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 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.
The Companies We Keep
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.
Essential News
Dare to LeadTM
Brené Brown has taken her courage-building playbook into the world of podcasting with solo episodes and conversations. Rachel Verlik, on our team, studied with Brown and offers the Dare to LeadTM course.
Crucial
Conversations
Often recommended. Ever helpful. A friendly book that addresses the barriers and hurdles that stop us from having effective conversations when the stakes are high. The authors’ kind guidance and practical scripts empower you with thoughts and words.
Workplace
Scripts
This five-minute video shows the same workplace exchange four times. Each time, a manager asks an assistant to do a last-minute task for him. The responses evolve from the passive-victim voice to a comfortable, confident assertion. Simple. Instructive.
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.
