The John R. Wooden Way
If you are like most chief executive officers, you spend a lot of time coaching your executive leadership team. The Wooden Way provides you with a roadmap to realize your full potential while helping others to be their best as they reach their full potential.
The John R Wooden Course offers you a framework that can transform your company and its performance. You will become a better coach. The process promotes stronger employee engagement and teamwork. This in turn gives you and the entire company a more cohesive culture that improves both employee performance and retention.
The program is geared to improving your leadership.
How You Think
Seek Wisdom - Understand how the quality of your thinking determines the quality of your philosophy about the fundamentals that guide your work and your life. "Not all change is progress, but there is no progress without change." You will make a choice about your thinking especially when it comes to change. Now you are better prepared as you take action. The goal is always "to be the best we can be." This is why successful companies have adopted a set of core values help everyone become better aligned on their attitude, actions, and behaviors. Better thinking generates better behavior.
How You Set the Example
This lesson challenges you to gain the same clarity and consistency in how you set the example in all that you do. Do you demonstrate clarity and consistency in the attitude, actions, and behavior you model and expect your team to follow? Often the core values are derived from the Pyramid of Success.
- Do the right thing
- Choose your words carefully
- Keep your word
- Reflect true humility
- Keep your priorities straight
- Refuse to be judgemental
- Live by the Golden Rule
- Keep an attitude of service
How You Teach
As a leader, you need to be a coach and a teacher.
- Become an Expert
- Be Direct and Precise in Your Expectations
- Be Highly Organized
- Teach by Example
- Teach by Repetition
- Plan for the Individual and the Team
- Create a Positive and Disciplined Environment
- Break Complex Issues into Simpler Details
- Find Opportunities for Adding Value that Helps Team Members Become Better People
How You Lead
As the Leader, you are trying to get Individuals to work together for the common good and the best possible results.
- Fostering cooperation
- Defining the Values, Mission, and Goals
- Setting Performance Standards and Expectations
- Providing Motivation and Encouragement
How You Mentor
Harness the power in mentoring to improve yourself and to serve this you have the privilege to help develop. Who has served as a Mentor in your life, both personally and professionally? Mentoring others is about recognizing where you are in your life and what you have the opportunity and responsibility to share. To understand the power of mentoring is to recognize how far you have come and how much you have to offer.
Make Everyday Your Masterpiece
For a coach, true success only came from the satisfaction one gets from knowing you did the best you can do. Doing your best today and every day moving forward is the key to that better tomorrow. Making each day your masterpiece does not mean your whole masterpiece is created in a day. Each day is the chance for one masterful brushstroke. Every task you complete is an opportunity to undo a mistake or do something better and increase your chances of doing it even better the next time.