Rick Timlick from the Legacy Bowes Group is proud to present to you a
breakthrough model for dealing with people and business.

Organizational problems are almost always people problems. Despite continuous efforts to find solutions, organizations seem to still exhibit symptoms fed by blame, lack of accountability, complacency and motivation.

What if we could uncover the root cause to why this occurs and why people feel others cause problems and they do not?


The Challenge

At the Arbinger institute, they believe that despite the best efforts and intentions of leaders to create high performance organizations, they fall short and are often unsuccessful because the deeper problem or dis-ease in the organization has not been addressed. Arbinger has discovered a solution that is at the heart of the human sciences and organizational dynamics: the problem is self-deception. Stated simply, self-deception is the problem of not knowing one has a problem. This denial keeps individuals, teams, and organizations blind to the reality of what is occurring and explains why enormous resources and efforts allocated towards symptoms are misdirected and contribute to further organizational hampering or implosion. Until cause is linked to effect there can be no true change and only further carnage.

Let's say your organization has a leadership problem. Or a staff problem. Or a motivation or teamwork problem. Or a stress, accountability or communication problem. Here's good news. Your organization doesn't have any of those problems. They're all symptoms of a single, underlying problem. It's the problem that arises when members resist seeing that they themselves are part of the problem. The problem is self-deception. And it causes nearly every 'people problem' in every organization. Large corporations. Small businesses. Governments. Non-profits. Schools. Health care and treatment providers.

'People problems,' of course, turn into organizational problems.

Most conflicts are perpetuated by self-deception. So are most failures in communication. And most breakdowns in trust and accountability.

Clearly, as long as the problem of not knowing one has a problem remains … so will all other problems. Conflicts that look "political" are really personal and they keep individuals looking out for themselves rather than focusing on accountability and results. As long as employees are not focused on results for the organization, they are working for their own interests and therefore against the company mission. The costs are enormous on many levels.

This seminar focuses on the people who are involved in the problems, exposing how working on self-deception is at the heart of the solution.


Day 1 - "The Choice" Seminar

Day 1 is an Introduction to Arbinger’s renowned program, "The Choice" seminar, which explores the problem of self-deception and its solution.


Day 2 - The Choice at Work

Day 2 is then devoted to Arbinger’s key workplace implementation program, The Choice at Work. By the end of this day, participants will know exactly what being out the box means in the workplace - what it looks like, and how to achieve it. Specifically, in each of the four main directions of work - toward customers, toward coworkers, toward team members, and toward one’s boss - participants will learn to focus on their work in a particular kind of way, a way that keeps them out of the box.


Over the 2 days you will learn to:

• Understand how self-deception occurs and restricts effectiveness causing dire consequences in organizations
• Leverage new insights and learn to solve enduring problems and conflicts that have seemed intractable
• Create work cultures and personal lives free of self-deception
• Implement systematic and practical methods to get better results from individuals and teams
• Institute an ongoing reporting mechanism to ensure application and accountability

This will be the most beneficial leadership seminar you will ever attend. 

Not only will it change the way you interact with people in business, it will change the way you interact with people in your personal life.