BLINDSPOT SERVICES

ACTION RESEARCH
As the leader are you overwhelmed with issues? Do you really know how your staff feels and thinks? Are they engaged or cynical? Do they trust you? Action Research lasers us in on what needs fixing NOW. And you get increased buy-in and reduced resistance to change. It’s a deeply respectful, collaborative path to healthy change.

EXECUTIVE COACHING
Do you know how to create high functioning organizational culture? How to motivate (not scare) your team? How to become a Great Place To Work and get the best employees? How to make decisions for maximum effectiveness? There’s a science to all of this, and Executive Coaching is much quicker than getting a MA in Organizational Behavior!

STAFF DEVELOPMENT
Do you think nice people should work well together? (They don’t). Staff development is essential for high performance and debunks many beliefs that keep us stuck in old patterns. It gets everyone on the Same Page. What will you do when you no longer have to play referee? (See Executive Coaching above)

FACILITATION
What happens when you get so wrapped up in a problem that you can’t be impartial? Facilitation helps leaders understand the differences between technical and adaptive fixes, and guides you into healthier behaviors around authority and the health of your business. It allows you to relax and just be a member of the group, rather than monitoring group function, triaging conflict, and getting distracted.

SPEAKER
The concepts of Systems and Organizational Behavior are new to many professionals. I present more formal keynotes as well as conduct interaction workshops. Following are a few of my topics, useful both in short form as an address, or as a longer workshop:
 

• Can Fish See the Water They Swim In? Toxic Work Cultures & You 
• Reptilian Behavior (In a Workplace Near You!)
• Systems & Change; Don’t Take the Turbulence Personally & Self Care
• Change Dynamics &Reptilian Behavior in a Jurassic Workplace Near You
• Change is Inevitable; Growth is Optional: Insight Strategies for your Business
• Leading From the Middle; Influencing Change When You’re Not in Charge
• Work (Culture) Can Kill You; Analyze & Strategize, and Change for Better
• Monkeys and Magic: Research-based Practices to Increase the Effectiveness of Your Team
• What’s Up With That Thing Between the Back & Front Staff!?  Silo Meltdown Strategies
• Increasing your Personal Effectiveness with Patient Care-Trust, Triggers, Goals and Stages of Change
• 4 Hallmarks of Highly Effective Teams
• Work-Life Balance- A Joke or a Challenge?
• Burnout- When Work Makes You Want to Call in Sick-And it’s Your Workplace!
• Why Did S/He Do That? Coping with Micro-Diversities @ Work
• Through the Looking Glass- Who are You as a Leader?
• The Hero(ine)’s Journey- Dragons and Guides  and Leaving the Known
• *Generational Differences: Old Farts to Upstarts
• *Conflict & Communication Skills
• Strategic Planning for Your Business: Balanced Scorecard As a Tool
• Telling, Selling, Coaching & Mentoring: Learn to Play the Full Range
• Feedback Skills for Leaders: To Avoid or Not to Avoid?
• Customer Service 101; Moving from Father Knows Best into Partnership