Kennedy and Company - Coaching, Leadership and Career Development, Presentations

On-site Presentations/Workshops

The offerings below can be adapted for any scenario, plus new ones can be created specifically for your needs.

The Engaged Employee™
Coaching for Engagement™
Coaching for Leadership Success™
Making Your Work, Work: How to Make the Most of Staying Where You Are™
Seasons of Change: What's Next for Your Career?™
Next Step Coaching Circles for Leaders™

"Employee engagement means workers are adding extra value by being themselves at their best." --Dan Kennedy

Gallup has found that organizations where most of the employees are highly engaged are:

56% more likely to have higher customer loyalty
50% more likely to have lower employee turnover
38% more likely to have above-average productivity, and
27% more likely to report higher profitability

The key to engaging people at work is to help them recognize their own values and strengths, and then to make sure their managers are encouraging them to tap those powerful personal assets as much as possible. This workshop helps employees and their managers to identify their values and strengths, plus determine how each individual will bring them to their work. (Time: 2-3 hours.) The following workshop is then suggested for managers.

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Coaching for Engagement™

"Coaching helps employees to excel and perform in ways that leverage their individual strengths and values." --Dan Kennedy

When employees know what they need to be successful and engaged at work--and it's different for each person--it's time to use coaching to apply those insights and to make them come alive in the workplace. This interactive course will give you the simple tools you need to have powerfully supportive conversations with your people so that they can regularly tap their strengths and values to create significant results. The course includes a copy of Dan Kennedy's coaching manual for easy reference. (Time: 3-6 hours.)

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Coaching for Leadership Success™

"Coaching helps people to discover what they want, and how to get it."
--Dan Kennedy

Coaching is an accepted trend in today's effective organizations. Leaders at all levels of organizations are now using coaching to achieve results in less time and with greater commitment from employees. But what is coaching? How does it work? How is it different from traditional management techniques? This highly experiential course will answer these questions and introduce you to simple and effective coaching methods you can use immediately. You will receive easy to use reference materials including Dan Kennedy's coaching manual. (Time: 3-6 hours.)

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Making Your Work, Work: How to Make the Most of Staying Where You Are™

"Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do." --Gerry Sikorski

If you think that leaving for another organization will bring you success, think again. This timely and essential presentation/workshop will help you see the possibilities in growing where you already are. Many of the myths that we bring to our jobs will be explored, exploded, and then replaced with ideas that actually work in your favor. Working individually and as part of a group you will come to discover what energizes and engages you, and how to bring more of who you are to your current workplace. Also, effective ideas will offered for dealing with daily distractions and challenges that we all face at work. (Time: 1-3 hours.)

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Seasons of Change: What's Next for Your Career?™

"Live each season as it passes; breath the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit and give yourself to the influences of each." --Thoreau

You're in love with your job.
Your career is lackluster and without energy.
Your work is depressing and you don't know what to do.
You're excited by the possibility of what's next for you and your career.

Can you relate to any of these statements? If so, come to this engaging presentation to discover a new and powerful paradigm for taking greater control of your life at work. By using the Four Seasons, we will discover the tasks, challenges, gifts, lessons and strategies that await each of us at critical points in our careers. A highly regarded and effective workshop, full of hope plus good and practical ideas. The facilitator is a practicing executive and career coach who has taught at the University of Washington in Seattle. (Time: 30 minutes to 2 hours.)

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Next Step Coaching Circles for Leaders™

"My time in the Circle was worth it in my busy life. It gave me tools for my ministry to help those I serve to stop spinning their wheels and to move forward on their journeys. It also grounded me on my own journey with the coaching I received. It was a great course."
-- Pastor Ken Colman, United Christian Church

If you are a leader today, chances are that you and your peers are facing some very real challenges, including:

The need for more experience in key leadership and management skills
Feelings of isolation and the need for self-care
Growing demands on your time and creativity

Now, a new and affordable kind of support is available to help you grow both personally and professionally. It's called the Next Step Coaching Circles for Leaders.

In your Coaching Circle you will be part of a supportive learning community of leaders from various organizations. Your group will meet over two months and be facilitated by certified professional coach, Dan Kennedy. You and the others in your Circle will be coached to create results that matter to you in your professional and personal lives, and along the way you will learn coaching skills that you can take back and use at work. "Next Step" refers to the idea that coaching is about the significant "next step" that you're willing to take in your own behalf.

As a Coaching Circle member you will be able to enjoy the following benefits:

Greater fulfillment. Your Next Step Circle will allow its members to receive the benefits of coaching and, as a result, become more engaged in their lives.
Professional development and skill-building. Members will discover how to be more effective in their work, plus learn basic coaching skills which they can then use with their congregations.
Empathy. Circle members will have a greater appreciation of their peers and their issues, regardless of each person's denomination.
Support. The group will be a "safe harbor," an encouraging and supportive community. Confidentiality is a part of the program.
Your Circle will be self-sustaining. If you like, after the initial two months, you will be able to continue to meet whenever and wherever you and the other members please.

We are excited about the success of this new program, and hope you can be a part of our next Circle.

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For more information, please contact Kennedy & Company at:
206-783-6829 or info@ResultsThatMatter.com