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Build Better Bosses
Are you new to your role and challenged with imposter syndrome?
Are you in a leadership transition and struggling to be a better boss?
Are you facing succession with trepidation?
Are you wondering where your job love went?
I get it!
Here's the problem:
The manager-to-leader journey is not easy. It can be a lonely adventure, and the pandemic has only compounded the isolation. Leadership can be a privilege, a pleasure, and a painful experience at the same time. When we get paid to deliver results, it's easy to lose sight of the opportunity we have to lead and make a difference.
Managing is not the same as leading - we need both to be effective, efficient, and successful.
But when you're under pressure from your boss, your peers, your deadlines, and a myriad of complicated circumstances, our default is to manage, micromanage, and overmanage, ultimately forgetting that people also crave leadership.
Leading people can be a game changer but only when we execute it with intentionality. It’s never accidental.
Frustrations, Pain, and Aggravations
I hear it all and there's nothing I haven't heard.
From managers, from managers' bosses, from managers' employees.
Here are my top favorite frustrations of, by, with managers
(yes, I'm talking to and about you! but don't worry, I'm also talking to the manager next to you!)
Not taking ownership | Not honoring commitments | Giving reasons for why something can’t be done | Concerned about image | Blaming | Automatic No | Saying yes with no intent to commit |
Lack of curiosity | Repeating mistakes | Continuing processes that don’t work | Failure to understand the bigger picture | Not making tough decisions around personnel | My way is the only way | Silo mentality | Limited visibility | Disconnected to needs of others | Unable to build relationships across teams | Being a victim | Setting poor example | Pessimistic | Not self-reflective | Unproductive exchanges | Unable to solve issues amongst their peers | Lack of empathy | Drama provokers |
Unable to resolve issues without escalation
Build Better Bosses Intensive … The Circle of Excellence
I developed the Build Better Bosses Intensive: to help managers evolve and achieve a level of performance that completely transforms the results they are creating because of it.
Should you be involved in this?
- At this point, I don't know. It just depends on your current situation, where you're trying to go, and what's keeping you from getting there
- If you're dealing with any of the aggravations listed above, I CAN tell you they're NOT just going to disappear on their own.
If you want to discuss your situation and see if the Build Better Bosses Intensive Circle of Excellence is right for you or your team, get on my calendar and schedule a short call where we can discuss.
- There are a limited number of spaces for the Intensive, so scheduling your call sooner than later would be a good idea.
- Here's the link to schedule a call with me: http://www.scheduleyou.in/5WmLJby5B
More More!
The Circle of Excellence! A leadership journey with a community of peers from a variety of organizations and industries. Through masterminding, mentoring, and leadership training, we explore what it means to manage and lead simultaneously. We look at how to be effective managers, meaningful mentors, and great bosses. In the end, we discover the secret to making a difference (and having fun again), in spite of and because of the titles we hold!
Is the Build a Better Boss Intensive and the Circle of Excellence for you?
If you are a new manager or team lead with manager aspirations, the Circle is for you!
If you have a few years under your belt managing and leading and want to take your leadership to a new level, the Circle is for you!
But let me be completely honest, the Circle and my time, energy, expertise, and passion are only for you if you are:
- committed to making a difference with your title
- excited about influencing and inspiring others
- willing to look at other people's perceptions of you
- eager to identify and address your blindspots
- prepared to take a chance and be uncomfortable
- open to new ideas and suggestions for managing and leading
- intentional about taking actions
- able to persist and be resilient in the face of circumstance
- ready to mastermind and mentor
- eager to take your ambition on a mission
Here's the potential for you:
Leadership is a skill that can be developed, improved, and honed! Each of us can evolve from individual contributor and micromanager to Manager who Leads. It's a (neuro)science and an art; it's a passion and and a privilege.
Imagine engaging with people on your team and purposefully choosing to manage their expectations while leading them to become bigger, better, bolder versions of themselves!
We just need to reverse-engineer how people operate, examine what contributes to or contaminates trust, understand how missed expectations occur, and discover what drives people to perform and thrive. From there, we create and apply formulas that allow us to build trust, communicate, influence, develop, delegate, establish accountability, and recognize.
A comeback story:
When Mary joined the Circle, she was struggling. She was losing the trust of her team; her communication was landing like criticism and accusation; her bosses were blaming her for their own shortcomings; and as a result, her self-esteem was teetering.
