I like people of good character. Who doesn’t? The answer may surprise you. More people than you would probably ever imagine are indifferent to the state of his or her own character or the character of anyone else. Would you ever trust a person like this? Trust and character share the same stage.
UlThule™ Relationships
Improving Executive, Team, and Personal Relationships
UlThule™ - The Highest Level of Performance Attainable
Echoing the ancient Roman commanders as they encouraged their soldiers to attain the ultimate in performance, "Ultima Thule" - achieve beyond the highest level of performance attainable, I like to build an atmosphere of exciting in-depth and noble vision. Why set your sights on less? Some people say that “good enough” is “good enough”. Fair enough. If that is what they believe, they need to adequately define what it means to be “good enough”. It depends, however, on what some people take that to mean. Think about it. I have met plenty of people who take that to mean that accomplishing as little as possible is “good enough”. It is an excuse slogan for minimum effort. These are not people who focus much on innovation and growth. I have worked with a number of sharp executives, managers, and their teams over the decades, as they worked hard to transform their noble visions into well managed "Ultima Thule," or Ulthule™, enterprises. They regularly told me that it was indeed “good enough,” but, and this is the big but of history everyone talks about, it could be better still. So, they would roll up their sleeves and focus on relationships building. They would dive back in to deliver something at the cutting edge of 21st Century competition. They focused on decision-making, communications, and management soft-skills to become the tough-minded, history making executives who establish the more than “good enough” best practices that others eventually follow.
The Ulthule™ Relationship formation approach demands personal skills that form the unique bases of personal and interpersonal competence. In response, , I have written several books to facilitate the attainment of personal and professional goals by elaborating upon this uniquely empowering Ulthule™ vision. I hope you enjoy learning about my Ulthule™ Perspective. It is powerful and designed for success. I particularly and actively apply the Ulthule™ Relationship principles discussed in my series of books about problem-solving. It is interesting to see my term, Ulthule™, pop up around the world as I travel from place to place to build workplace relationships.
“These are exciting times for innovative executives as they forge the new opportunities for success offered by the challenges of 21st Century competition. Personally, I enjoy discovering the opportunities hidden in these challenges. Moreover, I also receive great satisfaction from sharing the wealth of my experience, knowledge, and insights with those of you who intelligently leverage your relationship challenges to capture the emerging opportunities for success by forming more effective relationships.”
UlThule™ Relationship Objectives
Through UlThule™ Relationship Formation, each team member receives the most relevant encouragement attainable .
Through the UlThule™ approach, every team member receives the same quality of Relationship Management possible even though not every team member shares the same aptitudes and talents.
Through the UlThule™ approach,, every result will be proportionally equal according to the individual measure of each person’s capacity for achievement.
Distinct Features of the UlThule™ Relationship Approach
UlThule™ Relationship Formation involves the entire life of the person, not just the person’s business life or personal life. Through the UlThule™ approach, the person lives one life in which both professional and private personal concerns are dynamically connected.
UlThule™ Relationship Formation sets the same objectives for all, a life of success and mastery.
UlThule™ Relationship Formation recognizes the pluralistic nature of the business environment and does not present a single specified program to be uniformly adopted throughout the organization. Rather, it presents a framework for resolving a variety of issues and challenges in a way appropriate to the different needs of each person and situation.
UlThule™ Relationship Formation establishes a program that ensures that general job-related education should be available to every person.
In education, people must design UlThule™ Relationship Formation to include all three approaches to learning and teaching and ensure that they are thoroughly integrated with each other.
UlThule™ Relationship Formation compensates to adjust to the environmental backgrounds of each team member.
UlThule™ Relationship Formation enables leaders and their teams to resolve the targeted issues that negatively impact success.
What, Why, & How of UlThule™ Relationship Formation
What:
Kinds of knowledge to be acquired * Skills to be developed * Understanding and insights to be achieved.
Why:
Being a responsive person * Earning a living * Being a good professional * Living a full life.
How:
Didactic learning via lectures or textbooks * Coaching to form the good habits and skills * Socratic learning teaching via questioning and discussions.
Key Success Skills Gained Through the UlThule™ Approach
Development of intellectual and emotional skills * Skills of learning * Skills of problem solving * Exercising critical judgment
Principles Guiding the Learning Environment of the UlThule™ Soft Skills Relationship Mastery Approach
The UlThule™ Relationships Formation approach occurs within four dimensions of teaching and learning:
Coaching * Consulting * Virtual Learning Courses * Informal Personal Experience
UlThule™ High-Performance Relationships
What is the path to Great Relationship Performance? Is it experience? With experience, Relationship Performance can stay the same. With experience, Relationship Performance can decrease. We see these alternatives quite often. Is Great Relationship Performance simply a gift that some people have and other people do not? However, the natural, innate gifts we think people have are often not the ones they actually have. General abilities we think people have for great Relationship Performance are not the ones they actually display. Well then, it must be Deliberate Practice (DP). Right? But DP hurts. DP is also difficult and exhausting.. Perhaps this is why it is rare. Strangely, it seems the case that the more D.P. the better the performance. In fact, a lot of DP equals great performance.
