Become a Masterful Communicator

"Finally...the Authentic Way to Communicate Just For Leaders and Business People"

• Be heard and understood

• Inspire a harmonious & productive workplace where people actually seek feedback

• Save lost time with wasted communication and disappointing results

Dear Leader,

Are you discouraged because your feedback isn't being understood like you hoped it would?

Do you dread giving feedback and even worse, do you dread receiving it?

Are you frustrated with how much time and energy you spend motivating team members?

If you’ve ever felt disappointed with the results of your questions and feedback, you’re not alone.

Have you ever blurted out something that you regretted later?

Or do you keep it all churning inside?

This is not why you took on this Leadership position.

Something needs to change

“Deep inside you know you are a leader, and you as a leader want to deliver results and help people be successful in a more profound way. ”

But what you are currently experiencing isn't what you had imagined or hoped for.

This is why we are so excited to show you a powerful alternative to stressing through your day.

“There are 2 Secrets to Being Heard in a Way That Inspires Positive Action:

The first is Masterful Questions … it is how to get to the heart of the matter where change really occurs…and

The second is Leveraging Feedback ... which is leveraging greatness by giving and receiving the crucial information needed to accelerate change through effective and accurate feedback. ”

You will want to read this...

We have tons of experience and can offer some real help!

Hello my name is Michael Stratford and I have been coaching for over 20 years. I am an MCC (Master Credential's Coach) in International Coach Federation since 1997. I am also the author of three books and trainer of coaches. "Masterful Questions" is being used in several university leadership programs. and I am Cora Whittington and I have been delivering organizational development programs for over 20 years and have been coaching for 6 years. I also mentor coaches in the Great Life Technologies coaching school and specialize in coaching leaders.. As coaches our job is to listen to and sort through various experiences through of giving and receiving feedback whether it is from a spouse, parent, business person or leader. We are uniquely in the position of studying the means of being effective and ineffective with feedback Our job is to be people who ask masterful questions and get to the heart of the matter quickly and skillfully. We also need to be particularly adept at giving and receiving feedback.

How Michael birthed "Masterful Questions" and "Leveraging Feedback" Michael's story “Masterful questions came about as I began to study questions for my coach training. I was always curious as to what was the most powerful motivator of human behavior. But, much of the time in coaching classes, I heard people collecting the 10/20/100 “best” questions and put them in a list. Then they would apply them routinely AS IF each person and each situation was simply a carbon copy of someone else and something else. I felt this approach was doing a great disservice to each individual. It didn’t value that we are all uniquely different in many ways and that “one size fits all” is an approach that NEVER works. And so I began studying the construction of questions and much more.. Knowing that ‘doing’ was never divorced from ‘being’ I also studied what context contributed to asking questions that truly made a difference in effecting shifts in behavior. These ‘shifts of being’ always completely outpaced the ‘rubber band’ effect of change-then-bounce-back. It goes way beyond the ‘5 why’s’ methodology.” “As for leveraging feedback, having coached rock bands in the beginning of my journey as a coach, I was familiar with the feedback phenomenon. And as I made a transition into working with clients in Fortune 50 companies, I found that most people didn’t know how to make use of this crucially important mindset/skillset. Most people either hated giving it or hated receiving it and often both. In addition, I was constantly interacting with people about how to take and give the feedback in their work environment as well as in their homes, and communities. When it comes down to it, it’s ALL feedback and no one can live without it. And so, as I helped people to address this pivotal experience, it became of laboratory of what worked and didn’t work. And now I have clarified the whole process so that others can not only have a better time around the notion of feedback, but they can actually use the feedback as a lever to “move the world” as Archimedes says.”

Join Us for the Masterful Questions and Leveraging Feedback program

1. Based on Michael's work, we have created a powerful, interactive two-day program that will very quickly give you the tools and confidence to upgrade your skills and increase your effectiveness as leader, co-worker, parent and community member.

2.Benefit from what has been learned. We have the experience and done the in-the-field research, that will save you wasted time and energy with miscommunication.

3. Learn how to get to the heart of the matter and inspire action instead of being subject to questions that take you down a tunnel with no cheese, or get enmeshed in a web of circularity that ultimately produces nothing but talk.