Her 360 assessment only confirmed this story. Her scores were wildly inconsistent, negative, and frustrating. She was losing at the game of leading, and she knew it.
Mary and I worked together in the Soar Coaching Program for 6 months. We focused on her communciation style that caused the intention-to-impact confusion; we worked on closing the constant expectation gaps; she experimented with new language for delegating and giving feedack; and she discovered how to manage and lead.
Mary's post-360 assessment evidenced Mary's growth and improvement - people noticed and appreciated her hard work. Her scores were consistent with a Manager who Leads. The comments from her team and her boss were complimentary, receptive, and enthusiastic. And even the suggestions for improvement had an underlying tone of responsibility and partnership.
Mary discovered how to prevent the intention-to-impact confusion and close the expectation gaps. She strengthened the trust and connection with her team. She discovered a passion for leading that softened her insistence on managing (and often micromanaging).
Today Mary is more confident and connected with her team, she experiences joy and engagement as a leader, and she is back on the path to leadership advancement.
Why should you follow me into the Circle?
Because I've never met an insignificant person. I have, however, met people who don't realize their significance. But I do. And as a former Silicon Valley attorney who held the hands of hundreds of CEOs, I get the power of really good leaders and the impact of really bad ones. I've seen it. I've worked along side them. I've analyzed them. I'm ready to help you be one of the good ones.
Why the Circle of Excellence?
Because aspiring leaders need a Leadership Community.
We need a leadership community now more than ever. We need to stop trying to lead in a vacuum. We need to learn from each other. And we need to lean on each other.
The good news is that you don’t need to figure out managing vs. leading all by yourself. You don’t need to be on this journey alone. And in joining a community of greatly-intended peers (not like-minded... we need to learn from different-minded peers!), we up-level our experience and our results together!
Isaac Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Consider the Circle the shoulders of giants you've been waiting for!
How is the Circle of Excellence different?
Studies show that we put into practice only 5% of the theories that we learn. That sucks. What a waste of time, money, energy, and enthusiasm!
Good news! That number goes up to 90% when we include masterminds, feedback, demonstrations, and mentoring.
And so that's what we've done. And I promise you will learn theories. And I promise you will put them into practice. And I promise it will make a difference so you can make a difference.
Here's the journey that the Circle of Excellence Program will take...
Pre-360 Benchmark
You will start with a 360 assessment to identify any perceptions, strengths, blindspots, opportunities to develop.
Goal - your Ambition on a Mission
You will then create a Manager-who-Leads Goal - an objective, a commitment, a project, an obsession, your ambition on a mission that will intentionally drive from program start to finish.
Coaching & Mentoring
- Coaching: you and I meet as need for 1:1 to explore your goals and specific situations
- Mentoring: you meet monthly with your Learning Partner for peer mentoring
Group Circles for Leadership Training and HotSeats
You will come together with your group 2x/month for leadership training and hotseats. We cover a 6-month curriculum on the following essential topics: battle cry, trust, communication, delegation/accountability, feedback/development, recognition, gumption, and joy!
Weekly Success & Intentions Report
By submitting a Weekly Success & Intentions Report, I can recognize your accomplishments, identify resources, and create accountability and support throughout this journey.
Post-360 Benchmark
At the end of the program, you will do another 360 assessment to measure your progress and celebrate your improvements.
Final Showcase of Results and Recognition
You will complete the program with an opportunity to share your insights and accomplishments, and to acknowledge your results.
Testimonials
"If it wasn’t for this program, I would have quit being a Nurse Manager. I didn’t have any guidance at my job. But with my mentor’s guidance, we worked through problems like communications, techniques, and project management. Everything they didn’t teach me in nursing school, my mentor taught me. I am three years as a Nurse Manager now and I’m still growing. Very grateful for the program!”
Sandra Marquez, BSN, PHN, MICN
"The first time I heard Ann, she opened a new perspective for me: knowing what I do not know can be the biggest hindrance to becoming an excellent leader. I quickly signed up for the Circle of Excellence. I have grown leaps and bounds as a leader, applying the knowledge Ann imparted and the sharing of challenges and solutions from the group.
It has been an amazing journey. Ann's infectious personality and her ability to strike a unique balance of careful listening with sharing her wealth of experience and ideas. She is inspiring, insightful, and her coaching is exemplary!"
