12 ways Women can take their lives, careers, and leadership to a higher level.

Aug 22, 2018 | Business, Career Advice, Careers, Coaching, Events, Leadership, Women

12 ways Women can take their lives, careers, and leadership to a higher level.

Photos show previous attendees of the Positively Powerful Woman 3-Day Workshops and Retreats held in Phoenix, Arizona and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

It’s your time! You are a working woman who has already attained a measure of accomplishment. Whatever your level of accomplishment, you passionately want to take your life, results, and contributions to a higher level personally, professionally, socially and/or globally. You know everything you want to accomplish can’t be done with an app or a book. You want real-time ready to go life-changing tools that work consistently.

This is for you! The Triad West Positively Powerful interactive workshop retreat designed for women looking to advance their lives, their contributions, and their careers in today’s workforce. It happens this year on October 4, 5 & 6 Thursday: 8 AM Registration. Workshop 9 AM to 6 PM Each Day with lunch at the beautiful Franciscan Renewal Center, 5802 E Lincoln Dr., Paradise Valley, AZ 85253. (more information)

Enhance your leadership abilities.
Be inspired, empowered and motivated.
Discover how to handle difficult conversations in unwelcoming situations.
Accelerate your success using the “7-Step Creation Process”.
Get out of your comfort zone and into strategic risks and choices.
Discover your “Immunity To Change” and what to do about it.
Share your “Positively Powerful Women’s Journey” and have authentic conversations and network with other exceptional women. Form a collaborative strategic community.
Have time to relax, be joyful, and have fun.
Discover/rediscover your purpose, vision, gifts, leadership strengths and your competitive edge.
Leave with an Action Plan and strategic network.
Leave feeling more confident, assertive, refreshed, energetic and free.
Work with a proven breakthrough performance specialist.

Join me, Dr. Joel Martin 15+ Year International Transformation Generator. Training Designer & Facilitator, President Triad West Inc., Founder Positively Powerful Woman Awards and Programs. I have had the privilege of working with thousands of women across the US and globally. I understand your brilliance and the amazing possibilities that await you in the 3 days. I am 100% dedicated to your accomplishment.

Reward and recognize with this 3 day women’s retreat

Aug 17, 2018 | Business, Leadership, transformation, Women

Your women employees are interested in learning new skills. In addition to helping you both achieve your goals, here’s why it is an excellent idea to register her for the Triad West Inc. (TWI) 3-Day Positively Powerful Woman Leadership Intensive Retreat. Thursday, October 4, 2018, 8 AM to Saturday, October 6, 2018, 6 PM. Franciscan Retreat Center, 5802 E Lincoln Dr, Paradise Valley, AZ 85253.

Here’s how this Triad West Inc. Leadership Retreat benefits your women employees.

A supportive environment for her practice of skills. We know it takes experience and understanding to accomplish new skills. They can’t be learned as effectively from an app or a book. Learning by doing has no substitute. The Retreat is interactive experiential education where one day builds on the next to a transformative conclusion.
Designed and delivered by an expert. Joel Martin, Ph.D., MA, BFA, Wharton Fellow is an international practitioner of leadership development. She’s focused on what works now in the real world and how to apply it in ways that matter. In addition, your employee will be learning alongside their peers from other organizations, gaining knowledge, discussing best practices, and expanding their network. Previous attendees agree that Dr. Joel Martin, President, and Owner of Triad West Inc. makes a real difference. Her work is highly rated, effective and produces long-lasting breakthrough performance and empowerment. That is why she is affectionately called “The Transformation Generator.”
Tools, tips, and strategies designed to improve abilities. The retreat is designed to make a positively powerful difference in women’s abilities to have skills that they use back on the job long after the completion of the retreat. They report feeling more self-confident and empowered in the face of any challenge.
An Experiential Education. While we know that three days may seem like a lot, by investing that time to truly learn, practice and master new skills in a supportive and inclusive retreat is worth the time and money.

If you still feel like you cannot spare your employee for the retreat, consider this: It is designed for working women who have attained a measure of accomplishment and who passionately want to take their lives, results and contributions to a higher level personally, professionally, socially and/or globally. She will have some fun and time enjoying the weather and the beautiful surroundings. And…It is your way of saying, “I believe in you and your abilities.”

If you have any questions, contact Dr. Joel Martin directly at +1 (480) 221-5686 or by email at jpmartin@triadwest.com. You may register your employee online here.

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What if you were responsible for everything, even your feelings?

Jul 6, 2018 | Business, Coaches Corner, creativity, empowerment, Leadership

What if you were responsible for everything, even your feelings?

