Leadership Training for Professionals

Asheville, North Carolina is nestled in the foothills between the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains in the midst of some of the most beautiful natural scenery in the world. The climate and environment support the uplifting experiences of CICRCL's Executive & Management Training programs. Their intensive trainings include:

• Customized programs for individuals that address specific issues and objectives
• Completing an Executive Analysis of personality and leadership style
• Improving your ability to connect with and influence people
• Learning to use more effective leadership behaviors
• Learning how to balance your personal/professional priorities
• Identifying and changing self-defeating behaviors that limit success
• Developing communication skills and advanced strategic communication
• Creative thinking and learning to think outside the box
• Learning to lead in a changing environment
• 5 follow-up sessions to support implementing long-range goals

Prior to the Intensive:

Each participant is sent a packet of forms and self-inventories to complete and return prior to the intensive start date. They are used to create an Executive Analysis of your personality and leadership style. They include:

1. A "Client Information Form" that provides a fairly extensive medical and psychological history. It contains several self-inventories that allow you to assess your current level of physical/emotional well being.

2. An "Executive Coaching Client Contract" that:

• Asks you to set some initial goals for your work at the intensive
• Sets the terms of the time and cost of the intensive as well as the structure for follow-up sessions
• Affirms that the information shared in the executive coaching session is confidential and cannot be released unless your coach believes you are in clear and present danger of hurting yourself or others.
• Explains your right and procedures related to terminating the coaching contract
• Outlines what is expected of you during the coaching sessions.

3. A "Disclosure Statement" that:

• Ensures that you receive information on the coach's training and credentials
• Describes your rights as an executive coaching client
• Assures you of the confidentiality of the sessions, except in the special cases indicated in the "Coaching Contract."

4. The "SOC Inventory." This should be completed and sent to your coach prior to your visit.

5. Once the signed contract has been returned along with a 50% deposit, you will be mailed a complimentary autographed copy of Barry and Janae's book, Conflict Resolution: The Partnership Way. It is suggested that you read this book as preparation for your visit. You may be asked to complete some of the self-inventories in the book and send the results to your coach ahead of your visit.

Typical Executive Coaching Schedule For A Three-Day Intensive

We keep the daily schedule flexible and tailored to meet your individual needs, particularly if you are switching time zones. Our training days are 6-8 hours long with a lunch break and morning and afternoon breaks. Wel use a variety of experiential and skill training techniques to help you accomplish your goals. There also may be homework assigned for the evenings to be completed before the next training day.

Day One

The first part of the first day we complete the Executive Analysis of your personality and leadership style. This begins with reviewing the information on the forms and self-inventories that you filled out prior to your visit. We review and modify the initial goals you set prior to your visit. Then we create a tentative plan for working on those goals during the intensive that may shift as your perceptions change.

During the afternoon, we begin working towards your goals using a variety of tools. No matter what tools we use, you are always in charge of determining the pace of the training. We use the information you provided us to help you identify your personal style of conflict resolution and its limitations. From here we might continue with some of the following:

• Role-playing techniques to help you practice negotiation skills or other relationship skills
• Identifying patterns of ineffective behavior that might be interfering with your effectiveness on and off the job
• Identifying the sources of your intractable conflicts
• Identifying symptoms of post-traumatic stress that are replaying in your life. At the end of the first day, we will review where we are in relation to your goals and then review our plans about where to begin the second day.

The Second Day

The second day usually involves the most intensive work on your goals through trauma reduction techniques, more role-playing and additional training in communication and conflict resolution. Your coach(es) will structure activities that will help you identify and remove any self-defeating behaviors you might have that are limiting your success. You will likely be very tired after this day. There you may be asked to complete a written homework assignment that will help focus your work on any remaining issues for the third day.

