LIFE LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE FOR EXCELLENCE
LIFE is a breakthrough program aiming for excellence in all you do in your life. Based on multiple years of research and leveraging neuroscience, social psychology, and cutting-edge biofeedback technology. Shattering personal barriers, LIFE assists you in building better quality relationships and business outcomes.
LIFE is a high impact experience that shapes character and boosts personal leadership effectiveness.
Leadership is a process where, by bringing out the best in yourself, you bring out the best in others, motivating them to achieve higher levels of performance, creativity and well-being. LIFE is about building your character to assist you in becoming the admired friend, parent, and leader you want to be. LIFE is the program to get you there.
Introducing the LIFE program let alone whether he likes a man or not. The only LIFE is an intense and highly impactful three-day, criteria must be performance and character.” full immersion leadership program exploring and Seven decades after Sloan, the twin criteria of bringing out the leader within. LIFE enables performance and character remain just as essential participants to better understand the affect they in determining whether a person adds value to an have on other people, stimulates personal insights organization, from front-line employees to the CEO, and boosts personal leadership effectiveness. or not.
LIFE is experiential and based on science: LIFE is evidence-based: Throughout the program, Participants practice behaviors that result in CIMBA technology is collecting unique biometric sustainable personal development and growth. As data to assess stress response (including heart rate opposed to being told in a traditional lecture or variability, breathing rates, and cortisol levels) and classroom format, participants actually feel and psychometric data to assess effects on cognition. experience the qualities of leadership. Using unique The data provide a key ingredient in shaping your bio-feedback technologies, participants receive personal development strategy for becoming more objective data and personal reports on their effective at work and beyond, particularly in physiology in a variety of situations, building the conjunction with after-LIFE coaching. essential self-awareness foundation necessary for personal intentional change. LIFE shows strategies for positive change: The hard science and data behind LIFE provide an empirical LIFE generates tangible outcomes: As a participant, basis for the tools and techniques to assist you in you leave the program with strongly ‘anchored’ developing your self- and social awareness abilities, goals and requisite behavior modification tools, as well as your ability to self- regulate stress and allowing you to move beyond the personal barriers emotions, particularly staying cool under pressure that have kept you from your potential. You leave and being more resilient to challenging emotional the program armed with a personal development stimuli. These three components are key brain- action plan and, more importantly, with the based pillars for character, and are the essence of motivation and conviction to move forward and leadership success. make it happen. LIFE drives sustainable change: Participants have LIFE builds leadership character and provides an access to a comprehensive online-dashboard where experiential introduction to both the importance of they can see their biometric data from the program character and the technology that can be used to and where they can track their progress over the build it. next couple of months for their personal development and for documenting their personal Character at CIMBA success stories.
At CIMBA, character means those abilities for critical thinking, decision-making and problem solving, and behavior, particularly in getting along with others. From leadership to our friendships to our other social groups, character lapses in the form of poor decisions and judgment, distractions, inattention and lack of focus, misinterpreting another’s actions, and the inability to manage emotions can make us less of a person than the one we want to be.
In 1946, Professor Peter Drucker, the eminent leadership scholar, quoted Alfred Sloan, CEO of General Motors, as saying: “The chief executive must be . . . absolutely tolerant and pay no attention to how a man does his work,
The LIFE Framework
Why LIFE works
Working with leading anthropologists, biologists, social psychologists, and neuroscientists taught us invaluable lessons that led to the creation of the LIFE experience:
1. A traditional course on leadership does not make you a leader 2. A person’s barriers to leadership are typically the very same barriers they face in being the person they truly would like to be. 3. We are wired to be social. As a consequence, we need first to build our social skills, our character, to be the person we want to be.
Good character skills allow us to become effective followers, a necessary prerequisite to effective leadership. In building character, as humans we learn to: . Recognize and understand our own and others emotions - self awareness and social awareness. . Stay cool under pressure and to build resilience to emotional reactions to social stimuli - self-regulation.
