Steve Callender is a personal trainer for emotional intelligence. He understands the things that make people good in this area, and the things that hold people back. Every client, every person is different and unique, and Steve works with where you are now and what you want to be different. Having helped so many different people, his experience makes him that much better able to work with you to offer ways to see and get past whatever it is that is giving you trouble, personally. Highly, highly recommended.
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Positive Intelligence (PQ) – Mental Fitness
Last year, I rediscovered Positive Intelligence – a radically simple approach to mental fitness that helps my coaching clients: Reduce stress Improve resilience Increase emotional intelligence Ease high productivity Handle challenging situations & people Enable changing mindset It’s an app and a structured program that brings results in 6 weeks. The app is one part
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Conversations Create Culture
Work culture’s an important thing. It’s usually invisible, outside of conscious awareness – but it effects everything! What we understand, who we trust, whether we love our work or hate it, even what we believe about ourselves and our place at work. It can be the difference between going to work fully engaged, eager to
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More Better Conversations
The way we talk to each other has a powerful effect on employee productivity, engagement, and even retention. Our conversations create our work cultures, for better or worse, whether we realize it or not. Conversational Intelligence (C-IQ) provides a framework to determine if conversation habits are helping or hurting our workplace culture. It integrates current
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Business Coaching in Minnetonka MN | Lost at Sea!
Business Coaching in Minnetonka MN You’ve been at sea for months. When you began the expedition it was full of excitement and possibility. The journey itself has been difficult, but you’ve got your heart and mind set on the awaiting paradise. You can’t wait to see the fresh grass. Since the ship left the dock—maybe
September 20, 2017
Recover from Layoffs
Many companies in the last 2 years have had to let people go. That can create a toxic workplace that the best “survivors” will be eager to leave as soon as they can. And few organizations effectively address the overwork, the fear, and the grief.
Effective Learning for Growth can help some organizations who are willing to prepare the workforce for the recovery by getting over the shocks of the last two years.
The process starts with an assessment of how things are actually working right now. This includes surveying morale, measuring work processes and loads, and listening very carefully to determine what the organizational culture needs to recover.
If the organization has the potential resilience and highly committed leadership, Effective Learning for Growth can apply some of these processes to get to a positive culture producing results with great capacity for re-growth.
Renew the vision, purpose, and strategy – from top leadership all the way through to the loading dock, the factory floor, the newest call-center operator. Success is when everyone understands why they are there, and want to be.
Improve the processes – expecting fewer people to keep doing the same work in the same ways that many more did before the layoffs can only work for so long before it breaks. Success is when people re-engage with making their work simpler, faster, better.
Re-establish trust – though the entire leadership and among all members, trust will have to be carefully and consistently rebuilt. Acknowledging where it was lost, keeping daily commitments, handling trust more carefully than ever before is the start.
Build positive “Points of Connection” throughout the organization’s culture – including with suppliers and customers, and across different structures and levels of the organization. Success is when a genuine, positive culture takes root and makes the workplace one that people want to re-join, stay, and give their best.