Leading Concepts Leadership Development and Team Building

Subject: Experience for Rapid Behavior Change

You will only increase the leadership competency of your people by allowing them more opportunity for experience – Leadership Experience. Leadership principles are nearly universal.

The same principles that are used to successfully lead a project team are used to lead a sales experience organization or a tech staff. The better those principles are incorporated into the operating habits

of your people, the more advantage you will have. The challenge of corporate team building and leadership development is how to find and provide a leadership experience that is swift, effective

and which provides a high return on investment.

Since 1993, Leading Concepts, Inc. (LC) has provided a proven, immersion team building and leadership training experience that uniquely meets all of those criteria. Granted, our courses look different, but that is because we have fully incorporated the foremost psychology on adult experiential learning and combined it with extensive training and business experience. We have trained thousands of professionals in our Teams / TLC Experience and Communication / Compass courses with demonstrable results. Dean Hohl, a former U. S. Army Ranger, author, speaker and entrepreneur, guides Leading Concepts, Inc. and has developed a program that accomplishes its objective with overwhelming consistency. Dean has brought together a positive training program that utilizes the methods we instinctively and empirically know are most effective in adult education. People learn by doing. LC gets leaders leading; making mistakes, evaluating decisions, and doing it again in rapid succession.

The Ranger Teams / TLC Experience™ is a positive, adult experiential training

program. The Leading Concepts model is an empirically proven leadership development program using immersion methodology.

Our use of the Army Ranger framework is not only in keeping with the experiential aspect so necessary in adult learning, it is actually the ultimate evolution of all experiential training. Accepting the need for the student’s active involvement in their learning, and recognizing that the

activities must be leadership (team) focused, any advancement of experiential training will eventually come to some sort of team-based, competitive activity. Then the activity must meet several important criteria in order to make it viable for the diversity of people in corporate America. Both women and men must be able to participate equally. People at every point on the spectrum of physical fitness, from every technical expertise, job title and level of education must be able to learn in the same environment.

The pursuit of a less military alternative naturally leads to some sort of sporting event, ropes course, or outdoor adventure course. You can brainstorm, scratch notes on the wall, and really think out of the box, and you will not find a suitable alternative to the immersion training found through Leading Concepts. The Ranger Teams / TLC Experience™ fully engages the

senses and attention of its participants so as to internalize for them enhanced skills in teamwork, leadership and communication. The military aspect is the fully functional attendant to the primary purpose, an aspect that no other construction can match. Not only is it overwhelmingly proven, it naturally allows for the variables in people’s gender, skills, education and physical fitness.

The ranger mission framework allows for the frequent repetition of leading. It allows for the planning, execution, and analysis of a team task. It allows for the complete involvement of each of the participants at every step, whether a leader or follower. It allows for the immediate illumination of the relationship between actions and consequences. It provides the ability to learn how to do things better through educated analysis and experimentation. It allows the consequences of mistakes to be experienced in a training environment and not in the office environment, where they would be much more costly. It compresses the on-the-job learning cycle from months and years down to four days. It is an experience that aids in the internalization of positive practices of teamwork, leadership and communication.

There is no substitute for repeated opportunities to lead and learn and succeed!