Services to Leaders
What we do for our Clients
Authentix Coaches help leaders of organizations, including family enterprises and non-profits, set and
achieve their performance goals through application of principles that encourage an increase in the
authenticity of communications. Authenticity is a key to the efficiency of communications in the service of
problem-solving, team-work, negotiating, and mediational communications. So also is empathy. Indeed,
proficiency in living these values simultaneously is perhaps the most fundamental factor in the success of
virtually all programs of individual, team, or corporate productivity.
Most people find combining personal authenticity and empathy at the same time to be very hard. But, since
an essence of leadership is successful combination of authenticity and empathy, every organization must look
to its means of realizing the potential for proficiency in empathic authenticity in all its people. And, of course,
nowhere is this more crucial than at the top.
As time passes, a culture that assured performance success in the past falls out of date. And, because the
culture of an organization is primarily the responsibility of its top leaders, it is there that the best examples of
combining authenticity and empathy must be set. A CEO and his direct reports are wise, therefore, to find a
very visible and meaningful opportunity every now and then for doing so. Midway through 2008, a good
case can be made for senior leaders in Canada to single out the issue of workaholism:
Authentix Coaches help leaders of organizations, including family enterprises and non-profits, set and
achieve their performance goals through application of principles that encourage an increase in the
authenticity of communications. Authenticity is a key to the efficiency of communications in the service of
problem-solving, team-work, negotiating, and mediational communications. So also is empathy. Indeed,
proficiency in living these values simultaneously is perhaps the most fundamental factor in the success of
virtually all programs of individual, team, or corporate productivity.
Most people find combining personal authenticity and empathy at the same time to be very hard. But, since
an essence of leadership is successful combination of authenticity and empathy, every organization must look
to its means of realizing the potential for proficiency in empathic authenticity in all its people. And, of course,
nowhere is this more crucial than at the top.
As time passes, a culture that assured performance success in the past falls out of date. And, because the
culture of an organization is primarily the responsibility of its top leaders, it is there that the best examples of
combining authenticity and empathy must be set. A CEO and his direct reports are wise, therefore, to find a
very visible and meaningful opportunity every now and then for doing so. Midway through 2008, a good
case can be made for senior leaders in Canada to single out the issue of workaholism:
Authentix Coaches Leadership Services
We each have within us what we need to get what we truly want from without.
But this knowledge is esoteric, and consequently both doubted and easily forgotten: some of our associates
have never either learned or appreciated its truth. Yet, when we call it to mind, and uncover with focused
inquiry the implications, and also the limitations, of this ancient insight into our current and expected futures,
we find our balance.
Balance, whether within or without, is not easy to discern. When do I have equanimity, when ignorance?
When do you? The answer is never clear in a hurry, although the hasty may claim it to be obvious. Yet isn’t
that why we are entrepreneurs and leaders – bearers of unavoidable risk in solving meaningful problems,
capturers of worthwhile opportunities of value to many, not excluding ourselves?
The imbalances without that Authentix Coaches most often sense are those between corporate and
individual well-being. Much of the thinking we do and the action we take on behalf of our enterprise clients
is directed to finding and maintaining balance between these two intermittently contending interests. Such
contentions have, in recent decades, grown more vociferous and determined, and not infrequently for
painfully valid causes -- for workaholism and corporate instability are in this era everywhere rampant. Yet a
balance found between "leaders" and "workers" or between your company and your customers and clients
will falter if it is not part of a larger balance with society and nature created for the enterprise by its leaders
and sponsors.
What imbalances do you sense might be silently threatening your company?
Authentix Coaches offer expertise in the following Leadership Services:
Explore some of the insights we have gained from our experiences in many fields of large and small
enterprise. Click on a button in the navigation bar below:
We each have within us what we need to get what we truly want from without.
But this knowledge is esoteric, and consequently both doubted and easily forgotten: some of our associates
have never either learned or appreciated its truth. Yet, when we call it to mind, and uncover with focused
inquiry the implications, and also the limitations, of this ancient insight into our current and expected futures,
we find our balance.
Balance, whether within or without, is not easy to discern. When do I have equanimity, when ignorance?
When do you? The answer is never clear in a hurry, although the hasty may claim it to be obvious. Yet isn’t
that why we are entrepreneurs and leaders – bearers of unavoidable risk in solving meaningful problems,
capturers of worthwhile opportunities of value to many, not excluding ourselves?
The imbalances without that Authentix Coaches most often sense are those between corporate and
individual well-being. Much of the thinking we do and the action we take on behalf of our enterprise clients
is directed to finding and maintaining balance between these two intermittently contending interests. Such
contentions have, in recent decades, grown more vociferous and determined, and not infrequently for
painfully valid causes -- for workaholism and corporate instability are in this era everywhere rampant. Yet a
balance found between "leaders" and "workers" or between your company and your customers and clients
will falter if it is not part of a larger balance with society and nature created for the enterprise by its leaders
and sponsors.
What imbalances do you sense might be silently threatening your company?
Authentix Coaches offer expertise in the following Leadership Services:
- VMVC -- Vision-Mission-Values Coherence
- SPSP -- Strategic Positioning, Structure, & Process
- LCDC -- Leadership Capacity Development & Coaching
Explore some of the insights we have gained from our experiences in many fields of large and small
enterprise. Click on a button in the navigation bar below:
Authentix Coaches
div. SRL Systemtree Resources Ltd (est. 1980)
div. SRL Systemtree Resources Ltd (est. 1980)
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We can identify one level in the chain of causes of workaholism from examining the chart above. When new
technology is introduced, 53% of people – according to a 2006 poll of working Canadians – spend more hours
at work, and 57% spend fewer hours at home. This suggests we are now using technology in the service of
“the god of competitiveness” rather than in the service of people’s well-being. Logical as the worship of the
“Loch Ness monster god of competitiveness” may be to the functioning of what is often called our “economic
system”, such worship is surely collective insanity -- as books such as clinical psychologist Bryan Robinson's
classic "Chained to the Desk" make very clear. We would be wiser if we were able to reverse these priorities.
And we can, for being competitive is a means to an end, rather than an end that any sane person is wise to
value for itself.
technology is introduced, 53% of people – according to a 2006 poll of working Canadians – spend more hours
at work, and 57% spend fewer hours at home. This suggests we are now using technology in the service of
“the god of competitiveness” rather than in the service of people’s well-being. Logical as the worship of the
“Loch Ness monster god of competitiveness” may be to the functioning of what is often called our “economic
system”, such worship is surely collective insanity -- as books such as clinical psychologist Bryan Robinson's
classic "Chained to the Desk" make very clear. We would be wiser if we were able to reverse these priorities.
And we can, for being competitive is a means to an end, rather than an end that any sane person is wise to
value for itself.