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"Everything rises and falls on LEADERSHIP."
The Maxwell Method of Leadership
Leadership skills for corporate teams, small groups, career professionals & individuals
Whether you are responsible for developing your district, others, or yourself, the more effective you are as a leader, the farther you will go. Our leadership develop training is based on John Maxwell’s proven leadership practices and lessons – the same skills, principles and values that John has used to train and develop leaders of nations as well as Fortune 500 corporate entities for nearly fifty years. I am happy to provide you and/or your team with the following leadership development programs.
“Plus, I can provide you with on-going services and support that are personalized to meet the needs of you and your team, district, or school. Through sustainable Leadership Development, you will be able to apply the learning and exponentially increase your impact and influence. Remember…”Leadership is influence – nothing more, nothing less.”
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Lunch & Learn
The Lunch & Learn is an opportunity to come around the table with a group of leaders and potential leaders to study leadership and growth principles. The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Lunch & Learn will focus on three of the twenty-one leadership lessons from the corresponding book:
When you participate in this group learning experience, you will watch and listen to John Maxwell teach on the three laws, as Mark Cole, CEO of the John Maxwell Company, gives practical application lessons from each law. I will then facilitate a group discussion and you will be able to share your key takeaways from these lessons. This promises to be the most insightful, productive and engaging lunch break you have ever had!
Lunch & Learn sessions typically run 45 minutes-one hour. You may book a private session for you and your team, or you may contact me to inquire about joining one of my open sessions.
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Mastermind
Leaders embrace change as the key to growth. The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership is your handbook for growing and developing yourself and others. Through this study, you will learn to apply practical leadership lessons based on John Maxwell’s nearly 50 years of leadership experience. We will cover timeless laws of leadership such as:
Learn what it really means to be a leader. The true measure of leadership is influence. Through this mastermind experience, you will learn how to improve your influence with others and lead them with confidence. You will also understand how to use your influence with others to help them accomplish their goals which in turn will help you achieve yours.
Upon completion of this training, participants will receive a certificate.
Living the Laws 2-day Workshop
Take your leadership to the next level. Knowing the 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership is great practice for any leader. Yet, getting a deeper understanding of the laws and learning to apply them daily is for next-level leaders.
Based on John C. Maxwell’s book, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, this two-day workshop experience will provide you with the practical tools you need to address the leadership challenges you encounter daily within your profession. Experience each of The 21 Laws of Leadership from several vantage points through relevant case studies, fun activities, fierce competition, and ongoing development of a personal plan of action.
During this interactive workshop, you will:
Upon completion of this training, participants will receive a certificate.
Additional Leadership Development Workshops, Small Group Studies and Seminars for…
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership is the result of lessons and observations from John Maxwell’s nearly 50 years of leadership experience. In this revealing study of leadership, Maxwell explores the time-tested laws that govern personal and organizational effectiveness.
Available as a Lunch & Learn, Mastermind, Keynote or Two-Day Workshop.
To reach your potential you must grow. And to grow, you must be highly intentional about it. These 15 Laws are your guide to understanding personal growth and becoming a more effective and fulfilled individual. If you have the desire to grow and become better than you are today, this is for you.
Available as a Lunch & Learn, Mastermind or Keynote.
Inside Everyone Communicates, Few Connect are five principles and five practices to connect one-on-one, in a group, or with an audience. You’ll see all of your relationships, from your boss to your kids, from your teammates to your neighbors, take a quantum leap.
Available as a Lunch & Learn, Mastermind or Keynote.
It’s not enough for a leader to have vision, energy, drive, and conviction. If you want to see your dream come to fruition, your business grow, or the performance of your team improve, you must learn how to Develop the Leaders Around You.
Available as a Lunch & Learn, Mastermind or Keynote.
In Good Leaders Ask Great Questions, you will learn to become a successful leader by asking the right questions. We will explore questions you should ask yourself as well as members of your team with the goal of connecting with people, challenging yourself and those you lead, and developing better ideas.
Available as a Lunch & Learn, Mastermind or Keynote.
Today Matters shows you how to seize the day. This hands-on and inspiring guide offers twelve daily practices to help you take control of your daily agenda, make time for people you love, and find success in your career or business – every day.
Available as a Lunch & Learn, Mastermind or Keynote.
Leadership Gold brims with nuggets of wisdom from John Maxwell’s 30+ years of studying, practicing, and teaching leadership. As we explore these lessons, you’ll encounter John’s passionate belief in the value of leadership, and you’ll benefit from his unique talent for articulating principles of influence.
Available as a Lunch & Learn, Mastermind or Keynote.
