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High Performance Developing for leaders, teams, and organizations.Better Leaders by Nature
We bring modern leadership to life by nature
We facilitate positive change in leadership through human performance and interaction development
Development is often seen as a destination - a journey from an ordinary to a new life. For GoNorth, development is a journey throughout life that never stops. We guide leaders, teams and organizations through applicable high performance leadership skills and behaviors. This way, we discover the right values, energies and tools to create a bigger impact..
Management is about creating results together and through others. Some of the most important tools we have in a workplace are our employees' knowledge and personality. Therefore, great personal involvement and effort is required to carry out the daily development of the employees which creates motivation. Therefore leaders need to invest great personal effort and attention to develop and motivate their people
The essence of what we do
Our distinctive approach to our training in GoNorth is a design blend of traditional training techniques, online training, group facilitation, experiential outdoor activities and 1:1 executive coaching. Furthermore, we apply the conclusions of international studies that show how energies and values rooted in nature can support managers and their teams be the best that they can be and raise the performance of the organization.
OUR TRAINING PROGRAMS AND SERVICES
We help leaders understand the systems and subsystems in which they work, as well as the values and energies they need to be aware of in order to act in the culture of a modern business with a desire to change for better performance.
Remember that one of the biggest competitive advantages we have in a workplace is the knowledge and personality of our employees.
Investing in leaders and high-performance teams is fundamental to modern organizations to maintain relevance and sustain success. Leaders need to take the lead by acting as role models and pass on their culture, norms and commitment.
Read more about our 2 programs:
Management program:
Recognized future management talent and middle management program:
Self-awareness is when you as a leader are familiar with your strengths and weaknesses. Knowing your team's strengths and weaknesses in turn is a strength to lead and being open and transparent with them creates a collaboration that brings results.
Through our proven
5:3 BETTER LEADER by NATURE
we offer a process for leaders and teams working together towards a complete, transparent, and open team. Throughout an analogue process, values support the leaders and their teams to work constructively and honestly through their self-identified strengths and weaknesses to create something near to the “complete”.
The digital talent test TT38
may be included - read more about the test under TALENT UNLIMITED section.
We support and challenge leaders in 1:1 coaching or in smaller groups to increase awareness and understanding of themselves and others, leading to stronger togetherness, ownership and understanding of feedback.
Executives and leaders at all levels are constantly influenced and affected by their surroundings. Emotional thinking is our ability to see, understand and control ourselves under different circumstances, using high levels of self-awareness.
An emotional mindset also gives us our ability to see, understand and control others in an open way using high levels of social awareness.
As part of our organizational development initiatives, we have several coaches with very different approaches to coaching and its methodology. We offer our clients a number of coaches to select from and always offer a 20-minute free exploratory call with our coaches before the client's final choice.
This program is targeted at those leaders who are passionate about making a difference with their team, where future results are driven by a culture of values, energies, and open dialogue
Our team day are not about building rafts or bivouacs. On a team day, we raise awareness of one's own (leadership) values through protreptic conversations and dialogues on energy, as well as reflecting on common and personal realizations created by the dialogues. Everything takes place while we are out in nature, where together we create the special space for reflection and interaction.
Being a part of a successful team demands a lot of the individual, both mentally and physically, but when the individual understands the source of values and energy of themselves and their colleagues, a successful team is created.
Staying in nature
Has a positive effect on our learning, health, and performance
Researcher behind Shinrin-yoku, "Janpanese forest bath", says that if we stay in the forest for more than 48 hours and move, we will reduce our stress level by up to 50%. Furthermore, it also has a positive impact on our learning, creativity, and performance.
The researchers are working on a hypothesis that the airborne molecules we inhale when we are in a forest have a positive effect on our health.
The airborne molecules that come from bacteria in the forest floor and from plant popularly called essential oils have a great effect on our lives.
The bacteria from the forest is believed to interact with our gut bacteria. The ions, the negatively charged particles, are thought to increase serotonin levels in the body, which are often associated with the feeling of happiness.
Science has confirmed that walking does indeed arouse creative ability. In a Stanford University study, researchers found that movement boosts creative thinking by up to 60% for some people.
It's believed that creativity is stimulated by walking because the activity requires the simultaneous use of several parts of the brain, something we may need to think about in the everyday life of the company.
On our courses, we work with a 2500 year old and well-proven technique, 'Protreptik'.
Protreptik is a Greek classical dialogue concept where, through ordinary conversations, we create an intimate space and use the ordinary to dig deeper into the individual's basic attitudes and values.
The word Protrepo is Greek for 'turning a human towards himself'. That is, we work with you as a human being - confronting you with your behavior to find out what you want with your life. We believe this is the way to develop your personal leadership.
About
Better leader by nature
My name is Jan Winther Andreassen.
Throughout my leadership career, I have been surrounded by successful talented leaders who have always believed that individual insight and continuous personal development have a positive effect on one’s ability to deliver real results in all aspects of our daily lives.
I have maintained and developed that approach throughout my international leadership career and now pass it on to other leaders through our leadership training programs at GoNorth.
For me, the approach to attaining the best results always starts when a manager sets out to create a space for his employees and teams in which they can grow their potential. Allowing and supporting the employee to take responsibility provides a unique motivation to that individual to become the best version of himself
I love being out in nature and with elements from the nature I find inspiration for delivering our unique leadership learning programs.
You may be aware of the significant academic and factual research that underpins the belief that being in nature offers opportunities that have a strong impact on how we learn and on our health.
Those who have participated on our programs have confirmed and endorsed these findings through their experiences with us.
The team at GoNorth have a passion for what they do and we are confident that this passion will continue to have a positive impact on our clients and their development
Thank you for your time spent here on our website. If you are curious to know more, please feel free to contact me personally by phone or email for further information or email me.
