Good Relationships are for Everyone.

Over the years, I have read mountains of material about “Good Relationships”. For several reasons, I do not even like the expression “Good Relationships”. This is such an arbitrary moral expression that offers no clear meaning. What is a Good Relationship?

My Soft-Skills Focus

Everyone Can Benefit

I have dedicated much of my professional life and education to developing a new Problem-Solving Paradigm, the Applied Intuitive Solutions™, or AIS™, process. As an author of Soft-Skills Mastery and related topics, I am dedicated to delivering the very best Soft-Skills Mastery process possible to every person who desires to master their soft-skills. My goal is to offer every interested person:

  • Affordable & Intelligent Problem-Solving Mastery: Everyone deserves to master their Problem-Solving skills without exhausting themselves.

  • Comfortable Problem-Solving: Everyone deserves a potent, intelligent, and virtual problem-solving development program that naturally responds to the capacity and skill level of each person.

  • Responsive Readership Service: Every Book-Lover deserves responsive, appropriate, and effective content that delivers what it promises.

  • Global Rapid Soft-Skills & Problem-Solving Development: Everyone deserves access to soft-skills solutions whenever and wherever they travel to leverage problem-solving to enhance positive results.

  • Rapid Soft-Skills Solutions: Everyone deserves access to content that enables them to design soft-skills solutions whenever they need them. As an author, I take pride in assisting both new and expert problem-solvers in finding more effective soft-skills solutions more rapidly.

  • Continuous Soft-Skills Problem-Solving: Every person deserves the opportunity to refine their soft-skills as a component of their continual self-development.

  • Access to Continuous Soft-Skills Development: Every person deserves access to content that assists them with delivering soft-skills solutions whenever possible.

  • Fun with Soft-Skills Problem-Solving: Everyone deserves access to tools and techniques that transform Soft-Skills Problem-Solving into an enjoyable hobby that enriches a person’s quality of life while building his or her soft-skills.

AIS™ for a Soft-Skills Focused Environment

I offer unique content designed to enhance the mastery of the critical soft-skills that make success possible. My soft-skills publishing environment offers:

  1. Soft-Skills Mastery Development & Mentoring

  2. Soft-Skills Content designed to enable people to ask and answer more relevant soft-skills questions and elaborate on important matters that impact continuous self-development.

  3. Relevant and hard hitting blogs and podcasts to discuss emerging issues.

  4. Newsletters to share insights about topics of interest within the Soft-Skills and Problem-Solving community.

  5. Opportunities to purchase Books & E-Books focusing on soft-skills-development content.

  6. Opportunities to enjoy online learning via E-Books acquisition.

  7. Opportunities to engage in R&D using cases and a library of practice-based content.

Proven Solutions for Real World Problems

I write books to assist people with solving everyday problems by offering proven soft-skills solutions derived from real-world projects.  As an author, I make my Applied Intuitive Solutions™ (AIS™) available to audiences as a problem-solving repository. I share my content to enable readers to apply my Applied Intuitive Solutions™ to enhance their mastery of the core skills that inform the basis of personal soft-skills competence as they solve workplace challenges. I even deliver AIS™ to enhance relationships.

Collaborative Environment

My collaborative approach builds a community of experts that encourages serious dialogue about the challenges facing people as they transition to constantly emerging models of human relationships. My Intelligent Solutions on Demand™ (iSOD™) encourage people to develop more potent soft-skills to increase their own social effectiveness by:

  • Using the Internet to respond to social Followers on-line.

  • Publishing content to expand thinking about the nature and development of the positive soft-skills that build spheres of personal recognition and influence and enhance interpersonal relationships at home and in the workplace.

  • Connecting with a global audience of like-minded persons to complement their own soft-skills development processes by making my content available to interested persons.

  • Encouraging people to develop, share, and market their own insights.

I am working to create a Soft-Skills Mastery Community of interested persons by transforming the experience of people who aspire to take their place at the Pinnacle of Soft-Skills Mastery. I also:

  • Blend successful soft-skills development practice with the collaboration capabilities of publishing to reduce dependency on consulting, training, and thus transform soft-skills problem-solving.

  • Take my authorship to its logical destination by optimizing the link between soft-skills theory and practice and social skills problem definition and solution.

  • Facilitate the development of intelligent Solutions On-Demand™ (iSOD™) to enhance Soft-Skills Mastery by offering books that highlight successful experience as a learning assistant.

  • Expand the current practices of soft-skills development by blending the strengths of E-Books delivery to add authorship value that enhances soft-skills-performance ratios.

Knowledge Loss

I have witnessed the increasing loss of expertise, skill, and competence nearly everywhere and especially in the workplace over the last 60 years. Agreeing with others that the gap between knowledge and performance has widened, my publications deliver professional soft-skills enhancement through specific intelligent Applied Intuitive Solutions™ that enhance the core areas of Soft-Skills Mastery especially including:

(1) Managing Self,

(2) Communicating Well,

(3) Managing People and Tasks, and

(4) Mobilizing Innovation and Change.

Where the Soft-Skills Mastery Content Came From

Books matter because they can rapidly deliver evidence-based solutions to rapidly resolve Soft-Skills problems. As an author, I offer the content that makes Soft-Skills Mastery meaningful.

  • Content comes directly from the field of real experience in corporation, institutions, and government agencies. 

  • Content emerges from the consulting knowledge warehouse of the Systems Management Institute.

  • I have built an impressive repository of intellectual capital, consulting knowledge, and project data.  

  • Content is derived from more than 15 different industries and more than 20 different kinds of services. 

