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Transcripts from Tele-Workshop Series on Emotional Intelligence
These are Transcriptions of audio recordings taken from our Tele-Workshop series, Emotional Intelligence for Resilient Leaders and Professionals. These are mainly taken from our 2007 Tele-workshop series sponsored by ASAW.
More Transcriptions will be posted here shortly.
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Audios 2008
Emotional Intelligence for Resilient Leaders and Professionals audio files
Introduction
A 5-minute introduction to our entire Tele-Workshop series, Emotional Intelligence for Resilient Leaders and Professionals, audio file. Download the file or click on the triangle below to hear 5 minutes of William R. Murray describing how our Tele-Workshop series will benefit you.
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Group sponsored by ASTD (American Society of Training and Development),
started March 2008,
Introduction and Module 1 - Goals, Values and Strategies, Sponsored by ASTD
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Goals, Values and Strategies 2, Sponsored by ASTD
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Goals, Values and Strategies 3, Sponsored by ASTD
Communication, Sponsored by ASTD
Communication 2, Sponsored by ASTD
Communication 3, Sponsored by ASTD
Dialogue, Sponsored by ASTD
Dialogue 2, Sponsored by ASTD
Dialogue 3, Sponsored by ASTD
Assertiveness, Sponsored by ASTD
Assertiveness 2, Sponsored by ASTD
Assertiveness 3, Sponsored by ASTD
Self Management, Sponsored by ASTD
Sample Audios
Sample Audio Recordings
This 5-minute Talk by William R. Murray explains how you can benefit from the entire Tele-Workshop series, Emotional Intelligence for Resilient Leaders and Professionals.
Download this file from link on the right side or click on the triangle to play it immediately.
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Here are some audio recordings to let you experience what a Group Coaching Tele-Workshop session might be like.
The following audio recordings are from My Tele-Workshop series, Emotional Intelligence for Resilient Leaders and Professionals.
The first recording, GSK- Introduction and Module 2 selection on Communication, has a brief Introduction to the whole series, two testimonials, and a communication exercise selected from Module 2. The exercise is on how to speak in a manner others can hear. This Tele-Workshop gives participants many chances to practice doing this and get feedback.
GSK- Introduction and Module 2 selection on Communication
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The following second recording is my lengthier Introduction to the whole series. If you have signed up but missed our Introduction Module, please listen now so that you will get the most out of your Tele-Workshop experience.
Introduction and Module 1 Beginning of Goals, Values & Strategies, sponsored by ASTD (American Society of Training and Development)
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The third recording is the first session on the topic of Conflict Transformation and Connecting.
Notice how potential conflict is nipped in the bud with a method that I teach everyone to use in subsequent sessions. Also notice how participants witness a live process and recognize their learning on their own at the end. This illustrates the group dynamic of discovery learning. Adults learn best from experiencing an event, in this case a role play, and then reflecting on their learning.
Conflict Transformation and Connecting, sponsored by ASAW
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The fourth recording is the next session on Conflict Transformation of this same Tele-Workshop group. This time the format is a discussion followed by one person presenting a problem they have at work. Bill Murray and group members coach the person to understand their problem better using a special method.
Again participants learn from observing a real life problem. The person will address the problem the next day by speaking with a direct report. The person will then report back to us next week about her results and get feedback on how she did. In this Tele-Workshop series, we learn by doing and getting feedback. Our format of spacing out the learning in small chunks weekly allows us this excellent learning approach.
Conflict Transformation and Connecting 2, sponsored by ASAW
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The following fifth recording is a talk Bill gave on “Emotional Intelligence for Resilience” to the Global Executive Coaches’ SIG of ICF. Bill based his talk on his book chapter, “Emotional Intelligence for Resilience,” published in the Amazon best seller book, Upping the Down Side.
Bill’s Talk at Global Executive Coaches’ SIG of ICF
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Sample of an Individual Executive Coaching session
The situation is that my client is facing a job interview in a few hours. Notice how I repeatedly assist him to:
-Clarify his strengths
-Celebrate them to increase his self esteem
-Formulate how to communicate strengths to his inteviewers.
Emotional Intelligence for Resilient Leaders and Professionals
If you have not already seen it, please see our:
- Overview of Tele-Workshops
- Calendar - Dates, fees, form to sign up.
Please click on the triangle below to hear a 5-minute audio of William Murray describing the benefits of this Tele-Workshop.
“What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.” –Martin Luther King, Jr.
We invite you to participate in a series of Tele-Workshops that will help you be more powerful and loving – Emotional Intelligence for Resilient Leaders and Professsionals. As a leader or professional at work, you will be more skilled at handling difficult situations and conversations. At home, you will understand and relate to your family and friends better. You will lead all aspects of your own life more powerfully, lovingly, and resiliently.
The group coaching approach of this Tele-Workshop gives you some of the benefits and Results of our individual Executive Coaching Program at a fraction of the cost. Also it gives you a place to practice new skills in an emotionally safe setting.
If you are a leader of an organization, or know of one, please let us know. We shall form a special small group section of leaders whenever we have 6-8 leaders interested. This group will cover the same topics as below but with an emphasis on leadership applications. For a detailed description of this Tele-Workshop exclusively for leaders, click on Emotionally Intelligent Leadership.
Nancy Maeder of Durham NC, said, “I have been a participant for a day-long training program at Duke University on coaching skills by Bill Murray. I found his approaches and practices very helpful for increasing my people skills. His group was very interactive and engaging so I signed up for his Tele-Workshop series too.”
