GBA Leadership Development Programs™
Journey into Greatness™
“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by sceptics whose horizons are limited by obvious realities. We need people who can dream of things that never were.”
US President John F Kennedy,
Speech to the Irish Parliament, Dublin, June 1963
GBA Leadership Development Programs™
“When an individual transforms his or her paradigm, the Whole transforms”
Gita Bellin
GBA has delivered multiple Leadership Transformation Programs to Organisations and Corporate Executives over the past 30 years. The range of client studies covers both National and Multinational Companies: Mining, Oil and Gas, Banking, Financial Institutions, Accountancy, Telecommunications, Consulting Groups, Retail, Manufacturing, Technology.
The GBA Leadership Transformation Programs™ create a Foundation for Behavioural and Cultural Change—Transformation within Executive Teams, Special Groups or Divisions within Companies, National and Multinational Organisations.
As we look ahead into the next Century,
Leaders will be those who empower others.
Bill Gates
Trust is the Foundation of Leadership. We trust a Leader has Integrity. We trust that Leaders are Honest, Able, and have Vision of where to go both personally and collectively. However Trust operates at an even deeper level. We trust that Leaders are who they appear to be. That the public person and the private person are the same. The GBA Great Leaders Programs address all these areas by providing knowledge, understanding and practical experience that embrace Transformed Leadership Skills.
Program Overview
All Client programs are custom made to fit the wishes of the client. GBA offers in the Program Description below an overview of the main premise of GBA’s approach to Transformation. The GBA Transformation approach to Behavioural and Cultural Change includes study of the Barrett Hierarchy of Values.
GBA Leadership Development studies have at their core the concept that Growth comes through Realisation. Knowledge and Experience in all aspects of a GBA Leadership Program offers Consistent Realisation regarding the choice to transform any limiting attitudes and behaviours. Skills are given to integrate and evolve attitudes and behaviours that are already embraced as a strength. Growth requires Leaders to emerge what they yearn for, but as yet are unconsciously unskilled as to how to achieve this yearning. GBA provides tools to move from Unrealised States of Leadership to fully embracing levels of Excellence, which then move into habitual ways of thinking, feeling, and doing. This produces Leaders living an Advanced Leadership State that GBA calls Unconscious Excellence as a Leader. Greatness.
The greatest discovery of my generation
is that a Human Being can alter his life
by altering his attitudes of mind.
William James
The Core GBA Client Program has as its title:
Journey into Greatness™
– Emerging and Living Leadership for Greatness in the 21st Century.™
This program is the Foundation Program for Emerging Knowledge and Skills to enable Transformed Attitudes and Behaviours which then create the Advanced Leadership that GBA calls Unconscious Excellence as a Leader. Leaders operating at this stage of Personal and Professional development engender Cultural Change—Cultural Transformation in any Organisation, Team or Group.
Purpose
Leaders are given the skills to translate the Barrett Diagnostic Insights into specific agreed actions in order to create outstanding Greatness and Performance as Leaders. Leading through Purpose and Greatness is designed to create Courageous Leaders with the understanding that Leadership takes place, at all times, in all situations. Leading with Greatness requires integrating “means” and “spirit”. Leadership through Greatness challenges each of us to ask the question, “How can we more often live the values we aspire to hold?” Or, in the words of Oriah Mountain Dreamer, “What if the question was not ‘why do I so infrequently be the person I want to be’ but rather ‘why do I so infrequently want to be the person I am?’”
Planned Outcomes
The Purpose and Planned Outcomes, plus the Personal and Collective Goals are the Foundation Elements of all Client Programs. They are textured to the specific nature of the program and the Client’s directive.
- To create profound, outstanding outcomes through Great Leadership.
- To address and embed participants’ key business issues through alternative mind-sets and behaviours.
- To leave the Program with aspirational agreements, Personal, Professional and Collective.
- To explore a set of aligned values that will take the Team, Group, Company or Organisation, (the Client brief) into a new future.
