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- The Quotidian Group specializes in helping talented Leaders get more of what is truly important to themselves, their Teams and their Organization. They offer One-on-one coaching for senior executives and team coaching for leadership teams that need to unlock more of their group's potential. Their focus to help senior executives identify their native talents and passions while systematically reducing the barriers that get in their way.
Quotidian Group Officially Launched by John Ficken
“And that's a concern, because leaders are simply blind to opportunities when they are stressed, overloaded, and stuck in ‘do mode,’” said John Ficken, PhD. “That's why we launched The Quotidian Group, a new executive coaching venture to help busy executives see and seize more opportunities for themselves and their organizations when stress pulls them in the opposite direction.”
“From the moment they wake up, our clients feel like they're sucked into a powerful Current of going from thing to thing to thing,“ John said.”Ask anyone in an organization these days and they will tell you they don't have nearly enough time to think, plan, and learn. And this reactive, frenetic activity encouraged by the Current can kill an organization. It happens every day.”
The ultimate goal of The Quotidian Group is to help leaders at all levels of an organization step back from the Current to devise a better way to work and live. “This sounds a lot easier than it is,” John said. “The Current relentlessly pulls people back to the status quo and what has worked for them in the past, even if they know at some level it's not really working.”
When asked how Quotidian’s methods are better able to overcome the Current than other executive coaching strategies, John was quite candid. “Other programs don’t stop and ask you the difficult questions that need to be asked. If they teach you anything it's how to play the Current game better. We help you change the rules. We take you out of the Current and give you a progressing, self-sustaining set of practices that can transform the way you work and live.”
His strategy is to begin with relatively simple practices that help people immediately if they are practiced every day. In fact, that is how he named his company: Quotidian, means “every day” in Latin.
But that's just the beginning. Because of John’s unique training in both psychology and business, he can help leaders in ways that others understandably avoid. “After we establish momentum building with immediately-helpful practices, we help leaders go below the water line to understand the underlying beliefs and needs that move them toward or away from any change. Addressing the belief system is what distinguishes a temporary quick fix from a successful, sustained transformation.”
Leaders who have participated in the Quotidian programs have benefited by becoming far more impassioned, focused, fulfilled, and successful. Obviously there's a huge cascade effect. If the top leaders are more focused, poised, and passionate, everyone in the organization benefits. And, importantly, the benefits aren't just felt at work, they're felt at home.
For more information The Quotidian Group please visit http://www.q-grp.com/ or call (612) 845-0216
Everyone knows the world has changed dramatically in the last few years. If ever there was a time for leaders to step back, see the big picture, and focus their organization’s precious energy on the relatively few activities that truly make a difference, this is it. Unfortunately, most leaders are doing the opposite: they're doing what they've done in the past, only more of it—longer hours, more meetings, constant email, elevated stress, just more stuff to get done.
Why? Because leaders don't realize they're trapped in an increasingly powerful Current of constant reactive doing when they could be demonstrating poised thinking, planning, and innovating. The Current governs their emotions, consumes their energy, steals their time, and most problematic, it distracts them from what's really important.
Most existing "development" programs lull leaders into thinking they're learning, but their simplistic, short-lived techniques only fuel the Current and exacerbate the underlying problem. In short, they help you play the Current game better. Quotidian is different. It was founded to help leaders fundamentally change the rules about how they live and work.
The key to Quotidian’s formula is to give leaders practical, sustainable techniques that will yield instant results when they are put into practice every day. In fact, Quotidian means “every day” in Latin. According to CEO and Founder John Ficken, PhD, “All of the practices we teach are very simple. But they are not necessarily easy because of the incredible pull of the Current away from new behaviors. Rather than ignore the Current, we use its power to gradually transform the way leaders think and work through a progressing series of increasingly powerful daily practices.”
John Ficken is in a unique position to organize a company like Quotidian. While earning his PhD in Clinical Psychology, he developed a keen understanding of why people resist making changes they know will make their lives easier. He also has a deep appreciation for business, having run two consulting businesses and having coached dozens of talented, senior executives across many industries. Quotidian represents the distillation of everything he's learned into a very simple, pragmatic approach designed to help talented people get more of what really matters to them at work and at home.
And, unlike many other firms that cater either to senior executives or middle managers, Quotidian has two options for coaching: intensive one-on-one coaching for senior executives, and group programs for emerging leaders and strong individual contributors.
“The purpose of the Quotidian business launch,” John says, “is to help the people in organizations who are stuck in this Current to get out of it. I’m not trying to fight it. I’m looking to work with it by getting your company back onto the Riverbank where you can build an entirely new way of working, innovating, and truly living.”
For more information The Quotidian Group please visit http://www.q-grp.com/ or call (612) 845-0216