Rosemarie Brian
Assistant Controller
Pine Street Inn
"As the Director of Learning and Development for Fairfax County Government, I was looking for a leadership program that would fit my needs of leading self and leading teams. The Circle began pre-COVID and I immediately felt connected with the other leaders in the program.
After a few meetings, we were full force into the COVID situation, and Ann continued to mentor, guide, lead, and reassure us as leaders to stay the course. We met monthly and discussed many topics that were near and dear to our specific situations, including: resiliency, change, fear, feedback, and the battle cry!
This program and Ann led the charge to support our individual and collective needs! I highly recommend the Circle of Excellence to anyone in a leadership position, for small or large teams, and to anyone ready to be more self-aware.
I then put one of my reports into the next Circle and I saw such a change in her! She is so much more self-aware and has this sense of calm and collaboration I haven't seen before. And this is allowing me to be more effective in my own role. I actually like my job again!
Thank you, Ann, for all you do to prepare us to serve our teams! It was a life-changing program!
Robin Baker
Director, Learning and Development
Fairfax County Government
Our Circle of Excellence.
By joining the Circle, you will be connected to, learn from, and join a community of other managers committed to leading and making a difference. Each Circle includes Soar Coaching and Rise Peer-to-Peer Mentoring components
6-mo program | |
2x/mo group coaching calls | |
Monthly 1:1 calls with Ann | |
Learning Partner assignments | |
360 Assessment | |
Professional Development Plans | |
Leadership training | |
Goal development and execution | |
Access to platform with tools | |
Access to monthly webinars | |
Ann’s books | 2 Books |
Investment | Cell |
Cell |
This Program is for:
What You Will Learn
Is this program right for you?
Our Circle of Excellence is definitely not for everyone.
To learn more:
If you think our Circle of Excellence is for you, act now.
The Circle is limited to 15 people.
Visit this page: https://www.ourcircleofexcellence.com
and then register and complete a profile (this is your application) to let me know you’re interested. Then we’ll meet by phone or Zoom to see if the program is a good fit for you.
Hope springs eternal!
Ann
Are you new to managing and challenged with imposter syndrome?
Are you in a leadership transition and struggling to be a better boss?
Are you facing succession with trepidation?
Are you wondering where your job love went?
I get it!
Here's the problem:
The manager-to-leader journey is not easy. It can be a lonely adventure, and the pandemic has only compounded the isolation. Leadership can be a privilege, a pleasure, and a painful experience at the same time. When we get paid to deliver results, it's easy to lose sight of the opportunity we have to lead and make a difference.
Managing is not the same as leading - we need to excel at both to be effective, efficient, and successful.
But when you're under pressure from your boss, your peers, your deadlines, and a myriad of complicated circumstances, our default is to manage, micromanage, and overmanage, ultimately forgetting that people also crave leadership.
Leading people can be a game changer but only when we execute it with intentionality. It’s never accidental.
The solution:
The Circle of Excellence! A leadership journey with a community of your peers from a variety of organizations and industries. Through masterminding, mentoring, and leadership training, we explore what it means to manage and lead simultaneously. We discover how to be effective managers, meaningful mentors, and great bosses. In the end, we find the answers together. It's time to have fun again, in spite of and because of the titles we hold!
Is the Circle of Excellence for you?
If you are a new manager or team lead with manager aspirations, the Circle of Excellence is for you!
If you have a few years under your belt managing and leading and want to take your leadership to a new level, the Circle of Excellence is for you!
But let me be completely honest, this program and my time, energy, expertise, and passion are only for you if you are:
- committed to making a difference with your title
- excited about influencing and inspiring others
- willing to look at other people's perceptions of you
- eager to identify and address your blindspots
- prepared to take a chance and be uncomfortable
- open to new ideas and suggestions for managing and leading
- intentional about taking actions
- able to persist and be resilient in the face of circumstances
- ready to take your ambition on a mission
- prepared to mastermind and mentor
- determined to make a difference
Here's the potential for you:
Leadership is a skill that can be developed, improved, and honed! Each of us can evolve from individual contributor and micromanager to Manager who Leads. It's a (neuro)science and an art; it's a passion and and a privilege.
Imagine engaging with people on your team and purposefully choosing to manage their expectations while leading them to become bigger, better, bolder versions of themselves!
We just need to reverse-engineer how people operate, what contributes to or contaminates trust, how missed expectations occur, and what drives people to perform and thrive. From there, we create formulas to apply that allows us to build trust, communicate, influence, develop, delegate, establish accountability, and recognize.
