From Victim to Victorious
The Warrior’s Path
How many poor choices do we make when we feel disempowered? How easy is it to blame and finger-point others when we are feeling trapped and without recourse?
At certain moments in life, especially when facing a crisis or a challenge that feels overwhelming, our teams and we may unconsciously play the victim. That is when the warrior’s path will make a difference.
The GSK leadership team implemented the warrior path and was able to reduce by 80% the negative behaviors caused for people frequently playing the victim on their site.
Culture positively shifted and is being sustained, and results are improving. There is a minimum (less than 3%) of expired plans on the control boards at the Tiers meetings, and they got a 10% increase in OOE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness).
Today, they keep proactively empowering people in those situations where they feel they can’t deal with what is going on and role modeling how to be accountable and take the initiative. The results keep doing better and better.
Want to know how they do it?
From Detachment to Engagement
The Hero’s Path
Why are some wholly involved and engaged at work while others drag themselves out of bed to go to work and give their minimum trying to get back home as soon as possible? The Hero’s path makes the difference.
The Human Resources Director at Boehringer Ingelheim wanted to get an engaged and happy workforce that put their passion at work and delivered breakthrough results.
He believed that besides analyzing the engagement assessment results thoroughly, identifying the root causes, and working on them, the key to boosting engagement was to facilitate that every single person in the company had an authentic expression of their true SELF.
I worked for him on the employee’s authentic SELF-expression side, developing competencies for their leaders to manage their direct reports’ hero’s journey. They empowered, enabled, and encouraged their employees, moving them through the eight stages of their hero’s journey once they identified the archetypes that needed expression.
The return on investment and the personal satisfaction of the Hero’s path were priceless, not to mention the positive impact on results and engagement levels beyond this world. The Hero’s journey, combined with other initiatives, obtained a worldwide record engagement company figure of 89%.
From Survival to Collaboration
What are we capable of when filled with fear?
What can we achieve when threatened?
If we take a serious look at our lives, we will recall moments when we felt threatened, and our only concern was to figure out what to do under those extreme circumstances.
The survival instinct is universal and one of the most potent and reactive forces that preserve our lives. When danger is perceived, cooperation and productivity are not essential. What is critical is survival. The archetypal paths can lead the way back home.
Boehringer Ingelheim Human Resources team members were going through a hard time. A leader with a very hierarchical old-school leadership style had continuously mistreated them by belittling any effort, proposal, or work they attempted to implement. As a result, they all lost confidence and started retreating unconsciously into a survival state, exhibiting undesired behaviors such as blaming, finger pointing, gossiping, disempowerment, sabotage, tantrums, and silo mentality.
A new leader came in, providing empathy and understanding. After six months of hard work on four archetypal paths: The path of Selflove, the path of the Wizard, the path of the Warrior, and the path of the Father, a new healthy and productive dynamic emerged among them.
The results were just fantastic!
Héctor Cerbón 