This program may be offered as an in-house workshop tailored to fit your company’s needs. Or individuals may attend our ongoing public Tele-Workshops open to all professionals. In either case, we shall explore the key emotional intelligence topics below.
Public Tele-Workshops: New people may join at any time. The Tele-Workshops are easy to fit into your schedule, since each individual session is short, an hour and 20 minutes, and the Program is offered about 3 times a month. You can participate from the comfort of your office by dialing up the phone number that will be provided when you register. (Regular long-distance phone charges will apply.) You will be surprised at how much you learn in this format because you can practice the skills you have learned in between sessions. Your learning will be resilient.
Come to as many sessions as you can, and invite co-workers, family, and friends from any location to join you, at any time on our conference calls. Since everything occurs on the telephone, you can invite people from California, Canada, England and anywhere. You can practice the skills with them between sessions and improve your relationships.
This Tele-Workshop series is organized by the topics below which focus on the most important competencies of emotional intelligence. The theme of resilience runs throughout.
1. Goals, Values and Strategies
2. Communication
3. Dialogue and Feedback
4. Assertiveness
5. Self-Management
6. Relationship Management
7. Conflict Transformation and Connecting
8. Listening
9. Facilitation and Empowerment
10. Performance Management
11. Lab: Putting it all together in live sessions with feedback.
Biography of William R. Murray
“I am a Harvard M.B.A., Yale M.Div. (Master of Divinity), Master Certified Coach, and graduate of Corporate Coach U. I started as a line manager with bottom-line responsibility. Then in l976, I began training and coaching managers in leadership and communication skills in JC Penney’s corporate headquarters. I helped them open the largest leadership development center in New York City. Since then I have trained and coached business owners, executives, and leaders in companies ranging from Fortune 500 corporations like IBM, to family businesses. In 1993 I founded Eagle Alliance Executive Coaching.”
I hope you’ll join us for some or all of these exciting Tele-Workshop topics. If you have any questions about the Tele-Workshop series, please call me, William R. Murray, President of Eagle Alliance Executive Coaching at 919.419.9460.
For more information about results and benefits of our Tele-Workshop series, go to this site and scroll down: http://www.EmotionallyIntelligentLeadership.com./
Get free Tips on the above topics at: http://www.EmotionallyIntelligentLeadership.com/.
Get Complimentary Session:
You may get audio recordings and sit in one session for free to experience how good our Tele-Workshops are. Please sign up at that same site above, http://www.EmotionallyIntelligentLeadership.com/ - scroll down to the yellow highlighted form “Get Complimentary Session.”
For dates, please go to our Calendar page.
To register, please go to http://www.EmotionallyIntelligentLeadership.com/workshop/#enroll
If you are a leader, see our Leadership Fact Finder – questionnaire and complimentary consultation.
Audios 2007
Emotional Intelligence for Resilient Leaders and Professionals audio files
Overview
A 5-minute introduction to our entire Tele-Workshop, Emotional Intelligence for Leaders and Professionals, audio file. Click on the triangle below to hear 5 minutes of William Murray describing how our Tele-Workshop will benefit you.
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Public Group
February 2007 - October 2007
Goals and Priorities:
Click on the triangle below or on the download link to hear a 50 minute Tele-Workshop session on Goals and Priorities.
Communication:
Click on the triangle below or on the download link to hear a 80 minute Tele-Workshop session on Communication.
Communication 2: Click on the triangle below to hear a 80 minute Tele-Workshop session 2 on Communication.
Dialogue & Feedback
Dialgoue & Feedback 2
Assertiveness
Assertiveness 2
Self-Management
Self-Management 2
Self-Management 3
Relationship Management
Relationship Management 2
Conflict Transformation
Listening
Listening 2
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Association for Spirit at Work (ASAW) sponsored group
May 2007 - April 2008
ASAW Introduction to Emotional Intelligence for Professionals
ASAW Goals and Priorities
ASAW Goals and Priorities 2
ASAW Communication
ASAW Communication 2
ASAW Communication 3
ASAW Dialogue
ASAW Dialogue 2
ASAW Assertiveness
ASAW Assertiveness 2
ASAW Self-Management
ASAW Self-Management 2
ASAW Self-Management 3
ASAW Self & Relationship Management
ASAW Relationship Management 2
ASAW Relationship Management 3
ASAW Relationship Management 4
ASAW Relationship Management 5
ASAW Conflict Transformation and Connecting
ASAW Conflict Transformation and Connecting 2
ASAW Conflict Transformation and Connecting 3
ASAW Conflict Transformation and Connecting 4
ASAW Conflict Transformation and Connecting 5
ASAW Listening
ASAW Listening 2
ASAW Listening 3
ASAW Listening 4
Facilitation and Empowerment
Facilitation and Empowerment 2
ASAW Performance Management
ASAW Performance Management 2
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- Communicating on Their Wavelength
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- Transcripts from Tele-Workshop Series on Emotional Intelligence
Alcoholics Anonymous Questionnaire
We decided to try and face up to what alcohol had done to us. Here are some of the questions we tried to answer honestly. If we answered YES to four or more questions, we were in deep trouble with our drinking. See how you do. Remember, there is no disgrace in facing up to the fact that you have a problem.
Answer YES or NO to the following questions.
1. Have you ever decided to stop drinking for a week or so, but only lasted for a couple of days? Most of us in A.A. made all kinds of promises to ourselves and to our families. We could not keep them. Then we came to A.A. A.A. said: “Just try not to drink today.” (If you do not drink today, you cannot get drunk today.)
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2. Do you wish people would mind their own business about your drinking– stop telling you what to do? In A.A. we do not tell anyone to do anything. We just talk about our own drinking, the trouble we got into, and how we stopped. We will be glad to help you, if you want us to.
