New Consultation Clients

RJCG is excited to announce that we are partnering with three new amazing organizations that are building on their organizational health and improving their leadership. They are: (1) Craft3, a local nonprofit with an inspirational mission to support community development, (2) Prime Forest, a lumber company providng high-end, custom wood products, and (3) Knudsen Vineyards, a Willamette Valley winery with delicious wine varieties.

PRINT cohesion-building workshops are an excellent way to build team culture and improve communication! Our workshops provide a scaffolding system that will be used long after the workshop is completed!

Leadership Essentials Workshop

I'm happy to announce the launching of RJCG's Leadership Essentials Workshop. I've been providing leadership coaching for individuals and small groups for years. Recently, I packaged the content from the individual coaching into a PowerPoint and interactive Workshop for up to 15 leaders/managers in a group, which can be done as either a 4-hour stand-alone or in a two-segment series. The Workshop includes three assessments that I created based on my research as a professor: (a) Differentiated Leadership Scale, (b) Interpersonal Coping Style Scale, and (c) Essential Management Skills Scale. Completion of the scales results in a 8-page report on the participant's leadership strengths and challenges. The Workshop leads to greater self-confidence and competence for all levels of leaders, from new to experienced.

If you know of anyone that could use support to develop or refine their leadership/managerial skills, please connect with me at RJCG.org. Of course, RJCG also specializes in team cohesion-building workshops!

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RJCG Team-Building Workshop at BBCP

RJCG is thrilled to have provided a half-day Team-Building PRINT Workshop at Budget Blinds of Central Portland (BBCP) on January 5. This is the 2nd PRINT Workshop we facilitated at BBCP. The first was with their Leadership Team while this was was for the entire organization. Michelle, the owner of BBCP, is truly committed to supporting organizational health. BBCP is filled with talented individuals with high levels of EQ! They are a great team! It is an honor to be supporting them as they prepare to open their new building, with an amazing showroom. Be on the look out or info about their upcoming Grand Opening!

If you know of any organizations that want to improve their organizational culture (or just optimize morale and team communication), please send them to rjcg.org. We love to help organizations build cohesive teams, improve leadership, resolve conflict, and engage in values-based strategic planning.

#team #leadership #communication

#teambuilding #cohesionbuilding #organizationaldevelopment

Rick and Michelle
Rick doing a PRINT workshop

RJCG at Mondelēz International

Rick Johnson Consulting Group (RJCG) participated in a two-day off-site at Skamania Lodge on December 15-16 with the amazing individuals at the Mondelēz Portland Plant. Rick provided cohesion-building with PRINT® as well as thought-partnership and process facilitation support throughout the two days. The PRINT Workshops with the Leadership Team were amazing! What a talented and dedicated team! The off-site supported teamwork, communication, valuing of diverse motivational strengths, and values-based strategic planning! I am grateful to Fernando, Lisa, and Mehdi as well as the entire Leadership Team for the collaborative support in making the team/organizational culture healthy and productive!

Visit us at RJCG.org if you would like support for your team with cohesion-building, leadership enhancement, conflict resolution, or values-based strategic planning.

#organizationaldevelopment #cohesionbuilding #PRINT

#teambuilding #organizationalconsultation #businesscoaching

Rick at Mondelez International workshop

RJCG Cohesion-Building Workshop at Budget Blinds Central Portland

Rick Johnson Consulting Group (RJCG) facilitated a cohesion-building PRINT® Workshop with the fun and talented Leadership Team at Budget Blinds Central Portland on November 10. The workshop focused on teamwork and leveraging their strengths and talents! We appreciate Michelle and the entire Budget Blinds Central Portland Leadership Team for inviting us to be part of their intentional culture-buidling process.

To elevate your organizational culture and team performance, contact RJCG at rjcg.org! We help organizations across various industries increase cohesion, enhance leadership effectiveness, resolve interpersonal challenges, and engage in values-based strategic planning.

