The Foundation of Optimal Performance and Academic Stability

The absence of integrity penetrates the core of our social, political, professional and family lives. The workplace can be affected by theft, passive aggression and one-upmanship. We continue to operate out of a condition of survival, not realizing that requirements of survival have long since been met.

The corporate scandals that have severely weakened the economic stability of this country reveal the dark side of business in America, accounting for the loss of security and well-being for thousands. Integrity is a natural condition with which we are born but in time, learn to give up, thinking we are better off without it. As a result, we become so acclimated to competitive, win/lose environments and relationships, it never occurs to us there is a way out. The degree of integrity you practice alters not only every circumstance of your life in the classroom, but your reactions to those circumstances.

Integrity: The Foundation of Optimal Performance and Innovation is designed to look at different stages of integrity and the natural results of each stage. Based upon the work of Ron Smotherman, M.D., this program provides clear descriptions and identifiable characteristics of each stage, as well as suggestions and strategies for moving up the ladder into higher levels of responsibility, performance and instructional innovation.

Benefits for the Educational System:

• Concrete and practical model of integrity.
• Identification of predictable integrity outcomes.
• Strategies and motivation for increasing integrity and performance outcomes.
• A clearly defined plan to increase integrity throughout the school system.
• Increase of trust, dependability, and motivation among administrators and staff.
• Increase of responsibility and decrease of destructive behavior at all levels of operations.