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3. Have you ever switched from one kind of drink to another in the hope that this would keep you from getting drunk? We tried all kinds of ways. We made our drinks weak. Or just drank beer. Or we did not drink cocktails. Or only drank on weekends. You name it, we tried it. But if we drank anything with alcohol in it, we usually got drunk eventually.
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4. Have you had to have an eye-opener upon awakening during the past year? Do you need a drink to get started, or to stop shaking? This is a pretty sure sign that you are not drinking “socially.”
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No
5. Do you envy people who can drink without getting into trouble?
At one time or another, most of us have wondered why we were not like most people, who really can take it or leave it.
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Workaholics Questionnaire
1. Regularly work more than 5 days per week!
2. Frequently work more than 8 hours per day!
3. Normally work through lunch!
4. Spend vacation time working on business issues!
5. Said at least five times that you/they need to “get a life!
6. Cancelled a vacation because you had too much work to do!
7. Completing a project, or making one more phone call, typically a higher priority than getting home for dinner on time!
8. Is normally there to say goodbye to the last person in the office and/or cleaning crew!
9. The route to and from work looks more familiar in the dark than in daylight!
10. Frequently still working on projects/the internet when the late news comes on?
11. When dining alone, compelled to have something else to do, like reading or working?
12. When watching TV, must be involved in another simultaneous activity?
Handouts for TeleWorkshops
Spiritual Coaching for Clergy and Leaders
Within the context of the world of work, we are able to coach you to grow personally and spiritually as well as professionally. You may enhance your spirituality as a resource for work.
Spiritual Coaching can assist you to:
- Build your own spiritual foundation for leadership and professional work
- Draw closer to God, as you understand God
- Be blessed, cherished, and supported by God at deeper levels
- Pray more deeply
- Get guidance more clearly
- Find and clarify your vocation
- Work with more compassion and caring
- Have more energy to be with marginalized people and to work for social justice.
Our methods and approaches include:
- Assisting you to more fully integrate your work life and spirituality
- Praying with you and experimenting with new forms of prayer
- Interpreting dreams to discover how God may want you to grow and approach issues
- Dialoguing with you by, alternately, asking provocative questions and listening most of the time
- Looking for your resources that you underplay and helping you to develop them
- Assisting you to create new stories about your life, as we work together to deconstruct old, problem-saturated life stories and to replace them with new, powerful, Spirit-inspired stories about your possibilities.
Biographies
Bill and Kathy Murray are both uniquely qualified as ordained ministers with a long track record of business and coaching experience. Bill Murray earned an M.Div. from Yale Divinity School and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. His academic background and work experience uniquely qualify him for coaching leaders and professionals to build a spiritual foundation for their work life.
Bill is an Executive Coach who has been awarded the Master Certified Coach credential. Bill has fulfilled leadership responsibilities in major corporations, hospitals, and universities. He has coached and trained hundreds of leaders and professionals in interpersonal skills. For over 30 years he has felt called to minister to people in the workplace to help them improve the quality of their work lives and spirituality. His passion is coaching, and his mission is to serve in the deepest sense of the word.
Kathy Murray is an ordained interfaith minister and a licensed psychotherapist. She received a Minister of Spiritual Counseling degree from the New Seminary in New York City and an M.S.W. from New York University. She has extensive experience in the business world, having worked for several major companies, working her way up to be Marketing Manager for a high-tech market research company. Her success at being a spiritual coach to her coworkers motivated her to become a professional counselor. She currently is a counselor at the Duke University Medical Center and a coach at Eagle Alliance Executive Coaching.
A More In-Depth Look at the Aims of Spiritual Coaching
Note in this circle, that each sector touches both of the others. No matter which piece you choose to focus on, you will also improve the other two. So, start our coaching wherever you choose, and change that emphasis whenever you wish. As a leader or as a professional, develop your soul and spirit by:
- Cultivating a spiritually grounded leadership or professional service with your own spiritual resources and practices.
- Learning to love more: yourself, others, and God
- Understanding yourself better, connecting more with others, letting God into your life more
- Finding more meaning and a deeper sense of purpose in your life and work.
GOD — Spiritual Growth
- Develop a spiritually grounded approach to your work
- Cultivate your own spiritual resources and practices and adapt them to support your call to service and leadership.
- Connect with our Source for healing and empowerment
- Find your own path to God as you understand and experience God
- Discern God’s call and your mission
- Create a compelling life vision of how you can fulfill your mission
- Draw closer to God in in whichever ways you choose:
- Prayer
- Meditation
- Visualization
- Spiritual exercises
- Dream work
- Focusing
- Service to others, especially servant leadership
- Finding community with others seeking God.
SELF — Personal and Professional Growth
Personal Growth:
- Tap into your own wellspring to create a new, richer life
- Love yourself with extreme self-care
- Develop your emotional intelligence, including being emotionally comfortable and competent
- Learn to draw spiritual meaning from your dreams by dialoguing with your unconscious
- Set goals and achieve them more fully
- Increase personal effectiveness, time management, and handling stress
Professional Growth:
- Cultivate a sense of mission, transforming career into calling
- Find meaningful work that expresses your true essence: What did God put you on earth for?
- Develop leadership skills and professional approaches that fit your unique strengths, interests, and values
- Use the tenets of servant leadership to enhance your management skills
- Communicate and listen more effectively
- Learn from feedback, designing your own 360-degree multi-source feedback program.
