Services: Coaching, Consulting & Facilitating
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"Trust is at the heart of what we do. Identifying the best approach requires collaboration, transparency, commitment and communication on our part and yours. How you proceed matters." - George Neighbors, principal of X-Roads Advisory
X-Roads Advisory offers coaching, consulting and facilitating to business, nonprofit and government across these areas of expertise. Check out details below, and find examples of coaching and facilitation packages here.
Each of our services is delivered with a human-centered, client-focused, holistic systems perspective grounded in positive psychology to navigate change, build capacity, evolve culture, develop people & improve operations.
- Coaching is flexible in terms of sessions (1:1, observations, teams, etc), organic in terms of being responsive to what comes up for you and with you, and structured in terms of accountability and expectations.
- Packages are available for people navigating change in organizations and careers.
- Consulting offers custom solutions aligned with your organization's culture, circumstances and capacity.
- Facilitating is flexible, interactive and focused on your organization’s needs today and tomorrow at meetings, retreats, offsites, discussions, and more.
Check out the highlights of client work.
"Thank you for keeping me motivated during the times when I felt discouraged. Your positive energy and unwavering belief in my abilities helped me push through the tough moments. Your ideas for networking were ‘spot on’ and opened doors I hadn't even considered. You kept me accountable and on track, ensuring that I stayed focused on my goals."
-career & leadership coaching client
Coaching
Our coaching practice is delivered with a human-centered, client-focused, holistic systems perspective grounded in positive psychology to navigate change, build capacity, and develop people.
Our award-winning* coaching practice engages people in An IDEA to
- Increase Awareness
- Clarify Intentions
- Explore Decisions
- Communicate Expectations
- Take Action
Coaching clients are often focused on
- Accountability
- Career transitions
- Change & Transitions in Organizations & Leaders
- Leadership Development (Executives & Emerging)
Coaching is offered for Teams, Groups & 1-on-1.
X-Roads Advisory provides coaching as an accountability partner and confidential confidant.
Coaching Curious?
Learn more about the approach, philosophy, assumptions, expectations, agenda and tools & assessments that are part of the practice.
Check out some of the coaching packages here.
*In the first year of business, the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Virginia recognized X-Roads Advisory with a Certificate of Excellence for Emerging Organization Award for supporting change management to build strong and resilient governance in partnership with the Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge by providing professional coaching services to critical nonprofit partners across arts, museums, housing, child protection, animal welfare, disabilities, etc.
Consulting
Our consulting practice offers bespoke solutions aligned with your organization's culture, growth state & resources.
Having an expert hand to advise, manage a project, partner with you to deliver, and/or train your team can be invaluable for short or long term projects.
X-Roads Advisory provides a thoughtful, strategic, bespoke & hands-on approach with you to
- identify what's happening
- prioritize what to address
- explore and discuss possible ideas, and
- advise on solution(s) (offer insights, and potentially develop and/or implement).
Services range across
- Change Management
- Communications
- Nonprofit Board Development
- Operations Strategy
- Organizational Development
- Project Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Strategic Planning
- Succession Planning
From one & done projects to interim and fractional executive services, how you proceed matters.
Additional examples at Expertise and Client Highlights.
Facilitating
From planning and facilitating a retreat to developing and delivering professional & workforce development training on leadership, management and nonprofit board development, X-Roads Advisory works with you to develop and deliver sessions that are flexible, bespoke, interactive and focused on your organization’s needs today and tomorrow.
Offerings range across
- Change Management
- Leadership
- Management
- Nonprofit Board Development
- Professional & Workforce Development
- Retreats & Offsites
- Team Building
Current courses/ topics include
Leadership & Management
- Culture: Strategic Priority & Your Role as a Leader - Culture is a strategic priority. Learn about what culture means, why it matters, and your role - intended and unintended as a leader. Learn from a case study.
- Coaching your team as a leader: Managing people takes time, intention, and energy. Explore how taking a coaching approach (vs mentoring or micromanaging) with your team might help to unlock potential, embed accountability, and shape how you and your teams show up. We’ll cover what is coaching (and what it’s not), coaching assumptions, coaching mindset, coaching skills, coaching styles, some key questions and models. Come with ideas, curiosity, and ready for small group role play.
- Change Management: Leading through change: As a leader you are expected to guide people on the journey of change. Learn how to navigate change as a leader and for your team, using intentionality, planning, and flexibility. Explore what's happening for you as a leader as well and for your team, and steps you can take together to manage change. Come prepared with an idea for self-reflection during and after the workshop.
- Meetings: Making Better Use of Meetings: Explore types of meetings, audiences, establishing norms and expectations, and the basics of an agenda and why to use one.
- Networking for Connections: Degrees of Kevin Bacon: Building your network is one of the most proactive things you can do to stay connected, recruit good candidates, and extend your reach. We’ll explore some practical ways to network at work, in the community, and within your profession by practicing and preparing to network with your own networking plan and story. Bring your smartphone, LinkedIn link (URL), and energy to network!
Nonprofit Board Development
- Building Better Boards: Roles & Responsibilities: We’ll explore the role of the board, responsibilities and accountabilities of boards, the lifecycle of nonprofits, and touch on tools and terms like job descriptions, term limits, and rules.
- Building Better Boards: Recruiting to Give & Get: We’ll explore what you hope to give and get from potential board members, as well as some key questions potential board members may ask that you’ll want to be prepared to answer!
- Building Better Boards: Onboarding Your Board: We’ll explore board culture and expectations, orientation and welcome, and touch on tools and terms like board social, board “book,” board calendar, board orientation and board mentor/buddy.
- Building Better Boards: Retaining & Engaging Leaders: We’ll explore what you’re currently doing with your board, what’s potentially getting in the way, and explore ideas regarding how to be more intentional with your board to make improvements.
- Building Better Boards: Board Meetings & Planning for Purpose: We’ll discuss ways to improve and honor the time of board and staff in ways to produce more efficient, effective, and impactful meetings. Learn about utilizing a consent agenda, a purpose fit agenda, and a content driven agenda.
ADDITIONAL TOPICS FOR COURSES & SPEECHES
- Career Transition: Considerations & Consequences, etc.
- Delegating
- Forming Good Habits
- Leadership 101
- Managing 101
- Managing across generations
- Managing Up
- Prioritizing
- Team Building
- Team Work
"George is so much more than an exceptional business leader.
He harnesses the power of his empathic understanding of the human element behind people and processes, and is always able to find a way to re-evaluate, reset and then re-engage everyone for success...
Always patient, seeking active solutions, integrating his incredible sense of humor, George is a multi-dimensional leader who is an asset and compliment to any team lucky enough to have him on their side."
"... his superpower is bringing people together to make the business better.
George is incredibly thoughtful on how he tackles business or organizational challenges, big or small.
He can pinpoint areas of strength, as well as important areas of opportunity for any business."
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