THE NEWKIRK GROUP
An Affiliate of The Systems Management Institute
ULTHULE COACHING SPECIALISTS
Do you sincerely want to be successful?
Successful people understand that "having access" to the right people is invaluable to attaining enduring success.
Would you like to have access to one of the world's most accomplished consulting teams as your own personal coach?
Would you like to share in its knowledge, raise any issue in confidence and safety, and leverage its 40+ years of global experience to enable you to attain the next level of success?
Learn to avoid the mistakes that cost others dearly!
Through its advanced coaching program, The Newkirk Group will lead you to your next success horizon.
How much is "working tension" costing your career?
Discover the success that lies hidden in you!
Dear Visitor,
How successful do you want to be? This may sound like a rhetorical question, but in my 25+ years of consulting experience, I have learned that authentic success, that type of success measured in the deep satisfaction of the human spirit, something noble and deep, is truly rare.
There are countless reasons why people substitute apparent success for authentic success. Whatever the reasons, they are governed by what I term the Law of Substitution and Distraction.
Some substitute money for success. Others substitute pleasure. Still, others substitute luxury. While others substitute education, power, position, prestige, and so forth, many others enroll in classes, buy books and tapes and craft wonderful libraries about every aspect of success imaginable. Appealing as these things are to many of us, they are not where true success is to be found. Indeed, for many people, these external rewards are more distractions of the heart than indicators of success. All of these may be measures of achievement, this is true, but in themselves they fail to express the deep satisfaction of the human spirit indicative of authentic success.
Over the years, I have been told by more than a few experts that success means nothing more than "needs satisfaction." Superficially, this has a nice ring to it, but what happens if your apparent needs lead you astray? People have been known to shoot themselves in their proverbial feet.
Down deep where we must live with ourselves, true success can be recognized as the vindication of one's legacy to the human spirit. It emerges from the in-depth, noble, and grand vision to live a fully human life not measured in mere material possessions.
The Newkirk Group loves coaching those who see success as that special something beyond the accumulation of lots of money and the usual trappings of success - the people with the big visions, the driving hunger to achieve, the demanding expectations, the global ideas, the hidden ambitions to be something more than ordinary in the province of the heart. If you are the type of person who is more:
Concerned about the extraordinary things in life, excited about finding new solutions, clearing new paths, establishing new trends, forging new strategies, or making deals, than in seeking the status quo, we are there with you.
Interested in setting new directions, exploring new territory, thinking about the creation of new opportunities and futures than in buying more things or collecting more stuff, we share your drive.
Obsessed about what you are doing and where you are going than in what you have done or where you have been, we enjoy the same obsession.
If you are committed to your journey, close to being there, or can nearly taste that sweet smell of success but lack that intrinsic something to finally get there, the Newkirk Group will provide that special something to propel you along your way.
If you are driven to be an authentically successful person, to find out what you are really made of, how far you can ultimately go, and what you can truly become, and want to seize every advantage you can to make it happen, we want to work with you.
If you are reading this page, you are a curious person. Great! You cannot be successful without at least a bit of curiosity pulling you on. Perhaps you already see yourself as successful, or have taken one of the many success building programs offered by another coach, seminar, or webcast. Or perhaps you have taken one of the numerous training courses available on the topic of success. Remember, though, one's success often becomes the road to one's future failure.
Maybe you already know about us through our consulting work, have worked with us before through the Systems Management Institute, or have attended one of our previous seminars. Or perhaps it is none of these. Maybe our meeting like this is just an accident, an unexpected click of the mouse during a random search. Wonderful! Some of the best things in life come to us through unexpected opportunities or unplanned meetings. If this is the case with you, let me briefly share something about The Newkirk Group and why we should matter to you.
The Newkirk Group
The Newkirk Group is a softskills coaching team. Paradoxically, building softskills is harder than building hardskills. Rather than beginning our coaching programs by focusing on what successful people do, we first focus on the personal dimension that makes successful people successful and then highlight what they do. We are "transformation" oriented. We maintain that success is something you are, or unfortunately, who you are not.