OTHERS — Growing in Relationships
- Serve others as a servant leader or professional
- See committed relationships as a spiritual path
- Improve communication skills
- Enhance intimacy, both giving and receiving more affection
- Let relationships be an opportunity to grow
- Find a deeper sense of belonging, support, and community in groups.
Please also see:
- Executive Spouse Relationship Coaching
- William Murray’s article, “The Power to Empower, the Transformational Energy of Servant-Leadership.” (Rich Text Format)
- TeleWorkshops and workshops on people skills in Group Executive Coaching.
Wouldn’t you like to move up to your next level of personal effectiveness, spiritual fulfillment, and intimacy? Please contact William Murray.
Church Leadership Coaching Program
Our Church Leadership Coaching Program is designed specifically for denominational executives, clergy and church governing groups such as administrative councils, vestries, sessions, and deacon boards.
The first part of our company name, Eagle Alliance, is taken from Isaiah 40:31, “Those who wait for the Lord, will gain new strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles….” Let your leadership team soar.
Results:
We provide coaching and training that help denominational executives, clergy, and lay leaders to improve their leadership and communication skills. Often clergy lack any substantial training in leadership.
Lay leaders appreciate our programs because what they learn will be useful not only at church but on their jobs as well. Leadership will be more effective and people will grow spiritually and personally in the process.
Think you can’t afford this? We offer a relatively inexpensive Group Coaching Program in the form of Tele-Workshops conducted through telephone conference calls. Our extensive Participant Workbook guides you with a visual aid to focus on. Anyone may join our ongoing public section at any time. It meets once a week for one hour and 20 minutes. Spacing out your learning makes it stick as you get time to practice new skills between sessions.
Get more information on our Tele-Workshop Series, Emotional Intelligence for Resilient Leaders and Professionals - Churches may subtitle this as, How to Love Your Neighbor as Yourself, at http://www.EmotionallyIntelligentLeadership.com/index.htm#bottom/
Please do check out our free Tips on Emotional Intelligence for Resilience. Our Tips give intriguing, new perspectives on resilience, leadership, and relationship management at: http://www.EmotionallyIntelligentLeadership.com/
Our programs will also strengthen your denominational or church leadership group’s spiritual life and teamwork. We offer a structured Executive Team Coaching Program to boost the performance and synergy of the top leadership group of a denomination or a very large church. We custom build our program to suit your situation and budget. Our structured program can significantly improve the personal, interpersonal, and group effectiveness of your denomination’s executive team or the leadership group of a large church.
Our programs assist church leaders to follow more closely the model that Jesus gave us of Servant Leadership. This gives lay leaders a safe place to practice new servant-leader approaches before they decide to use them at work on their job. Many lay leaders are also leaders in the secular world, and they readily appreciate the value of our training. Our programs are a way to reward your lay leaders, many of whom are also your big contributors.
When resentment has built up in church groups, we facilitate conflict resolution. Often it is wise to have an outside facilitator because denominational representatives wield power, which distorts their role. An outsider has a better chance of remaining neutral and objective, which is crucial to mediating a satisfactory solution to the conflict.
We can lead retreats. Your leaders will appreciate having skilled facilitators to move along your agenda and accomplish your desired results. Also, your leaders can participate more fully since they do not have to fulfill the leadership role. We will customize our program to fit your audience and goals.
We emphasize the need to recognize and celebrate where God is working in your denominational office or church. We believe that leadership meetings and retreats should provide time to listen to the Holy Spirit and should be conducted in a spiritual fashion. The “how” we lead in church groups may be more important to God than the “what” we accomplish.
Our Facilitators:
Bill Murray is a graduate of Yale Divinity School (M.Div.’69) and The Harvard Business School (MBA ‘74). He has been called for over 30 years to be a chaplain to people in the world of work. He was a minister and then a leader in the corporate world at companies such as J.C. Penney. For over 30 years he has coached and trained leaders. He has much experience in team building and conflict resolution.
Bill was trained by the Alban Institute for one week on how to resolve church conflicts. He was also trained and certified as a state mediator. Bill was trained in leadership and group facilitation at several corporate training centers such as the National Training Labs.
His wife, Kathy Murray, is a graduate of NYU with a MSW and The New Seminary (MSC ‘92). She is a licensed psychotherapist who has been trained in group dynamics at Duke University, where she runs several groups each week.
Eagle Alliance Executive Coaching also offers:
- Tele-Workshops on Leadership
- Spiritual Coaching for Leaders and Professionals
- William R. Murray’s article, “The Power to Empower, the Transformational Energy of Servant-Leadership.” (Rich Text Format)
- William R. Murray’s book chapter, “Emotional Intelligence for Resilience,” in the Amazon best-seller book, Upping the Down Side (at www.Amazon.com).
Executive Spouse Relationship Coaching Program
Improve your marriage or committed relationship
- Improve communication and people skills for both home and work
- Dramatically increase your intimacy, joy, and passion
- Transform incompatibilities into mutual healing opportunities
- Create a new story for your relationship
- Appreciate differences
Kathy and Bill Murray specialize in coaching executive couples, improving their relationship as above, with emphasis on greater balance, stability, energy, and love. They both have many years of business experience and understand the pressures that leaders are under at work and how that affects their intimate relationships.
Why do we offer relationship coaching as an option for executives? Because relationship coaching provides a tremendous opportunity to learn dialogue and listening skills in a safe environment with your spouse or significant other and can help you to apply these skills at work. Improving these interpersonal skills both at home and at work can give a huge boost to your work effectiveness and career.