What we need is a Leadership Community.
We just need to reverse-engineer how people operate, what contributes to or contaminates trust, how missed expctations occur, and what drives people to perform and thrive. From there, we create formulas to apply that allows us to build trust, communciate, influence, develop, delegate, establish accountability, and recognize.
A comeback story:
When Mary joined the Circle, she was struggling. She was losing the trust of her team; her communication was landing like criticism and accusation; her bosses were blaming her for their own shortcomings; and as a result, her self-esteem was teetering.
Her 360 assessment only confirmed this story. Her scores were wildly inconsistent, negative, and frustrating. She was losing at the game of leading, and she knew it.
Mary and I worked together in the Soar Coaching Program for 6 months. We focused on her communciation style that caused the intention-to-impact confusion; we worked on closing the constant expectation gaps; she experimented with new language for delegating and giving feedack; and she discovered how to manage and lead.
Mary's post-360 assessment evidenced Mary's growth and improvement - people noticed and appreciated her hard work. Her scores were consistent with a Manager who Leads. The comments from her team and her boss were complimentary, receptive, and enthusiastic. And even the suggestions for improvement had an underlying tone of responsibility and partnership.
Mary discovered how to prevent the intention-to-impact confusion and close the expectation gaps. She strengthened the trust and connection with her team. She discovered a passion for leading that softened her insistence on managing (and often micromanaging).
Today Mary is more confident and connected with her team, she experiences joy and engagement as a leader, and she is back on the path to leadership advancement.
Why should you follow me into the Circle?
Because I've never met an insignificant person. I have, however, met people who don't realize their significance. But I do. And as a former Silicon Valley attorney who held the hands of hundreds of CEOs, I get the power of really good leaders and the impact of really bad ones. I've seen it. I've worked along side them. I've analyzed them. I'm ready to help you be one of the good ones.
Why should you follow me into the Circle?
Because I've never met an insignificant person. I have, however, met people who don't realize their significance. But I do. And as a former Silicon Valley attorney who held the hands of hundreds of CEOs, I get the power of really good leaders and the impact of really bad ones. I've seen it. I've worked along side them. I've analyzed them. I'm ready to help you be one of the good ones.
Why the Circle of Excellence?
Because aspiring leaders need a Leadership Community.
We need a leadership community now more than ever. We need to stop trying to lead in a vacuum. We need to learn from each other. We need to lean on each other.
The good news is that you don’t need to figure out managing vs. leading all by yourself. You don’t need to be on this journey alone. And in joining a community of greatly-intended peers (not like-minded... we need to learn from different-minded peers!), we up-level our experience and our results together!
Isaac Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Consider the Circle the shoulders of giants you've been waiting for!
How is the Circle of Excellence different?
Studies show that we put into practice only 5% of the theories that we learn. That sucks. What a waste of time, money, energy, and enthusiasm.
Good news! That number goes up to 90% when we include feedback, demonstrations, masterminding, and mentoring.
And so that's what we've done. And I promise you will learn theories. And I promise you will put them into practice. And I promise it will make a difference so you can make a difference.
Here's the journey that the Circle of Excellence Mastermind and Mentoring Program takes...
Pre-360 Benchmark
You will start with a 360 assessment to identify any perceptions, strengths, blindspots, opportunities to develop.
Goal - your Ambition on a Mission
You will then create a Manager-who-Leads Goal - an objective, a commitment, a project, an obsession, your ambition on a mission that will intentionally drive from program start to finish.
Coaching/Mentoring
- Soar Coaching: you and I meet monthly 1:1 for personal leadership coaching
- Rise Peer Mentoring: you meet monthly with your Learning Partner for peer mentoring
Group Circles for Leadership Training and HotSeats
You will come together with your group 2x/month for leadership training and hotseats. We cover a 6-month curriculum on the following essential topics: battle cry, trust, communication, delegation/accountability, feedback/development, recognition
Weekly Success & Intentions Report
By submitting a Weekly Success & Intentions Report, I can recognize your accomplishments, identify resources, and create accountability and support throughout this journey.
Post 360 Benchmark
At the end of the program, you will do another 360 assessment to measure your progress and celebrate your improvements.
Final Showcase of Results and Recognition
You will complete the program with an opportunity to share your insights and accomplishments, and to acknowledge your results.