#organizationaldevelopment #cohesionbuilding #PRINT

#teambuilding #organizationalconsultation #businesscoaching

RJCG at Nike

Rick Johnson Consulting Group (RJCG) facilitated a half-day cohesion-building PRINT® Workshop with the talented and innovative Digital Marketing and Engagement Program (DMEP) Leadership Team at the Nike campus on November 2. The workshop supported their strong teamwork, facilitating even better communication, relational understanding, and valuing of their diverse motivational strengths! We are grateful to Andy, a Senior Director at Nike, and the entire DMEP Leadership Team for inviting us to support their continued efforts at making their team culture healthy and productive!

Visit us at RJCG.org if you would like support for your team with cohesion-building, leadership enhancement, conflict resolution, or values-based strategic planning.

#organizationaldevelopment #cohesionbuilding #PRINT

#teambuilding #organizationalconsultation #businesscoaching

RJCG at Nike logo

RJCG & PDX Property Group

Rick Johnson Consulting Group (RJCG) facilitated a cohesion-building PRINT® Workshop with the driven and successful team at PDX Property Group on October 26. The workshop focused on teamwork and leveraging their considerable strengths and talents! We appreciate John and the entire PDX Property Group team for inviting us to their wonderful space on NW Hoyt Ave. I highly recommend them for all of your real estate needs!

To elevate your organizational culture and team performance, contact RJCG at rjcg.org! We help organizations across various industries increase cohesion, enhance leadership effectiveness, resolve interpersonal challenges, and engage in values-based strategic planning.

#organizationaldevelopment #cohesionbuilding #PRINT

#teambuilding #organizationalconsultation #businesscoaching

RJCG at PDX property group workshop

RJCG PRINT® Workshop

RJCG facilitated a half-day cohesion-building PRINT® Workshop with the amazing and talented individuals at Studio Petretti Architecture on October 18. The workshop built on the already great culture that exists at Studio Petretti, facilitating even better communication, relational understanding, and valuing of their diverse motivational strengths! We are grateful to Amanda and the entire Petretti Team for inviting us to support their continued efforts at making their workplace healthy and productive!

#organizationaldevelopment #cohesionbuilding #PRINT

#teambuilding #organizationalconsultation #businesscoaching

Rick doing workshop at Studio Petretti

RJCG is Growing!

RJCG is excited to announce that two experienced executive coaches/consultants have joined the RJCG team! We are thrilled to welcome Ruth Hescock and Kalpana Krishnamurthy!

Along with over 7 years of hands-on experience as an executive coach/counselor, Ruth has a master’s degree in Counseling with a specialization in Clinical Rehabilitation from Portland State University, a graduate certificate in the Psychology of Leadership from Cornell University, and is a Certified PRINT® Coach.

Kalpana has extensive experience as a consultant in community-based organizing, strategic planning, and non-profits. She is a Certified PRINT® Coach and is currently enrolled in the master’s program in Counseling with a specialization in Marriage, Couples, and Family Therapy at Portland State University.

Ruth and Kalpana have added expertise and passion to our existing team, which includes long-time RJCG Consultant, Polly Gravely. With our talented team of Certified PRINT® Coaches/Consultants in place, RJCG is now able to expand the number of clients/organizations we are able to serve. Our focus remains on helping individuals and organizations build cohesive teams, reduce workplace tensions/conflicts, improve leadership skills, and facilitate values-based strategic planning. #OrganizationalDevelopment

#ExecutiveCoaching

#TeamBuilding

RJCG and PRINT®

I'm excited to announce that a long-time RJCG Consultant, Polly Gravely, has recently become Certified in PRINT® Coaching. RJCG is growing in our scope of consultation offerings and is so excited about the positive impacts of using PRINT® for increased cohesion and improved communication among organizational teams. PRINT® is a transformational technology created by The Paul Hertz Group to help organizations effectively recruit and retain talent, develop leaders, build teams, tap into employees’ strengths, remove interpersonal barriers, and meet performance objectives ― with unprecedented efficiency, receptivity, and success. To learn more about RJCG and our services, including PRINT®, please visit our website [RJCG.org][1].

