Transformation for work and life.
Erik Van Alstine's Perceptual IntelligenceTM corporate training and online courses give you incredible new power to improve things at work and in every area of life.
Profound, Significant Empowerment
Teaches how to optimize emotions, motivations, and behavior.
Optimal Decisions and Alignment
Helps leaders and teams paddle in the best direction.
Transforming Happiness and Morale
Builds happy people who get things done and get better together.
What is Perceptual IntelligenceTM and How Does It Help?
The first step to Perceptual IntelligenceTM is to understand the nature of perception, to know what perception is and how it works. This includes the way we characterize things and situations, then the way we evaluate them as good and bad. It includes sensory experience, but also imagination and memory. It involves perceptual limits and the “lock and block” effect created by those limits. Finally, it includes views of self, others, situations, and life.
Once we understand the nature of perception, we look at the dynamics of perception, emotion, motivation, and behavior. We learn to identify categories of “See,” “Feel,” and “Act,” and see how these categories automatically influence each other. Instead of hacking the branches in a futile effort to change emotions and behaviors, we strike the root, following the smart change strategy of starting with perception.Once the foundational ideas are solid, we start optimizing corporate culture and every area of life by embedding four prime perceptions: views of self and others that improve the way we work in organizations and live our lives. Changes that seemed almost impossible before we understood this power are now profoundly easier.
Erik's Current Online Courses
Each course is a self-study equivalent to what’s taught in facilitated on-site corporate training. The courses teach leadership insights on the foundation of what Erik describes as Perceptual IntelligenceTM. To find out more about each, click on the links below.
Automatic Influence: New Power for Change in Work and Life
This 19-lesson 9-hour course shows how perception automatically influences emotion, motivation, and behavior, introduces the concept of Perceptual Intelligence, and reveals the Four Prime Perceptions for peak performance.
Radically Receptive: How to Love Feedback and Learn from Everyone
Love feedback? Learn from everyone? Sounds impossible. But using Erik's principles of Perceptual Intelligence, giving and receiving feedback is not only possible, but easier than we think.
If you work with people, you’ve seen the drama. The dysfunction. The serious people problems.
- The average worker in America spends 2.5 hours a day distracted by drama (dysfunctional thinking and relating).
- 7 of 10 workers would rather have a new boss than more pay.
- 7 of 10 workers think about quitting every single day.
Fortunately, we have a unique and powerful way to solve these problems. With my network of consultants, and a powerful concept called Perceptual IntelligenceTM. we bring transforming vitality to work cultures. Morale goes up. Turnover goes down. People get along and get ahead. There’s more truth, more learning, and more cooperation. More power to be effective than ever before.
We’ve had executives in some of the largest companies in the world say they’ve seen everything in leadership for twenty years and there’s nothing that works like this. Perceptual IntelligenceTM is unique, powerful, and profound.
The bottom line is, You have to see it for yourself. Contact me or your consultant to schedule a preview event at your location for 5-7 of your top decision makers.
— Erik Van Alstine
Life-Changing Results in a Recent Event
In twenty years working as an HR executive in the largest companies in the world, I've never seen something that moves the needle like this.
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Automatic Influence Course Sample Videos
Here are a dozen video segments from the 9-hour, 19-lesson course.
Why is change so hard? How do we influence others without harsh tactics or manipulation? Are there better ways to change that truly last?
Erik Van Alstine’s revolutionary book, Automatic Influence: New Power for Change in Work and Life, answers these questions in simple and fascinating style, supported by leading-edge science and a compelling new view of perception, emotion, motivation, and behavior Erik describes as Perceptual IntelligenceTM.
Automatic Influence reveals a profound power source in human nature, like a red button in the basement of the mind, that energizes every emotion, drives every decision, and activates every action. When we try to change without triggering this power, change is hard. We grit our teeth, gut it out, lose steam, and give up.
But when we switch on this power, change is easier. Profoundly easier.
The most profound, impacting leadership training I've ever experienced.
My Grass, Your People: Cultivating Extraordinary Health and Growth
I love helping leaders build healthy work cultures, office environments where people get along, get things done, and get better together. It’s a challenge because
Here’s How Leaders Level-Up with Better Decisions and Better Buy-In
When leaders make bad decisions, it’s bad for everybody. But when leaders make good decisions, it’s good for everybody. If everybody buys in, of course.