So we can ask again: What are the Principles of Great Relationship Performance? Whatever they are, they seem to be crucial to attaining Great Relationships. Unfortunately, many, if not most, organizations are terrible at applying these Principles. In fact, many organizations discourage the application of these Principles. But what are they? They are no more nor less than the Principles that Govern Deliberate Practice. And they are no more and nor less than those principles that are associated with the Standards of Relationship Performance (SORP).
The Standards of Relationship Performance are increasing at an increasing rate and, thanks to advances in High Technology, will continue rising more relentlessly than at any previous time. The increase in SORP is a competitive concern for businesses and for individuals, and especially for Leaders. This is so because the scarcest resource for probably every company today is human ability. This makes Relationship Development a core requirement of organization and business and Leadership success. While the demand for Relationship Development in the modern organization is continually increasing, the limits of these demands are unknown. But we know for sure that the entrenchment of Globalization and the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (A/I) pressures us all to emphasize self-development more consistently. The forces of world commerce pressures Leaders and their managers to finally recognize how and from what Great Relationship Performance emerges. What we now know is simple. Forget the myths, the stories, and the wishful thinking:
“It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble.
It’s the things we know that ain’t so.” Josh Billings
UlThule™ Relationships
Understanding the Roots of Great Relationship Performance
The Role of Focus in Forming a Great Relationship
The UlThule™ Way Beyond Peak Performance
Attaining Relationship Success
Mastering the Relationship Environment
Understanding Relationships
Emotional Intelligence Requires Relationship Understanding
Self-Awareness through Relationship Intelligence
Building the Knowledge for Relationship Understanding & Insight
A Decision-Making Model for Ulthule™ Relationship Mastery
Similar to Transaction Analysis and Redecision Therapy (Eric Berne,1961), Ulthule™ Relationship development is both an art and skill. Luck has little to do with it. Ulthule™ Relationship Formation emerges from:
Experience * Hard Work * Reflection * Continuous Learning *
Care for Others * Long List of Virtues * integrity * Emotional Maturity.
While some Relationships are well-versed in perhaps one or two Relationship Formation and Management approaches, an Ulthule™ Relationship engages in five or more kinds of productive behavior in the workplace. Learning to make potent decision is a complex challenge. When the Relationship is successful, the people involved in such a Relationship can expect to enjoy outstanding results. To this end, Ulthule™ Relationships are capable of working with people in highly diverse and complex roles such as:
Short or long term contractors
Members of Relationship development teams
External Relationship experts who can assist followers with clarifying frustrating Relationships that suffer from fragmented team members
Relationship Mastery Specialists who can more rapidly assist colleagues and relationship partners with clarifying, neutralizing, restructuring and otherwise simplifying complex Relationships
Relationship Mastery Specialists who can assist colleagues and work partners with revisiting old decisions that are creating roadblocks to success and update or otherwise make new decisions that remove all roadblocks or potential roadblocks to success
Relationship Mastery Specialists who work with colleagues and other partners to make new and stronger decisions that get beyond the damaging results experienced from previous decision-making experiences
Relationships that can assist partners with employing and reinforcing the new decisions
Relationship Formation Mastery Specialists who work with Executive Teams to build internal social skills that enable them to successfully deliver strategic goals.
UlThule™ Relationship Formation and the Decision Making Human Activity Systems (HAS)
—Moving from Passive Observer to Active Participant —
Introduction
A Human Activity Systems (HAS) is a system in which the components are human beings. Simple, right? The human beings forming the system through relationship engage a series of processes, or operations understood as input, transformation, output, and feedback and adjustment. Inputs, consisting of Matter, Energy, and Information are transformed into sometimes surprising outputs that were previously unanticipated. For an HAS, this process of Input Transformation in fact transforms the HAS. For example, this could occur by taking in raw data from the environment and transforming it into powerful information that increases the collective intelligence of the HAS. Now we might ask ourselves: How does this Transformation process apply to Relationships. The simple answer is this: The people forming the relationship now working together form a HAS. The inputs are the previous decisions to be changed. In this sense then, the output represents the newly transformed decision to forget the previous decision and now commits oneself to the new decision to think and live differently.
In Ulthule™ Relationships Mastery, relationship partners focus the human components on the very personal task of building their personal power, moral strength, and mature responsibility to act as the situation requires for oneself, the team of partners, and the wider organization. UlThule™ Relationship Mastery is a partner-centered approach that puts the partner “front and center” in the partner’s situation by clarifying the partners’ role and place in the situation. UlThule™ Relationship Mastery is a Human Systems approach that takes guidance from several organizing principles.
People Engage in Relationships to:
Bring out the best in oneself and other people.
Establish a safe environment that encourages other people to shine.
Adopt and model behaviors that other people can model.
Learn how to more appropriately engage their personal power to the extent they are self-responsible.
