MAKING BALANCED DECISIONS

The demands of leadership rarely afford leaders opportunities to ask themselves the important questions. We create space for our clients to slow down and turn inward. Subscribing to the following beliefs, we help bring clarity and balance to make more resonant decisions:

UNEARTHING YOUR MOTIVATIONS AND VALUES

Authentic values are guideposts towards long-term success. What do you really care about? We support our clients in articulating their values and clarifying their highest commitments. Doing so does not involve searching for ‘aspirational values,’ but rather examining a handful of concepts that make up your essential elements. Clear values create light posts that provide the path for both you and your team towards making concordant choices and backstops from making overly convenient ones.

PRESSURE TESTING YOUR ASSUMPTIONS

The stories that you tell yourself may no longer be serving you. What do you know to be absolutely true? We work to separate inarguable facts from the stories that you tell yourself. We recognize your stories as simply being stories, and then delve into alternate perspectives and their associated possibilities

ACCESSING YOUR WHOLE SELF

“Human rationality depends on emotional sophistication” – Jonathan Haidt

What is your gut telling you? The latest science teaches us that our feelings are in the driver’s seat while our ‘rational thinking’ is merely a passenger in the journey. Together we examine your emotions, feelings, and intuitions in an effort to better understand the frame that is influencing your thinking. We support our clients to integrate their intelligent insights with the wisdom of their heart.

Taking practical actions:

Organizations put unlimited demands on a finite resource: a leader’s time and attention. These demands kick up a whirlwind of the urgent, taking away focus from the important. Subscribing to the following drivers of outperformance, we help our clients focus on what matters and enable the actions and behaviors required for growth:

PRIORITIZING YOUR AGENDA

Less is indeed more. What is the one thing that you can change that will have the largest impact? The evidence confirms that selective resource allocation leads to better results. We help our clients clarify and prioritize their most critical issues, tasks, and collaborations and then create the space to maintain focus on what is important.

BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN YOUR INTENTIONS AND YOUR IMPACT

Your impact on others, not your intentions, determines your effectiveness. What does everyone know about you that you don’t know about yourself? While leaders judge their success based on their own intentions, the world does so based on the leader’s behaviors and actions. We conduct assessments to help clients take stock of their strengths and weaknesses, consider alternative approaches, and commit to new behaviors. 

LAYING DOWN THE GROOVES

It’s all just theory until you feel it in your bones. How can you make your changes last? Insights, ideas, and intentions are all only theories until repeated practice creates deep grooves over which the desired thoughts and behaviors flow automatically. We connect practice to why the new behaviors matter to you, and demand accountability for the repetitions required to live the new behaviors.