DESCRIPTION

Rates Effective 11/1/08**

$6,000. package

$450 each.

Call for company wide assessment pricing.

Leadership Praxis specializes in helping managers, leaders, and executives improve their performance. Feedback is essential to performance assessment and improvement. Leadership Praxis uses the Birkman 360° multi-rater survey. 360° multi-rater surveys are powerful tools for helping individuals improve, grow, and develop. 360°s are natural complements to data provided by The Birkman Method®. They are often used together for Coaching and Leadership Development.

The Birkman 360° gathers information about individual performance as measured by the perspectives of self, managers, peers, subordinates, and others. The Birkman 360° focuses on nine important leadership competencies that drive work, relationships, and organizational success. The nine competencies relate to:

• Strategic thinking and long-term planning for key business and organizational outcomes.
• Engaging others efforts in support of goals and outcome - communicating the vision, building commitment, and assigning responsibility.
• Decision making, coaching others, and effective resource management.
• Understanding the organization, customers, culture, and competitive environment.
• Drive to pursue personal and professional development.
  
  

Teams are one of today’s most powerful resources in organizations.  When they work they reduce human capital costs by creating functional groups that amplify individual talents and knowledge resulting in reduced cost, greater effectiveness, better efficiencies and greater innovation.  Effective teams demonstrate successful behaviors in four core competencies:

1. Collaborating with Others
2. Dealing with Change
3. Organization and Accountability
4. Productivity and Decision making. 
5. Support Effective Team Behaviors

The TeamWorks™ Report’s 16 page format allows team members to guide their development efforts and increase the speed at which they complete their objectives.  It helps team members:

1. Understand their behavioral contribution to the team and how they affect others.
2. Understand, respect, appreciate and value the team’s unique approach to its task (every team is different).
3. Develop strategies for working together to increase
   productivity.

The Birkman TeamWorks™ Report available through Leadership Praxis focuses on each of these four primary competencies and gives insights on the team as a functional group as well as how each member influences and impacts the team dynamic.  The report identifies team strategies that inhibit a high team functionality and gives strategies to address counterproductive behaviors.

It presents its findings in graphs and text that are easily understood making the report useful the moment the team receives it. 

Leverage the TeamWorks™ Report’s Economy of Cost

There is not a tool on the market that offers the perspective and statistical       validation of the TeamWorks™ Report making it the best price to benefit team building tool on the market.

Avoid Counterproductive Team Assessments

Some assessments in the marketplace visually pigeonhole team members in categories that can be misunderstood.  The TeamWorks™ Report’s descriptive text avoids this unintended by-product and simultaneously holds each team member responsible for their own contribution.

Whether applying for a first job, making a mid-life career change or opting for an intra-company transfer, choosing the right job can be a stressful process. There are important factors to consider, such as salary, location, duties, reputation of the employer.

The career counselors at Leadership Praxis know that none of these is as important as focusing on those jobs and careers that you will find fulfilling and in which you can be successful. Put another way, the Leadership Praxis career coaching using the Birkman personality assessment can help you move beyond the realm of identifying a “good career” into selecting a career that is a great fit for you.

That's why we utilize the Birkman Method®. The Birkman Method® is widely used by leading outplacement services, corporate job counselors and career placement centers in helping them guide individuals in choosing the right job and career.
The Birkman Method® allows an individual to assess career interests, motivations and the work environments that will strengthen the potential for a successful job and career fit. In working with Leadership Praxis you will:

• Assess your career interests.
• Define your motivations.
• Discover the work environments that are the best fit for you.
• Enhance the potential for a successful job and career fit.
• Have the confidence of reliable data that can help you make specific and measurable plans.

The Leadership Praxis career focus package includes a Birkman® Method personal assessment and one hour of feedback designed to help you set a course that launches your goals to motion. Additional coaching time may be purchased for the ad hoc coaching price noted below.

$450 per project. 

Call for company wide assessment pricing.

Purchase coaching time to meet your strategic objectives. The ad hoc coaching plan allows you to budget your coaching around specific strategic needs. The Leadership Praxis Coaching model will help you:

• Energize Your Confidence. Concentrate on what's truly important in your business, your relationships and your life. Define your core values and work from them with integrity. Re-image present connections, situations and future direction. Interrogate reality to reduce the chances of making damaging blunders.

• Avoid the Pitfalls. Engage a new way of seeing the possibilities of change. Discover new competencies and build synergy with your existing skills and insights. Building to a synthesis takes a commitment to tackle the tough challenges sooner than later. Probe the way you relate to the process of change and learning. Augment your effectiveness and learning process through powerful encouragement and accountability.

• Reclaim Your Time. Clarify, prioritize and manage immediately the most pressing issues exposed by the possibility of change and learn to use your best thinking to be creative thereby reducing the number if issues subconsciously undermining your ability to learn. Less time taken for anxiety means more energy for mastering new competencies.

• Make a Commitment to Growth. Set up an environment of success and grow the personal clarity needed to enhance preparation and completion of the core activities that make up your achievement.

• Leverage Dynamic Support. Personal support makes hearing the truth an exercise in growth. Your coach expects you to succeed and knows how to support that success. People do amazing things when they have cheerleaders who can also help them see avoidance mechanisms that limit their growth potential.

$150 per hour

The mentor basic plan is designed for students, new managers and leaders desiring to sharpen their skills in leadership, relationships and delegation. The plan includes a 1 hour phone coaching session or participation in a mentor group each month; and up to two e-mail exchanges. Additional phone time is available for those currently enrolled in a plan for $50 hour. The plan includes a DiSC Personal Assessment. As a result of this plan you will:

• Be able to define your approach to the work environment.
• Identify four routine communication styles of the work place.
• Recognize other’s motivations and how they complement and potentially conflict with your own.

Identify what makes an effective team and how you can contribute to great team environments.

$50.00 per month- minimum 6 month contract

Travel time to and from appointments is $7.50 per half hour unit including layovers and time in the air or on the road. Unless travel time is calculated into a contract it must be paid at the time of invoice. Average commute times will be calculated for driving in Southern California. Time is calculated for travel from Leadership-Praxis offices to and from the client’s office or facility.

Travel time is sold in blocks of time equal to 30 minutes each. Click the "View Cart" button and change the quantity to reflect the number of Travel Time units requested. $7.50 per half hour unit.

$7.50 per half hour unit

Enhance the performance through understanding yourself and others. Help your team members understand themselves and others. The profile provides a framework for looking a human behavior while increasing your knowledge of your unique behavioral pattern.

The DiSC Classic helps you to:

1. Understand your behavioral tendencies and develop an understanding of how your behavior affects others
2. Respect, appreciate, understand, and value individual differences
3. Enhance strategies for working together to increase productivity

$40.00 each

Help your managers apply the insights they gain from the DiSC® Classic profile situationally in their leadership content and team.

$12.50 each

Buttons are used in training to alert team members to personal profile strengths. They come in Green D, Red i, Blue S, and Yellow C.

$.95 each

Colors

Blue $0.95 Green $0.95 Red $0.95 Yellow $0.95

This tool, developed by Ray Wheeler, provides a detailed overview of decision making, delegation & controls, team environment & behavior, communication, time and milestones, values and ethics, personal goals, financial and growth summary, strengths and weaknesses, and spiritual vibrancy.

$700.00

This web based questionnaire is perfect for couples seeking to gain a deeper understanding of each other prior to their marriage. The PMI compares your answers to one another and the author to provide important talking points in deepening your understanding of each other with regard to finance, family roles, in-laws, sexual adjustment, etc.

$85.00 per couple.