First off, let’s agree that responsibility and burden aren’t the same. Our feelings are our responsibility; they are triggered by our beliefs…if that makes you uncomfortable…great! Don’t avoid it. Accept it and say ‘thank you’ – yay!. And…let’s agree that emotions and feeling aren’t the same either.

So what are feelings, really? In my work, feelings are what are the sensations that are triggered as a result of beliefs. And beliefs are developed through experiences. Your beliefs – conscious and unconscious – trigger your actions. What you say and do or what you don’t say or do. You have more control over this than you might think.

Responsibility is the way to your freedom

This brings us to “responsibility”. This word has many connotations. When we break the word into its two parts, it is literally the ability to respond. Respons/ibility = Ability to respond. Some people think of responsibility as duty/obligation. With this thought and way of living, responsibility is like a have to – a hammer – that can bring with it feelings of resistance, regret, and good if you do and bad if you don’t. Then there is the definition for responsibility that implies legal, financial, or moral accountability and compliance. And there is the responsibility provided by existentialist, Jean-Paul Satre who wrote “To be responsible is to be the “uncontested author of an event or a thing.” This responsibility is about authorship. This is the definition that I use in my work. It is a foundational word for transformation.

When you operate from this kind of responsibility, you are saying that you have the power to choose to be your own life-author and are accountable for the choices you make even when you don’t feel it. If your feelings don’t trigger your actions, what might? What could you choose to base your actions on other than how you feel? What could lead to changing how you think, produce, believe, act and live? Try these criteria for your actions: higher calling, vision, legacy, commitment, love, your future. Choose. You are the author. You decide. One bit about training/teaching your brain. If this choice-based way of thinking is out of your comfort zone, you may feel uncomfortable. Don’t let your feelings get in the way of what you want to experience. Read more in my book: How To Be A Positively Powerful Person. It’s a practical user-friendly guide to transformation.

Scientist Lisa Feldman Barrett (December 2017 at TED@IBM) makes a distinction between feelings and emotions. For the science behind emotions, feelings, and how to train your brain, watch this TED Talk. You will see how your brain is wired so that if you change those ingredients today, you are basically teaching your brain how to predict differently tomorrow, and this is what she calls “being the architect of your experience”. She will also make the connection to responsibility,

Another take: “You are your own best teacher. Accept responsibility. Blame no one. You can learn anything you want. True understanding comes from reflecting on your own experience” Source: Warren Bennis, Professor and Founding Chairman of the Leadership Institute.

Utility Industry: An opportunity for experienced leaders and job seekers.

Jul 6, 2018 | Business, Careers, global, techology, Women

Technology: The need for skilled workers is everywhere but when compared with the “Silicon Valley” corporations, utilities may not offer the glamour and attractiveness the tech educated are looking for.

As an observer, I wonder, do the utilities offer the women and men who would thrive in a flat corporate culture the opportunities for inventiveness and business building that they might find stifled in a hierarchical culture? With technology being key to utility corporations’ ability to provide services to customers and to operate…where are the tech employees to come from? With senior executives leaving in big numbers and not being replaced…and the shift in demos, what’s next? What about the retiring leaders’ intellectual capital, access to communities, and connections….how is that being dealt with?

Change is occurring. As someone once said, “What got us here is not going to get us where we need to go.” Without compassionate change and inclusion, senior employees will leave or be among the “RIP, retired in place”. An option, include them ambassadors and as mentors and sponsors of newcomers. Attract and welcome diverse workforce members with an inclusive culture. Follow the best practices of the progressive power players of the power industry.

With every challenge, there are great opportunities. Matching power industry leaders’ experience, search for meaning, desire to contribute, and ability to connect to the challenge of creating an attractive industry profile and I’m betting it will be a win-win.

Achieve Your Goals — But First, Define Your Role

Jul 1, 2018 | Career Advice, Careers, Coaching, Goals, leadership

Achieve Your Goals — But First, Define Your Role

Last year, I became a philanthropist at age 28 through joining the African-American Women’s Giving & Empowerment Circle. My engagement in the circle came with three key benefits: I help drive capital to local female founders, I’m learning the dos and don’ts of philanthropy, and the circle members serve as an informal “board of advisors” of accomplished and connected mentors for me.

Through these connections, I recently attended the Positively Powerful Women’s Leadership Summit; an event put on by Dr. Joel Martin, founder of the Positively Powerful Woman Awards & Programs. One of the questions at the summit presented an opportunity for me to reflect on how I am activating my potential and realizing my goals.

What role(s) do you play in your professional and personal life?

Working through this question is a great exercise to build legs under existing goals. The eight roles below can hone your leadership skills, and keep you on track to achieving your goals.

Strategist [Architect]

Becoming a philanthropist was a decision that I made as the strategist and architect of my life. The giving circle offered an affordable way for me to accomplish my goal of becoming a philanthropist sooner than I anticipated.