Enhance their personal performance and the performance of other people.
Enhance and clarify their active capacities for change through the application of an informed self-responsibility.
Clarify and own their projections.
Focus on the present situation.
Establish more appropriate ways to defend oneself.
Empower partners through the language of questions.
Use power-based language more often than weak language.
Acknowledge the positive situations and characteristics of partnership in the HAS
Affirm relationship’s good news but not permitting negative behaviors directed toward any partner of the Relationship.
Recognize the reported positive compliments Partner has reportedly received from friends, colleagues or other people.
React with empathy against injustices throughout life.
The Positive Behaviors of a Relationship
Present a positive disposition.
Show excitement about being a partner of the Relationship.
Give partners their complete attention.
Indicate acceptance of the partners.
Pay attention to any progress made by partners in the Relationship.
Remain in control of the Relationship Formation process.
Seek truth at all times and validate everything by avoiding manipulation.
Affirm the self-sufficiency of the partner.
Question personal dogmas held by partners.
Affirm the importance of feeling realistically good and positive.
Affirm emotional independence. The partner’s happiness depends on the partner’s decisions and judgments.
Affirm that now is now and the past is the past in memory only.
Unmask the partners’ games of control.
Remain sensitive to the partners’ painful situations from the past.
Tools & Techniques Useful in Relationships
Question the things that do not fit.
Track the verbal versus non-verbal behavior.
Define and clarify the meaning behind the relation’s use of generalities.
Listen to what the relation/partner says and clarify.
Clarify what the relation feels, thinks, and does.
Confront life-long contracts with parents.
Analyze the games partners plays in Relationships.
Engage in Two-Chair work that is necessary to make a point.
Encourage a breaking with the past if necessary to get on with today.
Explore the partner’s follower fantasies about the situation.
Engage in interview scenarios with a range of players such as teams, colleagues, friends, bosses, and so forth.
Confront statements with kindness.
Correct empty statements such as “you get it”
Verify intuition by uncovering hunches.
Declare tings that are natural or common.
Rules & Standards of UlThule™ Relationship Mastery
Attend every session on time.
Gossiping is never permitted in a relationship session.
Follow the schedule.
Keep the relationship environment comfortable and safe.
Never make threats of violence or permit the same.
Keep everything confidential by developing and delivering and signing a Cooperative Contract with every partner.
Maintain professional boundaries.
Maintain a clear agenda for Relationship progress.
The Ulthule™ Relationship Mastery Perspective
Important Questions to Ask
About Relationship Quality:
What do I know about the partner’s personally?
What do I know about the partner’s professional and personal histories?
Can we forge a Relationship alliance that enables me to be an effective partner for the team member, the partner in the relationship?
Is the partner acceptable to me?
Can we develop a relationship process that works?
Presenting Problem:
What does the partner want to change?
What decisions does the partner in the relationship want to revisit and change or re-decide?
The Contract:
What kind of contract does the partner in the relationship expect?
Has the partner worked in this kind of relationship before?
If so, what was the outcome?
If so what did the partner like and dislike about the entire relationship process?
Estimate the potential partner’s authenticity here.
Why does the partner want a Relationship?
Is the partner authentic about working with me or is there another hidden agenda?
Do I need to confront the partner about anything not said or said dishonestly.
How has the early contact transpired: Any Racket? Any Game?
Personal Impressions:
What is my early 360 deep impression?
Can we succeed working together?
Are there any drivers to the relationship process?
Are there any injunctions to the relationship process?
What is my first opinions about working together; yea or nay?
Identify the potential problems and the associated decision about working together.
If the Contract is agreed to:
Explore the better decision.
Anchor the new decision.
Develop a realistic plan to implement and live by the desired decision as an adult.
Encourage and support plan activation and the new behaviors called for.
Design a multi-level support system.
Heights of UlThule™ Relationship Mastery
We spend an incredibly large amount of time and effort on mastering the skills related to the management and use of technology. This may be good but it is insufficient to achieve the heights of UlThule™ Relationships Formation. Great Relationships require us to see reality differently. The Soft-stuff of life is where we live. Our concepts, attitudes, ideas, & views matter. The Ultimate Idea: People are more important than ideas. Great Relationships Performance requires people to escape the limits of their past thinking. You have to become interested enough in yourself and others to engage in Deliberate Practice; and you do the work to determine where you want to go by determining what you want to do. Knowing, not guessing, is essential so that you can intelligently commit yourself completely to what you want to do.
I suggests the following Plan of Action: Frist, design a personal system of Deliberate Practice. Take care of the essentials in the beginning while preparing oneself for the self-direction necessary to prepare oneself for the advanced stages of self-development.
Next, seek to build a relationship with a mentor. As you enter the advanced stages of development, you will need some very qualified person to assist you. This means that you recruit an experienced person in your area of interest who can advise you on the skills and abilities you need to attain the next stage of self-development. This is not so easy because you will require a person who can assist you with knowledge attainment, skills building, and also deliver feedback so you can correct your path.
