Establishing your identity for a new position begins immediately.  The 90 days is for getting comfortable in your new role. One little misstep, one misspoken word can halt the momentum inherent to a new position. 

What skills will you continue to develop? What new ones do you need?

    • Coaches are trusted partners who bring objectivity to your career and personal life paths.

    • Mentors share ‘position specific’ insight.

    • Consultants fix ‘things’ based on their experience.

    • Trainers provide task or product ‘how to’ information.

Transparency is important; it is part of the trust pact. But there are some things you just should not share with a new boss or new team. 

An executive coach is a trusted partner who listens and provides impartial feedback.

Building something where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts is steeped in co-creative processes.  Our ability to communicate, capability to collaborate, and the passion we bring are fundamental to innovative solutions.

To create something different, we know learning to be ‘okay’ with not having the answer is necessary.  Not knowing what you don’t know is fundamental to innovation. Fortunately, neuroscience research is helping us understand why ‘not knowing’ is so difficult for many people.

Future-forward leaders help their teams by establishing environments where living in or with the unknown is re-energizing and exciting.  They establish a culture where curiosity is welcome, and the exchange of ideas is encouraged.

But this is not enough.  Mega-successful leaders develop and support culture specific language for their co-creating teams.  They know the meanings are context and culture specific and thus become the organization’s competitive edge.

The words used to co-create the language percolate into the organization’s compelling story – the story that stakeholders remember.  Get started today with the FREE College Story Framework.

Creativity is inherently human and not based on logic. In fact, creativity defies logic.

Creativity is the not-so-secret ingredient for innovation, and CCC helps you re-energize your own innate creativity.

Why bother?  Leaders looking for long-term financial sustainability must search in uncharted waters for undiscovered opportunities. Future-forward leaders tap into their own creativity, embrace the ideas of others, and synthesize the mixture into goals for thriving in the future.

What can you do right now? Download and complete the FREE College Story Framework.  Focus on you, your team, or the organization – it doesn’t matter, just pick one and get it done.  Limit yourself to 10 minutes completion time, then assess and analyze (another 10 minutes max).

Results

Yes__  No__  I’m proud of the extraordinary results.

Yes__  No__  A compelling story exists that will to take the organization, my teams, and my career into the future.

CCC moves you beyond pure logic and into an ocean of opportunity where creativity supports the innovative solutions taking us into the future.  

What do you want?  What do you need?  What is your MTA?

CCC supports you in clarifying your answers to each of these questions.  While initially the questions may appear simplistic, they become more complex as context varies.  For example, the difference between work and personal life may be minimal for some clients while for others, a distinct delineation is the preferred context.  The wants and needs will vary by the context of each client.

What is the importance of an MTA?  CCC provides support in developing and clarifying your Massively Transformative Aspiration (MTA) – an often overlooked magic ingredient for thriving in the future. Your unique MTA provides the umbrella under which alignment occurs for you, your family, and the people you lead. 

Operating with a clearly defined MTA places you in a position truly conducive to future-forward leading and to making a mega difference.

Thriving in the future includes celebrating wins of the past.  Begin your journey to create something where the whole really is greater than the sum of its parts by downloading the FREE Personal Roadmap.

Are you looking to:  Enroll more students, Attract new funding, Eliminate Confusion?  

 An environment for collaboration is instrumental in moving an organization forward, and the conversation level is a quick indicator for determining likelihood of success in creating innovative solutions to long-term financial sustainability.

The next time you’re in a meeting, which level of conversation is most evident?

Level I  Transactional – centered around confirming what we know. Meeting atmosphere reflects sharing information to keep people in the loop, lots of telling and asking, and just give me the facts. People in attendance listen to protect what they know to be true.

Level II  Positional – centered around persuading and influencing others. Meeting atmosphere reflects over-repetition of viewpoints in an effort convince. People in attendance listen to accept or reject ideas. “Have to” attitude.

Level III  Transformational – centered around discovering what we know.  Meeting atmosphere reflects sharing and discovering, idea flow, everyone contributes to conversation. People in attendance listen to connect ideas and co-create. “Get to” attitude.

An idea for you.  Observe your next meeting with an external coach’s objective eye: which conversation lavel is most evident at the meeting?

Yes__ No__ We actually do operate at Level III conversation, and we are successfully co-creating our future.  Yea to us!!

Yes__ No__ Our conversation level is not at Level III

Take a deeper look and download the FREE College Story Framework today. The framework simplifies getting the story straight for colleges with multiple missions and innovative stakeholders. Perfect for those already operating with Level III conversation.