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Executive Coaching

September 26, 20210 Comments

Executive Coaching brings clarity, direction and can expedite continual development. This affords the executive the privacy and confidentiality to our Lead Trainer, who works and supports the executive to explore, develop their ideas, face any challenges, and reach agreed strategies into actionable goals to reach the desired outcome.
With over a decade of coaching experience, we become the sounding board for your thoughts and feelings which are handled with respect and sensitivity without prejudice.
Get stability and balance and have a second eye to check the messages of your leaders, verbal, and non-verbal communication, and help them to assimilate rapid change so they can process it and be a step ahead on behalf of those around them.
Executive Coaching can provide the critical bridge that helps to span the gap between fine and great.

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Team Building

September 26, 2021

Team Building

Experience improved productivity, greater bottom-line results, and have more quickly attained organisational goals.

Objectives
  • Bind teams together for effective delivery of results and organisational success.
  • Get employees in departments to elevate tasks or projects from just okay to great!
  • Develop and improve communication within teams.
  • Establish an atmosphere of effective collaboration rather than competition.
  • Teach the skills needed for team members to capitalise on each member’s role and work synergistically as a team.
Outcomes
  • Participants will at the end of this training be collectively aligned with the organisation’s corporate goals and values.
  • Improved innovation, empowerment, and accountability.
  • Reinforce cohesion among employees.
Target Group
  • All stakeholders
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Strategic Planning

September 26, 20210 Comments

Goals and objectives are set, the team is buzzing with ideas, the energy level of enthusiasm is contagious, but how do you and your team navigate through the myriad of ideas into workable strategies?
Launchpad with Richard Akita uses the 3C’s (Coach, Conductor & Catalyst) skills to facilitate strategic planning meetings, working with clients on the end goal yet encouraging the team to explore options, gain consensus and agree on the roadmap.

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Leadership Duo: Mentoring & Coaching

September 26, 20210 Comments

‘Business is a team sport and if you decide to play solo, you bargain for a lose even before the game gets started.’ – MIST, the Launchpad Team
InX, our team building and development program , will navigate your team to be solution focus.

Leadership style is the manner and approach of providing direction, implementing plans, and motivating people. As seen by the employees, it includes the total pattern of explicit and implicit actions performed by their leader (Newstrom, Davis, 1993).
When searching for leadership styles one can be overwhelmed with the variation, which are necessary and functional. Operationally, leaders utilize a mixture of the leadership styles to generate fantastic results.
Launchpad has developed these Leadership Duo to juxtapose coaching and mentoring disciplines to enhance staff independence whilst embracing inter-dependence.
The outcomes:
• Develop employee engagement and strengthening subordinates’ skills
• Develop employee engagement and loyalty

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Fostering The Growth Culture

September 26, 20210 Comments

What do you focus on to drive growth within your organization?
If one employee has the potential to spark a chain of positivity that revolutionizes the organization, imagine the cumulative effect of an effective team firing on all cylinders. Having a conducive atmosphere for learning encourages growth.
To attain such utopic conditions your organization must be intentional with an emphasis in:

• Nurturing the right mindset for free thinking                                                                                • Nurturing the right culture to spur the innovation and ownership of behavior where stakeholders embody the vision of the organization                                                            •Bringing to life the words off the walls

Launchpad offers a clear alternative by way of engaging your team members through practical and thought-provoking exercises, daring your team to raise the ante as well as inspire creativity that helps the company transform from within, whilst continually accelerating their momentum to stay ahead in the marketplace without disrupting their core operations.

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Mastermind: Executing strategies

September 26, 20210 Comments

Mastermind gives business leaders the opportunity to be part of a group of entrepreneurs with similar values, beliefs, and accessing expertise to assist them within their businesses.
Entrepreneurs get to expand their network of valuable connections, learn, share, and receive support. An experience that is priceless and the assurance of being part of something bigger, something greater than yourself.
Business Mastermind is a powerful way of being inclusive in a group with the benefit of exponential growth and building momentum in their business.

• We have proven methodologies that works
• Accountability is central
• Leveraging the collective for individual profit

Execution is a major challenge for organizations, large and small. However, without execution, vision and strategy mean nothing. It is sometimes difficult to transform what is best for the company into how to get there. Leaders are the driving force behind business execution, but it is a trickledown effect since execution is achieved by aligning people and operations.

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Inx: Binding Variable

September 26, 20210 Comments

‘Business is a team sport and if you decide to play solo, you bargain for a lose even before the game gets started.’ – MIST, the Launchpad Team
InX, our team building and development program , will navigate your team to be solution focus.

Hinged on undiscovered principles of communication, employee engagement and transformational leadership, InX will…

• …drive the organization to stay relevant within its industry.                                                      • …improve transparency, which like loyalty is never greased but caught, while daring the team where members think and act like major shareholders of the prized enterprise.

Let InX assist you find the missing variable for your coveted success.

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Sales Unlocked

September 26, 20210 Comments

Coaching Techniques That Accelerate Sales

At launchpad we believe the approach to motivate and reward sales professionals based on a single, one-dimensional outcome (closed revenue rewarded with financial payment) is no longer effective enough. In tough economic times, the lost time and high cost associated with the traditional hire and fire mentality has revealed to sales managers the need to rethink their approach, with many of them turning to behavioral motivation, the latest innovation in coaching techniques for sales professionals.
By redefining the parameters that govern sales team performance, we look at specific sales disciplines that yield systematic results with the influence of flair.
Launchpad has developed a system thinking training that has infused coaching techniques and sales channels methodologies.

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Mist

September 26, 20210 Comments

“In any business when the focus is money, solutions stays aloof” – Richard Akita

The dynamism of business is not selective, but rather rewards those who are intentional. The pace is dictated by customers and only proactiveness draws favorable returns. Most businesses offer solution to a challenge. Unfortunately, the flow of solutions can be stunted when the team becomes complacent.
How do you stoke the fire of creative thinking? Begin to reflect soberly on these:               •How do you distinguish yourself from the mass movement of a fast-growing dynamic service culture of ideals to reality whilst your customers demand for basic service, expecting staff to be knowledgeable on product knowledge?                                                                  •How have you provoked employee engagement to meet key performance indicators?            • Which is best: self-motivation or managed motivation?
• What are the effects of a vibrant solution driven team?
•There must be more, but what could this more be?

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