May 12, 2020 | Coaches Corner, Coaching, transformation
You say you are transformational but are you really?
Many people say they are a transformational speaker, a transformation trainer, or a transformational coach but how do you know that you are? What are you basing your use of this powerful word on? Romans 12:2 King James Version (KJV) tells us, “2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
“To promise your audience that they will be transformed by the renewing of their mind by you is a huge promise.”
If I am speaking to you, and in your heart of hearts, you know this is exactly what you want to deliver to your clients and audiences, it can happen. Just because you say it’s so, however, doesn’t make it so and saying the word doesn’t make it true. It is not wishful thinking or a smart copy point in my work. It is something that can be learned.
I have more than 25+ years as an international transformational workshop designer, leadership developer, trainer of trainers, coach, and speaker. Answer Yes or No in this “The How Do I Know If I Am Really A Transformational Professional Quiz”:
- I know how to learn where they are and where they want to be…the vision that describes their better future.
- I can properly understand their underlying problems or causes of organizational or personal pain that need to be addressed.
- I support their transformation with a proven road map and system.
- I am experienced in creating safe mindset shifts.
- I am able to enroll my clients in taking forwarding risky actions towards what matters to them.
- I am able to intervene and coach them through their limiting beliefs.
- I walk my talk and practice what I preach in my own life.
- I have emotional intelligence
- I am a lifelong learner.
This is my shortlist. If you would like to learn more, please contact me for a 30 Minute Strategy Session. I am dedicated to changing lives and businesses for the better. We need more transformational professionals.
Joel P. Martin, BFA, MA, Ph.D. Wharton Fellow. President, Triad West Inc. Founder, Positively Powerful Programs jpmartin@triadwest.com. www.positivelypowerful.com.
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Sep 2, 2019 | Career Advice, Coaching, Coaching, conversation on leadership, diversity and inclusion, creativity, leadership, transformation
The future just doesn’t happen. You and I event it.
This is not entirely true. In our waking dream state, we at times are able to catch a glimpse of where we are heading and it is at this point of our dream that we are able to participate in the creation of what is next. It is believed that we spend 25% of active day daydreaming. Daydreaming is not slacking off, it is a part of the envisioning process that we all go through. Sometimes we discover new opportunities that support our vision of the future.
The future (tomorrow) as it comes to be for us is not inevitable. We have the choice to participate in creating our future or not participating and living in someone else’s version of what’s next.
When I am working with large groups of people, one of the questions that I am asked is “how can I become a better leader” and my answer almost always is to be a leader, have a vision that people want to support.
Do you have a question you need an answer to? Lets’ talk.
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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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Jul 6, 2018 | Coaching, collaboration, creativity, Diversity & Inclusion, transformation
I met a new culture and it was alien to me. So much so that I thought of the Pod People (also known as Body Snatchers, a species of plant-like aliens featured in the 1955 novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney and the 1956 movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers). It was one that I wanted to understand and quite frankly couldn’t ignore. Maybe you’ve felt this way too.
So how bring a new culture into your comfort zone from your discomfort zone? My thoughts…Take it on like a new course that you are studying – the beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors of the people of that culture and how they interact together. Approach it with the curiosity and intensity of a researcher. Ask questions. Watch and learn. Read. Listen and observe. Notice the way the people dress, talk and use words…their music, commitments, fears, challenges, use of technology and any other aspect that drives them. Your new cultural awareness could be about a generation, gender, race, industry, or corporation… If you are feeling those in that culture are alien to you, that they are using different meanings behind the same words – learn and appreciate their words and ways.
And as you learn more, do more, and sincerely question, you will be creating a bridge of empathy between you and “the others”. Your understanding makes you a truly unique person.
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Apr 29, 2018 | Diversity & Inclusion, Events, PPWA 2018, transformation
Every year we honor a nonprofit organization at the Positively Powerful Woman Awards. This year, we are happy to support the Desert Botanical Garden’s membership drive. Having this year’s awards at this culturally-aware location, letting our guests see and experience the Garden’s beauty, and providing a PPW membership gift is a win-win-win. We get to support the Garden’s Community Garden, educational programs, cultural events, commitment to diversity and inclusion, and much more. I’m a member and here are my top ten reasons why:
- The Garden is a beautiful, peaceful, place to visit. I enjoy walking there.