Another reason we offer relationship coaching is that we have seen too many executives burn out at home and then become low-performing on the job too. Their spouses keep saying that they are fed up, but the executives don’t know what to do about it. The executive feels trapped by work pressures; the spouse, by an inattentive mate. The spouse eventually may opt out. The executive is often taken by surprise by the divorce request and drops into a funk. Low performance on the job eventually results.
We can help you avoid this scenario. Preventive maintenance is the key. Nip the problem in the bud, before it is too late. By the time a couple is ready for marriage therapy, it is usually too late. Coaching early on is a good answer. Through our Executive Relationship Coaching Program, you can improve your communication and people skills to perk up or salvage your relationship. In addition, we assist you in creating more balance in your life, which actually leads to more creative energy for work.
We also assist couples who work together to improve their work effectiveness as well as their marriage or committed relationship.
Who are your coaches? We walk our talk, and know from our own experience that the solution-focused ways we coach you to change are powerful. We are highly trained in doing couples coaching, and provide a uniquely powerful partnership for you. For more information about us, please see our biographies.
Career Transition Coaching Program
Bill Murray has an unusual combination of extensive work experience in a variety of corporations plus thorough graduate-level education and training from Yale, Harvard, and CUNY in career transition coaching and organizational psychology. This makes him uniquely able to coach clients to discover a good work environment for themselves. Then he helps them develop new people skills for new roles such as management or leadership. He has been doing this for over 20 years. Bill’s biography is available at About Us.
Resume of William Murray’s Career Development Experience (MS Word Doc)
Results
Clients are helped to:
- Determine life/career goals that fit them well
- Search for jobs effectively
- Move smoothly into new management or leadership roles.
Clients experience supportive, professional career coaching. They grow in self-awareness and self esteem and increase their self-management and job search skills. This increases their motivation and readiness to explore themselves and careers. They make career decisions and vigorously search for jobs. What they learn also helps them to be more successful in new jobs or roles such as management or leadership.
Steps
Clients take these steps as needed:
1. Clarify their goals, values, and sense of purpose. Identify interests for their careers and lifestyles. Assess their skills and work styles. Clients may take a variety of approaches to assessment, including:
- Using a variety of assessment tools such as the Myers-Briggs, Strong, values and occupational card sorts, success stories, or other exercises
- Analyzing their experience in work and leisure activities
- Examining their attitudes and behavior patterns to see what works and what blocks them from achieving their goals.
2. Explore careers:
- Research career literature
- Network to increase contacts
- Informational interviews with people in career fields.
3. Decide which careers fit them best:
- Evaluate fit of tasks and organizational culture in desired work environments
- Create a vision of their ideal career and lifestyle
- Develop sense of direction and set goals to achieve the vision.
4. Search for jobs or projects:
- Manage their time and job search campaign
- Network and research to find potential employers
- Sell themselves on paper and face-to-face
- Write resumes and letters that open doors
- Interview convincingly
- Negotiate job offers.
5. Begin new jobs and use new self-awareness of professional strengths and work style to get off to a good start, building good work relationships.
6. Analyze their experience to determine how well the job or project fits them. Plan for any future adjustments, as needed.
7. Learn new roles and people skills for transitions into management or leadership positions. See Executive Coaching.
8. Optional – Utilize spiritual resources fully. Make the most of their spiritual path as a resource for the above steps and to improve their quality of work life. Seek guidance from a Higher Power to discern their calling or purpose in life. Bill’s background (M.Div. from Yale and MBA from Harvard) uniquely suits him to assist you in this work. See Spiritual Coaching for Leaders and Professionals.
Resume of Career Coaching Experience (MS Word Doc)
Fees for Individual Self-Paying Clients
Invest in yourself
Corporations pay a set fee for our Executive Coaching Programs for a 6 to12 month project.
The following Executive Coaching fee investment possibilities are for self-paying individuals. You may select a Monthly Investment Package to fit your budget and time constraints:
- $400 per month for 2 sessions of 60 minutes each
- $500 per month for 3 sessions of 50 minutes each
- $600 per month for 3 sessions of 60 minutes each
- $700 per month for 4 sessions of 52 minutes each
- $800 per month for 4 sessions of 60 minutes each
- $1000 per month for 4 sessions of 75 minutes each
In addition to the Monthly Investment Package times, more time may be purchased for intensive work. You pay one month in advance.
We ask you to commit to 6-12 months of Executive Coaching so that you have a realistic opportunity to achieve your goals.
Assessment work is charged separately on a set fee basis that includes royalties we pay for instruments, administrative work, and all time spent studying and explaining results:
- DISC including Success Insights Report - $600
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator - $1,000
- 360 Feedback and other assessments charged on a project basis.
Cancellation Policy
If you cancel an appointment with less than 24 hours notice, you will be responsible for payment of the scheduled session.
Please understand that your scheduled time is what you get. If you are late, you lose that time.
If you cancel your entire Executive Coaching program in the middle of the month, you may have a refund, less a $200 cancellation fee.
Bartering
Clergy and non-profit leaders can reduce their fees through bartering promotional activities such as:
- Send an email to contacts. We can help you write the email to save you time.
- Phone selected contacts.
- Arrange for our TeleWorkshops or a presentation to be held at your place of work, professional association, or church.
- Put a paragraph in a newsletter. We can help you write something customized to your organization’s newsletter to save you time.
- Submit an article to a professional journal. Again, we can write it.
- Your ideas?
Since our coaching is effective by telephone, you may contact people throughout the country and abroad. In addition, we do take our workshops and our Performance Enhancement for Pairs Program on the road.
If you would like a lower fee in exchange for your assistance, please consider the possibility of bartering. It will be easier than you think.
