Introduction and Methods

Working Voices leadership development programmes focus on the people who hold the key to making your business successful and profitable.

Starting with the simple concept ‘When you are committed, anything is possible’, we move forward – coaching your leaders of today and tomorrow using unique coaching methods and team-building exercises.

We field a team that is second to none. Leadership experts who have coached many of the largest, most successful and most powerful companies in the world – see our client list and team sections.

To find out more about how we can support and develop your leaders contact Tina @ Working Voices.

If you wish to find out a little more about our methods, approach, and the team, please read on. Otherwise check out our course structure and case studies by clicking on the above titles.

An Integral Approach

Working Voices Leadership programmes produce successful results for our clients because of a combination of team, approach and client interaction.

The team led by JC Mac is second to none. We use an Integral Approach which has at its heart a method we call whole-brain learning and development. This involves the integration of your observable business and behaviours along with how you perceive and value your world.

The key benefit to clients of using this method is that it speeds up the learning process and maximises your potential to view things differently. It promotes the use of both sides of your brain – the creative and the analytical – the whole brain. When applied to an agreed programme and correct environment it heightens your ability, establishing a ‘super receptive’ state of mind.

The starting point of all our programmes is when we meet with you to clarify the issues, discuss the groups or individual(s) involved, and agree a set of objectives.

This is followed by a set of interviews and enquiries to discover what the team thinks and feels about its development and its business, and what it senses is missing.

Once the challenges are understood we then design and agree a programme which is subsequently launched through a series of one-to-one coaching sessions, or at an “event” that can last a couple of days. Post event activities are then centred around regular follow-up sessions.

A guide to the 12 Principles of Integral Whole-Brain Learning and Development:

Context

Ascertain the background and environment in which an individual or group work. Find the meaning and purpose that exists to motivate and inspire a person or team.

Alignment

The willingness to get behind the spirit of an idea; agreement is about everyone wanting their own way. An aligned team gets a lot more done than a team trying to get everyone to agree.

Accountability

A shared commitment; responsibility is not. For instance, the NASA forklift driver responsible as an individual for loading the trucks, but accountable along with the rest of the team - rocket scientist to astronaut - for the success of a space programme.

Integrity

Integrity is the state that exists when everything in an organisation and the individuals are developing and working properly together. An organisation only grows and works properly when everyone within it is communicating honestly - when everyone’s external world (living and working) matches their internal world (feelings and thoughts).

Clarity of intention

A crystal clear knowledge of your intentions is critical to real success. Without it you drift. With it you have i) focus ii) the means to measure your success, and iii) a profound sense of accomplishment when the job's done.

Limiting beliefs

We behave according to our beliefs and values. Some of those beliefs and values limit our choices and our very ability to change our ways.

Enrolment

Enrolment is NOT about joining or being a member of a club or organisation. It's about working together to create new and different possibilities that are capable of overcoming difficult challenges.

Breakdowns

A breakdown is a disruption to the passageway to your objective. From the moment you are committed to an objective you are challenged to overcome the obstacles put in your way. Those obstacles are what we call breakdowns.

Completion v Finished

To be finished means to have brought to an end, concluded, stopped. It's a physical thing. To be complete is an emotional thing. It means to be emotionally intact. A workplace meeting can be finished but the participants incomplete if, for instance, one or several have ended up unhappy.

Listening

There's a difference between hearing and listening. Hearing is a function. Listening is the way you interpret what you've heard. The way you interpret what you've heard is in part a result of your upbringing, values, experiences and culture - your "filters", as they're called.

Breakthroughs

A breakthrough is the ability to see things in new and different ways. It's what allows the impossible to become possible. Quickly, or over time, breakthroughs will always lead to significant improvements in skill, performance, results, and the way you live.

Centring

Centring is a regime of breathing and visualising exercises designed to help you access your creative, insightful and innovative mind. It's difficult to access that mind when you're busy yet it's from there that the best stuff comes. All of us continually try to do more by doing more. Centring helps us to achieve more by doing less.