Strong leadership is the magic that makes companies successful. It is something far more comprehensive than simply delegating from the top down and making demands on people junior to you in the food chain. And while good leadership principles apply from the copy room to the Board Room, senior leaders especially serves as beacons, as role models for your corporate culture, and as stewards of your company's core values. Leadership is a learned skill, not a genetic predisposition. True leaders know certain basic truths that make them outpace others. They know such important truths as:

Strong leaders:

• Praise in public and chastise private
• Listen with an open mind before speaking with an open mouth
• Acknowledge good work and extra effort with genuine praise
• Applaud open and truthful communication even if it's not what you want to hear
• Promote teamwork and team spirit
• Make life better, not needlessly harder, for their staff

Weak leaders:

• Make demands without explaining the spirit or broader reasons behind them
• Lead in the negative. Don't do this, don't do that. They are "be nos." There will be no tardiness; there will be no this and be no that. They stress the negative and ignore the positive.
• Destroy loyalty and dedication by failing to understand the struggles and motivation of people that work for them
• Horde knowledge and withhold praise

In Sama's coaching programs, we leverage our individual and team coaching expertise to emphasize the strengths of your leaders and identify gaps that hinder success. We role play, we develop scenarios that are on point for your company, and we help you develop specific leadership tools that earn you the respect and dedication instead of the fear and resignation of your staff. We know what works and what doesn't; we know why it works; and we give you the tools to become more effective in your job.

Life has stress, and that's a good thing. Without it, personal growth is stunted, corporate energy turns into malaise, and we fail to become our best selves. It is not something to eradicate from our existence, it is something to manage wisely and use to our best advantage. And that's what we address in our stress management coaching programs.

Stress can be paralyzing. It can stop creativity in its tracks; it can cause you to lose your top performers; and it results in millions of lost work days every year. You ignore it at great risk to your own wellbeing and your corporate health. At Sama, we help you understand the nature of stress, how to recognize its origins, and most importantly, to develop powerful tools to deal with it. Our program offers benefits that last a lifetime and help build careers, not cause them to collapse because you don't understand how to deal with it effectively.

As businesses look for ways to minimize the exodus of their best people; as they seek to improve performance at every level; and as they strive to increase job satisfaction and pride of workmanship, more and more companies are learning the importance of stress management to their own corporate health. What do you learn during a stress management coaching program? You learn to:

• Manage stress, not lash out at it
• Identify situations that cause stress and learn techniques to control it
• Turn wasted energy and time spent brooding into productive work
• Recognize the warning signals for stress and face them with competence
• Find a balance that lets you make reasoned decisions, not hasty or reactive ones
• Be healthier as a person and as a company

Study after study illustrate that much of the stress in the workplace is destructive. It impedes fair and honest communication; it diminishes creativity; it misdirects the proper focus for your staff; and at its worst, it is crippling.

Stress exists at every level of your organization, and every employee stands to gain by understanding what it is, where it comes from, how to recognize it, and how to deal with it. We customize our coaching sessions for small groups of senior managers or for large assemblies of people across all levels of your company. We role play; we develop stressful scenarios; we interact with your staff individually and as a group; we demonstrate techniques that will work for you time and time again; and we have fun. The feedback is universally positive. People like the program; they take to heart lessons that stand them in good stead for a lifetime; and they become better, healthier, more enthusiastic employees.