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INDIVIDUAL COACHING

I have worked with countless professionals over the years, partnering with them to help figure out priorities, set goals and take action using techniques that actually work!

As your coach, I use my many years of corporate experience along with proven coaching techniques to team up with you and find the best course towards your desired outcome. I rely on time-tested principles and science to help frame your situation, listen, discover and understand. Together, we carefully determine how to proceed in order to get you where you want to be.

Here are just some of the things we could potentially work on together:

  • Defining personal or professional goals and sticking to them.
  • Working with “difficult” colleagues.
  • Learning and trying new personal organization, time management or productivity strategies.
  • Overcoming fears that inhibit taking action. Bolstering confidence.
  • Exploring career options; interview practice; résumé assistance.
  • Meeting commitments and dealing with feeling overwhelmed.
  • Defining success. Learning from failure. Celebrating outcomes regardless.

INDIVIDUAL COACHING FOR (NEW OR NOT-SO NEW) TECH OR DIGITAL PRODUCT LEADERS

Are you a technology leader who could benefit from the attention, guidance and coaching of an industry veteran? I bring decades of experience in building and leading technology teams to each session.

Together, we work to understand what type of leader you want to be (or what type of leader you are best cut out to be,) and identify specific behaviors that you can incorporate into your daily work environment. “Leaders aren’t born, they’re made,” so whether you’re new to leadership or further along on the ladder, working with a coach can help you learn or hone the skills you need to be successful.

Here are just some of the things we could potentially work on together:

  • “Getting going” in a new role after a promotion.
  • Facilitating process change.
  • Working through structural or management changes at your company.
  • The best ways to build “high performing teams.”
  • Embracing and improving “executive presence.”
  • Hiring the best new team member(s).
  • Working with feedback.
  • Dealing with conflict, motivation or other trouble spots on the team.
  • Defining success. Learning from failure. Celebrating outcomes regardless.

INDIVIDUAL COACHING FOR TEAMS

In this model, I work individually with contributors who are on the same team or project squad on both individual and project-related goals. This approach has been proven to work very well in environments that use Agile methodologies, since Agile projects create somewhat of a matrix structure that can, at times, leave individual contributors to manage relationships with their own line managers, product owners, scrum masters or project managers, as well as peers on their team or squad. Quite often, minor process adjustments that can only come about by seeing the big picture, can help optimize getting to desired outcomes more successfully. Other issues such as providing and receiving feedback, understanding personal accountability, dealing with trust and conflict and working on personal career goals are commonly addressed during these coaching conversations. There is efficiency gained in having a coach who has broader understanding of the environment and organization and who can see patterns that have developed or could potentially develop. There is also opportunity for the coach to work with leadership on a consultative basis to help improve the organization on a holistic level. These programs are highly customizable based on the organization’s particular needs.

WORKSHOPS & CORPORATE TRAINING

Self-awareness and Communication

This workshop guides participants on a path of heightened self-awareness and personal discovery by leveraging the DISC assessment. This workshop can reveal each participant’s unique behavioral style blend and “how to” apply that knowledge prescriptively, boosting communication effectiveness. Studies indicate that 92% of workplace conflict is the result of misunderstanding and communication breakdowns. Entire organizations can apply DISC’s prescriptive lessons of behavioral adaptability to reduce employee conflict and turnover, increase productivity, and optimize team performance.

Transitioning to Leadership

Our strongest relationships are rooted in trust. Unsurprisingly, an organization’s most critical relationships exist between its leaders and individual contributors. Participants in this workshop learn to create an environment of leadership influence rooted in trust – through communication, credibility and confidence. Leaders will explore the impact their leadership style has on others, through participatory activities and reviewing practical examples. Learned best-practices include the importance of excellent listening as a leader, creating an environment of accountability and identifying individual versus team needs. By remaining behaviorally conscious of the leadership roles and responsibilities which ultimately foster trusting relationships, organizations can create a working environment that’s fertile for growth, retention and expansion.

Making Teams Work

Creating and leading highly effective teams is challenging. This workshop will instill participants with the skills, strategies and tools to create teams that gel and excel. During this skill-building course, workshop participants will learn how to assemble teams based on complementary behavioral styles, in order to enhance communication, cooperation and project-based outcomes. Participants will learn how to distinguish among varying workplace attitudes and behaviors, utilizing the remarkably insightful DISC Team Dynamics report. Additionally, participants will learn about “team norms” and emotional intelligence competencies that can make the difference between a team that people are proud to be a part of and a team that spins its wheels and underperforms.

Sales Optimization

It’s a well established fact that buyers are more likely to do business with sales professionals they can relate and identify with. In this workshop, participants start by completing the DISC assessment and receiving their 40+ page PDF report. Participants will learn about the basics of DISC: first understanding their own behavioral styles and then how to identify the behavioral styles of others – even within moments of meeting them. Being able to efficiently identify the behavioral styles of others, empowers professionals with the insights to adapt their communicative “selling style”, to meet the communicative “buying style” of their prospect. But as any seasoned sales professional will tell you, winning a new client is really just the beginning of the professional selling process. Building and maintaining your relationships is critical for sustained, reciprocal sales success. So participants will also learn how to strengthen these relationships, in order to transform buyers into brand advocates.