  • I have derived content from banking and finance, manufacturing, logistics, communications, software development, management consulting, education, entertainment, marketing and sales, research and development, high technology, insurance, government, defense, medical, aviation, construction, foods, optical, and distribution industries.

  • Content represents (a) problem solving, (b) management development, (c) technology development & implementation, (d) staff development & education, and (e) soft-skills development & mastery.

  • Derived the Content from following global engagements: 

  • In Asia, I derived content from the design of an Electronic Commerce Architecture to support a global economic development network, and the design of a Military Logistics System.

  • In Europe, I derived content from corporate restructuring projects that involved the design of cluster organizations, implementation of information technologies, automation of workflows, and the development of marketing and sales programs. 

  • In the Middle East, this author derived content from the development of automated logistics systems, five-year strategic Information Technology plans, and systems management, vendor evaluation services, and the design of Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS). Take a minute to write an introduction that is short, sweet, and to the point.

  • In the U.S.A., I derived content from program management projects that involved Change Management and Configuration Control, Business Process Re-Engineering, Executive Support Systems Design, Business Process Modeling, Client Server Computing, QA & QC Implementation, Business Continuity Planning, Training and Systems Development, Evaluation of Information Technology, Re-Engineering of Software Development and Business Environments, Evaluation of Proposals for Information Technology, TQM/Testing, Facilitation of E-Commerce, Assistance in Visioning, Mission Definition, Divisional Redesign, Information Technology Interface Design and Implementation, Business Continuity Planning, Implementation of Electronic Document Interchange, and ISO 9000 audits.

Content represents my effort to make available in book form, broad and in-depth soft-skills mastery experience of demonstrated value within the Leadership, Learning, Business, Technology, and Consulting industries for access by individuals and teams who see Soft-Skills Mastery as a valuable life-long process of self-directed learning.

My Content Represents Consulting Investments Exceeding Many Millions of Dollars

  • I transformed this consulting knowledge into special skills-based programs and books to share this valuable information with those wishing to enhance their soft-skills practice and workplace performance. 

  • I have made the content available at a fraction of the cost paid by organizations around the world. My soft-skills mastery content has undergone the validation of professional use prior to publishing it in book form for use as an aid in soft-skills development. 

In Culture, I Explore

  • Process Values and Beliefs,

  • Process Attitudes and Behaviors,

  • Responsiveness to Process Change,

  • Leadership Attention to Process,

  • Process Social Networks

CORE VALUES

Offering a library of workplace-authentic soft-skills development content, a mindful learning book architecture, and a cost-effective and simplified delivery system which forms an exciting and expanding learning opportunity, I am at the forefront of the problem-solving revolution in Soft-Skills Mastery and Performance Improvement.

Global Virtual Soft-Skills Mastery to Guide the World

  • Cost effective and convenient books focusing on of soft-skills development.

  • Immediate application through my “Use Books While You Learn” approach.

  • Core applied content as a shortcut to practical soft-skills mastery.

  • Professional and Personal attainment of Soft-Skills Competence.

  • Enhanced soft-skills competence through books inspired by life-long experience.

  • Efficient, effective, quick, and targeted content via E-Books and Print Books.

  • Making life easier for people interested in mastering the Soft-Skills shared insights. 

  • Books that mean something to people interested in developing their soft-skills. 

  • Offering a Soft-Skills Mastery Library that enables interested people to become recognized and respected for their expertise and soft-skills mastery. 

  • Making a difference in the emerging world of social systems networking. 

  • Focusing on soft-skills and problem-solving, and skills transformation through reading. 

  • Changing the framework of Soft-Skills Mastery and Personal Transformation.

Delivering Emotionally Engaging Problem-Solving through the AIS™ Book Library

Using Successful Problem-Solving Experiences: The Future is Today

“My Soft-Skills Mastery Process offers an attractive value proposition.  It delivers the personal benefits of efficiency, quality, service, and speed  to deliver real value to organizations, teams, workgroups, and individuals.”

In Books, I deliver AIS™ that address:

  • Soft-Skills Mastery Skills Development,

  • Soft-Skills Mastery Process Education and Learning,

  • Problem-Solving Mastery Process Collaboration and Communication,

  • Problem-Solving Mastery Process Knowledge and Management.

Without getting too technical, I analyzes content developed over a period of 50+ years.  I gathered insights from around the world that informed my content. I then derived human problem-solving insights that would not be obvious even with modern A/I and big data applications.

A an author, I possess an extremely large repository of proprietary knowledge, information, and data stored in my Virtual Expert Intelligence Systems (VEIS).  I derived the repository of content from the solutions i delivered during consulting engagements. I analyzed these solutions for suitability using a set of proprietary algorithms.  I, then, transformed them into intelligent Applied Intuitive Solutions™ (iAIS™) to rapidly close the gap between Problem Definition and solution delivery using predictive models built from actual longitudinal application. My Virtual Expert Intelligence System (VEIS) assists individuals with rapidly solving a large array of soft-skills deficiencies. My books inform interested persons about the actions they can complete to rapidly solve a large range of hard, soft, static and dynamic problems in hard real-time using the knowledge derived from previous successful experience.

The Future of he Author’s Soft-Skills Development Program

In the next few years, I will take both quantitative and qualitative content and leverage it to quickly identify, authenticate, and resolve a wider range of soft-skill problems in “hard” real-time. My books will prepare people to leverage the problem-solving history of similar populations to predict their solution outcomes. Thus, my books will enable concerned people to eliminate the actions that continually generate the reoccurring problems that are archetypical of common situations.  This is transformational.  My books will introduces a new paradigm of soft-skills problem-solving that ignites a new approach to learning and development in individuals and teams. My iAIS™ environment transforms soft-skills experience at home, in the workplace, and in social settings. Interested people, especially those who read my books, will move from failed impersonal activities into an environment of personalized, predictive, and highly rewarding problem-solving engagements.  For organizations using my iSIA™ content, individual and team performance will increase as loyalty deepens through the attainment of enhanced soft-skills mastery.

