WORKSHOPS + SPEAKING

The Human Dimension of Business Workshops

“We” Mastery: The Courageous Communicator

Focused on team dynamics, especially around how to manage conflict and have difficult conversations. Emphasis will be on the 5 essential habits for creating strong relationships:

  • Responsibility. Each person takes 100% responsibility for choosing one’s response
  • Curiosity. Being genuinely curious about how others see things differently
  • Integrity. Being committed to living one’s values above all
  • Candor. Speaking up with both honesty and kindness
  • Commitments. Impeccably coordinating WHO is going to do WHAT by WHEN

 

“I” Mastery: Essential Habits for Happiness and High Performance

Focused on individual wellbeing, how to get you and your team to show up as your/their best Selves:

  • Body: Healthy habits regarding sleep, food, and fitness
  • Mind: Healthy habits regarding focused attention/not multitasking
  • Heart:  Emotional resiliency, managing one’s own mood regardless of circumstance
  • Soul: The deep satisfaction that comes from being able to say, “This is the life I mean to be living.”

Team Development + Facilitation

  • Surfacing “undiscussables”
  • Facilitating difficult conversations
  • Building a true sense of trust and solidarity among team members
  • Aligning team on vision and strategy

 

Process:

  • Interviews to uncover gaps on levels of I/We/It
  • 1 or 2-day workshops presenting most relevant teaching given the gaps of the team
  • Follow-up coaching and facilitating to land the change

Speaking

30, 60, and 90-minute keynotes on:

  • “I’d Like Your Unbiased and Possibly Career-Ending Opinion”:  Speaking Up Honestly Without Losing Your Job or Inspiring Your Employee to Quit
  • Success Beyond Success: A Life of Freedom and Productivity through Commitment to Values
  • Set a Timer and Eat that Frog: The 7 Essentials of Personal Productivity

COACHING

Is this you?

“My CFO [my board, my employees, my mother], drives me crazy, and dramatically decreases the quality of my life.”

“I know I am good at what I do.  I get a ton done.  Getting stuff done is easy, but humans are hard. I want better relationships, and I want to be able to inspire my team.”

“What used to feel right – work, relationships, and life in general – doesn’t any more. I need a major life re-haul.”

“I live in a constant state of overwhelm. There is too much to do, not enough time to do it, and not enough time left over for the things I know in my heart are most important.”

Here’s what we can do together:

  • Visioning and goal setting. Thinking big picture about where you are, what you are doing, how you are feeling, and where you want to be, what you want to do, how you want to feel instead. Creating a plan for how to get there.
  • Growing through and transforming difficult relationships. People you experience as difficult are your greatest teachers. First they’ll drive you crazy, and then they’ll enlighten you.
  • Planning and practicing difficult conversations. Learning to communicate with kindness and candor, and to listen well. Creating teams and organizational cultures where kindness, candor, and listening well is the standard.
  • Knowing and living your values no matter what. Making your life a stand for what you most believe, especially in times of adversity.
  • Learning to manage stress and avoid burnout.  There is such a thing as simplicity on the other side of complexity.  Finding it, and making your home there. Creating teams and cultures where individuals know how to manage stress and avoid burnout.
  • Stopping bad habits, developing good habits.  That thing you say you are going to start doing and make a habit? It really will change your life. (Examples: Sleeping 7-8 hours a night, eating well, exercising, setting aside time for focused attention, setting aside designated email time (rather than answering email all day) practicing gratitude, regularly expressing appreciation, and using your calendar to schedule time for what is most important, at work and outside of work.)
  • Shining a light on your blind spots. Do you know what the people closest to you would say about your leadership?  Why not find out?
  • Learning to manage your mood no matter what. Freedom from the misconception that bad events must cause bad moods. You chose your mood regardless of outer circumstances.
  • Applying the 80/20 Principle to business + life.  What 20% of your business + life is creating 80% of the results + joy? How to do more of that, less of the other.
  • Discovering your “type.” Examining the glasses through which you see the world, and understanding how others see the world differently. All types have range. Learn what yours is at its best (and worst). (Myers Briggs, Hogan, the Enneagram)
  • In a nutshell: Building and designing a life and business YOU LOVE.

My ideal client:

  • You are a CEO or senior executive.
  • You value independence and freedom, and are considered by others to be somewhat unconventional.
  • You have a strong interest in personal development.
  • You have spiritual inclinations. More questions than answers, but have experienced real awe and wonder.
  • You are the same person at home and work, or want to be. You value authenticity.
  • You are willing to spill your guts. As in, talk about how you are really doing, what bugs the sh*t out of you, what you really, really care about and what you really, really want.

What does it look like?

6 month engagement:

  • Personal assessment: 50 question bio form
  • 360 degree feedback: Interviews with those closest to you to discover strengths and weaknesses
  • Debrief and plan for strategy and outcomes
  • 2 day retreat in Boulder, CO
  • 6 months of bi-weekly coaching with email support in between