SO WHAT’S IT GONNA TAKE
The Insights for Personal and Professional Development Program is 52 weeks of straight-talk coaching insight from Allen Forte, a transformative leader with wisdom seldom found in leaders today. It’s for anyone who wants to perform better, lead better, and stop feeling stuck. You don’t need an MBA. What you need is insight.
WHAT WE KNOW
At So What’s It Gonna Take, we have learned how to help people deal with the hard things in simple but profound ways. We will prepare you to become the best performer you can be while others are telling you what you need to do. We will show you how to lead yourself better than your leader can lead you. And we will show you when and what to control, what to impact, what to influence and when to let it go.
Challenges that you face are EVERYWHERE. Our program addresses those things for which you are not prepared. Life, education and development have not prepared most people, but our years of executive coaching along with developing strategy and working in operations for all kinds of businesses have revealed to us how to face, prepare and deal with those challenges and we want to share with you.
Our Development Insights Program
IT’S HARD OUT THERE!
No one prepares us for the level of difficulty we will face in business. Almost no one is prepared at home, in high school or even in college to become who they will need to be to thrive in the tough workplace or social environments we face today. Working for a weak leader or business, being asked to achieve goals that seem impossible, being required to constantly do more than was done yesterday, to hit the metrics required to keep your job, and seeing co-workers laid off can all leave you feeling less than inspired.
Things won’t get easier until you get better. If you’ve become proficient at something, such as mountain climbing, you know it’s hard. When you started, it seemed impossible because the mountain was high, the air was thin and the weather was cold. Just because you wanted to climb the mountain didn’t change any of those facts. The mountain wasn’t going to change for you. You had to prepare and become beter, and only then did mountain climbing become easier.
The same is true for the hard environment you now face or will most assuredly face in the workplace. We have a crisis of leadership, so you will most likely work for a poor leader which will feel as hard as climbing a mountain at times. You need your job and at the same time you want to give up. The same holds true in a difficult work environment as it does in climbing; the environment won’t change for you; you will need to prepare and become better and only then will the workplace become easier to navigate.
Running uphill becomes easier when you train to run uphill.
OUR DEVELOPMENT INSIGHTS PROGRAM
Developing yourself to be high performing takes a little longer than going through a drive through window. Allen Forte will share Development Insights he’s gleaned over many years of coaching CEO’s and people at the highest levels of governments and a variety of business sectors both locally and internationally.
We use a format of 52 weeks of inspiration and preparation in the form of a brief podcast, each followed by a once every other week 30-minute Zoom session with Allen. You’ll have an opportunity to hear more, interact and ask questions specific to your situation. In addition, after each session you will receive our signature “White Space”, our unique follow-on note to keep and refer to as needed. You’ll get all this in a slow drip – one audio per week and session every other week to take it in and allow it to grow.
BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE
New in a leadership position
Individual contributors
Career changers
Small business owners
Anyone coasting
Passed over for promotion
THE WAY WE APPROACH DEVELOPMENT AND PERFORMANCE WILL:
Bring people to a place of personal and professional awareness and accountability that they must be better in order to perform better. Lots of training dollars are wasted on people who have no desire to be better. Businesses train the wrong people in the wrong ways. We attack that.
Open people at all levels to hearing instruction and to being informed so they learn how to live and work more skillfully than before. Many people are too proud to hear anything but what they want to hear. We’ll address that.
Help people build strong lives not just in skills but in a desire to go from what’s in it for me to what’s in me for others. Most people focus selfishly on themselves and on their experiences.
Help people learn to be led and to lead effectively. Both are needed. Being led is what is needed for now in the short term and leading is what is needed for tomorrow in the long term. Many people can’t be lead so they cannot lead others either.
Equip people to learn how to connect being better with performing better.
Don’t be the smartest person in a room of foolish people. Leave the room.
Common Questions
What do I actually receive?
One short audio recording via podcast weekly, one 30-minute live Zoom session with Allen Forte every other week, and White Space follow-on notes to keep and revisit.
Do I need an MBA or executive title to join?
No. This program was built for anyone who wants to perform better and lead better — not just people already at the top.
Can my company sponsor multiple people?
Yes — the $500 per-person fee works whether you join individually or your business enrolls a group.
What if I miss a week?
The program runs as a slow drip on purpose. Reach out and we'll help you pick back up without losing the thread.
How is this different from an executive coach or MBA program?
Executive coaching and MBA programs are priced out of reach for most people. This distills years of that same coaching into a format almost anyone can afford.
THE ‘WHY’ BEHIND OUR APPROACH TO FEES
Costs for Executive Coaching and your typical Executive MBA College Programs are out of reach financially for many people. Yet it is through our coaching that we can see everyone needs the development only a few can afford. That’s why we decided to take what we have learned coaching executives and the things they face in leading people to develop this program aimed at the executives and the people the executives will lead.
To do that, we realized we had to offer a program over time that would be affordable at the level of an individual or as a business. Our fee for this approach is $500 per person. We want to make a difference in the development and performance of as many people as possible. We know what you will learn with us is important to the health of our economy and the strength of business, family, and community.
$500 per person
Join at any time · 52 audios · 26 Zoom sessions · 26 White Space notes
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CONTACT US
Questions about the program, group enrollment, or whether this is the right fit? Send a note and we’ll follow up.
EMAIL
robin@sowhatsitgonnatake.com