Services and Workshops

Meeting and Retreat Facilitation

In many organizations, the idea of using a neutral third party to manage and improve meetings is now taking root. The bottom line goal of facilitation is enhanced group effectiveness.

What does a Facilitator Do?

A facilitator’s job is to manage the process and leave the content to participants. Facilitators make their contribution by:

helping the group define its overall goal, as well as its specific objectives
helping participants assess their needs and create plans to meet them
providing processes that help participants use their time efficiently to make high-quality decisions
guiding group discussion to keep it on track
making accurate notes that reflect the ideas of the participants
helping the group understand its own processes in order to work more effectively
making sure that assumptions are surfaced and tested
supporting participants in assessing their current skills, as well as building new skills
using consensus to help a group make decisions that take all participants’ opinions into account
supporting participants in managing their own interpersonal dynamics
providing feedback to the group, so that they can assess their program and make adjustments
managing conflict using a collaborative approach
helping the group communicate effectively
helping the group access resources from inside and outside the group
creating a positive environment in which participants can work productively to attain group goals
fostering leadership in others by sharing the responsibility for leading the group

Personalized advising and Coaching for CEOs is offered by Frumi R. Barr, a former CEO and CFO

As the CEO, you have already reached success. You have reached your position because you are a corporate champion. We all know that all athletic champions have coaches. Wouldn't you benefit from having a corporate coach in your corner?

Each CEO has special needs and objectives. We offer you personalized coaching for CEOs to appreciate and recognize your corporate individuality. Our coaching helps you match your individual leadership beliefs and behaviors to the way in which your organization wants or needs to be led.

The major benefits that you and your organization could realize as a result of a personalized coaching designed for you, the CEO are:

Review the alignment of your purpose with that of your company	You will renew your core values and your commitment to your purpose and vision.
Achieve Clarity	You will climb to the top of a tree to observe the corporate "jungle" around you and you will clarify whether you are in the right "jungle".
Explore the costs, personally, financially, and professionally, of your coping and management styles	You will review your decision making process, beliefs, and interpersonal relationship style and determine if they are giving you proper returns or if they are costing you and should be changed.

The Program:

The CEO program is delivered in a one-on-one 3-day retreat format or in modules as requested. Following this time of renewal and recharging your batteries, there is both a follow-up period as well as the benefit of "shadow" coaching. Contact for more detailed information.

Memo
To Executives and Entrepreneurs
From Frumi Rachel Barr

Studies have shown that companies, which have incorporated performance enhancement into their cultures, have improved their revenues, profits, growth and stock prices by hundreds of percentage points! A study by Kotter and Heskett demonstrates this dramatically.

Performance Measure (over an eleven-year period)
Kotter and Heskett (1992)

	Organizations with Performance - Enhancing Cultures	Organizations without Performance - Enhancing Cultures
Revenue Growth	682%	166%
Employment Growth	282%	36%
Stock-Price Growth	901%	74%
Net - Income Growth	756%	1%

Coaching is a performance enhancement strategy that affects not just the bottom line, but the people who contribute to it. Coaching is not therapy or analysis. It's not consulting or problem-solving. If it doesn't "fix" you or a particular problem, what does coaching do?

Once used to bolster troubled staff, coaching is now part of the standard leadership-development training for elite executives and up-and-comers at companies such as IBM, Motorola, JP Morgan, Chase and Hewlett-Packard. These companies are discreetly giving their best prospects what star athletes have long had: a trusted adviser to help them reach their goals. A recent survey by the Hay Group, an international human resources consultancy revealed that some 25 to 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies use executive coaches.

What do these companies know that you should know, too? Why do businesses offer coaching to their best employees and executives? Strong managers and executives are one of the company's most valuable assets. Even the best people have the potential to grow and accomplish more for the company and for themselves. As the brightest people move into positions of greater responsibility, or as the business undergoes organizational change, leaders need new skills to help the business succeed.

By helping your company's current and future leaders maximize their performance and creativity and bring out the best in those who report to them, coaching helps to ensure employee satisfaction, build morale, and increase employee retention. When a firm invests in individual professional and personal growth, it signals value for each person's contribution that strengthens loyalty and helps the company increase retention of its valuable human capital. As industries re-invent themselves to succeed in the new economy, coaching is a powerful strategy for helping leaders and potential leaders successfully navigate corporate change.

Think of coaching in a sports sense. Would you expect a quarterback to lead without a coach? Would you expect your team to become champions without a coach? Now change the word "quarterback" to "executive" or "entrepreneur". And the word "team" to "staff." Coaching makes as much sense in business as in sports.

When we coach you, we focus on you, your life, and your career. When you are coached, you'll find the support you need to take charge and achieve the success you want for you, for your staff, for your business. Our commitment is to see you succeed. Your Success is Mine! It's more than a motto.

Whether you are an individual looking to improve your own life or part of a corporate setting in search of business results, contact us for more information on how coaching can work for you.

Remember: Your success is mine!

