ULTHULE SKILL DEVELOPMENT
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The Newkirk Group offers powerful coaching and mentor programs for those who feel uneasy about the emerging business environment - its trends, techniques, and assumptions. We advocate personal success, proficiency based leadership, evolutionary guidance, and profitable self-growth. Our programs address several domains of professional concern: (1) Executive Effectiveness; (2) Technical Management, and (3) Softskills Proficiency. We work with individuals, teams, and organizations to resolve clients' most pressing performance challenges.
Our Ulthule Skill Development programs emphasize professional growth and the management of new business realities to sustain competitive leverage. We recognize the business myths that have outlived their usefulness. We know what to do about it. We excel at integrating theory with practice and balancing technical and social systems in the workplace. We are an innovative Caching Team who understands the practical realities of competitive life. Out Ulthule Skill Development practice offers programs in:
- Executive, Manager, & Team Coaching
- Communications
- Tact and Diplomacy
- Proficiency Development
- Competence Building
- Leadership and Management Effectiveness
- Staff and Personal Relations
- Learning and Development
- Cultural Sensitivity & Diversity
Ulthule SKill Development and Life Long Learning
A core component of our Ulthule Skill Development Practcie is our focus on life-long learning. Again and again The Newkirk Group has found that accomplished individuals hunger for learning that never diminishes. Whether it be problem solving, skill enhancement, or knowledge acquisition, successful individuals continually seek to sharpen their intellects. For these persons, competence is not an insult; it is an intimate attribute of their lives.
Through our affiliation with The Systems Management Institute, we offer life long learning opportunities designed to increase the client effectiveness in the attainment of excellence. Our programs are more practical than theoretical and focus on doing.
Agreeing with Dr. Gene Kerfoot of the Monterey Bay Management Group, we believe that task competencies: (1) are grounded in personal skills; (2) exist along a continuum of levels; (3) start with relevant information; (4) exist in relation to specific tasks; (5) are improved by practice; (6) are measured by selective judgments of performance, and (7) satisfy a criterion of "good enough".
Along with Evers, Rush, and Berdrow (1998), we believe that competence consists of general and specialized knowledge. While the specialized knowledge includes discipline-specific knowledge, the general knowledge includes managing self, communicating well, managing people and tasks, and mobilizing innovation and change. These core competencies form the common language of competence and serve as the core skills for mastering the external world.