Leadership Programs

Masterful coaches build confidence, enable others to tap their talents, and unleash discretionary effort. Hopefully, you’ve experienced the power of a masterful coach at least once in your life. For example, when in the presence of your coach, you probably felt very special, as if you were the most important person in the world. Chances are, this person believed in you much more than you believed in yourself—and this belief enabled you to accomplish much more than you could have on your own.

Deb’s doctoral research found that Masterful Coaches do 4 things really well. They have:

1. Mastered Core Coaching Competencies
2. Mastered Themselves
3. Cultivated Specific Personality Qualities
4. Built Strong Relationships with their Clients

We’ve boiled this down into an action-oriented 1 day or 2 day workshop. You will have an opportunity to step back and assess your bench strength, explore new ways to tap talent, identify what your players need and want most, and develop a plan to give it to them. This process will enable you to re-recruit your best players and confront your poor performers in a way that maintains integrity for you as the leader, and the dignity and respect of each member of your team. It will teach you the skills you need to become a masterful coach and inspire others to be their best. It’s loaded with engaging interactive exercises and lots of opportunity to practice in a safe friendly environment.

We have found that most leaders are only accessing a fraction of their full potential. What if your leaders could tap just 10, 20 or 30% more? What could happen if you gave your leaders “The Leadership Advantage”? To their performance? To the performance of their direct reports? To your company’s performance?

“The Leadership Advantage” is an intensive highly structured, yet deeply personalized six month leadership development program that artfully blends training, the power of individual coaching, and on-the-job assignments to hardwire new behaviors. Benefits of our unique development approach include:

• Building knowledge of your company’s core leadership competencies via virtual training
• Transfer of training into behaviors and results on the job via individual coaching (We hardwire new habits)
• Focus on individual development goals outside core leadership competencies via individual coaching
• Highly affordable price

This program includes:

• Individual Assessments: Personality, top talents, energy, and mindset
• Three Leadership Training Webinars or three half-day sessions delivered in person. Each session includes pre-work (case studies, articles, books and/or assessments) and action learning assignments to hard-wire new behaviors. Topics for sessions are based on your company’s specific needs. You can choose from over a dozen topics.
• Six one-on-one Coaching Sessions Building an Extreme Team ®
• Coach-on-Call Services: Each participant has access to the coach via just-in-time short conversations between regularly scheduled coaching sessions to share a win, debrief an upset or use the coach as a sounding board.
• Status Reporting. The program includes regular status reporting for all participants.

These components work together to provide a uniquely customized and effective leadership development experience at a highly affordable price point.

What do today’s workers want most? Believe it or not, money is the not their primary motivator. Recent research conducted by Gallup and others consistently indicates that the top three things employees want most are:

• A manager who has strong interpersonal skills and genuinely cares about employees as a person
• Development, training, coaching, praise and stretch assignments
• The tools and technology they need to do their jobs

This 1 or 2-day workshop, followed by four months of executive coaching, focuses on inspiring others to excel and deals exclusively with the human side of leadership and building strong people skills. It begins with the Leadership Challenge 360º Assessment This assessment measures leadership effectiveness on five key dimensions: Inspiring a Shared Vision, Challenging the Process, Encouraging the Heart, Enabling Others to Act and Modeling the Way. Each participant receives a personalized feedback report, which is analyzed prior to the session as well as in group activities and engaging exercises. Participants then develop detailed action plans to leverage strengths and address development opportunities.

This workshop is followed by four months of executive coaching to ensure that participants reach their goals and hardwire new leadership behaviors. Participants emerge from the training and coaching with markedly improved people skills and the ability to inspire others to achieve extraordinary results.

Research by Daniel Goleman and others has consistently demonstrated that Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is a better predictor of success than IQ. Why? Because, at a certain level in any organization, IQ becomes a commodity—it’s the price of admission to the game. However, EQ can actually determine your ultimate success as a leader, including your ability to get things done by delegating to people in a way that makes them excited to perform for you. The good news is, unlike IQ, which is relatively fixed from birth, EQ can be learned.

EQ—the ability to understand what we are feeling and what causes us to feel that way—enables us to choose our actions more wisely, and without damaging important relationships. This workshop is especially beneficial for leaders who are hardwired Type A’s (hard-driving, fast-paced, results-oriented individuals who tend to hold themselves and others to very high standards) whose impatience, frustration and negative emotional states impede their ability to get great results through others.

Prior to the 2-day workshop, each participant takes the BarOn Emotional Quotient^® Assessment and receives a comprehensive report and individual feedback session. Areas of strength are noted and strategies for development are discussed. Participants learn and practice the skills needed to improve competence in the five factors that comprise Emotional Intelligence:

• Self-Awareness
• Self -Management
• Interpersonal Relationships
• Decision Making
• Stress Management

World-class athletes perform well under pressure. In fact, the best ones actually enjoy it. What’s interesting is that many executives let the pressure of having to win actually get in the way of winning. They choke.

In this two-day workshop, we’ll explore what success looks like for you and what’s keeping you from it. Things like self-doubt, self-limiting beliefs, perfectionism, procrastination, impatience, burn-out, fear of success, fear of failure or just hanging out in your comfort zone. We’ll work with you to figure out the ways in which you’re limiting yourself—then, we’ll help you get out of your own way. This workshop will help you to:

Eliminate Interference

• Reduce negative emotions and negative self-talk
• Overcome fears and self-limiting beliefs
• Break habits that hold you back including perfectionism, workaholism and procrastination

Develop New Abilities

• Learn to focus, center yourself and access inner stillness
• Visualize success
• Detach from the outcome

Practice, Practice, Practice

• Find a sustainable pace for success
• Exercise new habits and behaviors
• Taper before a big event—rest and relax in order to excel