Services

Executive and Leadership Coaching

Coaching is a process through which the coach helps to enable the client to see new possibilities and transform behaviors through self-awareness and commitment to action. No matter what the goal is or what results are desired to be achieved, coaching can assist in achieving it. Some leaders have difficulty articulating desired results, but a skilled coach can help the leader narrow in on the goals. Often executives simply haven’t taken the time to slow down and think things through. Coaching encourages taking the time to think, observe and become more self-aware.

Some of the areas in which coaching can be beneficial are:

• Breaking through self-imposed limitations
• Embracing feedback as an improvement tool
• Understanding the necessity of good communication
• Focusing on top priorities
• Increasing accountability for self and others
• Building specific skills (such as communication or decision making)
• Handling stress and avoiding burnout
• Influencing others
• Developing emotional intelligence and understanding how it can benefit your career
• Brainstorming new ideas and creative thinking
• Career planning
• Life-work balance issues
• Establishing clear goals and action plans
• Developing your leadership abilities
• Improving interpersonal skills
• Aligning yourself with corporate objectives
• Improve management of staff through increased personal effectiveness
• Develop a talent pool and create loyalty
• Cultivate a network that helps you and your organization
• Plus many, many more…

Professional and Leadership Development

• Leadership development is a planned effort that enhances one’s capacity to lead oneself, other individuals, groups and organizations.
• You don’t have to be a CEO, CFO or any other type of executive kind of leader to create a culture of character in your company. Developing your emotional intelligence, being open to feedback, and practicing active listening and good communication skills can assist you in creating the kind of team that you are proud to lead. You CAN make a difference.
• Every one of us has leadership responsibilities, even if we do not carry the formal title. In order to stand out, embrace the characteristics of a leader, no matter what level of the organization you are.
• It has been said of our time, that even change will change. It will become faster and more complex. If that is indeed the case, then so too will the nature of leadership. What made the leaders of yesterday will not make the leaders of tomorrow. Leaders need to be able to adapt to the rapid changing business climate.
• Many bosses find themselves in leadership positions without ever having consciously made the choice to become a leader, let alone a great leader. Now what?
• Leadership is a skill, and one that is as critical at your first promotion as it is for a CEO. Making the leap means a change from how you behaved previously.
• Optimists excite and arouse others to action by helping them see, believe in, and reach for what could be. To become effective leaders, to see beyond what is to seeing the possibilities, we need to become "learned optimists."

Performance Management

First, hire the right people. Everyone agrees that “our people are our biggest assets.” However, once you have the right people, how do you keep them in your organization? What are the best ways to retain employees? How do you get rid of your low performers? What is it costing your organization to recruit new employees? What is it costing your organization to retain poor performers? The impact of successful Performance Management is far reaching. How are you and your organization doing in this area?

Career Coaching

WHAT IS CAREER COACHING?
Coaching is a process through which the coach helps to enable the client to see new possibilities and transform behaviors through self-awareness and commitment to action. No matter what the goal is or what results are desired to be achieved, coaching can assist in achieving it. Some people have difficulty articulating desired results, but a skilled coach can help narrow in on the goals. Often people simply have not taken the time to slow down and think things through. Coaching encourages taking the time to think, observe, reflect and become more self-aware in an effort to make better informed decisions in one’s career.

Individuals who pursue career coaching:

• Want to boost their visibility and prospects for a promotion.
• Are moving to new positions, assuming greater responsibility or working on high-risk projects.
• Are identified as high potential and emerging leaders who want to enhance their growth prospects.
• Wish to strengthen the perception of their value and impact on the organization.
• Want to define a clear game plan for advancing their career.
• Are not performing at their optimum level or need to improve in certain areas.
• Would like to learn how to succeed at office politics and learn the “unwritten rules.”
• Are experiencing stress that may be causing performance or health problems.
• Need to identify ways to deal with a difficult or obstructive manager.
• Want to make long-term, positive behavioral changes.
• Want to get back on track after a break or after being derailed in their career.

Some of the areas in which coaching can be beneficial are:

• Breaking through self-imposed limitation
• Career planning
• Life-work balance issues
• Establishing clear goals and action plans
• Developing your leadership abilities
• Improving interpersonal skills
• Aligning yourself with corporate objectives
• Embracing feedback as an improvement tool
• Understanding the necessity of good communication
• Focusing on top priorities
• Increasing accountability for self and others
• Building specific skills (such as communication or decision making)
• Handling stress and avoiding burnout
• Influencing others
• Developing emotional intelligence and understanding how it can benefit your career

Change Management

Resistance to change can mean resistance to learning and enhancement – for the individual as well as the organization. Change is never easy, but it is inevitable. To keep up in today’s fast paced world, both individuals and organizations need to be willing to change. Communicating change and managing its implementation are the keys to embodying change and getting everyone on board. Otherwise, people will fall back into their old habits and change cannot be sustained. Can you afford to waste time and energy in dealing with resistance to change and maintaining the same behaviors? Think about it…

Communication Skills

Effective communication is the key to success. Are others receiving your message as you intended it? Does your feedback or directives sometimes fall on deaf ears? What makes others perceive you differently than you perceive yourself? Much of these answers lie in your communication styles and skills. Learn how to develop your communication skills to be more effective and successful in all facets of your life.

