Services

COACHING SERVICES

Executive Coaching

While providing strategic direction to the organization, executives have to consider contextual factors in managing interpersonal relations inside and outside the organization, managing team dynamics, and balancing demands for productivity and accountability. The coaching relationship creates personal space to consider operating context, strategy, relationships and dynamics in the executive role.

Leadership Coaching 

Coaching assists with development of new perspectives and acquisition of new knowledge, skills and behaviors to assist with the actual or anticipated assumption of a new leadership role, whether in a start-up, as an elected official, in a faith-based or community organization, or in a supervisory role at the job. A collaborative approach is utilized to identify leader needs, goals and values, then determine agendas for coaching sessions to ensure rich discussion regarding the personal and organizational challenges of leadership.

Life Coaching

Performance opportunities. Transitions in friendships, couple relationships, parenting roles. School-, work- or opportunity-inspired dislocations and relocations. Movement in jobs, careers, stages of life. While each of these transitions presents opportunities for growth, they also present new challenges. Engagement in goal-focused interactive coaching assists with development of strategies to address the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities in ways that are true to your values.

Personal Brand Coaching

Your online presence is somewhere between modest and robust. You are known in your community and among your peers as a star performer, but you would like to position yourself to monetize your star qualities. Brand coaching helps you determine how to build on your status to attract the kind of following - and attention - that can bring product or business endorsements. Brand coaching also helps you identify strategies to grapple with the pressures of athletic performance and managing a high public profile.

ORGANIZATION ASSESSMENT

A case study approach is taken to develop a snapshot of recent as well as current operations and work products to assess activity and ascertain alignment with mission, vision, values and targets. Review of essential documents, interviews with key staff and other actors, focus groups and survey research may each be put to use to ensure the best assessment of organizational status, practices, challenges, and opportunities. Assessments can be completed for projects and divisions as well as for entire organizations.

STRATEGIC PLANNING

This very fluid operating environment for non-profit and for-profit organizations necessitates change-oriented structures and leaders at all levels who can act swiftly and purposefully while building the confidence and capacity of staff to embrace change. Strategic planning is used to articulate goals and targets that consider existing methods and systems while laying the groundwork for change and innovation as demanded by circumstances.

DIVERSITY AND MULTI-CULTURAL COMPETENCY

Common Forces, LLC works with organizations to assess and enhance staff competence in multi-gender, multi-cultural relations both inside the organization and in interaction with communities where work is conducted. We provide education that considers the cultural, cognitive and behavioral sources and manifestations of bias, and includes experiential learning and opportunity for personal reflection to assist with gaining and sustaining improvements in organizational and community climate.

PRESENTATIONS ON NATIONAL AND GLOBAL AFFAIRS

Variable rate, dependent upon event, audience, venue, travel, presentation length and topic— Topic areas requested typically concern history and current events.  Typical formats include lecture, panel or interview.