Shift Your Leadership With Our New 3-Day Workshops
What a time we live in! Some days, the leadership opportunities feel so exciting that you can’t wait to get out of bed and seize them. Other days, it feels more like this: In today’s volatile business environment, you as a leader are being confronted with a storm of unceasing challenges: radical change, competitive...
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In Search of Onsite Leadership Training?
Need a leadership development event for your next management offsite or in-house leader team meeting? We are proud to announce the latest tool in our leadership training arsenal, the Heroic Journey Leadership Experience! The Cramer Institute has partnered with CPG, a member of the Nitrous Effect Agency, to bring our very successful Heroic Journey workshops to...
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My Thanksgiving Wish for You
This is my first time posting so let me introduce myself. I’m John Davis, Managing Partner of The Cramer Institute and Kathy’s husband — now widower. This is also the first time I have ever spent Thanksgiving by myself — as in alone with no one else here. (Well, the puppies are here.) I am...
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Lead Positive Manifesto
When you ‘lead positive,’ you offer a compelling vision of the future by reframing problems into possibilities and appealing to a higher sense of purpose, a noble and mighty cause. When you think, speak, and act out of the positive side of the ledger, people feel more hopeful and confident about the future.
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Lead Positive The More Human Way (Free Webinar!)
I am so excited about my new webinar series with Terry “Starbucker” St. Marie on how to Lead Positive The More Human Way! If you don’t yet know who Terry is, you should! Terry is a writer, consultant, and startup investor living in Portland, Oregon. For the past 9 years he has published a popular blog featuring his...
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After Success, Four Ways To Keep The Momentum Going
You did it. You and your team set out to create change—whether it be implementing a new process, launching a new product, or transforming your organization’s culture—and you did it. Congratulations! But now what? Now you must find new ways to build on what has been achieved and extend the impact of what has been...
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Facing Up To Your Darkest Leadership Moment (And Coming Out On Top)
As a leader, you will likely face many dark moments. One will stand as the darkest, and it will take your supreme resolve to shift away from the fear of failure toward a place of knowing that change can successfully be achieved. The Supreme Ordeal is the fifth phase of the Heroic Journey of the Leader.* This is the time...
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How You Will Grow on Your Heroic Leadership Journey
The Journey is the fourth phase of the Heroic Journey of the Leader.* As you can imagine, it encompasses the majority of your adventure in terms of time and effort. As the leader, the challenges you encounter on your Journey will be the best problems you have ever had. Each setback will be an opportunity to eliminate what is...
ReadWhen There's No Turning Back: A Time for Exploration and Discovery
The Crossing of the Threshold is the third phase of the Heroic Journey of the Leader.* It occurs when you take concrete, intractable steps away from the way things are and toward the way things can be. It is your first step to relinquishing the status quo and creating change. Once you cross the threshold from “where...
ReadBattling Resistance When You Know What You Need to Do
Most of the time, what leaders find the most daunting is putting themselves and their vision out there. Resistance in the form of self-doubt can be all-consuming and paralyzing, even after you know what you need to do and the rewards in store. Resistance to the Call Resistance to the Call is the second phase of...
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