Services
Assessments
THE HONING STONE offers a variety of assessment tools to identify strengths and growth opportunities. As an Authorized Partner for Everything DiSC® and The Five Behaviors® we can facilitate individual and team development to increase communications and overall performance.
The Energy Leadership Assessment from iPEC uncovers the thinking and perceptions that might contribute to stress or hold you back from achieving your goals.
Coaching
Coaching involves partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. The process of coaching often unlocks previously untapped sources of imagination, productivity, and leadership.
We offer individual as well as team coaching in Leadership, Communications, Emotional Intelligence, and Transitions.
Learning & Development
Our Learning and Development programs leverage the Wiley and iPEC materials to customize a program to fit your needs.
From working with groups to individual employees, THE HONING STONE will help you reach your goals with proven materials based on decades of research and expertise.
Coaching
We all have goals we want to reach, challenges we’re striving to overcome, and times when we feel stuck. Partnering with a coach can improve your outlook on work and life, while improving your leadership and influence skills, setting you on a path to greater personal and professional fulfillment.
The International Coaching Federation defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. The process of coaching often unlocks previously untapped sources of imagination, productivity, and leadership.
Team and Individual Coaching options are available.
Team Coaching
Teams are groups of interdependent members who bring different skills together to accomplish a common goal. A foundation of teamwork is trust, the ability of team members to rely on other members who share the same goal. Team members must be accountable to each other and have the ability to communicate. THE HONING STONE has a variety of tools to help teams come together for projects or to re-baseline expectations and improve team performance.
Individual Coaching
Coaching is like having a personal fitness trainer for your professional life. We have the tools and exercises to help you tap into your strengths and reach your goals, but it is up to you to do the work.
Are you looking for ways to move up in your organization?
Are you a go-getter who was recently promoted to a leadership position?
Do you find yourself wondering how to deal with the variety of personalities and obstacles that seem to complicate simple tasks?
Do you want to bounce ideas off another person while avoiding it becoming part of the office chatter?
Are you considering a job transition?
Are you military transitioning out of uniform and wondering what your next move is?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, Coaching might be right for you.
ASSESSMENTS
Everything DiSC® is a personal development learning experience that measures an individual’s preferences and tendencies based on the DiSC® model. This simple yet powerful model describes four basic styles: D (dominance), i (influence), S (steadiness), and C (conscientiousness).
Everyone is a blend of all four DiSC® styles — but usually one, two, or even three styles stand out. Unlike many personality tests, there is no perfect result or DiSC® style. Each person has a unique behavioral profile with different styles and priorities—no one style better or worse than the next. We believe that these differences in style can be extremely valuable. Once you assess these differences and harness their value, better workplace communication AND healthier organizations become possible.
Participants receive personalized insights that deepen their understanding of self and others, making workplace interactions more enjoyable and effective. The result is a more engaged and collaborative workforce that can spark meaningful culture improvement in your organization.
Did you know that many people assume that the responsibility for good teamwork rests solely upon the shoulders of the team leader? Learn more about how The Five Behaviors® can help teams hold one another accountable. As the workplace evolves, so do team dynamics. Giving your team the skills they need to work together effectively, regardless of where they are working, is more important than ever.
The Five Behaviors® solutions can help you activate your team’s ability to drive results through cohesive teamwork. Our Personal Development solution helps individuals learn the skills they need to “team” effectively, while the Team Development solution helps intact teams gain the know-how to work better together.
Both solutions use the framework of best-selling author Patrick Lencioni’s model for teamwork which focuses on Trust, Productive Conflict, Commitment, Accountability, and Results.
You’ve probably taken personality tests… but now it’s time for an attitudinal assessment.
The Energy Leadership™ Index (ELI) assessment is the proprietary, research-backed assessment tool that takes something abstract, like the way a person views the world, and turns it into something tangible — a metric that you can see and feel and even reevaluate in the future. And, it’s only available through an iPEC Certified Coach.
Leadership Practices Inventory® Trained Coach
Based on the bestselling book The Leadership Challenge ®by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) is an assessment that measures the demonstrated frequency of the thirty behaviors that fall under The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership®. Over five million people have taken the LPI as part of their own leadership journey.
The LPI®
The LPI is an individual self-assessment can help people develop their leadership skills as they consider more responsibility in their lives or in the workplace. After completing the assessment, I will debrief you on your results, and work with you through the coaching process to develop your leadership skills.
The LPI-360®
The LPI-360 is the most widely used 360-assessment tool in use today. Over five million participants having taken the assessment. The LPI-360® illuminates the effectiveness of individual leaders in how they see themselves and how others see them. The tool provides insights into the commitment, engagement and satisfaction of those who follow individual leaders. When multiple leaders use the LPI-360, the group report can provide powerful insights into the strengths and development opportunities for the organization.
After taking the LPI self-assessment, or LPI-360 I will debrief you on your results. Next, we work together as your coach, and individual leaders to gain the most benefit from your LPI experience. We can chart a path to increase your leadership knowledge, identify opportunities to increase your effectiveness, then bring powerful resources and practices together to benefit those around you.
The Honing Stone, LLC can offer facilitated workshops for groups to cover the LPI® as well as Leadership is Everyone’s Business ® The Leadership Challenge® and The Challenge Continues®.
Learning & Development
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As an Authorized Partner for Everything DiSC® & Five Behaviors of a Team, a Trained Coach for the LPI-360 and a Certified DiSC Practitioner, The Honing Stone has a wealth of resources for Learning and Development at any point in an employee’s career. Our resources can support the on-boarding process, project team formation, to leadership training, and personal growth. THE HONING STONE can support individuals teams and organizations in one-on-one settings to large groups. THE HONING STONE will help you meet your Learning and Development goals with proven materials that are based on decades of research and expertise.