Order the book – COURAGE TO CHAMPION: How Innovation Champions Make Courage Contagious to PowerUP Adoption
by Merom Klein + Louise Yochee Klein
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Or – check out Make Courage Contagious and our other Courage Institute thought leader Publications on Courage, Innovation Leadership, Inventive Entrepreneurial Thinking, Matrix Orchestration, Traction and Strategy-Execution
White paper: Before you Invest, See if Leaders have the EnQ to Make Great Things Happen. Because Great innovations Don’t PowerUP Success. Great Leaders Do.
When it comes to betting on leaders, all too often we have a knowing-doing gap. Research tells us what great leaders do to multiply, not diminish, wealth. We nod as we read the studies. Yet, when we fund ventures or select key leaders for transformational roles, we let gut feelings and biases guide our decisions – and then are surprised when the leaders we choose deliver small incremental growth instead of the breakout growth we expect. Read how a simple 20-minute online assessment can get you asking the right questions. And how you can build a personalised Leadership Development Plan to equip the leaders you fund and empower to succeed, The white paper describes the 5 key leadership strengths assessed in the EnQ – and the detailers that keep ventures stuck in risk-averse traps.
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White paper: Make Courage Contagious: Break the Grip of Risk-Averse Traps to Profit through Turbulence
Most Fortune 1500 CEOs report a huge gap between high-potential talent and highly-innovative talent. The gap isn’t because of a lack of smarts, principles or creativity. It’s because too many high-potentials lack Courage and become a victim of 12 defensive thinking traps, lowering their imagination, initiative, optimism and “go-to” accountability. A high EnCourage Quotient (EnQ) lifts high-potential leaders from Level 1 complaining or a Level 2 “wait-and-see” bystander role — to Level 4 inventive thinking and Level 5 culture-shaping. This booklet is a summary of our recent book, Make Courage Contagious: How Great Business Leaders PowerUP Brilliance to Profit Through Turbulence.
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Program description: Courage Leadership Development Journey
Equip high-potential leaders to drive growth + accelerate transformation. Build courage to find the best solutions, create big opportunities, optimize rather than compromise, get funded + get traction. Seize the moment to lift teams out of risk-averse traps, not inhibited by silo thinking, fear or defensiveness. Make diversity a renewable asset. Prepare for bigger broader pivotal roles. PowerUP vitality, urgency, accountability, initiative. Blended learning includes online Courage Quests, assessments + Individual Development Plans (IDPs), action learning, hands-on simulations, 1:1 coaching, Zoom + live workshops. A once-in-a-career breakthrough development journey for high-potential leaders and executives that delivers >300% ROI. Click to download >>
Program description: Towers Templars Khanim – Drive-Big-Growth Leadership Simulation
Fun fast-paced hands-on simulation – delivered live or by Zoom. With the clock running, changing conditions and limited resources, find the biggest opportunities – and mobilize a dispersed cross-functional team to seize big opportunities before time runs out. Serious fun that equips key leaders to break the grip of risk-averse traps – at defining moments – to think strategically under pressure and profit from turbulence. Click to download >>
Service description: Pitch Coaching to get funded and get traction
Have a high-stakes presentation on the horizon with an investor, management board or key customer or alliance partner? Here’s how we can make sure you deliver a clear value proposition – with the presence and inventive thinking to win support and make the most of the audience’s wisdom and perspective .
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Service description: Executive coaching to build presence and coherence to get funded, get traction, get ahead
In <3 weeks, you can give a high-potential leader the 360-assessment and feedback that will sharpen self-knowledge — so a Level 3-4 leader with Courage learns to become a Level 5 leader who Builds Courage. In 16 weeks, you can monetize your investment in that leader’s potential — with collaboration tools, accountabilities, and courageous conversations that bridge diverse perspectives, boost creativity and enlist better and more productive collaborations.
