The Look & Sound of Leadership Podcast

Monthly Coaching Tips

Hosted by Tom Henschel

An ongoing series of executive coaching tips designed to help you be perceived in the workplace the way you want to be perceived.

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One-On-One Coaching

Whether you’re a senior executive or solopreneur, your success depends on growing your self-awareness. Coaching helps.

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Looking to invest in your high performers and rising stars? Our courses teach skills that are proven to make better leaders. 

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your career?

Every leader’s road to success has its own twists and turns. For more than thirty years, we’ve facilitated challenging conversations, helping individuals and teams overcome roadblocks, fill in potholes and see around curves. Ready to accelerate your journey? We’re ready to help.

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During our very first, free conversation, you answer the question: “If the coaching were a fantastic success, what would be different?”

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Together, based on your goals and budget, we design your personalized professional development experience.

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The real work – and rewards – begin here. We address only the issues that will move the needle for you. And we do it in a way that works for you.

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More than thirty-five years of listening

Whatever questions you have about leadership training, rest assured, the Essential Communications team wants to hear them. In more than thirty years of executive coaching, training and teaching, we’ve learned that many people share similar concerns about how they’re perceived in the workplace, but each leader learns and grows in their own way. Helping you find your way is one of our superpowers.

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Leadership comes with burdens. Here are tools to lift you up.

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Humble
Inquiry

Leadership superstars Edgar and Peter Schein wrote a two-book series about humble leadership. Humble Inquiry observes that leaders do a lot of telling, which often stops the flow of critical information. They make the case for curiosity.

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The Power
Paradox

Author and entertaining speaker Dacher Keltner speaks at Google and explores the nature of power, how we get it, how it alters us and those around us, and what it means in our lives.

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Fame: The Hijacking
of Reality

Wrestling with your corporate celebrity status? Actor, writer, producer Justine Bateman takes a personal look at the experience of fame from the inside – the reality-shift of the famous, the public’s behavior and other celebrities.

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Want to know how we can accelerate your success? There’s only one way to find out. Schedule your free conversation with Tom today. No pressure. No charge. And no time like the present to get started.

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