GenderSmart^® Coaching

Women recognize, often without even being able to articulate their concern, when executives don’t walk their talk. The likely fact that executives’ intentions are good offers some benefits but not significant results. If executives and managers don’t know how to talk with and manage women in a way that makes them feel supported, taken seriously, respected, and acknowledged...retention and potential leadership talent will be compromised.

Very often, executive coaching that supports gender communication and management issues is one of the many recommendations stemming from Jane’s consulting work. Women are different than men (equal, just different) and respond more productively to communication and management styles that accommodate those differences. Even the fact that some women don’t want to call attention to themselves by requiring different treatment reinforces the need for this work – they are afraid to rock the boat and do anything that men in power will balk at – they want to fit in and glide easily to the top, the same way men do. Corporate life rarely works that way.

Therefore, coaching for executives, managers, and/or selected women can offer significant benefits and powerfully enhance efforts to transition a company to its GenderSmart culture. The route to this optimal culture is a two-way street – a company is better-served when both genders learn how to communicate with each other and understand both the masculine and feminine styles of communication and management. This is by no means an issue only for men to address. For women to advance and be prepared for leadership, they must understand men’s point of view and learn how to operate within the culture particular to the company they work for.

With GenderSmart Coaching for Executives/Managers, you will learn skills to help you:

• Communicate more effectively with both men and women at all levels (and at home too)
• Understand how you may be misperceiving people with a style different than your own (masculine or feminine)
• Understand how you and your style may be misperceived by others
• Adopt a more flexible style when necessary to accommodate others
• Develop more productive, harmonious working relationships with superiors, peers, clients, and staff – men and women
• Feel more confident when dealing with others using the opposite style
• Give feedback more effectively and compassionately so it will be heard and accepted
• Get better results through improved communication and management techniques

With GenderSmart Coaching for Women, you will learn skills to help you:

• Accomplish all the outcomes listed above for executives and managers, plus...
• Improve your advancement potential
• Communicate more confidently, concisely and directly, with courtesy and respect
• Avoid misperceptions by others that you are indecisive, weak, or incapable of management or executive positions
• Approach your work with more confidence
• Stay on track and focused, with accountability for your progress and future
• Increase productivity and reduce stress with improved time management skills
• Improve your decision-making and risk-taking skills
• Handle difficult people and situations more effectively
• Promote yourself more effectively to superiors for career advancement

Life & Career (Personal) Coaching

The best of the best – athletes, performers, executives – know that everyone can benefit significantly in one or more areas of their life by working with a talented coach. Life and career coaching, specifically, is a practice of assisting people to identify and achieve personal and professional goals. Jane uses a variety of methods, tailored to each client, to progress through this inspiring and life-changing process.

With roots in executive coaching, which stems from techniques developed in management consulting and leadership training, life coaching also draws from a wide variety of disciplines, including sociology, psychology, career counseling, mentoring, and numerous other types of consultative applications.

Would you like to feel more content and fulfilled? Do you often feel stuck or overwhelmed in one or more areas of your life? Would you like to reduce your stress and increase your energy? If so, consider working with Jane Sanders.

By working with Jane, you can:

• Create more balance in your life.
• Increase clarity about your priorities and what you really want.
• Improve your personal and/or business relationships.
• Make real and positive changes in your life.
• Overcome self-limiting beliefs and behavior.
• Create plans and take action to achieve your goals.
• Experience more fun, fulfillment, and joy in your life.
• Stay on track and focused, with accountability for your progress and future.
• Increase productivity and reduce stress with improved time management skills.
• Receive objective perspective and candid, gentle feedback.
• Improve your decision-making and interpersonal communication skills.
• Handle difficult people and situations more effectively.
• Improve your presentation skills.
• Promote yourself more effectively for career advancement.

Jane as Coach

Jane has 17 years of corporate sales and marketing experience, followed by 14 years as founder of her own successful consulting and speaking firm.

Jane’s education includes undergraduate studies in business, communication, and psychology, and an MBA in marketing. Throughout her career, Jane has mentored and coached employees, clients, and associates. Fueled by results that participants are experiencing, her life planning workshop continues to increase in demand.

Jane applies mentoring, personal reflection activities, insightful and thought-provoking questioning, values assessment, behavior modification, goal-setting, action plans, follow-up systems, and other techniques in assisting clients.

Her process is highly intuitive and is tailored to the specific situation and objectives of each client. Jane develops a mutually beneficial and enjoyable collaboration based on authenticity, trust, confidence, clear communication, and a heartfelt desire to make a positive difference.

Coaching Clients Speak Out

• “Jane is a natural leader, an exceptional facilitator. She can identify priorities and determine the order things should be done. She has the ability to absorb and grasp a lot of information and then put it into meaningful form with a plan. Her work with us was the best experience I’ve had in the 15 years I’ve been in this job. We were blown away by her work with us.”
• “Jane is best at helping people figure out and understand their problems and challenges and then help them create a plan to overcome them. She can bring order to chaos. Her organizational skills are excellent.”
• “Jane hears what you say and is very insightful, she has great listening skills.”
• “Jane is so strong in her abilities, down to earth and comfortable to be around. People love her after they have had exposure to her on a personal level.”
• “Jane is smart as a whip, very focused, and professional. She is the kind of person people seek out for advice. She is very real, direct, and honest.”

Getting Started

Call Jane now to schedule a 30-minute exploration of how she might help you and how the two of you could work together toward achieving your goals and a more joyful, fulfilled life with the results you desire.