As a potent problem-solution framed environment, my iAIS™ books enable interested readers to more appropriately connect to colleagues during digital problem-solving interactions. Through my iAIS™ Library my books meet end-users where they are. Offering “self-service soft-skill based solutions” across channels that effortlessly deliver personalized conversations, my books enable those who read them to retain knowledge more effectively than people who use traditional coaching, consulting, and training services. Moreover, as voice recognition technologies (Siri/Alexa) become commonplace in every enterprise, end-users will speak more and type less. In conversation focused on problem-solving, my books will deliver a set of intelligent Solutions On-Demand™ to enable the design of conversational soft-skills strategies that transform problem-solving into emotionally engaging intelligently guided soft-skills based experiences.

My iAIS™ Library delivers readers five potent soft-skills based ways to emotionally and successfully connect to colleagues during critical problem-solving interactions:

  1. Value a Leader’s time. The gap between Problem Definition and Problem-Solving, the time that the colleague is waiting for an answer, is eliminated.  This delivers an additional opportunity for being more productive. My iAIS™ Library transforms problem-solving into a real-time conversation. Since problem-Solving and conversations have a beginning, middle and an end, people can use my books as a iAIS™ Platform to deliver a more simple and effective conversational end-user experience. Colleagues can now use my iAIS™ Library to break down and direct the conversation about problem-solving at every level from Problem Definition to Problem-Solving and solution implementation.

  2. Identify the problems more accurately. My iAIS™ Library delivers the power to collapse the time required to adequately understand and identify the immediate Problem Definitions. Now every search, link, query, or preference becomes meaningful. No action is wasted. For the iAIS™ Library, every action becomes a clue to what people intend to do next in solving any problem. Using the iAIS™ Library’s rapid intelligence method, people receive personalized solutions to their unique soft-skill problems. 

  3. Anticipate what problems that people need help solving. If you work for a customer service organization, the iAIS™ Library will proactively enable you to know how to resolve a range of soft-skills based customer problems before they occur. If you are a sales pro, the iAIS™ Library will enable you to use your mobile device to more rapidly understand your customer’s behavior and manage it appropriately.

  4. Make the entire Soft-Skills Problem-Solving experience more effective and enjoyable. Rather than making problem-solving tedious and threatening, the iAIS™ Library serves as a Problem-Solving Personal Avatar. The iSIA™ Library can gamify problem-solving. In this way, the iAIS™ Library can transform the emotions of the people involved in many situations.

  5. Inspire confidence in the organization across every conflict point. The iAIS™ Library does not energize problem-solving for a single person alone, but it can also deliver rapid solutions that build the productivity of the entire organization. The people and enterprises who love their own personal brands are the ones who invest in the end-to-end problem-solving capability delivered by the iAIS™ Library. People in Dell, Disney, and Bank of America are the three that stand out. From supply chain to financial giant, the iAIS™ Library brings the power of rapid soft-skills problem-solving into every challenge.

Soft-Skills Mastery introduces many new and wonderful places within ourselves. We will see things that we never saw before and we will understand things that we never thought about before. The secret is to keep everything in balance because we want to increase our integrity and gentleness as we learn to become “Masterful People”.

Message From Ray Newkirk

Several decades ago while working on a new book, I received a phone call from a concerned manager of a company in Austin, Texas. He wanted to retain my services for several weeks to evaluate their logistics outsourcing program.

This manager explained that I came highly recommended and knew that my company offered the services this manager required. So we proceeded to explore the issue more fully. Seven months earlier, the company had begun the most significant strategic program in its history. Subsequently several executives had become increasingly uneasy about the rate and direction of progress and decided to engage a high impact Consulting Specialist to get the program back on tract, the reliability path forward as they put it. This company wanted to enhance decision-making by obtaining an external source of objective information about the effectiveness of the program.

Excited about the opportunity, I accepted the engagement and the rest is history. That company became a leader in what it does because it understood the value of accurate information in decision making and the importance of leadership and organization effectiveness. Within weeks of contacting me, the company received the information it sought and responded to my recommendations by redirecting its project structure and organization design.

This project was indeed a very complex and dynamic engagement consisting of cycles of coaching, mentoring, evaluation, and deliverables. The pressure to perform was intense. With a great deal at stake, the results were critical. In such difficult situations, top notch leaders find a way to succeed. In this instance, this client looked to the kind of difference our company makes in delivering effective results.

For more than 35 years, I have assisted leaders in improving organization performance and project delivery. Our programs have enabled leaders at Pacific Bell, Bank of America, and the Royal Saudi Naval Forces among others to transform and turnaround difficult projects. Our leadership, enterprise, and project audits have revealed that many leaders do not discover the true state of the situation until their project has spiraled out of control. In these cases, enlightened management may call upon the expertise of the most qualified and able consultants they can find to return the troubled project back to the path of profitability.

Would you like an independent evaluation of your social-skills environment that gives you the total picture of where you are with your people on the performance and reliability path? Would you like to discover for yourself my analysis of the situation impacting your management methods and project plans and identify the roadblocks to their implementation? Would you like to increase your personal effectiveness and improve the performance and motivation of your organization? Would you like to obtain the leverage of a career self-renewal? My books will assist you in going from here to there.

