Philosophy – basic assumptions

This training is about how you communicate as a leader and how you relate to your team and to goals.

CEiL assumes that the behaviour of people you lead is more than just a playback of past incentives and punishments.

Human beings are active players. Everyone has a natural impulse to be help- and resourceful. That impulse expresses itself to the degree that leadership is perceived as trustworthy. 

People mean well,  but subjective or situational differences in what “well” means can cause irritation, conflicts or inaction.

CEiL is designed for business, organisations and entrepreneurship. It is not useful in a political or therapeutic context.

In so far as chronically bad leadership could even cause pathological phenomena in your organisation, this training increases your awareness and your ability to intervene wisely.

Francis Bacon once wrote:
“Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed”.

Deep down we know - and we really need to ‘obey' nature here - that everyone values an increase in self-direction, in mastery and in contributing to something meaningful.

That aspect of leadership requires particular skills. Some would call them soft skills. Leaders and managers often have a hard time with soft skills.

We work on a particular set of essential communication skills - including reactions. It will help you turn your team from being a resource into being more resourceful*.

In this CEiL-training you work and often laugh in an intense training arena, with each participant ‘sweating’ in a finely tuned discomfort zone with to-the-point feedback for a maximum of learning.

For further orientation on CEiL and how it is different from other trainings, go to CEiL-course-profile.