- To inspire Great Leaders to step out and take action in the areas they previously avoided.
- To enable Courageous Leadership commitments, aligned with Personal and Collective values, in order to emerge Personal, Professional and Organisational Growth.
Personal Goal: To give Leaders the Knowledge, Understanding, and Direct Experience of the practical skills which will transform the quality of their day to day Personal and Corporate lives.
Collective Goal: To open up an awareness of the present evolutionary thrust of Humanity’s collective focus in regard to Service, Co-creativity, Connection and the Growth of Compassion and Love. To inspire in Leaders a realisation that Corporations which empower people to live their full potential are leading a paradigm shift of inter-connectedness with All Life Everywhere.
“We forget at our peril that it is people, their collective ability and energy, how they feel about working in the organisation, how passionate and engaged they are in its agenda and how they work together for a common purpose that makes a company great. After all, people today are searching for meaning in their lives and how they can make their own unique contribution in their lifetimes. Could we really bring meaning to work and unleash the latent energy and potential in our people?
John McFarlane. Foreword Compassion. Gita Bellin
Other GBA Client Programs have as their title:
A New Frontier – From Possibility to Probability to Actuality™
This Program has as its major focus the discovery and movement through of a set of From – To’s. Leaders look at where they are Personally and Professionally and where and how they wish to go forward. In addition they explore the Organisation’s current Culture and Behaviours and create a tangible set of Values, Vision and Legacy for the Organisation’s future. This GBA program can be offered either at a Foundation Level, or as a GBA Advanced Leadership Program Stage 2, following on from the GBA Journey into Greatness Foundation Program.
Journey into Greatness – From Courage to Clarity into Coherence™
This GBA Program is a further follow through embedding program which develops the knowledge, experience, and skills, required to transform Individual Leaders and Executive Teams throughout an Organisation, into the next level of Great Leadership. Leaders gain the ability to influence, create and “call forth” exceptional shifts in attitudes and behaviours that result in a ground-breaking Cultural Transformation throughout their Organisation.
Note: Please particularly refer to the Impact statements offered by John McFarlane and John Akehurst in the Impact section of this website.
Champions for Change – Champions for Transformation™
Many Companies and Organisations have moved on to include this Program in their Advanced Leadership Development. It includes the knowledge of “Fields” and Primary Knowing. Also included are advanced communication skills.
Note: Every Leader that contributed to the Impact statements section of this website has participated in this Program.
Purpose and Legacy™
The material for this program expands out from any of the custom made Client Programs. Leaders are shown how to Lead from Purpose. A half day program that can be merged into any of the above programs.
Course Content for all GBA Client Studies in Behaviour and Cultural Transformation™
Since all creation is a whole,
Separateness is an illusion.
Like it or not, we are team players.
Power comes through co-operation.
Independence through Service.
And a Greater Self through selflessness.
The Tao of Leadership – John Heider
The choice of Progam and the content is selected to meet the Client’s instructions from a large body of knowledge that has been uniquely created by GBA. In addition GBA uses a Leadership Development tool developed by the Barrett Values Centre. Program participants engage online before the Client Program begins. The individual participant results are analysed before the Leadership Seminar. One on one coaching is given to each course participant prior to the Seminar session by the Facilitators delivering the Seminar Program. The results of the coaching sessions are integrated and applied to all the Knowledge and Skills taught in the Seminar. This approach offers a tangible starting point for the individual Leader to transform any areas needing development.
Seminars are held over three days and can be delivered In-house or off-site, residential or non-residential. Experience has shown that off-site and residential is ideal as some facilitated sessions are best delivered in the evenings. Participants do experience major shifts of inner awareness and attitudes. Work within the Field of Transformation can be challenging. Driving to and from a venue, the experience of home situations, work situations, between daily seminar sessions, can have a limiting effect on the overall outcome of the Transformation experience being embedded in a careful and developmental way. When participants stay together they are able to mentor and coach each other through the Transformation Realisations that they are processing.
