In Adam Kreek’s best selling book The Responsibility Ethic, he shares the 12 essential principles of self-leadership that fuel incredible accomplishments - and details how you can master these principles too. Responsibility Ethic #1: Take Responsibility for Your Fear of Failure. 

In this first chapter of The Responsibility Ethic, learn the tools, mindsets and strategies required to release your fear of failure in order to take action and reach your full potential.

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Gain understanding about the science of non-attainment, how to get around natural mental barriers to achievement, and how to structure your ambitious goals in a way to maximize the likelihood of strong positive outcomes.

How Top Performers Use Failure To Drive Growth

In this first chapter of The Responsibility Ethic, learn the tools, mindsets and strategies required to release your fear of failure in order to take action and reach your full potential. Gain understanding about the science of non-attainment, how to get around natural mental barriers to achievement, and how to structure your ambitious goals in [&hellip;]

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The problem with SMART goals is that they just haven’t kept up with the faster, more agile environment that most businesses find themselves in today. These new business environments require a new way of setting goals. This is why ViDA developed the CLEAR goal-setting methodology.

"I’d employed SMART goals, taught SMART goals and coached SMART goals for nearly a decade with varying success prior to my expedition, rowing from Africa to North America – unsupported in a 29-foot rowboat. However, launching into my three-year planning process made the shortfalls of the SMART planning philosophy ring loud and clear." -Adam Kreek

ViDA has worked with hundreds of leaders and organizations globally. we use the CLEAR Goal Setting Methodology to Plan and execute effectively.

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How To Plan And Execute Big Projects Effectively: The Clear Goal Methodology

"I’d employed SMART goals, taught SMART goals and coached SMART goals for nearly a decade with varying success prior to my expedition, rowing from Africa to North America – unsupported in a 29-foot rowboat. However, launching into my three-year planning process made the shortfalls of the SMART planning philosophy ring loud and clear."-Adam Kreek ViDA [&hellip;]

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The hardest choices we make in our lives are usually between two excellent options. The second hardest would be between two terrible options, right? This tool is for the tough, hard, and good choices we have to make.

Making effective decisions and teaching others to do so is the job of a leader. Like any skill set, effective decision making and communication around leadership choices can be learned and practised.

At ViDA, we work with leaders to streamline and simplify decision making, remove overwhelm and support clients to create guidelines and processes to remove stress from the decision making process and ultimately lead to better outcomes and organizational performance.

Download this guide to help you make the best decisions every day with confidence and success.

Making Hard Decisions: The Better Of Two Goods

Making effective decisions and teaching others to do so is the job of a leader. Like any skill set, effective decision making and communication around leadership choices can be learned and practised. At ViDA, we work with leaders to streamline and simplify decision making, remove overwhelm and support clients to create guidelines and processes to [&hellip;]

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Leaders who employ personality indexing as part of their team development or personal growth strategy see improvements in both their work environment and leadership skills. Personality indexing tools are useful for creating team cohesion and enhanced unity within an organization. Learn about the most effective Personality indexing tools available and how to employ them to better team performance.

When used as part of an executive coaching strategy or strategic planning process, professional personality indexing can generate an ROI of over two hundred percent and improve productivity by eighty-six percent. Additionally, employee satisfaction and company loyalty are increased for individual employees.

At ViDA, we use Predictive Index Behavioral Assessment with both new coaching clients to drive in depth reflection, understanding and performance, and with corporate teams to enhance team cohesion, communication, engagement and results.

Building Team Cohesion With Personality Indexing

When used as part of an executive coaching strategy or strategic planning process,professional personality indexing can generate an ROI of over two hundred percent and improve productivity by eighty-six percent. Additionally, employee satisfaction and company loyalty are increased for individual employees. At ViDA, we use Predictive Index Behavioral Assessment with both new coaching clients to [&hellip;]

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Top-performing leaders from across industries share key character traits that allow them to outperform their peers and competition. The 6 key behaviours outlined in this guide are found consistently in top-performing leaders and entrepreneurs that we coach and train.