Testimonial
"As the Director of Learning and Development for Fairfax County Government, I was looking for a leadership program that would fit my needs of leading self and leading teams. The Circle began pre-COVID and I immediately felt connected with the other leaders in the program.
"After a few meetings, we were full force into the COVID situation, and Ann continued to mentor, guide, lead, and reassure us as leaders to stay the course. We met monthly and discussed many topics that were near and dear to our specific situations, including: resiliency, change, fear, feedback, and the battle cry!
"This program and Ann led the charge to support our individual and collective needs! I highly recommend the Circle of Excellence to anyone in a leadership position, for small or large teams, and to anyone ready to be more self-aware.
"Thank you, Ann, for all you do to prepare us to serve our teams! It was a life-changing program!"
Robin Baker,
Director, Learning and Development
Fairfax County Government
The Solution: Our Circle of Excellence.
By joining the Circle, you will be connected to and learn from and with a community of other managers committed to leading and making a difference.
Our Circle encompasses leadership development, mentoring relationships, and coaching calls. You will be connected to people outside of your organization benefiting from other people’s perspectives and approaches.
6-mo program | |
2x/mo group coaching calls | |
Monthly 1:1 coaching calls with Ann | |
Mentoring partner assignments | |
360 Assessment | |
Professional Development Plans | |
Leadership training | |
Goal development and execution | |
Access to platform with tools | |
Access to monthly webinars | |
Ann’s books | 2 Books |
Investment | Cell |
This Program is for:
What You Will Learn
Is this program right for you?
Our Circle of Excellence is definitely not for everyone.
To learn more:
If you think our Circle of Excellence is for you, act now.
Each Circle is limited to 15 people
Visit this page: https://www.ourcircleofexcellence.com
and then complete a registration and a profile (your application) to let me know if you’re interested. Then we’ll meet by phone or Zoom to see if the program is a good fit for you.
I hope I get the chance to work with you!
Hope springs eternal!
Ann
Want your Leadership to be more Effective and Meaningful?
Are you new to your role
and challenged with imposter syndrome?
Are you in a leadership transition and struggling with being a better boss?
Are you facing succession with trepidation?
Are you wondering where your job love went?
I get it!
Here's the problem:
The manager-to-leader journey is not easy. It can be a lonely adventure, and the pandemic has only compounded the isolation. Leadership can be a privilege, a pleasure, and a painful experience at the same time. When we get paid to deliver results, it's easy to lose sight of the opportunity we have to lead and make a difference.
Managing is not the same as leading - we need both to be effective, efficient, and successful.
But when you're under pressure from your boss, your peers, your deadlines, and a myriad of complicated circumstances, our default is to manage, mircomanag, and overmanage, ultimately forgetting that people also crave leadershp.
Leading people can be a game changer but only when we execute it with intentionality. It’s never accidental.
The solution:
The Circle of Excellence! A leadership journey with a community of your peers from a variety of organizations and industries. Through coaching, mentoring, and leadership development, we explore what it means to manage and lead simultaneously. We discover how to be effective managers, meaningful mentors, and great bosses. In the end, we find the answers to having fun again in spite of and because of the title we hold!
The Circle of Excellence as 2 programs from which to choose:
- The Soar Coaching Program
- The Rise Peer Mentoring Program
Is the Circle of Excellence for you?
If you are a new manager or team lead with manager aspirations, the Rise Program is for you!
If you have a few years under your belt managing and leading and want to take your leadership to a new level, the Soar Program is for you!
But let me be completely honest, these programs and my time, energy, expertise, and passion are only for you if you are:
- committed to making a difference with your title
- excited about influencing and inspiring others
- willing to look at other people's perceptions of you
- eager to identify and address your blindspots
- prepared to take a chance and be uncomfortable
- open to new ideas and suggestions for managing and leading
- intentional about taking actions
- able to persist and be resilient in the face of circumstances
- ready to take your ambition on a mission
Here's the potential for you:
Leadership is a skill that can be developed, improved, and honed! Each of us can evolve from individual contributor and micromanager to Manager who Leads. It's a (neuro)science and an art; it's a passion and and a privilege.
Imagine engaging with people on your team and purposefully choosing to manage their expectations while leading them to become bigger, better, bolder versions of themselves!
We just need to reverse-engineer how people operate, what contributes to or contaminates trust, how missed expctations occur, and what drives people to perform and thrive. From there, we create formulas to apply that allows us to build trust, communciate, influence, develop, delegate, establish accountability, and recognize.
