsequent intensives.
Bonus CD - The whole program on one CD
in mp3 format.
Amazing
low price of just $97.00.
Your CD set will be delivered in 2-3
weeks.
US
residents click
here
NJ residents
click
here
International
click
here
The
original program description
Are
you a coach who...
Has heard about the 15 Coaching
Proficiencies from CoachVille and is
eager to learn them in an immersion
weekend?
Has been looking for a
universal coaching model that can be
adapted to a wide variety of client
types and situations?
Is
considering the Certified Coach
designation track and wishes to prepare
yourself for the Certified Coach exam?
Is
currently coaching and interested in
expanding the number of ways you coach,
and the types of models you use?
Is
working with clients who you sense are
wanting more from you as you coach them?
Is
new to the coaching game and wants to
quickly understand how to coach well
instead of waiting years to learn by
trial and error?
Is
working internally or externally for a
company and is seeking an
open-architecture approach to coach
leaders in the company?
What
You Will Be Learning
The
5-Element CoachVille Coaching System
Key
Points
About the
CoachVille Coaching System
Is there an
open-architecture coaching system
available that is effective with a wide
range of clients, and usable by coaches
at all skill levels? Yes! In
this intensive, you will learn -- and
become effective with -- the newly
released CoachVille Coaching System.
The highly flexible system includes the
5 elements illustrated above, and
described below.
The 15 Coaching Proficiencies
The Coaching
Proficiencies are the engine of the
coaching process; this is what the coach
spends 90% of his/her time doing during
a typical coaching call. The
list of the proficiencies is
here.
The 15 Listening Clarifiers
In order to know
which of the proficiencies to use at any
given time, the coach needs to know, and
sort through, what they are hearing.
Thus the 15 Clarifiers which help the
coach know the nature of what they are
hearing and guides them to select the
most important element of what they are
hearing. Once this is clear (it
can take just a millisecond), the coach
will naturally choose the most fitting
proficiency. The list of the
clarifiers is here.
The 15 Deliverables
Deliverables
are what the coach delivers. Which
is distinct from the outcomes that the
client may have or cause as a result of
the coach's deliverables.
(Deliverables vs outcomes is a key
distinction in coaching.).
The list of the deliverables is here.
The 15 Life Frameworks
Frameworks
are places that the coach (and client)
come from in their thinking, perception,
behavior and attitudes. Frameworks
expand thinking, which can result in
clients moving forward more quickly and
with less effort. Think of a space
ship being launched. It needs the thrust
of booster rockets to break the
inertia/gravity/weight to get the rocket
beyond the pull/heaviness of Earth's
atmosphere so that it can play
effortlessly in space, where there is no
resistance. Something similar
happens to the client when their
frameworks are expanded. Blocks to
success are reduced and progress
accelerates. The list of the frameworks
is here.
The 15 Communication StylePoints
How you come
across and interact/relate with your
client can accelerate or slow down the
coaching process. We've identified 15
aspects of communication that we call
the StylePoints. Each of these 15
StylePoints can help you become more
effective coach by tweaking your
coaching communication style. The
list of the StylePoints is
here. |
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