Much like the strategic plan for a business, the strategic plan for your life is not something that should be worked out once and then left to collect dust. Accomplishing one goal opened up space for another goal, and I kept my strategist hat on to plan a contiguous goal that aligned with my ideal destination — which is currently centered around entrepreneurship and venture capital.

Explorer [Opportunity Finder]

I’m actively strategizing where I am and where I need to go, but I play the role of explorer to test that the vision I have is accurate. Staying alert to opportunities allows for a more dynamic and agile strategic plan. I take in new information, and adjust my destination as I learn.

This last year, I utilized profellow.com to find and apply for a public policy fellowship in D.C. I was selected to participate and the five weekend trips that I made to D.C. opened me up to a new network and new thinking. One of the connections I made through this trip led to an interview with Google’s autonomous vehicle spinoff, Waymo.

The experience of interviewing with a Google company pushed my thinking outside of the conventional boundaries that I had somewhat unconsciously put up around myself. I have now altered my strategic plan to reflect bigger thinking.

Builder

While at a conference in Utah, Todd Johnson from Gallup, presented on Gallup’s new book, Born to Build. Todd mentioned the books overall purpose to shift the current introductory norm from “what do you do?” to “what are you building?”

I took that note to heart, and started seeing myself as a builder. In addition to future goals of becoming an entrepreneur and actually building a business, I am building relationships every day. Playing the role of builder allows me to transition from a passive role to an active role in achieving my goals, with a focus on execution.

Katelyn Harris Lange

is a current workforce development practitioner supporting cross-sector synergy and innovation in the Greater Phoenix Area. She is a philanthropist involved in the African-American Women’s Giving and Empowerment Circle, Phoenix Sister Cities Board Member, and the current Diversity and Inclusion Director with Net Impact Phoenix Professionals.

Translator

Life as a strategist, explorer, and builder produces a wealth of experiential learning. The onus is on me to make sure that my skills, experience, or background appears relevant to my career journey.

I take on the role of the translator to communicate my diverse experiences into a type of capital that I can leverage to get from Point A to Point B in my strategic plan.

Champion [myself]

I learned I need to do a better job of championing myself. The easiest way to do this is revamping an introduction or elevator pitch to highlight more of your accomplishments.

At the beginning of my professional life, I would plainly state my name and workplace when introducing myself to a group. How are people going to know about the many other activities I’m engaged in if I don’t tell them? Sharing more of my story (staccato sytle) in my intro will help others remember me and quickly identify mutual interests.

Celebrator [others]

The role of celebrator allows me to focus on others. Over the past six months, I have nominated three women that I admire, either for awards or “30 under 30” type lists. My first nomination actually made the list, and I think that gave me more gratification than her!

My journey is about success, but my success cannot come unattached to the success of others. What am I building and who am I building? I want to record more assists than points, and I will get to the top with no blocks and no steals.

In addition to nominating my sisters and brothers, I’m giving more positive feedback, more compliments, and more thank yous.

Asker

I’m working on becoming a better asker. I’ve built a great network, and I need to get more comfortable asking my network for help. Mentorship is continuously lauded as a great way to advance a career, but finding the right mentor and developing that relationship is easier said than done.

Moving forward, I will be more willing to ask for advice, connections, and funding.

Risk Taker

Another woman at my table, Linda G. Walton, founder of Achieving My Purpose, labeled herself as a risk taker, and it stuck with me. See, I meant what I said — no steals!

The final speaker of the night, Debbie Castaldo, VP of Corporate and Community Impact for the Arizona Diamondbacks, asked the group, “What would you do if you knew you would not fail?”

Small risk means small return. I want to achieve big things, and the sooner I get comfortable with risk, the easier it will be for me to quickly seize an opportunity after identifying it.

Now let’s put on our many hats and get to work with a new strategy, new confidence, and a renewed openness to infinite possibility.

“Crucial Conversations” It is a good read and listen

Jun 28, 2018 | Business, Coaches Corner, Domestic Violence Prevention, relationships

“Crucial Conversations” It is a good read and listen

For women and men who sometimes face conflict and want options other than fight or flight, run out or numb out, for business people who are wanting to have more effective conversations in difficult but necessary circumstances, for parents, couples, etc. who want to learn how to communicate better and create more caring relationships, check out: Crucial Conversations. It is a good read and listen. “The first edition (2012) of Crucial Conversations exploded onto the scene and revolutionized the way millions of people communicate when stakes are high. This new edition gives you the tools to Prepare for high-stakes situations Transform anger and hurt feelings into powerful dialogue Make it safe to talk about almost anything Be persuasive, not abrasive.”