FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Nicholas F. Horney, Ph.D.
President
Agility Consulting & Training, LLC
336.286.7250
Greensboro, NC –
September 30, 2002. How do we
prepare leaders and followers for a world that is changing so rapidly that
all our new knowledge, skills and assumptions must be re-invented as soon
as we are comfortable with them? Most
organizations are comprised of people who have a tendency to resist change
or settle into patterns of behavior called “psycho sclerosis,”
hardening of the attitudes and behaviors about change.
These people, their leaders and consequently their organizations
lack agility.
A unique program called
Leadership Insights, Nimbleness and Knowledge Seminar (LINKS™)
has been introduced to executives, business owners, human resource
professionals, and other managers to develop their agility at leading
during times of continuous change. LINKS™
is the brainchild of an organizational psychologist, Nick Horney. Dr. Horney collaborated with a Ladies Professional Golf (LPGA)
teaching professional to conduct the first LINKS™ program held in
Greensboro this past June. Dr.
Horney’s experience of over 25 years consulting with and coaching
leaders and managers in Fortune 500 firms, as well as privately held
companies, has resulted in a program that uses the golf course and the
game of golf to illustrate and practice the agility required to be
successful as a leader during very challenging and constantly changing
times. The public seminar is
designed to last for 2-1/2 days and can be customized for an individual
company that wants to integrate LINKS™ with its current approach
to leadership development. There
is no prerequisite that participants play golf in order to benefit from
this program since it is primarily designed to help leaders lower their Leadership
Agility Handicap™ with a by-product being an improved golf handicap. Participants learn about and practice individual, team and
organizational agility, both on and off the golf course.
LINKS™ is built upon a foundation of self-discovery,
coaching and guided practice through multiple forms of leadership,
psychological and physical agility assessment (e.g., 360-degree golf
swing, 360-degree survey of leadership agility, a leader’s approach to
change, and personality type). The
turbulence in the economy, world security threats, globalization of the
marketplace, technological innovation, etc. combine to demand leaders who
display the following characteristics of agility that are practiced during
LINKS™:
A:
Anticipate change
G:
Generate confidence
I:
Initiate action
L:
Liberate thinking
E:
Evaluate results
A group of executives from
organizations headquartered in and outside of the Triad area recently
participated in LINKS™ at the Grandover Resort in Greensboro, NC.
The participants stressed the personal and organizational impact
that the LINKS™ program was able to achieve.
“The Program is
a professional touchstone and a chance to get an executive tune-up.”
– Dave Oddo, Advantis Real Estate Services, Raleigh, NC.”
“The strategies
we’re using out her on the course can easily apply to business.
When the front door is locked, you have to figure out how to go in
the side door.” – Robert E. Lee, Optima Services, Inc.,
Greensboro, NC.
LINKS™ programs for
the remainder of 2002 will be held in the months of November and December
at resort locations in North Carolina.
In 2003, Dr. Horney will be co-facilitating a LINKS™
program with golf professional and Sport Psychologist, Dr. Tony Piparo,
through the University of Florida Executive Education Department.
Agility Consulting &
Training, LLC is a global provider of consulting services, training and
products to individuals, teams and organizations that are faced with the
challenge of becoming focused, fast and flexile.
For more information, call Dr. Nick Horney at 336-286-7250.
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