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The Challenge in Employee Development

"I hire smart people, so why am I not getting better results?"

 

To find out we asked over 30,000 CEOs 

 

. . . you’re not going to believe what they said.

Are you seeing some employees:  

  • Not perform at their potential?
  • Hesitate telling you the truth?
  • Hold themselves back?
  • With no initiative waiting to be told what to do?
  • Engage in politics, drama, gossip, blaming, and all the rest?
  • Stuck in their silos?
  • Thinking they're entitled?
  • Act from fear instead of confidence?

 

And it's just taking too much time to get things done?

 

But you've done all the right things.

  • Shared the mission, vision, and why statements
  • Brought in all the best trainers and coaches
  • Made them watch the TedX talks and read all the bestselling books
  • Used all the top employee engagement methods
  • Have the best employee development programs
  • Hired the leading culture change experts

 

It doesn’t matter.

The real solution exists at a deeper level.
 
You only unearth it through an evidence-based, scientific method proven for thousands of years and in over 100 industries.

 

What Is this Other Way? 

Based on the research of explorer, scientist

Don Schmincke

  • What he learned from training 30,000 CEOs
  • Evidence-based, scientific models
  • Used in over 100 industries

and

The Pacific Institute

  • 50 years of employee development
  • Over 7 million trained
  • Used by half of the Fortune 1000 companies

Why Is This Program Different? 

Founded on a rare, proprietary synthesis of scientific research and global expeditions; and developed with support from leading institutions.

Modalities field-tested in hundreds of industries, implemented by the most prominent organizations in the world. and taught to over 30,000 CEOs.

After studying planetary physics, biomedical engineering, and human evolution, Don Schmincke left MIT and Johns Hopkins to start his own research.

 

After working with over 30,000 CEO’s, he made 3 disturbing discoveries...

Discovery 1

Management theory failure rates are 70-90%

You've learned the new best-selling theories on how create a successful organization, but wars still rage on as executives make needed changes, and weary employees resist.

You’re not alone. 

Discovery 2

There's nothing wrong with your career development and self-improvement efforts!

You probably know more than enough about what to do to become very successful.

 

So why is employee performance not growing fast enough?

Discovery 3

Something lurks deeper beneath the surface to sabotage you:

It preserves old beliefs, arises from genetic warfare patterns, drives change resistance, and causes lack of bravery and honor

 

What sabotages everything you're trying to do?

FEAR and SELFISHNESS

How do you STOP this? 

 

Before wasting time on another management theory . . .

 

a secret's buried in a 700-year-old Samurai text on death, bravery, and honor


  

(and secretly working for hundreds of years)

INTRODUCING

 

Becoming Samurai

A 7-week online course for strengthening your employees for the highest levels of performance:

  • Each module contains:

    • Practical implementation exercises with relevancies, reflections, and on-the-job  action steps

    • Multiple, highly effective instructional modalities including:
      • High-quality cinematography and effects
      • Brief, easily consumable text 
      • Useful downloads and surveys
      • Short, impactful video lessons

    • Engagement checkpoints with their managers to enhance implementation

Before you start thinking

 

"Just another training program."

 

Think again.


This enhances ALL your training and development efforts.

Why Use Samurai Training?

(a brief 20-second overview)

 

What's In The Program?

Weekly Disciplines for Employees Include:

Taking personal responsibility for the journey becomes critical for the path ahead.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Be responsible for your performance and blame no one.
- Understand the value of engaging with your manager.
- Prepare your manager for support.
- Prepare yourself emotionally, mentally, and physically.
- Realize the value of the disciplines you will learn.

Fear stops employees from reaching higher, taking needed risks, and improving their performance. 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Identify what fears stop you.
- How to move beyond your fears.
- Seek higher growth and development.
- Aspire to a higher potential despite your fears.
- Be more willing to innovate.
- Be open to feedback and coaching.

Sustaining competitive strength requires continuous evolution. This means change is necessary, and that means something must die in order to be replaced by something else.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Understand why change occurs.
- How to accept, engage, and support change.
- Reduce change resistance.
- Step up to accept new roles and responsibilities.

Primal, selfish, ego-driven behaviors hinders strategic execution. Understanding how to deal with this effectively frees the organization for higher performance.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Get EGO out of the way.
- Let go of what's holding you back.
- Make faster decisions.
- Stop blaming and infighting.
- Let the team mission drive.
- Reduce selfishness.

Strategic performance requires "Accountability". Employees need to be “counted on” by the CEO to fulfill duties, make wise decisions, and honor the values and purpose.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Be brave enough to do the right thing, even if uncomfortable.
- Focus more on results .
- Hold yourself and others accountable.
- Tell the truth even if unpopular so that management knows about real issues and can address them early. 

Honoring values, goals, and purpose are critical for successful organizations. This becomes strained when disrespect arises from other employees, customers, or competitors. But a Samurai employee has no excuse to violate this Code.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Why and how to honor company values.
- Lead from trust.
- Ensure honesty.
- Preserve integrity.

What's In It for YOU?

 

Employees who

  • Perform at their highest potential
  • Tell you the truth
  • Don't hold themselves back and take initiative
  • Stop playing politics, and start focusing on results
  • Ignore silos
  • Lose their entitlement attitudes
  • Act from confidence  instead of fear

 

Increased speed of decisiveness and action! 

Imagine the Impact If Employees Were: 

Brave enough to:

- Take on greater challenges

- Tell the truth before it's too late

- Act without fear

- Be admired for accountability

- Embrace and lead change with less resistance

- Be seen as innovative and collaborative

- Have more courage 

Honorable enough to:

- Protect your values

- Follow your ideals and purpose

- Not be distracted by politics

- Demonstrate selfishlessness

- Not blame, but accept mistakes

- Gain increased respect as a leader

Strategic enough to:

- Know how to influence performance

- Enhance the customer experience and sales

- Focus on traction

- Make faster decisions

- Solve problems effectively

- Engage others better

- Grow  competitive  performance

FAQs

Ready to Enhance Your Organization's Speed and Competitive Performance?

Let's Get Your Employees Engaged

We'll contact you shortly to assess you situation and see if this program is a fit. Whether we work together or not, we'll make sure you have insights for enhancing your organization.