Group Coaching for HR Directors and Managers on Leveraging Your Success

"A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be."
-Tom Landry, former coach of the Dallas Cowboys

Group Coaching:

Are organizational challenges leading to mis-alignment on goals, mistrust, missed deadlines where you work? Do these lead to low retention of valued employees, labor law violations, more downtime, rework, lost customers and lots of frustration?

Then come join us and learn to master the challenges of influencing and delivering results in your fast-paced organizations.

We will explore these topics:

o Identifying and addressing your specific HR issues, interests and concerns
o Positioning the HR function as a strategic partner to senior management
o Learning about mindset required to shift the HR function and your leadership
o An assessment of your interaction style preferences and action plan to strengthen key relationships
o Creating a vision to guide your leadership

Benefits:

Coaching in a small group is a cost-effective, efficient way to bring HR people with similar interests together to integrate communication and support with professional development, allowing you to experience being coached and coaching your peers. You get collective resources to address issues you all share. You become a more effective leader through inspiration and learning instead of by will power or hard work alone. You gain real value from everyone's participation on the tele-coaching sessions and from incorporating just-in-time communication tools and leadership skills for immediate use. You then make changes and shifts that remove the obstacles impeding your progress toward your performance goals and managing upward to promote human capital needs in your organization.

Benefits to you include:
o You enhance working relationships leading to more communication, trust, and goal alignment.
o You expand your leadership style to be appropriate in various organizational groups so you can gain more understanding, cooperation, respect, influence, and increase employee productivity.
o You get increased support for handling difficult business dilemmas.
o You become more effective and exceptional.

Duration and Start Date:

Coaching circles are by phone (or in person with a geographically close group) and meet twice monthly for one hour. We will meet every other Friday for three months from April 7 through June 23, 2006. Minimum commitment is the entire three months. Start Date: May 19, 2006

Cost:
The investment is $600 per person for 3 months, plus $50 fee for the Cultural Orientations Indicator™ assessment.
$500 per person for a group of 3-4 persons from the same organization
$400 per person if you bring in another participant

Coaching Circle Leader - Carolyn Feuille:

Carolyn has been coaching managers and professionals for four years and is a graduate of Corp. Coach U International. She is also a certified facilitator for The Human Element (by BCon-WSA) and for Interaction Management (by DDI), and is an accomplished author in her field. She has thousands of hours of individual and group training and facilitation experience, helping people and their organizations improve communication, leadership, work relationships, quality systems, and business processes. In all this work her passion lies in creating opportunities for people to expand their horizons, their self-awareness, and their interpersonal skills to enhance their personal and professional effectiveness and experience more success and satisfaction.

Her commitment to transformational leadership and an inclusive workplace stem from her own extensive training, coaching and organization development consulting experience, which has also led her to focus on personal mastery and leadership as keys to expanding professional and organizational success.

She holds an M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language from UCLA and an M.S. in Human Resources Management/Organization Development from Golden Gate University, San Francisco.

Contact:
For further information on process, benefits, delivery format, content, please call: Carolyn Feuille, Principal, Esprit Global Learning at 530-264-7008 or e-mail cfeuille@espritgloballearning.com.

Support leaders to get results: Organizations need leaders with global savvy and intercultural understanding who can bring out the best in their diverse employees. Our training and coaching has been proven to help global leaders demonstrate a strong sense of purpose for their work, build trust, model interpersonal and intercultural communication and promote collaborative learning. We help managers who are promoted on the basis of their strong technical abilities to develop equal “people skills” to succeed at the next level, particularly when they deal regularly in a diverse work environment or with overseas counterparts.

Sustain the gains: The investment in leadership coaching continues to pay dividends after the coaching term ends thanks to double-loop learning. Leaders learn ways to multiply their effectiveness by, in turn, learning to coach, empower and retain their people.

Build high-performing, multicultural teams: Our coaching provides ongoing support for both local and global teams to learn to communicate cross-culturally, resolve conflicts stemming from culture-based differences, and establish their own collective operating style that builds trust and enables productivity. When team leaders learn to use a coaching approach to empower their teams, they can experience more participation and higher collective performance.

Reinforce Learning: A critical factor influencing the transfer of training to job performance and to new behaviors is the opportunity for practice and feedback, which coaching provides. Training followed by coaching can increase learning and productivity much more than training alone, by as much as 88%, studies show. Our action learning model demonstrates how we help you transfer learning to performance.

• In an ongoing partnership, our coaching supports you and your family to make a successful transition to living and working in your host country. We help you expand your ability to think with an international mindset to become an effective bridge person for your organization from one world region to another.
• Adapt readily to cross-cultural differences and cope with culture shock.
• Develop sensitivity to how culture influences business practices.
• Develop the leadership competencies described below in the Global Leadership coaching.
  

Global leadership competencies include:

• Varying your communication style for mutual understanding across cultural boundaries
• Understanding your own culture and culturally influenced values and how they impact your behavior
• Increasing cultural sensitivity, tolerance and adopting a non-judgmental, global perspective
• Incorporating and leveraging business practices of other cultures including decision-making, negotiations, and problem solving
• Building relationships as a key to business development
  

You learn what it takes to get ahead in the corporate environment and build your career in the United States

Demonstrate understanding of American business culture and practices, such as roles of the manager and direct report, networking, taking initiative, and gaining visibility to get the projects and work of your choice.

Facilitate your own high learning curve so as to perform quickly in your new work environment.