Think better leadership skills won't boost your career?
Everyone’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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Whether you’re a senior executive or solopreneur, your success depends on growing your self-awareness. Coaching helps.
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Corporate Leadership Courses
Looking to invest in your high performers and rising stars? Our courses teach skills that are proven to make better leaders.
Executive Coaching Podcast
Hosted by Tom Henschel
An ongoing, monthly series of executive coaching tips designed to help you be perceived in the workplace the way you want to be perceived. Ranked in the top 1% of all 2M global podcasts!
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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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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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Performance Reviews
No matter which side of the table you’re going to be on during a review, the tools in this episode of The Look & Sound of Leadership will help you create a meaningful conversation. Performance reviews don’t need to be approached as if they were dental surgery without novocaine.
Look Before You Leap
The Ladder of Inference represents processes in our brains prior to taking an action. The Ladder helps us gain awareness so we can determine if the action we’re going to take will actually be to our benefit. Download a free PDF of The Ladder.
Don’t Make Assumptions
As we air an episode about the high cost of jumping to conclusions, the perennial favorite The Four Agreements comes to mind. The third agreement is “Don’t Make Assumptions.” Of course we all do. This book helps us manage our oh-so-human impulses.
More than thirty 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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