Conflict Management

People are different. Yet we exist in environments that insist that everyone be the same. What can be done to relieve the conflict and foster a more cooperative and collaborative environment? What happens when stress builds in the office? Why did “calm Joe” become “crazy Joe”? Understanding how each of us handles conflict will result in a more productive workplace. Would you like your workplace to be more collaborative and productive?

Organizational Skills, Time Management

Who would not like to be more organized? Other than adding hours to the 24 hour day, what other possibilities are there for managing our work and personal responsibilities? There are many organization and time management models and skills that will benefit you in these areas. If you are curious, contact us. We like sharing.

Decision Making Skills

We make decisions every day, many times a day. We make a decision to get out of bed in the morning….However, when it comes to critical decisions, we are often making quick, spur of the moment decisions that will likely prove fruitless or even detrimental. Improving your decision making skills enhances your impact on others. What are the possibilities for you if you are able to better impact others?

Motivational Skills and Team Building

Keeping our teams motivated is always a challenge. In the course of the day-to-day activities, teams may lose sight of their goals. Communication and collaboration can break down. Adding tools to your kit to help motivate and build the morale often prove the most beneficial type of tools. Imagine how much more productive and successful your employees can be if they feel connected to the team and a purpose. The team’s ability to collaborate and communicate will increase dramatically if they are able to understand the goal and can envision the path towards the goal.

Be Your Best, Professionally and Personally

Most stressed out professionals know they need to change but don’t know where to start. Everyone talks about work-life balance but hardly anyone has it. That’s because it’s the wrong goal.

We offer a simple, practical, and actionable way to shift the conversation to a personal leadership strategy that helps professionals show up at their best and live happier, healthier and more productive lives. In a highly interactive workshop utilizing the Life GPS®, a proven self-management tool from the best-selling book Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative, we’ll teach your people how to follow through on a better goal — living life at their best.

SIMPLE

In the workshop we’ll lead your people in asking and answering three simple but powerful questions:

• How are you at your best?
• What are the routines – physical, mental, relational, spiritual - that will help you show up that way?
• What outcomes – at home, at work, and in your community – do you expect from showing up at your best?

PRACTICAL

We know from experience that progress comes incrementally, then suddenly. We’ll show your people how taking small steps each week leads to big results over the long run.

We’ll teach them how to adopt easy-to-do Habit Hacks that will make an immediate difference in showing up at their best no matter what’s going on around them.

APPLICABLE

We’re all about delivering an interactive, hands-on experience that creates the momentum your people need to follow through.

As participants apply Life GPS® best practices throughout the session, they learn by doing.

They’ll leave with a personal leadership strategy that creates the sustainable success that comes from small steps consistently taken.

PROVEN EXPERIENCE

The Life GPS® is at the heart of Scott Eblin’s best-selling book, Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative. Since the book’s 2014 release, companies like Bank of America, FedEx, Gap, GE, Medtronic, and Kaiser Permanente have asked us to share the Life GPS® with their employees. They tell us again and again that our simple, practical, immediately applicable approach to living life at your best is making a difference in the health and well-being of their people as well as their performance at work.

SET UP FOR SUCCESS

We set your people up for success during the workshop and after it’s over. With their Life GPS®, they’ll leave with a simple, but powerful plan for more mindful living. We’ll teach them how to engage their family, friends and colleagues so they get the support and engagement they need to make that plan a reality.

WHAT THEY'RE SAYING

“The Life GPS® approach of picking one small thing that is impactful and easy to do was very simple and resulted in more follow through than I have seen in other classes.”

Fortune 500 Senior Director

“The workshop was quite the awakening from a deep sleep of busyness. It highlighted in the most vivid way how important it is to come up for air and to intentionally slow things down.”

Fortune 500 Senior Vice President

“The Life GPS has been a life changing tool for me.”

Fortune 500 Senior Vice President

TAKE THE NEXT STEP

Ready to take the next step?

Get in touch with certified Life GPS® coach, Donna Pearring, to learn more about how you can change the game for your people and organization with a Life GPS® workshop.

Facilitation and Training

The DMP Group has a vast array of talent and experience to meet your facilitation requirements to provide training to your employees. We have provided training and/or facilitation in a variety of subjects, to include but not limited to:

• Team Building
• Board/Executive/Team Retreats
• Performance Management
• Conflict Management
• Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
• Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI)
• Employee Retention
• Interpersonal Communications
• Recruiting and Behavioral Interviewing
• 360 Feedback
• Account Planning
• Strategic Planning
• Change Management
• FIRO-B
• DiSC