Focus your influence. Magnify your impact.

LeadershipLens is devoted to instilling hope, igniting purpose, renewing passion and providing breakthrough ideas for the practice of great leadership within organizations. Great leaders have learned how to invest in people and influence them to all move in the same direction. At its core, leadership is about relationships and translating vision into action. LeadershipLens will challenge and connect audiences to the principles and practice of great leadership by focusing influence for magnified impact.

LeadershipLens Focus Seminars

Focus: Personal Leadership

Leaders want to be their best when their best is required. In business, marriage, family, faith or school, leaders want to develop disciplines, skills and the awareness that will carry them from just seeing problems to great decisions that solve them. Personal leadership is about discovering strengths, defining and developing disciplines with people, thoughts and actions, demonstrating character, discerning the destination of your vision - and being determined to get there, and deciding not to get distracted or disillusioned along the way. Personal leadership is about growing, stretching and challenging yourself to be the best person you can be and diligently pursuing growth until you have reached your destination.

“Never Give Up” - Winston Churchill Commencement Speech at Oxford

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.” -Albert Schweitzer

“The first and most important choice a leader makes is the choice to serve, without which one's capacity to lead is profoundly limited.” -Robert K Greenleaf

Focus: Communicating Vision

Leaders take the necessary steps to ensure that what they believe can be, will be. Vision is at the center of what evokes emotion, creates movement, provides direction and supplies meaning. A focused, well-articulated, clearly delineated vision incites passion, wonder and discovery in the minds and hearts of the people who follow. It builds trust, fosters creativity, determines actions, forges new paths and ends with significance.

"Give people hope; not facts. Instill faith; not fear." -Brenda Cimbura

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.” - Goethe

Focus: Human Performance - Overcoming Mind Games and Land Mines

According to researchers, we speak 150 to 200 words per minute. But our self talk, our private conversation in our mind averages 1300 words per minute. In essence, self-talk is forming who you are, and definitely affecting the people you lead. The problem for leaders in organizations is helping their people to perform their best and most meaningful work. Learn how to optimize human performance by tuning in to self-talk and focusing on new patterns to increase emotional contentment, fulfillment and significance. Leaders need skills to internal (Mind Games) and external (Land Mines) motivators. Brenda will reveal practical skills and breakthrough ideas to help get you and your organization unstuck.

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” - Norman Vincent Peale

“Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom...' The power to choose, to respond, to change." -Stephen R. Covey

“We tend to get what we focus on. If we fear failure, we are focused on failure and that is what we get.” -Sir John Whitmore

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Focus: Resolving Conflict and Guiding People Through Challenges

As leaders, at times, it is important to upset the right people in order to move in a healthier direction. Often what needs to get done is a different issue than someone's response. Can a caring, transparent and strategic leader calm the reaction towards challenges, crisis or change? Can difficult people be defused? Can conflict be resolved in a manner that creates synergy and understanding? The answer is “yes.” You can learn assertiveness techniques and develop the confidence you need to resolve difficult people issues. Brenda will reveal breakthrough ideas about how to communicate assertively, persuasively and congruently, read the people around you better and navigate hard communication challenges that will impact your people and organization in healthy and effective ways.

Learning Objectives:

• Recognize the link between assertiveness, confidence and self-esteem.
• Identify the best approach to use when voicing ideas and opinions to colleagues and especially senior managers/leaders.
• Handle difficult situations and people confidently and assertively.
• Effectively and positively deal with criticism, confrontation, anger and negativity.
• Overcome feelings of apprehension and understand the importance of language and body language to assertiveness.
• Develop techniques for better working relationships using assertiveness.

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is to try to please everybody.” -Herbert Bayard Swope

Focus: Navigating Change and Overcoming Obstacles

Perhaps no greater force than change can evoke the insecurities of individuals who have grown accustomed to the way things are and have always been. Whether you are leading organizational change or trying to improve yourself, change is difficult. This topic will go beyond general concepts of reorganizing or restructuring priorities by providing transformational ideas, tools and inspiring hope that can help all of us make positive, attainable and necessary change - in any aspect of life.

"If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great."
-- Tom Hanks, A League of Their Own