Coaching

Sage Consulting coaching is offered in collaboration with Virtue Medicine.

To learn more about our coaching for professionals, visit: www.virtuemedicine.com/elizabeth-parks/

Coaching for Professionals

Are you experiencing a consistent pinch-point that is preventing you from reaching some of your communication and collaboration goals? Are you working to navigate cross-cultural experiences? Let’s work together to better hear, understand, remember, interpret, evaluate and respond to these moments in ways through which you can create strategic next-steps to thrive rather than just survive.

Learn how to listen and dialogue in high-stakes 1:1 conversations in a way that maximizes understanding of others, collaboration in your team, and constructive engagement in complex intergroup interactions. I can offer tailored individual and team coaching to you in ways that meet your unique needs. In addition, I offer scoped coaching packages in any of the following areas:

• Accessibility, belonging, co-cultures, difference

• Communication and Leadership Skills

• Communication Ethics and Professionalism

• Culture Shock/Transition

• Conflict Negotiation and Mediation

• Higher Education Culture

• Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access, Social Justice (IDEAS)

• Peace-Building

• Team Building and Collaboration

• Wicked Problems

Example 1: ethical leadership

Pursue consulting through coaching designed for leaders and executives to develop their ethical leadership engagement with values, communication, power and care. Through validated research conducted across multiple countries, cultures and languages, it's proven that leadership growth in 7 specific core ethical leadership competencies 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿𝘀, 𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁, while 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿, 𝗷𝗼𝗯 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗼𝘂𝘁.

𝗘 - Emotional Intelligence
𝗧 - Trustworthiness
𝗛 - Humility
𝗜 - Interdependence
𝗖 - Codes
𝗔 - Adaptability
𝗟 - Listening

The package includes ten 75-minute coaching visits. The first coaching visit will clarify the questions and leadership goals of the client. The next seven coaching sessions will focus on one of the seven core ETHICAL Leadership competencies each session and include empirically-validated assessments related to each competency to help leaders better understand their leadership strengths and growth edges. These will be completed by clients at a time of their convenience before each related competency coaching session. The final two coaching visits offer protected time to work on specific competencies identified by clients as needing focused attention in their ethical leadership practice. Total package cost: $5,000 (USD).

Example 2: Listening competence

There are so many reasons to improve your listening skills, not the least of which is that poor listening in the workplace can lead to relational stress and failure in contexts that matter most to you, and low communication competence can cost an organization up to $62.4 million per year.* I can help you improve your listening knowledge and skills in this coaching package so that you can a) understand the steps of 6 components of listening and self-assess your strengths and weaknesses in your own listening process and communication competence, b) gain knowledge about 6 different listening styles and self-assess your own unique listening styles and identify their strengths and weaknesses in your relational interactions, c) clarify how your values of listening intersect with the 10 universal ethics of listening, and d) develop your own code of ethics for listening and chart next steps for a plan forward to increase the power of listening in your own leadership, relationships and workplaces.

This package includes three 75-minute visits and the completion of four empirically-grounded self-assessments: 1) HURIER listening model, 2) Communication Competence, 3) Listening Styles Profile-Expanded (LSP-E), and 4) Ethics of Listening. The HURIER listening model and Communication Competence self-assessments will be completed by clients after the first coaching session at their convenience but prior to the second coaching session. In the second coaching visit, these assessments will be discussed and then applied to the specific listening contexts that clients wish to focus on for listening skill improvement. After the second coaching visit, the client will complete the LSP-E and the Ethics of Listening self-assessments at their convenience but before the third coaching session. In the third coaching session, the client will develop their own code of ethics for listening and chart a plan forward to increase the power of listening competence in their lives. Total package cost: $2,500 (USD)

*Grossman, D. 2011. “The Cost of Poor Communications.” The Holmes Report

Example 3: Conflict Communication

This coaching package has two options: 1) Individual Coaching, 2) Dyadic/Team Coaching.

For Individual Coaching: Pursue consulting through coaching designed for better understanding and improving your conflict communication strategies in the workplace. Through individual coaching you will be able to a) define and identify interpersonal conflict within overarching communication goals, b) understand your individual conflict communication styles and their benefits/drawbacks, c) understand the role of power and status in your conflict engagements, and d) learn best paths forward through competent conflict communication values and practices. This coaching approach can be especially effective when clients are committed to better understanding themselves and willing to experiment in adapting their approaches to conflict to different relationships and situations. The package includes three individual 75 minute coaching visits. After visits #2 and #3, participants will complete two empirically-validated assessments: a conflict communication style assessment and a communication competence assessment. Total package cost: $2,500 (USD).

For Dyadic/Team Coaching: Pursue consulting through coaching designed for collaborative work that is marked by detrimental relational conflict in the workplace. Work together to assess a) perceived interpersonal conflict, b) individual and interactive conflict communication styles, c) shared best outcomes, and d) best ways forward through the conflict engaging effective communication practices. This coaching approach can be especially effective when clients are committed to better understanding themselves and each other and moving forward in ongoing relational teamwork into the future. 

The package includes two individual 30 minute initial coaching visits, followed by the completion of two empirically-validated assessments: a conflict communication style assessment and a communication competence assessment. Following this initial orientation to the conflict communication desired outcomes, two individual 90 minute conflict communication coaching sessions will precede the facilitation of two paired/dyadic coaching visits to work through the conflict together. The package closes with two individual 30 minute final coaching visits to set up individualized plans moving forward. Total package cost: $5,500 (USD).

These are just a few of the research opportunities that I offer.

What Coaching Clients Have to Say:

“Elizabeth is a great listener and very targeted in her responses. She has a skill for zeroing in on the heart of a problem.”

“Elizabeth is a very efficient, empathetic, and helpful coach. Her coaching style worked very well for my needs. She showed a balanced combination of encouragement and accountability, and she made me think of new ways to tackle problems I was facing. I appreciated her honesty when sharing her perspective!”

“Elizabeth is great at listening and inviting people into the conversation. She has a talent for responding with empathy but also concrete ideas.”

“Elizabeth was SO helpful. Really helped me entirely reframe my thinking and therefore to start to break through the barriers I had erected. I also really appreciated that she took seriously my wording/framing resistance and helped me develop vocabulary that works for me.”

“My coaching session with Elizabeth was a gamechanger. Her insightful questions and observations helped me clarify my concerns and develop clear, attainable action items to take as next steps. I felt heard and seen during the call, in part because I could tell she, too, was bringing herself to this work in an authentic and genuine way.”