Frumi Rachel Barr

Assessments - Explore your Emotional Intellignce (EQ-i)

Do you remember taking an IQ test when you were in school? IQ is a measure of an individual’s intellectual, analytical, logical and rational abilities. As such, it’s concerned with verbal, spatial, visual and mathematical skills. It gauges how quickly we learn new things; focus on tasks and exercises; retain and recall objective information; engage in a reasoning process; manipulate numbers; think abstractly as well as analytically; and solve problems by the application of prior knowledge.

Now, there is another type of assessment which is more exciting in the sense that your results can be elevated.

Unlike IQ, Emotional – Social Intelligence can be increased through the coaching process. What is even more exciting is that through the extensive research of Dr. Reuven Bar-On, the top five factors for differentiating between the high performers and the low performers have been identified for each occupational group. The assessment provides a developmental plan which forms the basis for the coaching conversations. What this means is, that there is a measurable way to determine the results of the coaching engagement by administering this test at the onset and at the conclusion of the engagement.

Workshops

Workshop: Business Blast - Off

This workshop is given ideally in a 3-day retreat but is also available in modules

Description:
A staggering 80% of businesses fail in the first 3 years. This amazing fact is not due to poor ideas but as a result of not having laid a proper foundation in the first place. Take the time to do so now and be in the 20% of successful entrepreneurs!

Objectives:

Create a strategy for raising funds to get your business off the ground in the shortest amount of time
Create an inventory of partner strengths and a strategy for dividing roles
Align your business Vision and Mission with those of the founders personal goals in order to prevent conflicts which could hamper business growth in the future
Create different scenarios and a plan of business to jumpstart the intake of revenues
Create an effective way to communicate between you in order to allow your business to grow without conflicts between founders
Establish decision making techniques and develop the methods to resolve conflicts
Learn about how to become the leaders you need to be as your company grows - the keys to Emotional Intelligence

Workshop: Business Renaissance

This workshop is given ideally in a 3-day retreat but is also available in modules

Description:
Now that your business is operating it is time to evaluate whether you have laid a proper foundation. A staggering 80% of businesses fail in the first 3 years. This amazing fact is not due to poor ideas but as a result of not having laid a proper foundation in the first place. Take the time to do so now and be in the 20% of successful entrepreneurs!

Objectives:

Discuss what is working and what could be working better and create an effective way to communicate between you in order to allow your business to grow without conflicts
Create a strategy for raising additional funds in order to be prepared for growth
Review your history and strengths and revisit the division of roles
Determine if your Business Vision and Mission are aligned with those of the founders' in order to prevent conflicts which could hamper further growth of your business
Create different scenarios and a plan of business to grow your company
Review decision making techniques and develop the skills to resolve conflicts
Learn about how to become the leaders you need to be as your company grows ? the keys to Emotional Intelligence

Our Executive Coaching Program

When you are the one they turn to, where do you turn?

We coach today's and future executives in some of America's most exciting and successful companies. We consult with clients confidentially, one-on-one, with proven strategies designed to expand their perspective and creativity, build their leadership skills, and help them draw out the very best in themselves and those they supervise.

Our clients receive:

Initial conversations to clarify and align individual coaching with business goals.
Initial assessment to evaluate work and life needs and establish goals.
Telephone coaching on a weekly, biweekly, or monthly basis.
Unlimited accesses to the coach in between appointments via phone or email as per coach's schedule.
Exercises to increase self-observation, encourage creative thinking, and develop practical leadership skills.
Full confidentiality
Regular evaluation and review, along with strategies for ongoing support.

Seminars

Each of the following programs can be customized to your group's needs.

Planning for Change - a half day seminar

In a world of constant surprises, lives and careers must be redesigned over and over again, "chapter by chapter'' as we live them, Few of us know how to do this, even after years of successful performance in our chosen careers and vocations.

The rules of the game have changed. No longer can we predict what the future will bring- especially as we look backward to the past. The only certainty is continuous, or even discontinuous, change. There are many paths to choose from, each with its own attractions and perils. The world seems unpredictable, and we must chart our own course.

To survive and thrive in this state of perpetual chaos, we need to learn how to identify our location in the adult development journey - even as that location changes. We need to examine what to take on and what to set aside. We need to assess our sense of balance in our lives.

How do I regain a sense of control of my life and career amidst all these changes?
How can I figure out where I want to go in my life? My work?
How do I make the right choices that will lead me to a better place?

This workshop addresses these questions and today's challenges and questions by demonstrating the importance of being able to manage change. Recognizing that you have choices in every situation will lead you to identify the best choices to take at this time in your life.

Renewing Teams and Individuals - a full day seminar

How do we successfully adapt to the many changes that we experience?
How do we navigate the terrain and make the best decisions for our team and organization?
How do I regain a sense of control of my life and career amidst all these changes?
How do I make the right choices that will lead me to a better place?

Many of us feel overwhelmed with the amount of change and responsibilities we face in today's environment. Renewing Teams and Individuals helps us examine where we are in the Cycle of Renewal and how we can make the best choices and decisions for ourselves at this time in our lives.

Renewing Teams and Individuals is a one-day program that provides a process and tools to help groups understand a natural and predictable pattern of change and to know how to identify their own location in that cycle. They learn how to evaluate their current environment and take action around choices that support their highest goals. This program helps groups and individuals discover the best steps to take to achieve their vision of success.