Please take a brief break from your busy schedule and read the following complementary articles about Performance, Competence, and Leadership as a way of introducing ourselves. It offers an emerging perspective on the problem of performance and the role of competence in attaining effective leadership. It is worth nothing that these articles present the rationale guiding our Strategic Management Services and suggests some key points about the Problem of Performance and how to overcome it. We hope you enjoy the articles and gain some additional insight into your profession. We look forward to contacting you.

My Books Focus on Improving Soft-Skills Performance& Relationship Formation?

This site is the principal path for delivering information about my books and my Soft-Skills Mastery approach. Here, I introduce my Books and deliver an interesting environment for learning about the challenge of Soft-Skills Mastery and Rapid Problem-Solving. I encourage you to take a virtual tour of this interesting campus. This is not just another web site. It is a free learning environment for people interested in mastering their soft-skills and learning something about how to more rapidly solve problems correctly.

As a Soft-Skills Mastery Specialist, I am concerned about human performance, everyone’s performance including Leader and follower performance.  I am a holistically oriented Specialist who leverages developments in Human Dynamics, as well as Clinical and Social Psychology, to build bottom-line performance. Every program I offer emphasizes both social and soft-skills.  For example, my Virtual Commerce soft-skills content delivers a Human Capital Development framework for optimizing the soft-skills characteristic of leader and follower relationships.

  • My Proposal Studies soft-skills content explores the proposal process as an in-depth process consisting of both the Leader and follower, or team, dimensions of performance. 

  • My Project Initiation Studies soft-skills content examines the leader and team soft-skills that keep every project on the reliability path forward.  My Project Initiation Studies content further examines the specific Leadership activities and skills build successful teams.

  • Also, my Enterprise Audit Process Studies soft-skills content examines the soft-skills that reduce the weaknesses inherent in enterprise-wide initiatives. My Enterprise Audit Process Studies content also enables Leaders to determine the weaknesses in each enterprise wide program and design remedial interventions. 

  • My Feasibility Process Studies content examines the soft-skills that enable leaders and their teams to better evaluate the feasibility of any proposal as a prerequisite to mobilizing innovation and change.

  • My Virtual Commerce Studies content examines the soft-skills that deliver a human capital development framework for integrating strategic and operational Leader and team relationships.

  • My Implementation Process Studies content examines the soft-skills that enable Leaders and their teams to improve their level of performance during the implementation of new initiatives.

Beyond these, my Validation, Verification and Testing Process Studies content examines the soft-skills that enable Leaders to more effectively improve the formal quality processes involved in an organization’s quality control activities.

Additionally, my Migration Process Studies content examines the soft-skills that enable leaders, teams, and individuals to more rapidly optimize the processes involved when moving from one work architecture to another.

My Configuration Management Studies content examines the soft-skills that enable leaders to better control changes to the existing processes, structures, and/or products of teams.

Furthermore, my Enterprise Development Studies content examines the soft-skills that enable individuals and teams to improve their information management activities and enable leaders to execute all activities concerning the movement, management, and control of Leadership related information.

My content offers a data mining and knowledge building strategy by linking seemingly unrelated topics to obtain new insights. Leaders learn something new by integrating disparate knowledge to form new insight for practice. Finally, Leaders will be able to test their new knowledge by applying it in their own settings.

Here on this site, visitors can obtain information about my books and programs, and learn all about my Podcast, “All Things Intriguing.” Visitors can connect on the appropriate links to order my books and listen to my Podcast.

How Much Content Focuses on Soft-Skills Development? 

“My Content is written to integrate important related concepts and themes contained in its many programs in Leadership Mastery, Mentoring, Leadership Development, Team Development, and Leadership Mastery Consulting to form a single integrated path to new Leadership Mastery knowledge.”

For organizations, Leadership is specifically a human capital development process.  I focus on the development of more powerful Leadership skills including:

  • Mobilizing Innovation and Change,

  • Managing Tasks and Others,

  • Communicating Well, and

  • Managing Self.

Soft-Skills Mastery enables effective Leaders to build highly effective work relationships while solving new and old problems. Every soft-skills Mastery publication emphasizes the soft-skills approach to building personal and interpersonal competence. I wrote a few of my books to encourage leaders and their teams to rapidly transform knowledge into practice in their immediate environments. My books share insights into the mastery of the soft-skills that enhance the workplace relationships. These soft-skills assist leaders and their team with successfully delivering important tasks that involve the challenges that emerge during Quality Assurance and Control, Configuration Management, and Project Leadership functions. Every book I offer emphasizes the soft-skills mastery approach to building personal competence.

Putting Rapid Problem-Solving on a Personal Basis

Unresolved Problems lead to much more than mere frustrations. They are impediments to organization success. Employee performance is not an obstacle course where the speediest hurdler wins the race. Leadership success does not depend on out-of-breath followers. Effective Leadership demands smart and skillful architects of the future. 

I reinvent the problem-solving experience. Through the power of Applied Intuitive Solutions™ (AIS™), the focus shifts from Coaching, Consulting and Training (CC&T) to UlThule™ Soft-Skills Mastery and Rapid Problem Solving (RPS™). I designed the AIS™ to accelerate people success. In shifting the focus from CC&T to the delivery of rapid solutions, I puts virtual problem-solving on a business basis. Through the AIS™, he ensures that problem-solving is enduring. Fundamentally, soft-skills mastery becomes intuitive to the attainment of interpersonal success, In the workplace, the soft-skills mastery remains business, mission, and reliability oriented. 

“Solving Your Problems Is What We Do.”

