We are at the Crossroads of life more often than we think. Often, something unexpected comes along and radically changes our thinking and direction in life. This gain in insight and shift in reasoning often ignite a range of decisions that lay out a new path of understanding about our lives.
The Dr. Raymond Leslie Newkirk Crossroads Books Program
Designed to Navigate the Pitfalls & Tarpits of Relationships
Crossroads Program Objectives
First Objective: Build your effectiveness as a professional contributor to the success of your Relationships
Second Objective: Safely acquire potent relationship soft-skills to improve career performance.
Third Objective: Grow from an ad hoc or de facto person into a well informed and experienced person who forms positive relationships.
Book One: Executive Life in the 21st Century Part 1: Leadership in the Age of Cyber Terror
Putting Your Stake in the Ground * Building Your Framework for Success * Critical Success Factor Models for Effective Relationships * Fundamentals of Relationships in thy Age of Cyber Terror
Book Two: Executive Life in the 21st Century Part 2: Navigating the Next 25 Years
Understanding Your Colleagues in the Age of Cyber Terror * Clarifying Colleague Expectations * Moving From Beliefs and Values to Character * Beyond the Basics of Relationships
Book Three: Psychology of Insider Threat Prevention Part 1: Identifying the Pieces of the Puzzle
Building Authentic Cooperation * Returning to the Basics of Behavioral Consistency * Going to the Core of Workplace relationships * Mastering the Psychology of Insider Threat Prevention
Book Four: The Psychology of Insider Threat Prevention Part Two: Unifying Continuous Performance Management
Making Powerful Decisions * Mastering Relationships that Encourage People to Change * Attaining Insider Threat Prevention Soft-Skills and Mentoring Success * Establishing the Continuous Performance Management Environment * Linking Insider Threat Prevention & Continuous Performance Management
Book Five: Implementing Insider Threat Prevention Cyber Security Part 3: The Psychology of Insider Threat Prevention
Defusing the Confusing * Soft-Skill for Mastering Difficult Colleagues * Using Soft-Skills Mastery to Overcome Turbulence in Organizations and Teams
Book Six: The Psychology of Insider Threat Prevention Part 4
Insider Threat Prevention is Counter-Intuitive * Attaining Secure Teams and UlThule™ Performance
Book Seven: Adventures in Paleo-Leadership Part 1:
Discovering the Dawn of Leadership * Leadership is More than Trust & Verify * Emergence of Historical Leadership * Leadership is not Necessarily Positive * Leaders can be children
Book Eight: The Role of Intelligences and Emotions in Soft-Skills Success
Doing the Hard Work * Minding the Spirit * Soft-Skills of Influence to Change Minds * Understanding Emotions to Enable People to Change * Self-Awareness through Emotional Intelligence * Emotional Intelligence Requires Emotional Understanding
Book Nine: Coaching Insights of Dr. Ray
Where Do You Go From Here? This Book is the First Volume in a series of books consisting of the shared insights of Dr. Raymond Leslie Newkirk, including his ruminations and shared wisdom about human life, generally, and professional life specifically.
Book Ten: Building Workplace Relationships to Enjoy Career Success: Learning to Navigate the Sociopaths at Work
The title says it all. There are Sociopaths at work and experienced people astutely navigate them to reduce the possible tension that may emerge when working with them. This book delivers some valuable insight that can simplify one’s life in the workplace when the sociopaths are in charge of the pack.
Book Eleven: Cosmic Truth: God, Us, & the Extraterrestrials
Perhaps we ae not alone? Human Life is historical and ancient, and much history is missing. Yet people regularly report many strange things flying around in the skies. Some very reasonable people also report actually meeting extraterrestrials, the aliens from “out there”. many stories have been reported and many experiences have been discussed by some very knowledgeable sources. What’s going on? The answers are bigger than the question. This book makes some interesting claims as it details the experiences of believable people. This book is quite a trip. It goes way out there and back with everything returning safely.
Creation * Emergence * Development * Faith * God Divine Love * Humanity * The Cosmos * ALIENS
Book Twelve: Cosmic Truth: God, Us, & the Extraterrestrials - The Workbook
Complete the fun assignments in the Workbook to learn some possible truths about the hidden and very personal information regarding the ETs that many people ignore. When they call home, it is really a very very long distance call.
Book Thirteen: Love All Around
This book is a psychological and emotional journey into the historical development of the human family and what drives it to succeed in even the most difficult situations. Life is worth living, and only love makes it so. Where does this drive to live to love come from? Why is it the strongest impulse that showers us all with great hope for the future of humanity despite so many historical disappointments? We are still here, Thank God and Thank God for Love. It all begins with this. Divine Love.
