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The Foundations: Research-based Best Practices

There’s no need for guesswork in defining great leadership. In the professional sphere, decades of research clearly indicate which strategies are most effective in resolving disputes, fostering creativity, creating a cooperative environment, and achieving lasting change.

All of our corporate training offerings have their foundations in well-researched scholarship theory, largely from the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. Negotiation Essentials, Masterful Conversations, and Resolving Conflict all offer participants a window into best practices in the arenas of relationship management, negotiation, effective communication, and coordinated action. Mobius Executive Leadership offers one- and two-day on-site corporate trainings designed to enhance individual skill, provide a common organizational framework, and increase corporate capacity in these areas.

Our expertise derives from fluency with the models and ideas generated by the work of the Harvard Negotiation Project (HNP) for high-performing negotiators. Other sources of Mobius Intensive curriculum include the System for Analyzing Verbal Interaction (SAVI®); Systems Theory; Emotional Intelligence theory; and groundbreaking work on maximizing follow-through. The methods we use have been tried and tested with great success in the global business community.

Our corporate training offerings afford companies a chance to develop the individual skill of key employees while expanding organizational capacity in vital arenas such as negotiation, conflict resolution, and managing business-critical conversations. Our one- and two-day on-site training programs are often complemented by executive coaching to support ongoing professional development.

In addition to our knowledge of effective leadership skills, we bring extensive expertise in guiding participants towards healthy lifestyle patterns that can support good leadership and foster effective self-management. These health factors — such as nutritional balance, physical fitness, and freedom from chronic pain or injury — directly affect any professional’s job performance, but are neglected by most corporate training programs.

Clearly, a severe case of management burnout can decrease productivity and weaken an organization. But breakdowns that occur at a lower level are often overlooked. Managers suffering from fatigue have difficulty keeping their employees motivated and engaged. CEOs experiencing high levels of stress cannot inspire confidence and openness to change. No executive in distress is a successful decision maker. Only an energetic, dynamic professional can manage effectively in a complex, fast-paced organizational culture. To achieve peak performance, an individual must be in optimal health. To win in the marketplace, a company needs vital and strong leadership.

In the Mobius Leadership Intensive, our flagship offering, experts in integrative health build upon the latest medical research to develop individualized assessments, treatments, and follow-up coaching agreements. Our practitioners have extensive experience in achieving work/life balance and promoting clients’ overall health and well-being. The benefits are immediately apparent in the workplace: Personal wellness translates directly into professional confidence and competence.

Mobius Executive Leadership places an enormous premium on follow-through and long-term organizational change. To ensure that the Leadership Intensive is not a stand-alone experience for an executive, we strongly recommend that participants take advantage of the six-month coaching option to gain support and guidance in carrying forward their goals and self-maintenance program.

In tandem, these ideas and best practices in communication, collaboration, and self-maintenance form the foundation for authentic, powerful leadership that is both sustainable and inspiring.