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FREE Work/Life Satisfaction Assessment
This simple, self-scored assessment gives you a handle on where you are right now in 8 critical areas of your life as a basis for deciding on your next steps. Statements about how you handle and feel about your work, personal life, tasks and goals, communication, and relationships, among other topics, are used to identify where you are globally in realizing your best life. Takes less than 10 minutes to complete.

Cost: None.  This is a FREE download.

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Life Coaching
The focus of Life Coaching is on balancing and setting paths for all aspects of your life, and then moving forward with intention to develop and maintain progress in all areas.   I offer one-on-one telephone or in-person coaching in which we’ll start by assessing where you are and what you want to accomplish in your personal and professional life using psychometrically-proven instruments as well as some great conversations that will lead you to some very specific goals.  We’ll then set paths to those goals, and work together to develop accountability for getting you there.  

Cost: $500/month for 4 one-hour telephone or in-person sessions per month and unlimited email support.  Minimum 3 month commitment, payable in installments.

Click the button below to automatically deduct your payments monthly ($500.00) for 3 months.

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Work/Life Balance Coaching for Working Parents
One-on-one or couples-based telephone or in-person sessions focused on assessing work and home priorities, making decisions that work for you and your family regarding scheduling, boundaries, expectations, and the need for “down time”. We’ll identify priorities for you, your partner, and your family, and develop strategies for un-cluttering your time to make you more effective and successful at home and at work, and make quality time for you, your relationship, and your family.

Cost: $300 per month; month-to-month commitment. Monthly fee includes 2 60-minute telephone or in-person sessions per month and unlimited email support

 

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Executive and Business Coaching
One-on-one phone or in-person coaching with Mary focusing on your professional and career aspirations for the short and long term.   Our work can be focused on specific issues you bring, or may take a more global approach to your career and leadership trajectory, depending on your goals.  In either case, we’ll begin with an assessment of your professional strong points and challenges using both our conversations and a variety of established, psychometrically-validated assessment instruments.  Using this information, I’ll support you as you identify specific professional goals that you want to  achieve in a specified time-frame. Next, we’ll use personalized strategies to facilitate the changes you desire to build accountability and help you get to your goals.

Cost: $800 per month; Minimum 3 month commitment. Monthly fee includes 4 1-hour telephone or in-person sessions and unlimited email support.  Payable in installments.

Click the button below to automatically deduct your payments monthly ($800.00) for 3 months.

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Communication and Conflict Management Coaching
Weekly telephone or in-person coaching addressing improving personal and professional communication and conflict management and resolution in corporate and personal situations. We’ll start with psychometric assessments of your personality, expectations, and preferences, and discuss how what you bring to the table creates communication patterns that may work well or may be problematic. We’ll also work on how communication and listening can be used to understand, manage, and resolve conflicts, both on a personal and professional level. Role-playing and targeted coaching will be major tools in developing your new skills in these areas.

Cost: $600 per month; Minimum 2 month commitment. Monthly fee includes 2 90-minute telephone or in-person sessions and unlimited email support

Click the button below to automatically deduct your payments monthly ($600.00) for 2 months.

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Stress Reduction and Mind/Body Health Coaching
Bi-weekly in-person or telephone sessions that focus on indentifying sources of stress in your life, understanding the physiology and mental and physical effects of short and long-term stress, and developing personalized approaches to managing your stress and avoiding negative effects of stress on your mental and physical health.   Using research-based assessments of your real and perceived stressors and the effects of these on your mental and physical health, and then we’ll work together to create time and stress management strategies that support your well-being at home and at work.

Cost: $300 per month; Minimum 3 month commitment. Monthly fee includes 2 60-minute telephone or in-person sessions per month and unlimited email support.  Payable in installments.

Click the button below to automatically deduct your payments monthly ($300.00) for 3 months.

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Tenure Coaching and Support Package
Four-month comprehensive package of mentoring, coaching, feedback, editorial support, and accountability to prepare your dossier, publications, CV, and teaching/research portfolio for internal and external review for tenure and promotion or promotion to Full Professor. After assessment of your core academic strong points and challenges related to your upcoming tenure or promotion, we will set a series of very specific goals that you will achieve in a specified timeframe to prepare your research and teaching portfolios and your dossier for internal and external review. Once your goals have been identified, we will use personalized organizational and time-management strategies to build accountability and help you get to your goals. In addition, I will provide extensive editorial support for all written material you generate during this process and will coach you on developing and constructing a successful dossier.

Cost: $3000 one time fee for 4 months of support. Includes 2 60-minute phone coaching/feedback sessions per month, unlimited email support, editorial review and feedback on grant applications, manuscripts, personal statements for your dossier, and visual review and coaching on the organization and construction of your dossier through the contracted period.

Click the button below to automatically deduct your payments monthly ($750.00) for 3 months.

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Dossier Review and Feedback
Extensive, objective review and critique of your assembled dossier for tenure or promotion. You will receive detailed feedback, suggestions, and organizational tips for making your dossier successful. Your tenure and/or promotion dossier will be reviewed first, for the standpoint of a senior faculty member preparing to write an external letter of evaluation for your case, and second, from the standpoint of a University administrator charged with assessing your case and making a recommendation to support or deny your bid. I have experience on all sides of this process, and will not only point out the strong and less strong points of your dossier, but will provide concrete suggestions for changes in content and organization that will help your dossier speak for you as strongly as possible.

