Coaching Seminars & Workshops

Developing Coaching Capabilities

We explore the Organizing Perspective and Orientation of professional coaching, and engage in development and self-actualizing coaching. Our seminars and workshops address the following coaching concerns:

• The Seven Different Coaching Capabilities

• The Four Step Coaching Process and 34 Supporting Techniques

• Executive Coaching, Leadership Development, Executive Development

• Management Development, Development of High Potentials

• Development of Coaching Professionals

• How to Develop the Executive Coaching Proposal

• How to Market Yourself as a Coach

• Step-By-Step Guide for Delivering Coaching Capabilities

• How to Deliver Coaching Services in Fix-It Projects

• An 18 Step Process for Rescuing Executives and Key Contributors

• Guidelines for Coaching the Coach

• The Four-Skill Process of Developing Your Coaching Practice

• The 17 Coaching Applications

• 48 Coaching Techniques for Delivering Behavioral Change

Developing Consulting Capabilities

We explore the Organizing Principles and Orientation of professional consulting. Our consulting seminars and workshops explore the following consulting concerns:

• Motivation in Building Your Consulting Success

• A Powerful Consulting Philosophy

• Key to Moving from Employee Role to Consultant Role

• 15 Core Competencies for Consulting Success

• The Critical Success Factors for Consulting Success

• The Nine Fundamentals of High Impact Consulting and How to Use Them

• Six Keys to Forging Client Relationships

• The Eight Models of Organization Performance

• The Eleven Phase Consulting Process

• The Consultant’s Mission : Enhancing Human Performance

• Using Testing to Accelerate Performance Improvement

• High-Powered Interviewing Techniques

• Writing High-Impact Reports

• Consulting in Assessment and Selection

• Ten Step Action Planning Process for Consultants

• Evaluation and Development Services in Different Contexts

• The Eight Most Effective Predictors of Executive and Leadership Potential

• The Succession Development Process

• 18 Barriers to High Performance

• Six Critical Success Factors for High Performance and Using Them

• 18 High-Powered Consulting Tools

• The Art of Strategic Consulting

• Surveys and Audits

• Group Development

• Supercharging Organization Performance

• High Performance People Practices

Consulting and Coaching Fundamentals

• The Consulting and Coaching Mission

• The Consulting and Coaching Proposal

• Consulting and Coaching in Work Groups, Teams, and Organizations

• Consulting and Coaching in Organization Development and Design

• The Barriers and Success Factors to High Performance Consulting and Coaching

Consulting and Coaching Tools and Techniques

• Testing in Consulting and Coaching

• High-Powered Interviewing Techniques for Consultants and Coaches

• High-Powered Tools for Strategic Consulting and Coaching

• Surveys and Audits

Consulting and Coaching Applications

• Consulting on Employee Selection for Clients

• Changing the Behaviors of Clients

• Coaching for Goodness-of-Fit

• Determining Executive and Leadership Potential

• Troubleshooting Client Problems for Consultants and Coaches

• Supercharging Organization Performance

• Coaching for Client Development

• Coaching the Coach

• Executive Coaching

Legal Fundamentals of Consulting and Coaching

• Contracts and Obligations

• Billing Practices

• Social Relationships

• Professional Conduct

• Gift Giving and Receiving

• Recruitment of Client Employees

• Confidentiality and Secrecy

• Reflective External Behavior

• Risk Management, Insurance, and Bonding

Simple Joy Seminars and Workshops

Mastering the Hidden Skills of Coaching Success

A Multi-Seminar Program

• What is Coaching? 

• First Objective:  To see others more clearly.

• Second Objective:  To see ourselves more clearly.

• Third Objective:  To build better relationships.

• Fourth Objective:  To lead successful teams.

Seminar One:  Building Your Framework For Success

• Module One:  Why Bother?

