Mastering Convening
Find Solid Ground in Tumultuous Times
We enable leaders and teams to create powerful connections. We work with purposeful individuals, and teams seeking seeking to strengthen clarity and alignment.
Our specialty is creating extraordinary collaboration, in uncertain times, leveraging The Art of Convening, a technology for building purposeful relationships, with an emphasis on virtual settings such as Zoom.
In leadership as in life, strong relationships are the primary channel for our impact. In tumultuous times, the importance of relationship grows tenfold.
Are you wanting to create greater trust, more meaningful conversations, and better ownership of outcomes? Are you ready to take your relationships to the next level?
It’s time to engage a CPL Mentor-Coach.
You will define a successful vision for your engagements—professional or personal—then systematically bring that vision to life, aided by The Art of Convening™ framework. Through planning, application, and reflection, you will systematically grow your impact. The result: new levels of connection, clarity, and commitment.
The expertise of a CPL Mentor-Coach is a distinctive combination of coaching, mentoring, and Art of Convening™ experience. We deliver both 1:1 offerings, and a coaching group forum:
Purposeful Leader Mentor-Coaching Packages are scheduled by mutual agreement.
Our new Purposeful Leader Coaching Group launches in April 2020. Minimum of four team participants, supported by two mentor-coaches.
Craig Neal
Ally to Leaders
Kim Kristenson-Lee
Leadership, Team & Transition Coach
Some Definitions:
Mentor Coaching in a Team Setting:
What is coaching? The International Coaching Federation defines coaching as “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.'' Coaching is future-focused and action-focused. The use of coaching is booming for one simple reason: it works.
What is mentoring? In mentoring, a more experienced person helps a less experienced person learn. The role is to share experiences as they might benefit the recipient. Your CPL Mentor-Coach will mentor you on the application of the Art of Convening™, as described in (the AOC book).
The Art of convening
Authentic ENGAGEMENT in meetings, gatherings, and conversations
What is Convening? Convening is a form and defined practice for engaging people in important conversations. It is described in (the AOC book) and taught in our programs at CPL.
Who do you work with? We work with leadership teams and purposeful individuals in transition seeking to establish a new focus for their life or work.
Related blog post: Reexamine Purpose and Organizational Culture
Coaching in a team setting can take your team to extraordinary levels of performance. Clients have achieved:
Alignment of team vision.
More effective communications with staff, team, board or stakeholders.
Inventive re-definition and renewal of organizational leadership model.
Exponential improvement in alignment and accountability.
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“Craig’s coaching was invaluable for establishing an ongoing collaborative of health care CEOs from Minnesota dedicated to working together to improve health care. Using “art of convening” principles, Craig helped to plan the first few meetings and establish a safe and trusted environment. By the 2nd meeting, the participants signed a pledge “to collaborate on specific and persistent problems that cannot be solved by any individual entity or solely through competition.””
“(Kim) is a very inspiring coach with the experience I felt I lacked, and she encouraged me to go deeper each time to uncover my true values and motivations to move forward. It was so helpful to be coached by Kim as she enabled me to get a real grasp of my goals and throughout the sessions and helped me focus on the more important aspects of building my practice. It’s been an amazing experience and I thank Kim for her patience and gently prodding when necessary.
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“Working with Craig, I had a transformative experience: In a period of my life filled with transition, fear and doubt, he helped me see that I had all the answers inside of me to take the critical, decisive steps forward and claim the life that I wanted. I appreciate his attentiveness, thoughtfulness and simple, straightforward knowledge and wisdom. ”