Executive Team Coaching for Family Businesses Program
When your business partners are also your spouse or close relatives, standard business coaching programs aren’t always an exact fit. Our Executive Team Coaching for Family Business Program is tailored to fit your needs and to help you achieve your goals. Our coaching can help you work more effectively together, achieving greater harmony as well as better bottom-line results.
Results you will see include:
- More peace and harmony at work and at home with family business members
- Commitment to a similar mission, so that everyone pulls in the same direction
- Better communication and more ways to work through frustrations and to resolve conflicts
- Greater collaboration based on win/win attitudes
- Increased job satisfaction, energy, and enjoyment of the work.
Our Executive Team Coaching for Family Businesses Program can help you significantly increase all of the above results that are crucial to the financial success and personal harmony of your family business.
When your business partner is also your spouse, our coaching can help you work more effectively together while also being more affectionate. You can be more loving at work and at play. The payoff here could be enormous. Wouldn’t you like to strengthen this crucial relationship?
Whether you work with your spouse or not, you may have been neglecting your intimate relationship. As a business owner or partner, chances are good that you have. It is almost the norm now. We understand your business pressures. We have been there, too. We are uniquely able to help you mend your fences and get your relationship with your spouse back to its best. Or if it is already good, we can help you make it better or excellent.
To learn more, please see our Executive Spouse Relationship Coaching.
Calendar
Dates for Tele-Workshops and Talks
Please call me, William R. Murray (Bill), Founder and President, with any questions at 919-419-9460.
Public Section, open-enrollment Programs. This is our schedule of Programs open to the public. You may sign up for any program on the links provided.
Emotional Intelligence for Resilient Leaders and Professionals, an ongoing public Tele-Workshop series: You may join at any time. You will be able to understand each Module separately without prior experience.
Friday Section: About 3 Friday afternoons per month for one hour, from 12 noon to 1:00 Eastern Time. Sponsored by ASTD, American Society for Training and Development, but open to others. To enroll in the Friday, ASTD Section only, use this link: Click on this link to enroll. If you are not an ASTD or ICSW member, please call Bill at 919-419-9460 to make a payment using Paypal.
This Tele-Workshop series is organized by the topics below which focus on the most important competencies of emotional intelligence. When we complete all the topics, we shall start over at the beginning. Upcoming dates are on the right of the topics.
Complimentary Session: Introduction - Call 919-419-9460 to make an appointment and get audio recordings.
1. Goals, Values, and Strategies
2. Communication
3. Dialogue
4. Assertiveness
5. Self-Management -July 11, 18, 25
6. Relationship Management
7. Conflict Transformation and Connecting
8. Listening
9. Facilitation and Empowerment
10. Performance Management
11. Lab: Putting it all together in live sessions with feedback
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I hope you’ll join us for some or all of these exciting Tele-Workshop topics. If you have any questions about the Tele-Workshop series, please call me, Bill Murray, President of Eagle Alliance Executive Coaching at 919.419.9460.
Get free Tips on the above topics at: http://www.EmotionallyIntelligentLeadership.com/.
For more information about results and benefits of our Tele-Workshop series, go to this site and scroll down: http://www.EmotionallyIntelligentLeadership.com./
Get Complimentary Session:
You may get audio recordings and sit in one session for free to experience how good our Tele-Workshops are. Please sign up at the same above site, http://www.EmotionallyIntelligentLeadership.com/ - keep scrolling down to the yellow highlighted form “Get Complimentary Session.”
We encourage you to invite co-workers, family, and friends from any location to join you at any time on our conference calls. You can practice the skills with them between sessions and improve your relationship. Just tell Bill in advance.
Also please invite people to our Complimentary Session scheduled above so they may consider joining us as regular attenders.
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Leaders Only Section: Emotionally Intelligent Leadership An exclusive, small-group section of this Tele-Workshop will start whenever 6-8 leaders have signed up. We shall cover the same topics as above with a focus on leadership applications. If you qualify as a leader with supervisory and budget responsibilities, please indicate this in the comments box below. Also give me your best times in terms of Eastern Time to meet during business hours. I shall limit the size of the group to 6-8 leaders so that you can participate actively, get feedback, and learn very quickly. Do you know of anyone else to recommend to this leaders’ group? Please indicate your interest on the form below.
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ASTD - American Society for Training and Development Section: This ongoing Tele-Workshop series is a membership benefit for members of the sponsor, ASTD in RTP, NC (http://www.astd-rta.org). For more information on this Tele-Workshop series, see 1) Emotional Intelligence for Resilient Leaders and Professionals
and 2) http://www.EmotionallyIntelligentLeadership.com/ - scroll down to the Tele-Workshop description.
We meet on selected Fridays at 12 noon to 1:20 Eastern Time via conference calls. The facilitator, William R. Murray, President of Eagle Alliance Executive Coaching, asks only that you help spread the word about his consulting services. For our upcoming schedule, see the Friday Section above. Please get the conference call telephone number and extensive Participant Workbook at http://www.EmotionallyIntelligentLeadership.com/ - scroll way down to the yellow highlighted form “Get Complimentary Session,” and fill that out. Enroll in the full program with this link: Click on this link to enroll.
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ICSW = International Center for Spirit at Work Section: This ongoing Tele-Workshop series is a membership benefit for members of the sponsor, The International Center for Spirit at Work (http://www.spiritatwork.org). For more information on this Tele-Workshop series, see 1) Emotional Intelligence for Resilient Leaders and Professionals
2) http://www.EmotionallyIntelligentLeadership.com/ - scroll down to the Tele-Workshop description. We meet on selected Fridays at 12 noon - 1:20 Eastern Time via conference calls.