Raymond L. Newkirk, Author, Founder, & CEO

The Relationship Advantage

UlThule™ Relationship Mastery delivers soft & hard-skills problem-solving support that saves organizations millions of dollars through the reduction and elimination of up-front sunk costs. For corporations, UlThule™ Soft-Skills Mastery delivers a quicker, simpler, more responsive, effective, efficient, and less expensive problem-solving (and skills acquisition) approach.  UlThule™ Soft-Skills Mastery delivers a virtual, mobile, problem-solving process that employs specially derived Virtual Intelligence and delivery technology to leverage the power of the Internet 24X7 to deliver attractive cost to profit ratios and ROI in problem-solving, skills transformation and Business Value Realization.

Seeking the optimal ROI for organizations, I have aggressively implemented his proprietary repository of Virtual Solutions. Empowered by state-of-the-art information technologies, I deliver a potent problem-solving environment as a framework for the UlThule™ Relationship Mastery solution delivery architecture without disrupting intelligent processes. With a simple command, employees gain entry into the new reality of Deep Technology problem-solving. After 50 years of development, it is here today.  Technology has finally met the vision.

My Soft-Skills Mastery Author Site Address drraynewkirk.com  

This Author Site is the principal path for delivering information about my Soft-Skills Mastery approach and publications. Entering my Author site, I encourage visitors to tour  this virtual campus. As a Soft-Skills Mastery Specialist and Author, I am concerned about performance.  I am a holistically oriented Author/Specialist who leverages the developments in human dynamics to build soft-skills performance. Every book I offer emphasizes soft-skills mastery. For example consider the categories of my soft-skills based content.

  • Virtual Commerce content delivers a human capital development framework for integrating Leader and Follower relationships.

  • Proposal Studies content explores the proposal process as an in-depth process involving the soft-skills mastery of both the leaders and followers dimensions of performance. 

  • Project Initiation Studies content examines the soft-skills involved in the Leadership activities and team soft-skills that keep every project on the reliability path forward. 

  • Enterprise Audit Process Studies content examines the soft-skills that leaders and followers must master to reduce the weaknesses inherent in enterprise-wide initiatives.

  • Feasibility Process Studies content presents the soft-skills that enable employees to adequately evaluate the feasibility of any proposal as a prerequisite to mobilizing innovation and change.

  • Implementation Process Studies content examines the soft-skills required to enable Leaders and their teams to improve their level of performance during the implementation of new initiatives.

  • Validation, Verification and Testing Process Studies content examines the soft-skills that enable Leaders and their teams to improve the quality processes involved in an organization’s quality control activities.

  • Migration Process Studies content examines the soft-skills that enable Leaders and followers to more rapidly move from one work architecture to another.

  • My Configuration Management Studies content examines the soft-skills that enable employees to properly configure the existing processes, structures, and/or products of teams.

  • Enterprise Development Studies content examines the soft-skills that enable Leaders and their teams to optimize their information management activities.  

Leaders and their followers can obtain any of my books by using the links provides on this site.

How Much Content Focuses on Soft-Skills Development 

I wrote my content to integrate related concepts and themes contained in my many publications concerning Soft-Skills Mastery, Mentoring, Leadership Development, Team Development, and Leadership Mastery to form a single integrated path to new knowledge of Soft-Skills Mastery.

For organizations, soft-skills mastery is specifically a human capital development process.  Here, I focus on the development of more powerful social and interpersonal skills. Soft-skills mastery enables Leaders to build highly effective work relationships among team members while solving new and old problems. 

My books offer a data mining and knowledge building strategy by linking seemingly unrelated topics to share new insights. Leaders learn something new by integrating disparate knowledge to form new insights for practice. Finally, Leaders will be able to test their new knowledge by applying it in their own settings.”

Applied Intuitive Solutions™ Skills Development and Virtual Learning

I designed every one of my books to solve a specific class of problems by answering a “How to” kind of query. You ask a question such as: “How Can I build the confidence of my team?” This is difficult, but as a formal or informal leader, you can do it.. My books demsonstrfate how they can do this effectively.

My books deliver the content that enables people to solve problems using evidence based practice, not theoretical debate.  Readers receive an significant number of brief but potent solutions that instructs them on how to resolve this and many related challenges correctly and rapidly. Readers master a new skill and solve a problem simultaneously.  Indeed, they become a master of “changing how the world solves problems” by changing “how they rapidly build new skills”. Readers of my books and the world become connected in a more potent way. Changing the world and changing oneself all for one price. Simply Amazing! 

It has taken many, many years to develop this problem-solving process and derive the many thousands of courses now available through my books. . O currently offer solutions for 270 Focus Areas, 88 industries, and for individuals, teams, entire enterprises, and government organizations. The only downside to my problem-solving environment is that my AIS™ process delivers a new kind of learning that sharply reduces the need for consultants and coaches.  Unfortunately, people who purchase my books will find themselves spending less money on consultants and coaches. On the bright side, my books library is completely mobile. You can take it with you wherever you go. You can access it 24X7 from anywhere you can carry a book. You do not even need to hook yourself up to the Internet. With a good book, I am your mobile expert, 247.  Genius is only a book away.

UlThule™ Relationship Mastery (URM™) is a Book Solutions process. URM™ solves the most pressing Soft-Skills problems 24X7. Delivered through a special Library of specialized books, as a Virtual Expert Intelligence System™ (VEIS™), leaders working in more than 20 industries have successfully applied my Applied Intuitive Solutions™ to resolve critical situations for more than 50 categories of problems. Success is not hidden in the stars. Success emerges from achieving enduring solutions to complex challenges.  Visit Systems Management Institute to learn more.  www.smirsp.com or call me at (407) 864-7756 to learn more if you are curious.