As part of your Deliberate Practice program, seek the opinions of people about what you should be improving and how well you are proceeding along the path to UlThule™ Relationships Mastery. If you can find one, a qualified partner can assist you. Then engage in Deliberate Practice as much as you can stand it. Practice directly using some kind of model to guide you. Perhaps you can use a Music Model, a Chess or Case Study Model, a Sports Mode to test your skills in different situations. Continually practice work-based Self-Regulation. Before doing the work, you might decide to establish process goals for reaching the outcome. While doing this, adjust your attitudes and beliefs to achieve self-efficacy. It is a good idea to engage in self-observation while doing the necessary work.
Another good idea is to activate metacognition to think about your thinking, to know what you know as you know it, and especially to listen to your feelings. This means that you take time out for reflection. Learn to listen to what your feelings are telling you? Then you can ask the right self-regulation questions. Follow this with a bit of self-evaluation. Learn to be specific and employ standards that stretch your performance. Learn to become continually more effective. You can do this by adapting your performance by changing the performance process and then applying techniques to become ever more effective. It is a cycle that you can and should repeat. This means that as you go along, you learn to deepen you Domain Knowledge. You might want to build a mental model of your domain as a functional system. You can do this by building a framework for your knowledge and by distinguishing the relevant from irrelevant information. Use you metal model to project what will happen next.
If you want to attain the Heights of UlThule™ Relationship Mastery in your organization, remember that people will grow and stretch themselves as they work in the organization. In this way, they learn to develop relationships within their jobs. You can assist in this process by encouraging colleagues to be active in their communities. Moreover, you can also demonstrate your appreciation for the critical roles of your colleagues and workmates by delivering the right kind of feedback that identifies your top performers early. Whatever you do, consistently appreciate the rules of relationship formation and people development to inspire your organization through appreciation and respect rather than authority. Continually invest in developing your people and establish the commitment to organization-wide relationship development as a cultural necessity.
If you wish to attain the Heights of UlThule™ Relationship Mastery in your teams, develop teams collectively as teams, not as individuals. This means that you have picked the right team members. Next you develop trust and eliminate mistrust. Next integrate agendas, resolve conflicts, and master the art of facing the real issues. Naturally, the success of such actions requires you to install a social architecture so your people can more easily engage in cognitively complex forms of multivariate reasoning. Skill in this is not measured by I.Q. scores.
“The differences between expert performers and normal adults
reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance
in a specific domain.” Ericsson et al.
UlThule™ Relationship Formation Legend:
leads to Competence, C
to arrive at = Effectiveness, E
masters Performance, P
using < Four Challenges of Business Success
is derived from Action Leadership
ensures :Human Capital Development, HCD
builds Leadership Self-Renewal
energizes Passion, PA
function of ƒ UlThule™, U™
is more than $Σ
UlThule™ Relationship Performance Legend 2
UlThule™ Relationship Performance Legend: = Performance at the highest level attainable.
Relationship Self-Renewal Set = passion + meaningfulness + purpose.
Human Capital Development Set = educating + coaching + mentoring + training +consulting + counseling + guiding + performance improvement through heightened competence.
Action Relationship Set = team achievement + action oriented relationships + team-based execution + effective execution.
Four Challenges of Business Success Set = complex challenges of increased global competition + need for continually higher profits + demand of consumers for improved value in products in services + psychological quality of life contract between workers and managers.
Performance Set = the desired result of behavior + effectiveness + efficiency + knowledge + tools + competence + group dynamics + systems thinking + self-systems psychology + group dynamics + perspective of leadership effectiveness.
Effectiveness Set = maintenance of core systems + goals achievement + maintenance of systems processes + knowledge + attitude + motivation + cohesiveness + leadership + political acumen in directly responding to the conflicting differences in interests enjoyed by groups and individuals within the organization + ability + structure + roles + norms + environment + technology + strategic choices + structure + processes + culture + optimal relationship among production + efficiency + satisfaction + adaptiveness + development + task specific + sum of the contribution of group members + more than the sum of individual & group effectiveness + status + skill + environmental adaptation
Competence Set = intellectual competence + emotional competence + managing self + mobilizing innovation and change +communicating well + managing tasks and others + leader ethical behavior + follower freedom to consent or not + experience + knowledge + oneself capabilities + skills necessary to lead + ability to use these attributes consistently and correctly + reality.
Epistemology: From the Greek word episteme@ meaning knowledge. Epistemology is that branch of philosophy which studies the Epistemological problem@ - does humanity know anything, if so, what does it know, and how does it know it? This brach of Philosophy studies the pre-suppositions of human knowledge and attempts to validate the laws of logic and define their range of human reason.
Transphenomenality: From the two Greek words, trans and Pheanoeumeanous, meaning across things. It is a term applied to the existential analysis of the world in view of people, things, and events. The concept of Transphenomenality describes that in which everything has its being, in which everything exists. We exist in something and this something is our total world limited only by subjective experience. Hence, the Transphenomenality of the self is responsible for humanity=s ultimate, individual Weltanschuaang, meaning, total world view.
