Our Approach

What is it that makes our approach work for you?

Our approach is innovative and holistic, based on a model that accelerates learning and has brought extraordinary results to teams and individuals. Hallmarks of our work using this model are:

Organizational development is the development of the individual. Each person has the inner, creative power to affect their team and beyond. Group collaboration is dynamic – and alignment with the organization is possible – when individuals’ thoughts, feelings, intuition, and actions are in alignment.

Each person is the source of his or her own insights. We know that each person has their own best answers. In our training and in our coaching, we elicit from the participants or the client their own acquisition of the material, their own wisdom.

We share our experience, our knowledge, strategies, practices, and processes. We offer the experiences of others we have coached, facilitated, and learned from. We may even make suggestions. But we know – as recent brain research is demonstrating – that when a person comes to their own insight, it is a powerful experience that has greater potential to lead to lasting change.

We combine inspiration and practicality. Motivation comes from outside and inspiration comes from within. Our intention is to foster inspiration – inspired thinking, inspired action, and inspired collaboration. We combine inspiration with practices for mastery.

Everything we do offers the opportunity to increase mastery in knowledge, skills, and mindset. We do this by engaging our clients’ multiple intelligences to integrate the learning of new knowledge, new skills, and new ways of thinking.

We get people out of their seats, and we keep the learning alive. All of our training has experiential components designed to engage multiple intelligences. People really integrate learning and achieve accountability after training. Learning begins before a training session and continues after the group time is complete.

We focus on what is working. We have learned that “what we focus on expands.” So we focus on people’s strengths. We focus on what’s working in any situation. We look for what’s right and we build on that. And we teach our clients how to adopt a focus that can improve any circumstance.

We engage in the deeper conversation. In our coaching especially, and in our training as well, we are adept at gently leading people to more depth than they generally find the time or space for in their professional lives.

If these tenets speak to you. . .

  • read about our services, including the Leadership Mastery Modules here.
     
  • click here to download a copy of the Standards of Presence: Group Guidelines, which we use in our training sessions.
     
  • click here to make an appointment for a telephone consultation.

To learn more about the Inspired Learning Model, visit the Foundation for Inspired Learning at www.inspiredlearning.org. Because of our deep appreciation for the Inspired Learning Model, each year we donate a percentage of our profits to the Foundation.



Our Values

  • Vision - seeing everything as possible
     
  • Power - creating fulfillment and prosperity for all; tapping inner resourcefulness
     
  • Expansion - ever learning, developing, and evolving
     
  • Ease - moving forward with ease
     
  • Love - living acceptance and compassion for ourselves and others
     
  • Joy - delighting in all things

Return on Investment

In a study by MetricGlobal, coaching was shown to produce a 529% return on investment and significant intangible benefits to the business. Including financial benefits from employee retention, coaching boosted the overall ROI to 788%. Read more in The Business Case for Coaching.

In a study on the effects of coaching, the authors found that while their training intervention with managers increased manager productivity by 22.4%, adding one-to-one coaching support with the training pushed productivity to 88%.

[Oliver, G., Bane., and Kopelman, R.E. (Winter, 1997) Executive coaching as a transfer of training tool: Effects on productivity in a public agency. Public Personnel Management, 26,4,461-469].