Think better 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.
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.
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!
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.
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Essential News
Couple Communication
This course, from Interpersonal Communication Programs, teaches 11 skills for connecting more deeply with your partner. The skills you learn here will transform your leadership.
The Conflict Resolution Wheel Infographic
Our latest Essential Tool allows you to gain distance from what’s upsetting you. Distance makes tough conversations easier. The other person can do one, too!
The Way into Difficult Conversations
Kwame Christian, Director of The American Negotiation Institute, talks with Dave Stachowiak about negotiating everything and anything on this episode of Coaching for Leaders
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.
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.