Book Fourteen: Living a God Inspired Life
The book is joint project of Alexander Folk, the beloved Actor, and Dr. Raymond Leslie Newkirk. It address the gift of life and what really matters about life that makes it such a gift. Truth be told, it all begins in the Divine Mind of God. Life is not an accident, not really a mystery, not a mistake. It is God sharing the Love of God. When we begin to look deeply at this and experience the depth of such Divine Love, we cannot ignore this blessing. WOW! Imagine this “beyond understanding” sign of Love. Simply connecting with tis reality, experiencing this reality, and growing in this reality, this reality of Divine Love, ignites us to live a “God Inspired Life”. This is indeed the best life possible to live. God is very near to us and really loves us. All we need do to return such Divine generosity is to Live a God Inspired Life.
Book Fifteen: Dr. Raymond Leslie Newkirk on Who We Are
We live in a world of Relationships. We work, play, love, pray, and navigate our life through Relationships. Human being are Relationship Oriented in all we do. every cloistered monks and Nuns life is relationship devoted to God. If you want to understand human life more profoundly, study all you can about the nature of relationships. There are many kinds of relationships, many. This book is all about Relationships, including how to form them, manage them, how to transform them, direct them, enjoy them and even exit them. Some relationship are wonderful and many are not. Never waste your time with the Relationships that are not so enjoyable. If you want to learn about relationships and how to form and master them. This is the book for you. I have spent 50 years studying Relationships in many parts of the world. Even I enjoyed readying my book.
Book Sixteen: Executive Support Human Systems Methodology: Human Systems Management Beyond Project Management
Book Seventeen: Fundamentals of Requirements Analysis, (2004). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.
Book Eighteen: Introducing Configuration Management, (2003). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.
Configuration Management is an expansive topic that includes, technologies, software systems, outputs, and people. This is not something organization can do in their sleep. It requires requirements definition, deep planning, technical and human resources allocation, testing, and software and hardware systems integration, testing, and implementation.
Book Nineteen: UlThule™ - Achieving Performance at the Highest Level Attainable, (2003). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.
The concept of UlThule™ is derived from the attitudes of the Ancient Roman Generals about going into batt le where so much was at stake. It means doing the very best that you can do and then doing better than that. UlThule™ Performance is the kind of performance that is even beyond Peak Performance. It is rare but possible. It is referred to as record setting performance.
Book Twenty: Mastering Ethnic Diversity in the Workplace for Maximum Performance, (2003). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.
Book Twenty-One: A Conceptual Model for Building the 21st Century University, (2002). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.
Book Twenty-Two: Justifying Proposals (2001). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.
Book Twenty-Three: Proposing the Decision Support System, (2001). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.
Book Twenty-Four: New Product Development for the 21st Century, (2000). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.
Book Twenty-Five: Advanced New Product Development for the 21st Century, (2000). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.
Book Twenty-Six: Beyond the Year 2000 Crisis: Vision 21 - A Model for Business Growth in the 21st Century, (1998), SMI Press, Pleasant Hill.
Book Twenty-Seven: Time to Get Serious: Expanded Thinking for Executive Practice and Management Action, (1998), SMI Press, Pleasant Hill.
Book Twenty-Eight: Seventeen: Beyond the Year 2000 Crisis: Vision 21 - A Model for Business Growth in the 21st Century, (1998), SMI Press, Pleasant Hill.
Book Twenty-Nine: A Model Service Level Agreement for eCommerce, (1996). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.
Book Thirty: A Personal Statement on My Preferred Approach to Social Science Inquiry, (1995). SMI Press, Pleasant H ill, CA.
Book Thirty-One: Philosophical Foundation of a Meta-Methodology for Human Systems Design Inquiry (1989). SMI press, Pleasant Hill, CA.
Book Thirty-Two: The Executive Support Human System as an EGS, (1989). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.
Book Thirty-Three: Proposing the Decision Support System, (1988). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.
Book Thirty-Four: Beyond the Year 2000 Crisis: Vision 21 - A Model for Business Growth in the 21st Century, (1998), SMI Press, Pleasant Hill.
Book Thirty-Five: A Model Service Level Agreement for eCommerce, (1996). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.
Book Thirty-Six: Executive Support Human Systems Methodology: Human Systems Management Beyond Project Management, (1996). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.
Book Thirty-Seven: A Research Proposal for the Redesign of the Software Quality & Control Group (1995). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.
Book Thirty-Eight: The Challenge of Shifting to an Alternative Paradigm (1991). Systems Management Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.
Book Thirty-Nine: The Management Effectivity Analysis (1988). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.
Book Forty: Proposing the Decision Support System, (1988). SMI Press, Pleasant Hill, CA.
Book Forty-One: The Chronicles of the Making of A Philosopher, Book V, Ethics (1982). Columbia Pacific University, Mill Valley, CA.
Book Forty-Two: The Chronicles of the Making of A Philosopher, Book IV, Volume 1 Metaphysics (1981). Columbia Pacific University, Mill Valley, CA..
Book Forty-Three: The Chronicles of the Making of a Philosopher, Book III, Theodicy (1980). Raymond L. Newkirk, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Book Forty-Four: The Chronicles of the Making of a Philosopher, Book II, Epistemology is Philosophy (1980). Columbia Pacific University, Mill Valley, CA.
