Leading Edge – Volume 7 – Committment

Focus on High Performance Teams-Committment

  • Team and team member commitment are the fuel for high performance.
  • Enhance team member commitment by providing opportunities for input and voice on the key areas of vision, mission, core values and purpose.
  • Obtain buy-in through team member input.
  • Seek input on processes, procedures, policies, hiring decisions and other areas where team commitment is needed.
  • Challenge team performance and individual team members to achieve more through encouragement.

The Aegis Learning team continues to grow with two outstanding additions that we have worked with previously and were thrilled to return with a new organization. Linda Florence and Polly Walker have delivered many quality customer experiences and projects and they are gifted speakers and training providers.

Linda Florence is an outstanding facilitator, leader and education expert. She brings a PhD and 20 years of successful experience to her new role as Chief Learning Officer. Linda will be reviewing our programs, crafting customer solutions and leading facilitator development.

As Chief Innovation Officer, Polly Walker will be guiding Aegis Learning’s cutting edge commitment to service delivery, image and learning products. Polly is a process improvement thought leader, excellent facilitator and has two masters degrees.

In blatant disregard for the Aegis Learning policy prohibiting the hiring of relatives and insiders, Sydney Marie Schneider has been named Director of Security. She has 5 years of progressively loud experience guarding Aegis Learning from the neighbors, FedEx guy and area cats.

Please welcome Linda, Polly and Sydney to the Aegis Learning team.

Tim Schneider
Founder and Lead Facilitator
Aegis Learning

Leading Edge – Volume 6 – Conflict (Part 2 of 2)

Focus on High Performance Teams-Conflict (Part 2)

  • Subordinate ego to create long-term wins in a conflict situation.
  • Using judgment to determine the difference between long-term and short-term gains in conflict situations.
  • Learn to pause and assess prior to reacting in conflict.  This aids in removing unneeded emotion.
  • Defer conflict instead of avoid it or give in to someone.  Many people are avoiders and this does not really address the issues within a conflict.
  • Make sure needs are met and conflict doesn’t escalate.

As a part of our core values for the past 25 years, Aegis Learning continues to support the community and work to make lives better.  For the remainder of 2017, we will be supporting the Las Vegas Rescue Mission.  This organization helps the homeless and, many times, addicted members of the Las Vegas community by providing housing and recovery services.

Aegis Learning shares this with you in hopes of inspiring others to give and contribute to the communities in which we live.

We have been able to recover and re-publish most of our original articles and written work including 10 Things Great Leaders Do Differently (Series), Communication and Trust, The Power of Appreciation and Commitment:  The Key to Success.  These works are available by going to www.discoveraegis.com and selecting archive in the right sidebar.  We have also been able to recover many of our video files including the 40 Day Journey to Awesome and will be making those available shortly.

As always, I appreciate your support, encouragement and trust more than you will ever know.

Tim Schneider
Founder and Lead Facilitator
Aegis Learning

Leading Edge – Volume 5 – Conflict (Part 1 of 2)

Focus on High Performance Teams-Conflict (Part 1)

  • In a healthy and high performing team, conflict is unavoidable and should not be avoided.
  • Conflict leads to innovation.
  • Conflict should always focus on a solution and be based on process and not personality.
  • Egos will drive conflict to a personal level.
  • Conflict arises when needs are not met or when differences of viewpoint are aired.

Matt Zobrist has joined Aegis Learning as a facilitator.  Matt has over 15 years experience with real-life leadership and making significant changes in organizational culture.  His passion for learning, leadership and helping others is unmatched and he brings an advanced educational background and great commitment to us.  As with Teresa, Helene and soon to be named additional team members, we are extremely fortunate to have Matt join Aegis Learning.

So this is cool.  Aegis Learning has committed to developing a robust catalog of online learning that is content rich, contains impacting video, includes interactive elements and is easy to use.  But here is the cool part.  Even though we are putting a lot into the development we are going to offer the online programs FREE to anyone who attends or has attended one of our facilitator led programs.  Yes FREE. This will be our way of adding value and follow-up power to our facilitator led programs and to make sure key learning becomes a part of organizational culture and not just an one-time training event.  Please look for more announcements coming in the next few months.

As always, we remain incredibly thankful and grateful for your support and loyalty.