Cost: $600. This fee includes extensive review and feedback as well as suggestions. Turnaround time between my receipt of your electronic dossier to your completed comprehensive report is 21 days.

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Group Coaching for Early Career PhDs

Three month package of group telephone coaching specifically designed for new PhDs, Post-docs, and others in the early stages of their academic careers.  Not ready for one-on-one coaching? Get the benefits of coaching without all the cost, and benefit from discussions with your peers. This package includes weekly 1 hour group telephone coaching sessions that focus on issues of grant-writing, career transition, political navigation through your career, and issues of work/life balance.

Cost: $600 one-time fee for 3 months of coaching. Fee includes 9 (3 per month) 60-minute group phone coaching sessions and unlimited email support.

Click the button below to automatically deduct your payments monthly ($200.00) for 3 months.

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Group Coaching for Mid- Career PhDs
Three month package of group telephone coaching specifically designed for mid-career Faculty, including Associate Professors seeking Promotion to Full Professor. Not ready for one-on-one coaching? Get the benefits of coaching without all the cost, and benefit from discussions with your peers. This package includes weekly 1 hour group telephone coaching sessions that focus on issues of productivity at mid-career, grant-writing and professional development, career transition, political navigation through your career, and issues of work/life balance.  

Cost: $800 one-time fee for 3 months of coaching. Includes 9 (3 per month) 60-minute group phone coaching sessions and unlimited email support.

Click the button below to automatically deduct your payments monthly ($266.66) for 3 months.

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Group Coaching for the Transition into Academic Leadership

Three month package of group telephone coaching specifically designed for Faculty seeking to develop as academic leaders (department Chairs, Deans, Program Directors, and other administrative posts). This package includes weekly 1 hour group telephone coaching sessions that focus on issues of leadership development, political savvy, budget and fiscal skill development, leveraging service and research, andd issues of work/life balance.

Cost: $1000 one-time fee for 3 months of coaching. Includes 9 (3 per month) 60-minute group phone coaching sessions, CV and Biography assistance, and unlimited email support.

Click the button below to automatically deduct your payments monthly ($333.33) for 3 months.

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Teleseminar: Dealing with Difficult People at Home and at Work

What: This interactive teleseminar will use a case-study approach to focus on developing no-fail ways of dealing with maddening, difficult, and/or conflict-mongering people.

Where:Bridge line number will be provided when participants sign up.

Why:This seminar provides real-world examples and discussion of conflicts, simple and complex, with individuals, and uses these vignettes to develop concrete, actionable strategies you an apply today to manage and resolve conflicts with difficult people in a way that you feel good about.

When: January 20, 2009, 6-8pm MST.

Cost: $15.00

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eWorkshop: Building a Great Dossier for Reappointment, Tenure, and Promotion

What: This interactive workshop will address and provide an open discussion of best practices and common mistakes related to putting together a successful dossier.

Where:Bridge line number will be provided when participants sign up.

Why:This workshop provides guidelines and tips for putting together a great dossier, presenting your work in the best possible light, avoiding common errors, and an opportunity to ask specific questions related to developing your dossier. Participants will receive a special report with highlights of the workshop and best practices for getting on schedule for tenure.

When: January 21, 2009, 6-8pm MST.

Cost: $20.00

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Effective Communication e-Course

Limited Time Offer: More than 50% off regular price!

Powerful Mind’s “Effective Communication Skills” is a 6 part e-course that is designed to improve your communication skills, enabling you to express yourself more clearly and to talk with confidence and assurance even in the most challenging situations. Each of the 6 modules includes a number of exercises and assignments that will teach you all you need to know so that you can communicate more effectively with all of the people who you come in contact with, whether in your professional or personal life. With “Effective Communication Skills” you will now be able to know what effective communications are all about, how the great communicators do it and all there is to know about non-verbal communication techniques which make up to 93% of all communications! Communication goes far beyond the actual words that you say; it’s how you say it and the way that you act while you’re saying it. If you want to improve and take your communication skills to the next level, then this course is for you.
Part 1: Understanding the communications process – how does miscommunication occur?
Part 2: How to understand someone else’s view of the world
Part 3: How to communicate with different types of people
Part 4: What do you need to do to be an outstanding communicator?
Part 5: How to make small talk with people you have never met before – It’s easy when you know how!
Part 6: Giving and receiving feedback

Cost: $60.00 per download LIMITED TIME PROMOTIONAL PRICE: 29.95 per download

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eBook: “Spinning the Plates: Creating Success as a Professor and Parent”
A “need to know” resource for parents who are also faculty on the tenure track on succeeding in developing and maintining active academic lives as researchers and teachers, succeeding in and beyond the tenure process, and long-term goal setting relating to work/family balance. Using a series of short case studies, this eBook provides specific and concise strategies for overcoming the most common sticking points in balancing academic and family life. A primary focus of the book is developing a strategy for making tenure, building a dossier, and fostering your research program in the face of growing family responsibilities.

Cost: $20.00 per download