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Introduction
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What We Do
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How
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The Benefits
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Past Clients
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Program
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Learning
Approach/Philosophy
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Associates
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Testimonials
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R.E.A.C.H.
the acronym
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Contact Info
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Introduction
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Ripples expand & then become part of the whole.
What are your ripples & what are they expanding in your business? |
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Are
you a business owner who values learning as one of the most effective tool for
enhancing performance? Do you view people holistically knowing the importance of
balance in mind, body and spirit? Do you encourage collaborative relationships
in your work place?
Would
you like to attract and retain high impact people and increase bottom line
profits?
Your
proactive business can succeed in reaching these goals by creating a
learning-work environment that inspires and propels employees to their highest
potential.
Your
employees will work in full alignment with the values and mission of your
business. With this, they are empowered to be accountable and responsible at all
levels and enjoy the challenges of their work. Job satisfaction radiating from
the reward of challenge, trust and responsibility, honor and respect all inspire
employees to give more than 100%. They commit to the business and take pride in
its success.
What we do
We are
organizational learning & development professionals who help proactive small
and medium
businesses create holistic learning-work environments of ongoing potential and
productivity that bring greater profit and success.
REACH Resources’ unique system, breadth of knowledge and skills, and depth of
intuitive reasoning elevate the transformation experience you seek for your
business. Some of the features of our process include:
Assessment-tapping into the inner
wisdom of you and your business: explore, discover and develop or
enhance values, purpose, vision, goals
Inspiration-developing
customized strategies for creativity, innovation and team to support your vision
and goals;
Action-
The Five Keys to Planning the Learning-subject, transformation, experience,
purpose and competencies; designing the implementation and facilitating
progress
how
we do it
Learn to Inspire – a uniquely
comprehensive, inspiring and highly effective learning design and development
model for creating positive work environments, meeting development, performance
management, training, workshops, retreats and orientations. Bring your workplace
learning approach to reality by designing and developing:
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The Subject Matter (in relation
to the target learners and you’re the needs of your business)
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Desired Transformation (what new
belief, understanding or acceptance they will take on)
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Learning Experience (what will
the experience feel, look and be like for the learners as individuals, teams and
a culture)
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Purpose/Goals (what is the point
of the learning and what steps will be taken in the process)
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Learning Competencies (the new
attitude, knowledge and skills employees attain)
The inspired learning model
approach creates a safe and effective space for people to learn faster,
integrate the learning more fully and transfer the learning to new situations.
Employees will work more
accurately and efficiently and with greater joy, respectfulness, enthusiasm and
innovativeness for customer interactions and team work.
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Productivity enhanced
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Performance developed
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Potential reached
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Profits
increased
Workshops/Retreats - Our inspired and blended learning model approach provides to perfect
environment for learning that is effectively transferred to the work. Customized
to meet your topic and participant needs and incorporating the Learn to Inspire
model of design, development and facilitation.
Coaching -
Knowing you have what it takes to succeed in your role as manager, business
owner and community leader is the greatest gift toward achieving the results you
want. Great leaders also know that having the right support and guidance can
allow the space for reaching great potential.
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Coaching is an ongoing
relationship, which focuses on the client taking action toward the realization
of their vision, goal, or desires.
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Coaching uses a process of
inquiry and personal discovery to build the client’s level of awareness,
recognition of strengths, talents and gifts, and provides structure, support and
feedback.
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The coaching process helps
clients both define and achieve professional and personal goals faster and with
more ease than would be possible otherwise.
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Coaches tap into your own
expertise, facilitate learning, are your mirror and allow you to claim
responsibility for what you do and how you be.
Organizational Development Consulting
– Our OD Consulting serves to help assess and evaluate the current reality and
the undercurrent influences. From here we work with you to generate a plan for
achieving the results needed and desired. Meet goals, increase productivity,
enhance moral, build powerful teams, develop a supportive culture, improve
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The Benefits:
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Retain high impact people
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Develop leaders for the future
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Inspire personal & professional growth
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Improve work practices
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Improve morale
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Enhance communication
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Build effective teams
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Build better relationships
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Increase productivity
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Progress in your strategic plan
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Manage change effectively
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Improve bottom line profits
We value creating
environments that respect, inspire, energize and motivate the best in people so
that the work place is not just satisfying, but a place they want to go to every
day to reach their full potential.
