Business, Career, and Professional Development
Whether you are a leader looking to sharpen your soft skills, an executive refining that next career move, an entrepreneur battling time management or a sales manager ready to increase your team’s performance,
we have a customizable success plan just for you!
Below are some examples of programs delivered in the past:
4-Session CAREER
Focused on an active desire for change or advancement
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Power Your Professional Assessment (What you want to do and why)
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Resume Revamp / Professional Public Profiles (Matching Objectives)
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Applications, Cover Letter, and Follow-ups
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Interview Dos and Don't, including role-playing and scripting answers to typical questions
4-Session GOAL-GETTING
Whether financial, personal or professional
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Clearly define a SMART goal, the inspiration, and the motivation
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Outline the strategy, identify obstacles, determine delegation, and focus on results
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Recognize the GAPs and align the remedy
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Create a living action plan for ongoing accountability and achievement
5-Session LEADERSHIP EFFECTIVENESS
Discover how approach can make the difference
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Discover the difference between leadership and management
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Define your culture and attract, hire and retain accordingly
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Identify your social and leadership style and improve your soft skills to raise your EQ
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Lead by example, communicate standards and put processes in place
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Engage and empower those you lead through recognition, results and rewards
6-Session SALES PERFORMANCE
Focused on sales methodology and results
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GAP Analysis to evaluate areas for improvement or elevation
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The art (behaviors/approach) and science (KPI / metrics) of the sales success
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Critical improvements to move the needle: Organization, discipline, and time management
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Strategies for responding to resistance, conveying value, negotiating, and closing
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Co-create an action plan to meet, achieve, and exceed expectations
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Set up accountability and alignment milestones
3-Session SOFT SKILLS MASTERY
Increase your confidence and make shift-happen
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Discover the four different social styles and identify ways to exercise emotional intelligence
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Improve communication skills including listening to others and getting your message across
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Build trust, convey credibility, minimize conflict, and maximize collaboration opportunities
3-Session MINDSET MATTERS
Increase your confidence and make shift-happen
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Identify limiting beliefs that prevent action and interrupt results
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Create incantations and words of affirmation and identify healthy routines
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Redefine how you view your capabilities and become your greatest cheerleader
4-Session RECRUITER’S RETREAT
Executive Search strategies and best practices
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GAP Analysis (Goals, Activities, Processes) power hour observations with alignment recommendations
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Get into GEAR (Goals, Effort, Activity, Results) to realize potential
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Identify tools to assess needs and align solutions, negotiate and win business
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Follow through by managing the process and delivering upon expectation
Our Head Coach
Laura Burgess
Master Certified Professional Coach
As a corporate executive, global speaker and entrepreneur, she's a risk taker and a dream maker. She gets those over-achievers who want it all yet may feel behind or overwhelmed at times. She intuitively guides you, evokes renewed commitment and celebrates your wins!
Laura has been globally recognized as a business, career and leadership mentor, an expert trainer of sales and soft skills and a weight and wellness consultant. She offers a refreshing approach to setting and achieving life goals and to date has delivered 100+ conference workshops, developed 1,000+ leaders and trained 10,000+ sales professionals.
As the mother of two young men, the wife of a gentleman she makes older by the day and a turbulent yet rewarding roller coaster of a life, she offers a unique lens to help you wink at life's challenges before playfully dancing them to sleep!
She is a life strategist and success coach subscribing to the belief that "you cannot take someone further than you have been or further than they are willing to go". She is a mindset shifter, converting doubters into doers.
Are you ready?
"Few things thrill me more than witnessing clients break through years, sometimes decades, of barriers ... within weeks!"
-Laura Burgess
