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Choose coaching — The path to professional success
Are you ready to achieve your professional vision?
Are you frustrated by your inability to accomplish your goals?
Do you experience difficulty in motivating your employees?
Is a new supervisory/team leader assignment challenging you?
Does working through others make it difficult to get the job done?
Would coaching support you to implement new business learning into your workplace?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, contact us to discuss the possibilities for growth that coaching offers you.
Coaching Methodology
Using the comprehensive Adler International Learning—Coaching for Positive Change Methodology—our coaching model encompasses the goals of coaching, the process used and personal growth. See Coaching Methodology.
Advantages of Coaching to You
- Coaching is about relationship, conversation and results.
- Coaching is all about your agenda.
- You and your coach work together to achieve your goals.
- Your strengths, creativity and resourcefulness are the raw materials for the process.
- Your coach is a sounding board for your ideas and strategies.
- Your coach holds you accountable for your progress.
- Coaching builds skills for use in all areas of your life.
For those who have chosen the coaching path, the results they have achieved include:
- Clarity of intent and purpose in their workplace,
- Increased confidence as leader,
- New communication skills to apply in achieving their goals,
- Focused time to investigate leadership strategies—and engaged commitment to apply,
- Greater awareness of self.
The format of these series is regularly scheduled, monthly, facilitated sessions that provide a collegial environment to learn more about a variety of topics. Topics are presented through informal presentations and supportive group coaching. Individual coaching conversations are provided between each session to support the success of Dialogue commitments in the workplace. Dialogues broaden participants’ workplace understanding through lively interaction with others, thereby building a valuable peer leadership network.
Leadership Dialogues - Leadership Through Communication - New!
Leadership is defined as: The art of mobilizing others to want to struggle for shared aspirations.
In our leadership role, we must interact with people to achieve our business goals. The team moves forward, it wanders or it gets stuck. As leaders, our job is to model the behaviours which support everyone to achieve the business vision. This Leadership Dialogue focuses on the ways we communicate ? the way we think about working with others, the way we actually interact with others, the choices we have in our conversations with others, the way our assumptions support or sabotage our messages.
- Communicating with Excellence
- The Listener Mindset
- Active Listening
- The Role of Learner Questions
- Assumptions
- Choice
- Wrap Up
Participate in this Leadership Dialogue with a group of peer leaders in business and investigate ways you can develop, enhance and encourage valuable conversation and communication within your team.
Leadership Dialogues
Leadership Dialogues offer a unique leadership training approach for managers and supervisors. They are based on a model of leadership that contains five key practices, which every manager or leader can incorporate into team relationships: Modeling, Visioning, Challenging, Enabling and Encouraging.
Using this leadership development approach, companies will see improved relationships among team members, increased productivity and reduced attrition. These practices create valuable connections with people that help get the job done, and done more effectively.
Some benefits are:
- Personalized model, more in-depth practice leading to deeper understanding and clarity.
- Support for each person and their learning.
- Small group discussion: source of ideas, support, a sounding board.
- Recognition that many challenges are common across workplaces.
- Regular review of learning; future strategies discussed.
- Build team rapport, respect and trust.
- Just-in-time coaching support offered through the month
- Comprehensive package of training materials.
Leadership Dialogues for Team Excellence: NEW!
These dialogues are focused on strategies to enhance team relationships. The curriculum presents materials on specific team communication topics, providing ample opportunity to dialogue about applying the session concepts. As participants discuss their situations, they build their self-awareness. One on one coaching is scheduled immediately following each session to ensure participants clarify a personal intention to apply the new learning from the Dialogue over the following month.
Participants will:
- Gain deeper understanding of these communication topics: personality types, attitude, delegation, feedback, collaboration.
- Take advantage of opportunities to share experiences and learn through dialogue.
- Build self-awareness of their communication approach and its impact on the workplace.
Topics:
- Understanding Teamwork
- Personalities in the Workplace
- The Impact of Attitude
- Confident Delegation
- The Power of Feedback
- Building Collaboration
- Wrap-up
Leadership Articles
Being the Leader of Your Life
Each of us is a leader – of our own life. We have a responsibility to ourselves to live the life that is important to us, that excites and satisfies us. Occasionally, taking some time to examine the life we have, and measuring it against our dreams, is a worthy exercise.
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The Power of Choice
The act of choice is an interesting phenomenon. In choosing one thing we are, in that same instant, not choosing something else.
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The Way Things Are
No matter where you are in your life, there are challenges that you face each day—and they change constantly. Here’s how you can look at your day in a way that fills you with enthusiasm.
[ Download Article | 40k]
Testimonials
Coaching
“[coaching] made me realize that all personal change and growth comes from within — that everything I have been looking for and wanting to do with my life is right here, right inside of me.”
“[coaching] provided me with a self analysis of my work life and a system of prioritizing the essential aspects of that professional life to accomplish a multitude of tasks more effectively than in the past. Through identifying values and needs I was also able to prioritize my personal life and begin to define a future for myself based on specific interests and personal joys.”
“Coaching has been instrumental in helping me trust my own instincts and judgement and operate from ‘within’.”
Leadership Dialogues
“Group coaching circles have become an integral part of my professional practice. Often as we move into challenging roles, we can find ourselves alone or second guessing ourselves. These coaching groups have provided me with the opportunity to learn and discuss ideas with my peer group. The written material, homework and follow up dialogue create a community practice with intention, making it different from a “vent”. Peer support and challenged thinking is important to helping me stay focused in today’s complex and creative workplace!”
“[Leadership Dialogues] provided me with an opportunity to share ideas with peers, other entrepreneurs and business owners faced with similar struggles in defining and living leadership roles. You created meaningful dialogues in an efficient setting. Even though we were all in very different businesses, leadership is a universal experience for those struggling with its challenges. Ultimately you worked with six participants giving them all ownership of their view and opening their minds to potential success. There was no failure, just awareness of oneself and ones style. I appreciated the opportunity to share my knowledge, hear others views and develop my skills. You provided some excellent course materials that I have been able to put to good use.”
“The Leadership Dialogues provided me with important feedback—both from other strong leaders and Sue herself. The work/discussions that we had together are priceless and key points that I will carry with me forever. Combine this with the wonderful resources and homework that we were provided with and did in between our sessions I know that not only I, but my company will reap the rewards!”
About Sue Smarkala
Sue Smarkala is an Executive Coach who offers coaching to senior directors, managers, supervisors and staff to enable them to achieve their professional goals. Coaching goals may include: new strategies for leadership to achieve great results through the team members, gaining visibility within the team, enhancing communication skills, building positive relationships, honing clarity of focus and effectiveness in a particular area of life, greater career satisfaction, increasing leadership success.
Sue also facilitates Leadership Dialogues; these programs are a hybrid service of individual and group coaching, where participants are challenged to apply the new concepts/skills in their workplace each month, gaining valuable personal experience. You can read more about Sue, and follow links to her articles, by visiting her bio page.
Psychotherapy / Counselling: Individual Counselling, Couple / Marriage Counselling,
Family / Parent Counselling, Children / Teens Counselling | Consulting: Training, Keynote
Addresses, Executive / Leadership Coaching, Customized Workshops and Conferences
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