This document outlines the experience and focus areas of an individual with 40 years of human relations experience in both public and private sectors. Their focus areas include: 1) individual achievement through a strengths-based approach to mindset, skills, and goals, 2) personal success advocacy through in-depth life adjustments, 3) effective management strategies and leadership skills like decision making and team building, 4) organizational advancement through developing human potential and strategic planning, and 5) local, seasonal organic food through operating an organic farm and educating others. Their mission is to encourage human potential through support and skills development.
2. 40 years of Human Relations experience
spanning both Public and Private sector settings
Facilitated hundreds of successful outcomes
Encourage, Educate and Facilitate
Encourage Human Potential
Educate toward Higher Functioning
Facilitate Successful Outcomes
3. Personal Mission
Support and Encourage
those who are successfully leading the way
to responsible global citizenship
and
Propagate the Skills, Principles and Habits
that enable people to successfully navigate
the challenges in their lives
4. Five Principal Areas of Focus
1. Individual Achievement
2. Personal Success Advocacy
3. Effective Management Strategies
and Leadership Skills
4. Organizational Advancement
5. Local, Seasonal, Organic Food
5. Five Principal Areas of Focus
1. Individual Achievement *
2. Personal Success Advocacy
3. Effective Management Strategies
and Leadership Skills
4. Organizational Advancement
5. Local, Seasonal, Organic Food
6. Individual Achievement
a strengths-based “skills and habits” approach
• Mindset/Perspective
• Attitude
• Outlook
• Self-esteem
• Resilience
• Purpose
• Practical Skills Development
• Goals
• Motivation
• Productivity
• Finances
• Communication
• General Well-Being
• Happy?
• Relationships?
• Health?
• Vices?
• Balance?
7. Five Principal Areas of Focus
1. Individual Achievement
2. Personal Success Advocacy *
3. Effective Management Strategies
and Leadership Skills
4. Organizational Advancement
5. Local, Seasonal, Organic Food
8. Personal Success Advocacy
a more in-depth process
major life adjustment -- or -- long-standing problem
• Success as you define it
• Self-Understanding <-> Self-Acceptance <-> Self-Direction
• Unraveling old, conditioned patterns of thinking-feeling-behaving
Re-constructing a new, healthier, better-suited (authentic) life
9. Five Principal Areas of Focus
1. Individual Achievement
2. Personal Success Advocacy
3. Effective Management Strategies
and Leadership Skills *
4. Organizational Advancement
5. Local, Seasonal, Organic Food
10. Effective Management Strategies
and Leadership Skills
confidence, enjoyment, success
managing relationships and outcomes
• Productive meetings
• Decision-making methods (spectrum)
• Supervision styles
• Team building
• Shaping policies
• Hiring and firing practices
• Dealing with “difficult” people
• Progressive discipline
11. Five Principal Areas of Focus
1. Individual Achievement
2. Personal Success Advocacy
3. Effective Management Strategies
and Leadership Skills
4. Organizational Advancement *
5. Local, Seasonal, Organic Food
12. Organizational Advancement
staying viable, moving forward
Developing Human Potential
• The Big Picture / The Bottom Line
• Cultivating a Workplace Culture of Growth and Adaptation
• Recognizing and Utilizing “Honest Signals”
(formal vs informal org chart)
• Balancing an “evolving system” with a “well-oiled machine”
• Upper Management (Leadership Team, Inner Circle)
• Leading by Example
• Consensus Vision / Decisive Leadership
• Eliciting Peak Performance – Accountability and Support
• Retreat Design/Facilitation, Strategic Planning sessions,
Trainings, etc.
13. Five Principal Areas of Focus
1. Individual Achievement
2. Personal Success Advocacy
3. Effective Management Strategies
and Leadership Skills
4. Organizational Advancement
5. Local, Seasonal, Organic Food *
14. Local, Seasonal, Organic Food
• Owner / Operator of a small organic farm (20+ years)
• “Nourish and Educate” initiative (Food Share Program) reaches
approximately 40 households on a “gift” basis, educating about the
importance and benefits of local food
• Wife Elin England, author of Eating Close to Home and Beans,
Grains, Nuts & Seeds, weaves together the efforts of local growers,
restaurants, and chefs in utilizing our amazing abundance of locally
sourced foods in Western Oregon
15. Five Principal Areas of Focus
1. Individual Achievement
2. Personal Success Advocacy
3. Effective Management Strategies
and Leadership Skills
4. Organizational Advancement
5. Local, Seasonal, Organic Food