Coaching & Consulting
Key types of consulting
- Coaching leaders and businesses to do great things in ways that align with their values
- Coaching individual creators to reach their creative potential
Competencies in my backpack
Process engineering, creativity, change management, conflict management, writing & communications, project management, team building, event planning, product development, risk management, publishing
Valutivity LLC's Certifications
- State Corp Comm. LLC-ID: #S305631-6 since 10/06/2009
- Dun & Bradstreet (DUNS): #832359561 since 2009
- Vendor # with e-VA: VS0000054574 since 2009
- Small, Women & Minorities (SWaM) Certification: #682920 since 2009
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- Written by: Karen Smith-Will
- Category: Coaching & Consulting
A decade ago, I asked this question: "[H]ow can parents--think coaches, leaders--push just enough to inspire, but not enough to inflict pain? I'm not being rhetorical here."
Read more: Balance ⚖️ in Leadership: Inspiring vs. Inflicting pain
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One unique feature about Valutivity is its collaboration between Leadership and creativity, via The Consulting Arts. This page is a compilation of some creativity and innovation resources we've used through the years--for both sides of the company. These are in alphabetical order, not in order of importance, quality or applicability.
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Dan Rockwell of LeadershipFreak.com noted that, “Strong leaders leverage disagreements while weak leaders win arguments,” is powerful. I think his observation is analogous to “winning the battle but losing the war.”
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"Nothing is impossible" is an example of a faux truism. Here are a few tongue-in-cheek things we brainstormed, that are impossible:
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Not everybody sees the same things. Perhaps more importantly, not everybody shares the same things they see. This can cause challenges in businesses or in societal interactions. Understanding the underlying existence of the loyalty/transparency continuum is critical to parse out this conundrum.
Read more: Leadership: The Loyalty/Transparency Continuum in Communications