• Increase your level of personal awareness.
• Increase your ability to more skillfully respond to both organizational challenges and opportunities.
• Expand your understanding of how others in the organization view you.
• Reach for goals that are meaningful to you, yet have in the past seemed beyond your grasp.

Common Issues Addressed By Our Coaching:

• The need to grow new leadership capacities, especially coaching and other interpersonal and communication skills.
• The need for an executive to have a reliable, outside, non-political sounding board and thinking partner.
• To enhance the pace of development of a promising, up and coming new leader-manager.
• Helping a leader that’s recently taken on a new role or significantly increased their level of responsibility.
• To more fully develop the executive team into a more cohesive, trusting, collaborative and high performing unit.
• To help a team that’s moving through a significant period of change and transition.
• When the expected results are not being achieved by an individual leader or team.
• The need to more effectively handle areas such as internal conflicts, employee performance challenges, cross-functional team challenges, etc.
• The need for more structure and accountability around a significant individual, team or organizational change initiative.

Areas you can expect progress and help in:

• Developing new clarity, focus and purpose in your work.
• Turning awareness into insight and insight into action.
• Building stronger more trusting relationships.
• Communicating with greater clarity.
• More skillfully giving and receiving feedback.
• Successfully resolving conflicts .
• Gaining and sustaining more balance in the various areas of your life.
• Becoming more flexible, adaptable and successful dealing with change.

Team Coaching
We have pioneered several unique team-coaching approaches based upon extensive experience, good sound one-on-one coaching principles, change and transition management processes, and all combined with wisdom derived from the world of Aikido martial arts training.

In practical terms, the team-coaching program, The Leader’s High Performance Dojo, provides a combination of both one-on-one coaching and group coaching for a team. Team coaching is strongly recommended for teams going through a significant change effort. Team coaching is also ideal for new teams wishing a faster track to high performance.

Organizational Coaching
At Core Action Associates, we support independent businesses as they change, grow and transform themselves into high-performance organizations, capable of reaching significant goals. Our Unique Core Action Roadmap For Creating Sustainable Success is at the heart of how we help organizations thrive.

Our sweet spot includes successful organizations facing significant market challenges, whom have an intense desire to use the challenges as an opportunity for sustained development, transition and renewal.

Workshops
To support our individual, team and organizational coaching work, we provide several workshops for individual employees, managers and executives.

Standing In The Fire of Change – Making The Most Of Transitions For Individual Staff And Team Members

Standing In The Fire of Change Workshop is a practical, hands-on program for individual employees experiencing significant changes in their job responsibilities, duties and goals. Participants will learn the key differences between change and transition. They will learn the three phases of transitions and how to reduce stress and increase effectiveness in each of the phases. A number of helpful tools will be provided to help participants guide themselves through the change and transition process in a more positive, healthy and productive way.

The Change Warrior – How To Skillfully Lead Critical Change Efforts

The Change Warrior Workshop is designed for managers and business leaders who are responsible for managing a significant organizational change and transition effort. It’s also for leaders operating in an environment of nonstop change. The workshop will cover key differences between managing a change and that of managing a transition. The first being the actual physical changes or events, (new systems, operational processes, products, services, departments merging, outsourcing, closings, promotions, etc.) the second being the internal process all employees must go through to come to terms with the change.

Leaders and managers will work with all the three phases of the transition process, gaining new insight into how best to help their people successfully through each phase. They’ll learn how to help others deal with the inevitable losses that result from any significant change, how to make it through the neutral zone and finally how to step into the new world or new beginning of the new change. A number of helpful diagnostic tools will also be provided.

Leadership-Based Coaching For Leaders and Managers

The Leadership-Based Coaching For Leaders and Managers Workshop is a fresh, fun, experiential and unique offering. It's designed to help managers hone and accelerate the development of their coaching skills. Which in turn helps to build the type of environment that today's most sought after employee candidates are looking for. In fact, no other set of skills has a greater impact on staff learning, commitment, and performance than those presented in this acclaimed workshop. Leaders and managers will:

• Learn how to create powerful partnerships for performance, from identifying opportunities (or challenges) to creating personal responsibility and commitment to action.
• Build their own unique style of coaching.
• Learn to use practical, straightforward, coaching tools and processes that can be immediately applied with their team.
• Learn how to ask questions that actually create new levels of intelligence, confidence, mutual understanding and trust.
• Recognize and avoid the most common ways we unknowingly hinder learning and actually decrease motivation in others.
• Learn how skillful feedback can turbo-charge learning and performance for a person, a team or an entire company.
• Learn to listen deeply for another person's best intentions, traits, and behaviors. Co-create customized follow-up structures with others that allow them to be fully accountable to agreed outcomes.
• Learn the barriers to coaching and how to avoid them.

The Self-Coaching Clinic For Leaders and Managers

The Self-Coaching Clinic For Leaders and Managers is designed for those who are interested in accelerating their growth and effectiveness.  Of course there is no replacement for the objectivity, structure and awareness-building skill offered by a good outside coach. And over time when we seriously commit ourselves to being coached, we naturally increase our ability and capacities to more effectively coach ourselves. That is a core principle.

However, it’s equally true that this natural trajectory can be significantly accelerated by directly studying and practicing the art and skill of self-coaching. In this way, our self-coaching clinic is both a stand-alone process to immediately increase personal growth and performance, as well as a way to leverage and magnify any future work with an outside coach. Additionally, this clinic is the perfect follow-on process for consolidating and deepening the value of past coaching. It’s also perfect, of course, on the front-end as a kick-off event for a planned new round of outside coaching.

With the above ideas in mind, the Self-Coaching Clinic For Leaders and Managers is designed for those interested in a more systematic way to uncover personal blind spots and unproductive patterns that are putting a drag on their success. And it’s for those who would like to learn new ways to extract more practical knowledge and feedback from both missteps and triumphs. In essence, clinic participants will learn how to self-apply some of the most effective coaching tools used by top executive coaches.

Speaking
Dale Biron has delivered numerous speeches at professional conferences and organizational retreats. His presentations are always interactive, energetic and insightful. Key topics include the following:


Secrets of A Change Warrior – What Executives and Leaders of Independent Organizations Must Know About Change And Transition.

There is a huge difference between changes and transitions, as they occur within organizations struggling to meet constant shifts happening in the external world. Inside organizations, a change is the action or event actually taken (i.e., new service standards, new IT system, a merger, an outsourced function or whole department, etc.) while the transition is the internal process people must go through to embrace and come to grips with the change. The fact is, without working our way skillfully through a transition, the change will simply not stick. The evidence and data for this phenomenon is overwhelming. In this presentation, executives, managers and leaders of independent businesses will learn how world-class organizations and change-management leaders handle both changes and transitions, in order to create vital, robust and sustainable success.


Coaching Is The New Leadership – How to Grow Your People So Your People Grow Your Business

Committed, engaged employees are the key to any organization’s sustained success. And the best opportunity to have these kinds of employees is through the ongoing practice of coaching. At this face-paced, engaging presentation you’ll enjoy an overview of the very latest tools, benefits and ROI rationale for making coaching a core skill-set for leaders and managers. A special focus will include how to best incorporate coaching within independent organizations, overcoming the most common barriers to getting a program started. The presentation will highlight the core philosophy and skills of the very best coaches. It will also describe the correlation between coaching and sustainable performance. The presentation will provide information on how coaching is being used and implemented. And finally why today’s workers are embracing coaching as a preferred style of management and leadership.