Ten Essentials of Pathwise | Pathwise Leadership Development & Advising

The founders of Pathwise come from senior positions in academia and the high-tech industry to solve critical people management challenges in large organizations. From this experience it became apparent that analytic psychology tools were highly effective when applied to business situations. From this, Pathwise compiled the Ten Essentials of Pathwise.

601 – Suspension of Attention

In this course you will expand your ability to understand why employees, managers, and clients behave the way they do, and how to better influence them. There is a hierarchy to perception that has a direct influence on the effectiveness of action. Learn how to differentiate between higher and lower levels of perception, and how to access and sustain more strategic levels of perception.

602 – Interpersonal Patterns: Transference

Learn how to navigate the unspoken but powerful relational dynamics that can lead you to greater success with clients, co-workers, managers, and employees. Understanding transference can help you to better perceive how clients, employees, and manager dynamics are applied to you, and can create counterproductive reactions in you. With this knowledge you can then learn to respond to others in ways to reach your desired result.

603 – Dialectic

Learn the principles and structure of the Socratic mode of discourse, which elicits the maximum creativity, contribution, and motivation from people during meetings. Gain mastery of the methods and tools of this disciplined inquiry for facilitating discovery meetings, open communications, question and answer sessions, and technology, product, and organizational design. In this course you will learn how to facilitate and participate in these highly effective meetings.

604 – Cognitive Development

Building upon the material in 601 this course explores how motivations and manageability shift dramatically depending upon peoples' stage of cognitive maturity. Understand the concept of psychological age and learn appropriate ways of engaging people in order to obtain optimal results. Learn how to assess, predict, and influence behavior based on understanding a person's stage of cognitive development.

605 – Personality Types

Human behavior can be predicted and influenced based on understanding personality types. Learn how to quickly perceive these patterns in order to effectively interact with potential clients, employees, and board members. Also, utilize this tool to learn how to hire the best-matched talent for your company. This course also includes an investigation into ones own personality type.

606 – Resistance & Defenses

Human resistance patterns stop progress. These resistance styles are related to personality type. Learn how to quickly assess the resistance patterns a person uses, and how to manage and remediate them, or overcome them to attain mutual goals. In this class you will learn the primary resistance patterns by type, including an exploration into your own.

607 – Advanced Listening

Advanced listening creates the capacity to motivate and understand at the level of a top caliber leader. Learn how advanced listening compels others to provide you with exact information, and allows you as the listener the capacity to hear and comprehend more of the available information. This includes simultaneously listening to and understanding the cognitive, emotional, non-verbal, and unconscious modes of communication.

608 – Intrinsic Motivation

In this course you will learn about the phenomenon of intrinsic motivation. You will be able to concretely categorize and discern the most powerful mechanisms of motivation, and you will become more effective at motivating your employees, clients, or board members.

609 – Systems Thinking

Systems Thinking is a way of understanding complex problems in organizations that cannot be reduced to single individuals. People instinctively attempt to solve problems in terms of simplified cause and effect relationships. This style predominates in management behavior today. You will learn to understand the basic tools of the systems approach, and will recognize systems behavior in common situations. This course will provide you with the tools to perceive and intervene strategically in highly complex business problems.

610 – Archetypes

Archetypes are the universal human interaction patterns that play themselves out within every organization and group of people. The archetypes operating in organizations arise out of the accidental formation of typical human situations that have occurred in over 2 million years of human evolution. The archetypes collectively mobilize the instinctive part of the brain and can compel entire organizations to follow the directions dictated by the archetypes themselves. Often the direction of archetypes can be destructive if not understood and managed. You will learn how to perceive and categorize the archetypes operating in your organization, and how to identify and mobilize more productive and useful ones, which will help you attain shared organizational aims.