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Service description: Encourage Quotient (EnQ) Drive-Growth Leadership Assessment
Great leaders create the magic that equips you to drive growth with great products and value propositions. A pre-hire or pre-investment assessment tells you whether key leaders have the right leadership instincts to mobilize champions and drive adoption. A companion 360-feedback version tells you whether key leaders can put that awareness to work – and deliver impact that drives growth in new bigger broader adoption-accelerating roles. Click to download >>
The book – Make Courage Contagious: How Great Business Leaders PowerUP Brilliance to Profit Through Turbulence by Merom Klein + Louise Yochee Klein
A practical guidebook to face Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity + Adversity with courage, not fear and risk-averse compromises. With a higher EnQ, you’ll step up, open up and lift up diverse contributors, rather than shut them down or push them aside, so you profit from turbulence rather than being paralyzed or defeated. Order @ Amazon >>
The book – PowerUP Brilliance: Lead from the Middle with Courage by Merom Klein + Louise Yochee Klein
A practical guidebook for cross-functional innovation team leaders and inventive domain experts — how to PowerUP Brilliance when you lead from the middle and mobilize teams in matrix structures and cross-functional innovation initiatives. How to use the PowerUP 5 Formula to overcome fear and complacency when you face adversity, ambiguity or the bias against creativity. How to ennoble teams to look beyond what’s obvious or easy to sell to what’s ethical and scientifically sound and mobilize a matrix of support. Order @ Amazon >>
The book – Courage to Act by Merom Klein + Prof Rod Napier (z”l)
The Courage to Act, published by Nicholas-Breeley in the UK and USA, describes the 5 Courage Activators — the 5-step roadmap that business leaders apply to lift teams above fear and reluctance, volatility and competitive pressure. When matrix structures and audacious goals stretch teammates beyond their comfort zones, and when leaders face conflict-prone realities in conflict-adverse systems, the 5 Courage Activators equip leaders to flip the switch on brilliance, initiative, empowerment, accountability and strategy-execution. Our first book On Courage takes you through the 5 activators, one at a time, and shows you how to strengthen each one. Order @ amazon.com >
Mobius Leadership article on PowerUP Brilliance for breakthrough solutions.
To conserve energy, we need lightbulbs with luminous efficiency — to emit brilliance with little power and little residual heat. We also need teams with luminous efficiency — to illuminate ever tougher and more complex opportunities with less push from the top-down and less noise and heat. Here’s how courage build courage to drive breakthrough solutions with luminous efficiency.
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White paper: Seeds: How high is WOW to PowerUP Brilliance
What we can learn about A-level success, from a Chinese children’s folk-tale about choosing an heir to the throne. What is Brilliance when “just following orders” is not enough to achieve the results that will make you a star? How does adherence help, because we can’t all go rogue – and when do we need to think out of the box and experiment with disruptive breakthrough possibilities?
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Program description: Profit from training to PowerUP Brilliance!
A description of action learning in Leadership Development – because getting the content right is not enough, unless the leaders you train actually USE that content and APPLY it to ACHIEVE the ROIC that you expect. How to build a blended learning platform that makes the most of E/M-learning, assessments, idea blogs and peer coaching trios – with high-impact learn by doing simulation workshops that do more than show and tell – by encoding new skills into your leaders’ repertoire in a fluid automatic way.
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White paper: Uplift and ennoble a top performer who has plateaued
What do you say to a key performer who is afraid or reluctant to lift his or her game? Who is a high producer, but at the expense of being a high-maintenance or disruptive team player? Who has reached an inflection point – that once was effective, but now is limiting the enterprise’s ability to scale up, adapt to new requirements, take on new thought-leadership and lift its game. How do you sound the call and encourage and ennoble this key performer to learn, adapt and grow?
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White paper: Step up. Speak up. Make a difference
In cross-functional teams, it is tempting to keep your head below the parapets and avoid the hot-seat. When sparks fly and differences seem irreconcilable, it is tempting to look upward for direction or adjudication rather than taking a stand, stepping up and asserting your own ideas. When the bias against creativity is real and the nail that sticks out gets hammered down, how are luminaries supposed to let their Brilliance shine? This white paper shows how to kindle the Courage to PowerUP Brilliance™ in yourself and the teams you lead — to advance your project, your enterprise, your career. Click to download >>
