Performance Coaching for Executives and Entrepreneurs

Leadership and Communication Training

Looking for exceptional training on leadership or communication? No doubt you want training that is

• tailored to your specific desired outcomes
• unsurpassed in quality of design and delivery
• built around the unique needs of the participants
• tied to the best methods for your training context

If so, those are the precise reasons you should turn to Execu-Coach Associates. We are also devoted to training of the highest quality. Because we are so uncompromising on quality, we train only in fields where we have particular strength. These include

• Leadership
• Strategic planning and strategic thinking
• Managing change
• Communication
• Interpersonal Dynamics
• Effective Goal Setting
• Motivation
• Building Strong Teams
• Resolving Conflict
• Training Trainers

Drawing on his decades of experience in non-profit organizations, Dr. Mike Armour, the founder of Execu-Coach Associates, also offers training in areas of special concern for non-profits, including:

• Leadership in non-profit settings
• Managing volunteer organizations
• Motivating and retaining volunteers
• Building a uniting vision
• Clarifying core values
• Building donor support

Special Workshops and Trainings

Coaching Skills For Leaders

Why depend on external coaches? Develop your own in-house coaching talent. Basic and advanced courses available, including tailor-made trainings for your company or organization.

Leadership FIRST

When leaders achieve their most striking results, five critical qualities always prevail.

• Focus
• Inspiration
• Resilience
• Sustained Drive
• Team Trust.

Gain greater skill in practicing each of these essential 'FIRST' qualities.

Communicate with Impact

Maximize the power of your communication by using both verbal and non-verbal cues to connect with your listener and build deeper rapport. Workshops for both public speaking and one-on-one communication.

Solving Problems Like a Genius

Discover techniques used by creative geniuses like Walt Disney to develop innovative and imaginative breakthroughs in coping with complex problems.

Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) Skills

As a credentialed trainer in the field of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), Dr. Armour  can provide basic level or advanced training in any of the dozens of powerful NLP techniques. Possible areas of training include:

• assuring the success of your personal goals

• creating resourceful inner states that allow you to perform at your best

• building deep and lasting rapport with anyone you meet

• reading and calibrating non-verbal feedback accurately

• aligning verbal and non-verbal communication to give greater impact to your message

• developing powerful platform skills as a speaker

• using presuppositional language and creative reframes to change your hearer's perspective

• using the "meta model" and the "Milton model" to clarify communication and minimize misunderstanding

This is by no means an exhaustive list of topics, as Mike can customize a training on any of the dozens of NLP techniques. He will also conduct a complete NLP pratitioner or master practitioner training for groups of six or more. Each certification requires approximately 130 hours of training, spread out over several weeks.

For more information on NLP, follow this link to our affiliate website that contains answers to many frequently asked questions about NLP.

Imaginative Leadership Using Gravesian Systems

The late Dr. Clare Graves developed one of the world's most comprehensive models for understanding human and organizational behavior. The model builds on the interplay of eight different systems of thought and value. Over time mankind has created these systems as coping mechanisms to deal with the complexity of our existence. (Learn more about Gravesian systems at our affiliated website www.leaderperfect.com.

Dr. Armour is a nationally recognized authority and pioneering author on the Gravesian model and designs workshops appropriate for businesses, churches, non-profit organizations, or educational institutions.

Topics include:

• The worldview behind each of the Gravesian systems

• The values and priorities of each system

• The treasures to be found and traps to be avoided in each system

• How these systems clash within organizations

• The most effective management and leadership styles for each system

• Motivating workers or volunteers, based on their system preference

• Assigning duties and building effective work teams based on personal system preferences

Motivating and Retaining Volunteers

Gain deeper understanding of what leads people to volunteer and what it takes to keep them involved long term in a volunteer organization.

Execu-Coach Associates
Mail: P.O. Box 595609, Dallas, Texas 75359
Offices: 11700 Preston Road, Suite 285, Dallas, Texas 75230
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