THE ULTHULE FORUM

 

The Newkirk Group offers Ulthule programs in leadership and team work, vision building, coaching and empowerment, team building, conflict management, diversity, action planning and design. Our goal is to assist individuals to acquire the essential knowledge and skills required to successfully lead their organizations in the 21st Century.

We recognize the central dilemma of modern Leadership: While far sighted Leaders shifted organization perspectives through the adoption of new management paradigms and models of efficiency, they often failed to develop the personal competencies needed to succeed in their new environments. The traditional managerial strengths that advanced them to senior leadership positions suddenly become inadequate to navigate the challenges of the 21st Century organization.

We understand that leading a modern organization requires important personal competencies, new management approaches, and professional skills not found in practices of the past. Our experience reveals that nearly two-thirds of mangers have become frustrated because leadership at the pinnacle of decision making resisted making the personal changes required to guide their 21st century organizations.

Through our Peak Performance programs, we assist business leaders and managers to deepen the personal competencies required to succeed as executives and leaders in the modern organization.

Experts recognize that competence consists of general and specialized knowledge. While specialized knowledge includes specific discipline-oriented knowledge, general knowledge includes managing self, communicating, managing people and tasks, and mobilizing innovation and change. We hold that these core competencies form the common language of competence and serve as the fundamental skills for mastering the external world.

Our Ulthule Forum builds competence in individuals and organizations through its high impact workshops and coaching services. Our "The Ulthule Leadership Approach to Improving Group Work" program is an intense, high-impact, executive workshop designed to empower participants to achieve performance at the highest level attainable, the Ulthule level of performance.

OUR PEAK PERFORMANCE PROGRAMS

We designed our Peak Performance programs to meet the unique needs of each client:

  • For the business enterprise, our Peak Performance Program offers comprehensive business and Information Technology models, and timely strategic Management Effectiveness programs.
  • For key executives, our Peak Performance Program offers cutting edge workshops and seminars focused on Peak Performance Leadership and Leadership Effectiveness.
  • For executive teams, our Peak Performance Program offers innovative senior team-building workshops focused on enhancing relationship effectiveness.

Through our Peak Performance Alliance we work with clients to move beyond sustaining personal competencies. Our goal is to lead clients to develop the Peak Performance capabilities necessary for meeting the difficult challenges of Hypercompetition and Hypergrowth.

21st Century Commerce changes the rules of business competition and challenges the entire leadership environment. Since the new structures of the enterprise demand the development of new executive skills, our Alliance has designed programs to enhance the unique visions of leaders and attain the Ulthule level of performance in their organization, the highest level of performance attainable.

The Newkirk Group works with individuals and groups to develop Peak Performance Leaders and Peak Performance Group Work. We further assist in diversity consulting, and the development of ethical standards governing group work. We coach in Peak Performance Project Management and enterprise design. We also assist clients in technology transfer by offering a range of coaching and education programs in Peak Performance Technical Management.

Our Peak Performance Executive Forum works with executives and their teams to achieve Peak Performance and enrich the human environment. Participants in our Peak Performance Programs learn how to: (1) optimize communication skills; (2) build Peak Performance interpersonal and individual behavior; (3) balance diversity in the workplace; (4) set ethical standards for fostering workplace integrity, and (5) lead individuals, teams, and organizations to achieve planned and durable change.

Our Peak Performance Program offers several tracks. Clients work through self-identified professional and personal goals in brief, two hours per day, intensive, individualized sessions over several consecutive days, while team-building sessions occur in intensive four day programs. All programs take place near a client’s business location or at the Alliance facilities in Pacific Grove, California.

Ulthule Forum Credo

Ulthule Leaders

Ulthule starts with a creative executive vision. Organizations at the cutting edge of the new technologies must be guided by highly competent, innovative, and tough minded executives who establish the best practices that others follow. Successful executives are doers. Their focus is outward on the world, but they must be able to turn inside and understand self.

