ENERGIZING CHANGE
An innovative approach that integrates organizational effectiveness, leadership training, personal well-being, and customer service.
Working for the greater good can feel overwhelming and drain even the most dedicated professionals.
High Risk of Burnout
Indeed, individuals who work for and lead mission-driven organizations are so committed that they often overstretch their own capacity and are at high risk of burnout.
To remain energized and able to effectively inspire others, people working for positive organizational change and broader transformation need to learn the skills involved in feeding their own spark.
Performing at a Higher Level
We want to help your key leaders and teams re-charge and stay charged, so they can perform at an even higher level, while also enjoying their work more
than ever before.
While other leadership training initiatives tend to focus on conveying technical skills, Building On Success helps establish the strongest possible personal foundation for effective leadership. This will equip the people whose success matters most to your success, with the skills, tool and practices necessary to perform at a high level and flourish.
The “Building On Success” approach is about learning how to get energized and experience more satisfaction while accomplishing work goals and energizing others as well. We aim to help the businesses and organizations we work with retain their best and brightest and help them grow and perform at their peak, by cultivating practices of sustainable leadership, so they can thrive in their current role and throughout their career.
What is Special About Our Approach to Leadership?
We’ve found that by helping individuals become more clear, self aware, and balanced in their own lives, they are much more effective at their job and, not surprisingly, a lot happier doing it.
The “Building On Success” approach is about energizing yourself enough to be able to make the necessary changes at your work and in your life outside of work so that you can experience more satisfaction and create greater impact, while energizing others as well. We want to support you so that you can thrive in your current role and throughout your career. We aim to help the organizations we work with retain their best and brightest and help them perform at their peak, by cultivating practices of sustainable leadership.
Building On Success Will Help Your Key Leaders and Teams Learn The Nine Essential Skills For Energizing Change
♦ How to become adept at discerning THE most immediate question that you need to answer next.
♦ How to think BIG and clearly articulate a compelling vision of success.
♦ How to then also “start small” and set an achievable, concrete objective for your top work priority in the coming quarter, so you know success when you see it and be able to create results which build momentum and a culture of possibility.
♦ How to identify the activities and conditions which energize you the most, those that drain you and what changes you might make in your life accordingly so you can spend most of your time on your true priorities and on the parts of your job that energize you the most, while working effectively toward meaningful impact on clearly articulated outcomes.
♦ How to craft effective programs and creative, collaborative engagement strategies and lead with a sense of expansive possibility.
♦ How to get clear on your own vision of success, informed by the questions “What is Truly Important?” “What is enough?” and then stay focused on what you therefore want to experience monthly to keep your life in balance.
♦ How to become clear and self aware and then make decisions about work and life in an intentional way through the Four Frames decision-making process, enabling you to deliver the results you care about most.
♦ How to discover opportunities for personal growth in your leadership in situations where others would only find frustration.
♦ How to create a gratitude practice and story-building skills to give your own life a sense of coherence and keep calm and productive even when things heat up.
Alumni of our Building On Success training and coaching initiative and our ALIGN program report that as a result of their work with us, they experience more joy and creativity in their work, spend a higher percentage of their time on their most important and satisfying work, take better care of themselves, and have a powerful set of tools and practices to nurture themselves and sustain their passion for a life in service.
We have trained and coached more than 50,000 people around the world.
We focus on:
♦ Training and coaching experienced and emerging leaders.
♦ Helping foundations create the greatest possible impact and return on their investment by working with their grantees and the other leaders and teams in whom they invest the most.
♦ Supporting the people involved in the leadership and engagement initiatives of universities, foundations, and social enterprises.
The Sparks Center
Igniting Leadership in Mission-Driven Organizations