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I deliver interactive training and coaching to help people develop communication & leadership skills because I believe that a culture where people feel valued and a sense of belonging starts and ends with the day-to-day human interactions at every level of an organization.

Helping companies and people reach their full potential.

SYNERGY | INTENTION | GROWTH | ENGAGEMENT | ENTHUSIASM

Driving company profit by building an environment for operational and professional success.

Specializing in leadership training, personalized coaching and customized operational processes that improves efficiency and creates loyalty, laddering up to denominator growth for companies.

Boost Communication Skills - Plus

learn how to bring out the best in yourself and others

interactive leadership and communication training

This 4-module program contains:

Boost Communication Styles
Crucial Conversations
Expediting the Evolution of Groups to Teams
Communication Crafting

Audience: All communicators

Modules are delivered as a full day program or separately

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“The exercises provided an insight not just to my traits but also to my peers.”

— Accountant

“This was one of the most fun & informative training sessions I’ve attended in years to help assess the personality types of others. I’m looking forward to using what I’ve learned today & seeing how it can help with my staff & project teams.”

— Kobi Lucas, Area Manager/Project Executive

“This training provided me with valuable insight on my own communication style and the styles of my team members. It was fun and practical. We developed concrete strategies to address gaps in our company communications.”

— President, Construction Management Firm

“Laura is a great and charismatic speaker. She engages and is open and flexible. The content is very relevant and can be used immediately.”

— Executive VP, Preconstruction

“Learning how to communicate with others is the first step to success on any project. This class helps you learn about yourself so that you can tailor your approach and better communicate with other team members. Fun and informative!”

— Candace White, Quality Control Manager

“By developing your own emotional intelligence you can begin to recognize personality and communication styles in other members of your team. From this, you are then able to break down barriers and catapult your team growth exponentially.”

— Connor Riggs, Quality Manager

One-on-one Professional Coaching

At its best, professional coaching facilitates the unveiling of new ideas and/or nuances to inspire change leading to growth.

The experience should highlight attitudes which support or hinder your “best self”.

The “coach” should help you develop actions and behaviors to which you are willing and able to hold yourself accountable and responsible.

I get as much out of coaching sessions as my clients do!

“Thanks Laura, great discussion and insight today. Really appreciate it…going to fire my therapist!”

— VP, Sales and Marketing

Leadership Retreats with OOMPF

Leadership retreats can be just another meeting or they can be impactful team building events.

Enhance your next leadership meeting with individual and collective self-evaluation and discovery resulting in a stronger team of leaders.

Find out how including Laura in your next meeting can take your organization’s leaders to the next level.

“I am often reluctant to have a training or session that doesn't also teach about action. Our time with Laura Cooley was spent learning, engaging as a team and then practicing the application of that knowledge and experience. We learned and applied a skill that we had previously only hovered around or aspired to achieve. By the time we were done we were actively applying our new skills and creating new habits and practices.”

Brian Melcher - Principal Owner of Field Verified, Inc

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55% of frontline leaders are left out of leadership training! That means the people leading the most people are least likely to receive leadership training…WHAT?!

I understand why organizations feel the need to categorize people using important sounding words like ‘high potential’ or ‘emerging’. This practice focuses more training and mentoring resources into people deemed as most ‘worthy’ of the effort. Grrr.

Are you preparing to have a meeting that might get a little sticky? Here are some professional facilitator tips

Recently, a colleague asked for my advice to help prepare for a meeting she plans on facilitating. She anticipates the participants to be…ummm, confrontational. Here is what I gave her.

Upping Your Impact Today with Prediction, Understanding, Control, and Compassion

The concept of driving fear out of an organization has been around for a very long time (thank Dr. Deming - Out of the Crisis and Dr. Maslow - Hierarchy of Needs) but it is not outdated or obsolete. The idea that we might know the right thing to do, or at least have ideas for different things to do, but hesitate to speak of them or give them a try because we are afraid is still relevant today. I find these four bullets: prediction, understanding, control, and compassion very interesting. While these bullets are presented in The Knowing-Doing Gap in the context of what an organization can do during “hard times” (like layoffs, re-structuring, etc.) to mitigate negative impacts on staff both directly and indirectly effected, I think there are other contexts in which they apply.

They We Me: Gauging & Transforming Accountability & Responsibility Attitudes

This simple outline: They to We to Me, was so effective, I have continued applying it to coaching, teaching, and operations optimization.

The Callback Technique in Transformative Courses

Comedians often use a very effective technique called a callback. A callback is a joke referring back to a previous joke in a set. This is a great tool for developing courses in which the objective is not to teach a skill but to influence attitudes, critical thinking, making judgements, building culture, developing leadership skills, etc.

An Example of Professional Coaching in Action

I share this experience because I believe professional coaching/mentoring is a two-way street that has the potential to greatly impact both parties. As this example illustrates: neither one of us came anywhere near these ideas on our own.

If we want our culture to change we must start with ourselves. We must be purposeful as we seek to improve. We need to continually look for new ideas and inspiration from all sources because we don’t know what we don’t know; we can’t fix something if we can’t see it or if we don’t know it is broken. This is just a single example the circular nature of the influence attitudes and behaviors have on each other. Our mindset drives our behaviors while our behaviors reflect our attitudes. When we are part of a team/organization/family, these collective behaviors create and drive the culture.

The Balanced Scorecard’s The Strategic Management Maturity Model™

The Strategic Maturity Model from the NIST Balanced Scorecard has become a valuable tool to get a quick assessment of where my clients’ operational structure is and what to focus on next.