Are you interested in learning and applying the skills, practices and strategies of top performing leaders?‍

We have coached, trained and taught hundreds of thousands of people and teams at organizations including Microsoft, Amazon, Pfizer, General Electric, Mercedes-Benz, L’Oreal, Shell, YPO, EO, and TEDx.

‍We’ve seen time and time again the key skills, mindsets and strategies of top performing individuals and teams and we teach these principles to clients globally.

‍Learn more about key traits of top performers in this guide, and reach out if you're interested in learning how our Executive Coaching program can expand your leadership capacity and performance.

How To Be A Top Performing Leader

Are you interested in learning and applying the skills, practices and strategies of top performing leaders?‍ We have coached, trained and taught hundreds of thousands of people and teams at organizations including Microsoft, Amazon, Pfizer, General Electric, Mercedes-Benz, L’Oreal, Shell, YPO, EO, and TEDx. ‍We’ve seen time and time again the key skills, mindsets and [&hellip;]

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Channelled properly, stress can be a positive and powerful force.

Stress is part and parcel of high performance leadership - like it or not. But like a frog in a pot of boiling water who ultimately is overcome, stress too creeps up on us in unsustainable ways if we don’t actively learn the skills and mindset of how to harness stress effectively and work with it, instead of against it.

‍How to effectively manage stress, avoid burnout and balance personal and professional life is one of the most common questions we are asked at ViDA by coaching clients beginning our Executive Coaching programs.

‍This guide will help you re-frame and enhance your management of stress beginning today.

If you’re still struggling with feelings of overwhelm, burnout, uncertainty if you can successfully sustain your career and your personal life - - please reach out. We’ve helped thousands of leaders sustain and enhance professional growth, performance and fulfillment while at the same time protect their health and personal lives.

How To Harness The Power Of Stress As Performance Energy

Stress is part and parcel of high performance leadership - like it or not. But like a frogin a pot of boiling water who ultimately is overcome, stress too creeps up on us inunsustainable ways if we don’t actively learn the skills and mindset of how to harness stress effectively and work with it, instead [&hellip;]

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As a top executive or senior leader, it is essential to learn strategies and tools to drive team engagement, performance, and accountability. In this guide you’ll learn three management techniques to bring the best results, consistently, from all team members.

Are you working to better your leadership and management skills?

We have coached, trained and taught hundreds of thousands of leaders at organizations including Microsoft, Amazon, Pfizer, Intuit, General Electric, Mercedes-Benz, L’Oreal, Shell, YPO, EO, and TEDx. We’ve seen time and time again the key skills, mindsets and strategies of top performing individuals and teams and we teach these principles to clients globally.

The truth is it takes more than grit and hard work to sustain long-term leadership excellence. Support, accountability, key tools and techniques, and practised strategies allow leaders to manage challenges and succeed consistently. No top performer acts alone; the most ambitious leaders build a team, including a coach, to create and ensure exceptional outcomes.

Use our free How to Guides to sharpen your leadership capacity. Reach out to learn more about our Executive Coaching programs and how we can expand your leadership skills and personal performance, and enhance results across your organization.

3 Management Tools To Drive Team Engagement And Performance

Are you working to better your leadership and management skills? We have coached, trained and taught hundreds of thousands of leaders at organizations including Microsoft, Amazon, Pfizer, Intuit, General Electric, Mercedes-Benz, L’Oreal, Shell, YPO, EO, and TEDx. We’ve seen time and time again the key skills, mindsets and strategies of top performing individuals and teams [&hellip;]

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The best strategic leaders and entrepreneurs have a full grasp of their competitive business environment and where their organization can find its best fit in the marketplace. 

A market map is an essential tool for all strategic leaders and is used by top entrepreneurs to guide sound strategy, planning and decision-making. Schedule time now to create one for your organization.

Use this guide to complete a market map for your organization.

Reach out if we can support you in increasing your professional performance and the results of your organization.

Market Mapping: How To Outperform Your Competition With This Key Tool

A market map is an essential tool for all strategic leaders and is used by topentrepreneurs to guide sound strategy, planning and decision-making. Schedule timenow to create one for your organization. Use this guide to complete a market map for your organization. Reach out if we can support you in increasing your professional performance and [&hellip;]

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The values held and lived by a leadership team create ripple effects throughout an organization. When organizational leaders strays from their values, it creates chaos and confusion. On the other hand, when leadership embodies the corporate values, middle management is empowered, and front-line workers see that they belong to an organization doing great work. The result? Engagement, commitment and performance increase.