The facilitator, William R. Murray, President of Eagle Alliance Executive Coaching, asks only that you help spread the word about his consulting services. For our upcoming schedule, see the Monday and Friday Sections above. Please get the conference call telephone number and extensive Participant Workbook at http://www.EmotionallyIntelligentLeadership.com/ - scroll down to the yellow highlighted form “Get Complimentary Session,” and fill that out. Enroll in the full program with this link: Click on this link to enroll.
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If you are a leader, see our Leadership Fact Finder – questionnaire and complimentary consultation.
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For Questions only
Do not enroll with this form! Ask questions or indicate your interest in any program with this form. Enroll with this link: Click on this link to enroll.
Fees
Fees: $250 per Module. Or pay $1695 for our entire program of 11 Modules. Ask about our discounts for nonprofits and individuals making a difference.
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To enroll
If you are not an ASTD or ICSW member, please call Bill at 919-419-9460 to make a payment using Paypal above.
After you enroll, you will receive an email with the telephone number to call for our conference calls and other information.
To enroll in other programs call Bill at 919-419-9460.
To enroll in the Friday, ASTD Section only, use this link: Click on this link to enroll.
Conflict Resolution Coaching
We may need to facilitate Conflict Resolution for people who clearly have much resentment toward each other. We assess the amount of resentment that has built up and tailor our approach accordingly.
Results of our Conflict Resolution Coaching are:
- Resolve conflicts that are harming your company’s productivity and profits
- Nip conflicts in the bud before they get out of hand
- Protect your crucial business relationships against future conflicts
- Motivate your key people to work as a team
- Build better work relationships so that everyone performs better
- Significantly improve communication and people skills.
Bill Murray has frequently facilitated meetings between antagonists and watched them soften up with his assistance until they finally reached some agreements. He encourages good listening and creative problem solving to reach win/win solutions. Follow-up meetings and telephone coaching help ensure compliance.
Bill has a long history of facilitating conflict resolution. In one job in a hospital, he resolved conflict among all staff from VP’s to dish washers. The 140 managers came to Bill to straighten out problem behaviors of their employees. The employees came to Bill to complain about the managers. Bill brought them both together to solve the problems in creative, win/win approaches.
Since founding his own consulting firm in 1993, Bill has assisted individuals and organizations to resolve and manage conflicts. People change from being angry and uncooperative to being ready to get on with working together in productive ways. And he trains companies how to nip future conflicts in the bud too. Clients appreciate Bill’s trustworthiness and ethical values as a graduate of Yale Divinity School.
Bill has been trained and approved by NY and NC states as a mediator. Bill has also been trained by the Alban Institute in a one-week-long workshop on resolving conflicts. Finally, his facilitation skills have been highly developed by months of training over several years from NTL (National Training Labs) and other corporate training organizations. For more information on Bill, see About Us.
Conflicts cost your organization money, productivity, and pain. Why let conflicts fester when you can call us at 919-419-9460 for relief and exchange pain for productivity?
Please see our workshop Team Building: How to Minimize Conflict and Maximize Connection.
Executive Coaching Methods
How We Coach
People ask us, “How do you work?”
We provide an objective sounding board to help leaders think things through. Many leaders say, “It’s lonely at the top.” We provide a safe place to say anything, explore new ideas, and make good decisions.
Before we see a client, or get on the phone with them, we pause to meditate and get centered. We offer this centered state, a relaxed atmosphere where clients can do their best thinking. We seek to be fully attentive and able to be in their shoes, to see things their way.
Our goal at Eagle Alliance is not to give a person a fish, but rather to teach him or her how to fish so that the benefit lasts beyond our working together. Many clients want the fish. They want to be told exactly what to do in a given situation. Sometimes we do tell them. We value our point of view and wisdom. But sometimes telling them will minimize their professional growth. So instead, we give them an opportunity to figure it out for themselves with our help. We strive to craft excellent questions that open clients up to new viewpoints and possibilities.
Eventually, our clients come to appreciate these questions because they see themselves growing professionally. They realize they are learning how to fish and will be more self-confident for a lifetime.
When clients tell us about their problems, we teach them how to fish by taking apart the problem story and seeing more clearly what their obstacles are. Then we brainstorm ways to minimize the problem story and create alternative new stories. The client picks an alternative new story and together we discover new possibilities for making the new success story grow in their life.
Clients tell us that our approach is energizing and motivating, as they discover new ways to break through old problems. They notice that their self-esteem and self confidence blossoms as they strengthen the new success stories for themselves.
This process is powerful but almost imperceptible at the time. You won’t see dazzling techniques, just good, solid results. So we urge you to give it time, at least 6 months, and then see how much better your results are.
Executives and managers usually buy into our coaching process quickly because they feel energized. They see their strengths in a new light that allows them to break out of unwanted behavior patterns that limit them. Their self-confidence, hope, and motivation rise so that they press on to add new, more successful behaviors to their repertoire.
For more on the results you might expect, see Results.
For more on how we coach, see Testimonials. In the client stories in Testimonials, you can taste the flavor of how we work. We stay solution-focused, emphasizing the positive, and build on success. We deconstruct problem-laden stories, and we construct new stories of competence, possibility, and hope. Clients live into these new stories, building a new self-identity.
Grooming High Performers
Building Peak Performance and Moving Up
Our Executive Coaching Program can assist you to groom your high performers for moving up to a position of greater responsibility. We help your leading players to develop the winning skills and abilities necessary to advance.