The Third Day

On this day, you and your coach(es) will complete anything remaining work from the second day and integrate the learnings from your first two days of work. The morning is usually devoted to summarizing and applying the insights from your intensive experience. The afternoon is devoted to creating a written follow-up action plan that you will take back home with you to implement. Included in your structured plan will be methods for balancing your personal/professional priorities. You will be asked to set new short and long-term goals related to implementing what you learned during the intensive part of your coaching and how you will continue the work that you began during the intensive.

The Follow-up Telephone Sessions

This is often the most important part of the executive coaching experience. It is often challenging to implement your goals into your work and home environments. The daily pressures that you temporarily left behind during the intensive reappear as opportunities for change. The weekly telephone sessions provide you with important coaching support to help you overcome the obstacles that still remain in your work and home environments. Your coach(es) will continue to review your goals weekly with you and offer suggestions turning challenges into change opportunities as you implement your action plan. Your coach(es) are also available for phone or email consultation at times other than those that are scheduled, if you need it.

Additional Coaching Sessions

The option of doing more face-to-face coaching is always available. You may wish to return for tune-ups from time to time if you uncover new challenges that require additional tools and support.

Arranging Programs & Services

Trainings are held at CICRCL's office near Asheville, NC. CICRCL's co-directors, Barry K. Weinhold, and Janae B. Weinhold, provide all services for Executive Leadership and Management Training. The program also includes an autographed gift copy of Conflict Resolution: The Partnership Way, a private 1 - 3 day training intensive and a series of follow-up phone calls. The program is adapted to fit the needs of each trainee. Travel and lodging are not included in the program fees. Feel free to email or call us at 828.686.1890 to schedule training or for more information on program fees.

Intensive Fees

1-day $2,000
2-day $4,000
3-day $6,000
1/2 of balance two weeks prior to intensive date
Remainder of balance at the end of the intensive

Online booking deposit: $500

Testimonials from Executive Coaching Clients

I learned of Barry and Janae Weinhold after a confrontation with a close relative. I went to the local bookstore and "Breaking Free of the Codependency Trap" just caught my eye because I felt like I was in a trap with my relation. I thought it might have some tips on how I could help my relation grow up. Boy was I in for a surprise. After reading that book it wasn't long until I had most of the rest of their books, and then knew I had to meet them. So, I went to Colorado. The 3 days I spent in Colorado Springs with Barry working on an intensive started an avalanche of change in my life.

It has been four years since I met Barry through his book. I am a 38 year old married father of three, a former Gulf War Marine, and successful executive at a Fortune 500 company. Before I met Barry I thought I was responsible for everyone, and had to maintain control. I had this constant free-floating anxiety that was driving me deeper and deeper into frustration. I had the happy well-managed act down, but it was a front. Really, something very important was missing. I had an exaggerated sense of self-esteem. In other words, I didn't like who I felt like I was inside, so I just built the perfect man image, and tried to live to it. Most of all, I never, never, never asked for help with anything. I had learned not to really trust anyone because I knew that everyone was really in it for himself or herself. Most of all, I felt like I was going to explode from all of the emotions I choked down from every angle.

What has changed since two years ago? Well...I couldn't begin to tell you. That is something you'll just have to feel to believe. But here is what I can tell you. If you are thinking about reading Barry and Janae's books, or working with them on an intensive, do it. Just do it. I am alive like I have never been alive before. I am working on all of the fears that I kept to myself, and some hidden from myself for all those years. Even after I had read Barry's books and before I met him, I kept asking myself, "Can he really help me?" I found out the answer was no. He taught me how to help myself, and how to ask for help from the right people. He taught me how to do the work I needed to do. I am at peace with the path I am on now. I'm no longer looking for the next solution because the old one didn't work. I found the one that worked. Barry did for me what Grandfathers used to do for little boys. He pointed down a path and said, "This is the way, and I've been there. Don't worry, I'm right here with you."

-Steve Brandon, St. Louis, MO

"The Weinholds ability to keep me focused helped me get clear about what I want from life and to make it happen for myself. Barry and Janae are gifted individually but work beautifully together, providing an invaluable tapestry of therapy."

Barbara M.
Santa Barbara, CA