A Half, One, or Two-Day Personal Growth Workshop for Front Line or Management Staff

Sailing through life is easy when our seas are calm. It’s much tougher when clouds and darkness engulf us, vicious storms hit, and we lose sight of land. How we respond — as Navigators, Survivors, or Victims — determines our health and happiness.

It’s an inside job. Modern research and ancient wisdom shows that our inner lives determine our outer circumstances. Navigating our storms within — our “dark nights of the soul” — is critical to steering a successful course through life’s turbulent times.

This powerful personal growth and personal leadership development workshop is built around Jim’s best-selling book Growing the Distance: Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success. Like his international best-selling book (over 100,000 copies sold in numerous languages), Jim’s dynamic workshop style entertains, inspires, and moves participants to action. The book and this workshop weave together many humorous quips, lighthearted stories, and charming tales with “growing points” intended to “drive you to thinking.” This is done with both original and ageless fables, current situations, pithy quotations, and personal examples.

Let’s Get Practical

For over 25 years, Jim Clemmer’s practical leadership approaches have been inspiring action and achieving results. His 2,000 plus presentations and workshops/retreats, five international best-selling books, columns, and newsletters are helping hundreds of thousands of people worldwide because they are inspiring, instructive, and refreshingly fun. And most of all…because they work!

Jim is constantly distilling his exhaustive research, extensive experience, and collection of best practices into easily understood, highly energizing, and practical applications. His Navigating Change and Adversity workshop is so effective because it inspires action and provides "how-to" steps that — when used as directed — dramatically boost results.

Workshop Menu

Each Navigating Change and Adversity workshop is tailored to the audience and organizational circumstance. Following is an overview of the main sections that Jim can draw from in customizing a session for each Client.

Navigating Adversity

• Living in Pity City or Joyful Junction: Choosing Our Reality
• Keys to Navigating “Above the Line” of Cynicism and Negativity
• Get Lucky: Increasing Our Luck and Happiness

The Performance Balance

For a brief overview of the material covered in this section click here and here.

• Finding the Right Balance: Technology, Management, Leadership
• Managing Things and Leading People
• Soft Skills, Hard Results: Harnessing the Power of Emotional Intelligence

Timeless Leadership Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success

This section draws directly from Growing the Distance: Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success . In the one-day and two-day versions, participants use the accompanying Growing the Distance: Personal Implementation Guide for self-assessment, practical implementation of ideas, priority setting, and action planning to continue what is started in this workshop.

Depending upon the length and focus of the workshop, the process typically used starts with an overview of each of the following Leadership Principles. Participants then assess their personal effectiveness. From here, small breakout discussion groups or the whole group (depending upon workshop size and objectives) review application exercises and brainstorm potential application ideas. We usually finish with participants setting personal action plans.

Focus and Context: The Core of My Being

• Imagine That: Harnessing the Power of Visualization and Self-Talk
• Picturing My Preferred Future
• Clarifying My Core Values
• My Personal Purpose

Responsibility for Choices: If it’s to Be, It’s Up to Me

• Dealing with Adversity: Choosing My Perspective
• Choosing Our Explanations and Our Happiness
• Increasing My Influence

Authenticity: Getting Real

• The Real Me
• Being the Change I Want to See in Others
• Have, Do, or Be?
• Getting Feedback on How Others See Me

Passion and Commitment: Beyond Near-Life Experiences

• Taking My Passion Pulse
• Determining My Strengths
• Checking My Work Alignment
• Deepening My Discipline and Commitment

Spirit and Meaning: With All My Heart and Soul

• Checking My Spirit
• The Meaning of My Work
• Finding the Diamonds in My Own Backyard

Growing and Developing: From Phase of Life to Way of Life

• Measuring My Growth
• Signs of Stagnation
• My Learning Style and Options

Mobilizing and Energizing: Putting Emotions in Motion

• Checking for Energy Leaks
• The Leadership Environment I Have Created
• Inspiring through Verbal Communications
• Harnessing the Power of Teams

Next Steps: Bringing it All Together

• What do I most need to do (and when) to implement all my action plans?

• Who am I going to get to help me (personal coach/counselor, mentor, network, spouse, trainer, consultant, etc.)?
• How will I ensure I follow-through on my plans?

Workshop Options

Half–Day

This is generally an interactive and inspirational session that reinforces or provides participants with an “edutaining” overview of the keys to leadership and change. A few assessment and application exercises may be selected on the basis of preworkshop discussions and customization.

One–Day

Participants complete selected assessment and application exercises from Growing the Distance: Personal Implementation Guide. Participants assess their overall effectiveness across the seven Timeless Leadership Principles. This helps determine which Principles they want to complete as a whole group or in small discussion groups (depending upon the key issues and number of people in the session). The amount of time and depth in each agenda area is determined by preworkshop discussions and customization.

Two–Day

Participants typically complete all assessments and application exercises in Growing the Distance: Personal Implementation Guide. They get deep into the personal change, growth and self-leadership issues that need to be addressed and develop detailed action plans. Key priorities, next steps, and follow-through processes are established.

What Participants Gain From This Powerful Workshop

• Strategies for dealing with the loss of health, relationships, security, a job, money, loved ones, control, and other personal difficulties
• Recognizing personal Navigator, Survivor, and Victim modes and when each is most appropriate
• Extensive "how-to" workbook (Growing the Distance: Personal Implementation Guide) with hundreds of practical application ideas (depending upon workshop option chosen and pricing)
• Ideas for helping or leading others through tough times
• Pinpoint personal gaps and priorities to be addressed
• Assessment of personal leadership strengths and improvement opportunities
• Set personal development plans
• Renewed energy and inspiration to live “above the line”
• Reflection time to reassess personal and professional priorities
• Understanding and applying current research on happiness, luck, and emotional intelligence
• R & R — reframing and refocusing
• Increase personal and team Laughter Index
• How to use the Placebo Effect, psychoneuroimmunology, and the mind-body-spirit connection for increased health and healing
• Using affirmations to attract health, wealth, and happiness
• Insights for influencing and leading others

Read Jim’s article “Navigating Change and Adversity” for a deeper look at the practical content covered in this workshop.