In How to be a REAL Success, John Maxwell will help you understand the keys you need to succeed in life. Whether you are a civil servant or a corporate executive, you will achieve great things by understanding four very important success building areas: Relationships, Equipping, Attitude, and Leadership.
Available as a Lunch & Learn, Mastermind or Keynote.
With influence, you can achieve success at home, at work, and in every other area of life. Through humor, heart, and unique insight, John Maxwell shares what he has gleaned from decades of experience in both business and nonprofit arenas. Best of all, its insights are practical and easy to apply to everyday life.
Available as a Lunch & Learn, Mastermind or Keynote.
Are you willing to Put Your Dream to the Test? Your dream has power. It can inspire you. It can empower you. But will it reward you? In this course to reaching your dreams, John Maxwell shows you how to do the things needed to realize your potential, map out your goals, and make your dream come true.
Available as a Lunch & Learn, Mastermind or Keynote.
Every negative event or loss that occurs can become a great opportunity for you to grow. That is, if you are willing to learn from it. In Sometimes You Win Sometimes You Learn, you will develop a healthy perspective of failure and learn how to bounce back from life’s disappointments.
Available as a Lunch & Learn, Mastermind or Keynote.
Deep down, what does every person want most? To live a life that matters. We all want to make a difference. How do we achieve that? By choosing to live each day so that we intentionally add value to others. Through Intentional Living, you will learn how to write your own life’s story – one of significance.
Available as a Lunch & Learn, Mastermind or Keynote.
Leadership for Youth & Teens
Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Learn for Teens: Maxwell’s lessons on learning from failure extends to all generations. Available as a group study or seminar, this resource is designed to give youth a healthy perspective of failure and empower them to learn from their experiences.
YouthMax and YouthMax Plus: We are equipping tomorrow’s leaders, today. Using relevant lessons from life experience, we empower and inspire young people to be the best they can be.
Available as a seminar, assembly, youth group study or presentation.
The John Maxwell Team Leadership Game for Teens: The Leadership Game is a great way to bring teenagers around the table to discover their potential for leadership as well as their ability to have trust and accountability with others. Everyone has the potential to be a great leader. This game will help youth tap into their desire and potential to lead. The Leadership Game is designed to be played with 6-12 youth.
Contact me for further information on Leadership Skills & Development
Does your entire leadership team know, understand, and support the district vision? Are you united with all arrows going in the same direction? JFord Equips provides support with proven methods for equipping and empowering educational leaders in their efforts to build leadership capacity that embraces positive change. Leaders will gain the skills and strategies they need for leadership growth to create system-wide improvement. Let your students be the ultimate winners!
Support includes regularly scheduled on-site training, coaching, and support for school leaders, leadership teams, staff, and/or students. Plus…unlimited support through email, text messages, and phone calls.
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The Maxwell Method of Coaching
Coaching skills for executives, managers, team leaders & entrepreneurs
"Good leadership isn’t about advancing yourself. It is about advancing your team."
Coaching is the art of influence that underpins leadership in the 21st century. If you cannot coach, you cannot lead. As you are working with people on your team, you will find that every one of them is different. As their leader, your ability to coach will help bring each person’s individual skills, personalities and styles together so that you are all working as one unit. Learning to coach individuals to success is essential for every leader. The more successful the individual, the more successful the team and the organization.
Using the Maxwell Method of Coaching, a proven model for effectively coaching others to improve their results, I can facilitate the following programs for you and/or your team.
Coaching for Transformational Leadership [Keynote Presentation]
The quality of your leadership is determined by the quality of relationships you have with those you lead. During this presentation, I will lead you to and through an entirely different level of understanding of how to positively influence the people you lead to not only go way beyond their existing performance levels, but to go way beyond what they thought they were capable of.
Regardless of whether your title is a manager or a leader, or you run your own business, you are in the business of growing, developing and improving people. That makes you a leader more than a manager, and we will discuss why this matters today more than ever.
Coaching for Leaders Skills Transition [Six-Week Coach Training Program]
Coaching is fundamental to your success as a leader, employer, director or manager. This program will help you tap into your natural coaching abilities so you can help others live and work to their full potential. This interactive six-week program covers:
360-Degree Coaching Experience
Through observational learning and practical application, you will experience coaching from the perspective of every participant in the coaching conversation.
Learn the Proven Coaching Model that Works
Coaching is not telling or teaching. You will discover how to use a proven coaching model to help your clients, staff or team create their own results.
Interactive Sessions and Live Participation
To help you get the most from the workshop, two sessions are set aside so participants can take turns being the coach, the client and the observer.
Upon completion of this training, participants will receive a certificate.
