Say Leadership Coaching provides values-based instruction in management and leadership which draw from over three decades of first-hand business experience in Hawaii’s service, hospitality, and resort development businesses.
Read more about us here: The Healthy Workplace Compass.
We are also the exclusive providers of the Workplace Aloha School and Managing with Aloha University founded in 2004 by Rosa Say: Over the past six years, we have successfully applied the precepts of the Managing with Aloha workplace rejuvenation to diverse business industry both within and outside Hawai‘i, including medicine, education, travel, manufacturing and sales, the non-profit and public sectors, retail and property management, social entrepreneurship, publishing, global media and technology.
Workplace Aloha School
Our expertise at SLC is in the coaching of healthy and profitable workplace cultures managed and led by Alaka‘i Managers, and we offer those managers our coaching and mentorship. We also support them via the Aloha Service, Lōkahi Teaming, Kākou Communications, and Ho‘ohana self-management and self-leadership courses we will teach their staff.
The Hawaiian words you will see in our program descriptions correspond to our local Sense of Place, but more broadly, they are community-sensitive applications of qualifications, talents, skill sets, and knowledge inherent in universal business concepts. These words give us a new vocabulary of value intervention as we seek to reinvent, reconstruct, and reenergize workplace cultures value by critical value —yours.
Read more about how we work together within our SLC Workplace Aloha School.
Managing with Aloha University
MWA University goes even further, in that we will teach you Managing with Aloha as a complete operational construct within your business model. Your vision and mission, our values-based operational, communications, and workforce development construct for healthy workplace culture.
We call this program Managing with Aloha University because we do have a cohesive and highly successful curriculum to offer you, however it is taught as value-alignment for your own business. We won’t impose our values on you, but we will challenge you to live and work within the truth and integrity of yours. We work with you professionally, applying our teaching and instruction within the art and science of business enterprise, delivering personal lifestyle benefits in the process.
As teaching method, we coach about 70% of the time, and consult about 30% of the time, very much in the same way we approach our M/L 70/30 managing/leading Alaka‘i model for managers.
Curriculum: The 9 Key Concepts of Managing with Aloha
The curriculum of our Workplace Aloha School and Managing with Aloha University is offered in alignment with these Nine Key Strategic Initiatives, which when taken altogether are the workplace culture construct of the Managing with Aloha philosophy.
1. Aloha: The genuine spirit of all relationships, and the fertile ground from which everything else will thrive. Your Aloha is the authenticity you bring to your connections with others, and to the self-expression of your work. Everyone has aloha; we help you bring it to fuller expression with what you do.
2. Ho‘ohana: This is the Hawaiian value of worthwhile work. Work with passion, with purpose and intention, and with full joy while realizing your potential for growth and creativity. When you Ho‘ohana you create your best possible life and your own destiny: The work you do each and every day reveals your innate creativity and full capacity, and it builds on your legacy.
3. Value Alignment: We work with integrity by working true to our values. Focus all efforts on the right mission at the right time, for it honors your sense of self and brings compelling visions within your reach. For a business, deliberate value-alignment creates a healthy organizational culture for everyone involved; the 19 values we very confidently will coach you in are those outlined as the 19 chapters of Managing with Aloha.
4. The Role of the Manager Reconstructed: In today’s workplaces, managers must deliver exponential work engagement. The “reconstruction” we require in our programs is so this expectation is reasonable, and so it is valued as critically important: Managers can then have the desire and ‘personal bandwith’ for assuming a newly reinvented role, one which delivers better results both personally and professionally.
5. Language of Intention: Language, vocabulary, and conversation combine as our primary tools in business communications: What we speak is fifty times more important than what we write. The need for CLEAR, intentional, reliable and responsive communication is critical in thriving businesses. Drive communication of the right messages, and you drive momentum and worthwhile energies.
6. The ‘Ohana in Business: The best form for your life can be the best form for your ‘Ohana in Business® as well, where the goals of each will support the other. A business can be more than self-sustainable and profitable: It can thrive. We teach a value-based business model and organizational structure simultaneous to coaching on the MWA productivity practices which drive ROI (we coach return on investment via financial literacy coaching) and ROA (return on your attentions).
7. Strengths Management: Keys 1 through 6 have put a great foundation in place for your business to thrive within: Together they have created the best possible launching pad for your organizational culture. Now we turn to bigger investments made in each employee, business partner, and stakeholder involved, so you can truly say, “Our people are our biggest asset” —and mean it. Cooperation, connectivity and collaboration evolve to optimization and co-creation.
8. Sense of Place: Think “working in my neighborhood.” Sense of Place is about greater community locally and connectivity globally. It is saying thank you, and engaging at a higher level with those Places which have gotten you this far, and continue to nourish you daily in a multitude of tiny ways that collectively are absolutely HUGE factors in your success. It is giving back, recognizing that Place nurtures and sustains us; it shapes our experiences and lends cultural richness to life.
9. Palena ‘ole (Unlimited Capacity): This is your exponential growth stage, and about seeing your bigger and better leadership dreams come to fruition. Think “Legacy.” Create abundance by honoring capacity; physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual. Seek inclusive, full engagement and optimal productivity, and scarcity will be banished.
What will be the result you achieve when you learn with us? New learning, increased energy, passionate commitment to vision, and dramatic shifts in personal engagement. Said another way, you will grow as you learn the Ho‘ohana of self-management and self-leadership as you make extremely valuable contributions to whatever organization you are presently involved with.
We provide the following options for each of these areas outlined above:
- Keynote Presentations by Rosa Say
- Half-day and Full-day Workshops
- Management and Leadership Immersion Retreats
- Train the Trainer Coaching and MWA Certification
- Web-based Project Management Workshops
(Recommended for mid-level management peer groups and/or specific project work teams) - Study Guides and MWA Toolkits in E-Book form
(Designed for self-coaching or peer-coaching at your own pace)
A 3-day Managing with Aloha Institute is also available for those who wish to start with a thorough conceptual overview of all 9 Key Concepts, including learning about the MWA ‘Ohana in Business Model®.
Please call 808.883.9122 or email us for more information; we are eager to work with you!
