Customized Executive Coaching Workshops and Teleclasses

We design our workshops with the requirements of specific audiences in mind, and will tailor content to meet the requirements of your organization to ensure relevance and value. We are willing to consider offering some titles as telecourses.

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Please contact us by calling or emailing for a schedule and a price list for each course listed below.

Leader and Manager Development

Foreign National Leaders: Explore how your cultural heritage affects your career in an American Corporation and how that may be helping, and hurting, your career growth (6 hours)
Wisdom and Leadership: Rarely are the smartest people the top leaders, so we can assume that there is something in addition to intellect that creates great leaders. In this class we will explore wisdom’s role in the modern corporation and how to leverage your wisdom for success (5 hours)
Executive Presence: Explore the nature of your individual experiences, body and behavior, culture and relationships, and processes and systems to identify, understand and strengthen your “presence” as an executive. (6 hours)
From Fear to Personal Power: Understanding and working with basic human fears, their underlying messages, compensating behaviors, avoidance strategies and the price they exact on your success. (6 hours)
Coaching High-Potential Employees: Examine coaching and mentoring strategies to ensure the success of your organization’s best and brightest. (4 hours)
Using Assessments to Hire, Grow and Retain the Best Talent: Learn how to use state-of-the-art assessment tools to align recruiting, retention, and development efforts for your organization. (6 hours)
Competence, Compassion, and Courage: How to develop and exhibit these leadership qualities so that you are fully present to the challenges and rewards of your leadership role. This program teaches you to engage your whole person as a leader: head, heart and being. (6 hours)
The Art of Influence: How to lead and influence others who have no direct reporting relationship to you. Learn how to advocate through the power of ideas and the power of passion, how to engage key stakeholders at critical moments, how to move the project to completion with collaboration. (4 hours)

Building Strong and Effective Teams

Managing through Transition and Change: Create a map for transition that acknowledges losses and builds on what worked, outline the desired end state, and design a path to move you and your team in steps that get you across the chasm. (hours dependent on number of participants and scope of change)
Coaching Teams to Synergy and Success using the Enneagram: An overview of each type, with time spent in more detail on the team member specific enneatypes to enhance team communication and align work style preferences. Explore the unique team member strengths and how the team strengths align with leadership categories of execution, influencing, building relationships, and strategy. (hours dependent on number of team members and unique styles represented)
Using Our Strengths to Build Effective Teams: Explore the unique team member strengths and how the team strengths align with leadership categories of execution, influencing, building relationships, and strategy, and ways to increase the use of team members’ strengths. (hours dependent on number of participants)
Overcoming Resistance to Change in Self and in Organizations: Learn to transform individual beliefs and collective mind sets in organizations that keep lasting change at bay. (6 hours)
From “Top Dog” to “Top Coach”: Learn ways to shift your leadership style from “Expert” Leader to “People” Leader – focused on engaging and coaching your team so that each member is making BIG contributions and feeling great about themselves and fellow team members. (6 hours)
The Power of Feedback: Discover the critical role that timely, effective feedback plays in the development of your team and the accomplishment of team goals. Learn how to provide feedback that is honest, brief, and respectful. (4 hours)

Communication Skills

Your Brand Management: Identify ways to manage your “brand” with leaders, peers, and subordinates to build relationships, gain greater responsibility, and hire top talent (4 hours)
Non-Violent Communication – The Language of the Heart: Learn the skills of “compassionate communication,” tying feelings to needs, and advocating for your needs, while honoring the feelings and needs of others. This work will change the quality of your relationships forever. (6 hours or 12 hours)
Making Skillful Requests and Acknowledgments: Learn the difference between a request and a demand as well as between a compliment and an acknowledgment. How to use requests and acknowledgments to enrich interactions, engender trust, and model clear and effective communication. (2 hours)
Conscious Communication: Response Vs. Reaction: Learn how to respond with reflection and inclusion instead of negative interpretation, judgment and emotional reaction under stress or difficulty. (4 hours)
Powerful Conversations for Possibility, Action, and Relationship: Learn the specific skills required to design effective conversations that open possibilities, inspire action and strengthen relationships. (3 hours)
The Power of Authentic Dialogue: Learn ways to engage others in meaningful two-way conversation in place of telling, demanding, or blaming by learning to listen and speak in the language of human feelings and needs. Understand the impact of the stories and versions of reality we create and their potential negative impact on others and desired outcomes. (4 hours)
Invitation to a Spirited Life: Explore techniques to increase your sense of belonging, enhance your ability to contribute and increase your experience of meaning as you connect with the great web of life. (Check your “raspberry” at the door) (6 or 12 hours)
Conscious Convening- Transforming Your Conversations, Meetings, Gatherings: Learn to facilitate conversations and meetings that stimulate innovation and creativity while engaging the highest potential of the group. (6 hours)
Working and Living On Purpose: Rediscover the power of purpose at all life stages, and it's implications for workplace satisfaction and success. (6 hours)
Speaking Ourselves into the World: Exploring the Speech Acts of Assertions, Assessments, Declarations, Promises and Offers as tools for possibility. (6 hours)
Energetic Presence: Discover the type of energy you exude in the world and how this energy enables you to connect with others, lead with authority, and move forward with purpose. (4 hours)

Understanding Personalities and Styles

Introduction to the Enneagram: An overview of the nine personality types, paths of integration, and tendencies under stress. (2 – 3 hours)
The Enneagram: A Transformational Tool for Leadership: Learn how to apply the strengths and recognize the potential obstacles for each enneatype’s leadership style. (up to 18 hours, depending on total types covered)
The Enneagram: Communication and Coping Styles: Learn how each personality type meets their social needs, reacts under difficulty, communication preferences, how we look for autonomy, security, and attachment, and ways each type can respond to life more effectively. (6 hours)
Coaching Teams to Synergy and Success using the Enneagram: An overview of each type, with time spent in more detail on the team member specific enneatypes to enhance team communication and align work style preferences. Explore the unique team member strengths and how the team strengths align with leadership categories of execution, influencing, building relationships, and strategy. (hours dependent on number of team members and unique styles represented)
Self-limiting Behavior Patterns and What to Do About Them: Each of us has vestiges of “younger” aspects of our personalities embedded in our way of being. Learn how to tell when these younger aspects are undermining your wise adult self in the workplace, and how to reclaim your sense of choice, power and effectiveness. (4 hours)

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