For each new phase of your journey, you build on the previously developed skills and need to develop new ones to be able to face the new challenges.
Professional? Entrepreneur? Small business owner? Manager? We all need to grow in an ever-changing world!
- Professionals willing to advance their careers – The next level always requires new soft and technical skills. Thinking strategically to what you’ll need, and start developing those skills will help you make a smoother transition.
- Professional turned entrepreneur – You need to understand a whole new game! Starting a business requires building a different mindset, the ability to make quick decisions and wear many new hats (strategic thinking, operations, marketing, financial, customer service, etc.). Understanding the need to acquire or delegate these news qualities is part of the entrepreneur’s successful journey.
- Small business owner or more experienced entrepreneur – You’re constantly pressured to keep up with the challenges and opportunities to take your business to the next level – while staying aligned with your business vision, mission, and values! Keeping the heads up to avoid overwhelm, distraction, stress, to overcome inner and outer conflicts, and improve your work-life balance require continuous self-growth and supporting systems.
To help our clients strategically build the mindset and skill set required for growth, we rely on concepts and techniques that apply to organization & relationship systems. In other words, we focus on relationship systems like:
- Relationship with career (professionals)
- Relationship with business (entrepreneurs/ small business owners)
- Relationship with team (managers).
Each of these relationships is a complex system! It is comprised of a person (professional, entrepreneur, manager) and an abstract concept like career, business, team. The system is affected by its history and is constantly evolving, being impacted by the inner and outer conditions, challenges, and opportunities.
That’s why we consider that a relationship system is a separate entity.
For example, an orchestra is a relationship system: the music it creates is the outcome, the musicians are the system’s members … but the orchestra is an entity in itself. It is affected by the musicians’ skill level, their capacity to collaborate, their skill level, etc.
We focus on addressing the relationship system’s needs – by tapping into its intelligence – to facilitate the desired outcome.
This is a flexible approach that we can easily adapt to various relationship systems, which reflects our capacity to help different types of clients and organizations.
To make it easier to understand, we sometimes use metaphors like the above image of the blue and golden fish. The “fish banc” is a relationship system with the objective to move toward the desired outcome. The system’s inner challenges could be mindset qualities and skills that act as roadblocks on the system’s path (causing distraction or chaos). The external challenges will come from the ever-changing environment the system needs to function while moving toward its objective.
Through 1-on-1 sessions and workshops, we assist our clients to:
Identify what’s blocking their relationship system or slowing its speed
Learn how to overcome the inner struggles by building a successful mindset and adjusting their skill set according to the desired outcome
Continually adapt to the ever-changing environment by using creative problem-solving techniques and strategic thinking.
Examples of skills we helped clients build or enhance:
| Creative problem-solving | Strategic thinking | Mindfulness |
| Effective interpersonal communication | Tapping into system’s intelligence | Being resourceful |
| Out of the box thinking | Efficient collaboration | Assertiveness |
| Preventing conflict, Negotiation | Taming the fears | Social media for branding, marketing & integration |
| Using struggles as growth tools | Intuitive decision-making | DIY web design & content |
| Boosting productivity | Work-life balance | Online & offline marketing |
| Working on business (not in) | Staying motivated | Project & QA tools |
Curious about how we can help you?
We discussed an issue I struggle almost daily with. Through your insightful questions and comments, I was able to see how it connects to another issue I have – but I never realized that the two were interconnected. We concluded the session with specific actions to help resolve the issue and create a new habit so that the problem may be reduced. We accomplished a significant amount in a short time because you were able to politely, but firmly, maintain a forward momentum in the conversation while keeping non-essentials out of the discussion.
Zale Tabakman