Emotional Courage and Coaching: The Key to Helping Your Clients Get Massive Traction on Their Most Important Work (and Getting Your Most Stuck Clients Unstuck) with Peter Bregman
We’ve all been there. Whether it’s a particularly challenging issue or a difficult client, even the best coaches get stuck sometimes and don’t know how to help their clients move forward. And, despite what seems like our best efforts, clients don’t follow through on their own plans or fail to take the steps they agree they should take and say they want to take.
In this session, bestselling author Peter Bregman tackles this problem once and for all. Peter will unlock the secrets of highly successful coaching - no matter whom you are coaching - pinpointing the missing ingredient that makes all the difference: Emotional Courage.
In this webinar Peter brings the ideas of his new book to life. You will:
- learn why emotional courage is the key to your strongest coaching;
- learn specific techniques to apply the principle of emotional courage in your coaching; and
- experience emotional courage in the moment so that you leave the webinar a stronger coach than when you came in.
Most importantly you will increase the rate and consistency of your client’s follow-through - the holy grail of coaching.
Key Learning Takeaways
1. What emotional courage is, and why it’s important to develop as coaches and in our clients.
2. How to identify whether Emotional Courage is holding your client back.
3. Practical, actionable techniques to apply Peter’s Emotional Courage methodology in your coaching.
Biography
Peter Bregman writes, coaches, and teaches, mostly about leadership. He is a Master Certified Coach and the CEO of Bregman Partners, a company that helps successful people become great leaders, create exceptional teams, and inspire their organizations to produce outstanding results. He helps leaders to develop their leadership skills, build aligned, collaborative teams, and overcome obstacles to drive results for their organizations.
Peter has a deep understanding of both organizations and people and has dedicated his entire career to finding solutions that bring the interests of both together. His proven, scaled organizational coaching with the Big Arrow Process aligns people and gets them working together to accomplish an organization’s most important work.
He has implemented his proprietary solutions and coached CEOs and senior leaders in many of the world’s premier organizations, including Allianz, American Express, Brunswick Group, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, FEI, GE Capital, Merck, Clear Channel, Nike, UNICEF, among others.
Peter is a sought-after speaker and thought leader in the areas of leadership development, organizational change, productivity and emotional courage. He is the host of the Bregman Leadership Podcast, which offers insightful conversations with industry thought leaders on how to become more powerful, courageous leaders. He is also a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, and his articles and commentary appear frequently in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Fast Company, Psychology Today, Forbes, The Financial Times, PBS, ABC, CNN, NPR, and FOX Business News.
Peter is the author, most recently, of Leading with Emotional Courage: How to Have Hard Conversations, Create Accountability, and Inspire Action on Your Most Important Work. His book, 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done, was a Wall Street Journal bestseller, winner of the Gold medal from the Axiom Business Book awards, named the best business book of the year by NPR, and selected by Publisher’s Weekly and the New York Post as a top-ten business book. He is also the author of Four Seconds: All the Time You Need to Replace Counter-Productive Habits with Ones That Really Work, a New York Post“Top Pick for Your Career” in 2015, Point B: A Short Guide to Leading a Big Change and a contributor to six other books.
Peter earned his B.A. from Princeton University and his M.B.A. from Columbia University.
Live Coaching Demonstration with Jonathan Reitz: Coaching ONLY What the Client Actually Says
This coaching demonstration with Jonathan Reitz, MCC focuses on strategies to help the client name what they want (in life, in the coaching situation, in the coaching engagement or in another environment)--even when the client is hesitant!
In this coaching session, Jonathan will also demonstrate a number of approaches that coaches can use to appropriately offer input or ideas for the client to consider, all while staying in alignment with the ICF Competencies!
Key Learning Takeaways
1. You will learn several strategies to help your client connect the dots about what they are actually thinking.
2. You will see examples of masterful Direct Communication, Creating Awareness and managing progress and accountability.
3. You will explore how the coach can leverage conversation skills to change the client’s perception of themselves or of a situation.
Biography
Jonathan Reitz is the Director of Training/CEO at CoachNet Global; an International Coach Federation Approved Training Program. He holds the ICF’s Master Certified Coach (MCC) credential. Jonathan is the author of Coaching Hacks: Simple Strategies to Make Every Conversation More Effective. (CoachNet: Cleveland, OH 2017)
The focus of Jonathan’s coaching practice is leaders and organizations that want to develop their people to maximum potential. Long term, measurable impact is another critical ROI for Jonathan’s coaching clients.