• Module Two: Core Competencies of Successful Consultants

• Module Three:  CSF Models for Effective C&C

• Module Four:  Attaining Client Trust and Confidence

Seminar Two: The Core Soft-Skills of Success

• Module One: Return to the Basics

• Module Two: Changing Self-Image

• Module Three: Building Assertiveness

• Module Four: Energizing Teams

Seminar Three: Success Through Cooperation

Emotionally healthy people cooperate more than they go it alone.

What does cooperation mean to you, and what is the road to it?

1. First Objective: Understand the art and skills of cooperation.

2. Second Objective:  Better manage negative and failure oriented behaviors.

3. Third Objective:  Become a more powerful leader, coach,  and consultant.

Overview:

We will examine difficult situations and the people who cause them.

We will explore techniques and methods for reducing negative situations.

We will clarify our role in influencing others:

• Overcoming Prejudice

• Improving Commitment

• Motivating People

• Changing Emotional States

• Building Authentic Self-Esteem

• Eliminate Self-Destruction

Seminar Four: CSF Models for Effective Innovation & Change

What We Are Here to Learn:

• Mobilize innovation & change

• Refine people-skills

• Improve team building skills.

• Enhance personal insight.

• What We Are Here to Explore:

• What it takes to be innovative.

• How to lessen the pain of change.

How to achieve higher levels of performance.

• First Objective:  Build your effectiveness as a professional contributor to the success of your organization.

• Second Objective:  Safely acquire potent soft-skills to improve organization & team performance.

• Third Objective:  Grow from an ad hoc or de facto coach & consultant into a well informed and experienced professional coaching & consulting specialist.

Seminar Five: Understanding the Value of Being Prudent

You are here to learn more about being a more powerful person by getting along better with yourself and others.

You are here to gain insight into your capabilities in mastering difficult situations with other people.

• First Objective: Building the Prudence of Teams

• Second Objective:  Building Your Communications Skills

• Third Objective:  Building Your Social Skills

Seminar Six: CFF Models for Effective Innovation & Change

From the perspective of effective interpersonal relationships, we will explore the art of:

• Building generosity

• Overcoming irrational guilt

• Building self-responsibility

• Balancing emotional life

• First Objective:  Learn methods to build authentic generosity,

• overcome irrational guilt, build self-responsibility, and balance emotional life.

• Second Objective:  Apply these methods to developing effective interpersonal relationships.

• Third Objective:  Become a more responsive leader.

Seminar Seven:  Going to the Core

• Overview: Ways to gain respect and overcome faults

• The content is derived from the development of soft-skills that impact leadership

• These methods work when you really learn to apply them

• This seminar focuses on two core softskills of leadership and coaching:

• Conquering Anger

• Enhancing Respect

• Building the respect of yourself and others.

• Eliminating the anger of yourself and others.

• Integrating these soft-skills with previous soft-skills.

• Your performance objectives for mastering the content:

• First Objective:  Master the art of respect

• Second Objective:  Control negative situations

• Third Objective:  become more effective

• Establishing Respect

• Acknowledging Faults

• Conquering Anger 

Seminar Eight: Touching the Spirit

• Overview:  Motivation is an “Inside Job”.

• We will explore how to raise interest levels in oneself and others.

• Background of material:  The material emerged from the experience that

• people become desensitized to almost anything over time.

• Clarifications: Motivation comes from the inside. 

• I can not motivate anyone.  I can only give a reason for a person to motivate themselves.

• This seminar continues the challenge of enabling others to

• Master the Difficult Social Skills that make success possible and effectiveness a reality.

• You are here to learn new ways to master yourself, difficult situations, and the expectations of others.

• Why I am covering this:  Why not?  We can never have enough interest.