Research shows that values have to be internalized by employees and integrated into the culture to have a meaningful impact.

Use this How To Guide to ensure values are identified and lived across your organization.

Reach out if you're interested in learning more about building a values-driven culture across your organization through our keynotes, workshops, training seminars or Executive Coaching programs.

The Power Of Values-Driven Cultures And How To Build One

Research shows that values have to be internalized by employees and integrated into the culture to have a meaningful impact. Use this How To Guide to ensure values are identified and lived across your organization. Reach out if you're interested in learning more about building a values-driven culture across your organization through our keynotes, workshops, [&hellip;]

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We feel fulfilled and content when we act in alignment with our personal values. In turn, when we align our personal values to our organizational values, we can maximize our professional engagement, fulfillment, and achievement.

Values are the innate, deeply held character traits we deem most important in life. Values subconsciously guide and motivate our actions, behaviours, decisions, strategies and plans.

Download this guide to identify or re-discover your personal and professional values. Use your values to guide your goals, decision-making and organizational operations to drive peak performance, enhanced team engagement and better results.

How To Set And Live Your Values: Uncover Your Operational How

Values are the innate, deeply held character traits we deem most important in life. Values subconsciously guide and motivate our actions, behaviours, decisions, strategies and plans. Download this guide to identify or re-discover your personal and professional values. Use your values to guide your goals, decision-making and organizational operations to drive peak performance, enhanced team [&hellip;]

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Use the 8 step needs assessment in this guide to determine what action is needed to enhance the performance of an underperforming team member. 

Are you looking for tools and strategies like this one to increase engagement, performance and results across your organization?‍

Our team has partnered with leadership teams and business owners for over 15 years crafting strategic plans, staying accountable to process, and achieving outlined results. We use a values-driven approach to planning that leads to better performance, employee engagement, and ultimately accelerated outcomes and profits.‍

We are here to ensure you succeed. Let us show how we can help you expand your team's potential, performance, efficiency, and outcomes.

Download this and other How to Guides to expand your leadership toolkit and professional capacity. Reach out if you'd like to explore our Executive Coaching programs, Strategic Planning, or keynote or workshop training to better team and organization engagement, performance and results.

How To Manage An Underperformer On Your Team: 8 Steps To Optimize Performance

Are you looking for tools and strategies like this one to increase engagement,performance and results across your organization?‍ Our team has partnered with leadership teams and business owners for over 15 years crafting strategic plans, staying accountable to process, and achieving outlined results. We use a values-driven approach to planning that leads to better performance, [&hellip;]

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During large change programs, change agents have many responsibilities and

Are you working to build greater accountability within your organization?

‍We have coached, trained and taught hundreds of thousands of leaders at organizations including Microsoft, Amazon, Pfizer, General Electric, Intuit, Mercedes-Benz, L’Oreal, Shell, YPO, EO, and TEDx.‍

We’ve seen time and time again the key skills, mindsets and strategies of top performing individuals and teams and we teach these principles to clients globally. The truth is it takes more than grit and hard work to sustain long-term leadership excellence. Support, accountability, key tools and techniques, and practised strategies allow leaders to manage challenges and succeed consistently. No top performer acts alone; the most ambitious leaders build a team, including a coach, to create and ensure exceptional outcomes.‍

Reach out if you’re interested in bettering your individual and team performance and results through our Executive Coaching programs, Strategic Planning facilitation for leadership teams, keynotes and workshop training.

How To Build a Culture of Accountability

Are you working to build greater accountability within your organization? ‍We have coached, trained and taught hundreds of thousands of leaders at organizations including Microsoft, Amazon, Pfizer, General Electric, Intuit, Mercedes-Benz, L’Oreal, Shell, YPO, EO, and TEDx.‍ We’ve seen time and time again the key skills, mindsets and strategies of topperforming individuals and teams and [&hellip;]

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