The Real Lead®
New Online Course: Your Leadership Brand
Our self-paced course helps you explore what you do as the impact you make and the value you bring to your organization. You’ll also learn how to articulate how you do what you in order to differentiate yourself from other leaders. You’ll put these two things together to create Your Leadership Brand statement. It’s a fun, easy way to engage in self-discovery and purposeful communication to create the career you want.
Check out our course on Udemy: Your Leadership Brand: Create the Career You Want
Better Relationships | Bigger Impact
The Real Lead® is a framework for developing Relational Leadership. Informed and intentional language and listening builds better, deeper, more trusted relationships. Through these REAL relationships, leaders have a bigger impact – increasing emotional intelligence, improving performance, inspiring purpose.
Miscommunication is not only one of the largest hidden costs in today’s workplace – wasting time, energy, and resources – but also adds frustration and undermines trust. The Real Lead® gives your teams the communication advantage. It focuses on how to build REAL relationships, one conversation at a time, through a nuanced understanding of what others are saying and the words we use. Participants learn to develop productive communication habits combined with real-time practice to connect effectively with others and provide relational leadership.
The Real Lead® framework, tools, techniques, and strategies are direct outcomes from my research and experience coaching leaders to be effective communicators and is now available as a series of learning experiences that is flexible to your organization’s training and development needs. Each course can be delivered as a stand-alone experience or combined for 1, 2, or 3-day learning events. Our specialist coaches energize and engage learners in virtual or in-person environments.
In our interactive learning sessions, whether virtual or in-person, our goal is to create a comfortable and psychologically safe atmosphere for trying out new ways of communicating. Each of our specialist coaches respects the uncertainty that accompanies learning something new, is experienced in conversational facilitation, and incorporates our communication techniques in real-time.
Move from Impossible to Unstoppable
Energize your professional presence through a sense of self-possession. In this highly interactive learning experience you’ll be introduced to the MOVE framework to Motivate yourself from the inside-out, Obliterate the barriers that block your way, Validate the impact you have on your world, and Elevate the language you use for your personal and professional narrative. Along the way, you’ll develop a What-Is mindset to remain composed, despite stress or uncertainty; and internalize confidence with what you say and how you say it.
2-day in-person experience
Communicating Clarity
Know what to say and how to say it to increase clarity and reduce miscommunication. You’ll discover your unproductive language habits and learn ways to substitute effective What-Is Language to create a shared understanding with others.
3-hour course virtual or in-person
Listening in 3D
Listen in service of your relationships. Using the 3D Flow Chart, you’ll learn to decipher meaning from common communication patterns and avoid listening habits that diminish your relationships and undermine your influence.
3-hour course virtual or in-person
Leading: One Conversation at a Time
Elicit engagement and contribute to ongoing conversations with those you lead. You’ll learn strategies to balance asking useful questions with offering your point of view and discover how effective conversations encourage collaboration and a sense of group flow.
3-hour course virtual or in-person
Building REAL Relationships
Examine your current connections through the concepts of reciprocity, equality, and authenticity. Using the Reciprocity Matrix, you’ll determine which relationships need attention. You’ll discover how unrecognized biases impact your relationships, and you’ll assess how true to your authentic self you are when interacting with others. (Optional: VIA Signature Strength Assessment)
3-hour course virtual or in-person
Thriving through Challenge
Relax, recharge, and build resilience. You’ll discover how you approach adversity in your life and how to engage the ACE Resilience cycle to thrive in challenging environments and circumstances.
90 min course virtual
Feedback without FrictionTM
In this fun, fast-paced game, navigate needed feedback discussions, as identified in our survey of business leaders. You and your team will draw scenario and technique cards to practice giving and receiving feedback. Our specialist coaches offer in-the-moment guidance on using What-Is Language and 3D Listening for moving through feedback conversations with ease.
2-hour experience virtual or in-person
Be Well – Be Happy – Be Effective
People want to matter, do worthwhile work AND enjoy their lives. Experience techniques for managing energy and making time for what you have to do, while including what you love to do. You’ll try out guided imagery, meditation, distancing, breathing, movement, and music techniques, as well as learning about sleep enabling strategies. You’ll walk away with an action plan for making positive personal choices and having fun.
90 minute course virtual or in-person
Managing the Clock
Stop wishing you had just a few more hours everyday and start using your time to enhance your life. You’ll discover how you’re prioritizing your time, what you want instead, and how timing can work for you.
2-hour course virtual or in-person