Services for Companies and Organizations

· Executive Coaching for Companies
· Teambuilding, Motivation and High Performance
· Coaching Skills for Managers
· Marketing and Sales
· Public Speaking
· Seminars and Key Note Speaking at Meetings and Events

Executive Coaching

Many corporations are investing in executive coaching for their employees. IBM, Marriott, Southwest Airlines and Boeing are a few of them. The reason is that coaching brings in incredible results, in soaring leadership, problem solving, higher performance, clarity of vision, communication, sales etc. It turns out that coaching is about four times as effective as most education and training. For more information please click here.

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    Typical Results from Executive Coaching:

  • Clarity and implementation of leadership related changes, improvements and strategies
  • Improved day-to-day performance
  • Satisfaction and balance
  • New choices become apparent
  • Relationships become revolutionized
  • Success in what matters most


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Teambuilding

A great team is something everybody wants to be a part of. The Inspiration for Excellence teambuilding techniques have been developed in order to make your team in particular into that great team. Since communication is key to a great team, the techniques are built on experiencing the difference between effective and not so effective communication, the effects of power structures and other behavioral drivers.

Every participant will learn more about him/ herself, along with knowing the team better, have improved communication skills, and heightened awareness.

    With Inspiration for Excellence’s Teambuilding seminar and coaching your team will:

  • Get to know each other and themselves in a new way
  • Connect with each other
  • Learn and experience effective communication in contrast to not so effective communication
  • Learn and effectively use the drivers that are in place in your particular team to serve the team as a whole

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Motivation and High Performance


Objectives and Goals, Roles and Responsibilities, Accomplishments and Learning

Contradictory of what one may assume, money is not the most important motivator in the workplace. A vision, mission, purpose, goals, a specific part to play, utilizing your abilities and skills, learning new things, growing, relating to others, leading others, the satisfaction of completing tasks, making a difference and expressing what is going on are important motivators in an organization.

    Inspiration for Excellence offers hands-on exercises and tools for defining, clarifying and aligning your people with:

  • Objectives and goals of your organization
  • Roles and responsibilities
  • Accomplishments and learning
  • Creating new

All methodology is proven to motivate and raise the morale. Motivation and high morale will drive effectiveness and satisfaction for all parties.

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Coaching Skills for Managers

Managers and leaders of all levels in an organization benefit from growing their listening skills, intuition and their capacity for engaging with the people reporting to them.

    Coaching Skills for Managers will support and facilitate:

  • Change management in an environment of reorganization, merging or change of leadership
  • Implementing a mentoring program where the managers are assigned as mentors perhaps for the first time.
  • Improved communication within a department and company.
  • Lower retention numbers
  • Higher Performance


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Marketing and Sales

Every employee, every department, every member of an organization ultimately represents their organization, company, industry, and brand.

    Marketing training for non-marketers by Inspiration for Excellence helps your people to:

  • Clarify the purpose of their role, and place in the bigger picture
  • Identify target markets
  • Understand the marketing messages(s) and make it theirs
  • Create a plan for their own participation in active representation that may include networking, socializing, volunteering, enlisting support through existing connections, etc.

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Public Speaking & Presentation Skills

Rated as the number one fear in America is Public Speaking. Public Speaking is a fear rated several notches above the fear of death. Yet, public speaking is needed all the time. Regardless of your role in the professional setting, you are asked to speak publicly perhaps even several times a week. How you carry yourself, your energy, your voice, your words in front of others will impact your success. The good news is that the skill of Public Speaking can be learned and there are effective ways to manage the fear.

Using exercises and methods from theater, wellknown public speakers and corporate America, Inspiration for Excellence will train your people and share tips and tools applicable in your organization and to your presentations. This is a dynamic process, completely hands-on and with play and fun along with great results.

    Professionals learn to:

  • Prepare for speaking by organizing the content to best serve the audience and message of the presentation
  • Use their posture, voice, body movements and gestures effectively in juxtaposition to props and the content of the presentation itself
  • Connect with the audience and keep it captivated using questions, story telling or visuals
  • Open and Close the presentation effectively

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Seminars and Key Note Speaking

Eva Liljendahl has spoken at events and lead seminars at Illinois Institute for Technology, IBM, DePaul University, the Entrepreneurial Days with SACC (Swedish American Chamber of Commerce), Olenick & Associates, NAPMW (National Association for Professional Mortgage Women) and Swedish Television Inc. She is known for her clarity, interactive style and contagious inspiration.

Topics for Seminars/ Key Note Speaking:

Marketing, Sales and Public Speaking

  • Networking 101 Differentiate Yourself with Your Elevator Pitch
  • 5 Keys to Effective Marketing
  • 5 Steps from Lead Generation to Closing the Sales (B2B)
  • Learn the Art of Asking Questions in Sales
  • 5 Keys to Successful Public Speaking
  • What Makes Us Want to Hear What You Have to Say - Public Speaking I
  • Establish Your Presence on Stage - Public Speaking II
  • Connect with the Audience - Public Speaking III
  • What Keeps Our Attention - Public Speaking IV
  • Use Positive Language - Public Speaking V

Focus, Problem Solve, Innovate

  • Learn a Technique to Tap into Your Flow and Minimize Procastination
  • 5 Ways to Increase Innovation in Your Business
  • Focus Your Intentions

Leadership, Mentoring and Coaching

  • Clarity of Vision for Leaders (Entrepreneurs, CEOs, Directors)
  • Mentoring Workshop
  • Coaching Skills for Managers
  • 5 Keys to Effective Leadership for Managers (Executives)

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”Inspiration for Excellence’s Mentoring Workshop gave me a guide on honing my leadership and mentoring skills with great tips. The workshop flowed easily with group interactivity, conversation, enthusiasm and knowledge that kept people’s attention.” Tony Troup, Associate, Olenick & Associates, Chicago