We learned that advances in transportation, communications, and information technology over the past century have placed increased emphasis on the individual, and as a consequence eroded our ability to build and develop character. In just the past decade, we realized we are at the very beginning of an important fourth era in technology development - technology as an Awareness Multiplier.
Advances in brain-imaging technology, mobile technology, bio-sensors, and data analytics provide very realistic expectations that this era will revolutionize education and the way we interact.
Uniquely based on that awareness technology, LIFE is about building your character to assist you in becoming the admired friend, parent, and leader you want to be.
Performance Indicators affected by LIFE:
• Increased emotional intelligence • Increased self-confidence - even under stress • Improved ability to stay tuned and focused under stress • Greater focus on solutions & enhanced “can-do-attitude” • Reduced fear and anxiety when confronting change • Improved decision-making and critical thinking • Tools to build and maintain effective relationships • Enhanced public speaking skills • Improved relationships with colleagues and friends • Enhanced optimism in the face of challenges • Heightened appreciation for the power of a team
Overview LIFE
The idea of LIFE
Create exceptional leaders based on objective data late evening by processes specifically engineered to instead of myths: Through neuroscience and emulate social environments. As in any such cognitive sciences and by providing the opportunity effective social environment, the participants come for ongoing measurement and bio-feedback. to realize that giving 100% of themselves toward group success is key to embracing the competency With thousands of participants over nearly a being examined, and in passing the task or exercise. decade, the program has proven to assist people and their organizations in overcoming their “immunity to change.” It provides a foundation for LIFE runs over 3 days, starting at 1pm on Day 1 and developing effective leaders, defined by the finishing at 4pm on Day 3. The program ends with following principal characteristics: an application examination and a Certificate of Leadership Breakthrough for successful 1. Leaders belong to a group participants. 2. Leaders establish influential relationships 3. Leaders achieve the group’s shared goals
Participants are placed in an experiential environment, in a group of between 15 and up to 48 people, with all meals, sessions and exercises undertaken together. Under the direction of experienced trainers and facilitators, the group is challenged continuously from the morning to the
How can I drive engagement and commitment by setting others up for success?
How can I enable others to perform, encourage them to challenge the status quo, and keep them in the flow?
How do I motivate and acknowledge others effectively?
What does it take for me take action? To take effective action even under stress? How can I stay on track, stay focused? How can I best identify and overcome my fears?
• FINDING YOUR VOICE – dig deep and project your vision with empathy and compassion. • BREAKTHROUGH – cut through your barriers and fears. • THE INNER POWER – find and leverage the inner source of power to achieve the impossible.
• YOUR INNER VOICE – learning mindfulness Program Components techniques to improve your mental capacity and ability to regulate stress. LIFE places practice along side theory - and the • FOCUS – how to sustain the individual’s focus theory is cutting edge. In between processes, the on the desired goals. “Professor” provides the science and the rationale to assist participants in making sense of the experiences they encounter throughout the The Technology program. The curriculum includes the latest insights from neuroscience, explaining what makes us tick, The use of biometric data makes this program why some reactions to social stimuli are more “REAL.” Special Forces, first responders and top effective than others, and what we can do going athletes use these technologies to generate peak forward to improve. performance results. In LIFE, we use this technology to help boost your performance as a leader in The key questions to which leaders are getting various scenarios. Our technology measures how answers: deeply you are emotionally engaged and how your leadership performance impacts and affects others. How can I make a difference as leader in both my own life and in lives of others?
How can I develop a compelling vision?
