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Touch Points to Change

At Red Chair Coaching we believe that:

  • culture enables the successful execution of strategy.

  • successfully executing strategy requires intentional leadership.

  • intentional leadership requires vulnerability, growth and change. This means getting uncomfortable.

    The Touch Points to Change Program helps you understand the behaviors and steps needed to lead and work in alignment with your organizational values, so you can reach your goals.

Change Requires Honesty

Through our deep knowledge of organizational change, combined with a thoughtful, data-informed approach, skilled facilitation and personalized coaching, we help your leaders effectively let go of the past, enabling them to embrace new opportunities and lead confidently into the future.

Through a series of conversations and experiences at Red Chair Ranch and at your site, we guide you to the touch points you need to change to set and model the culture your organization requires to succeed.

Why Red Chair?

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    It Requires Courageous Curiosity

    An organizational culture that engages employees and achieves results requires leaders who are courageously curious.

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    We Need to Understand Who We Are Today

    Before we know what we need to change, within our organization, and ourselves, we need to understand what is working and have the courage to see what is not.

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    Letting Go Can Be Hard To Do

    To create what is needed for the future often involves letting go of processes and structures that we had a hand in creating which can be hard to do.

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    Being Strategic Requires Critical Thinking

    Creating an intentional culture is strategic work that requires us to think through what we are currently doing and what we want to be doing in the future.

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    Acknowledging Our Emotions Can Feel Risky

    Creating change within our organizations and ourselves is emotional work. Acknowledging the range of emotions we feel during change is not only helpful, it is health-ful.

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    Creating Change Requires a Safe Space

    The space of Red Chair offers a safe place for individuals and teams to bravely explore the strategic and emotional work required to align strategy and culture.

 FAQs

  • Organizations who invest in their leaders have a higher likelihood of achieving their strategic goals in ways that are aligned with their values, because they have leaders who are more aware of themselves and their environment thereby enabling them to lead with intention.

    Companies that report successful transformations attribute their success to effective leadership. Leaders who can align culture and strategy are better equipped to manage and lead through change. (PWC)

    70% of employees state that their engagement level is most directly impacted by their immediate supervisor. Leaders who align their teams with organizational strategy and culture drive higher engagement levels. (Deloitte)

    An organization is essentially a living embodiment of its strategy, where its structures, processes, and culture must be aligned with its strategic goals to ensure efficiency and effectiveness. This alignment helps in achieving objectives and adapting to changes in the environment.​ (Harvard Business Review)

  • The Touch Points to Change Program helps leaders and leadership teams understand who they are and how they lead so they can stop, start, and continue behaviours that are needed to engage their teams, meet outcomes, and be well.

  • Leaders are asked to contribute to data collection efforts to inform current state. Through their attendance and participation in various sessions they are invited to bring a sense of curiosity and openness about themselves, their team, and the organization. They are asked to complete preparatory and follow up work so they are fully engaged in the process and the evolution of the culture that is emerging. Commitment and participation from senior leadership is required. What this looks like in action is determined based on the organization.

  • Shannon is an executive coach and team facilitator who works with individuals and teams to think strategically, lead authentically, and achieve results. As a Chief Human Resource Officer who successfully led a corporate-wide culture shift, Shannon is passionate about creating a culture that enables organizational success and supports leaders to be their best.

    For several years, Shannon lead several organizational change management teams simultaneously to enable the successful execution of complex business transformation programs in a large Crown Corporation in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. After walking away from the C Suite, Shannon created the space of Red Chair where leaders explore who they are and how they lead. Shortly after, she received the unexpected call from the horses, which resulted in a certification where she learned how to coach and facilitate in partnership with these sentient and wise beings that have a lot to teach humans about leading self and others.

    Shannon now brings together her corporate experience with the transformational space of Red Chair Ranch, providing a unique and powerful approach to organizational culture and leadership development that results in change.

  • As prey animals, horses are gracious mirrors and generous coaches who can teach us a lot about ourselves and our team. Their energy facilitates a safe space for humans to do the important work of exploring their internal landscape. Time at the Ranch, experiencing the horses, the beauty of nature and the sounds and smells that are so different from the workplace help people think differently and be open to new perspectives.

Feedback from Executive & Operational Leaders

  • What experience was most impactful for you as a leader?

    Being in the stable environment (barn & arena), working directly with a horse to achieve something as a team, experience a connection, anticipate a path, building trust, accomplishing together.

    Seeing the executive and operational leaders discuss some items which had been bubbling under the surface.

    The structured methodology helped to open up conversations while remaining focused on finding solutions.

  • How would you describe your experience at the Ranch?

    The opportunity to be open, in a good way, at the Ranch, I felt was critical to the success of the Program and underpinned the later work.

    The different venue, space, and horses created a more collaborative and relaxed atmosphere.

    Helped to open up dialogue that would otherwise not have happened. Working with Shannon gives us confidence to say what is on our mind in a supportive environment.

  • How has this program shifted your perspective on leadership and culture?

    It allowed us to spend time to bring more clarity around it. This is always an ongoing process, but this has helped us move along quicker and with a deeper understanding of where we need to go.

    It hasn't shifted my perspective so much as it has reinforced that a positive, intentional culture is the platform for everything to accomplish strategic and operational plans.

To learn more about Touch Points to Change & chat about your organizational change needs, please submit a completed form. We will respond within 5 business days.

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