Is this You?
While our clients are accustomed to setting goals and accomplishing them, here are some of the challenges they often face:
1) No matter how many week-end workshops attended or best-selling business books are read, our clients, like all of us, have blind spots and habitual ways of acting and re-acting. When aspiring to learn, develop and integrate new ways of doing and being such change typically requires more than sparkling "aha" moments and good intentions.
2) From physician leaders to technology managers, almost all clients express a desire for greater collaboration in their organizations. They want to develop skills such as: the ability to engage healthy conflict; tap a diversity of ideas and solutions; and create full-engagement around organizational objectives. They also often recognize a gap between "how they engage" and "how they want to engage."
3) An overarching challenge is that our cultural conditioning has been significantly skewed toward a problem-reactive orientation. There are several concerns with this as a predominant or exclusive approach to change (to learn more see The Path of Least Resistance):
- Sometimes problem solving is the most appropriate approach. Other times, problem solving only brings temporary relief and a predictable return to the status quo. In leadership situations, one challenge is that the job of leadership is seldom to merely maintain a baseline normal.
- A problem-reactive “fixing approach” is often prompted by emotions such as anxiety, fear, or frustration. When the problem is solved, the energy for change dissipates. With the loss of energy, focus naturally shifts away from the problem, resulting in the problem's re-emergence and a perpetual, oscillating loop of problem-solving.
- Habitual problem-solving can drain energy, creativity and relationships.
Learning how to individually and collectively identify and create outcomes that are desired is essential to leadership and organizational success!
In every coaching, training and consulting project, we wholeheartedly commit to partnering with our clients to support identifying and actualizing their desired future. We bring methods that are core to shifting from a problem-reactive orientation to an outcomes-creating orientation.
At the same time, we are most effective at co-creating successful outcomes with clients who have the following characteristics.
You are most likely to succeed with us if:
You have high standards of excellence; and are interested in bringing forth your best;
You recognize that learning is not just for kids rather a lifelong commitment; you are open and eager to learn;
You understand that all of life is about relationship, to oneself, to others, and to the world; you want to cultivate and maintain quality relationships;
You realize that change is an inside-out job and you are not expecting a "quick fix" from the outside; instead you are ready to develop new ways of seeing, learning and engaging that will have enduring value long after our work together.