PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
EXECUTIVE COACHING
SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS
Large and small life challenges are important catalysts for change. Without challenge, an individual loses the impetus to learn and grow.
It is impossible, and perhaps even undesirable, to remove or eliminate all stress, but what is important is how we react in stressful situations. Our reactions can positively or negatively affect how we feel about ourselves and those around us.
Meeting stressful situations successfully increases our confidence in our own abilities and this confidence can keep us engaged and fulfilled in our career and with our family and friends. Feeling that stress has not been handled well can undermine self-confidence and compound existing difficulties.
Part of the coaching process is to learn more about yourself and to develop new skills to reduce stress and facilitate success.
What Is It?
Executive coaching can help executives improve their effectiveness in an ever-changing business environment. Coaching focusses on three main goals:
- Enhanced problem-solving skills
- Strengthening interpersonal communications by enhancing team-building skills
- Optimizing motivation and creativity
- Defining your goals and setting objectives to reach them
- Providing a variety of approaches to achieve set goals
- Monitoring and supporting the attainment of both short- and long-term goals
- Strategies to improve performance and success
- Enhanced productivity and self-efficacy as a result of successful goal attainment
- Personal/corporate change and adaptation
- More motivated and creative individuals and teams
- Fewer personal or corporate blocks that limit success
- Wider range of viable outlets for personal creativity
- Better understanding of strengths and weaknesses
- Stress coping strategies
There is no single solution that works for everyone, but coaching can assist executives to assess their individual and team options. Much like a personal trainer at the gym, the corporate coach can help top-level executives continue their own training to improve outcomes.
Expected coaching outcomes:
Change and Stress Management
An examination of the sources of stress, the stages in the stress response, and how arousal (high levels of stress) affects performance. Concentrating on effective coping strategies and how individuals can stay ahead of stress. Attention is paid to the body component of stress by finishing with a progressive muscular relaxation, a technique focussing on contracting and then relaxing muscle groups in a systematic way.
Team Building
Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator inventory in business is an effective method for examining an individual’s preferences in decision making, learning, information processing and communications. A half-day seminar is constructed to help senior managers and executives fine-tune team building and problem-solving skills. Subsequent one-to-one sessions supplement the group session and provide privacy for working on individual work-related issues.
Understanding Interpersonal Relationships
This seminar provides a context for why it is important to understand the patterns that affects our relationships with others. Participants identify their own relationship template to reveal how these patterns affect business and home life. We examine some of the cultural forces that reinforce certain stereotypic patterns of relating and outline a basic strategy to change patterns you are unhappy with.
Communications and Team Building
This seminar focuses on what makes good teams with an emphasis on developing clear communication skills. We examine open versus closed information systems and integrate this information with a fun, effective communication exercise.
Clients
Since 1996, I have offered seminars and workshops in the Toronto downtown core for law firms, financial institutions and other businesses, including:
Royal Bank of Canada Financial Group
RBC Dominion Securities
SHL-System House
McDonald’s Canada
Scotia McLeod
Torys
Blake, Cassels & Graydon
Davies, Ward and Beck
Robins, Appleby & Taub
The Bay
All of the seminars and workshops can be specifically tailored to meet your requirements.
Jorhdin earned a B.Sc. (Honours) in Psychology at the University of Calgary in 1986, an M.A. at York University in 1988 and a Ph.D. in Community Health at the University of Toronto in 1992.
Her counselling internship was conducted in 1989–90 at the Atkinson Counselling and Psychotherapy Centre, York University. She served as a consultant at the Centre in 1990–91.
Jorhdin has trained at the Bradshaw Center in Los Angeles and been in private practice since 1989. She has attended the C.G. Jung Institute Analyst Training Program of Pittsburgh and has completed the Myers-Briggs Personality Inventory and Eye Movement Desensitization and Re-Processing (EMDR) training.
Ontario Psychological Association
My office is located in Toronto in the
Canada Trust Tower of Brookfield Place
161 Bay Street (Bay and Front Streets)
Tel: 416.214.1963
E-mail: jb @ jbanner.org