Leaders and organizations who work with Jonathan Reitz:
Develop more clarity on who they are and where they are going,
Design more effective action plans,
Live in more satisfying relationships, and
Get more done in less time.
As a Harrison Assessment Master Trainer & Solutions Partner, he uses the Harrison Assessment to explore client behavioral preferences and tendencies for talent development and strategic planning.
Since beginning his coaching career in 1997, Jonathan has worked with leaders from organizations around the world including Nike, Pinterest, The Weatherhead School of Business (Case Western Reserve University), Graftech International, Thrivent Financial, Beef International, various school districts, and multiple not-for-profit organizations.
Morning radio & television was Jonathan’s first career which means he spent more than 20 years getting up earlier than anyone you know.
No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Drama, End Entitlement and Drive Big Results
Most leadership philosophies are grounded in two completely faulty assumptions — “change is hard” and “engagement drives results.” Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to keep change from being disruptive to employees. What these engagement programs actually do is create and reinforce feelings of victim-hood and leave employees unprepared to adapt to real changes that are necessary for the health and profitability of their enterprises. Rather than driving performance and creating efficiencies these programs fuel the Emotional Waste, Entitlement, and Drama that drags down organizations. This is backwards. And expensive.
Over the past three years, Reality-Based Leadership, in partnership with the Futures Company, conducted proprietary research in our client organizations such as Cisco, Medtronic, New York Presbyterian, The Nebraska Medical Center and Bayer. The findings affirm what we’ve observed in our 20+ years of experience doing Reality-Based work in hundreds of organizations: when employees indulge in distracting drama, learned helplessness, low accountability, lack of self-awareness, and ego-driven behavior it comes at a significant cost to their organizations. We now know it can easily consume up to three months per year of each employee’s time — potentially billions of dollars annually in the U.S. alone. That's the Drama Quotient.
At Reality-Based Leadership, we propose a radically different approach to leadership. Changing the ways leaders think and the strategies they use in their work is a serious and critical economic issue. A leader’s role shouldn’t be — cannot be — to motivate employees. That is a choice employees make. Instead, a leader helps others develop the great mental processes they need to eliminate self-imposed suffering and choose to be accountable for driving results.
It is time to redefine leadership with science and research, to teach leaders strategies and tools that will actually work in their modern workplace. Leaders and organizations deserve to have a new understanding of what greatness looks like and how it can be fueled. No Ego delivers that call to greatness for all. It provides the roadmap to thinking differently about leadership and employee roles and actually delivering results, not in perfect circumstances but in today’s world.
Key Learning Takeaways
1. Develop highly effective mental processes in their teams that hold all team members accountable to quality and excellence
2. Comprehend a list of questions that can be implemented immediately and used for self-reflection and awareness
3. Compelling research showing that current leadership strategic direction and foundational philosophies regarding change management, engagement, accountability and leadership development are flawed and causing significant waste in the workplace
Biography
Cy Wakeman is a drama researcher, global thought-leader, and New York Times best-selling author who is recognized for cultivating a counter-intuitive, reality-based approach to leadership. Backed by 20 years of unparalleled experience, Wakeman’s philosophy offers a new lens through which employees and executives alike, can shift their attention inward, sharpen their focus on personal accountability, and uncover their natural state of innovation simply by ditching the drama.
Deemed “the secret weapon to restoring sanity to the workplace,” Wakeman has helped companies such as Google, Facebook, Viacom, Uber, NBC Universal, NASA, Pfizer, Johns Hopkins, Stanford Health Care, Keurig Dr. Pepper, AMC Theatres, White Castle, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and countless others learn to navigate our rapidly changing world using good mental processes to harness energy wasted in workplace drama and reinvest that effort into achieving profound business results.
As a highly sought-after conference headliner, Cy Wakeman holds a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation from the National Speaker’s Association, placing her within the top 3% of speakers. She’s a regular contributor on Forbes.com, Success.com, The Huffington Post, and Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global. She’s been featured on the TODAY Show, theAskGaryVee Show with Gary Vaynerchuk, Cheddar TV, The New York Times, Business Insider, The Daily Muse, SHRM.com and many more. Voted in the top 100 leadership professional to follow on twitter for 7 years in a row, Wakeman also came in at #23 on the Global Gurus 2019 list of top 30 Leadership Professionals around the world.
Wakeman has published three books, the latest of which is No Ego: How to Cut the Cost of Drama, End Entitlement and Drive Big Results (2017). Cy also hosts her own No Ego podcast, a Facebook Watch show, Life’s Messy, Live Happy, and adds weekly video content on YouTube to address leaders’ biggest challenges in the workplace.