Today, E-learning is used in organizations or every size and shape.  E-Learning is commonplace in high-schools, colleges, universities, research centers, and governments. All of them are pretty much the same, and have been since their introduction. We should know because in Silicon Valley, we built the first ever for-profit, E-Learning company in the country. We differed from every other company in that we saw no real need for the expensive Learning Management Systems (LMS) that organizations were running over each other to adopt and then paying large sum to license, often millions of dollars. My model was simple. If you know how to read, buy my book. No contract, no commitment, no licensing fees, just solutions that work derived from successful application.

Wherever you are, we were there with you.  We were your consultant in a book. Whatever you learned today, you could use today.  This was a long time ago. The world went the other way.

Do you know that E-Learning systems are probably the least popular systems in organizations today? Surprising right?  What do you really get for all that money?  You pay for the system, and then you need to pay for the content. Ouch. We engaged in a lot or research and learned that people really want real-time solutions to a vast number of problems.  Online content is not really good in this. It just seems to be good in this. A Goggle search does not generally deliver this kind of focused content. This kind of learning content requires a set of standards that are difficult to meet.  It took me many decades to do this because the content had to satisfy the requirement to be offer global usefulness.

Every one of my books is designed to solve a specific problem by answering a “How to” kind of query. You ask a question such as: “How Can I build the confidence of my team?” This is difficult, but can be done. One of my books, then, delivers a solution that teaches you exactly how to do this using evidence based practice, not theoretical debate.  You receive an actual brief but potent course that teaches you how to resolve this and millions of challenges rapidly. You master a new skill and solve a problem simultaneously.  Through one of my books, the reader learns how to master the art of “changing how the world solves problems” by changing “how he or she rapidly builds new skills”.

Through my books, readers become connected in more potent ways. Changing the world and changing oneself all for one price. Amazing!  It has taken many, many years to develop this book delivered technology and derive the many thousands of solutions that become minicourses. I offer solutions for 270 Focus Areas, 88 industries, and for individuals, teams, entire enterprises, and even government organizations. The only downside to my environment is that my AIS™ Library delivers a new kind of learning the sharply reduces the need for consultants and coaches.  Unfortunately, you will find yourself spending less money on them.  On the bright side, my Library is completely mobile. You can access it 24X7 from anywhere you have time to read.. I am your mobile expert via books. WOW! Books, imagine that.

My books about Relationship Mastery introduce readers to many new and wonderful places within ourselves. We will see things in ourselves that we never saw before and we will understand things about ourselves that we never thought about before. The secret is to keep everything in balance because we want to increase our integrity and gentleness as we learn to become “Masterful Leaders”

Five Decades in Development

Changing How the World Solves Problems

Applied Intuitive Solutions™

The Unexpected Problem! The very thought of it leaves a bitter taste. It creates a surge of adrenaline through your body. In organizations, “The Unexpected” is to be feared, and expected. True, it can be good or bad. In the workplace, however, “The Unexpected” is normally terrible news. Think about it.

Consider this: You are anxious to get out of the office on a Friday evening for an unusually important and long-planned social event. As you close your office door, a colleague runs up and unloads “The Unexpected,” a problem that needs an immediate solution. What kind of emotion does this raise in you? Do you think: “This is a wonderful treat, the joy of the “Unexpected”? How delightful! Then you hear the bad news. No one knows what to do.

There you have it: The kind of problem that consultants dream about. “The Unexpected” lives up to its reputation once again. And so it goes. You have reason to fear it. History is not on your side. “The Unexpected” means pain, real pain, imagined and real. The problem for you, however, is complex. It is Friday night, you just got paid, you have important plans with family and friends, and, of course, you cannot call a consultant until next week. You can’t believe the luck.

Can you feel your frustration building? You had a great evening planned, until now. True, no one may know what to do, but what you do know is plenty, none of it good. You know that the solution has to be evidence-based because it has to work rapidly. The solution cannot be an experiment or even a good guess as Commander Spock would say. The solution has to present a path to success, now. Are you feeling it, “The Unexpected”, the Adrenalin rush of fear? You can taste it. Then the thought occurs: “No one in the organization can produce the right solution on such short notice.” This is rarely possible, not until now. With the A.I.S™ Platform, your entire organization can produce the right solution rapidly, even with such short notice.

For some of us, because of the A.I.S™, the "Problem” raises great interest and it ignites our creativity. The A.I.S™ Platform transforms problems into new opportunities every day. Great problems give substance to my vision of creating rapid solutions.

Time and time again, I had become the consultant of last resort. When nothing worked, call Ray Newkirk. He is the “have solution, will travel” guy. Consulting carried me all over the world and gave evidence to the power of rapid solutions. Everyone wanted solutions yesterday.

Clients trusted me to solve an impressive list of problems. Some of them changed history in a big way. I contributed to the emergence of new industry models such as Business Process Management in the Netherlands, Healthcare, Global Banking, Logistics, Computer Integration in the USA, and Defense Systems in the Middle East. A few billion dollar companies can attest to this. These experiences validated my vision of Rapid Problem-Solving. I learned that life is more complex than many people yet recognize. 

For many decades, managers, and the teams who support them, have dreamed about the powerful advantage of virtual problem-solving. For all of their promise, computers often complicated the workplace by introducing new layers of technology that few people understood. As the use of computers spread, the discomfort of end-users spread exponentially.

Many organizations found themselves in a new kind of race as technology multiplied the number of problems that people faced inside and outside the company. Problems became so numerous that their solutions had to be classified. People came to see them as hard and soft, simple and complex, dynamic and static, and anything in between.

Problems and their solutions now existed along a continuum that included many problem and solution types. Technology had changed the landscape of business and the landscape of the entire world. Technology had indeed become a double–edged sword. So naturally the question arose: If technology got us into this mess, can we use technology to get us out? 