• First Objective:  Improve our interest levels

• Second Objective: Improve the interest levels of others

• Third Objective: Become more effective raising interest levels

Seminar Nine: Mastering The Difficult Skills 6 Defusing the Confusing

• Overview:

• Defusing passive-aggressive behavior

• Overcoming lateness

• Defusing the Confusing

Seminar Ten: Moving From Beliefs & Values to Character

• Overview: The relationship of belief to values

• The art of understanding the belief and values  of other people

• This is not a seminar in psychotherapy, but it can be a seminar in character development

• This seminar takes you beyond the everyday understanding of trust and confidence so that you can more appropriately engage each attribute of your character.

• It frees you from the constrains of uninformed behavior.

• You will learn an approach for clarifying the nature of trust and confidence with others.

• You will learn how to gain T&C, how to keep them, and how to lose them.

• I will cover:  The entire trust and confidence paradox.

• Why I am covering this:  To simplify your interpersonal relations and improve your odds of becoming a more effective person.

• Beliefs & Values Continuum

• Transformation

• Building Loyalty

• Your performance objectives for mastering the content:

• First Objective: Identify your core beliefs and the related values.

• Second Objective: Recognize how your professed beliefs and values conflict with your behaviors.

• Third Objective:  Relate to yourselves with integrity (quit deceiving yourself).  You are who you are, this is you beliefs and values in action.

• You have mastered this seminar when you meet the following performance objectives:

• First Objective:  Identify core beliefs.

• Second Objective:  Relate your values to these beliefs.

• Third Objective:  Listen to you emotions.

Seminar Eleven: Core Competencies of Teams

• We are here to learn how to kindly defuse Complainers:

• Chronic Complainers and How to Manage Them

• We all complain sometimes, this is not about us.

• This seminar leads you through several methods that reduce the negative impact of complainers.

• This seminar transforms complainers into contributors.

• This seminar defuses the damage caused by complainers before the situation collapses.

• First Objective: Improve listening skills.

• Second Objective: Reduce complaining.

• Third Objective: Lead the complainer to effectiveness.

• Fourth Objective: Defuse Complaining

Seminar Twelve: Paving Your Road to Success II

• Module One: Fundamentals of High-Impact C&C  Understanding Your Client

• Module Two:  Common Organization Performance Models

• Module Three: The Organization-Human Systems Continuum

Seminar Thirteen:  Putting Your Stake in the Ground

• The Subject of the Seminar Series is Soft-skills Building for Enduring Success.

• This series covers the framework, models & powerful techniques of authentic C&C.

• We offer this series, because soft-skills are central to building & leading successful teams.

• Where do you go after you have tried everything?

• This seminar series will teach you what Coaching & Consulting (C&C) actually is.

• You will see that it is both an authentic psychological discipline and applied art.

• The Motivation Design Process.

• The Different Roles & Responsibilities of C&C.

Seminar Fourteen: Fundamentals of High-Impact Leadership

• Attaining Client Trust & Confidence

Seminar Fifteen: Living The Gentle Life

• This series will assist you in:

• Making sense of your spiritual life

• Gaining deeper understanding of negative behaviors that can impede spiritual progress.

• Gaining powerful insights into defining attitudes of spirituality

• Overcoming behaviors that impede spiritual progress

• Overview:

• You will explore the spiritual life in-depth.

• You will learn about the Presence of the Sacred.

• You will clarify central concepts about spirituality and holiness

• You will lean an approach for growing in the Presence of the Sacred

• This seminar is about how to enjoy your spiritual life by gaining gentleness.

• Emotionally healthy people are more gentle than others.

• What does gentleness mean to you, and what is the road to it?

• First Objective:  Build your understanding of the relationship between spirituality and an effective life.

• Second Objective:  Safely acquire insights and practices that enable you to

• live a fulfilling life by enjoying being in the Presence of the Sacred.

• Third Objective:  Advance in growth from spiritual childhood to spiritual adulthood.

• This seminar explores ways to:

• Develop gentleness in spiritual life

• Increase self-esteem and forgiveness

• Reduce the drive for Spiritual Self-Destruction

• First Objective: Understand the art and skill of being Present to the Sacred.

• Second Objective:  Eliminate negative and failure oriented behaviors that impede spiritual life.

