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Arlene the Speaker & Presenter

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Arlene Cohen Miller, JD PCC

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Arlene is an accredited International Coaching Federation (ICF) Mentor-Coach who can help you attain your ACC or PCC credential.

As a successful client shares:

Arlene is a fantastic ICF mentor coach. Her style is a perfect blend of thoroughness, warmth, and support, creating an environment where learning and growth feel both challenging and encouraging. She is highly attentive and knowledgeable in applying the ICF competencies for performance evaluation, offering insightful feedback that is both constructive and elevating. Her guidance helped me refine my approach and enhance my coaching performance. I highly recommend Arlene to anyone looking to deepen their coaching skills and excel in their ICF journey. Thanks again for your support and guidance.

- Yannis Kontou MCC

Our Mentor-Coaching Journey

Mentor coaching is a powerful part of your journey as a coach—and it's something I’m deeply passionate about offering.

When we work together, I create a space for supportive, honest feedback and intentional reflection. My goal is to help you grow, deepen your coaching presence, and strengthen your skills over time.

Mentor coaching is a collaborative, trust-based process.

I listen to recorded coaching sessions (with a transcript) you submit to me, and offer thoughtful, constructive feedback in alignment with the ICF Core Competencies. You’ll get clear, actionable insights -- in writing and during our online sessions - designed to refine your unique coaching style.

As an accredited mentor-coach, I follow a professional framework that ensures our work is evidence-based and rooted in best practices while remembering that it's the judgment-free space of unconditional positive regard that we hold that helps our clients feel heard, understood and more confident moving forward.

Whether you’re preparing for your ACC or PCC credential, I’m here to walk alongside you every step of the way.

What's Next?

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Strategy Session

Mentor-Coaching Session

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Welcoming Letter

Welcome to Jewel Consultancy. I’m so excited that you have found us and signed up for the special gifts we have prepared for you.

Attached is your first gift!

Two breathing practices that open you to peace, balance, and hope.

Breath work is essential to feeling calm, balanced and at peace. When we know how to engage with breathing techniques that take us out of fight or flight mode and into rest and relax mode, we can accomplish what needs to be done and enjoy ourselves in the process. Life begins to flow, and we feel more empowered, confident, and self-assured.

Attached is your Breath Work PDF and Audio File. The PDF gives you background information about breath work and two breathing techniques to support you. The Audio shares more about breath work and allows you to experience breathing to relax, release, soften and let go.

You can practice these breathing techniques as you go about your day: making your bed, preparing a meal, washing the dishes, taking a shower, waiting in line, driving your car and so on. And you can find a quiet spot to simply breathe and be. It’s up to you.

Notice how you feel on a scale of 1 (very stressed) to 10 (very relaxed) before and after you experience these breathing techniques.

Please text or email me if you have any questions or comments. I’d love to hear from you.

And be on the lookout for your second gift coming in 3 or 4 days!

Warm regards, Arlene

Arlene Cohen Miller, JD PCC

720.936.2634

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https://jewelconsultancy.com/services-page/mentoring

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What Makes a Team Effective & Stellar?

What makes a team effective and stellar?

Over two years Google conducted 200+ interviews with its employees and looked at more than 250 attributes of 180+ active Google teams for the purpose of understanding team effectiveness. They wanted to replicate the attributes of their best performing teams throughout the company.

Google started their research with a bias. They thought that they would find that the perfect mix of people (i.e., the ‘magical algorithm’) would be a Rhodes Scholar, several extroverts, a PHD, and an engineer with top code writing skills.

BUT they were wrong. They found that who is on a team is not nearly as important as how team members interact, work together, and see their individual contributions.

Google found five keys that set successful teams heads and shoulders above the rest:

Psychological safety

Dependability

Structure & clarity

Meaning of work

Impact of work

Each member of the team

Feels safe to take risks, safe to be vulnerable. Gets things done on time, takes pride in their work and does their best.

Has clear roles, plans and goals, is aware of the big picture and plays their part.

Finds meaning in their work; it's personally important to them.

Believes that what they are doing matters and will make a difference.

Here's what really surprised Google was that psychological safety was by far the most important dynamic underpinning success. Feeling safe to take risks around others on the team is critical.

People feel safe to clarify a goal if they aren't sure exactly what is expected of them and others. They don't worry about sounding like an idiot because it's okay not to know something - no big deal, just ask. No one is going to think you are incompetent, unaware, or out of the loop.

That's huge. Communication can be tricky.

Be open, and don't assume you've got this covered! Sometimes we need to slow down and not talk so fast. And it's never a good idea to assume that someone understands what we are saying. We need to check in - What is their understanding? What questions or concerns are coming up for them?

It's really important to be patient and understanding. What is second nature to us can feel daunting and huge to someone else.

On the flip side, have you ever been a part of a team where there's backstabbing and secrecy. It's very stressful.

When we feel safe, we are more likely to partner with our teammates, more likely to find creative solutions, more likely to be make money in a way that feels deeply satisfying.

When we feel safe, being a part of a team feels exciting and positive, working together as dynamic, cohesive whole. Feeling safe, creating that feeling of safely, is a top-down thing. If you're at the top, you set the tone, the rules, the structure; you design the playing field.

What could you do differently? Where are there cracks or leaks or things that just aren't working?

Feeling safe if you're in the middle, that's tricky. Can you help to change a system that's negatively impacting on your integrity and health, that might be salvageable; or do you need to move on?

There's a lot to psychological safety. It's so much more than a buzz word. It's a key to creating and maintaining stellar teams.