We strongly believe that authenticity is the most important criteria
for learning in life and work. The term "authenticity" is becoming
almost commonplace in literature about leadership and management development.
To us, the term "authenticity" means wholehearted participation. An
authentic person is someone who shows up completely and is participating as
honestly as possible in the here-and-now. This authenticity is the bottom
line requirement for any form of learning in life and work.
We work from a certain set of beliefs about professional and organization
development -- these beliefs address many of what we consider to be major problems
in development today.
"Too often, consultants and leaders assume that approaches
in development are truly powerful only if the approaches seem novel, complex
and conveyed by the latest guru. Too often, they assume that the more expensive
the approaches, then the more powerful the approaches must be -- this is the
fallacy of 'executive-level pricing'.
"Instead, natural and real development comes from natural
and real practices in life. True development comes from this 'simplicity on
the other side of complexity'. Authenticity Consulting always keep focus on
this simplicity which is accessible to us all."
"If we leaders and practitioners are to help accomplish
what we envision for the world, then we'd better focus a lot more on the real
20% that generates 80% of the results -- and we'd better focus on making that
20% a lot more accessible to a lot more people. Authenticity Consulting brings
that 20% to anyone."
"We practitioners assert that our leaders and learners
really must do more to think out-of-the-box. Yet we practitioners use primarily
the same limited approaches in our consultations, such as delivery of written
plans. Too often, after these plans are delivered to the client, they sit,
collecting dust on clients' shelves. Authenticity Consulting puts as much
priority on helping clients to implement plans as it does on helping clients
to write the plans themselves."
"Perhaps, rather than trying to improve development by
creating yet more slogans and models, we should leverage more learning by
ensuring leaders and learners a) have mastered the 20% that generates 80%
of results, b) are helping each other to really learn from each other, c)
and are helping each other to be more accountable to actually apply new information
and materials from consultation plans. Authenticity Consulting focuses on
these three goals."