• Third Objective:  Increase one’s openness and receptiveness to the Grace of God.

• Fourth Objective:  Eliminate negative and failure oriented behaviors that impede spiritual life.

• Fifth Objective: Increase one’s openness and receptiveness to the Grace of God.

• Requirements for Gentleness

• Living the Gentle Life

• You have mastered this seminar when you meet the following performance objectives:

• First Objective:  Recognize self-defeating behaviors of yourself that impede spiritual progress

• Second Objective:  Determine ways to reduce or eliminate negative behaviors

• Third Objective:  Cooperate with God

Seminar Sixteen:  Core Competencies of Teams

• First Objective:  Improve listening skills.

• Second Objective:  Reduce complaining.

• Third Objective:  Lead the complainer to effectiveness.

• Fourth Objective:  Defuse Complaining

Seminar Seventeen: Becoming A Gentle Executive

• Many speak about spirituality, but live as if there is no tomorrow.

• Many speak about holiness, but say little about how to become holy.

• There is a burning desire for many executives to live a spiritual life, and even to become holy.

• This series offers a unique program for presenting yourself to the Sacred, for assisting you along your way to practical holiness, which is the ultimate plan for your life.

• This series will assist you in:

• Making sense of your professional life with an expanded perspective

• Gaining deeper understanding of negative behaviors that can impede spiritual and executive progress.

• Gaining powerful insights into defining attitudes of spirituality in executive life

• Overcoming behaviors that impede spiritual progress

• The Spiritual Approach to Executive Life

• Spirituality through Gentleness

Seminar Eighteen: Understanding the Roots of Great Performance

• UlThule™ Performance

• Intelligence is not enough

• Performance is not enough

• UlThule™ Forever

Seminar Nineteen: Coaching For Career Self-Renewal

• Time To Move On To The Bigger & Better Opportunity

• Laying the Foundation to Your Career Self-Renewal

• Listen To Your Dreams

• Articulation of a Life-Time

• Reframing Your Mind

• Evaluating The Path

• Linking the Perception with the Reality

• Identifying the Relevant Conditions

• Asking the Right Questions

• Self-Development & Beyond

• Timing Is Everything

• Success or Failure through Emotions

• Documenting Important Matters

• Hitting Your Visions, Dreams, Missions, or Goals

Seminar Twenty: Building Personal Potency 

• You are here to learn more about being a more powerful person by getting along better with yourself and others.

• You are here to gain insight into your capabilities in mastering difficult situations with other people.

• First Objective: Building the Prudence of Teams

• Second Objective:  Building Your Communications Skills

• Third Objective:  Building Your Social Skills

• Building Team Prudence

• Building Communications Skills

• Building Social Skills

• You have mastered this seminar when you meet the following performance objectives:

• First Objective:  Prudence – what do you think?

• Second Objective:  Communications – what do you think?

• Third Objective:  Socially relatedness – what do you think?

• Cultivate Potent Leadership

Seminar Twenty-One: Professional Maturity Requires Focus

• The Focus Life-Cycle

• Focusing for Improved Control

• The Focus Formula of Success

• The Environment of Focus

• The Power of Focusing

• Changing Your Life Through the Your Power to Focus

• The Rule of Attention

• The Rule of Appreciation

• The Rule of Appreciation

• The Rule of Appreciation

• The Focus Formula of Success

• The Environment of Focus 

Seminar Twenty Two: Understanding Emotions to Lead People to Change

• Relationships between Values and Emotions

• Unconscious Connections

• Behavior, Emotions & Values

• Relationship Living

• First Objective: Better Understand the emotional life of the person

• Second Objective: Develop a deeper understanding of the nature of emotions

• Third Objective: Better integrate values, emotions, and behaviors.

Seminar Twenty-Three: Mastering the Psychology of Focus

• We are presenting this series because:

• The more you learn, the more powerful you  become at resolving the unexpected.

