Coaching

Graymake partners with individuals, executives, managers, and teams to create inclusive, engaging experiences that help employees succeed and organizations thrive. As we explore the unexamined pains preventing your organization from achieving its best work, we uncover where things have gotten stuck, what needs might be unmet, and what’s already working.

We believe self-care and use of self are foundational to good work. Good health and keen awareness are paramount to working with others and to delivering best results; we therefore thread these practices throughout our offerings.

Innovative companies already know: coaching helps professionals improve their work performance. In this capacity, We work alongside key team members to help identify gaps between where each on is are and where they want to be. We also guide you in building the necessary structure, accountability, and support that ensures sustained success.

Whether one-on-one or in small groups, coaching is for you if:

• You’re feeling isolated or disconnected

• You need someone to help you reconnect with the bigger picture

• You’ve lost your sense of direction or are looking for a new one

• You need someone to honestly ask you the tough questions and help hold you accountable

• You feel you’ve become disconnected from your own intuition or stuck in some way

• You’re looking to develop a specific skillset, reach a goal, enhance your confidence, or grow yourself as a leader

Coaching topics may include (but are not limited to):

Conflict Coaching

Conflict Coaching enhances constructive workplace cultures. Explore your relationship with conflict and learn to better develop your own conflict skills so you can be the most effective communicator at home, in public, and at work. Conflict 360 tool available. Graymake uses Conflict Dynamics Profile Coaching Tools.

Embodying Inclusive Leadership

Are you working to become a more inclusive leader? No matter where you are in your leadership journey, Graymake can find the right coach for you. Whether you’re just getting started—having difficulty navigating White leadership, grappling with concepts like “privilege”—or doing the more seasoned work of DEI, you’ll find a coaching relationship gives you the space to ask the questions you may not feel comfortable asking in a more public space. You’ll also have support as you work through shame or insecurities and gain empowerment, clarity, and perspective.

Apologies, Amends, and Reconciliation

As nations, communities, and workplaces wrestle with the unknown, they experience pain and loss, as well as joy. Are you taking the time to honor endings, reconcile what’s necessary, and make amends as needed? As always, “healing” is exceedingly important. How could you benefit from working through these topics with a coach in order to enhance your work-life experience? How might it differ from what you might do with a therapist?

Balance, Self-Care, and Boundary-Setting: At Work and at Home

Even before more people were “living at work,” this was one of our most common client challenges: How can I balance my work and my life? How do I place boundaries on my time? What tricks can I use to enforce self-care? How do I prevent putting everyone in my life before me? The questions come more frequently now and with more desperation in the tone. We help you claim your sanity and health by managing your priorities—not your time—by aligning your values so your life can be calm, not crazed.

Self-Compassion + Self Confidence Work

Are you your own worst enemy? Do you battle impostor syndrome, consistent self-criticism, and comparison despite feeling genuine joy for the success of others? In our work together, we will practice what it is to hold compassion for oneself, what your own unique powers are and most importantly, how to sustain those feelings out in the world and in the workplace.

Workplace Success with Mental Health or Learning Difference/Disability Challenges

Even with treatment and support, neurodivergence and mental health challenges can be extremely difficult. As forward-thinking workplaces think more broadly, they experience better opportunities for supports, yet day-to-day or moment-to-moment stressors that often go unnoticed can make or break an interaction with a colleague or a response to a policy. It can even lead to termination. Graymake provides the supports you need while working to improve the likelihood of success by exploring options and boundaries and by identifying and practicing the expression of needs.

The fundamental hypothesis of restorative practices is, in fact, that people are happier, more cooperative and productive, and more likely to make positive changes in behavior when those in authority do things with them rather than to them or for them.

 In our experience—backed by research in numerous fields—this shift to group decision-making and accountability creates results that are more restorative, transformative, and holistic; creating positive cultures and reducing the likelihood of future negative incidences
of harm.

Restorative work says that achieving these objectives requires:

• Those who have been harmed are involved in the process and complete it feeling satisfied

• Those who have offended understand how their actions have affected others and take responsibility for them

• Any outcomes help to repair the harm (or harms) done and address the reasons for the offense

• Both those who caused harm and those who were harmed gain a sense of closure and are reintegrated into the community

At a time when most of us are experiencing little to no separation between work and home life, in the era of #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter, #COVID19, massive uncertainty, loss and conflicts in politics, religion, and more in the workplace, we must equip employees at every level with more tools and help them hone them. By increasing communication, conflict, and awareness of one’s impact on self and on others, we can create workplaces where everyone can thrive.

Graymake offerings are available in-person, online, or as a hybrid. We work to meet your needs.