Chuck Craytor - Creating a Culture of Courage

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At Craytor Leadership, we find out what’s working and build on it.

Chuck Craytor works with leaders, groups, and organizations providing Executive Coaching and Corporate Culture Consulting. Chuck specializes in issues involving shared meaning. He utilizes the shared meaning approach which holds that the everyday language, both internal and external, that people use to conduct their business, can be treated as an environment and analyzed in terms of language maps.

The shared meaning approach seeks to develop, out of ordinary language, new language maps which produce broader quicker consensus, dramatically reducing miss-communication, accelerated decision making, increased productivity with decreased effort, and significantly increased work satisfaction.

Bringing the best out of people, especially with the fears of rapid change, takes leadership. We help leaders bring the best out of people in difficult times. We also help them cultivate the next generation of leaders.

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Your choice can be extensive background work done by Chuck including attendance at the organization’s business meetings to learn their group dynamics. And then by working one-on-one with individuals and any teams, cohesive groups will be built to move projects forward. Or, you can simply choose a training and development seminar presented to your organization or any group.

Our Corporate Culture Consulting and Executive Coaching emphasizes real-world practice, not just theory—to make changes that will stick.

WORKSHOP OFFERINGS

CO-CREATING HIGHLY EFFECTIVE CROSS CULTURAL RELATIONSHIPS
We will introduce you to a strength based process that discovers who you are when you are at your best. Together we will generate creative, fun, and highly effective tools you can use right now to design cross cultural relationships that are productive and highly effective.

In this half-day workshop we will collaborate to:

• Discover what we do when we are at our individual best
• Create a vision for working in a fun and highly effective workplace
• Design creative ways to make the vision real
• Create a process for individual responsibility and accountability

This workshop gives you new and innovative ways to open authentic conversations so that the process becomes part of who you are as a person. You and your colleagues will gain the tools so that each person contributes to making the relationships at your workplace the best they can be!

EVERYDAY COURAGE: THINKING, BEING, ACTING AUTHENTICALLY
During this workshop we will introduce you to a process for defining what courage means to each of us and learn how to use courage as a resource and tool for decision-making (Thinking). From your innate base of courage, you will learn how to create positive, sustainable differences when making decisions (Being). You will leave the workshop with the ability to practice everyday courage and become more authentic, effective, and productive leaders (Acting).

In this half-day workshop we will collaborate to:

• Discover and define our innate base of courage
• Envision how we, as courageous leaders can create trusting relationships
• Design tools to encourage and support our practice of authentic everyday courage

AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP: INSIGHT INTO ACTION

We are all leaders. We lead by certain principles, values, and attributes. The intent of this workshop is to assist participants in developing:

• An awareness of your values, thoughts, and individuality
• An understanding of your ability to call on the qualities that support constructive thought
• Ways to incorporate and implement these choices into your relationships, your self-esteem, your health, your strengths, your uniqueness
• A willingness to exercise action and patience in developing the qualities of authentic leadership through listening, trust, and courage.

INSPIRATION: THE LEADERSHIP FORUM

The Leadership Project is an interactive seminar program for business owners and managers seeking to bring out the best in themselves and their work group by evolving as leaders. Participants share their real-life challenges and issues, focusing on the principles, values, and attributes of effective leaders.

Benefits from this program include:

• raising your awareness of thought processes and patterns,
• focusing on enhancing the effectiveness of your thoughts and ideals as leaders,
• becoming a better leader for the company and community, and
• gaining a better understanding of how management affects an organization’s overall status.

The TLP is offered in three modules.

Module 1: Personal mastery for Leading and Coaching

Develop leadership skills in a forum-like setting by replacing limiting thought patterns with new, empowering thoughts. By incorporating new choices into your daily life, you will be:

• strengthening your foundation;
• improving efficiency;
• reducing stress and boosting energy; and
• enhancing decision-making, creativity, and your relationships on an on-going basis.

Module 2: Coaching for Performance

All leaders are coaches. Coaching for performance allows you to develop specific skills for your day-to-day management tasks. Starting with the basics of effective coaching, this module focuses on maximizing performance in your work group and sharing responsibility.

Interactive sessions are designed for you to immediately experience results in improving your coaching abilities. Emphasis is on improved performance and stronger business relationships.

Module 3: Leading Projects and Coaching for Leadership

Successful project management is the key element to long-term achievement. This module centers on empowering those around you through the design and implementation of projects that make a difference. Each attendee will take on a personal project, starting with design, focus, energy, consistency, and results.