APPROACH
APPROACH
Since 2003, Nevins Consulting has supported leaders in accelerating the development and effectiveness of their people, teams, and organizations. Our clients say that what they most value from us, beyond our commitment to great results, is that we take the time, from the beginning, to understand their needs, their particular context, and their ambitions.
At Nevins Consulting, we consistently find ourselves guided by a handful of beliefs, values, and passions:
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We appreciate that no two companies or situations are alike, and therefore we don’t offer “off-the-shelf” products or solutions. Rather, we collaborate with our clients to develop creative solutions and programs that exactly meet their needs.
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We suspect there is more art to leadership than most people realize. Effective leadership is based in insight, practice, dialogue, and the desire to be a better leader.
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We believe that “soft skills” such as persuading, influencing, building consensus, and fostering dialogue are indispensable when it comes to engaging people, motivating them, and holding them accountable. Often, “the soft stuff is the hard stuff.”
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We know our clients’ emotions and intuitions are just as important as their intellect when it comes to making changes and being better executives.
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We believe that “doing” and experiential learning are keys to improving performance and changing behavior.
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We feel that management fads can be counterproductive, and that “cookbook” approaches to leadership don’t work everywhere.
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We accept complexity, conflict, and risk as natural parts of life, both within and outside business. We understand that any solution must address potential negatives in order to achieve results.
COPIE HARRIS
Copie is an expert interpersonal communication skills coach. She works with organizations to improve the ways in which with they communicate, internally and externally, one-on-one and in groups. Copie’s approach uses video, peer, and instructor feedback to help her clients to become aware and in control of how they come across. Her expertise lies in identifying communications challenges and offering skills and strategies. She also puts people at ease, so that they’re open to trying new approaches.
Copie’s principal areas of expertise include:
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Presenting in person, on the phone, or via video – Working with all levels of an organization to help people identify, hone and deliver their message, using PowerPoint materials if relevant. Focusing on the verbal and non-verbal skills necessary to be an authentic, natural and powerful presenter.
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Winning Business – Helping teams work together to uncover their prospective clients’ needs and goals, and then to ask for the business.
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Writing better emails – Training professionals to write emails that get read by their recipients
Copie’s past and current clients are CEOs, COOs and CFOs; portfolio managers, analysts, wholesalers and distribution specialists; mathematicians, engineers, scientists, consultants; and professors and administrators at universities such as Columbia, Yale and UMass/Amherst. Copie has also worked with several non-profit organizations. A partial client list includes K2 Advisors (part of Franklin Templeton), QS Investors (part of Legg Mason), Berkshire Residential Investments, and Royal Bank of Canada Global Asset Management.
Copie holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Cambridge College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.