4..Practice your new found skills and enjoy the benefit of group synergy.

5. Anchor the practice with an accountability partner to help you "transfer the learning" to your workplace and make it REAL TIME EFFECTIVE

Note: There will be challenges - it just won't feel like it when you are inspired and actually getting the results your are seeking.

Here is What Others Have Said

We have designed a two day transformational event where you will get:

1. Proven strategies that transform your yourself so that you and your team members can become happy, productive members by asking questions that matter instead of questions that don't.

2. Simple feedback techniques to create a strong, trusting connection with your team members

3. A clear model that INSPIRES your team members to make a shift from dreading feedback to seeking it.

“These strategies will help you relax, get heard and inspire action. Be the kind of leader that you imagined!”

Here Are the Details...

You Will Learn:

1. How to

Identify the Inhibitors that keep you and others stuck in the same old communication spirals and sinkholes

Get rid of the sometimes overwhelming anxiety that accompanies the process of giving/receiving feedback

Use clear clean language that makes it easy to move forward

2. Use Masterful Questions to get to the Heart of the Matter

Learn how to respond from the The Peak of Curiosity

Approach the conversation from The Plains of Respectful Assumptions

Learn how to avoid the The Desert of Disempowerment

and apply it right away

3. Explore the Land of Feedback

Provide valuable feedback that keep your team members engaged and wanting to improve their skills by using the SWEET Feedback Tree

How to avoid the Toxic Feedback Dump

Understand and ease the Scared Crows phenomenon

Learn how to utilize the Pool of LIfe and create a safe and creative environment

and apply it right away

Here is a small sample of what you will learn: Every question is designed to do a specific thing. It could be to gather information, to probe, challenge or help the team member reflect. stretch, or shift the team member's perspective. to help them tap into the core of their being or challenge their self-perception. it might even simply be designed to generate action and have them take supported concrete steps toward a goal. In any event, all questions have a design in them. By looking at how they are built, you’ll grasp a keener sense in your own ability to construct them yourself. Deconstructing questions is a much more potent path toward mastery than simply repeating them from rote, or reading them from a list. The understanding goes much deeper when you take the time to figure out exactly how the question does what it does.

Super Special Bonuses Bonus #1: Four Follow-up Group Coaching Sessions to Keep You Focused (Value: $397.00) In these webinar group sessions we will help you Clarify your intentions Lay out the roadmap Identify and eliminate the barriers to your success. Listen to the recordings if you can't attend live   Bonus #2: Handouts, Step by Step Processes (Value: $67.00) We want to make this easy for you - We have some really good stuff to guide you!   Bonus #3: Your Spouse, Partners and Associates will love you (Value Priceless) They will. You can transfer these skills to your home an community interactions

"Sounds great! So how much is my investment?"

Masterful Questions and Giving and Receiving Feedback that Inspires are some of the MOST valuable skills you'll learn, and it will continue to pay off in your business and life, year after year. It's like being able to turn your words into gold when you communicate in just the way your team members want.

This program is your chance to learn new skills that have the potential to turn your leadership around. We would LOVE to see you celebrate all the new successes because you learned how to be an authentic, inspiring leader. So, will you join us?

Now Is The Time To Act!

There are just a few seats!

Your Investment

Just $487.00 + HST

Bring 10 people from your work place and it will just be $397.00 each

When and Where are the Workshops?

November 18 and 19 , 2010, 9 - 4:30

Golden Pathways Retreat and B&B

RR 11 3075 Wallace Pt Rd Peterborough ON

There is only room for 20 people and lunch is included

Email cw@goldenpathways.ca or call 705-745-4006

Yes! Michael and Cora, I want to Be Heard, Inspire Quality Action and Get More Done With Less Time and Effort!

If you have questions, call while you're still on this site:1-705-745-4006 or email cw@goldenpathways.ca

		Speak To You Soon,
		Cora Whittington and Michael Stratford

P.S.   Just in case you are even busier than usual, go back to the top of this web page and read it again … and again … and again … because it will change the way you lead and the way you live your life!