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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Yes or no, both will absolutely take us to what’s next

Aug 6, 2018 | Coaching, Leadership, Women

Yes or no, both will absolutely take us to what’s next

Yes or no there is always a what’s next. That is the type of creatures we are. We solve problems, take on challenges, embrace the impossible in order to create something new with new challenges. Taking on something new is not a sign that we are dissatisfied with where we are at this time. It is more our recognition that there is so much more we can do for ourselves and others. That is what’s next. Remember that our destination is never the door that won’t open, what’s on the other side is where we are heading. And sometimes it means finding another door.

I wish I’d been a coder

Jul 8, 2018 | Career Advice, creativity, Leadership

I wish I’d been a coder

When I graduated from College, I was recruited by IBM. My choice was a career in programming or one in graphic design. In my next life, I’d select programming/being a coder. So much magic, invention, and practical use as I’m now learning. Yes, the arts career was fulfilling. Through my own ambition and talents it led to ” the first one who” agency ownership, award worthy campaigns. and different forms of creativity. But… I can’t help wondering where that other choice would have taken me.

There is no point in looking back at what was, only to looking forward to what could be. What if our thoughts that feel like regrets about missed opportunities are instead intuitive nudges forward in another direction in the “now”?….thoughts on the future fascinations you have. I’ve read that always striving for something keeps you young. Well, the #fascination way of thinking could add many more years to your life…and to never being the boringly old but the excitingly wise and outrageous.

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.

Feedback! An empathetic process about something you need to know

Jul 2, 2018 | Coaches Corner, Coaching, feedback, Leadership

Giving feedback is an art and a science. Some distinctions between feedback, opinions, criticism, and passive aggressiveness. Under the guise of “feedback,” we might give any of them.

Feedback: Behaviorally based information given for the betterment of another. It is an intention based on caring.
Opinion: interpretation and subjective
Criticism: Negative subjective judgment
Passive aggressiveness: Something that you say is “feedback” pretending that it is well-intentioned but it isn’t. It is a sneaky slam on somebody.

The art of feedback begins with you, the giver of it. Your why what and how intention. It is an empathetic process and often a “crucial conversation”.

The science of feedback is that it is about what we say and do. It turns around a career, company, or marriage. Feedback leads to dialogs between the giver and the receiver of it, which can lead to mutual understanding, fulfillment, and success. We need feedback coaches to learn how what we say and do, sometimes unconsciously, leads to an impact which we may or may not want to create. Can you imagine a basketball player not looking at videos (feedback), or having a coach (feedback), or not wanting to learn at a hall of fame player’s camp (feedback)? We can improve, change, transform our thinking if we decide to use the feedback. It is up to us.