And we can help those recently promoted to get off to a good start on their new job. We help them to perform at their best and also to clarify expectations with their new boss and colleagues. Our Executive Coaching will be viewed by high performers as a perk that will help attract and retain them.
Through our extensive Assessment Program, we get to know the player well so that we can coach them in depth. Our clients tell us that we help clients achieve at their best level and that our Executive Coaching is a good investment.
Breaking Through Barriers to Growth
Are you looking for in-depth coaching for that special executive who is too valuable to lose, but whose performance is being limited by problematic behaviors or interpersonal difficulties? Our Executive Coaching Program will support them in overcoming obstacles to executive growth and productivity.
Some executives may have reached a “stuck point” in their career. Our Executive Coaching Program helps them to identify and overcome the internal blocks that are preventing further professional growth.
They may need to overcome a specific limitation that is inhibiting their performance, such as:
- Ineffective relationship management
- Poor communication skills
- Problems with assertiveness
- Low self-esteem and self confidence.
We assist executives to break through self-limiting patterns by coaching them to:
- Identify and connect to inner strengths and abilities.
- Clarify values and set positive goals.
- Improve interpersonal skills.
- Enhance emotional intelligence
- Recognize and transform self-limiting behavior
- Create a new, more successful story for their lives.
- Persevere until new behaviors get stronger.
- Learn to manage and alleviate stress.
We are skilled at aligning with individuals in a way that builds trust and motivation for change. Our Executive Coaching Program gives executives the support and tools they need to break out of old patterns and break into successful behavior.
Executive Coaching Process
1) Assessment and Feedback
As a first step, we provide an extensive assessment of client needs and possibilities. Most people think that assessment just means identifying problems. But we focus more on strengths and how to build on them. Our Executive Coaching is solution- focused, not problem-focused. Focusing on the positive, our assessment process not only improves self-awareness, but goes on to boost motivation to change. It encourages hope in new possibilities.
We will jointly tailor our Assessment Program to fit your needs. At a minimum we recommend the Myers-Briggs, DISC, and a 360 feedback program. These three things will give an executive an awareness of personality traits and behavioral styles, as well as feedback on how others perceive them. We will help each client identify his or her unique qualities and strengths; and we will coach them to build on these.
Choose one or more tools from this list:
- 360 degree feedback from others via personal interviews
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator of personality preferences
- Myers-Briggs questionnaire to analyze organizational character
- DISC Personal Profiles of needs and behaviors
- Thomas-Kilman Conflict Mode Instrument
- Values Clarification Exercises
- Strong Interest Inventory
- Skills Analysis
- Analyzing past performance and satisfaction through work autobiography
- Observing the client in action at work with others and giving private feedback
2) Action Planning
We assist executives to clarify their goals and to write an action plan. We facilitate their discussing the action plan with their boss or Chair of the Board. We get agreement on performance and coaching goals and indicators of success.
- Developing a solution-focused approach
- Writing a Personal Mission Statement to guide in designing the future
- Formulating and declaring client’s goals
- Developing client’s performance action plan
- Creating a plan to gain support from client’s boss or board of directors
3) Development
Our customized program of Executive Coaching increases the executive’s resourcefulness and motivation. We facilitate the executive getting assistance from their boss and peers. Finally, we assist in analyzing results and communication with all concerned.
- Solution-focused executive coaching
- Cultivating assistance from boss and peers
- Improving communication skills and building better relationships
- Developing personal, interpersonal, and emotional effectiveness
- Improving leadership and management skills
- Breaking through barriers to success
- Facilitating live team building with others and giving feedback privately
- Training client’s staff on topics covered in Executive Coaching.
Newsletter
Free Email Tips on Emotional Intelligence, Resilience, and Leadership
We offer free on-line Tips on emotional intelligence, resilience, and leadership. Please email us your own questions, case situations, issues and concerns and get free coaching on them in our email Tips. Use the form below. This is an easy way to get fresh ideas and strategies.
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Leadership Roundtable
We offer free bi-monthly Leadership Roundtable conference calls on leadership topics and cases. In these conference calls, you will have opportunities to bring up your own issues and concerns and get free coaching on them.
This is an easy way to get fresh ideas and strategies.
Please sign up on this form, and you will receive information on topics, dates, and times.
Articles
Articles by William R. Murray
1. Get my book chapter, “Emotional Intelligence for Resilience” at UPPING the Downside, by me, William R. Murray, Mike Jay, et. al.
2. Get my article, Power to Empower (Rich Text Format)
More articles to follow.
Links
We provide resources on leadership, emotional intelligence, people skills, and personal effectiveness. Simply click on the topics that interest you to view books, articles and web site descriptions.
Index of Topics
- Books
- Assessment
- Emotional Intelligence
- Executive Coaching
- Health & Wellness
- Interpersonal Effectiveness
- Miscellaneous
- Personal Effectiveness
- Research
- Social Responsibility of Business
- Spirit and Spirituality at Work
- Training and Organizational Development
Books
Many topics include books that we use in our Executive Coaching. We can coach you on how to apply the principles in these books to your specific situations and let their wisdom come alive in your life. You may buy these books now through our association with Amazon.com. Just click on any book below that you want to buy and you will go to that book on Amazon.com.
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Please order this book directly from the publisher at 1-888-671-4477. The Great Connection: A Story that Reveals Life’s Most Vital Lesson, How to Connect with Others - Especially Yourself, by Arnie Warren.
A short test for Myers-Briggs. About 75% reliable. Keirsey Treatment Sorter
Different Children, Different Needs: Understanding the Unique Personality of Your Child, by Charles Boyd.