Individuals create social societies wherever they go, according to several organizational theorists of the late 19th and early 20th century.

Douglas McGregor, for instance, created his ABC theory regarding attitude, behavior, and consequences to illustrate the importance of the individual within working groups and the effect upon successful output.

Read more at www.rethinkingcomplexity.com/posts/03-01-12/theorizing-role-individual-within-organization

Douglas McGregor by Google Images

Relational Concerns in Corporate Environments

Please see my series on Psychology and Relational Concerns in Corporate Teams: Consulting for Interpersonal Dynamics, starting February 2012 and Transformational Leadership starting June 2011 at HelpChatOnline.com.

Fear is our own mechanism for defeating our best intentions.

If there is one thing my individual and group clients say consistently: ‘Shawn, you have been my agent for change. The ideas have been our own but you understood us and gave us new perspectives, depth and most of all – energy. New exciting energy that moved us forward.’

How does this happen? I have long experience in personal and corporate negotiation and conflict resolution, the ability to see the strengths and weaknesses of a plan or program and excitement of being part of or a catalyst for dream-making and goal fulfillment.

- Shawn M. Nichols

You are about to take an important step into an incredible new future. The most important asset you have is yourself and it’s time to consider an investment in your equity. Coaching is a highly effective process that supports individuals and teams in creating desirable lives, successful strategies and resounding results. I coach my clients by providing perspective, support and focus as they achieve business and personal goals.YOU KNOW THE VALUE OF A PHYSICAL TRAINER. Those who relied on a coach know how the team did as well as they did. Now is the time to have a COACH of your own – tailor-made to your needs and plans. Coaching is ideal for designing your business and corporate trajectory. Weed out the fears that may be holding you back. Free up energy, reducing your stress and creating the life you want and not the life or career someone else wants to you to have!

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Most individual sessions are once a week at a prearranged time, convenient for your current schedule. I recommend 8 – 12 sessions over a three-month period but you are never charged for more than four (one month) at a time.*

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Workshops for the Business and Personal Environment (Copyright, 2008)

Responsibility: The Real Reward

Working on the premise that we are our own worst and best judges this workshop helps to identify the lost meaning of integrity. Bringing each individual to the point of self-honesty, the participants help themselves to the self satisfaction they deserve.

The Canoe and The Ocean

We refuse responsibility for the most destructive of our actions and words. Yet we we will blame ourselves for events out of our control. How do we come to terms with what we can ultimately change and what are the forces outside our power? This workshop helps to develop a more objective observation and process conflict.

The Hands

This powerful instrument of our needs, desires, loves and destruction is also our companion, protector and resides with us for our entire lives like no other being. As an agent of change it does our bidding and as a nurturer provides us with all manner of sustenance. A workshop on the power of hands and a meditation on the life they lead apart and in concert with our mind. This is a calming, centering program for balance in life and strenghtening our actions and resolve.

Managing Relationships

Without them, we are lost. They have the power to delight or ruin us. How do we make the most of our relationships and how do we build new ones? The skills of relationships cannot be underestimated. Personality, the key to relationships is a major factor in our everyday success. Whether we are finding the right person or dealing with co-workers, managing those moments can lead to gratification and success. This is a workshop for discovering our own original personality and using it to our happiness and satisfaction.

(Copyright, 2008)

Simple Steps, Complex Problem Solving

This a thorough series of sessions on the non-judgmental use of a problem solving model that gets to the core of our pattern of thoughts and actions that keep us rooted in place. Unable to evolve past a myriad of adaptive coping skills we fall back on old behaviors. Opening a dialogue of personal and professional self-reflection, we can can create new thoughts and behaviors by challenging our assumptions and creating new perspectives.

(Shawn Nichols, Copyright 2010)

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Relationships and Conflict – 8 sessions

Defining Career – 8 sessions

Problem Solving – A Tool – 8 sessions

Challenging Assumptions and Changing Perspectives – 6 Sessions

Sexuality and Spirituality – 8 sessions

Session One: Defining Conflict and Why It Occurs

When are our differences a problem? Why can’t we agree all the time? Learn to recognize the reasons your partner cannot or will not give in.

How does this affect you physically and emotionally?

When you can give someone what they want, you win in the end as well.

I have brought some very tough work situations to Shawn Nichols to help me resolve. His listening skills and understanding of the corporate world have been a great help to me in achieving success in a tough corporate environment. The gift Shawn will give his clients is not only the ability to make good choices but the encouragement to move forward based on lessons learned.

Ann R. – Siemens Building Technologies, Inc.

Shawn Nichols gained the reputation of being the most popular inspirational and effective speaker among staff and clients alike. He is genuinely dedicated to help our clients implement strategies to succeed in life. Shawn has that rare ability to find the existing element in each person that sparks a positive life change.

Dr. Lisa Zaslove, Walden House, Inc.

Collaboration and the Ability to Spread Knowledge.

Richard Baraniuk, speaker.