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- Leadership, Customer Service and Sales Training, Team Building, Executive Retreats,
Creativity Safaris, Annual Conventions, Personal and Relationship Coaching
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In this edition:
- Avatar: Lessons in Life and Leadership
Happier & Does it Matter?
- Why Is Creativity Needed in Today's Business Organizations?
- Art & Soul Learning Safaris & Retreats for Mind, Body & Spirit
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Avatar Lessons in Life and Leadership "Power of the Pause" and "Ethical Choices":
 "Lessons In Leadership and Life are demonstrated in Avatar"
In my Audio Book "Go Wild! Survival Skills for Business and Life", I talk about a "running animal being a vulnerable animal" and using the survival skill of awareness before action in both business and life. We all know what happens in those B horror movies where the character (usually a woman) is running through the woods and being chased: She trips, she falls, she dies. We also know what happens to a hot shot business manager, who anxious to prove his or her worthiness, acts before understanding the customer and employee environment. They fail miserably and are attacked by the indigenous clients, employees and their own ignorance. They are alas managers, not leaders.
As the blockbuster film Avatar demonstrated, wisdom, right actions and indeed true heroic leadership comes first through The Patient Power of the Pause to listen before acting and then understanding through both head and heart connection.
We certainly saw the "Power of the Pause" being violated in an early scene when our Young Avatar Hero spends his first night in "foreign territory on the blue planet." Fortunately a gentle but brave female warrior saves him from himself and becomes his mirror to the world and indeed his guide to true heroism.
Leadership & Ethical choices....doing the right thing despite the consequences
When I think of ethical leadership and indeed creating new solutions and innovations, I think of the need for today's leaders, innovators and government representatives to have the courage to face the personal and financial consequences of "right actions". Such courage sometimes means disappointing shareholders on profit statements and going against popular views. Sometimes it means going against your own political party to follow your conscience. Sometimes there are deep personal consequences. In Avatar we see the corporation struggle between "bad press of indigenous casualties" verses "booming profits of precious minerals". Perhaps the Executives at Toyota would write a different script for themselves now and perhaps other corporate leaders in other industries and all of those parties involved in the U.S. Health care discussion will "listen, really listen" to the voice of their ancestors and "Do the right thing despite the consequences".
Quotes from Avatar:
"All energy is borrowed; at some point you have to return it."
"I may just be talking to a tree, but if you can hear me I need to give you a heads up."
 Why is Creativity Needed in Today's Business Organizations?
As I prepare to speak at the American Creativity Association International Conference in Philadelphia this month, www.amcreativityassoc.org/2010Conf-overview.html, I thought about a question I am often asked by CEO's facing tough financial times. "Why do we need creativity with all of the other pressing demands on resources?" The because is: the very sustainability of your organization depends on including creativity in your culture.
Allan Cox, Author of "Your Inner CEO: Unleash the Executive Within" notes that all organizations, whether entrepreneurial start-ups or Fortune 500 Giants, ride a life cycle that looks something like this:
Phase 1: Birth and Creativity: As the company struggles for survival, it is characterized by tremendous camaraderie and develops under charismatic leaders.
Phase 2: Power and Growth: As systems and procedures replace informality and randomness, administrators replace entrepreneurs and conformity replaces spontaneity.
Phase 3: Obsolescence and Decay: As a company becomes less adept at responding to evolutionary change in the marketplace, corporate leaders are suspect for their motives, criticized for laxity in responding to opportunity and search for cosmetic ways to repair their faltering organizations.
Phase 4: Rebirth or Death: As matters worsen, a company either adapts to change or dies.
What "phase of life" is your company in and have you invested in making Creative Problem Solving a "Core Competency" and an integral part of your organization's culture?
Schedule your Go Wild! Go GREAT! Now to WOW! Creative Problem Solving Team Safari and/or meet me at one of the International Creativity Conferences I will be presenting at in 2010. In addition to ACA Philadelphia, I will be presenting at the Atlanta Creativity Exchange in Atlanta, May 6th – 8th , www.atlantacreativity.org, and SA Creativity in South Africa, October 5th – 8th , www.sacreativity.com.
Visit www.gowildgogreat.com or write rosemary@gowildgogreat.com
Art & Soul: Retreats for Mind, Body and Spirit in Tropical Costa Rica
Since moving to Costa Rica 12 years ago, I have blended my training and consulting practice between corporate training and development workshops in the U.S. with our corporate retreats and personal coaching safaris hosted in the "Happiest Place on the Planet". Our business has grown tremendously thanks to our valued clients who trust us to deliver exceptional results oriented training in Leadership, Customer Service, Sales, Creative Problem Solving and Team Development. We look forward to working with you at your location in 2010 and beyond.
Note: We have a new Home and Reteat House in Costa Rica: The Art and Soul Retreat House has a view of both Costa Rica's Pacific Coast and Carara National Park—home of the breathtaking Scarlet Macaws. We look forward to hosting your first or return visit to Paradise where the "Nature of Inspiration" abounds.
New Telephone/Contact Numbers for Go Wild! Go GREAT! Now to WOW! Training and Retreats Costa Rica:
U.S. Cellular 1-239-910-3354
My/Cellular Here: 011-506-8-393-6794
Direct Line: 239-645-4267
Our Mission at Now to WOW Learning Adventures: The design and delivery of world-class training and coaching that touches the hearts, minds, and souls of the organization and human condition. We do this through Workshops, Training, Retreats and On-Site Business Consultations in Creativity, Leadership, Customer Service and Team Building and Certified Professional and Relationship Coaching using NBI Whole Brain Science and Assessments.
For Go Wild! Go GREAT! Costa Rica Now to WOW! Relationship Travel or on-line coaching contact Rosemary at rosemary@gowildgogreat.com or visit www.gowildgogreat.com
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