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Establishing trust with employees is a long-term proposition. You really can't trust somebody you barely know.

—Rod Fralicx, Mercer HR Consulting's Globe Employee Research Director

Providing Breakthrough Leadership Skills for the Organization Through the Individual

Common Boundaries Consulting & Communications works with corporations, privately held companies, trade associations, universities, and nonprofits. We advise organizations on how to increase productivity by working with their people. Specifically in the areas of leading change, managing conflict, and increasing effective communications. Clients have found our products and services to be efficient and effective tools that infuse energy into exhausted corporate cultures.

Organizational Awareness
Team learning
Tools for managing conflict and change
Models for developing authenticity and integrity
Active Creativity processes for the workplace

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Authentic leaders are those who are committed to a purpose or a mission; people who live by their values everyday and who know the true north of their moral compass. They lead with their hearts, not just with their heads, and have compassion for the people they serve. They do so with the discipline and commitment to get great results, not just for their shareholders but for all their stakeholders, their customers, their employees, and their shareholders as well as for the communitites they serve.
—Bill George, former Chairman and CEO of Medtronic

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The Secret to High Performing Teams

Teamwork MBTI® type theory is vital for developing a better understanding of ones self. When applied to team dynamics, type theory provides insights that are both powerful and profound as explained in this excerpt from Introduction to Type® and Teams. According to Mary McCaulley, the MBTI® tool allows us to make predictions about team effectiveness based on psychological type, such as the following:

The more similar the types on a team, the more readily the team members will understand each other.
The more dissimilar the types on a team, the slower the understanding.
Groups with high similarity will reach decisions more quickly but are more likely to make errors due to inadequate representation of all viewpoints.
Groups with members of many different types will reach decisions more slowly (and painfully) but may reach better decisions because more viewpoints are covered.
Teams with only a single representative of a certain preference (e.g. only one Introvert) may fail to appreciate the gifts/skills associated with that preference and may view that member as different.
Teams that come to appreciate and use different types may experience less conflict.
Successful teams with members of many different types promote the personal development of team members by encouraging learning from the gifts of other types.

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Powerful Tools for Leading Change

Common Boundaries works collaboratively with our clients to break through old paradigms and create new ways of handling old problems. This has resulted in outstanding benefits for our clients.

Benefits Include:

Energizing employees to be more productive
Finding innovative solutions to old problems.
Enhancing collaboration and breaking down silo-thinking.
Improving image with clients and vendors.
Improving bottom line by increasing employee retention and satisfaction.
Finding more efficient and creative systems to do business.
Relieving tensions created by poor communications.

Authentic leaders lead from the inside out. They succeed in their business and personal goals, they move their company forward, and they build the morale of those around them creating even more opportunity for success. It becomes literally a spiral of success. And it begins with you. Call us today to learn more about our programs.

'Exceptionally Relevant'

The Authentic Leadership Intensive was exceptionally relevant to my work with Wachovia. We work in a fluid environment and are frequently leading through influence, rather than leading with direct supervision. In this environment, gathering and practicing skills in effective, respectful confrontation are priceless. Debbie's workshop led us through four days of practicing the art of communicating uncomfortably. Practicing these skills raised a core competency of negotiating well and maintaining strong teams and relationships with our colleagues and partners.

The emphasis on practical skills made it easy to take what we learned in the safety of the class room and practice it in the wild world of work—and it works. It is a very powerful tool.

Ruth Hanna Strong
Senior Risk Officer
Wachovia