The role of AIS™ is to integrate the applications and solutions
of self-directed learning with a competence-based, intuitive learning architecture
as a foundation to build the core abilities of knowledge analysis,
synthesis, application, judgment and valuation through intellectual
and personal development to improve performance.
THE TREE OF NEWKIRK
The Epistemology of Learning -
The Road to an Architecture of Learning.
The Transphenomenality of Education and the Antithesis of Indoctrinated De-Education
ENABLED BY APPLIED KNOWLEDGE EMPOWERED BY COMMITMENT
A secure personality leads to: Wisdom in action.
Intellectual maturity leads to: Secure personality.
Mature wisdom leads to: Intellectual maturity.
Critical judgment and not criticism leads to: Mature wisdom.
(critical judgment is participative - how to think).
Authentic self-esteem and not the Public Relations Personality Syndrome leads to: Critical judgment.
Personal humility leads to: Authentic self-esteem.
Reflective self-awareness leads to: Personal humility (You are no more or no less than what you really are.
The theologian would say that we are no less nor no more than what God knows we are. Socrates urged: Gnothi Seauton, Know Thyself).
Informed opinion leads to: Reflective self-awareness.
Educated opinion leads to: Informed opinion.
Simple opinion leads to: Educated opinion (Simple opinion is reactive; it is derived from being taught only what to think rather than how to think).
Personal opinion leads to either: Personal growth, intellectuality, and the path to simple opinion or Invincible ignorance, the path to collective and personal prejudice.
PATH OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE & PATH OF HUMAN GROWTH
Applied Intuitive Solutions™ Relationship Mastery Program Descriptions
Self-Systems Development
Eventually decisions catch up to reality. Somewhere along the way, from senior executives to operational managers and their teams, people become a hindrance or a boost to enterprise success. People impact everything because the world is all about people, their needs, and their gifts and vices. Fundamentally, people can be rational but, truth be told, human beings are more often than not irrational. Philosophers remind us that the gift of reason makes us human. More precisely, I have come to see that it is the gift of living virtuously that makes us human. We can choose to do good rather than bad. We can choose to be potent human beings. We can choose to take the path less travelled. We can choose to become people of the light. It is the capacity and the potential to choose to live a virtue informed life that sets us apart from the other life forms on earth. Nevertheless, irrational behavior is very common, especially in organizations and their teams. Understanding this, we can see that much of the common wisdom about hiring, developing, and directing employees is flat out deficient.
In Systems Science, we can see that a person never walks into the same team twice because change is the one constant in organization life. As managers begin to recognize this, they finally begin to see that the “perennial problem of aligning Professional Skills and organizations” is counterintuitive. They consistently pick the wrong skills to align with the organization. As such, this perennial problem risks significant disruption. The solution to this risk is to consider other factors such as the personal characteristics of employees. Professional Skills alone are insufficient to deliver success. Coaching can enable managers to identify these alternative characteristics and factors and leverage them to achieve and maintain increasing levels of success. In this way, UlThule™ Coaching benefits managers and employees, executives and Board Members. In Performance Management everyone matters. In response to the counterintuitive nature of the situation I deliver several Relationship Mastery Tracks including:
Executive Relationship Coaching
Strategic Management Relationship Coaching
Personal Relationship Coaching
Relationship Skills Development Coaching
Ulthule™ High-Performance Relationship Coaching
Relationship Action Coaching
Executive Relationships
Relationships here addresses the specific problems that challenge executives from day one as they become members of Executive Teams and then as they navigate their way through the tarpits and pitfalls of life in the executive ranks. An interesting observation about Executive Relationships is that many of the people who form them cannot say with any clarity what their top executive actually does, except in some general non-specific kind of way. Inspiring, right? Our Executive Ulthule™ Relationship Mastery approach focuses on problem-solving across the expanse of executive life, personal and professional. Our Relationship goal is to identify, design, implement, and support Solution Plans that resolve the defined problem. In Ulthule™ Executive Relationship Formation, Personal and Professional Growth is the goal. Effectiveness in decision-making is the response. Common challenges faced by persons in Executives Relationships include:
Cognitive, Personality, and Management Bias
Strategic Complexities
Lack of Foresight
Missed Opportunities
Ineffective Habits and Customs
Strategic Management Relationships
Strategic Management means complexity. Success here requires connectivity with your Wider Environment of Interest (WEOI) and mastery of your Narrow Environment of Interest (NEOI). Connectivity here means Relationships. Successful organizations are well managed and led. They have control of their NEOI and deeply understand their WEOI. This is a very complex model governed by many layers of complexity. Moreover, the relationship between the NEOI and the WEOI changes often and sometimes very quickly. Seasoned Leaders and managers who are tuned in to the push and pull contingencies of their world respond rapidly to the shifting tides of a fickle environment. One word says it all and defines the environment of Strategic Management Relationships. The word is “Challenge”. It is an equal opportunity challenge and for those who fulfill the prerequisites, the challenge of forming Strategic Management Relationships become an equal opportunity process.