• You make better decisions and forge powerful relationships.

• You want to build a mature organization.

• You better manage important aspects of your life.

Seminar Twenty-Four: Using Coaching to Enhance Mentoring

• Mentoring Character

• Mentoring Maturity

• Mentoring Intelligence

• Mentoring for Productivity

• Mentoring Cultivation

• Mentoring Claritry

• Finding Authentic Success
  Through Mentoring

• Creativity in Mentoring

• Intuition in Mentoring

• Relationships in Mentoring

• Ethical Mentoring 

Seminar Twenty-Five: Mastering the Art of Persuasion

• A Persuasion paradox

• Three characteristics of Persuasiveness

• Techniques of Persuasion

• Gifts of Persuasion

• The Liking Principle

• The Creditor Personality

• The Reciprocity Rule

• The Contrast Principle

• The Anchor Point Traps

• Defending Yourself Against Unwanted Persuasion 

Seminar Twenty-Six: Fifty: Communicating for Success

• The Paradox of Human Communications

• Communicating for Success  

Seminar Twenty-Seven: The UlThule™ Way Beyond Peak Performance

• The Process of Developing Really Great Performance

• The Experience Trap

• UlThule™ Development 

Seminar Twenty-Eight: Becoming A Gentle Soul

• Introduction

• The Spiritual Approach to Life

• Spirituality through Gentleness 

Seminar Twenty-Nine: Putting Your Stake in the Ground

• Introduction to Coach & Consulting

• Defining Coaching

• Understanding Deliberate Practice

Seminar Thirty: Core Competencies of Successful Coaches & Consultants 

• Clarifying Client Expectations

• Mastering the Coaching & Mentoring Environment

• Distinguishing Coaches from Consultants

• Cultivating Potent Leadership

The SMI Crossroads Program

Designed to Navigate the Pitfalls & Tarpits of a Coaching Career

Crossroads Program Objectives

• First Objective:  Build your effectiveness as a professional contributor to the success of your organization.

• Second Objective:  Safely acquire potent softskills to improve organization & team performance.

• Third Objective:  Grow from an ad hoc or de facto coach & consultant into a well informed and experienced professional coaching & consulting specialist.

Seminar One: Mastering the Coaching and Consulting Environment

• Putting Your Stake in the Ground

• Building Your Framework for Success

• Critical Success Factor Models for Effective Coaching

• Fundamentals of High-Impact Coaching

Seminar Two: Mastering Hidden Skills of C & C Success

• Understanding Your Client

• Clarifying Client Expectations

• Moving From Beliefs and Values to Character

• Beyond the Basics

Seminar Three: Developing Successful C&C Skills

• Building Authentic Cooperation

• Returning to the Basics

• Going to the Core

• Mastering the Core Competencies of Teams

Seminar Four: The Coaching Side of Mentoring Success

• Coaching to Make Powerful Decisions

• Mastering Coaching to Help People Change

• Attaining Coaching and Mentoring Success

• Mastering the Coaching and Mentoring Environment

• Using Coaching to Enhance Your Mentoring Program

Seminar Five: Coaching in Turbulent Environments

• Defusing the Confusing

• Coaching Difficult Clients

• Using Coaching to Overcome Turbulence in Organizations and Teams

Seminar Six: Leading Better through UlThule™ Coaching

• Great Performance is Counter-Intuitive

• Attaining UlThule™ Performance

Seminar Seven: Refining Communication Skills for Coaching Success

Coaching is Communicating

Seminar Eight: The Role of Intelligences and Emotions in Coaching Success

• Doing the Hard Work

• Minding the Spirit

• Coaching Others with Influence to Change Minds

• Understanding Emotions to Help People Change

• Self-Awareness through Emotional Intelligence

• Emotional Intelligence Requires Emotional Understanding

Seminar Nine: Coaching for Career Self-Renewal

• Where Do You Go From Here?

UlThule™ Coaching