Certified PRINT® Coaching/Counseling for Individuals and Couples

I have been Certified in PRINT® Coaching for just over two months. In that time, I have had nearly 60 individuals complete the PRINT® assessment and have provided over 45 debriefs to individuals, couples, families, and organizational teams. While I knew how powerful PRINT® is for organizational team building (This has been reinforced!), I have been very pleased to discover its usefulness for individual coaching/counseling and couple therapy. For individual clients, PRINT® provides incredibly useful information about an individual's core needs/motivations; this information can easily be integrated into the therapy process by understanding triggers, defensive/protective "shadow" behaviors, and the client's Best Self within their motivational structure.

I have had several clinicians reach out to me asking if they could have their clients take PRINT®. We are working out procedures where the clients will complete PRINT®, have a debrief with me, and then bring the comprehensive report back to the therapist to integrate into the existing treatment. For the therapists out there, let me know if you would like to discuss this type of arrangement to support you and your clients.

I am also finding incredible value in using PRINT® with couples. PRINT® very quickly provides information that highlights the reasons why couples get stuck in frustrating interactional cycles and provides tools to interrupt these cycles so each partner can return to their Best Self. The reports make it very apparent why partners trigger defensive/protective reactions in each other, an understanding that supports many couple therapy models such as EFT. The report provides a roadmap that therapists can use to understand triggers, interrupt cyles, and promote self soothing as well as relational healing.

Certified PRINT® Coach

I am excited to announce that I have recently become a Certified PRINT® Coach. This means that, in addition to being a Licensed Psychologist, I am now a licensed coach in The Why of You Powered by PRINT®, a breakthrough model of human motivation and behavior that was developed by The Paul Hertz Group.

The approach is used to enhance understanding of the way people react and how they relate by explaining the “why” behind their behavior – why people act as they do, why they make certain choices, why they are attracted to certain things and why they function better in certain situations than others.

Everyone has core motivations that drive their actions and behaviors. PRINT® reveals what these motivators are and in doing so, clarifies what is needed to bring out people’s best. It helps unleash the potential that lies within all people. PRINT® is a valuable guide to create success and reveal what can be done to face and overcome one’s challenges. PRINT® builds insight into others, as well as one’s self.

There are 72 PRINTS®, each with their own core motivations and behaviors. No PRINT® is better than any other and each possesses its own natural gifts and contributions (Best Self) and its own potential barriers and obstacles (Shadow).

Every PRINT® exhibits Best Self and Shadow behavior. The goal of the Why of you program is to teach people how to diminish the frequency of Shadow behavior and increase the presence of Best Self. Shadow is people’s automatic response to the stressors in their lives. It may be more automatic for some people to be in Best Self or Shadow than others. A person’s professional and personal environment plays a role, as well as their level of self-awareness. Studies have shown there is a positive correlation between Best Self and performance.

I am certified to use and analyze the Paul Hertz Group’s PRINT® Survey, a 10-15 minute, statistically validated, highly accurate, and dynamic online instrument as part of my coaching process (dynamic meaning that different questions come up based on how previous ones were answered, so people take different surveys). The instrument helps me uncover an individual’s core motivators and the behaviors that reflect both their Best Self and their potential Shadow. This information helps me work in partnership with individuals to efficiently accomplish goals and generate strategies to yield desired results.

Knowing “why” accelerates successful growth and transformation. PRINT® provides this vital information. I look forward to utilizing PRINT® in my work with individual clients and organizations to faciltate this growth and transformation.

Please visit rjcg.org to learn more about my executive coaching and organizational consultation services.

