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.
Our Three Core Services
One-On-One Coaching
Whether you’re a senior executive or solopreneur, your success depends on growing your self-awareness. Coaching helps.
Team development
Great ideas sprout faster from great teams. Accelerate your team’s performance by letting them grow together.
Corporate Leadership Courses
Looking to invest in your high performers and rising stars? Our courses teach skills that are proven to make better leaders.
Think leadership
skills won't boost
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.
Customize Your Coaching
1. Set Your Goals
During our very first, free conversation, you answer the question: “If the coaching were a fantastic success, what would be different?”
2. Design Your Program
Together, based on your goals and budget, we design your personalized professional development experience.
3. Build Your Skills
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.
The Companies We Keep
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.
Essential News
We can’t control difficult people, so load yourself with protective tools.
Getting Along
Workplace expert and Harvard Business Review podcast host Amy Gallo identifies eight types of difficult coworkers(opens in new tab)—the insecure boss, the passive-aggressive peer, the know-it-all, the biased coworker, and others—and gives strategies tailored to dealing constructively with each one.
The Science of
Productive Conflict
“Let’s agree to disagree” is a phrase that makes Adam Grant despair – it means people have given up. In this episode of his WorkLife podcast,(opens in new tab) he explores how to have the right kind of conflict.
Coaching versus
Therapy
There are many paths to self-management and gaining the ability to self-regulate in the face of people who infuriate you. Coaching is one path. Therapy is another. What exactly is the difference? And which is right for you? Answers to those questions and more are in this episode.
Curious? We'd love to talk.
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.
