Services
We provide leadership and career assessments, coaching, training, and keynote speakers on a variety of topics.
What We Do
We offer leadership, team, and personal assessment and development. For leaders and teams, we assess to determine whether a person or team has the right knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics to succeed in the job and organizational culture. We coach and train leaders to help them succeed once they are there. For professionals, parents, and teens, we help people discover what strengths and interests they have to select a career and we help younger people develop the life skills to succeed at work and life.
FOR ORGANIZATIONS
Leadership & Team Assessment
Hiring, Promoting, Developing
Do you need to hire good leaders or executives and make sure they’re the right fit for the organization? Do you want to develop a leadership succession plan? Do you want to assess your own leadership skills?
Leadership & Team Development
Coaching, Training, Teambuilding
Are you new to management? Have you gotten feedback that you need to improve your influencing skills or be more sensitive to others? Do you have anyone on your team who is alienating customers, clients, or teammates?
For Individuals
Career Coaching
Do you want to pick a college major, start a new career or make a change? Do you want to know whether a new career will be a good fit before starting over from scratch? Do you need help finding the right job?
REAL Life Coaching
Are you looking for tools to reduce your overwhelm as a parent? Do you want to empower your teen to build their confidence, be able to try new things, and bounce back from mistakes?
Leadership & Team Assessment
Leadership Assessment
Leaders and professionals may be assessed individually or in groups, at their office or off-site, with as few or as many assessment methods is deemed appropriate. We conduct individual assessments in person or on-line, using a variety of reliable, valid assessment instruments and techniques. Contact us to see which of our individual or team assessment packages fits your needs.
Assessment Areas
• Leadership Capability
• Critical Thinking Ability
• Emotional Intelligence
• Personality
• Work Style
• Presentation Skills
• Influencing Skills
• Communication Skills
• Business Acumen
• Self-Awareness
• Career Interests
Career Coaching
Using select personality and occupational interest assessment instruments, a career coach helps you become more self-aware and explore different career choices. You may choose to assess your abilities in different areas as well.
The career coach can help you put together a development plan to prepare for the career you want to have. The career coach may also advise you on resume writing, provide job searching resources, practice interviewing, and even connect you to existing job opportunities.
Contact us to see which of our career coaching packages fits your needs.
Leadership & Team Development
Leadership Development: Individual and Group Coaching
We offer a variety of in-person and virtual coaching options to suit your needs. You choose the coach who best fits with your learning style and who has expertise in the specific area(s) you want to develop from our selection of professional coaches. Contact us for profiles of coaches who match your needs.
Some of our programs include:
Targeted Leadership Coaching
If you have a specific need, you may choose an area of focus from our development toolkit, such as influencing, motivating, communicating, emotional intelligence, empathy, conflict management, and performance management. Work with a leadership coach to develop your skills in that area.
Strengths-Based Leadership Coaching
Identify your unique talents and apply them to your specific leadership context using the Gallup CliftonStrengths assessment instrument with a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach. Research shows there are many paths to leadership success and your natural talents can get you there if you know how to focus them.
Mental Fitness for Leaders
Develop better habits and calm the negative voices in your head that keep you from performing at your best using the Positive Intelligence assessment. Work with a mental fitness coach to reduce your stress, disappointment, self-doubt, regret, anger, shame, guilt, and worry and increase your empathy, gratitude, curiosity, creativity, and self-confidence to take calm, clear-headed, laser-focused action.
REAL Life Coaching
REAL LIFE PROGRAMS
Parents and youth may choose between one-on-one coaching or group coaching, and single or multi-session packages. Since many parents and youth like to work in groups, we offer parent workshops, teen workshops, and parent and teen workshops for groups of five or more.
Some of our programs include:
• Targeted Life Skills Coaching
• Strengths-Based Life Coaching
• Mental Fitness for Parents (or Teens)
Targeted Life Skills Coaching
If you have a specific need, you may choose an area of focus from our development toolkit, such as influencing, motivating, communicating, emotional intelligence, empathy, conflict management, and performance management. Work with a life coach to develop your skills in that area.
Strengths-Based Life Coaching
Identify your unique talents and apply them to your life using the Gallup CliftonStrengths assessment instrument with a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach. Research shows there is not one single path to success; there are many! You and your natural talents can get you where you want to go if you know how to focus them.
Mental Fitness for Parents (or Teens)
We all have inner saboteurs that, when activated, stop us from being productive and caring for others. Shirzad Shamine’s research shows that certain simple, proven techniques will help you quiet your negative inner voices and take control with your calm, laser-focused mind to take a more constructive, caring, positive approach to parenting. Mental fitness can be extremely powerful for teens too. Choose to work one-on-one with a Mental Fitness coach or join a group to improve your mental fitness together.
Are You A Non-Profit or Small Business?
Ask about our non-profit and small business discounts.
We offer great value and expertise for non-profits and small businesses.
Hiring and Succession Planning
When you are making hiring and promotion decisions, you need to use objective, unbiased, and legally defensible tools to assess your candidates. At the highest levels of the organization, it is also critical to get the right leaders in who will put the well-being of the organization first, build strong relationships, and make sound business decisions.
Leadership Workshops
Workshops are engaging, interactive, targeted short courses in which participants immediately apply what they learn, and they leave with tools and techniques they can immediately use at work. Workshops can be offered in person as half-day or full-day classes or online in 90-minute or 2-hour segments. Workshop curricula may be designed to include multiple workshops offered consecutively for an intensive training experience or spread out periodically over weeks or months for ongoing development. We work with you to design the optimal experience for participants to learn, build a support network of peers, and enjoy the process.
Workshops Focusing on Self
- Discovering and Developing Your Leadership Strengths
- Building Mental Fitness to Overcome Leadership Challenges
- Developing Your Leadership Effectiveness from 360-Degree Feedback
Workshops Focusing on Getting Things Done
- Strategies for Effective Time Management
- Performance Management and Accountability
- Facilitating Productive Meetings
Workshops Focusing on Others
- Leading Strengths Based Teams
- Managing Different Personalities Using DISC, Myers Briggs, Big Five, or Hogan
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Polishing Communication and Interpersonal Skills
- Optimizing Conflict
- Leading Your Team Through Change
- Teaming for Success and a Positive Work Environment
- Building and Maintaining Trust in Your Organization
Targeted Training for Specific Populations and Leadership Challenges
- Managing Remote and Hybrid Teams
- Uniting Your Multi-Generational Teams
- People Strategies for Technical People
- Success Strategies for Women Leaders
- Implementing Human Centered AI
Additional Training Programs
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Hiring and Interviewing
- Reinventing Yourself After 50
- Career Management
- Life Skills
- Contact Us For Additional Offerings
Keynote Speakers
Many of our consultants are also keynote speakers. If you are looking for an engaging presentation on a timely topic for a business meeting, retreat, or conference, schedule an appointment to learn about our options.
