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	The Power of Paradox
	Successful leaders balance opposites - like making decisions alone and making decisions with others; telling it like it is and being tactful. Receive a free article by Coach Betsy Pickren on how to change your paradoxes from stressful to strategic. Enter your name and e-mail below, and we’ll send it and occasional other articles of interest.

	Leadership Coaching Leaders are unparalleled company assets • What are your strengths as a leader and how can you maximize them? • What positive impact do you make on others and on your environment? • Whom do you serve? • How do you balance the whole – work, relationships, leisure, achievements, and spirituality, - to create a fulfilling life? Working with Betsy, I have come to recognize my natural strengths and how I can use them more effectively to accomplish goals. Through 360 feedback, assessments and coaching, we pinpointed opportunities to maximize my impact and created specific action steps I could take to become even more effective. We also used the Harrison Assessment to better understand the dynamics among team members so that I better ensure that I have the right talent on board. Kathy Colbenson, LMFT CEO, CHRIS Kids, Inc. Which Kind of Leader Do You Want to Be -- A Talent Builder? or a Fixer? One of the things the greatest managers do differently is they get the right people into the right jobs and then coach them to use their strengths. The best way to coach your group is to lead by example, and a coach can help you recognize and buff up your own strengths. If professional golfers, tennis players, skaters, and baseball stars use coaches to become all that they can be, there is much for us to gain as business people through coaching. We accept clients who are • Building their own effectiveness as authentic leaders at any level • Going through a personal or professional transition • Looking for the next step to making their professional and personal lives even more fulfilling • Responsible for creating effective, high functioning teams in their workplace

	Coaching is a confidential, highly individual learning process designed to bring out the talents of the person. The end result is that people get in touch with desired goals, lay out the path to reach those goals and take steps toward their goals. We offer executive, team and business packages.
	Team Coaching Teams are the catalyst for organizational change • Does your team use all the person power of its members? • What is your common purpose as a team? • What talents and abilities are available and how can you maximize them? • How well do team members use conflict to create learning? • What is the level of quality the team is giving back to your organization? Betsy is proving very effective in helping our team to be more productive and confident. She is results oriented and measures what we want to accomplish. Since Betsy started to work with us, I am seeing a lot more action following words and commitments. Guido F. Sacchi Chief Information Officer CompuCredit If you want to capitalize on the strengths that individuals bring to your team, please contact us. We can bring out the great manager in you. The business world often seems obsessed with weaknesses and how to fix them. Marcus Buckingham interviewed some of the world’s most successful business leaders for his books First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently and The One Thing You Need to Know … About Great Managing, Great Leading and Sustained Individual Success. He believes companies pay a high price for mediocre managers, and that too many workers spend too much of their time doing things they don’t like to do or simply aren’t good at doing. Buckingham believes great managers succeed by setting their employees up for success. He says “A great manager knows he or she will get the most return on investment by working on strengths.” After over 10 years of experience, we at FLI share this conclusion.

Build a Coaching Organization with Facilitated Learning Workshops

FLI has access to a network of professionals from around the world. Ask us to source assessments or workplace learning tools for all your people development needs.

We are certified and qualified to offer the following resources directly:

Appreciative Inquiry The major assumption behind AI is that in every organization (team) something works. Change/improvement can be managed through the identification of what works and the analysis of how to do more of what works.

Emotional Intelligence: The Application Workshop. During this two-day workshop, participants examine the personal foundations of emotional intelligence and leadership. All participants receive coaching feedback regarding their personal strengths and vulnerabilities. Each person creates an action plan to address areas of opportunity.

Team/Group dialogue – P.A.R.T.S of Dialogue This powerful two-day workshop combines traditional communication skills with emerging approaches to dialogue to link leadership, communication, and organizational culture in a single, effective, interpersonal communication skill.