Coaching & Leadership Trainings
“Look closely at the present you are constructing; it should look like the future you are dreaming."
~ Alice Walker
Executive, Business
& Personal Life Coach
We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves. ~ Patti Smith
1:1 Coaching
"You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others. ~Anthony D'Angelo
- A fulfilling life is valued, and we each have our own definitions of what we value. We will work together on clarifying and defining your core values as a first step to assessing your life and what is most important to you.
- Coaching is an opportunity to identify what you really want in life. It's an opportunity to make a clear commitment to your desires.
- Coaching is a bold and transforming step that includes developing or realizing the inner strength and resourcefulness you have within to evolve, grow and expand areas of your life.
- Coaching sessions are opportunities for clarifying goals and helping individuals to focus on relevant areas. Coaching is for you if you have a specific challenge you are seeking to overcome, need help with developing or achieving short and long-term goals and tapping into your potential, or need help changing certain behaviors.
Schedule a free 30-minute information session with Emily to inquire or get started.
Small Group or Team Coaching
“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” ~ Yogi Berra
Team coaching helps teams achieve their identified goals while building and/or maintaining an inclusive environment. It is about encouraging collaboration among team members and optimizing the effectiveness of this collaboration. Team coaching helps teams to break free from anything that might be holding them back and to provide tools to avoid this in the future. In this dynamic, it is the team, not just the team leader, that is the client.
Effective teams rely on several key components:
- Trust
- EQ
- Motivation
- Accountability
- Passion & commitment
- Ability to let go of what you think you know
Tools to support these key components will be used to support the development of the team you desire.
Group coaching will occasionally be offered on a variety of topics; please watch for communication on this.
If you have a group of individuals with a similar goal and would like to set up a structured group coaching session, please contact Emily.
It is common in many team or group coaching dynamics to involve two trained coaches. This will be discussed at booking.
1/2 Day Intensive
"Out of the wreck, I rise." ~ Robert Browning
This is perfect for you if:
- You're committed to the process and have a general idea of what you want to achieve.
- You are ready to get started to do the deep dive!
- You're ready to exercise the curiosity muscle.
This is an intensive half-day coaching session (3.5 hours). Together, we will focus on identifying your values, key challenges, and most important goals and defining a clear strategy to support your goal achievement.
Anticipate curiosity, time to reflect, activities, gain insight, a strategy for moving forward (one small step at a time), and to be exhausted (in a good way).
This session includes one 45-minute follow-up coaching session two weeks after the intensive.
Employee Training & Coaching
"What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?" ~George Eliot
Invest in your employees with coaching
The benefits of coaching are substantial. Offering coaching as an employee benefit is innovative and wise for all involved.
Benefits include:
- Improved performance, retention, and engagement
- Employees receive the support they need to reach their goals
- Increased trust and motivation to stay with your company
- As your employees grow and develop, your business will too
- Employees grow in confidence and perform at higher levels
- Increase the success of your employees at all levels
- Making employees feel valued in their roles, they are more likely to reach their full potential
RoundTable™
Take your company’s values off the wall and place them into the hearts of your people! The RoundTable™ Methodology is a process that promotes change from within instead of only seeing outward compliance to rules.
The approach of the RoundTable™ is very simple and highly effective. Using values, they employ two-way communication in a structured environment. Ideas are not taught they are facilitated. During RoundTable™, a designated person leads, but all participants are sharing from their own experiences. As a result, everyone grows together. RoundTable™ is conducted in a small group setting consisting of four to ten people, takes between thirty (four people) and sixty minutes (ten people), gives every participant a “voice” and the opportunity for a win, and is designed to emphasize and promote personal growth.
It consists of:
- +48 values called our crucial conversations, including, Responsibility,
- Teamwork, Patience, Hard Work, Respect, Empathy and Hope. (see list)
- 5 easy steps to facilitate a value.
- In-person or virtual options for participants.
- Giving everyone a voice and an opportunity for a win.
- A weekly action step by participants promotes personal growth and teaches meaningful goal setting.
Building Your Own Personal Board of Directors
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. ~Sarah Bernhardt
We all need a team of strong supporters. In today’s world, we have available to us an abundance of information, opportunities and choices. All of which drives us down the never-ending road of decision-making. Your PBOD acts as a sounding board and will provide you with unfiltered feedback on life decisions, opportunities, relationships, and challenges as they arise. During this time together, we will discuss the role of your PBOD and the important factors to consider when thoughtfully building your own PBOD.
Ready, Set, Goals!
And so the adventure begins...
For organizations, teams, and individuals!
Want to make a Positive Change? Is it time to reflect, recover and reset? Goal setting is an opportunity to set an intention, commit to that intention, and develop a plan to achieve your objective. This workshop helps participants identify their goals and leads them through a personal and/or professional planning process. Workbook and planning sheets are included. The emphasis is on the process, not the goal. Goal setting is not restricted to January 1. It happens continuously.
About Me
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. ~ Confucius
Emily Smith
“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” ~ Harvey S Firestone
As a professional in the corporate world, a community volunteer, and with over 20 years of experience in education, I’ve been fortunate to work alongside and lead diverse groups of teams and individuals.
Having a Masters in Educational Leadership & Administration and received coach training through Accelerating Coach Excellence (ACE), working with David Peterson (Former Director of Executive Coaching & Leadership at Google) and David Goldsmith (pioneer of the coaching industry) in addition to the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI), I am always ready to meet and serve my clients where they are.
Recognizing the power of ongoing learning, growth, and development, I consider myself a lifelong learner. Through this lens, I work with clients to discover a successful path in their life and work journey. One of my favorite quotes is, “Your life is a story, make it a bestseller.” It is my goal to establish a trusting relationship that inspires, empowers, and motivates clients to progress and succeed. I consider it an honor to partner with clients to establish clear goals, bring awareness to underlying beliefs, and commit to a measurable action plan; having fun and meaningful conversations is part of the journey in ultimately creating their own “bestseller.”
I look forward to working with you on your personal journey – from the inside out.
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My Core Values:
Curiosity, Family, Life-long learner, Integrity & Adventure
"We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are." ~Fred Rogers
Fred Rogers or as many of us know him as the host of the "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," show, didn't shy away from difficult subjects. He was steadfast in his message about our differences. He saw those as gifts, not something to be afraid of.
I recognize how better my own life has become as a result of the deep inner and discovery work of who I am and how I want to show up in life. The gift of really zooming in on my values and clearly defining them for ME - is what I really want others to experience.
- My relationships have improved
- I have learned how to set boundaries
- I am more peaceful and calm when it comes to problem-solving and conflict resolution
- I listen and focus at a much deeper level life has become due to
- And so much more!
Like all of you, I continue to be and always will be a work in progress.!
If you are ready to begin the important work of writing your own story, let's get started together!
