The Leadership Gift^™
Program

Yes. We are not a registered provider for any professional associations, however members have successfully claimed 12 hours/units after completing the 8 Core Modules. There is a post in our forums about how one member did this.

Yes. If you complete the 8 Core Modules as advised, attend 4 Q&A Dialog calls and 4 Application Mastery calls, and you still don’t know how to practice and master Responsibility, I’ll refund 100% of your investment. Must bewithin the first 6 months after your initial purchase.

Your situation describes most of our members. We are busy people. That’s why we’re designed as an ultimately flexible eLearning community with online self-paced resources, downloadable resources for use offline, forums available 24/7 wherever you are, and frequent live calls for checking in, getting expert support, and breaking through stuck points.

Try it for a month and see for yourself.

We recognize this limitation. That’s why all except the Application Mastery web calls are recorded and posted in the member library for 24/7 access.

Membership is about convenient access when you want it. No one attends every call.

We choose a consistent schedule convenient to the Americas and Europe. As we grow, we will add more calls at different times.

There is a “training” answer and a “learning/change/growth/results” answer.

The training answer is that you can get through the 8 Core Modules in 12 hours. But that doesn’t mean you have built a Responsibility practice or changed any coping habits into growing habits.

This program is not simply about new knowledge about how our minds work. It is about changing our deeply embedded habits of mind and building a Responsibility practice that produces fabulous new results in your life.

If you do the work, your life can be very different in 90 days.

So we suggest studying the 8 Core Modules of 90 minutes each over 16 weeks, taking about 2 weeks to “live into” the lessons, exercises, and practices in each module. At the end of the 16 weeks ask yourself if you are “through” or if this program offers you more. It’s your choice.

We operate as a membership community because consistent application is what builds your responsibility practice. Completing the 8 Core Modules is the beginning—not the end—of practicing The Leadership Gift.

However, you don’t have to commit to long-term membership. You may join for 4 months to experience the 8 Core Modules, then make another decision about canceling or continuing. Remain a member only as long as you are receiving value. Cancel anytime.

Many members say it is the best $97 they spend each month. Why? They have continuous access to mentors and masters in the community and program to break through any stuck spot to new levels of freedom, choice, and power.

Imagine, instead of having an expensive private coach, you have an entire community of them available anytime.

Membership in The Leadership Gift Program is 2/3 Male and 1/3 Female.

We range from age 23 to 60 with most between 30-50.

The majority of members are in the USA, Canada and Europe (Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, UK) with a few in Australia, India, Thailand, South Africa, and South America.

Titles include:

• CEO
• CFO
• COO
• Dean, MBA Programs
• Director, R&D
• Division Director
• Executive Coach
• Enterprise Transformation Coach
• Homemaker
• Investor
• QA Lead
• Release Manager
• Senior Program Manager
• Software Manager
• Scrum Master
• Software Engineer
• Vice President

The program earns a 9.4 (out of 10) net promoter score measured at 16 weeks after joining.

Yes. That’s why we are organized as an eLearning community. It is highly interactive through live calls and forums. We surround you with others who are changing the same habits of mind. And Christopher hosts at least 4 live group coaching calls every month for all members. Other advanced members host calls too.

Discuss with your employer the benefits to your business:

• Achieve higher levels of performance and success
• Ability to lead yourself and others more effectively to produce results that matter
• Save valuable time and money identifying and solving problems
• Get teams aligned, engaged, inspired and focus on priorities quicker

Request that they sponsor you for the annual membership. We’ve learned employers don’t want to deal with monthly receipts. Remind them there will be no travel costs, travel time, or time away from work. Negotiate whether you participate on your own time or on your employer’s time. Either way, make the web-calls a high priority.

As you grow and make progress, keep your employer informed of the new value you are adding to the business.

Also consider this: The Leadership Gift Program was designed to be affordable and accessible to individuals who want to invest in their own development. We intend to keep it that way. We also suggest that you make the investment in yourself so you have full ownership of the benefits.

Accreditation and certification are different, yet related.

The Leadership Gift Program offers four levels of accreditation, each based on demonstrated competence and integration of responsibility practices. After completing the 8 Core Modules, continuing members may apply for membership in The Leadership Gift Accreditation and Apprenticeship Program and be accredited as a Practitioner.

Learn more about the accreditation program.

For external and internal trainers, Partnerwerks offers a train-the-trainer option along with certification and content licensing to teach The Responsibility Process workshop designs. See The Responsibility Process – Leading and Coaching workshop for more detail.

Many employers have found The Leadership Gift Program to be a very effective leadership development investment for employees. Here is what we’ve learned:

• Keep the sponsored employee in the position of ownership for their participation.
• Make it a special opportunity. They must want to participate. If they do it out of obligation (to tick a box for you) it probably won’t work (see The Responsibility Process if this is not clear).
• Invite them to register with their own credit card and get reimbursed. Many employers prefer the annual membership rather than dealing with monthly receipts.
• The participant, not the sponsor, is our customer. We do not track participation or report progress to sponsors.
• Clarify whether you are providing time for attending web-meetings or whether the sponsored employee is to do that on their own time. Members who make the program a strategic priority enjoy the best return. Provide more time as they work through the 8 Core Modules (up to 9 hours per month), then less time afterward (3-6 hours per month).
• Since it is a self-paced program, make time in your one-on-one’s to discuss the sponsored employee’s goals for participation and how you can support them. Set a check-in cadence.
• Some leadership teams participate as a team, attending web meetings together and making time to apply the ideas together. If you are considering this, contact us for success stories and to explore possibilities with you.
• Go first. The program will make you a better leader. You’ll have a language and core organizing principles for ownership, leadership, and change that you share with team members in the program. This will change the culture of your group.

Many managers sponsor employees in The Leadership Gift Program. They report that it is extremely effective and efficient personal leadership development. The results are clear in terms of the employee exhibiting greater ownership, better decision making, improved problem-solving and more. Mostly what we hear is that the employee just starts showing up differently — more aware, more present, more confident, more real.

Of course. That’s why the flex plan exists. All of the Core Modules and Q&A Dialogs are recorded and stored in the member library for easy streaming or download. Most members consume the program in this way. You’ll feel welcomed into the community right away.