A comeback story:
When Mary joined the Circle, she was struggling. She was losing the trust of her team; her communication was landing like criticism and accusation; her bosses were blaming her for their own shortcomings; and as a result, her self-esteem was teetering.
Her 360 assessment only confirmed this story. Her scores were wildly inconsistent, negative, and frustrating. She was losing at the game of leading, and she knew it.
Mary and I worked together in the Soar Coaching Program for 6 months. We focused on her communciation style that caused the intention-to-impact confusion; we worked on closing the constant expectation gaps; she experimented with new language for delegating and giving feedack; and she discovered how to manage and lead.
Mary's post-360 assessment evidenced Mary's growth and improvement - people noticed and appreciated her hard work. Her scores were consistent with a Manager who Leads. The comments from her team and her boss were complimentary, receptive, and enthusiastic. And even the suggestions for improvement had an underlying tone of responsibility and partnership.
Mary discovered how to prevent the intention-to-impact confusion and close the expectation gaps. She strengthened the trust and connection with her team. She discovered a passion for leading that softened her insistence on managing (and often micromanaging).
Today Mary is more confident and connected with her team, she experiences joy and engagement as a leader, and she is back on the path to leadership advancement.
Why should you follow me into the Circle?
Because I've never met an insignificant person. I've met people who don't realize their significance. But I do. And as a former Silicon Valley attorney who held the hands of hundreds of CEOs, I get the power of really good leaders and the impact of really bad ones. I've seen it. I've worked along side them. I've analyzed them. I'm ready to help you be one of the good ones.
Why the Circle of Excellence?
Because aspiring leaders need a Leadership Community.
We need a leadership community now more than ever. We need to stop trying to lead in a vacuum. We need to learn from each other. We need to lean on each other.
The good news is that you don’t need to figure out managing vs. leading all by yourself. You don’t need to be on this journey alone. And in joining a community of greatly-intended peers (not like-minded... we need to learn from different-minded peers!), we up-level our experience and our results together!
Isaac Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Consider the Circle the shoulders of giants you've been waiting for!
How is the Circle of Excellence different?
Studies show that we put into practice only 5% of the theories that we learn. That sucks. What a waste of time, money, energy, and enthusiasm.
Good news! That number goes up to 90% when we include feedback, demonstrations, and mentoring.
And so that's what we've done. And I promise you will learn theories. And I promise you will put them into practice. And I promise it will make a difference so you can make a difference.
2 Circle of Excellence programs to choose from:
- The Soar Coaching Program
- The Rise Peer Mentoring Program
Here's the journey that each program takes...
Pre-360 Benchmark
You will start with a 360 assessment to identify any perceptions, strengths, blindspots, opportunities to develop.
Goal - your Ambition on a Mission
You will then create a Manager-who-Leads Goal - an objective, a commitment, a project, an obsession, your ambition on a mission that will intentionally drive from program start to finish.
Coaching/Mentoring
- Soar Coaching: you and I meet monthly 1:1 for personal leadership coaching
- Rise Peer Mentoring: you meet monthly with your peer mentor for leadership mentoring
Group Circles for Leadership Training and HotSeats
You will come together with your group 2x/month for leadership training and hotseats. We cover a 6-month curriculum on the following essential topics: battle cry, trust, communication, delegation/accountability, feedback/development, recognition
Weekly Success & Intentions Report
By submitting a Weekly Success & Intentions Report, I can recognize your accomplishments, identify resources, and create accountability and support throughout this journey.
Post 360 Benchmark
At the end of the program, you will do another 360 assessment to measure your progress and celebrate your improvements.
Final Showcase of Results and Recognition
You will complete the program with an opportunity to share your insights and accomplishments, and to acknowledge your results.
Testimonial
"As the Director of Learning and Development for Fairfax County Government, I was looking for a leadership program that would fit my needs of leading self and leading teams. The Circle began pre-COVID and I immediately felt connected with the other leaders in the program.
"After a few meetings, we were full force into the COVID situation, and Ann continued to mentor, guide, lead, and reassure us as leaders to stay the course. We met monthly and discussed many topics that were near and dear to our specific situations, including: resiliency, change, fear, feedback, and the battle cry!
"This program and Ann led the charge to support our individual and collective needs! I highly recommend the Circle of Excellence to anyone who is in a leadership position, for small or large teams, and to anyone who is ready to be more self-aware.