Whether practiced in start-ups, rapidly growing companies, or mature organizations, Strategic Management Relationships deliver potent insights that enable leaders and their teams to seize the opportunities that emerge through the design and adoption of new relationships building strategies. This, of course, requires the organization-wide commitment of specific teams and positive support throughout the enterprise. The development and maintenance of Strategic Management Relationships unlocks a universe of solutions not commonly available through less strategic forms of learning.
Personal Relationship Mastery
It is fair to say that Relationship Mastery is all about problem-solving. No one is surprised when they hear that Human Beings are superb at generating a wide range of problems. If organizations paid employees to generate problems, they would easily get their money’s worth. There would be no slacking off here. Fortunately, an adequately articulated Relationship Mastery Plan, that is RMP, can turn this mess around quite rapidly. As a specialist in Ulthule™ Leader Relationship Mastery, I view Personal Ulthule™ Relationship Mastery as the framework for forming teams and organizations that deliver performance beyond the range of what people commonly refer to as Peak Performance.
Ulthule™ Relationship Mastery is broad and deep. It employs the following:
Scenario-Building * Social-Skills Analysis * Decision Effectiveness Analysis
* Adoption of Effectiveness Development Processes * Evidence-Based Solution Generation
* Development and Execution of a Wide Range of Personal and Interpersonal Action Plans
* Multi-Perspective Exercises that Built New Insights and Strategies for Growth.
Skills Development Relationship
While your skills do not land you a job, it’s really attitude, they, nevertheless, form a fundamental part of your career success. Highly talented individuals are the people who most often progress the most. They are the people who seem to get all the breaks. They are the talented contributors among us, and the high-level mangers recognize them. However, in order to fulfill their potential and move to positions of even more significant opportunity, employees do well to assess the factors that reduce their potential to contribute to the organization in a more worthwhile manner. It seems that successful people know how best to:
Leverage the potential they already possess, and
Align their talents, interests, and behaviors with the needs of their organization.
Skills Development Relationship Formation (SDRF) assists managers and their people who want to excel. Through SDRF, Leaders conduct careful and in-depth assessments of their strengths and weaknesses that are associated with Relationship Formation and job and career success. They simultaneously learn how to expand their potential for continuous growth as they work to uncover their blind spots in relationship management, reduce their career constraining issues, and build their strengths. SDRF initiates several activities including the following:
Track changes in cognitive, personality, and relationship preferences
Create and initiate skills development action plans
Participate in support assignments while the action plans are implemented
A Beautiful Autumn Day
Several years ago, I was enjoying a peaceful walk on a fine autumn morning in Pleasant Hill, California when I passed a gentleman who seemed to be consumed in anguish. The expression on his face said it all. I could not help but feel compassion for the person and share some human, heat-felt empathy. I am sure every one of you has met someone at some time in your life who appeared to be on his last leg. You could not help but feel for the person, could you? I believe it goes something like, “but for the grace of God, there go I”.
As I greeted him and asked how he was doing, he did not hesitate to tell me how technology had changed his profession, complicated his work environment, and had demoralized his otherwise great team. When I naively asked him what he meant, he related that being an MBA , CPA, and Department Head in his company, a large Fortune 100, was not what it used to be. In the old days, he said, he could simply focus on his duties as an executive in Finance. But today, everything is different. He now had to spend an inordinate amount of time every year in technical training merely to use the new technologies which “empower” and liberate his organization to achieve ever greater performance. Not only does he have to be a very good CPA, he sadly informed me, but he also has to be a very good workplace technologist. He remarked that he was sick and tired of the schooling and the additional burden it placed on him and his team - and it never seems to end. “When was all this going to end,” he asked me.
I assure you, he did not appreciate my answer. But he compelled me to wonder about the number of other people out there in corporations and organizations who, like himself, suffer from technology overload and lack the leadership, management and relationship skills necessary to solve this mounting problem. And even more, his situation compelled me to wonder what we, the Systems Management Institute, could do about it? Since I too must face this situation, I took an aggressive home run approach. I decided to attack all the bases by examining the problem dynamically, humanely, managerially, and ethically. What I found was indeed worth knowing. It is no exaggeration to suggest that this problem deserves the attention of every executive and manager. For this reason, I developed my Ulthule™ Approach to Relationship Formation, Leadership, and Group Work. Intimately, I love the challenge of solving the human problems of technically enabled organizations whenever and wherever I encounter them.
As a result of this accidental meeting, I began intensive investigation into the challenges of Relationship performance in modern organizations and the impact this has on the problem of leadership. In time, I developed my Ulthule™ Approach to Relationship Formation which enables clients to achieve the highest level of performance attainable, an approach that does considerably more than merely echo the leadership and business thinking of past commentators on the business scene. Life today is a paradox. While innovation and technology have improved the standard of living and offered new opportunities for a more enriching and better quality of life, many people find that they have less time to enjoy the world of the 21st Century or to gain satisfaction from their jobs.
