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Coaching for your next move

Every career has a next chapter

Wherever you are in your career, sometimes you don't need another answer. You need someone to help you find yours.

Whether you're trying to get your career moving, stepping into leadership, managing a difficult situation, or figuring out what's next, coaching gives you the space to step back, think clearly and move forward with purpose.

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Getting started | Stepping up | Leading | What's next?

You don't have to be a CEO to benefit from coaching.

Down Set Lead helps people figure out where they are, where they want to go, and what they're going to do about it.

You might be starting your career and trying to figure out where you fit.
You might have just become a manager and discovered that leading people is a lot harder than doing the work yourself.
You might be an experienced leader wrestling with bigger decisions, competing priorities or the question of what comes next.
Or maybe you're simply ready for a change.

Wherever you are, the question is the same: What's next, and how are you going to get there?

Four types of coaching clients

Where are you right now?

Getting Started

YOUNG PROFESSIONALS

You have talent and ambition. Now you need direction and traction.

WE CAN WORK ON

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Career direction
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Confidence
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Workplace navigation
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Networking
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Goals and priorities
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Turning ideas into action
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Stepping Up

MANAGERS & EMERGING LEADERS

You've been given more responsibility. Now it's time to develop the skills to lead people—not just manage tasks.

WE CAN WORK ON

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Managing People
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Delegation
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Commuication
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Difficult Conversations
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Time Management
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Developing your leadership style
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Leading

EXECUTIVES & SENIOR LEADERS

The higher you go, the fewer places you have to think out loud. Coaching gives you a confidential place to challenge assumptions, work through difficult decisions and think strategically.

WE CAN WORK ON

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Leadership effectiveness
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Strategic thinking
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Organizational challenges
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Priorities
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Succession
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Vision and legacy
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What's Next?

CAREER & LIFE TRANSITION

Sometimes the biggest career question isn't:"How do I move up?"It's:"What do I want the next chapter to look like?"

COACHING CAN HELP YOU

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Explore career changes
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Weigh new opportunites
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Step away from full-time work
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Redefine what success means to you
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HOW I COACH

My job isn't to tell you what to do.

Every person I coach comes to the table with a different challenge, personality, history and definition of success.

It's to help you ask better questions, see what's getting in your way, identify what matters most and turn insight into action.

We'll talk about the things that matter: motivators, goals, relationships, priorities, challenges and opportunities.

And, when necessary, we'll talk about the uncomfortable stuff, too.

Then we'll build a plan and put it into motion.

DON'T JUST TAKE MY WORD FOR IT

What clients say

"Rod is a dynamic presenter who keeps his audience engaged; deep in reflective thought or with bursts of laughter.

In advance of his presentation, “Thriving Through Change,” Rod visited our organization, reviewed our strategic plan, our vision and mission and met with several key employees. As a result, the information he presented was relevant, timely and left attendees with action items that complement where we are as a unit and provided guidance for future endeavors."

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Paula Langley
Circulation Department Manager, University of Maryland Baltimore County

"Rod was instrumental in helping to plan and facilitate a Training/Strategy Workshop for a diverse group of Harford County’s water & sewer utility leaders.

We held the workshop with leaders at all levels from our Operations, Maintenance, and Engineering and Planning groups. Rod tailored a day-long program to both train and workshop (SWOT assessment; 9-Box exercise) important concepts to help grow our leaders, and to equip them with tools to support our strategic direction. I am grateful for Rod’s value-adding participation in this successful event!"

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William (Bill) Bettin
P.E., Deputy Director, Harford County Government | Water Infrastructure & Technology | Water Engineering | Environmental

"Are you looking for a terrific workshop facilitator or a conference speaker? I can heartily recommend Rod Bourn for both roles.

Rod served as the facilitator for Library Planning Day for Harford Community College Library for four of the past nine years and did an outstanding job. He worked closely with me to understand my goals for the day and to structure our agenda in a way that helped us achieve the goals. He has been especially helpful in pointing out how group dynamics work and in developing approaches that maximized the engagement of the team. He always received great ratings from the staff on our post-event feedback forms. He also facilitated an excellent team development workshop for the combined staff of the HCC Library and the HCC eLearning department.

Recently, Rod delivered a top-notch keynote address at the daylong annual meeting of the Congress of Academic Library Directors – a consortium of the library directors at all the two-year and four-year colleges and universities in Maryland. The theme was on ways for leaders to maximize their leadership potential through the more human-focused aspects of leadership. In his usual upbeat manner, Rod managed to convey a lot of wisdom and food for thought.

I also have had the pleasure of working with Rod in the Harford Leadership Academy, where he has consistently helped each year’s class connect and develop their network connections and their leadership potential."

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Carol Allen
Library director at Harford Community College
ready to figure out what's next

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