Culture, Insight Development, Eye-Zen English, & Authentix Coaches

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Intent and effect. We need/want/desire our intentions to become effect. But there is
behaviour in between. Yet, whether as leaders or followers, we want, if we are honest
and earnest, to communicate intentions, and or at least preliminary intents.

How do we communicate so that all involved in a team, whether two or more
people, can become comfortable with each others' intentions? We judge our selves
by our intents. But from others' perspectives of the effect of our intents, are they
congruent? Likewise, others' behaviours sometimes seem inconsistent with what we
sense their intentions to be. "Between the cup and the lip may appear a lot of slip!".

This site, designed for people either mandated or aspiring to lead or possessed with a
vision or ideas of substantial promise, offers introductions to theories and practices
by which we can work around or through "slippages between the cup and the lip" of
both self and our interlocutors. Despite our best intentions, these slippages sap our
productivities, both individually and collectively, and not infrequently result in
inadvertent sabotage. To make the best use of this site's resources, we invite you first
to consider a reality critical to successful participation in any organization: the effect
of culture on performance.
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In brief, figures gathered from an extensive survey by the authors of "Corporate Culture & Performance" and
displayed in the chart above tell us very clearly that constructive cultures do much, much better over the "long haul"
than defensive ones do. What kind of culture do you work in or lead? Is it a constructive, learning-oriented, aptly
focused, creatively and rationally applied one? There's no simple answer to that. Most people tell us "Yes, but
.........", and the "buts" describe beliefs or attitudes that inhibit the discovery and exchange of practically relevant
know-what and know-how. If that's your answer, Authentix Coaches can assist you -- either as an individual,
or as a leader with an organizational mandate, mission, or vision -- to clear those impediments to better
performance. Following are the services we offer:
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Authentix Coaches

		Leader Services. Want customized programs for "intrepreneurs" and leaders of organizations, large or small, to help
		grow and balance corporate prosperity and individual well-being? The chart above is proof that well-directed work to grow an aptly targeted and balanced corporate culture will be tangibly rewarded. Indeed, prudent investment in the growth of a culture capable of balancing the "triangle" of customer, shareholder,and employee relationships may be the longest-lasting pay-off that any company can undertake. But culture is a subtle phenomenon. Taken for granted, simplicities (including even "common sense") can be seriously misleading, so prudent leaders provide for sensitive coaching by which attitudes and beliefs can be surfaced, and employee engagement and corporate goals aligned. Eye- Zen English is a collection of principles and linguistics by which Authentix Coaches help leaders gain such insights. Take advantage of our experience of the means by which corporate culture can be grown, economically and surely, to one in which organically evolved values vitalize the largely unconscious but prosperity-limiting automatic assumptions that blind every organization. "Hard" performance outcomes emanate from working purposefully through the "soft" issues of aligning cultural, market, corporate, and individual values! See our Leader Services pages for more.

		Personalized Coaching. Want a real-time "mirror of no-nonsense empathy" for your thinking? Performance issues
		are often a matter of identifying the beliefs and tenets that bring unbidden anxiety and doubt into one's mind and the falsity of bravado into conversation. Such problem-solving obstacles are subtle but they can derail us or others in micro-seconds. You can dissolve or heal them by a combination of conversation and readings on psycho-philosophical subjects, ideally ones of close relevance to current but crucial work issues. Gain convenient access -- in person, by phone, or by email -- to expert know-how and materials proven to help people surface the speculations, guesses, presumptions, prejudices, and pre-suppositions that have been limiting your progress. Launch yourself into the world of significant achievement! Find out more from our Coaching page

		Mediation Services. Want to turn a dispute into an opportunity for adding value to both parties? Add value in a ???
		dispute??? That's right! Find out more about an ADR (alternate dispute resolution) approach that adds value in the face of disputed realities from our Coaching Mediation and Dialogue pages

		debateMATES. Want to master debating? Debating is a skill all leaders learn. The uniquely entertaining and
		educational program of debateMATES enables one to learn, experientially, both when not to engage in debate, when to do so, and how to assert one's views in socially critical contexts without introducing unnecessary controversy. Available today only in the Toronto area, debateMATES takes up where Toastmasters leaves off. Sharpen your earning power by practicing assertion of your most passionate views -- authentically, considerately, convincingly. Enjoy the fun of growing debating skills! Explore our debateMATES program page.

		Coaching Book/Video. Angus Cunningham, founding principal of *Authentix Coaches*, has a book/video proposal
		for sharing his insights from successes and failures, and far more valuable than either, his approach to learning -- in over 30 years as a corporate executive, management consultant in many cultures, coach in insight development, leadership and performance, and writer. This project, whose manuscript and videoscript are nearly complete, and for which support from widely recognized authors in related fields of expertise is beginning to be received (to add to Angus' coaching testimonials), will set out principles combining authenticity and empathy to achieve accuracy in use of language. By such means the parties to problem-solving conversations on a wide range of personal, corporate, and public issues can stay creatively rational until satisfaction of mutual needs for equanimous well-being are recognized and, hopefully, realized. This is a new branch of psycho-linguistics that people are beginning to call Rational Emoto- Linguistics. Angus has tested these principles in engagement with people confronting very challenging and perplexing problems requiring leadership and insight-based decision-making for satisfactory resolution, and found them helpful to both parties in creating agreement and prosperity. Colloquially, these principles have become known as *Eye-Zen* *English. ('Eye-Zen' is a convenient way to pronounce IHXEN, the acronym for "I have 'X emotion' now", which is the root linguistic to which Eye-Zen* communication principles are all rationally related). To inquire about this proposal, or participate in reviewing the pre-publication manuscript, please feel free to email Angus.

The chart below compares the financial performance over a decade of two kinds of organizational culture:
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