Tim Schneider
Founder and Lead Facilitator
Aegis Learning

Leading Edge – Volume 4 – Trust (Part 2 of 2)

Focus on High Performance Teams-Trust (Part 2)

  • Vulnerable trust is rare but extremely powerful.
  • Vulnerable trust focuses on who you are and not what you do.
  • Vulnerable trust requires deeper relationships, disclosing challenges, being open about failures and apologizing for past wrongs.
  • There is risk associated with vulnerable trust but the rewards are immense when established.

Aegis Learning continues to grow and move forward in very exciting ways.

Please join me in welcoming Ms. Teresa Lowry to the team.  Teresa will be facilitating our leadership, teamwork and customer service programs and brings over 20 years of highly successful, real-life leadership experience and organizational change to the team.  She also has a Juris Doctorate and degree in psychology and is a passionate advocate for learning and training.  Aegis Learning is extremely fortunate to have her.

Our program guides (handout sets) for our leadership learning programs have been completely redesigned and now are much more useful and content packed than ever before.  These will add great value to our training programs and we are very proud of the final product and what it means for the content in our training programs.

The dates have been chosen for our Foundations of Leadership event in St. George Utah.  In the coming weeks we will announce the location and how to register.  Great opportunity for us to work with the people of southern Utah and grow into that market.

As always, we remain incredibly thankful and grateful for your support and loyalty.

Tim Schneider
Founder and Lead Facilitator
Aegis Learning

Leading Edge – Volume 3 – Trust (Part 1 of 2)

Focus on High Performance Teams-Trust (Part 1)

  • Trust among team members is a critical foundation for team success.
  • Trust impacts communication and the ability to successfully resolve conflict.
  • There are two types of trust:  reliable and vulnerable.
  • Reliable trust is the most common and most fluid.
  • Vulnerable trust is rare but extremely powerful.

Another week of very exciting news and growth at Aegis Learning including:

Welcome to Helene Edelstein as our first official new team member.  She will be responsible for our design work, content writing and social media management.  A master’s degree and depth in education management distinguish Helene.  We are very fortunate to have her with Aegis Learning.

Close to adding three more people to the Aegis Learning team including two facilitators and a chief innovation officer.  When the pictures and bios are done, we will make the official announcements.  Great depth, experience and education with this team!

Scheduled a set of open enrollment classes in Las Vegas and Southern Utah.  These facilitator led programs will be cutting edge in material and high value for participants.  More to come on dates and locations.

Began the planning and design work for new online and webinar programs that are easy to use, content rich and a great value to users.

Thank you to every person and organization that has contacted us in the past couple of weeks.  Your support and loyalty is greatly appreciated.

Tim Schneider
Founder and Lead Facilitator
Aegis Learning

Leading Edge – Volume 2 – High Performing Teams Introduction

Focus on High Performance Teams

•Why Teamwork Matters
•Trust in Teams
•Conflict
•Self-Interest and Commitment
•Mission Focus
•Forgiveness
•Communication
•Feedback

Tons of awesome happenings at Aegis Learning over the past week including:

Not really new but………

Be sure you are getting CERTIFIED facilitators when using DiSC or Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team.  Many call sell, few are certified.

Getting close to being able to announce a couple of new team members and other partnerships of great value to our customers and participants.  Highly qualified and experienced professionals that offer some jaw-dropping value to our customers and program participants.

Tim Schneider
Founder and Lead Facilitator
Aegis Learning

Leading Edge – Volume 1 – Welcome

Leading Edge from Aegis Learning

Good morning and I sincerely hope this note finds you well.

As many of you know, I am no longer with SEE, Inc. (Soaring Eagle Enterprises) and this occurred two weeks short of our 25th anniversary of delivering great training, coaching and consulting services.

And as one door closes, a new, and better one opens.  Aegis Learning is truly “Dedicated to Your Success” and I promise to provide the same great training programs, leadership development, customer service initiatives and high performance team building you have come to expect from me.  All of this with a healthy dose of fun and laughter.  We also won’t be selling any coffee cups or socks.

I would like to extend a huge thank you and appreciation to those people we have already heard from and continued to show their faith and support in the work we do.  It has been humbling and I am grateful for your trust.

In the coming weeks, we will return to the ingredients to build better workplaces, improve lives, and introduce you to some new Aegis Learning team members.  As always, I look forward to your comments and input.  Thank you again.

Sincerely,

Tim Schneider
Founder and Lead Facilitator
Aegis Learning