We are committed to guiding
others to live inspired lives. Because of this we operate from a place of
creativity, positive energy, deeply profound listening and patience. We take the
time to fully understand where you are at now and where you most want to be. The
approach includes tapping into the inner wisdom of you and your company,
generating processes designed to open creativity and inspiration, connecting the
dots and developing in collaboration a plan for moving forward and helping you
to implement that plan.
Offering formal education
and decades of experience in business, management and organizational development
and staff learning we care about bringing excellent service and being your
partner in creating success.
Past Clients
Business Coaching
Brandon Reed, Fitness Together,
Northampton, MA
Business Coaching
Dr. Bradford Eichwald, Active
Chiropractic, Hadley, MA
Management Coaching
Peter Furgenson, Housing
Telecommunications, Umass, Amherst
Executive Coaching
Sharon Shevlin, Housing
Telecommunications, UMass, Amherst
Executive Coaching
Robert Zombik, Alston Engineering, MA
Process Re-Design, Strategic Planning, Performance Management
and Executive
Coaching
Community Outreach and Education, Sally Linowski
Respectful Workplace, Management/Leadership
Development, Executive Coaching
University Health Services, Bernie Melby
Independent Associates Team Development,
Business and Management Coaching
Debee Boulanger, Owner-The Abundant
Wellness Center, Chicopee, MA
Annual Staff Retreat
Commonwealth College, Cory Pols
Strategic
Planning for AQAD Review
University of MA, Theater Dept, Harley Urbman
Change Management, Team Development and
Executive Coaching
Office of Public Relations, Dick
Conner
Customer Service
Five Office Initiative, Paul Vasconcellos
Team Development, Management Coaching
Office of Grants and Contracts
Administration, Leanne Every
Work Flow Process Re-Design, Management Team
Development, Executive and Management Coaching
Office of Community Service
Learning, John Reiff
Team Development, Performance Management,
Management Coaching
WFCR Public Radio, Martin Miller
Employee Development, Management Coaching
Sicard's Ace Hardware, Rachael
Carney
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Examples of Program
Offerings
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Inspired Workshop Design
a.
Problem:
Not enough of your ideal clients/customers using your services or products
b.
Solution:
Learn how to grow your business by attracting ideal clients and customers with
inspiring & powerful workshops
i.
Create the vision for your
workshop or class (subject matter, audience, transformation, purpose, learning,
title, environment)
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Develop the learning process (how
will you help your participants gain new awareness, attitude, knowledge and
skill)
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Implementation (what you need to
know about rolling it out-materials, handouts, promotion, tools, techniques,
follow-up, etc)
c.
Result:
Increase in qualified referrals and active clients/customers-Increase in revenue
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High Vibration Work Environment
a.
Problem:
Negative work environment causing loss in performance, productivity, job
satisfaction, retention
b.
Solution: Encouraging Words and
Actions
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Discover the words and actions
that encourage and inspire
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Create a respectful workplace
culture
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Identify the rhythms and cycles of
your business and workforce
c.
Result:
Increase retention and job satisfaction, increase work performance and
productivity
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Leaping Out of the Rut
a.
Problem:
Things are at a standstill, employees just putting in their time, lack of
innovation and ownership
b.
Solution: The Survive or Thrive
Work Environment
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Motivate excellence through an
inspired learning approach
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Elevate employee potential through
supervisory coaching
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Create a plan for joint
collaboration in bringing your business forward
c.
Result:
New business, new ideas, new energy, new money
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Tackling the Communication
Quagmire
a.
Problem:
Inappropriate, incorrect information causing conflict, decreased moral, negative
feelings and behaviors
b.
Solution: Grapevine & Gossip –
Making them work for you
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Change the intention behind the
message
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Transform negative speak to truly
useful dialogue
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Create a plan for managing the
hardy “hurter” in your organization
c.
Result:
Transform the current communication system into one that serves the organization
and increase performance, creativity and production
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Managing Self as a Communicator
a.
Problem:
Interpersonal communication is a critical element of every work environment. The
problem comes when people are triggered to react in a negative way that breaks
down communication.
b.
Solution: From Auto-Response to
Response-Ability
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Explore patterns of behavior, auto
responses, common triggers
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Understand your typical reactions
without judgment
iii.
