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The Employee Samurai Edge

A Rare Training and Development Program 

 

Rapidly sharpen employee performance
with methods developed at Johns Hopkins University
and based on the bestseller

"The Code of the Executive"

by Don Schmincke 

  
A fresh new framework.
Ancient secrets backed by scientific evidence and tested with over 15,000 CEOs. 

You want employees with more:

  • Bravery, honor, and accountability.
  • Self-awareness, empathy, and confidence.
  • Effective navigation of workplace relationships.
  • Self-initiative in career development.
  • Contribution to a positive culture.
  • Risk taking.

And HR is doing all the right things:

  • Organization assessments
  • Workforce planning
  • Performance management systems
  • The best industry training and development programs
  • Employee engagement initiatives
  • Organizational and culture development programs
  • Coaching.

But you keep running into:

  • Change resistance. 
  • Avoidance of fierce, difficult communications.
  • Politics and dysfunctional behaviors.
  • Career confusion. 
  • Silos and turf battles.
  • Ego.

Yes, many executives are frustrated.

 

And hopeful for the next 
best-selling management theory.

 

 

 

. . .  but there is another way

Training over 15,000 CEO’s revealed 3 alarming discoveries stopping employee development efforts  . . .

Discovery #1:

Employees don't know that management wants them to do what they've been avoiding:

 

  • - Take more risks.

  • - Help get at the truth.

  • - Call someone out on their accountability.

  • - Challenge new ideas.

  • - Expose dead-end projects.

  • - Be honest.

 

And stop hiding in the masses!

Discovery #2:

Management is not failing them, management theories are failing them 

 

Scholarly research finds failure rates of 70-90%. Even with bestselling books on leadership, wars rage on as executives try to make needed changes, and weary employees try to resist.

Discovery #3:

There's nothing wrong with current employee development efforts!

Many employees probably already know more than enough about what to do to become very successful.

 

Something deeper sabotages employees by causing them to:

  • - Hesitate

  • - Hang on to old beliefs

  • - Let ego get in the way

  • - Not be brave enough

  • - Resist change

  • - Get sucked into politics

Fear and Selfishness

STOP 

FEAR and SELFISHNESS

from sabotaging employee development

 

 

How?

 

The answer was buried in ancient leadership secrets codified over 700 years ago.(1)

  

 

Oxford gave me permission to publish it.

 

I then trained over 15,000 CEOs.

 

 

Now I'd like to teach it to your employees.

 (1) the content emerged during the Japanese Heian period (794–1185) and formalized during the Kamakura period (1185–1333).

Hello, I’m Don Schmincke

At MIT and Johns Hopkins I studied planetary physics, biomedical engineering, and genetic evolution. Then I spent 30 years on global expeditions researching strategic performance of humans.

Like many other "thought-leader" consultants, I have the usual credentials . . .

  • Written books (3 best-sellers)
  • Delivered over 2,000 speeches
  • Been awarded as a top 10 speaker (for world’s largest CEO organization)
  • Top 20 Business Minds Award
  • Lifetime Achievement Speaker Award
  • Trained over 15,000 CEO’s in over 100 industries

Yet, I’m the guy they bring in when all the “experts” fail. 

Incredible experiences resulted from my research:

  • nearly arrested as a capitalist spy in the Soviet Bloc
  • got shot off an aircraft carrier
  • survived in the Kurdish capital as Tehran held hostages
  • was the first white person brought into an African Tsonga village
  • developed missile inertial guidance systems while my frat brothers took Vegas (later exposed in the movie “21”)

 

So, yeah, I’ve been through a lot figuring out how to help you
solve your employee development challenges.

INTRODUCING

 

Strengthen leadership and career performance in 7-weeks.

 

Based on the program Don Schmincke developed at Johns Hopkins.

 

Each module in this online course contains:

  • Practical implementation exercises with on-the-job action steps.

  • Multiple, highly effective instructional modalities including:
    • Brief, easily consumable content
    • Useful downloads
    • Short, impactful video lessons of 5 - 7 minutes

 

And performance checkpoints with managers

to enhance success!

Why Use Samurai Training?

(a brief 20-second overview)

 

What's In The Program?

These are the weekly Modules

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 which 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 hinder 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.

Imagine the Impact If Employees Were: 

Brave enough to:

- Take on greater challenges

- Tell the truth before it's too late

- Act courageously without fear

- Be admired for accountability

- Embrace and lead change with less resistance 

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:

- Influence performance

- Make faster decisions

- Solve problems effectively

- Engage others more deeply

- Increase competitive performance

FAQs

Time to Strengthen Leadership

The future isn't going to wait

Individual  Student Tuition 

 

$2750

  • Group discounts available. 
  • Group coaching option available for teams.
  • Contact: [email protected]
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