Book Forty-Five: The Chronicles of the Making of a Philosopher, Book I, What is Philosophy (1980). Columbia Pacific University, Mill Valley, CA.
Book Forty-Six: The Challenge of Shifting to an Alternative Paradigm (1979). Columbia Pacific University, Mill Valley, CA.
Managing our Crossroads of life sounds complicated already, doesn’t it. At times like this, it is good to sit back and listen to how we feel. Our emotions, after all, reveal a lot about our deep seated values.
PRESENTATIONS
Delivered more than 150 presentations, courses, and seminars to Corporate, Government, Military, and Association leaders in Rome, Italy, Namur, Belgium, Manila, Philippines, London, England, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Atlanta, Ga., Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y., Los Angeles, CA., Phoenix, AZ. San Francisco, CA.
Subjects Included the Following:
Ulthule Soft-Skills™ * Leadership Performance * Organization Design * Information Technology * Ethnic Diversity * Personal Quality * Strategic Soft-Skills * Discovering Core Values of Success * Problem Solving * Artificial Intelligence * Mastering Organization Change * Improving Soft-Skills Performance * Building Successful Soft-Skills * Mobilizing Innovation and Change * Building Personal Performance * Bases of Personal Competence * Evolutionary Guidance Systems * Soft-Skills in Human Activity Systems * Software Development Methodology * Methodology Design
LEADERSHIP PRESENTATIONS & PUBLIC SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
UlThule™ Leadership© * Discovering Core Values© * Leading Organization Change© * Improving Leadership Performance© * Building the Successful Work-Group© * Mobilizing Innovation and Change© * Building Group Performance© * The Bases of Competence© * Evolutionary Guidance Systems© * Technology in Learning© * Developing Intellectual Capital© * Social Cognition in Performance© * The Strategic Training Department© * Establishing a Performance Program© * The Internet Action Learning Model© * Mindfulness in Human Performance© * Models of a Learning Architecture© * New Methods of Design Inquiry© * The UlThule™ Organization©
ORGANIZATION PERFORMANCE SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
The UlThule™ Organization© * Total Performance Management© * The Design of Work-Group Systems© * The High Performance Environment© * Work-Group Performance Evaluations© * Work-Group Change Management© * High Performance Development© * Human Systems Management©
Systems Models Approach©
LEARNING &TRAINING PERFORMANCE SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Technology in Learning© * Developing Intellectual Capital© * Social Cognition in Performance© * The Strategic Training Department© * Establishing a Performance Program© * The Internet Action Learning Model© * Mindfulness in Human Performance© * Models of a Learning Architecture© * New Methods of Design Inquiry©
Representative Seminars, Workshops, and Speaking Engagements per Client
Part One
Building Effective Business Relationships - Mindmaker Inc.
Designing Your IPO Success Path - Mindmaker, Inc.
Critical Steps to Establishing a Corporate Spinoff - British Airways
Management Effectiveness Analysis - Burns Philp
Executive Information Systems - Digital Consulting
Leadership Effectiveness Analysis – AT&T
Metamethodology Design, The Foundation for Tomorrow - Executive Forum
Establishing the Client Server Environment - Specialty Brands
Program Management in Client Server Computing – Systems Integration Solutions, Inc.
Developing Your Business Continuity Plan - Specialty Brands
Software Development Productivity - National Computer Center. P.I.
Computer Operations Management in the 1990s and Beyond - IBC, London, Rome
The Hypergrowth/IT Workshop - Dell Computers
The Disruption Model of Strategic Planning - Dell Computers
Redesigning the Corporation as a Cluster Organization - PQ Group, Netherlands
Design of Workflow Systems - PQ Group, Netherlands
Integrating Human Resources Planning with the I/T Strategic Plan - IBC, London
Representative Seminars, Workshops, and Speaking Engagements per Client
Part Two
The Strategic Implementation of Client/Server Computing - Doctors Company
Designing the Corporate Human Resources Information System - Sola Optical
Establishing the Business Continuity Organization - Sola Optical
Total Quality Management and ISO 9000 - AT&T
Testing, Validation, and Verification of Software - Technology Transfer, Rome
Quality Assurance and Control - Jeddah, KSA & IBC, London
Implementing Software QA and QC - Matson Navigation
Establishing Change Control and Configuration Management - Walt Disney
Enterprise Architecture Planning and Design - Burns Philp
Developing Your Corporate Business and Systems Plan - IBC, London
Designing and Conducting Computer Performance Evaluations - Nations Bank
The Design of Executive Information Systems - DHL
Security for Distributed Information Systems - IBC, London, Rome, Amsterdam
The Capacity Management of Computer Systems - IBC, London
Ten Steps to Becoming a Technical Leader - AT&T
The Design of Global Communications Networks using the Distributed Access Model - IBC, London
Cybernetics, Living Systems Theory, and Organizational Behavior - Cyber. Congress, Namur, Belgium
Methodology Design via Potent MetaMethodological Approach – Digital Consulting, Atlanta, GA
Rapid Problem Solving through Applied Intuitive Solutions™ - UCF Incubator, Orland, FL