We help individuals in your organization increase their personal effectiveness, assume new responsibilities in leading others, and create an organizational tone that evokes focused and deliberate action. We develop people through personal coaching, seminars, and learning teams that consciously integrate reflection with skill building and organizational project work.

Developing Personal Mastery

We work with individuals to first deepen their understanding of what is really important to them – their values and what they want to create. We then support them to do both the outer and inner work necessary to be successful. Outer work begins with clarifying the supporting factors in their environment and the external obstacles they must overcome. Inner work entails helping people appreciate and build on their strengths, as well as identifying how they get in their own way and reduce their effectiveness. Based on these insights, we support people to undertake a range of experiments in thinking and acting differently, and to learn from both successes and failures.

Balancing Leadership Capabilities

Leaders are expected to meet a variety of conflicting demands, such as envisioning future possibilities while getting immediate results, or being strategic while connecting closely with a wide variety of people. Because they are often selected for their strengths in one or two areas, leaders frequently find it challenging to demonstrate the full range of competencies they need to be successful. We help leaders identify competence and develop flexibility in: mobilizing commitment, thinking strategically, building relationships, and focusing action.

Building Order Out of Chaos

One component of balanced leadership is the ability to sustain an organizational tone of focused and deliberate action in an increasingly chaotic world. Both through personal coaching and in-house workshops, we help leaders set the tone for their organization by learning to:

People work through the method to becoming truly organized that is described in the book, It’s Hard to Make a Difference When You Can’t Find Your Keys by Marilyn Paul, Ph.D. (www.marilynpaul.com)