Presentation skills, leadership, and emotional intelligence (eq) training and coaching
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Leadership and Presentation Skills Coaching

I receive frequent coaching requests from executives, business managers, HR managers and recently-promoted leaders who want to learn how to:

• Manage stress
• Improve their communication skills
• Improve their interpersonal skills
• Enhance their leadership skills
• Present with confidence to people at all levels, especially to senior executives
• Engage people on the team and turn them into high performing units
• Work well with diverse groups on the team
• Successfully deal with a new promotion or new position

I approach my coaching roles as a guide, facilitator and educator. Coaching with me will deepen your learning, improve your performance and enhance the quality of your thinking. You will experience it as one of the most personal and customized self-development programs.

My coaching program is assessment-based and geared towards very specific objectives. To achieve results, I work with clients one-on-one and in teams with the responsible and ethical use of formal psychometric and leadership and emotional intelligence assessment tools, as well as proven processes involving assessment, action planning, and execution. The program is suited for those who are prepared to do the work required to develop and follow an action plan for self-growth. Clients are expected to experiment with new behaviors, and put in place new standards of personal performance.

Coaching with the EQ-i 2.0 (Emotional Quotient Inventory) and/or the ECI (Emotional Competence Inventory)

One of the most effective ways of increasing your emotional intelligence is through coaching. Coaching starts with measuring your emotional intelligence in key areas which include self-awareness (including self-confidence/self-regard,) self-regulation and stress management, interpersonal relationships and decision-making abilities, to name a few.

Coaching within an emotional intelligence framework helps develop your ability to manage yourself so that you can achieve your goals. It helps to develop your leadership presence and your social skills for effectively managing your relationships. Ultimately, coaching for emotional intelligence is about creating the capacity for mature and positive interactions with others so that you maximize your opportunities for success, both in your professional and personal life.

You will become aware of how others perceive you in a number of crucial leadership areas. You will gain awareness of how you see yourself in relation to how others see you. Coaching for the gap yields powerful insights. Here is a sample of what you can gain from coaching for emotional intelligence:

• Develop the ability to see situations from others' perspective, even when you don't agree with them.
• Gain powerful influencing strategies and tactics to be more persuasive.
• Know how your emotions may affect your performance.
• Gain strategies for managing emotions which may derail you from keeping your eye on the ball.
• Know your strengths and what you need to continue to do more.
• Know what you need to add to your "stop-doing list."
• Develop more confidence in your opinions and your ability to make decisions.
• Manage changing situations and uncertainty.
• Successfuly cope with a new boss.
• Sharpen your ability to think and act as a leader, independent of what your title is.
• Understand how others may view you. What is your brand as a leader? How can you develop your personal brand?
• Develop your objectivity to see things as they really are.
• Know how to constructively express your emotions in high-stakes situations.
• Develop a positive attitude and outlook on life.
• Develop more resilience in coping with adversity and setbacks.
• Learn how to deal with difficult personalities you  have to work with.
• Gain insights to help others improve their emotional intelligence, both in your team or at home.
• Develop action plans that anticipate potential obstacles and how to deal with them.

Coaching with Myers-Briggs®

Coaching with Myers-Briggs® will help you to:

• Understand yourself better in a number of important areas.
• Understand how others at work may see you.
• Understand your leadership style and how you can move beyond your comfort zone: the 10 percent stretch.
• Learn your unique triggers - those things that make you lose your cool.
• Find out ways, unique to your type, for managing stress and restoring equilibrium.
• Know how to use type to improve the innovation process in your team.
• Know how your type plays out in project management.
• Discover potential pitfalls (your blind spots) and areas for growth.
• Improve the way you communicate.
• Learn to appreciate the uniqueness of others and see where they are coming from.
• Improve the quality of your work (and personal) relationships and interactions.
• Understand different problem-solving approaches and become more flexible when dealing with others.
• Understand the impact you have on teams.
• Function better in a diversified environment.
• Learn what your coaching style is and the impact it may have on others.
• Apply type insight to help you successfully cope with organizational change.
• Use type insight to help you increase retention of valuable members on your team.
• Know how you can apply your type preference in the sales process.

Coaching with the Leadership Practices Inventory

Leadership coaching is geared towards anyone playing a leader's role, whether formally or informally, whether in an organizational or non-organizational environment. Coaching with this assessment helps individuals who want to become more effective leaders or those who are aspiring to move to the next level in their career.

The Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) follows the proven framework of the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership™. Through decades of research, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner discovered successful leaders exhibited 30 common behaviors. The more frequently you exhibit these behaviors, the more others attribute to you the qualities of leadership. You will learn what these behaviors are and how you can incorporate these as part of your leadership style. The 30 behaviors are distilled into the five practices of exemplary leadership. They are:

1. Model the Way
2. Inspire a Shared Vision
3. Challenge the Process
4. Enable Others to Act
5. Encourage the Heart

More detailed information on the Five Practices can be viewed here.

You will get a clear understanding of where you are in relation to the 30 behaviors and the related five practices and you will receive practical tips, tools and information that will help you enhance your ability in all of these areas of leadership.

To discuss coaching with the Myers-Briggs (MBTI®), Emotional Intelligence Assessments (EQ-i 2.0 or ECI) or The Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI), contact us.

Presentation Skills Coaching

Bruna Martinuzzi also provides one-on-one coaching for presentation skills to prepare you for an up-coming important event or to help you enhance your public speaking skills for general use. Investing some time to enhance this skill will pay dividends for your career and boost your self-confidence.

Presentation Skills coaching  is for you if:

• You are planning to deliver a high-stakes presentation to clients or senior executives
• You are scheduled to speak at an industry or trade conference
• You have been told that you need to improve on your presentation skills

• You have recently joined a new company and want to position yourself well
• You have been recently promoted in a position that requires you to speak more often
• You have good presentation skills but you want to take it to the next level
• You want to invest in your career growth
• You have always been nervous when presenting and have decided that now is the time to do something about
• You waste a lot of valuable time worrying about upcoming presentations
• You want to have a DVD of your presentation

What coaching entails:

• A revamp of your Pointpoint slides for a polished, professional look
• Help in crafting a powerful opening and ending
• Choosing the most appropriate structure for your message and developing a clear flow for your talk
• Working on smooth transitions from one point to the other
• Eliminating extraneous information and using the appropriate level of detail
• Help in crafting your story by incorporating the building blocks for good storytelling
• Awareness and improvement of your body language when presenting
• How to avoid reading your slides to the audience
• How to own the message and sound conversational
• Tips for maximizing your impact and executive presence in the front of the room
• Helping you determine and incorporate the WOW factor in your content
• Projecting credibility and authenticity as a speaker
• Video taping of your presentation and receiving your personal DVD

This is a highly customized one-on-one program which will differ according to the client's level of expertise in presenting, type of audience and specific challenges and requests. 

A note on Crafting of PowerPoint Slides:
For those who want to save time, we can also craft your PointPoint slide deck and provide you with professional slides that will make you stand out from the crowd. This can be done on a one-time basis, or on on-going basis for repeat clients.  PowerPoint slides service is all arranged remotely and a meeting in person is not required. Client simply forwards the information to us and we do the rest.

To discuss coaching to improve your presentation skills, contact us.