The benefit of working with a leadership consultant and coach is having an ally to help you achieve your goals, whatever they may be. Joelle frequently arranges special coaching sessions and events for her current clients as well as people and organizations who have never worked with Joelle before. These special services offer creative, unconventional, and timely approaches to provide solutions for clients that don’t fall neatly into traditional models. If there’s something you’d like to see offered but can’t find it on the list, please just ask! Joelle often customizes special services for her clients’ unique needs and aspirations.

Clients
Participants in Joelle’s special services are as varied as the events themselves. To name a few, they include:
• Current clients who want to extend, intensify, or accelerate the coaching process
• Pairs of coaching/consulting clients who wish to work together toward a common goal
• Small groups of individuals who want a cost-effective, tailored coaching group coaching program
• Friends, co-workers, or even clients of Joelle’s current clients who want a focused opportunity to learn a particular skill or accomplish a particular task without the commitment of on-going coaching
• Superiors and mentors of Joelle’s clients, whose advice and insight can contribute greatly to a client’s growth and career trajectory.

Special Services:
Group Coaching
Finding Solace and Service in Selfishness
Leaders who suffer from the “disease to please” can do a disservice to the very people they intend to serve. This group coaching event is geared toward people who are hard-working, talented, goal-oriented, passionate and driven…as well as overwhelmed by multiple demands from multiple constituencies, implicit and explicit expectations, and too many balls in the air. The focus of the coaching is to both teach and practice the virtue of selfishness to restore the ability to serve with joy, ease and effectiveness.

Coaching Intensives
Making It Happen…Like Magic
Wouldn’t life be easier if you had Midas’ magic touch…if everything you touched turned to gold? While the Midas manner might be a myth, the ability to make things happen like magic is actually very real. The principles of attraction, synchronicity, synergy, and giving/receiving, to name a few, allow things to happen much more easily than they do with effort, action and hard work. This private coaching intensive is a two- to eight-hour event for learning the principles of manifestation, practicing them on the spot, and immediately bringing clients closer to what they want in an effortless, magical way.

Coaching Collaboratives
Listening for Leadership
Listening is one of the most critical communication skills. Unfortunately, it is also most overlooked. In this 2- or 4- hour session, participants learn fundamental skills of listening. They practice the skills work in pairs or groups, and they make action plans for implementing the listening skills in a way that will enhance their leadership. As a result of this session, participants build better relationships with their bosses, peers, and direct reports, communicate respect for the people around them, and get better ideas that can move their projects and organizations forward.

Business Power Planning
Creating a viable business plan is essential for entrepreneurs and professionals. But the length and detail required of conventional plans can bog business people down. Business Power Planning gets leaders away from the cumbersome process of business planning and helps them get back to the work they love with greater focus and direction. The Business Power Planning session is a half- to full-day session for individuals and small groups to
1. clarify the goals of their business
2. align their actions and systems to support the goal
3. create a business plan to move the business into the future.
Participants leave the session with a better understanding of what needs to be done to have the business of their dreams—one that operates smoothly, consistently, and profitably.

Comprehensive Talent Analysis
Tailored Talent Analysis
You can’t lead with your strengths if you don’t know what they are. Individual talent analysis provides leaders with a thorough understanding of their abilities. Joelle (in conjunction with her Partners) offers a variety of assessments, profiles, and processes to help her clients become more aware of their strengths, their thinking preferences, their learning agility, the way others perceive them, their challenges, and the areas of most importance for improvement. The processes can be combined and tailored for each client, ranging from a short, easy quiz on one end of the spectrum to a battery of assessments and in-person feedback on the other. For more information on the assessments available, please ask Joelle.

Retreats
Renewing the Spirit of Leadership
Even the best leaders can get burned out. The challenges of leadership can leave leaders feeling stressed, tired, deflated, and nowhere near their best. A remedy of renewal can restore their energy, passion, and motivation through connection, community, and learning. This one- to three-day retreat gives leaders the opportunity to rediscover their talents, renew their strengths, and reconnect with their purpose for leading. Participants leave the retreat feeling rested, energized, and inspired.

Focused Feedback
Profile Maximization
From 360-Degree Profiles to Personality Assessments to Learning Style Analyses, leaders often have a bank of information at their disposal.Some leaders have already taken part in a profiling process, whereas others want to learn more about themselves with a new profile. Either way, the information gathering process is only the beginning. The real work begins when leaders get their results. Profile Maximization gives leaders a chance to implement the learning from their results over time with the help of a coach. The combination of the profile information and the implementation ensures that the assessment process yields not just information, but improvement.

Performance Booster
How hard is it to get honest, constructive feedback on your performance from the people that matter? The answer: it’s harder than you think. No matter how much individuals crave constructive criticism, and no matter how much their colleagues and superiors would like to give it honestly, the barriers of communication often get in the way. As a result, two or more people who would like to see the same person succeed get stuck settling for second-best performance, simply because they don’t have the courage to ask for more.

Performance Booster Feedback opens the door to constructive communication. In a small, focused meeting, the coach facilitates a conversation in which the participant speaks candidly and openly with someone who can give him or her substantial feedback, such as a superior or direct report. As a result of communicating openly, all of the participants in the meeting learn what the critical goals are for the client. The coach, having had first-hand experience with the information in the meeting, is also better positioned to help the client meet those goals.

Organizational Overhaul
Office Optimization
Our external environment is a reflection of our internal environment. A cluttered desk is a cluttered mind. Many busy professionals believe they don’t have time to clean their offices, but they pay the price daily in lost minutes, lost energy, and lost focus. Office Optimization is a half- to full-day project in which the coach and client work one on one (or two on one, if an assistant is involved) to create a manageable system for handling the paper, correspondence, and projects that stack up and create a messy environment. The resulting system is customized to fit the client’s specific preferences and work habits so it becomes easy to maintain. The benefit? A more pleasant office space, more clarity, a feeling of spaciousness, and a sense of control.

Partnerships
At Pillar Consulting, Joelle diligently maintains a focus on leadership development within her areas of expertise. Joelle also works closely with other professionals who offer expanded services in related areas. Please visit their websites, listed below, or just ask Joelle for more information.

Chris Cox, Owner and Chief Learning Officer, Amplitude LLC
• Amplifying the results of leaders and teams
• Leadership Training and Consulting
• Emergenetics Profile Coaching
• 360-degree Feedback Survey Facilitation
• Keynote Speaking

Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D., Emphasis on Excellence, Inc.
• Seminars & Workshops
• Productivity Consulting & Office Organization