The program: A Comprehensive, Customized Approach

Participants in the Mobius Leadership Intensive learn to bring greater balance, focus, and vitality to their personal and professional lives. In a beautiful, natural setting, we combine executive coaching on a wide range of leadership and communication issues with an in-depth assessment of overall health, energy level, and well-being. Guided by extensive diagnostic work completed in advance, the training team designs a personalized leadership curriculum and comprehensive health program for each client. Over the course of the 20-hour program, participants gain the tools necessary to achieve work/life balance and develop a satisfying and sustainable lifestyle. They return to work renewed and ready to go.

Executive leadership
The first goal of the Mobius Intensive is fine-tuning participants’ leadership and communication skills. The unique format of our program — combining one-on-one training and small group interactions — enables us to provide personalized feedback, coaching, and targeted training tailored to participants’ individual challenges and goals. Session topics include principled negotiation, assertiveness and boundary setting, strategic influence, decision making, forming alliances, and building interpersonal skills. Each participant receives intensive training in several of the following areas:

Negotiation

• Dealing with difficult behaviors
• Engaging in principled negotiation
• Reaching agreement
• Developing tools for persuasion
• Managing long-term business relationships

Communication

• Building assertiveness and advocacy skills
• Maintaining professional and personal boundaries
• Saying “No”
• Understanding other perspectives
• Cultivating empathy
• Dealing with hostility and managing anger
• Resolving conflicts

Team building

• Running effective meetings
• Fostering cross-functional team work
• Facilitating group communication
• Negotiating alignment and influence
• Managing performance
• Harnessing emotional intelligence

Leadership

• Developing personal and professional visions
• Achieving work/life balance
• Managing time and energy and preserving one’s resources for leading
• Managing complex ethical dilemmas
• Image management (enhancing self-esteem, non-verbal communication, and charisma)
• Cultivating leadership virtues: Humility, excellence, and integrity
• Overcoming blocks to effective follow-through

Health and wellness
The Intensive’s second key goal is developing realistic, focused plans for attaining optimal energy and health. Professionals meet one-on-one with experts in nutrition, exercise, pain assessment, and mind/body medicine who are uniquely qualified to evaluate and address their health concerns. Health and wellness sessions focus on the following core areas:

Nutritional balance

• dietary assessment and planning
• attaining an optimal weight and
• attaining optimal body mass index
• boosting energy

Exercise

• detailed fitness analysis and personal coaching
• building strength and flexibility
• enhancing aerobic fitness

Care for pain and injuries

• evaluation of body stress and tension levels
• injury assessment and treatment planning
• stress reduction program

Mind/body movement

• enhancing range of motion
• relaxation and stress reduction
• increasing body awareness

The Business Case: Creating Healthy Balance in a Fast-paced Business Environment

The Mobius Intensive program was created to address an important and growing issue in our culture. Businesses are experiencing rapid change, exponential growth, increased competition, and the myriad pressures of globalization. They are facing a tough economic climate and are driving hard to succeed. As a result, many people in positions of authority and responsibility are experiencing high levels of stress, burnout, and interpersonal breakdown. Existing on-site training facilities have proved insufficient to meet the challenges that executives face in maintaining healthy patterns of self-care. Through the Mobius Intensive and follow-up coaching, professionals not only become more efficient and effective, but also gain a new sense of fulfillment and satisfaction in their lives. The world’s most successful leaders know that sacrificing personal well-being only restricts professional advancement and significant accomplishment. Not only is it possible to achieve success while maintaining a satisfying, sustainable lifestyle — it also takes much less effort. At Mobius, we can show you how.

Coaching

The Mobius coaching process begins well before you arrive for your Intensive sessions. Prior to your program, your coach will ask you to share your story, perhaps through an autobiography or business history, and will interview several people who know you well. This preliminary work is invaluable in clarifying your individual needs, goals, and professional challenges, giving the coach a broader picture of how best to assist you.
Building on the insights gained from your prework, your Mobius coach attends to the full range of concerns you need to address to make your vision a reality. These may include personal issues, organizational issues (such as optimal business structures, delegation of details, or hiring practices), or other types of roadblocks. The coach helps to break down these challenges into manageable pieces and design a plan for dealing with them.

A final, critical step in your coaching begins once your intensive program is complete: over the following six months, a coach will help you follow through and take the actions needed to achieve your goals. After identifying your vision and creating a strategic plan, following through is 80% of the work of success. This is where most people fall short and where your coach can be most helpful, by keeping your attention focused on doing what you’ve determined to do. The coach helps you identify strategies that will work best for you and designs a detailed plan for the months ahead. Then, each time you meet, you assess your follow-through success and re-strategize when necessary.

Our coaches have proven track records in helping individuals to follow through on their intentions and meet their goals. If you’ve ever felt frustrated in your attempts at positive change, follow-through coaching is a wonderful way to build your confidence as you revitalize your body, mind, and career. You’ll achieve consistent results, with rewards that only increase over time. As you translate your Mobius experience into life-long changes, your coach will help you focus on your goals and support you in taking consistent actions to allow the natural process of success to manifest in your life.