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Leadership Coaching and Consulting Services
Through a mix of dialogue, interviews, observation, and a variety of assessment tools, we determine your individual and organizational needs. We work with you to define desired outcomes in each arena and create plans to achieve and sustain that success. We help you move beyond the obstacles you face by bringing a new perspective and remaining results oriented.

Our coaching and consulting work will be worthwhile for you and your organization if you face any of the following business needs:
• Accelerating the learning and cultural adaptation of a transitioning executive
• Cultivating and retaining high-potential associates
• Identifying and enhancing leadership behaviors in your succession candidates
• Integrating an effective process to develop leadership skills in middle-level and top-tier executives

Results our clients have achieved through our work with them:
• Accelerated leadership development
• Heightened productivity
• Greater cultural cohesion across the organization
• Smooth leadership transitions
• Enhanced interpersonal relationships within all levels of the company
• Retention of key executives and staff

4-Step Coaching Model
• Defined Outcomes - What are the desired behaviors?
• Valid Feedback - Who can give valid feedback to this person on these behaviors?
• Action Plan – How will this executive plan for improvement?
• Evaluation – Has the coached leader changed their behavior as needed?

Coaching Methodology
Our challenge in coaching is to assist successful leaders in modifying their behaviors. Our methodology includes:
• Challenging executives to achieve at their own competence or learning edge
• Offering paradigms, methodologies and creative resources as frames of reference
• Working with leaders to ensure their capacity to deal with difficult decision-making
• Urging discipline and creativity in the way leaders execute their responsibilities
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Coaching and Consulting Packages

Leader Acceleration Plan
This is a specialized program, custom designed to your needs. We offer strategies that enable you to take charge quickly and effectively during crucial transitions in your career.
Target Clients: Entrepreneurs, Executives in Transition
Program Content: Following an initial on-site interview, we conduct the learning in a coaching format. We focus on eight specific tactics you can employ to establish self-confidence and the confidence of those working with you in your new capacity. Among the tactics are tools to correctly assess your new situation, its challenges and opportunities, and actions to take to review, prune, and solidify your new work team. This program is intensive during your first 90 days with evaluation and follow-up at the end of that period.
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Learned Leadership Competencies Program
Extensive research highlights six specific leadership competencies that a leader can develop through a focused learning plan. The purpose of this skill-building program is to identify an individual’s current application of the six competencies and to prepare and apply, in concert with the client, a plan for increasing their capacity for use of each of the six competencies.
Target Clients: Any leader interested in further developing their potential.
Program Description: The program is a series of eight sessions. During the course of these meetings, the client learns about the six leadership competencies. We assess the extent to which they are currently using the competencies in business, and together we develop a learning plan to expand their leadership capacities. On-going coaching supports the development of their leadership potential in these six distinct areas.
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Board of Directors Leadership Program
The business goal is to improve the caliber and performance of nonprofit and private company boards of directors. We design strategies to move your underperforming board to sustainable operation as a highly performing board.
Target Clients:
• Executive Directors of non-profit organizations who want to manage their boards for enhanced productivity and commitment.
• Chairs/CEOs of private companies who are interested in improving the quality, independence and performance of their boards
Program Description: The Board of Directors Leadership Program involves assessing all aspects of the Board including governance practices, composition, boardroom dynamics, and decision-making processes. The work may involve:
• one-on-one board evaluations
• board skills assessment
• role definition
• governance overview
• decision-making process review
• Executive Director/ Board Chair coaching
• team building
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Executive Leadership Coaching
We work with successful leaders who desire to change their behaviors. We view ourselves as partners in the executive’s journey towards increased self-awareness and enhanced effectiveness.
Target Clients: Business owners, Executives in Transition (be it a re-assignment, a promotion, or a position in a different functional area), High-Potential Performers
Program Description: The program involves four steps: identifying outcomes, securing valid feedback, composing a challenging action plan, and evaluating the resulting behaviors. We offer the option of on-site interviews as well as a wide variety of assessment tools, if needed. Coaching is a long-term proposition. An engagement may range from a minimum of twice monthly for three months to durations of over a year. All coaching is confidential.
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Team Leadership Coaching
This team program involves observation and interviews to assure an accurate diagnosis of the issues effecting performance. Once we agree upon the diagnosis, we achieve change through a variety of approaches including MBTI. The result is a collaborative, effective work team.
Target Clients: Teams in Transition, Intact Work Groups, Ad Hoc Committees
Program Description: Our successful approach includes addressing the following questions and concerns of the team:
• What is our game plan?
• What are we supposed to be doing?
• We need to get to know one another.
• How can we respond rapidly to various demands?
• Who is in charge?
• How do we maintain this top performance?
We design and apply a variety of assessment tools, experiential exercises, and coaching processes to formulate answers.
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Assessment Tools and Certifications

At Jennings Earnhardt, we bring a variety of effective and innovative tools and resources to our work with you. These include:

The Center for Creative Leadership
• 360 by Design ™
• Benchmarks ®
• SKILLSCOPE ®
• Executive Dimensions
• Prospector®
• KEYS to Creativity
• CCL Surround
• LEAD
• Job Challenge Profile
• Learning Tactics Inventory
• EdgeWork®

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®

The Highlands Ability Battery® www.highlandsprogram.com
The Highlands Company wants individuals to understand their natural abilities and talents so they bring more of their passions to work with them, allowing companies and individuals to succeed. This site provides a broad overview of how the Highlands Ability Battery works as well as related material.
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Speaking and Presentations

Dana Jennings delivers a message that will motivate and inspire your audience while providing practical and specific information that drives results performance.

She customizes the topic and content to your group’s needs and event function, whether including keynotes, breakouts, or half-day seminars. Please contact us for more information on the following presentations:
Women in the Boardroom (keynote, breakout session)
Learned Leadership Competencies (keynote, breakout session, or half day seminar)
The 90-Day Transition (keynote, breakout session, or half-day seminar)
Women Entrepreneurs – Their Strategies for Success (keynote, breakout session)
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