We begin by coaching clients on the nature of the successful person and then move to the actions that are indicative of success, or the content of success. In a nutshell, you could say that we focus on "becoming" and "being" successful more than on the activities engaged in by successful people. We understand that to be a successful person requires you to be a certain type of person as a prerequisite to success. A personal framework of success has to exist before success becomes a reality.
Our Group consists of several outstanding coaches who know a lot about the authentic success journey. We offer coaching programs in the core ingredients of "becoming" and "being" a successful person: self-mastery, communication skills, innovation, life change skills and career exploration, athletic discipline, self-management, and so forth. Our goal is to enable clients to enlarge their range of intellectual, emotional, and behavioral capabilities in building a richer framework for being successful persons.
Success is not something you do or have;
it is who you are that makes you successful.
The question is: Are you serious about being a successful person? How would you like us to coach you at the crucial times in your life when a little edge will make a big difference in your success journey? We offer success development strategies and programs that will enable you to become what you want to be faster.
Even though you may be a beginner on your path to becoming a successful person, we can still work with you. However, you must be serious about yourself and the life you want to live. And you must be committed to work for it. When you participate in our private coaching sessions, you gain real-time, on-the-spot coaching that is frequently beyond the scope of public seminars. You get to do a special type of personal work that is simply not possible in our public programs.
Our Coaching Approach
While consultants bring badly needed skills to an organization, coaches ernable clients to uncover these skills for themselves. Fundamentally, coaching and consulting are polar opposites. Coaching is a uniquely personal activity in which one size does not fit all. When done correctly, coaching enables clients to skillfully and powerfully get beyond the personal sticking points that negatively impact their committed success journey. While training enables clients to attain and master core competencies, coaching enables clients to liberate their hidden strengths and talents. While training is about knowledge transfer, coaching is about personal discovery and development.
Understanding this complex maze of personal dynamics, we employ an iterative three cycle process consisting of "tell, show, and watch over." We begin the process by assisting the client in developing a problem resolution agenda. Here the client identifies one or two important issues that need resolution. We then work with the client as facilitators of problem resolution and agents in the development of enduring change.
Common Problems Solved By Coaching
Although each client brings a unique character to a wide range of problems, these problems often share some common aspect that makes them paradoxically both different and similar to other problems. As coaches, we assist clients in identifying, managing, and overcoming painful strategic mistakes such as burnout, selling yourself short, and making bad impressions. We also assist clients in developing much more than core competencies. For example, we enable clients to:
- Overcome psychological threats.
- Manage organization threats.
- Control political threats.
- Overcome self-deception.
- Initiate career self-renewal and jobs change.
- Balance the five elements of a successful life.
- Determine their level of success.
- Build and realize an authentic vision of personal success.
Throw away the anchors that hold you back!
The Newkirk Group engages innovative coaching approaches to resolve complex personal challenges. Working with clients, we mobilize innovation and change to unleash the power of strategic action. Our strength is that we bring a "highest level of performance attainable," or Ulthule Approach, to every coaching engagement.
At The Newkirk Group, Ulthule is our driving force.
Guided by formative ethical principles of coaching, we strive for the highest level of performance attainable in whatever we do, and we lead clients to do the same. We offer management audits, coaching and mentoring, executive and group workshops, conflict resolution, contingency management, leadership education, and retainer consulting.
These are exciting times for innovative executives as they forge the new opportunities for success offered by the challenges of 21st Century competition. The Newkirk Group enjoys discovering the opportunities hidden in these challenges. Moreover, we receive great satisfaction from sharing the wealth of our experience, knowledge, and insights with our clients as they leverage their challenges to capture the emerging opportunities for success.
Founded by Raymond L. Newkirk and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay area, The Newkirk Group is a global coaching company serving emerging and established companies. We offer:
- Executive and Management Skills Coaching
- Team Building & Work Team Design
- Leadership & Management Effectivity Analysis
- Virtual-Learning Softskills Development
- Cultural Change Management
- Diversity Coaching
- Tact & Diplomacy Coaching
- Communications Skills Coaching
- Career Management Coaching
"Solving Your Problems Is What We Do."
Ray Newkirk