Early in my career, in the 1960s, I envisioned a time when technology would change how the world solves problems. I recognized that computers had to become more powerful and mobile so that people could communicate instantly regardless of the distances involved and their location. I knew that the day would come when problem-solving had to take the giant leap forward, one big leap for humankind. 

That day is now. After nurturing this vision for more than five decades, so you didn’t have to, the technology has finally arrived to “change how the world solves problems.” That technology belongs to the A.I.S™ enviornment. I invite you to join me in simplifying your life. Adopt our A.I.S™ Intelligent Assistant today. 

Human beings live in two realties: problems and solutions. Let me be clear: Only two overriding realities exist:

  1. Human beings live in a problem-filled world, and

  2. Everything in life is a problem to be solved

From the time we get out of bed in the morning until the time we turn in for the evening, we move from one problem to the next. We all are problem navigators. Human life is a two-sided coin. One side is problem generation; the other solution generation.

Every day we generate problems and we solve them. This is what human beings do. This is how we build the stories of our lives. We are mess making experts. We do it every day with no help required. Unfortunately, we are not as gifted solving the problems that we generate so effortlessly. We are only good at solving problems when we have a lot of help from our friends. Can’t we do better than this? The answer, of course, is yes we can, and we do.

It All Started When I Wanted To Do More

UlThule™ Relationship Mastery (URM™) introduces us to many new and wonderful places within ourselves. We will see things that we never saw before and we will understand things that we never thought about before. The secret is to keep everything in balance because we want to increase our integrity and gentleness as we learn o become “Masterful”.

It All Started When I Wanted To Do More for Leaders.

Historically, the quest to build productive and successful business partnerships has been challenging.  Start-ups and emerging companies rapidly become overwhelmed by the up-hill battle to forge productive partnerships.  Since these kinds of adventures often begin as meaningful connections, people have to know something about the “ins and outs” of nurturing meaningful connections.

“Leadership Like Business Partnerships “ain’t for sissies“.

While some people refer to meaningful connections as the means of connecting such as letters, phone calls, emails, texts, web page contacts, information exchanges, and social media posts, I prefer to get right to the point. Meaningful connections really are all about the instances of human interaction that lead to meaningful outcomes, regardless of the medium.

The best meaningful connections occur when human beings actually do something together that produces a meaningful outcome.  Now this is what meaningful connections are all about, regardless of the tools and technologies used to link the people who have experienced the shared experience that energized the connection.

On the surface, the task to form meaningful connections appears as quite basic. In business, sellers make meaningful connections when they find buyers for their products and buyers make meaningful connections when they find sellers of  the products or services they desire.  Things become more complicated when people look for other people to work with as partners in a joint relationship through which two partners jointly deliver shared services to the same customer.

Meaningful connections are particularly important to Leaders because they view followers as team members and associated problem-solvers. Since Leaders become problem-solvers, the Applied Intuitive Solution™ (AIS™) changes the historical business model. In this way, Leaders become co-developers of our strategic mission to change how the world solves problems.  Our AIS™ connects multiple Leaders and their teams with shared problems to generate solutions using a stress-free business problem-solving platform.

For Leaders:

  • Leaders gain a single location to manage solution requests for business goals.

  • Leaders easily research solutions of interest, tag favorites, and create saved lists of special solutions.

  • The Leadership Review Process assists Leaders with deepening knowledge about problem-solving and end-user experience  

I Invite Leaders To:

  • Stand out with the right combination of solutions in the right place at the right time when Leaders seek solutions.

  • Open an account for free and then select from different pricing models to build their solution environment.

  • Send solutions to followers to start building project relationships.

  • Use demand data to identify the most pertinent solutions by project. Take a minute to write an introduction that is short, sweet, and to the point.

UlThule™ Relationship Mastery (URM™) introduces us to many new and wonderful places within ourselves. We will see things that we never saw before and we will understand things that we never thought about before. The secret is to keep everything in balance because we want to increase our integrity and gentleness as we learn o become “Masterful Leaders”.

We Were First

Building Leadership Performance through UlThule™ Relationship Mastery

We are the only virtual solutions company with a mission to build Leadership performance by delivering rapid Applied Intuitive Solutions derived from actual experience.

  • I was the first to use actual consulting content as the foundation for learning content.

  • I was the first to put intellectual capital on a business basis by seeking to add business value through real time problem solving.

  • We were the first company created by consultants and business executives with first-hand understanding of the shortcomings of corporate training and academic education.

  • We were the first to identify the bases of competence using the input of corporate, business, and academic leaders throughout the globe.

  • We were the first to deliver learning content designed for immediate application.

  • We were the first to focus of the rediscovery of the lost skills that were essential in building many of the great successes of the past in business, industry, and government.

  • We were the first to enable corporate training organizations to reduce their learning systems cost throughout the entire training life cycle.

  • We were the first to use a human systems approach to simplify the learning environment by linking all the skills of an enterprise from the lowest to the highest levels, from the individual Leader to Corporate Director.

  • I was the first to develop the powerful Internet Assistant Action Learning (IAAL)™ approach to virtual learning.

  • We were the first to use a holistic approach to develop the entire Leader by building the professional abilities, core competencies, and workplace performance of individuals and then providing a conceptual foundation for excelling in these abilities.

  • I was the first to transform experience gained in the workplace into a real-time, online reservoir of professional knowledge and work-practice models.

  • We were the first to address the needs of individual Leaders for soft-skills specific and practical success-oriented knowledge.

  • We are the first to support the entire work life cycle from project initiation to project implementation and from Virtual and Electronic Commerce to Enterprise Design.