It may be true that people are challenged in the workplace today like never before, but so too are their leaders. As the new technologies have offered hope for a better quality of life at home and on the job, the expectations for ever improved Group Work performance have likewise increased the competitive pressures resulting from the introduction of the new technologies. We now realize that the drive to provide ever more convenient technologies correspondently increases the demands on workplace relationships and personal life. The result is obvious: as ever more people become disgruntled, and overwhelmed with their situations, they have begun to develop a new set of issues that inhibit the performance of workplace relationships and performance. What a mess!
The results are paradoxical - chaos and a reduced quality of life are the results both at work and at home from the new technologies intended to improve the quality of life at work and at home. These are challenges of relationships, leadership, management practice, and social justice. I enjoy working with client to transform these challenges into powerful pathways of personal and business success. I have been meeting these challenges since the 1980s and along the way have built a record of outstanding success.
Today, I offer a range of transformative Relationship Formation services designed to improve performance in technology driven organizations. I offer a range of books and programs in Ulthule™ Relationship Formation education and development . I deliver a range of Relationship Formation capabilities for all levels of Human Capital Development.
I have enjoyed a unique career with a very interesting history of achievement. Although I am only one person, I have made significant contributions to the largest of global organizations on departmental projects and enterprise-wide, global programs using my time and experience wisely, forming alliances as needed, and using relationship experts occasionally.
I hope that you take the time to tour my web site and learn more about what makes my assistance so attractive to clients. The one complaint that I consistently hear is that I am very, very good but inexpensive when compared to my “Big" competitors. Somehow I can live with this.
I feel certain that my Ulthule™ Relationship Formation integrated with my technical and business consulting capabilities are second to none. I am honored to say that I have not found better programs anywhere else, here or aboard. I really mean this! If I found them, I would have joined them myself. Please take some time to enjoy the Ulthule™ Relationship Formation experience for yourself and discover why the larger consulting firms are really not always better. It’s all in the brain-power, earnest desire to make a positive difference, and record of success. I have an abundance of all three.
Ray Newkirk, Psy.D., Ph.D., Ph.D.
Ulthule™ Relationship Formation
Cultivating Potent Relationship Mastery
Ulthule™ Relationship Mastery
Personal Relationship Mastery
It is fair to say that Personal Relationship Mastery is all about problem-solving. No one is surprised when they hear that Human Beings are superb at generating a wide range of problems. If organization Leaders possessed the insights to pay employees to generate problems, they would easily get their money’s worth. There would be no slacking off here. Fortunately, an adequately articulated Personal Relationship Mastery Plan, that is the PRMP, can turn this mess around quite rapidly. As a specialist in Ulthule™ Relationship Mastery, I view Personal Relationship Mastery as the framework for forming teams and organizations that deliver performance beyond the range of what people commonly refer to as Peak Performance.
Personal Relationship Mastery employs scenario-building, social-skills analysis, Decision Effectiveness analysis, adoption of effectiveness development processes, Evidence-Based Solution Generation, development and execution of a wide range of personal and interpersonal Relationship Formation Action Plans, and multi-perspective exercises that built new insights and strategies for growth.
Personal Impressions:
What is my early 360 deep impression about Relationship Formation?
Can I succeed in a relationship working with people I do not like?
Are there any emotional drivers that can improve the process?
Are there any injunctions that may hinder the Relationship process?
What is my first opinion about working together with someone, yes or no?
Identify the potential problems and the associated decisions for each problem about being a leader in teh relationship.
If a Relationship Contract exists, explore the better decision.
Anchor every Relationship decision with relevant data that justified the decision.
As a Leader in the Relationship, develop a realistic implementation plan and live by the desired decision as an adult.
As a Relationship Leader, encourage and support the initiation of the Relationship Formation plan and the expected behavior such a plan demands.
Design a multi-level Relationship Support System.
Execute the Plan for Relationship Mastery Success.
Skills Development Relationship Mastery
While your skills do not land you a job, it’s really attitude, they, nevertheless, form a fundamental part of your career success. Highly talented individuals are the people who most often progress the most. They are the people who seem to get all the breaks. They are the talented contributors among us whom the high-level mangers recognize them.
However, in order to fulfill their potential and move to positions of even higher opportunity, employees do well to assess the factors that reduce their potential to contribute to the organization in a more worthwhile manner. It seems that people in successful workplace relationships know how best to:
Leverage the potential they already possess, and
Align their talents, interests, and behaviors with the needs of their workplace relationship.
Skills Development Relationship Mastery (SDRM) assists Leaders, managers and employees who want to excel. Through SDRM, leaders and their teams conduct careful and in-depth assessments of their strengths and weaknesses that are associated with job and career success. They simultaneously learn how to expand their potential for continuous growth as they work to uncover their blind spots, reduce their career constraining issues, and build their strengths. SDRM initiates several activities including the following:
Track changes in cognitive, personality, and Relationship preferences
Create and initiate skills development action plans
UlThule™ Relationship for Potent Problem Solving
—Relationship Mastery for Performance Beyond Peak Performance—
Rapid Problem Solving is the new gift of the UlThule™ Relationship Mastery Approach.