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Steve Jobs
Feedback and Acknowledgement for GBA Leadership Programs
In addition to the acknowledgements below please refer to the statements in the Impact section of the website. All the leaders listed in the Impact section have participated in, and introduced, GBA Leadership Programs to their Companies and Organisations.
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A group of 15 International Leaders from a large Multinational Company analysed 14 teaching modules used for their GBA Leadership Program on a scale of 1-10 for each module. The overall rating of the Program was 9.3 out of 10.
Some individual comments from this custom-made GBA Leadership Program were:
What an amazing experience, thank you. GBA facilitators challenged dysfunctional concepts in an accessible way. Great job.
Very useful program. Helped me to realise my short comings in my potential. As well as clear intentions the program gave people the chance to express their true selves.
Enjoyed the program a lot. Hugely useful to help me understand what I need to work on, where I want to be. I feel it created a very special link between all the Executive team members.
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A group of Management Executives from an International Company analysed 14 modules used in their custom-made GBA Leadership Program on a scale from 1-10 for each module. The overall rating for the program was 9.65 out of 10.
Some individual comments for this custom-made GBA Leadership Program were:
A great honour to have been invited to attend. The facilitation was a great force for Transformation.
Great work on leadership development. Well worth the time.
Overall fantastic seminar, relevant and deeply impactful. Recommended for all top teams.
The very best training I have done in my professional life. I am very grateful and thankful for this unique opportunity.
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A group of HC Executives from an International Company were asked to evaluate 12 modules used in their custom-made GBA Leadership Program on a scale from 1-10 for each module. The overall rating for the program was 8.94 out of 10.
Some individual comments for this custom-made GBA Leadership Program were:
Great workshop I have ever had in my career.
Incredible, opened my eyes to be a better leader and a better person. I wish I had had this workshop earlier in my life
The best way of Transformation as an opportunity to know the team.
The program offers a greater opportunity for each participant to be recognised for the contribution to the company and in people’s lives in general.
Fantastic. Life changing and much of the lessons learned.
Other Client Executive’s Acknowledgements and Realisations
For my own personal leadership skills, I can say that the awareness raising has been the most powerful gift – as I now understand my own reactions to people and situations may not be of that moment, and may be a response to some earlier experiences in life. I am also aware that every person I interact with is having a unique experience of the situation. This knowledge has supported my ability to work with others in a more human and empathetic way.
“I have worked with Gita for four years, over which time she has helped unlock a transformation in both my personal and professional life, helping me transition from manager to leader. Her insights and coaching have been an important contribution in my journey, and by extension, the growth and development of my team and organization … ”
Gita (and her team) have an incredible ability of bridging the world of spiritual wisdom with the world of business leadership. She presents timeless knowledge in easy-to-understand excerpts and frameworks, which reveal the depth of thought and richness of insights, and often move profoundly. Gita’s teachings offer a collection of tools to better understand life, people, and the phenomenon of Leadership, and empowers each who desires to craft one’s own unique leadership style.
I have had 25 years of experience in multiple companies all around North America, this time it was nothing like all the others. The way GBA have delivered the material gradually engaged and involved us to work on our deeper stuff.
I have been through many management and leadership trainings, this was one of a kind. Normally after the first morning I do not feel like continuing, but this workshop has kept me engaged all the way, despite of the long days. This has really made a difference.
I now know I have to open up and be vulnerable in order to lead my organisation.
Life changing. Really. Vice President of a Multinational Manufacturing Company
I had high expectations, but this exceeded my expectations 10-fold. Managing Director of a Manufacturing Company
Incredibly inspiring. Leader of a Maintenance Management Team of a Chemical Company
I’ve been part of so many leadership trainings, seen a large diversity of change and behaviour models, and experienced many levels of trainers/facilitators. This was a totally different level of quality and beyond my expectations. I’ve never experienced this before. HR Manager of a Chemical Manufacturing site