Coaching Packages
I partner with businesses, organizations, and individuals to provide coaching that focuses on setting goals, creating outcomes, and managing personal change. Team coaching addresses the group dynamics that will enhance team performance, collaboration, and resilience to face new challenges and change. Leadership coaching is for those responsible for team results and desire to improve team performance and leadership skills. Career coaching aims at the early to mid-career individuals looking to prepare themselves for leadership roles or specific career opportunities.
Pirates of the 18th-century sailing the Caribbean and the American eastern seaboard included feared captains and crews who were well organized and successful. Let’s look at how implementing a pirate’s philosophy can improve your bounty.
Team Coaching
Build a pirate ship to create a culture of self-directed volunteerism while still working as a crew.
Ship rules guide teams to create tangible agreements to build morale, resolve conflict, and share in each other success.
LET'S GO ASHORE! Pirate Code VIII: No striking one another on board, but every man's quarrels to be ended on shore, at sword and pistol. When was the last time your crew was allowed ashore to settle differences? Many teams and leaders avoid conflict, hoping it will just go away. Instead, unaddressed conflict simmers and creates a dysfunctional crew. To maintain crew size and integrity, a team coach can guide members to resolve disputes before reaching the point of a sword.
SHARED SUCCESS! Pirate Code IX: No man to talk of breaking up their way of living till each had shared one thousand pounds. The success of the team is the success of each team member.
AYE, A VOICE! Pirate Code I: Every man has a vote in affairs of moment. The strength of the ship is dependent upon every crew member's engagement. Thus, to ensure crew members support the ship, they'll want to have a voice, be treated fairly, and share in the bounty.
How do you develop a collaborative team that will deliver creative responses?
We face extensive, complicated, challenging engineering and business programs that require collaborative teams to deliver results with integrity, quality, and safety. However, establishing a high-functioning collaborative team has its challenges. A team coach may be just the support needed to enhance your organizational performance.
“In fact, we don’t talk about what we see; we see only what we can talk about.”
TEAM PACKAGE SPECS
Weekly one-on-one coaching sessions with team leadership PLUS 15-minute weekly jump start sessions to get you pumped up and action ready for the week ahead.
Weekly group coaching sessions with the entire crew.
Monthly one-on-one coaching sessions with each team member.
Each team member provided the opportunity to write their own Odyssey: a personal career guide, a team map, and journal all in one.
Bi-weekly coffee chats where the crew can unwind from the week and trade war stories with Neal and peers in a relaxed environment.
Leadership Coaching
What are your expectations of leadership? When pirate crews elected a captain, they looked for someone capable of commanding and navigating a ship. It’s also crucial that the captain has courage and skill in fighting. These desired leadership characteristics are still needed in today’s business environment.
TREASURE MAPPING AND NAVIGATION. A treasure map visualizes your desired goal and an approach to achieving it. We’ll create a map with well-defined waypoints that will give you confidence in a successful journey. Active navigation will be based on systems thinking processes.
Create visibility so that the entire crew now knows where they are, where they’re going, and how to improve the journey.
Spotlight Project Management best practices and make your team’s process visible and understandable.
Create action based on understanding.
Create simple systems for your team’s process so that nothing falls through the cracks.
Eliminate redundancy, bottlenecks, and time-sucking meetings.
Create meaningful metrics that are helpful.
THE LEADERSHIP LADDER. Provide junior officers guidance on getting their sea legs.
Establish the captain’s intent.
Develop tools and techniques necessary to supervise all crew members according to their duties.
Focus on becoming a respected leader capable of commanding and navigating a ship with courage and skill.
Rethink the nature of hierarchy and control.
Learn the art of managing and changing contexts.
Facilitate processes of self-organization.
THE CREW ACADEMY: creating employee development programs designed to improve morale, build competency, and cultivate tomorrow’s leaders.
Help people see the big picture, not just their part.
Understand that teams are nested systems composed of boundaries and inter-relationships.
Learn how to use small changes to create large effects. Become proponents of continuous improvement.
Learn to solve complex problems whose solutions are not obvious.
LEADERSHIP PACKAGE SPECS
Weekly one on one coaching sessions PLUS 15-minute weekly jump start sessions to get you pumped up and action ready for the week ahead.
Bi-weekly coffee chats where you can unwind from the week and trade war stories with Neal and your peers in a relaxed environment.
Writing your Odyssey: A career guide, treasure map, and journal all in one.
Monthly Book Club: get the best books hand-picked by Neal to advance your career delivered straight to your door.
Career Coaching
Whether you’re just getting started or halfway up the corporate ladder our career coaching package can help you uncover the leader you truly are. One-on-one coaching delivered on your schedule will not only provide you the guidance you need to navigate the corporate waters but also act as a sounding board for the frustrations you may feel when going through difficult situations in your career.
Here’s how you’ll grow:
Find your place in the corporate puzzle.
Identify opportunities to outperform your peers.
Network effectively to raise your profile both internally and inside your industry.
Think like are marketer: learn how to create a personal brand and leverage it inside your organization.
Bring clarity to your career goals and chart a course for your future.
Learn how to map your network and the systems inside your organization
career PACKAGE SPECS
Weekly one on one coaching sessions PLUS 15-minute weekly jump start sessions to get you pumped up and action ready for the week ahead.
Writing your Odyssey: A career guide, values and goals mapping, and journal all in one.
Bi-weekly coffee chats where you can unwind from the week and trade war stories with Neal and your peers in a relaxed environment.
Monthly Book Club: get the best books hand-picked by Neal to advance your career delivered straight to your door.
“I feel fortunate to have had Neal as a career coach a few years ago, as his coaching has long lasting impacts for me. Some of the questions Neal had asked during our coaching sessions are great tools that I can still use today. Some aspects that I particularly enjoyed about being coached by Neal were the structure, expectations set in place, and how he will take the time to learn about you in order to ask you fitting questions. During each coaching session, Neal listens very well to the topic I would bring, and is able to ask questions that really made me think! He helped me come to conclusions on my career path, and encouraged me to really think about what I hope to gain from certain opportunities at work. Neal’s thoughtful style of coaching helped me take control of my career. I’m very grateful for the great coaching and questions from Neal, as they are great for some critical thinking and self-reflection. I highly recommend Neal as a career coach!”