Happy New Year 2010 !
"Today's global financial crisis is a crisis of trust and confidence.
Job one of leaders today is to restore confidence by getting results in a way that inspires trust. It all comes back to the credibility and behaviour of the leader. When a person is not credible, no amount of "take charge bravado" will compensate for their lack of credibility." -Stephen M. R. Covey
In the knowledge economy, the most important work is conversation - and creating trust is the manager's most important job. Trust between a company's stakeholders, whether external or internal creates a bond that leads to better service, ongoing relationships and products or opens up new avenues of contribution and responsibility between a manager and an employee.
Talking about trust is the easy part engaging in a trustful relationship is the hardest because trust can be messy, difficult due to its vulnerability, conflict and ambiguity. At Xenergie, we see this issue regularly in our executive leadership coaching engagements. Vulnerability is a pre-condition of trust.
For managers steeped in rationalism, hierarchies, rule base decision making and authority based on titles, this triad of vulnerability, conflict and ambiguity threatens a loss of control.
In our last eZine in December we explained why leaders need coaching and why it's more useful than training and we hope we can be of service to you this year in order to support your change process from the old to the new economy.
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How to Kill a great Company
by Lorna McDowell
 Look below the surface at your culture in 2010.
"Whether you prevail or fail, endure or die, depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you". Jim Collins.
In his recent book, How the Mighty Fall, Jim Collins points out that the starting point for the destruction of a great company is not usually something from the outside, but something inside, a change in attitude - a "hubris" or overconfidence that breeds a culture of denial.
Attitude and culture are the keys to a company's future. We are told to hire for attitude. We could do better to fire for attitude. But hubris is one attitude that very few companies actually check for, in fact more often than not it is often encouraged and sought after, in the salvationist politics of leadership heroism that have grown up in the last decade.
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REMINDER: Team Working: Belbin Team Role Accreditation 23/24th February 2010, Reserve Your Dates!!
Become a Belbin Team Role Expert and Increase Effective Team Work
Belbin Train the Trainer - Become a Belbin Accredited Consultant
Barrie Watson, who works closely with Belbin Associates in the UK and Xenergie Consulting Ltd who have helped numerous organisations to bring about tangible performance improvements by applying the Belbin philosophy and technology, conduct the two-day course described below.
Next Intake: 23/24th February 2010 Price PP: €895.00
ADVANCED CLASS OFFERS
Book "Improve Your delegation and Achieve More Everyday using the Belbin Work Role Model" WITH the Belbin Certification entering voucher code 746420a9 and claim €115 discount !!
Train the Trainer Certificate in Coaching Teams 2-3rd March and 30th March followed by a consolidation day. Who is it for? Internal coaches and consultants who want to apply the Belbin methodology to coaching and transforming management teams. Early Bird Registration until end of January 2010 and receive 20% discount.
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The Fleas and the Elephant (Change Management Metaphor)
 by Gerry Ryan, Xenergie Associate
Once upon a time a colony of fleas lived on an elephants back.
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Belbin Work Role: Improve your delegation and achieve more everyday
Register your Early Booking Deposit (€300) to secure your place on Team Coaching prior to 31/01/2010 and get 
This event introduces Xenergie's Towards 2012: Change Leader Network and Transformational Change Leader Programme with an in-person collaboration event in which we will launch an inquiry into the nature of leading and supporting change through paradigm shift. 