Activating Your Ambition
the asterisk after "You can do anything you set your mind to*"
Welcome to Activating Your Ambition
TM,
where ambitions turn into realities.
After being part of many organizational turnarounds,
helping individuals achieve their goals and to be sure experiencing disappointments
along the way, we've learned firsthand what it takes for people and
initiatives to be successful. Activating Your Ambition
TM is the result of what
we’ve learned in the process of failing and succeeding in raising the level of
people's performance.
A key principle
we've learned is
that the people and collections of people that are most successful are action
oriented. In particular, they continuously look for opportunities to improve.
They have an “I can do better” attitude. But this attitude isn’t the reason that
seemingly everything they touch turns to gold. The root of their success lies in
what gives them this attitude. It is the confidence that comes with having the
ability to develop, improve, and overcome hardship. They don't rely on one
strength, the proverbial hammer looking for a nail, or their past
accomplishments. They continuously develop. They improve their strengths
and overcome their weaknesses building a robust
set of capabilities that provide tremendous competence and confidence.
Raising the bar of
performance doesn't require analytical intelligence or a special genetic make-up.
It depends more on desire and discipline. Yet it still takes more. At
the practical level where people turn what they want to do into how they to do
it, these qualities are insufficient. It takes not only the mindset, but the ability. It takes the ability to
execute. And its not the ability of a single old worn out hammer, but the
ability of a suite of tools each accomplishing the task for which they were
intended.
Many
business initiatives, strategic plans and training programs fail to deliver
their potential because they are implemented as impersonal isolated
quick-fix programs that completely ignore the organization’s ability to execute.
Standalone and impersonal might work for installing a new piece of equipment,
but where behavioral change and individual improvement are required, it isn’t
effective. Behavioral change best happens when it is made personal. It must not
only be embedded into the fabric of the organization, but into every
individual’s ability. Initiatives that are detached from the enablers to
behavioral change rarely achieve their intended results.
Activating Your
Ambition outlines a systematic means to accomplishment by focusing on what it
takes to effect behavioral change. It is a mindset and approach that helps you
and those you influence make real and sustainable change. It is based on eight
principles that provide the tools to overcome obstacles and reach new levels of achievement. It
is a framework you can use over and over to develop new skills, stop bad habits,
create new behaviors and achieve new results. It is a practical approach that will give you everlasting insight into how to get out of your
comfort zone and reach new levels of success that may have eluded you before.
The unique value
Activating Your Ambition provides is the how, not merely the
what or the why of self-improvement. Rather than coming away merely informed or feeling entertained,
you learn specificially how to make substantive and sustainable
improvements in yourself and in the people around you. It enables you to
seize the opportunity for improvement that lies within you, in your work, in
your home, in your place of worship or wherever. Its proven principles and insights provide the practical means to reaching levels of performance
that you might not have thought possible.
Activating Your Ambition is for employees who want to
perform better in their jobs and make more money. It is for executives who want
to become better leaders. It is for parents who want to raise better children.
It is for spouses who want to improve their marriage. It is for athletes who
want to spend more time on the winner’s podium. It is for anyone that wants to
ensure the books they read, the seminars they attend, the initiatives they
conceive, the plans they create or the coaching they receive gets reliably
applied and transformed into sustainable results. It is for anyone that wants to
reliably turn their ambitions into realities.
Alpine Link helps individuals, teams and coaches activate their ambitions through several
offerings:
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The book - Activating Your Ambition - soon to be released.
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The companion workbook - Activating Your Ambition Roadmap Workbook
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Activating Your Ambition Workshops and Seminars - one day programs
customized to your needs and provided at your choice of venue.
click
here for a workshop brochure.
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Activating Your Ambition Coaching - one-on-one coaching to help
executives develop their SCOPE of Leadership™, hone their peak leadership skills
and enhance their individual performance.
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Activating Your Ambition Coaching for Coaches - Training for
executive and life coaches who want to learn the eight principles that reliably
enable people to make sustainable changes in their behavior.
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Activating Your Ambition Skills, Interests and Abilities Worksheet -
click
here for worksheet.
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Activating Your Ambition Goal Setting Worksheet - click here for
worksheet.
For more
information about Activating Your Ambition, call Mike Hawkins at 970-453-4924 or email
ambition@alpinelink.com.