What we do
Pallas & Co offers a mixture of strategy consulting and coaching services that enable leaders to maximize their effectiveness and create high-impact, sustainable value for their teams and organizations.
Services
Pallas & Co offers a variety of services that enable leaders develop their skills from numerous angles: individual and group coaching, leadership seminars and group mentoring.
If you would like to learn about coaching, please click here for a description.
Individual Coaching
One-on-one coaching is a very efficient and challenging way to achieve specific goals, especially when new
skills are required. Clients often use individual coaching when:
- They know what they want to achieve, have the focus and skills to do reach it on their own, but eager to attain it as quickly as possible
- They know what they want to achieve, but have been unsuccessful in doing so on their own
- They are looking for a very focused, one-to-one coaching relationship
Possible goals and key benefits include:
| Individual Coaching |
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| Possible Coaching Goals |
Key Coaching Benefits |
A company founder wants to improve
his/her company's growth rate
A not-for-profit executive wants to create a cohesive and well-performing team
A project leader wants to learn how to successfully balance new responsibilities
A new hire wants to improve his/her
leadership skills so as to survive the
company downsizing
A VP wants to find a way to either keep
his/her job during a merger integration
or get a promotion out of it |
Client benefits from 100% of the coach's attention
Privacy is ensured, in case a client wants to discuss issues that s/he might
not want to disclose in a group setting
Positive energy is created between the coach and client that creates
momentum and increases motivation to get things done
Customized support is offered by the coach and can be accessed by the
client between sessions
The gap between the client's current and needed leadership skills required
to achieve specific goals is identified and filled
Client becomes more confident and raises the bar of his/her self-expectations,
abilities and accomplishments
Client can maintain a high level of performance over time, even after the coaching is finished, in order to attain his/her objectives
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Group Coaching
Group coaching is an effective and enriching way to achieve specific goals, especially when new skills are
required. It is a co-creative process, led by a professional coach, and designed to maximize the combined
energy, contacts, experience and wisdom of the participants to achieve individual and collective goals. It's
common that groups include between 8-15 individuals when they don't necessarily know each other, but
the number of participants will vary when the group is an existing or new team.
Clients often use group coaching when:
- They know what they want to achieve, have the focus and skills to do reach it on their own, but eager to attain it as quickly as possible
- They know what they want to achieve, but have been unsuccessful in doing so on their own
- They are open to work within a group, through which they learn from others' perspectives and the coach's inputs
- They are looking for the most cost-effective way to access coaching benefits
Possible goals and key benefits include:
| Group Coaching |
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| Possible Participant or Group Goals |
Key Participant and Group Benefits |
Sales people want to increase their profitable
revenue by 20%
A product team needs to roll-out its products in
Argentina and Brazil
Project leaders need to motivate their teams to perform more efficiently and finish complex tasks on time
Professionals want to leave the corporate world
and start their own companies
Financial advisors want to improve their win
rates
Professionals need to ramp up their leadership
effectiveness to avoid being laid off during a
company downsizing or merger integration |
Teams reach a high level of performance and accountability in a
short period of time
Individuals learn from each other's skills, knowledge,
experiences, perspectives and enjoy synergies that motivate them to excel
Positive energy is created to increase enthusiasm, motivation
and accountability for action that results in higher-level
performance
An open and safe environment is created to facilitate
brainstorming
for the effective creation of new ideas or the
resolution of problems
Problems can be avoided through a team's timely and effective
communication and pro-active attention to potential challenges
Resources or contacts from group members can be shared to
help individuals achieve their own goals
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Leadership Seminars and Group Mentoring
Both Leadership Seminars and Group Mentoring provide interactive lectures that transfer knowledge to
groups and may include various types of activities, tools, tests and exercises.
In a seminar format, the coach is offering an interactive lecture either in one hour or one day, for example,
that allows the audience to learn about specific leadership topics, discussed in the context of how they can
facilitate or undermine success. Leadership seminars are often customized to meet clients' specific needs
and can be used by companies, not-for-profits or associations when:
- They want to give a large group of individuals the opportunity to learn how to improve their
leadership effectiveness in a short period of time
- They would like to change the culture of a group, for example, focusing on customer service, results,
collaboration or innovation
- They want to resolve recurring problems that have impeded the success of the group or organization
- They are looking for a cost-effective way to offer the benefits of coaching to their teams
- Other
Group mentoring is a mixture between the coaching and seminars. The service is not provided in one hour
or one day, but over a series of short sessions with the goal of guiding people to master a specific topic or
skill. The participants learn and test new theories and practice new skills between sessions and bring back
results in order to maximize the integration of the knowledge acquisition into new, empowered habits.
Clients use group mentoring when:
- They know what they want to achieve, have the focus and skills to do reach it on their own, but eager to attain it as quickly as possible
- They know what they want to achieve, but have been unsuccessful in doing so on their own
- They are open to work within a group, through which they learn others' perspective as the participants discuss each topic
- They are looking for a cost-effective method of accessing coaching benefits
Although customization can create very different seminar and mentoring agendas, the following topics and
benefits are common:
| Leadership Seminars and Group Mentoring |
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| Common Topics |
Key Seminar Benefits |
Key Mentoring Benefits |
Purpose, passion, motivation
Environments that facilitate and
sabotage success
Partners / relationships that enable and undermine success
The perception of and reaction to "failure"
Change and the ways effective leaders respond to it
Success and its many definitions
Playing the game of life: what sort of player are you and does it facilitate
your success?
Mind/brain research and what new discoveries imply for mind/body awareness and control
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Content-rich lectures offered by
experienced global business leaders
Essential aspects of leadership can
be shared and explored in a short
period of time
Paradigm shifts, created by the discussion of change and environmental design, that enable small, yet powerful changes in people's effectiveness
Learning from a large number of people's skills, input, experience and insight that motivate each individual to take action and make sustainable improvements
Cross-fertilization from the mingling through group exercises that creates enriched relationships and business take-aways
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Easy access to the mentoring sessions
via audio and/or web
communication
Content-rich lectures offered by
experienced global business leaders
Integration of new leadership skills
into daily practices through exercises
completed between sessions
Tried and tested strategies for
overcoming obstacles or learning new
skills
Interaction through Q&A, as well as
between-session communication
Networking opportunities created
through group interaction that can
extend learning and benefits
beyond
the coaching program
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