Coaching
Coaching is outcome driven professional development that requires a dynamic, focused commitment to self-reflection and personal growth. The process is a powerful and effective tool designed to assist people at all career levels to pursue sustainable professional growth.
At Shaffer Coaching we provide guidance, accountability and a safe forum for discussion to support our client’s exploration of goals and aspirations. In partnership with our clients, we co-create individual strategies and plans to help you embrace your potential and achieve your goals.
Examples of topics a coaching session might include:
- Identifying coaching goals, expectations and timelines
- Self-reflection on leadership style, career advancement arc, or desired professional opportunities
- Strategies for productivity, time-management, effective communication, and work/life integration
- Problem solving for specific obstacles or emergent situations.
- Reflection and strategies for navigating the impacts of social identities and/or intersectionality (gender, race, LGBTQ+ etc.)
- Approaches to resolve situational roadblocks that arise in professional situations and leadership moments.
“Amanda’s amazing gift is to show you how to bring out your best self and share it with others.”
Professional Development Workshops
Using a collaborative, outcome-based learning experience we provide workshops designed to empower participants to pursue their goals. With a combination of personal reflection, peer learning discussions, and activities completed outside of the workshop setting, we focus on increasing skills and crafting actionable plans for career advancement.
Workshops may be delivered as a cumulative series, or as stand-alone programs with content specific to sub-group by roles (e.g., leadership, faculty, or staff) or by affinity group (e.g., by race, ethnicity, gender or other dimensions of diversity) as needed.
Workshops may be customized based on areas as identified through assessments, interviews, surveys or common needs.
A sample of potential career advancement workshop topics:
- Building a Mindful Career
- Bystander Intervention for Microaggressions
- Creating a Vision and Mission for Personal success
- Cultural Awareness and Cultural Humility
- Developing Emotional Intelligence/Leading & Managing Other
- Effective Communication Skills and Difficult Conversations
- Goal Setting for Career Advancement
- Identifying Leadership Strengths and Challenges
- Implicit Bias, Identity and Intersectionality
- Managing “Imposter Syndrome”
- Mentoring Best Practices
- Reducing Bias in Evaluation (Hiring and Retention strategies)
- Strategies for Implementing Change Project
- Time and Priority Management
- Work-Life Integration
“I had to send an email to thank you … your thought-provoking exercises and discussion, your acceptance of where everyone in the room was, made this a tremendously useful day for all of us!”
Consulting
An outside perspective can be invaluable when an organization is seeking transformation or experiencing transitions. Organizations and groups have engaged us to provide strategy and facilitation for a range of change management activities and project development. We work with local, national and international clients both in-person and virtually. Consulting engagements are often a combination of services with arrangements unique to the needs of each client.
Sample consulting projects:
- Programs: Leadership development, professional development, affinity/peer group coaching
- Strategy: Planning, meeting facilitation, establishing DEI council/task force
- Materials: Handbook, toolkit, video scripts, curriculum, messaging
- Education: Custom workshops for in-house use, train-the-trainer cohorts, mini learning modules, discussion groups/book groups
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