What are the Qualities of a Leader in Business?

Ability to stimulate growth through new ideas.

Creativity in problem solving.

• Acknowledgment and utilization of the unique talents of others.
• Mastery of communication which encourages participation in and commitment to corporate goals.
• Ability to inspire self-expression and team performance.
• Skill in handling stressful situations.

What Programs Actually Help Realize These Qualities?

• Effective communications?
• Leadership Development?
• Team building?
• Stress and time management?
• Motivation?
• Ability to control and direct attention?

Why Avatar?

Competing successfully in today’s business environment requires effective and powerful communication skills. When a corporation commits to empowering its workers, fertile soil is provided for the development of effective leadership. Traditional training programs generally act as only “quick fixes” because they do not encourage individuals to take full responsibility for what happens. Clearly a new approach is needed.

Avatar offers a bold, innovative approach necessary for the realization of possibilities in business and the development of effective leadership. It is ideal for executives, managers and supervisors who have a vision for a more creative style of leadership, a way to express themselves and be easily understood, and a more effectively managed company.

Equally effective as overall employee training, Avatar teaches techniques that increase responsibility and multiplies the graduates’ ability to direct attention toward success.

What is Avatar?

Avatar is a course based on the truth that one’s beliefs cause a person to create or attract situations and events which he or she then experiences. The purpose of the course is to guide a person into the exploration of his or her belief systems and to teach techniques to modify those things they want to change and build those things they find helpful.

Avatar is neither a new nor a “New Age” philosophy. It stands in a class by itself in that it enables individuals to challenge the limits of their own thinking and re-discover their ability to create without sabotage. A company’s greatest resource is its people. Their ability to think in new ways is crucial to a company’s continued growth. In today’s rapidly changing and competitive market, staying on the leading edge is critical. Avatar is a stone to sharpen that edge.

Introductory Training

Organizations may receive an initial three-hour onsite training delivered by a licensed Avatar Master for staff and management at no charge. Call for details.

Course Description

The training is divided into three sections. Section I is called “ReSurfacing®” and focuses on developing the whole person through an experiential based workshop that explores the underlying structure of human interaction, behavior and performance . . . beliefs. By managing beliefs, the individual can overcome personal limitations that impede the flow in business operations. This innovative, hands-on approach creates happier, more adaptable and more efficient people who integrate their skills into their work and empower the organization by being more effective employees and managers.

This training is excellent for all employees regardless of experience or job description.

During Section II the participant acquires a repertoire of hands-on-exercises that teaches the individual to identify and remove barriers to success and create experiences they prefer. Participants access a blueprint of how they currently define themselves both personally and professionally and based on this insight, self-manage limiting beliefs that impeded performance in the workplace. Stress is reduced and productivity increased by shifting viewpoints, redirecting attention to the intended goal and enhancing the ability to improvise and adapt to change through a strengthened sense of self and mission.

Having clearly experienced their creative abilities, participants learn in Section III the techniques to address faulty beliefs and sabotaging patterns, compulsions and behaviors. They then apply these skills as they identify and let go of “costumes” worn that limit themselves and others. They gain a new experience of what service is and shift attention from personal agendas to win-win scenarios for the organization and its clients.

Objectives

Participants will acquire:

Interpersonal Development Skills

• reduce tension in potential conflict scenarios by broadening perspective
• listen with more free attention and increase understanding, communicating intentions with more clarity and compassion
• discover and manage self-deception signals to align goals and actions
• relieve emotional upsets and shift viewpoint for better work performance
• Foster and convey the vision/mission of the organization to the workforce
• increased willingness to accept responsibility for their actions
• release judgments on client attitudes and behaviors that hinder successful interactions
• learn a proven problem-solving tool for teams described in the Thoughtstorm® manual
• Positively influence goal-setting endeavors and learn a tool that determines the success potential of any given goal

Course History and Expansion

Avatar was developed in 1986 by Harry Palmer, a teacher. The Avatar course has been delivered to more than 75,000 people in 67 different countries worldwide with great success. It has been translated into 20 languages. The trainers are Avatar Masters licensed by Star’s Edge International® and are skilled in one-to-one and group facilitation.

What Graduates Say . . .

“Avatar gave us the tools to reach our potential. In the three years since we went through Avatar our national news service has more than doubled the number of television station subscribers. Just as important is how the office environment has changed from heavy and stressful to light and limitless. We would have easily paid a consultant twenty times the Avatar fee for just the promise of similar results.”

• Betty B., President and Marjorie T., CEO, Ivanhoe Broadcast News, USA

“I am only beginning to experience what is possible. Now through intuitive skills learned in this course I can make the most effective decision without wasting my teammates’ time . . . I now create an environment that encourages my teammates to act creatively and optimistically.”

• Elizabeth E., General Manager Northwest Division of GTE, USA

“The real strength of Avatar is its simplicity; the fact that it is so personalized and . . . that in just short time individuals, their families and the businesses can see profound changes.”

• Bill M, Chief Executive, Blue Star (Business Supply Group) New Zealand

“In just a short time I have seen a difference in how I see each situation and in my listening abilities. The major change is how it has helped me to handle a high-pressure environment with less stress. I highly recommend Avatar both for business and personal growth.”

• Diane H., Corporate Recruiter USA

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