  • I was the first to focus on building holistic competence in the work/task environment to make life easier for Leaders and followers.

  • We were the first evidence-based solutions company to build our reputation by focusing on the development of competent Leaders and the improvement of performance across all organizations - strategic, tactical, and operational. 

“My perspective emphasizes the unique capabilities of Relationship performance in each Person in each organization, and in every manager and executive.”

Professional Development

I mean something special by "Professional Development".  I mean an independent, life-long program of self-paced study of relevant, practical, and specialized, problem-solving content.  I find the following program intense enough to begin the rapid development of a person’s professional capacities:

  • Identify 1st 100 problems to be resolved. 

  • Identify pilot problems and solutions. 

  • Master One New Solution Plan Per Week. 

  • The independent program has the following characteristics:

    • Based on an appropriate core workplace competency;

    • Requires adequate preparation;

    • Requires a background which integrates life experience and self-reflection, assuming intellectual and personal maturity, and

    • Demands committed effort upon the industry, initiative, and scholarship of the client. 

Can a dishonest and immoral Leader, a “bad Leader” in the personally moral sense, deliver good Leadership? Can a “good Leader” deliver “bad Leadership”?

The Ray Newkirk Leadership Opportunity

As the Founder & CEO of SMI Corporation I fully grasp the business value of this vision and the history of its evolution. Understanding the value of the goal of TRIZ and associated approaches like Case Based Reasoning, I have carved out a unique path to problem solving success. Beginning more than 50 years ago, I have extended and further refined the vision of rapid problem solving begun more than 60 years ago. The development of our Deep Intelligence Technology™ is the culmination of our efforts.  Beyond the capacities of any previous efforts, SMI Corporation has developed a potent paradigm of rapid problem solving that enables every organization, executive, manager, and employee to attain an evidence-based solution instantly.  When compared to previous methods of problem-solving, we deliver solutions 20,000 times quicker. Moreover, our solutions are beyond theoretical and work as intended.

While one may choose to suggest that Problem Solving is our product sector, this would not really describe what we deliver.  SMI Corporation offers a Deep Intelligence Technology™ that dramatically enhances a client’s ability to more rapidly solve many of the problems that impact their lives in and outside the workplace. Moreover, we deliver this capability 24X7 anywhere via a mobile or other device. Our product sector more realistically cuts across many separate industries including consulting, coaching, training, development, and E-Learning.  We actually change, in a very radical and comfortable way, every industry we serve.  We are a new paradigm of problem solving that exceeds the capacity of current systems and methods.

Every company and every person can benefit from the rapid problem solving content of SMI Corporation. The current challenge for us is to let organizations know that we are there for them. We can then assist them with becoming a Resident of our Deep Intelligence Technology™ Platform.  It has taken us years to get to this point of development and many millions of dollars. Now we need a good funding partner to accelerate market entry.

My Product Sector: Books focusing on Rapid Problem Solving & Relationship Soft-Skills Mastery

For Everyone, Vision 21™ provides integrated plans, models, and action programs to clarify the expectation of each Leader and to facilitate the transfer of knowledge from one Leader in the company to another.

Effective Business Relationships

Effective Business Relationships™ (EBR™) is an important industry initiative conceived to improve core business processes and pass savings to consumers. But EBR™ alone is insufficient to help you navigate through the difficult and volatile times of hypercompetitive era.

As an author who writes about Problem Solving, I am concerned about competition and what it means to virtual commerce business partners. If it is true that “the rule today is that there are no rules,” what does that mean if you are banking on Virtual Commerce to sustain competitive advantage? To advance the vision of EBR in today’s hypercompetitive world, I now announce Vision 21™, the product to master Virtual Commerce. While the focus of Virtual Commerce is efficiency, the focus of EBR via Vision 21™ is effectiveness. In a hypercompetitive world, we don’t want to do the wrong things right. IWe designed Vision 21™ to minimize the risks in Virtual Commerce by assisting Leaders with doing the right things right..

Vision 21™ is a powerful interactive tool that can empower every person in your organization.

  • For Leaders, Vision 21™ delivers a Best Practices Requirements Model that integrates each level of your company. This Requirements Model both demonstrates what you must do to gain the full potential of Virtual Commerce, step by step, and delivers a mechanism for managing the transition process demanded by the forces of hypercompetition. Vision 21™ is your tool to establish Effective Business Relationships™ and enables you to gauge the bottom line immediately before you commit resources to Virtual Commerce. 

  • For Information Systems Leaders, Vision 21™ identifies the prerequisites for succeeding in Virtual Commerce including technologies, project plans, and dependencies. Vision 21™ delivers a detailed and integrated Virtual Commerce methodology that is available, module by module, starting with the Virtual Commerce Best Practices model as the foundation.

  • For End-Users, Vision 21 provides a process for participating with technical groups while redesigning processes or workflows. Vision 21™ is the linking pin process that integrates the business requirements of end-users with the enabling capabilities of Information Technology. Additionally, Vision 2™ bridges end-users with both Leaders and technologists to provide a coherent model of the organization.

  • For Everyone, Vision 21™ provides integrated plans, models, and action programs to clarify the expectation of each person and to facilitate the transfer of knowledge from one group in the company to another.

  • Can a dishonest and immoral Leader, a “bad Leader” in the personally moral sense, deliver good Leadership? Can a “good Leader” deliver “bad Leadership”? —Ray Newkirk

UlThule™ Relationship Mastery (URM™) Mastery introduces us to many new and wonderful places within ourselves. We will see things that we never saw before and we will understand things that we never thought about before. The secret is to keep everything in balance because we want to increase our integrity and gentleness as we learn o become “Masterful Leaders”.