"Thank you Ann for all you do to prepare us to serve our teams! It was a life-changing program!"
Robin Baker,
Director, Learning and Development
Fairfax County Government
The Solution: Our Circle of Excellence.
By joining the Circle, you will be connected to and learn from and with a community of other managers committed to leading and making a difference.
Our Circle encompasses leadership development, mentoring relationships, and coaching calls. You will be connected to people outside of your organization benefiting from other people’s perspectives and approaches.
6-mo program (April-Nov)
2x/mo group coaching calls
Monthly 1:1 coaching calls with Ann
Learning Partner Assignments
360 Assessment
Professional Development Plans
Leadership training
Goal development and execution
Access to platform with tools
Access to monthly webinars
Ann’s books | 2 Books
This Program is for:
What You Will Learn
Is this program right for you?
Our Circle of Excellence is definitely not for everyone.
To learn more:
If you think our Circle of Excellence is for you, act now.
The Soar Coaching Program is limited to 10 people.
The Rise Peer Mentoring Program is limited to 50 people.
This is our only program in 2020.
Visit this page: https://www.ourcircleofexcellence.com
and then complete a registration
and a profile (your application) to let me know if you’re interested. Then we’ll meet by phone or Zoom to see
if the program is a good fit for you.
I hope I get the chance to work with you. This is the final program I’ll be offering
in 2020.
Cheers, Ann
P.S. Don't miss the boat! Once this program starts there won't be another like it until the spring of 2021.
Can you wait that long to kick your leadership (and your life!) into action?
[Flash] Mr. Rogers Would Love Pork Belly Ventures
| Annually since 1973, cyclists have been pedaling across Iowa in a week-long bicycle-touring event called RAGBRAI.
And annually for over 20 years, Pork Belly Ventures (PBV) has been supporting thousands of RAGBRAI cyclists by offering charter services: luggage transfer, tent setup, food, entertainment, showers, bathrooms, and beds (for those who don’t want the camping experience). Until now. The 48th RAGBRAI has officially been cancelled for 2020. PBV founders Tammy and Pete will undoubtedly struggle – RAGBRAI is their predominant source of income. And while they are reinventing their business, they’ve found some innovative and generous ways to help… Not only have they offered instant and full refunds to anyone who has already registered… they also donated their trailers to three hospitals. Why? Because they learned that medical workers are putting in long hours, sometimes unable, or unwilling to go home between shifts. They are desperate for rest. Last week Tammy and Pete stationed PBV hotel trailers, shower trailers, and bathrooms outside of Mercy Hospital and Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa and Omaha Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. And their agreement with the hospitals? No cost and no time limit. Mr. Rogers would be heartened! Fred Rogers, host of the children’s television series Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood once shared: “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ To this day I am always comforted by realizing that there are so many caring people in this world.” How can you be a helper?
We all have something to offer and some way to help… we just need to shift our focus from our circumstances to our contributions. |
[Flash] Crisis Exposes Character (and Tests It and Strengthens it…)
Albert Einstein said, “Adversity introduces a man to himself.”
According to David Brooks, author of The Road to Character, we build our character through our actions.
And in crisis, that character is exposed and tested…
Fortunately, as Brooks’ book title indicates, it’s a road to character – a journey, not a goal or a destination. Brooks explains that people of character use every experience (even adversity) as tools for transformation. So while crisis exposes and tests our character, we can also use it to strengthen our character. And every day we get another opportunity to do just that – to serve without expectations, to be honest, courageous, humble, and grateful. When everything around us feels unpredictable and uncertain, our character is the one thing we can completely control. |
[Flash] It Doesn’t Get Easier. We Get Stronger.
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[Flash] Hope Springs Eternal! (a Plea for Optimistic Leadership During this Crisis)
| “Hope springs eternal” describes an endless renewal of hopefulness – our human tendency to find fresh reasons for optimism.
As leaders and mentors, we bear the power, the platform, and arguably the promise to ignite optimism – to be the beacon of hope, particularly when people are desperate for it. Like now. How? 1. Provide Perspective. 2. Connect Constantly and Creatively. 3. Create Future-Focused Conversations. 4. Practice Resilience. 5. Circulate Inspiration. 6. Leverage the Shared Experience. 7. Be of Service. We cannot be stuck and in action at the same time. When hope springs eternal, people spring into action! |
[Flash] How to Avoid Criticism
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[Flash] Unbelievably Fantastic! Don’t Fake Positivity…
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