Empower U - Powerful Leadership Training Skills & Results

Why would I go to Empower U?

There are thousands of books, CDs, and videos available today. There is more information available today than at any time in our history. Yet, our problems and obstacles continue to dominate our lives. Empower U's unique approach to experimental learning allows people to see, hear, and experience "Leadership in Motion." You've read the books, said the quotes... Now is the time to Live It!

Professional Reasons

In today's business climate, professionals need that "difference" that "makes the difference." Empower U creates a unique environment that allows professionals the opportunity to ask and answer important strategic questions. Where am I now, where am I going, what will it take to get there and how long? Any professional who desires to be the "Best of the Best" needs to experience Leadership in Motion through Empower U.

Personal Reasons

If today were your last day on this planet, were you the spouse, parent, child, sibling that you were put here to be? That "end in mind" thinking is what it takes to be the "Best Possible You." Our graduates expect to leave our training as better leaders, inspiring communicators, and committed team members. Their surprise is the renewed passion they experience for their personal lives.

What Our Corporate Clients Say

Michelin invests heavily in training of all kinds, including team skills training, but very often, we cannot quantify the results of "soft skills training". Well, we got a surprise this time!

Their quality took an immediate jump worth about $3,000 per week
Their output took an immediate jump worth about $10,000 per week
Their attitude took an immediate jump...value?

Doug Cassidy

Plant Manager
Michelin North America, Inc.

What Makes Empower U Training So Effective In Achieving Corporate and Individual Breakthroughs?

Individuals, Professionals as well as CEOs and executives of corporations both large and small are constantly surprised by the change that can take place in a short period through Empower U’s Leadership Awakening. The value of training can be seen in the behavioral change that takes place in each individual who attends. Simply put, it is proven and it lasts.

Sustainable change is usually the best measure of any training program. There are thousands of training programs out there and some offer great information, models, and theories. The problem comes in the practical application... the ability to "Get it" at a deep, structural level and apply the training in our lives. We are all creatures of habit; we have automatic patterns that we follow that have been in place over time. Those patterns can sometimes be “hard wired,” and therefore we tend to take the path of least resistance, falling back into our comfort zones a few hours or days after the training is completed.

Empower U offers a series of training and development courses using proven practices for creating true performance change. Leadership Awakening is usually the beginning of training for that change. Our programs and the way they are delivered create the catalyst for changing behavior. There are a few reasons why Empower U's training has an immediate and ongoing impact on behavior, productivity, and performance.

The Environment

At Empower U we create an environment where each individual can take a 100% honest look at themselves. This environment allows participants to take a personal inventory. They look at their strengths and weaknesses and then make adjustments based on a clear understanding of what they want. The environment is intense and structured to allow for maximum change in a short period. This environment is the foundation, the fertile soil, which allows the seed of change to take hold.

Motivation

The secret of motivation is simple; it's helping people get what they want. One of the keys to motivation is to allow people to discover, uncover and tap into his or her internal motivators.

At Empower U, our processes allow students to determine what is most important to them. Once recognized, participants have the added motivation to do something about it. They get emotionally involved in their ultimate cause. Our graduates walk away inspired, focused and internally driven.

Self Awareness of Patterns

There are patterns all around us. We have all driven home before without realizing how we drove home. Yet, we stopped at all the stops, and turned at all the turns… it is an unconscious pattern. Unless we identify those patterns, we can get stuck and not even realize what is happening. Learning takes place when individuals become aware of these patterns; their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities for growth and self-limiting behaviors.

Empower U gives participants a chance to "look in the mirror" and assess their performance. Our training offers time for reflection and exercise debriefing, to understand what took place and the deeper pattern of success and/or failure. Throughout our training there is an ongoing process of identifying what they are learning and how to apply the training in their lives. People must become aware of the patterns that are creating the situations and outcomes in their lives if they are to make meaningful and lasting changes.

Anchors

Anchors are situations, words and feelings that elicit a certain mental state. The state we are in allows us to do, or not to do everything in our lives. We have all had times in our lives where we were in a state that allowed for maximum accomplishment and conversely, we have been in states that have not been as resourceful.

At Empower U we identify anchors from the past that are not serving us well. We then create new anchors so that after the training participants have quick, easy ways to trigger the new response in order to get a new, desired outcome. For example, when a student completes a training process that anchors taking action, this anchor can be readily accessed and applied in any business meeting, decision making process, important project or personal interaction.

Feedback / Coaching

The best athletes, executives and individuals are those that have a coach. Sometimes we all need someone on the outside to offer their perspective. Providing feedback and coaching to an individual gives added insight into their behavior and patterns. Empower U's classes are dedicated to giving individual attention and coaching to every participant. In order to maximize this, we maintain a small instructor to student ratio.

At Empower U, our trainers are often referred to as coaches. In each course they offer feedback that is honest, direct, instant and one-on-one. This feedback is designed to EMPOWER the participant and move them forward to their own next level of performance. Great coaches in sports, business and training have the power to unleash the potential of individuals by seeing things that they may not see for themselves.

Practice / Experience

It takes Practice, practice, practice to get to Carnegie Hall, the Olympics, and to be the best in any field or endeavor. Truly successful people practice skills and techniques in order to improve performance. Through practice and experience performance is enhanced and continues to improve over time.

All of our training experiences at Empower U are taught through an experiential process and correlates directly to real life leadership skills and behavior. Rather than just discussing or lecturing on a variety of leadership traits, or philosophies, all participants of Empower U experience and practice the true qualities of a leader at the “cellular” level. Our participants experience, or live, leadership such as accountability, communication, enthusiasm, focus, passion, taking action, commitment, vision, teamwork and trust. It is through this experience that performance is enhanced.

At Empower U, students connect their experience at a deep level to things that are meaningful to them. Through this process they recognize more clearly what was, and what can be in the future, based on one thing… "What do they want?"