Coaching for Managers, Leaders & Business Owners [Half-Day Coach Training Workshop]
Lead Others to Success Through Coaching. Discover powerful skills to dramatically improve your ability to influence those you lead to greater results in their business and personal lives. This workshop will equip you with both the knowledge and the skills to:
Upon completion of this training, participants will receive a certificate.
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The Maxwell Method of Masterminds
Learn and grow through the power of connecting with like-minded leaders and achievers
There is synergy of energy, commitment and excitement that participants bring to a mastermind group. My facilitated groups offer a combination of masterminding, peer brainstorming, education, accountability and support in a group setting to sharpen your business and personal skills. By bringing fresh ideas and a different perspective, my masterminds can help you achieve success.
Key Benefits of a Mastermind Group:
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“Our Maxwell DISC Personality Indicator Report raises the awareness of individuals by helping them understand:
The John Maxwell Team Leadership Game is a comprehensive game based on the teachings of John C. Maxwell. The game helps organizations improve their leadership intelligence and increase their effectiveness. Why? “Because everything rises and falls on leadership,” says Maxwell. These leadership principles carry consequences with them. Apply the laws in your organization and people will follow you. Violate and ignore them, and you will not be able to lead others. But there’s news: every one of the laws can be learned.” How? Play the game with 6-12 of your most influential leaders and find out! The game is also available for Teenagers, ages 12-19.
DISC – D Personality
DISC – I Personality
DISC – S Personality
DISC – C Personality
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Reduce your office referrals; increase your scores
The success of Time To Teach has been published in Leadership magazine. Read Order in the Classroom, a published article written by Kelly Graham, National Director at the Center for Teacher Effectiveness and Elsbeth Prigmore, high school principal. Time To Teach is a consistent classroom management system that saves instructional time and improves school climate.
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“During my first two years as principal of Clark Street Elementary School, we experienced over 300 office referrals and over 150 out-of-school suspensions! This year we implemented Rick’s strategies and so far we have only had two office referrals in six weeks!”
John Hargrove, Principal, Clark Street Elementary, North Carolina
“Lawton Public Schools is a lower socioeconomic school district in Oklahoma that services 17,000 Pre-K through 12th grade students, over half of which are minority. Twenty-nine of our thirty-five schools were trained using the Time To Teach strategies, affecting more than 11,000 children. Following training, we experienced a 16% decrease in suspensions and office referrals and a dramatic decrease in pupil enrollment for Behavior Intervention and Behavior Disorder classes. We have also seen a 9% increase in test scores and none of our schools are on the school improvement list for No Child Left Behind.”
Billy Davis, Executive Director Elementary Education, Lawton Public Schools, Oklahoma
“We have used the Time To Teach strategies for eighteen years! These strategies allowed me to get into the classrooms and help teachers instead of having to deal with a line of students awaiting discipline intervention. Time To Teach truly delivers on its promise to gain back valuable teaching time that is so often lost to matters of discipline.”
Lynette Hedden, Retired Principal, Richland, Washington
“The number of student referrals in our middle school has dropped 30% on average, every year over the past three years. It is because of Time to Teach that I can say with pride, “Every day I teach!”
Keith Johnson, Teacher/Technology Director, Reading Community Schools, Michigan
“I have seen some of my students move up from Special Education and Title Programs to achieve at grade level performance. My referrals have been eliminated. Students that were never able to do so before are now meeting benchmark standards and making dramatic gains in reading and writing fluency. After 19 years as an educator, I finally have Time To Teach with care and compassion.”
Libba Sager, Elementary Teacher, Toledo Elementary, Oregon
“I have seen a 15 point gain in math and science scores on the state standardized test, which helped our school meet its AYP/API, and I have not sent a single student to the office all year. Time To Teach has helped me successfully teach second language learners, children with ADD, ADHD, Tourettes, learning disabilities, disenfranchised youth, and impoverished students.”
James Turner, Middle School Teacher, Lompoc, California
“At Lompoc Valley Middle School, the referral numbers for class disruption were reduced by 62% using Time to Teach strategies, and Lompoc High School’s referral numbers were lower than those of the rival high school for the first time ever.”
Carrie Chase, High School Counselor, Lahainaluna High School, Hawaii
“Pioneer Continuation High School has our district’s highest number of at-risk 11th and 12th grade students. Using the Time to Teach blueprint, we saw school suspensions drop from 39% to 18% over a three-year period, in-house suspensions cut in half, and significant increases in passing rates on the California High School Exit Exam and other student achievement measures. Overall, the school has experienced a positive, systemic cultural change.”
Elsbeth Prigmore, Principal, Pioneer Continuation High School, California
