Our services
About coaching
Executive & leadership coaching
Coaching transforms the practice of leadership, making the leader more effective and enabling them to achieve a greater impact. It creates shifts in both the thinking and doing of leadership --- which greatly improves performance and results.
At The Upward Spiral Group, we employ evidence-based coaching techniques that draw from the disciplines of neuroscience, positive psychology, appreciative inquiry, and adult learning theory.
We believe that great leadership happens at all levels of an organization and offer coaching packages that support leaders across all stages of their leadership journeys -- from the A-team to the C-suite.
In all our coaching engagements, we partner with clients to co-create a learning agenda that aligns their personal, professional and organizational goals. This alignment promotes the clarity and harmony that makes our clients' leadership practice high impact and sustainable for the long-term.
Executive Coaching
Our executive coaching packages help organizational leaders and senior executives master their leadership skills and propel organizational achievement. These highly-customized one-to-one engagements incorporate 360 feedback and assessment to help leaders tap into the data that will transform the way they lead.
Executive coaching is a valuable support for executive leaders who are navigating complex organizational changes, developing skills for an individual role transition, addressing behaviors that may be derailing their effectiveness, or resolving specific challenges in their organization.
Leadership Coaching
Our leadership coaching packages are designed to support people, team or functional leads as they build their leadership capabilities, attune to their leadership strengths, and define their leadership style.
We offer leadership coaching for clients who are transitioning from an individual contributor to a first-time people manager, leading their first team or function, or who are at a career inflection point and seeking to bolster their effectiveness.
Our group coaching programs provide organizations the opportunity to develop groups of leaders who share a similar stage of development. Group coaching focuses on developing individuals through facilitated peer learning and collective exploration, creating deeper connections and actionable, long-term development. The group is organized around shared themes, topics or anchors.
This cohort model offers organizations the benefits of scalability, facilitates culture change, makes behaviors stick, reinforces learning and builds internal capacity and knowledge.
Group coaching
Team coaching
Our team coaching engagements center on the work of a real team comprised of a team leader and their direct reports. Our role as the team coach is to partner with the team to maximize their performance and enjoyment in support of a shared goal.
A team coaching process helps teams align around a common purpose, establish an inspiring vision, create healthy team relationships with clearly defined roles, be accountable for behavior as well as outcomes, and make constructive decisions in line with the team and organizational goals. Team coaching is also helpful during periods of significant transition, such as welcoming a new manager or merging two teams into one.
Training & facilitation
The Upward Spiral Group helps our partners build organizations that are fueled by great leadership, which begins with sharing a core belief in the incredible power of human potential. We design and facilitate trainings that focus on individual contributor, manager, or team development.
We know that culture and context matter, and take the time to understand what makes your organization tick so that we can curate experiences that help make excellent leadership practices stick.
We'll support you in diagnosing your learning needs and will develop a learning experience that is purposeful, powerful and practical.
You can select from our menu of offerings or we can design a custom workshop or series for your leaders.
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The Mindful Manager Series
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Coaching for Managers
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Dream Work -- Building Thriving Teams
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Accelerate - Fueling a High Performance Team & Culture
Consulting
At The Upward Spiral Group, we begin every consulting engagement by drilling down to the essential question that our partner is grappling with, and then work alongside our partners to ensure all project deliverables are a true embodiment of the mission, values, norms and goals of their organization.
Here are examples of the types of questions we help partners solve.
What does excellent leadership look like for my organization?
Project Type: Leadership Competency Models, Core Values Articulation & Socialization
Great leadership is a mix of mindset, values, skills and dispositions. Leadership fueled organizations clearly define and communicate their expectations for excellent leadership, and support their leaders in meeting expectations at each stage of growth.
We support our partners in articulating what great leadership looks like for their organization. We build off of a foundation of evidence-based competencies, and then refine our work to complement the unique context of our partners.
We lead our partners in an examination of their core values, and help them to identify which values-based behaviors enable their leaders to thrive.
How can my organization build a culture of supportive feedback?
Project Type: Performance Evaluation Systems, Building a Feedback Culture
Effective feedback is a catalyst for learning and growth, and an essential component of leadership development.
We work with your team to assess feedback readiness, create a custom action plan to address any obstacles to feedback, build operational systems that support the delivery of high quality feedback, and offer training to build skills around feedback delivery, feedback receipt, and how to use feedback to advance behavioral change.
How do we successfully onboard senior leaders to a new role?
Project Type: Executive On-boarding, Leadership Entry Plans & Support
On-boarding into a new organization or role represents a critical period for senior leaders to establish the tone and agenda that sets them up for success for the rest of their tenure.
We offer our partners customized support to build a leadership entry plan that makes the most out of this critical time with a specific focus on building key internal and external relationships, enhancing individual and team effectiveness, developing needed expertise, and defining and shaping the organization’s culture.
How can we develop excellent leadership practices at every level of our organization?
Project Type: Bespoke leadership development program design, Coach-in-residence program delivery
We design leadership development programs that are aligned to the competencies and values that matter most in your industry and for your organization's context.
We offer a coach-in-residence program that pairs custom leadership development content with targeted coaching to help make great leadership practices stick.
