PeopleSystems Potential

PEOPLE SKILLS Consulting | Coaching | Counseling | Supervision

Consulting and Training

Regardless of how good your product or service is, your people are your major resource. What is your commitment and investment in helping them be the best they can be? We offer innovation, expertise and enthusiasm in developing your people and systems to produce great results. We offer a MENU OF SERVICES for improving people skills in organizations. Our approach is creative and non-traditional in technique and grounded and practical in result. Needs assessments We interview a representative sample of your employees and feed back anonymous data to everyone about strengths and concerns in your organization. Formulating objectives We contract with managers to create learning objectives for addressing concerns

Examples of objectives: Improving communication skills, conducting peer reviews, giving and receiving feedback, running meetings, interviewing, resolving conflict, thinking outside the box, developing decision-making strategies, team building, improving information flow, envisioning the future, management development, organizing an internal coaching capacity.......

Implementation We contract with managers/decision makers about the nature of the work; consulting, training, coaching.....We design a program to meet the objectives. We share the design with representatives of the client group. We implement it, usually offsite. We create materials to support the program. Evaluation We conduct an analysis of how the program met the objectives with the participants as well as an evaluation of the design, trainers, consultants, facility, materials. Publications

Please see relevant publications on my Publications link.

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Coaching You are a manager, business owner, therapist, educator, consultant, coach...in other words, someone who works with people. You want to be more present, more creative, more able to design good learning or results-oriented experiences for your clients or teams. You know you have it in you but you need a coach to help you formulate achievable goals, to encourage you to try out new behaviors, to get over your fear of making mistakes or looking foolish or lost. You may have some personal family issues as well and are having a hard time balancing your personal and professional life, feeling on top of things, getting organized, creating win-win situations with the people in your life. All of these challenges and more can be helped by having your own coach who helps you formulate a strategy for getting the results you want. The work can be done in person (freferred), by phone, skype, or in Second Life (see info on Projects link) Back to top Counseling You have some life adjustment issues which may involve your relationships, your self-esteem, your poor or destructive coping mechanisms or behavior patterns which are getting in your way. You may have old unresolved grief issues. You may have confusions about your sex or gender identity. Or you may feel low level anxiety much of the time. You suspect you have potential which you are not using and feel trapped in old conditioning and family patterns. You want to explore these issues and begin to be more self-supporting, happy and productive. As a Gestalt therapist and humanistic counselor, I can help you explore your feelings and behaviors and support you in making the changes you want to make. Publication: "COUNSELING IN GENDERLAND: A Guide for You and Your Transgendered Client" (Different Path Press, Boston, 1996) Testimonial: "As a careful and thorough mapmaker, Niela Miller gives us valuable insights into her approaches in working with crossdressers and transsexuals....The goal: to assist the client to integrate a lifestyle and an identity that can encompass not only intense gender motives, but the many other needs that are a part of a growing and changing personal development across the life span." Dr. Richard F. Doctor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology California State University, Northridge To order, please go to www.amazon.com Back to top Supervision You are already trying new approaches with your clients. You want someone who is an expert in adult learning and creativity and knows how to mine situations for insight and results. We monitor your progress together as you continue to experiment, broaden your abilities and expand your work capabilities. We ask skillful questions and encourage you to expand your skill base and experiment with new techniques and behaviors especially the use of arts-based tools combined with models from Gestalt and Jungian process work. Back to top

To contact me, email: creativist [at] peoplesystemspotential.com