- They care about our community. The Garden’s “Spaces of Opportunity” at 1200 W Vineyard Rd. in Phoenix is a good example of this. It enables all south Phoenix families to have affordable access to healthy food, active living and healthy roots for their cultures.
- Part of Spaces is the successful community garden that they and their community partners are building. It has a farmers market, community farming, and volunteer opportunities.
- They care about education and have classes for all ages on different topics taught by professionals.
- It’s an international destination of choice and when I travel I have automatic admission to 300 gardens.
- Gertrude’s Restaurant is there. I love the food, atmosphere and the legendary woman it’s named for.
- They have wonderful cultural events, jazz in the Garden and movie nights…And the butterfly exhibit and special installations like the Jun Kaneko sculptures.
- Here’s my wishlist for future visits: Ballet Eroica and the Devour Culinary Classic hosted by Phoenix Art Museum.
- We are having the Positively Powerful Woman Awards of May 17th at the Desert Botanical Garden. (Reduced membership, log in here and enter code PPW.)
- Here is the plus: The Desert Botanical Garden is guided by visionary leaders. Read about the men and women who are creating these reasons why the Garden is a treasure every person and family can enjoy. As a new member, you’ll soon be creating your own top ten+ reasons.
Every member benefits!
- Garden admission 362 days of the year – includes seasonal Butterfly Exhibit
- Advance ticket offers for special events
- Reciprocal admission to more than 300 gardens, arboreta, and conservatories
- Discounts on classes, events, Plant Sales and the Garden Shop
- Early admission every Wednesday and Sunday
- Sonoran Quarterly magazine
- Phoenix Home & Garden Magazine discounted subscription
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Mar 28, 2018 | Business, ppwa 2017, PPWA 2018, transformation
Here’s a good definition of a changemaker: They are people of any age, race, gender, culture and cognitive diversity, taking passionate, empathetic, creative action to solve a social problem. Changemakers are everywhere in the world. They are the ones who say as Martin Luther did (1483-1546),”Here I stand, I can do no other, God help me. Amen!”
From Fast Company, (08.04.16) “Changemakers are school children in Haiti creating new traffic safety systems, and Nobel Peace Prize winners bringing banking to Bangladesh and fighting for child rights in India.” Bringing it even more to the present. African Americans, women and teens are changemakers in the forefront with #blacklivesmatter, #metoo, and #marchforlife for example.
Be a changemaker
“What does it take to want to make a meaningful impact, to be a changemaker?” Consider, that the change begins within. Mahatma Gandhi said, “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” Then, look for collaborators who share your commitment. What you’ll notice about changemakers, they create teams, people who share their vision.
“I hope you find true meaning, contentment, and passion in your life. I hope you navigate the difficult times and come out with greater strength and resolve. I hope you find whatever balance you seek with your eyes wide open. And I hope that you – yes, you – have the ambition to lean in to your career and run the world. Because the world needs you to change it.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Here are our changemakers
In Phoenix, AZ on May 17, 2018, four women will receive their Positively Powerful woman Award and be asked, “If you had one message about being a changemaker, what would you most want us to remember? What did it take from you?”
They are Angela Hughey, Equality Leadership. In 2013, Angela, with her ONE Community team, launched The UNITY Pledge. Today, the UNITY Pledge is the largest equality pledge in the nation.
Dr. Pamela Williamson, Visionary Leadership, and her team have generated over 100,000 connections between certified WBEs and Corporations across the nation. She’s President and CEO of WBEC-West.
Hong Yee Mei, Education Leadership, Country Manager and Co-founder of Milestone Trainings in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Yee Mei has had 20 years of experience in the transformational training industry and was instrumental in building Milestone Trainings from an idea to an organization with nearly 1500 students in 2017.
And Debbie Castaldo, Corporate Leadership, Vice President, Corporate and Community Impact, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Executive Director, Arizona Diamondbacks Foundation, leads the team’s industry-leading fundraising efforts with charitable contributions exceeding $55 million to non-profit organizations serving at-risk children and families.
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