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Hello Monday Training Series

Smooth Sailing Professional Coaching has teamed up with Optimal U to present a series of half-day workshops for Small Business owners and employees. These workshops use coaching techniques to bring some of the benefits of individual coaching to a larger group of people.

Most business people are experts in their own field of endeavor and as coaches we are experts in human dynamics and emotional intelligence. Based on research with hundreds of top executives at fifteen global companies, Daniel Goldman, author of Working with Emotional Intelligence, reports that “on average close to 90 percent of [the star leaders] success was attributable to emotional intelligence”. We help employers begin to reach that 90% success rating from their employees.

We have encountered common issues that both employees and employers face on a daily basis. We have created a series of workshops that is designed to create an environment where people look forward to coming to work each day. These workshops are interactive and provide practical and concrete tools and processes that can be implemented in the workplace. The workshops provide a place to practice using these tools, so that when employees return to the workplace they are able to use them immediately.

The series is modular and has follow-up activities to ensure successful implementation. The series is partially outlined below. For more details contact Smooth Sailing Professional Coaching today.

Can you envision your company’s perfect future from here?

• Can you in four or five words conjure up a vision of your company in vivid color with smells, taste sound and touch?
• Are you and your team feeling motivated and excited every day to take action to make this vision a reality?
• Do you know the steps you and your team are taking in the next 90 days to move closer to this vision?
• Do you know who is accountable for what?
• Do you know what your accomplishments were in the last 90 days?

Can you use difficult issues to create conversations that easily produce results?

• Do you turn complaints into an effective communication tool?
• Do you produce impactful results through requests?
• Are you able to hear what people are really saying (behind the words)?
• Are you at ease with people even when you disagree with them?
• Can you transform negative conversations into conversations for effective action?

Are Leadership and Management the Same Thing?

• Is it easy for you to delegate your work to others?
• Is your vision as important to your employees as it is to you?
• Do your employees know what their place in the vision of the company is?
• Does the department or company work like clockwork without your daily presence?

Team Work – How to Create It

• Is your team working together towards a common goal?
• Is each member of your team getting personal benefit from their work?
• Do your team members bring out the best in each other?
• Are your team members able to create more together than they could alone?

Can you use project tracking to celebrate and motivate forward?

• Can you track your progress with ease?
• Do you celebrate your accomplishments along the way?
• Do you have regular “lessons learned” sessions?
• Do you use accountability to creatively re-energize?