Learn the FIVE STEP process that
influences our auto responses
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Learn where and how to interrupt
this process and develop new patterns of behavior
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Enhance your ability to CHOOSE how
you will react to your old and new daily triggers
c.
Result:
Employees learn to respond more effectively thus increasing effective
communication around difficult subjects and situations which eliminates the
distraction of fixing it. Time, energy and team work saved.
Other Topics
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Quiet the Inner Critic (Gremlin Management)
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Learning with the Heart in Mind
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The Kick-Butt Business Woman
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Kick-Butt
Meetings
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Valiant Self-Care for the Business Professional
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Life-Path,
What’s yours?
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Tele-class Sizzle
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Communication is a Skill
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The Heart and Soul of Strategic Planning
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Listening is More Than Hearing
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Inspire Performance
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The Heart of Great Communication
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Coaching Toward Response-Ability
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Creating a Positive Work Environment
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Going for the Goal
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The Secret to Great Teams
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Getting Organized Is Possible
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Management Success Path
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and more....
Learning Approach/Philosophy
Honoring learners for their own innate wisdom and celebrating progress made in
mastering a new subject.
Our learning
programs are conducted using the
Inspired Learning Model
approach in which we are certified
facilitators. This model honors
the learner for his or her own innate wisdom and celebrates progress
made in mastering a new subject. It is based on the principle that learning
takes place when individuals are open to learn and the learning
environment is one that is safe. Using the model, individuals will learn more, learn
faster, integrate more effectively and be genuinely inspired. The
Inspired Learning Model creates joy and a deep sense of personal
fulfillment from the learning process.
Seeing the magnificence in the big picture and
in the small details.
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Associates and Colleagues:
Below are other coaching and consulting
professional collaborative associates.
Deb Waterstone, MS-Spirit of Success
Jess Dods-Right Choice Careers
Beth Finegan Reynolds -
NRG Power Group
Margaret
Arsenault, MS – University of MA
Linda Marchesani,
PhD - University of MA
Richard Ford, MS –
University of MA
Ann Latham-Uncommon
Clarity
Testimonials:
Organizational Development Client
Linda, thank you, for bringing your great consulting and
coaching skills to my colleague and me. Because of our work together, we are
experiencing greater efficiency, improved communication and enhanced creativity
as we continue to solve problems together in our ever-changing work environment.
I know this work has had a huge impact on staff satisfaction, learning and
productivity. Thank you. John Reiff
Workshop Learners:
Incredibly helpful, empowered to challenge the untrue messages, supportive,
ready to take personal action plan forward, wonderful, lighthearted and
empowering program, encouraged awareness, very helpful, enjoyed it from
beginning to end, more clear perspective, I feel better prepared to quiet “it”,
positive, open energy, great tools, opportunity to express thoughts outwardly,
Thank you! Mt. Holyoke College
Coaching Client:
Through coaching I’ve learned how to talk to people with love and compassion.
I’ve also learned that it isn’t always about me and that sometimes people’s
reactions are really about their own issues. I don’t need to own their reaction
and that is a choice I can make. Life is all about choices. think everyone could
benefit from coaching with Linda. She has great compassion, tools to work with
and lets you set the pace while nudging you when it is warranted.
Ellen Mills-Audette of
Ellen’s Place
See more testimonials here
R.E.A.C.H.
Renew
Stagnation can bring creativity and productivity
to a halt. If you have noticed loss of energy and enthusiasm in
yourself or in others with whom you live or work, the need for
rejuvenation
may
be at hand. One of the ways in which to renew that valuable spark
is through the opportunity of self-discovery, generating goals and
priorities or just simply to “be” who you are in what you do.
Elevate
You know you are
good at what you do. You’ve been successful. Perhaps you now wonder if
there is more, a higher level that makes what you value most the driver
in all that you do and allows you to be who you truly are.
Accentuate
Your strengths and
magnificent qualities are the reason you have succeeded so far. In what
ways can those strengths be accentuated to help create the vision you
have in mind for yourself or your business?
Capture
How do you capture
positive energy and potential and make it a dynamic part of the package
you offer? Learn ways to fuel and sustain the energy and strengths
needed to succeed.
Highest
Potential
Where do you want
to go? What and who do you want to be? Set your sights on your own
fantastic future and learn the skills and get the support you need to
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