Executives who are deficient in self-reflection are less aware of how they are perceived, so are less able to understand and effectively manage those who support them, a necessity in the diverse and multi-cultural organizations of today. It is impossible for any one person, no matter how gifted or energetic, to keep an eye on everything. Ulthule leaders work to understand and therefore gain the trust of those who support them.

Ulthule Teams

Ulthule teams find ways to transcend the narrow boundaries of individual responsibilities to enhance organizational goals. Teams and their members need to be trusting and supportive, yet must be able to react as well as adapt to a leader. Everyone’s opinions must count, and the first rule is to appreciate differences, rather than argue over them. Interdependence is the reality of life, and its thoughtful use results in synergy. A team environment that supports growth and change fosters Ulthule in today’s rapidly changing business world.

Ulthule Team Work

In the final analysis, what all Ulthule Groups have is people, their human capital, not defined and valued by jobs that function like a long-term annuity, but through their ability to add value to an organization. Ulthule organizations cherish and grow their human capital, including most centrally their senior executives and critical position managers.

Ulthule Forum Principles

The Ulthule Forum focuses on applying key underlying principles that govern the productivity of Group Work. We know how leaders leverage these to unleash creative power and innovation in organization leaders and leadership teams.

The Ulthule Froum focuses on key underlying principles that govern human systems. We know how these can be used to unleash creative power and effectiveness in leaders and leadership teams. Gene kerfoot articulates these principles as follows:

  • Personality consists of enduring and changeable patterns of experience that comprise the self-system, which in conjunction with relationship systems exist in patterns of behavior that define interpersonal activities. Both self and relationship systems are capable of being changes and fine-tuned.
  • Personality is mediated by emotion, and behavioral outcomes are determined at the emotional, not intellectual, level. Thinking is much more than intellectual activity, no matter how well-honed and organized. Most decisions and all important ones, are grounded in the passions that enlivened human existence.
  • No one uses all of his/her potential. The expanded use of human potential constitutes a kind of emotional and intellectual literacy, and can be developed through an enhanced and re-configured internal awareness of self.

We offer individualized programs in Ulthule Leadership which promote the: (a) attainment of Ulthule Group Work; (b) creation of realistic solutions; (c) elaboration of successful strategies, and (d) design of powerful methods. We complement programs that employ Information Technology to enable organizations or those which introduce Organization Development to refine work teams. The Ulthule Forum views executives as critical leaders of organization evolution who are guided by emerging paradigms of management opportunity to achieve Ulthule, the highest level of performance attainable.

The Ulthule Forum Advantage

The Ulthule Forum is worth considering. We facilitate both short term and enduring change to build immediate and long term performance. We do this by guiding individuals and teams to generate their own unique creative solutions for attaining Ulthule.

The Ulthule Forum offers many years of experience tackling challenging problems on the way to building Ulthule solutions. including resolving group conflicts and personal stress. We ignite executives and their teams to succeed at the highest level attainable in mobilizing innovation and change, communicating, managing self, and managing tasks and others.

Your Organization and the Ulthule Forum: the Winning Alliance

We tailor our programs to meet the needs of your unique organization. The Ulthule Forum offers a special two-part program to improve the performance of organizations and re-energize the people that do the work. We concentrate on empowering individuals, building effective relationships, and raising the levels of personal and team performance.

Our Ulthule Executive Forum works with executives and their teams to achieve Ulthule and enrich the human environment. Participants in our Programs learn how to: (1) optimize communication skills; (2) build interpersonal and individual behavior; (3) balance diversity in the workplace; (4) set ethical standards for fostering workplace integrity, and (5) lead individuals, teams, and organizations to achieve planned and durable change.

Our Ulthule Program offers several tracks. As an option, clients work through self-identified professional and personal goals in brief, two hours per day, intensive, individualized sessions over several consecutive days, while team-building sessions occur in intensive four day programs. All programs take place near a client’s business location.

"Leading in the Transition

to the 21st Century"