All Relationships, whatever approach, are about problem-solving. Engage Dr. Newkirk to enhance your experiential, evidence-based, transformative, and Rapid Real-Time Problem-Solving capability. More than 55 years in development, the Ulthule™ Relationship Mastery approach is the most effective Rapid Problem-Solving approach for rerlationships available today. I have assisted leaders and their teams during the most stressful projects imaginable that have changed entire industries. UlThule™ Relationship Mastery prepares relationships to move beyond the boundaries of Peak Performance in Rapid Real Time by delivering results previously unimagined.
As your Relationship Mastery Specialist, I will assist you, or your team, from the very first session with rapidly solving a wide range of soft-skills problems spanning a large number of complex topics. I can assist you with more rapidly removing the obstacles that impede your path to personal and Relationship success by rapidly attaining problem-solving mastery. I can further assist you with advancing through the four levels of UlThule™ Relationship Certification if you wish to fully immerse yourself in this potent Relationship Development approach.
It is a common practice today to hire an Executive Coach. It is another to work with a Relationship Mastery Specialist to learn how to rapidly solve a range of problems with solutions derived from successful global experience. Since 1982, I have assisted people from a diverse range of global organizations in government, defense, and industry with mastering their Relationship within and outside the workplace. The goal here, of course, is to assist individuals and teams with building their self-systems potency by deepening their Relationship Mastery wherever they may be. As a Ulthule™ Relationship Specialist, I assists workplace relationships, and aspiring leaders, with deriving the potent solutions that enable them to achieve performance at levels beyond the ordinary. This is performance that is beyond Peak Performance.
I see Relationship Mastery as a process that assists teams with gaining the insights necessary to master specific situations as they are emerge. This is beyond traditional Leadership Training & Development. UlThule™ Relationship Mastery assists relationships with attaining behavioral, contextual, and technical solutions that are relevant to a specific problem type that each partner seeks to resolve rapidly. In this respect then, by mastering each solution, relationships continually engage in personal transformation by acquiring new insights and capabilities previously unrealized. This, then, is successful UlThule™ Relationship Mastery. I invite you to join me in embarking on this interesting, inspiring, and empowering adventure.
UlThule™ Relationship Approach for Potent Problem Solving
—Soft-Skills Mastery for Performance Beyond Peak Performance—
Rapid Problem Solving is new gift of the UlThule™ Relationship Soft-Skills Mastery Approach.
All performance, whatever approach, is about problem-solving. Master the Soft-Skills UlThule™ Relationship Approach to enhance your experiential, evidence-based, transformative, and Rapid Real-Time Problem-Solving skill. More than 55 years in development, Ulthule™ RelationshipSoft-Skills Mastery is the most effective Rapid Problem-Solving approach available today. I have assisted leaders and their teams during the most stressful projects imaginable that have changed entire industries. UlThule™ Relationship Soft-Skills Mastery prepares dedicated people to move beyond the boundaries of Peak Performance in Rapid Real Time by delivering results previously unimaginable much more rapidly.
UlThule™ Relationship Soft-Skills Mastery can assist you, or your team, from the first hour with rapidly solving a wide range of soft-skills problems spanning a wide range of complex topics. UlThule™ Relationship Formation can assist you with more rapidly removing the obstacles that impede your path to success by rapidly attaining problem-solving mastery. I can further assist you with advancing through the four levels of UlThule™ Relationship Soft-Skills Mastery if you wish to fully immerse yourself in this potent Soft-Skills Development approach.
It is a common practice today to hire an Executive Coach. It is another to work with a Soft-Skills Relationship Mastery Specialist to learn how to rapidly solve a range of problems with solutions derived from successful global experience. Since 1982, I have assisted clients from a diverse range of global organizations in government, defense, and industry with mastering their relationships within and outside the workplace. The goal here, of course, is to assist people with building their self-systems potency by deepening their Relationship Soft-Skills Mastery wherever they may be. Using an Ulthule™ Relationship Formation approach, I assists interested persons with deriving the potent solutions that enable them to achieve performance at levels beyond the ordinary. This is performance that is beyond Peak Performance.
UlThule™ Relationship Mastery (URM™) Mastery assists interested people with gaining the insights necessary to master specific situations as they emerge. This is beyond traditional Training & Development. UlThule™ Relationship Mastery assists interested people with attaining behavioral, con textual, and technical solutions that are relevant to a specific problem type that each person seeks to resolve rapidly. In this respect then, by mastering each solution, people continually engage in personal transformation by acquiring new insights and capabilities previously unrealized. This, then, is successful UlThule™ Relationship Soft-Skills Mastery. I invite you to join me in embarking on this interesting, inspiring, and empowering adventure.