The visual below depicts how my powerful, integrated leadership program will dramatically improve your leadership, and therefore team, effectiveness, through an experientially designed, proven program. Believe in the leadership difference you will make performing at the next level as a result. Today’s highly dynamic, competitive environment and far reaching societal change DEMANDS an exceptional and continuous “I am never finished” level of purpose, commitment and mindset. This program is built for YOU.
Welcome and Here Is My Story.
Thank you for visiting my website. My passion is to help you build up your leadership repertoire of skills, to further sharpen your abilities to multiply the application and impact of those skills for you and for others. My goal is to get and keep you on that mindset path of “I can always improve”.
I’d like to share some of my unique and diverse story and experiences, so that we connect and relate better.
I was born in Wilkes Barre, Pa, moved to New Jersey and grew up in a working-class family atmosphere that was broken at times. I’ve learned what it means to often be on the ropes (or at least feel like it) and what it takes to get from survive to thrive. There was a big need early in life for self-sufficiency. This meant relying on friendships and other relationships in our neighborhood. I developed a ton of street smarts and relational social skills along the way-including learning what humility and empathy really mean. Like many of us then, I spent most of my time outdoors with friends on the baseball fields, basketball courts and playing football.
I wasn’t the best student in high school, but quickly learned that perseverance and adaptability rule in life and worked three jobs concurrently while going to college, receiving a degree in Computer Science. During this time, I also developed an persistent interest in mastering how things, including people work. That perseverance served me well later in my executive leadership stages, earning positions that I often felt were way out of reach, but when I “competed” with grit for them through the (often arduous) search processes, was ultimately selected. I also recognize that there were a couple of very positive mentors that left a huge impact on me.
I feel blessed on having accumulated an incredibly high diversity of work and life experiences that is tough to come by and helps me closely relate to all my clients challenges in their roles. That deep interest in how things work continues today, both in terms of focus and ongoing research, to stay 100% current with people and organizational behavioral trends and applying them to my leadership program(s) design.
You might be wondering; how did I get from the corporate world to here? Well…a series of pivotal leadership turning points for me occurred. As my career developed, I started to get this inner feeling of “who am I really impacting” and “is there a bigger purpose for me”. I also continued to accumulate a sense of “this is or is not the right or only way to lead” (and yes, that was sometimes the result of me committing leadership mistakes). The clincher probably was when I was doing management consulting work, partnering with HR for a large financial services firm, helping them redefine their leadership competencies being used in their performance management system. As I was doing that design work, I was having a recurring revelation-how the heck does any leader truly develop and build a better organization/team when managed to what is simply a “list” of “do this to get a better grade” competencies (which are very commonplace is most organizations)?
So, when the timing was right and opportunity presented itself, I decided to go out on my own, form a company, with a dedicated focus on leadership development, coaching and organizational change.
I truly believe that all the above experiences I portrayed, enable me to significantly differentiate what I do for my clients in a most experiential, pragmatic, and systematic manner. Give me a chance to prove that to you and your teams.
Time for a culture audit? Talent alone is NOT enough. Next Level leaders know that higher performing cultures do not form on their own. What did your current culture form to? Building an exceptional culture where people thrive and do their best work takes purposeful focus. Positive cultures amplify talent-always! It’s a true leadership challenge to determine which levers to focus on to build culture. It’s complex. A comprehensive, experientially based assessment tool and process I use helps to identify specific focus areas and then strategies. This process incorporates proven underlying culture assessment attributes and factors. It will be customized for your particular needs. It’s powerful visually and analytically. Reach out for more information.
This is the Next Level investment your organization needs.
My diversity and depth of leadership experience is second-to-none and will inspire an unstoppable mindset in and through you.
Reach out so you and I can start road mapping the customized design for that leadership and team journey NOW.
