Business View Caribbean | April/May 2022

37 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN VOLUME 9, ISSUE 4 LEADERSHI P MANAGEMENT INTERNAT IONAL INC . LMI ) have weekly sessions, instead, because we don’t want you to know, we want you to do it.” ILM offers a portfolio of over 40 programs based on different objectives. Most of them are leadership programs: strategic leadership, motivational leadership, personal leadership, productivity and performance improvement, communication, even sales strategies in management, development, etc. The length of the programs vary from six to 16 weekly sessions. Naarden acknowledges, “Most people have a tendency to develop one aspect of leadership, and usually that’s the trap. That’s why we have a Total Leader session, so we can show them how to be very productive and have a high performance themselves. To work on their personal leadership and help them discover their life vision and mission, so they can in turn Throughout the pandemic, a lot of the programs were virtual but LMI prefers personal contact. Then it doesn’t matter if you sit in a group (max. of 12), you will walk your own development path. Because you have a unique starting point. The group is all about empowering each other – they share lessons learned, and best practices, and traps, too – what to watch out for. By helping each other and explaining why you had a good week or a not so good week, you leave motivated. Naarden emphasizes, “If you have a series of four or five day sessions, you learn and then forget. That’s only knowledge and a diploma but you don’t change your ways. We