What is our Proprietary Knowledge?

There is a large body of common knowledge about how to run a business that is called “best practices.” Our team brings that to the table but it is not our primary product. While we do repair work for companies that have stumbled, our focus is on helping the well-run company take it to an extraordinary level.

You cannot become an uncommon company through pushing harder on the commonly available principles. You will need some uncommon insight to significantly differentiate yourself in the marketplace.

Sapphire Leadership Concepts is primarily a think tank that researches the vacant spots in the existing body of knowledge. Out of our years of research and field work have come the following niche truths which are unique to our organization. We can weave these together to take you far beyond the common achievements.

1) The identity of individuals

Most personality profiles divide people into four quadrants with subsets and variations. There are actually seven foundational templates for the human spirit and soul. We have been refining this model for over 30 years, which enables us to differentiate between the environmental shaping of an individual and their original design.

Original design needs to be identified and developed. Many models only report how you respond today and do not differentiate between your responses that originate in your core and those that are the product of cultural influence or trauma.

Understanding the original core that drives the people around you is essential for forming dynamic teams. Most functional teams are built on vision and character. Extraordinary teams are built on that, plus chemistry. Understanding individual design allows the superlative leader to craft extraordinary teams.

2) The social DNA of businesses

There is a specific area of potential in each business. There are some things that your business can do far better than other businesses because of your social DNA. Finely honed best practices are no substitute for innate potential. While poor execution can certainly stifle your potential, there is something exhilarating about using excellence to drive the specific potential you were endowed with.

3) The social DNA of cities and nations

Each city and nation has one of the seven kinds of social DNA. A marketing strategy that sparks a response in one city will be flat in another. We can identify the DNA of your host city and show you how to create synergy between the DNA of the city and your company so as to leverage your potential even further.

4) The seven benchmarks

There are seven foundational benchmarks that must be reached for your potential to be realized. Missing any of these seven can severely hamper your progress, even if many of the external components are in place. We can identify where your glass ceiling is and show you how to implement specific changes in your company to break through and go to the next level.

5) The seven styles of leadership

The one size fits all leadership principles often don’t. There ARE universally applicable principles for leadership, but beyond that, there is a specific leadership style that matches each kind of social DNA. When you have great leadership that is mismatched to the DNA, you have conflict and loss of profitability.

Whether you are hiring a new executive or a department manager, you will achieve better results by evaluating their leadership style, not just their technical competence. Again, good leadership is the product of knowledge, commitment and character. Great leadership is the product of an excellent match with the DNA of the organization.

The potential

These themes represent just a portion of our proprietary knowledge. These are not yesterday’s insights dressed up in a new set of language. They are not borrowed from another consultant and personalized.

These concepts and others like them are the product of our research and represent insights you will not find elsewhere in the consulting community.

Because we have resources of wisdom that others don’t have, we are able to weave these principles together to develop customized strategies that will position you far differently in the marketplace.

These are not silver bullets that provide a quick fix. They are all principles which must be rigorously applied to be effective. That means you will have to learn to think and to act in ways that are new and often counter intuitive. When a principle is walked out in a sustained manner, the results will come in time.

Uncommon principles will produce uncommon results for your business.

 

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