Emotional IQ/Resiliency Strategies
Below is only one example of the comprehensive, customizable emotional IQ/resiliency program model I use to train and enable individuals and teams to build resilience, which directly impacts our well-being. There are over 50 strategies embedded in this program, which is typically delivered as a series. The program goes well beyond the conventional suggestions of yoga and meditation (nothing wrong with them, but they clearly don’t appeal to the masses). Resiliency is a resource that can be built. There is no one thing that enables each of us to build up our resilience. Rather, it’s through experientially based training ourselves to situationally apply several of the many strategies. It starts with a mindset and disposition of more intentional focus here.
Overview
Leadership is about INFLUENCE, motivation and persuasion of others to do their best and becoming more resilient to life’s challenges and stress. Leadership and transformational change is a journey! Projections show that 2024 and beyond will demand even greater leadership and organizational change agility than ever before. My life purpose is to teach and train you and your teams on principles and skills to best prepare you. These are principles and behavioral methods that are backed by science, research and experience.
Responding effectively as a leader or team is a not formulaic or doing “that one thing”, but about committing to intentionally mastering, experiencing and reinforcing many leadership principles, skills and behaviors as an integrated system. If there was a simple just one thing, everyone would be using it.
Leaders don’t “rise to the occasion”, rather, they perform to their level of training, skills and experience. When you experience the compound effect of purposeful training, you will be primed and adaptable and ready to perform at your best.
When applied consistently, you will find this program has far reaching benefits and impacts. It is comprehensive, complete, can scale and you will find is the only system you will ever need. It doesn’t rely on motivational sound bites as many programs do. It’s about application of highly proven best practices and methods.
Our work together will be most effective when we work in partnership. I will bring the compelling content and motivational energy. With you/your teams willingness to collectively engage in a critical and open discussion about leadership success and inhibitors, everyone grows TOGETHER. Your journey starts right here and now.
Reach out right now for a no cost overview of the program.
John Slavinski LLC
Contact
➤ LOCATION
Columbus, Ohio
☎ CONTACT
SlavinskiJack@gmail.com
(704) 936-6703
Twitter/X: @JackSlav
Now scheduling team training and 1:1 coaching sessions for 2H2024.
How I Work With You
Culture development PRocess
There is often a misunderstanding of the huge amplifier impact of culture on talent and how teams will perform. This enables your organization or team to define values and behaviors to purposefully build an exceptional, high performing culture identity. This requires advanced collection of culture assessment information from participants to develop strategies and action plans for thought provoking, strategic in session discussions and decision making. The goal is to provide you a culture values and behaviors framework for implementation.
Individual team and 1-on-1 Master Coaching
Designed for any of the above topics to meet developmental needs of the specific team or individual.
Lead4Influence Program
This is systematically designed leadership development and organizational change management training. The foundation of this is built upon the many connected and integrated mindset management strategies. Leaders at all levels can be two to four times more effective at personal development and team development as a result. The standard program consists of seven module-based sessions. Many of the modules directly impact social-emotional learning program goals. Positive mindset, character strengths, personal style assessment, self-awareness/emotional management, communication effectiveness, decision making, relationships & trust building, conflict management, accountability, and high performing team chemistry modules are available. The program includes over 200 proven leadership best practice strategies and actions.
Parent Education
Designed specifically to aid in parent education oriented presentations on any of the above material and topics.
Well-being, Building Emotional IQ/Resiliency Program
Here are integrated adversity, stress and forms of depression behavioral management methods and coping skill training. Most are struggling in many ways emotionally without understanding and application of these proven methods. The standard program is four to eight module-based sessions but is customizable. Topics such as: keeping self talk management, mindset, positive emotions, how to stay engaged in enjoyable work, having positive relationships, finding purpose, doing meaningful work and service and goal achievement are comprehensively covered in detail. Covered are well over 50 immediately useful, proven emotional resiliency building strategies and actions.
Keynotes & Motivational Speaking
Not just motivational, but also educational, to create immediate and lasting usefulness. Designed for any of the above topics to meet the needs of the particular program, event meeting or conference for any audience. This includes business, academic or athletics.
“You will see the difference in how your leaders and teams interact and how your organization performs and adapts to change.”
Reach Out
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