Hollywood Theatre/Movie Madness

RJCG welcomes the Hollywood Theatre/Movie Madness as an organizational consultation partner. The Hollywood Theatre is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to "entertain, inspire, educate and connect the community through the art of film, while preserving a historic Portland landmark." Movie Madness, which The Hollywood Theatre purchased in 2017, is a legendary Portland video store with over 80,000 irreplacable titles. Together, the Hollywood Theatre and Movie Madness are a gem in the cultural fabric of Portland. I am absolutely thrilled to be supporting such a quinessential Portland establishment (first opened in 1926) in optimizing organizational health!

If you know of businesses that could use asssiatnce with increasing their interpersonal health and refining/clarifying their organizational values, please connect them with us at RJCG.org. We help organizations across various industries increase leadership effectiveness, resolve interpersonal challenges, and become high-performing teams, based on a personalized, tailored approach.

Integrating mindfulness and IFS. #Mindfulness

Mindfulness is defined as the practice of being aware in the present moment, without judgment. The term mindfulness is often used synonymously with meditation, which is technically incorrect. Mindfulness can be practiced as a form of meditation (there are many forms) and/or anytime we are aware in the present moment. Mindfulness is not simply about relaxation (although relaxation can be a byproduct); it’s more about inner curiosity.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy was developed by Richard Schwartz and conceptualizes the human personality/psyche as being composed of distinct, yet interrelated parts. The parts are categorized as Managers, Exiles, Firefighters, and Self. They are described as the following:

• Managers are proactive protectors that attempt to stay in control to avoid feeling insecurity, rejection, and pain. They include parts such as planner, striver, caregiver, overfunctioner, judge of self and others, and hypervigilance

• Exiles hold disowned/denied, painful emotions and memories such as trauma, shame, dependency, grief, rage, fear, loneliness; they get frantic if ignored

• Firefighters are reactive protectors that attempt to repress emerging exiles through methods such as avoidance/distraction, addictions, binge eating, self-harm, dissociation, numbing

• The Self is our Wise mind, Real Self. It is the center of each person; it leads with wisdom and compassion and exudes calmness, curiosity, confidence, creativity, connectedness, courage, clarity

I utilize mindfulness and IFS with many of my therapy and executive coaching clients. One way is to have clients utilize mindfulness to nonreactively get to know their parts and the roles they are playing in their lives.

Specifically, I use is a body scan that combines progressive muscle relaxation, mindfulness, and parts check-in. I ask clients to center their focus on their bodies and invite their parts to speak to them, with particular emphasis on anxious parts/feelings. The parts should be welcomed with curiosity and compassion. All parts are trying to help us, even frantic ones. After encouraging their parts to share, clients should return to gratitude and the present moment leadership of their core Self.

By engaging in this practice regularly, we can increase our intentionality and decrease our reactivity in various aspects of our lives, including work/leadership and personal relationships.

Accretech SBS

RJCG welcomes Accretech SBS as an organizational consultation partner. Accretech SBS designs, manufactures and markets the SBS system: a simple and reliable solution for in-process dynamic balancing of precision grinding machines. Precision grinding is a necessary step for nearly every manufacturing process.

The Accretech SBS Operations Team is committed to organizational health, optimizing relational and leadership capacities. RJCG is proud to support them in their growth!

If you know of businesses that could use asssiatnce with increasing their interpersonal health and clarifying their organizational values, please connect them with us at RJCG.org. We help organizations across various industries increase leadership effectiveness, resolve interpersonal challenges, and become high-performing teams, based on a personalized, tailored approach.

Budget Blinds of Beaverton and Lake Oswego

RJCG welcomes Budget Blinds of Beaverton and Lake Oswego as an organizational consultation partner. Budget Blinds of Beaverton and Lake Oswego is a family-owned business that provides exceptional service and quality. Their owners and staff are committed to organizational health and operating in alignment with their core values!

If you know of businesses that could use asssiatnce with increasing their interpersonal health and clarifying their organizational values, please connect them with us at RJCG.org. We specialize in helping small to medium sized and family/friend owned businesses increase leadership effectiveness, resolve interpersonal challenges, and become high-performing teams.

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