Terry Hildebrandt and Associates, LLC

I'm offering two webinars this month. In both, attendees will learn:

30-50% of leaders derail within 24 months of hire or promotion.

Derailment costs organizations 5-15% of operating performance, most of which is incurred before derailment.

The root cause of almost all derailing behaviors is an erroneous cognitive habit.

How Emotional Response-Ability® (ERA) corrects this erroneous cognitive habit.

The first will take place on Apr 22, at 12:00 PM Eastern and is optimized for CHROs and Heads of Leadership Development. It includes a discussion of how ERA integrates into your existing leadership development stack.

To attend or receive the recording: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/4K-e-dWDSyOJ-tyoytkHHg

The second will take place on April 30, at 12:00 PM Eastern and is optimized for Executive and Leadership Coaches. It includes a discussion of how ERA augments your existing coaching toolkit.

To attend or receive the recording: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/xlnv48pCRh2w6_HO1aV2mw

Here's what attendees had to say about last month's presentation:

"This is truly revolutionary!"
"This is common sense, but not common knowledge."
"Time well spent."

Please invite your colleagues to join you for the webinar.

I found this this article by Greg Satell very true – Here is a quote:
“The truth is that we rarely change our behavior after being exposed to new facts. When confronted with evidence that contradicts our beliefs, we’re more likely to question the evidence than to update our views. Our brains prefer stability to change. … For leaders, the lesson is clear: Lasting change comes less from the facts we share and more from the networks and cultures we create.”

Stop trying to 'educate' people into changing. Science proves it doesn’t work Lasting change comes less from the facts we share and more from the networks and cultures we create.

You are invited to join a meeting: Coaching with Emotional Response-Ability. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Presented by: Charles M. Jones and Terry H. Hildebrandt
Date: Thursday, February 19, 2026
Time: 3:00–4:00 PM PST
CCE: ICF Continuing Coach Education
Note: Registration is required. Use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Tt-AhfCERqymm93WNoCKYQ

Date & Time: Jan 28, 2026 01:00 PM in Mountain Time (US and Canada) - Join us for a free webinar - https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/2F2ejPONTwmCCC_7QIM0Ow #/registration

Check out my new article on Leadership Inc. on “Shifting from Victimhood to Responsibility”:

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STOP Managing Your Emotions!

Have you tried Emotional Intelligence training or a Mindfulness App in hopes that this would lower your stress, reduce conflict, and increase accountability?

If yes, you've likely seen that these techniques HAVE reduced stress and conflict BUT have also LOWERED accountability and performance. Interpreted correctly, emotions improve performance. Frustration fuels innovation. Anxiety enhances risk awareness. Guilt drives accountability.

Unfortunately, most people make two costly mistakes:

They misattribute emotions to events and circumstances (“He made me angry”), which locks them into a victim mindset.

They try to regulate their emotions instead of decoding them—suppressing the very signals designed to improve performance.

The truth is simple:
Regulating emotions reduces stress and conflict - but LOWERS performance and accountability.

Decoding emotions transforms stress into creativity, conflict into collaboration, and blame into accountability - while RAISING performance.

Want to learn how leading organizations are applying this breakthrough?

To learn more- check out

Introducing ERA — Institute for Adaptive Mastery STOP Managing Your Emotions!Have you provided your leaders with Emotional Intelligence training or a Mindfulness App in hopes that this would lower their stress, reduce conflict, and increase accountability?If yes, you've likely seen that these techniques HAVE reduced stress and conflict BUT have al...

Good article on career shifts.

This is how Gen Z is 'AI-proofing' their careers It’s about agility, foresight, and the humility to change course before it’s too late

Emotional Response-Ability® (ERA) is new!

I use and teach a novel, breakthrough process called Emotional Response-Ability® (ERA). Charles Jones and I have been training executives and co-teaching workshops in the Federal Government and private sector with great success. ERA is a framework for transforming stress into creativity, conflict into collaboration, and victimhood into ownership. Founded on the revolutionary insight that emotions originate in subconscious needs, ERA equips leaders to harness every emotion to increase their effectiveness.
To learn more, here is a one-page introduction with some additional resources: https://www.adaptivemastery.com/thlanding

I invite you to watch a free access, video presentation on the Emotional Response-Ability® methodology.
You can watch this 90-minute webinar in which Charles Jones walks attendees through the ERA process for turning stress into creativity:
https://adaptivemastery.mykajabi.com/offers/KKMofPY7/checkout

I want to offer you a complimentary, individual training session to experience the Emotional Response-Ability® methodology yourself. My calendar availability is online at https://my.timetrade.com/book/7LHTL if you would like to schedule a 60-minute time slot that works for us both.

I have found the ERA process life-changing and a fresh look at leadership development through this lens.

Also, check out the book: Emotional Intelligence for Stress-free Leadership: Turn Emotional Pain into Performance Gain with the TENOR Method – May 18, 2020 by Charles M Jones (Author), Jim Knickerbocker Ph.D. (Author).

My favorite innovative tool/methodology for using emotions more effectively to increase performance is Emotional Response-Ability ™ (a.k.a. TENOR), created by Charles Jones.

Charles Jones and I have been co-teaching workshops in the Federal Government and private sector. https://terryhildebrandt.com/tenor-method/

Also, check out the book: Emotional Intelligence for Stress-free Leadership: Turn Emotional Pain into Performance Gain with the TENOR Method – May 18, 2020 by Charles M Jones (Author), Jim Knickerbocker Ph.D. (Author).

Charles is offering a new cohort of virtual training for coaches and leaders. The next cohort of Coaching with Emotional Response-Ability launches on April 1. https://vimeo.com/919818795/64528c458d?share=copy

What you'll learn in our course for coaches and managers This is "What you'll learn in our course for coaches and managers" by Charles M. Jones on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who…

I highly recommend this article about stress and painful emotions. It also includes info about a free webinar on the topic.

Frustration Is Part of Life but Stress Is Optional Alex, a middle manager at a large corporation, recently asked me: “Can you show me how to make my frustration go away - once and for all?” I replied: “Why in the world would you want to do that?” Alex: “Because it’s stressing me out. I was stressed out before COVID but now it’s worse.