Our Approach | The Foundations | Core Concepts

Core Concepts

Negotiation and Resolving Conflict

Effectively managed businesses bring a systematic approach to handling internal and external negotiations and teach employees how to address and manage conflict.

Based on the tools and ideas developed at the Harvard Negotiation Project, the Mobius approach focuses on collaborative skills and tools for optimizing negotiation results.  Organizational improvement in these arenas can have a significant impact on morale, productivity, creativity, and the financial outcomes of negotiations.  The Mobius model builds participants’ skills in the arenas of negotiation, resolving differences, expressing dissent, managing up, managing without authority, and dealing with difficult tactics in business transactions.

Communication

Incisive, honest, and respectful communication cultivates trust, efficiency, and creative synergy.

The quality of conversations in the workplace is a prime driver of business success and growth. Companies fail to capitalize on business opportunities when patterns of communication inhibit decision making, creativity, and constructive disagreement. Ambiguity, redundancy, conflict avoidance, and contradictory messages make it impossible for teams of people to work effectively to solve critical business challenges.

Business units struggle not because they lack the requisite knowledge and expertise to innovate and evaluate solutions, but because they don’t know how to talk to one another. With refined skills and operational models for effective communication, professionals can foster productive conversations by spearheading an open, mature, and well-functioning organizational climate. The Mobius model builds participants’ skills in the arenas of interpersonal communication, diversity, complex decision making, relationship management, and team collaboration.

Personal/Professional Synergy

Choices respecting an individual’s personal and professional dimensions lead to dynamic balance, optimal performance, and visionary long-term leadership.

The Mobius Executive Leadership model sees a business leader as a complete person. Beginning with inner renewal and development, the program supports unencumbered thinking, deep personal satisfaction, and productive professional relationships.

Vision

A developed personal vision and professional perspective that fosters an individual’s connection to his or her core values energizes, guides, and supports insightful leadership judgment.

Aligned to an individual’s sense of purpose is his or her emotional well-being, mental focus, and connection with others. Connecting personal aspirations with professional missions galvanizes enthusiasm and resourcefulness. The Mobius Executive Leadership model regards personal vision as the fuel for vitality, inspiration, big-picture understanding, and productivity.

Health

An individual’s state of health influences his or her patterns of thought.

Thriving organizations are composed of people who have all their energy, intelligence, creativity, and vigor available for the work at hand. Professionals who attend to their own habits of health and self-care are better able to take bold action in enacting their organizational missions. The Mobius Executive Leadership model provides leaders with the expert information, coaching, and support they need to break longstanding destructive habits and learn to take optimal care of themselves going forward.

Sustainable Work/Life Leadership

Leadership principles, models, and strategies are relevant only to the degree that they are sustainable.

All too often our personal and professional resolutions — even those most important to us — dissolve in the reality of competing demands, tight deadlines, difficult personalities, and intense pressure at work and at home. To help ensure follow-through, Mobius Executive Leadership has created a training model that builds on each person’s strengths and addresses his or her unique challenges in the terrain of ethics, values, and self-care. Participants leave the Intensive with a clear plan for integrating their customized programs into their work and life. Establishing and maintaining work/life balance enables them to stay firm in their resolve to build the kind of life they want. Sustainable practices allow participants to return to work and lead their organizations to achieve optimal functioning. Follow-up coaching is a time-tested resource for ensuring that these changes and lifestyle commitments take hold despite ongoing pressures and demands.