LIFE Performance Testimonials and Outcomes
Testimonials
The LIFE program was outstanding in many ways. It brings about the best knowledge in neuroscience applied to leadership and it does it in a way that is certainly different. The opportunity to receive objective biofeedback tied to the different activities opens up a new realm of possibilities that go well above and beyond traditional leadership seminars and courses I have participated in the past. LIFE is a unique and lasting experience. Marcelo Montero - SVP Fortune 500, USA
LIFE is not just another leadership course. It is a workshop of a special kind and design, an unknown journey at the start with a memorable climax at the end. It brought me an enormous amount of self-awareness and confidence (...), which resulted in motivated colleagues. A true breakthrough experience, for all aspects of my life. Martine Joosten - Manager Business Development
LIFE is one of the most intense and impactful programs. It is tackling the most prominent barrier of change: Being real and doing the things we all know we should do. LIFE allows you to dig deeper and cut through the chase. My team could feel the difference in me immediately. Dr. Tobias Kiefer - Head of Global L&D, Professional Services Firm, Germany
Outcomes of LIFE
- Know the foundation of social skills - followership skills - that are shared by our most effective and admired leaders - Be self-aware of the people and situations that elicit an unproductive or unhealthy emotional response from you and how to better manage them - Understand the science behind brain functioning, particularly in demanding social situations such as in conflict, negotiations, and feedback - Read and intrepret social signals and cues, and their particular importance in periods of social transition - Look for potential in others and how to stimulate their most productive and creative thinking - Leverage emotion regulation and the importance of staying cool under pressure - Take on stress to overcome stress in building resilience - Understand the neuroscience of decision making to enhance team performance - Understand the relationship between mental state and cognitive performance both in ourselves and in the teams we are asked to lead - Learn mindfulness and how it allows us to chose more productive and healthy reactions to social stimuli - Create a personal development action plan for change
Attendees of LIFE
•High potentials taking part in a long-term leadership and/ or succession program or preparing for their next role • Senior Vice Presidents and C-Level wanting to become more people focused and who are working on a more compassionate leadership style • Coaches, Trainers and Consultants interested in boosting their engagement level with clients and peers
• Entrepreneurs wanting to sharpen their leadership effectiveness by becoming more strategic and more visionary in daily leadership situations with their teams and business partners • Committed Individuals ready to make a difference and who truly want to understand how to successfully initiate and drive change • Individuals and teams motivated by a desire to achieve personal excellence and who want to learn real-life applications of neuroscience toward that goal
LIFE Deployment & Enrollment
LIFE can be run in any offsite location around the world as our Infrastructure and NeuroLab are portable.
Duration: 3 full days + 1h maximizer group call + optional four 1:1 coaching interventions (about 60 min each)
Faculty: The program is delivered by our expertly trained staff: 1 professor, 2 Lead trainers, 2 Assistant trainers, 1 technology support.
Group Size: LIFE can support between 15 and 22 participants.
LIFE can be booked as a stand-alone program or as part of a corporate leadership or sales initiative. You can attend LIFE as private person or as participant of a corporate program.
The follow-up coachings are highly recommended to offer maximum support during the critical first weeks of implementing the LIFE goals and methods.
About CIMBA
CIMBA offers dynamic, personal, and affordable study abroad, MBA, and executive programs in Paderno del Grappa at the base of the Italian Alps in Northern Italy—just an hour north of Venice. For two decades, CIMBA has educated students from 50-plus countries and is proud to have more than 10,000 alumni living and working around the world. At CIMBA, students immerse themselves in a wide range of rigorous courses, including innovative leadership and development programming, while living amidst the Venetian countryside in one of the most popular travel and study destinations in the world. Our students’ business and cultural immersions begin from the minute they step on campus. We share a campus in the heart of Paderno del Grappa with the Istituti Filippin, one of Italy’s top boarding schools. Our study abroad and MBA programs are backed by the top-ranked, AACSB-accredited University of Iowa Tippie College of Business. All of our courses are taught by English-speaking professors from top universities throughout the United States and Europe. Many of them have earned prestigious degrees from universities such as Cornell, Columbia, Duke, Harvard, John Hopkins, the London School of Economics, Oxford, Princeton, Yale, and more. They’ve also lived, taught, and worked around the world in global leadership positions such as senior vice president for the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and Global Operations Financial Expert for Hewlett Packard.