CDR Coaches' Certification Workshop New Dates: Tulsa, December 3 & 4

Consider what these esteemed executive coaches have to say about the CDR 3-D Suite as the coaching tool of choice:

“The CDR 3D Suite is my favorite "deep dive" leadership style assessment for the leaders I coach.  It's my go-to assessment when clients are open for me to choose.  The reasons are twofold:  I genuinely like and trust the data and I genuinely like and trust the CDR folks. Nancy and her team have always been available to me and my clients, from their ability to interpret confusing results to assisting me with benchmarking a client's strengths and abilities against job profiles from their databank.  They're extremely professional and a delight to work with.”

--Patricia Wheeler, Ph.D. 
Executive Coach, The Levin Group

“After trying all of the best known executive development tools and training process/interventions currently available, the CDR 3-D Suite is the best way to fast forward leadership development.”

--Donna Dennis, Ph.D., Vice President,

Leadership & Development Global (former, now an independent executive coach), 

Medical Device Manufacturer

“I find the CDR suite to be a powerful reflective tool for building self awareness in physician leaders. Individual leader's insights gained through the assessment and subsequent coaching are lasting, transformative and rejuvenating. Use with teams opens eyes, hearts and a greater sense of possibility especially when faulty perceptions and assumptions have created lethargy and cynicism.”

--Val Ulstad M.D.- Cascade Partners

“The CDR three dimensional assessment tool is an invaluable resource to developing your leaders and your business. It is a tool that will support you in everything from recruitment and selection, leadership development, to team building. As a consultant/coach I have found it to be a great diagnostic tool as well as a fundamental resource to performance management when working with individual leaders and in creating and managing high performance work teams. It is significantly more detailed than other tools of its kind and provides an integrated perspective on the individual and the system they must learn to survive in.”                                                                                                                                    

--Barbara Mintzer-McMahon, Executive Coach and
 President: The Center for Transitional Management

"I am hugely impressed with the output of the assessments. I have been a research psychologist, executive and consultant for the past 30 years and can honestly say that this is the most thought-provoking and insightful psychometric feedback that I've ever had. I was especially impressed by the ability of the CDR Risk Assessment to intensify fairly subtle situation issues... these are breakthrough products."

--Neville Osrin, Psychologist & Executive Coach, United Kingdom

For details about the upcoming CDR Certification Workshop, please email:  cdrinfo@cdrassessmentgroup.com or call 918.488.0722.   Join us to enhance your coaching toolbox, client value and coaching opportunities!  

2013 CDR Coaches' Certification Workshop Dates -- Philadelphia, Houston & Tulsa

Hot Off the Press at PRWeb...

Leadership Gender "Risk" Differences Revealed

Women's E-News reported on CDR Assessment Group's findings that the key differences between men and women leaders can be found in their inherent risk factors. Women leaders tended to be "Worriers" while males tended to be "Egotists, Upstagers, and Rule Breakers."

Don't miss the press release:  http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/8/prweb11053871.htm 

Parsons' Article on Female Executives 'Worrying Too Much" Featured in Women's E-News!

TODAY'S FEATURE

Good News: Female Executives Are Worrying Too Much

By Nancy E. Parsons

WeNews commentator

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Personality risk factors, such as worrying and retreating under stress, can undermine an otherwise strong female manager or executive. Fortunately, there are ways to curb this and help women enjoy their proven strengths.

(WOMENSENEWS)--While the glass ceiling is real and its consequences for women severe, its root cause has been elusive.

A recent study by our firm CDR Assessment Group, where I serve as president, sheds light on the huge role of personality risk factors for leadership advancement.

Most illuminating and new is that many female leaders are "worriers," a self-defeating risk factor. They lose visibility and hurt their credibility by not standing their ground and by overanalyzing.

But these findings are actually good news. Now that we have measured and can clearly pinpoint what is holding women back, we can begin implementing developmental strategies and solutions that work.

Executives should learn what personality risk factors women in their organizations have and, if they are worriers, to be partners in helping them learn more productive ways to deal with conflict and stress.  

READ MORE >>>  go to:  http://womensenews.org/story/uncovering-gender/130819/good-news-female-executives-are-worrying-too-much (for the complete article, white paper & research available too.)

Client Email Makes Our Day!

From:

Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 2:28 PM
To:
Subject: Recommendation: CDR Assessment Group

Hi All:

I hope that you are doing well.  I am sending along some information about CDR Assessment Group, a top notch consulting firm specializing in training, development, leadership coaching and integration( and more).  I know firsthand that CDR’s proprietary assessment tool is AMAZING.  I had the assessment done and it blew me away in its accuracy and perceptiveness - at even the most micro levels.  The session to discuss my assessment was extremely meaningful and valuable.  

There is a lot of flexibility around what they can do to respond to an organization’s unique goals and challenges.  In short, I highly recommend CDR. 

Thanks for your time.

Deputy Managing Director of Organizational Development &
Talent Management 

City of Philadelphia

Executive Coaching Group, Alexcel, Selects CDR President as Member

The Alexcel Group, an elite group of world class executive coaches has selected Nancy Parsons, President of CDR Assessment Group, Inc. as member.

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Nancy is a phenomenal strategic partner with incredible knowledge and expertise.

Tulsa, Oklahoma (PRWEB) July 24, 2013

Nancy Parsons, President of CDR Assessment Group, Inc. was recently selected as a member of The Alexcel Group, an elite international alliance of highly experienced consultants and executive coaches. “Only those executive consultants who have a proven track record of achieving results for clients and who meet Alexcel’s stringent professional standards are invited to join our alliance. Our members are world class leaders in executive development, team building and organizational development. We help you achieve sustainable success through leadership excellence. Executive coaches and consultants of our international alliance are located in Europe, Asia, and throughout the US,” according to the group’s website.

Simon Vetter, President of Stand Out and Acting Director of Alexcel Group noted that, “Nancy brings exceptional industry expertise along with the power of CDR’s tool, CDR 3-D suite. She embodies the three pillars that Alexcel Group’s 34 members rely upon among each other to deliver the highest caliber of service– building community, sharing knowledge, and collaboration. Our team can leverage Nancy and CDR’s tremendous value to become an even greater resource for our clients.”

California based Executive Coach, Leadership Expert and Owner of the Center for Transitional ManagementBarbara McMahan sponsored Nancy’s consideration with the Alexcel Group. According to Barbara, “Nancy’s candidacy for Alexcel was ideal given that the group centers around the importance of strategic partnering with the right people. Nancy is a phenomenal strategic partner with incredible knowledge and expertise. She is a consummate team player and incredible systems thinker, understanding how individuals and teams interact and guiding them on where they need to go.”

Nancy Parsons has served as the president of CDR Assessment Group, Inc. for more than 15 years. The firm’s key service is executive coaching and leadership development using their proprietary assessment tools. In fact, to further their mission, CDR trains and certifies executive coaches to use their assessments to coach leaders of their global clients. CDR certified independent coaches also use CDR’s instruments with their own clients as well. Nancy is an expert in leadership development, executive coaching, talent management, human resources, and assessments (personality, motivational and performance.) She is also a member of EWF International (an executive women’s peer group forum) and on the Executive Committee of Mid-America Government Contractors – MAGIC.

Parsons and CDR are excited and honored with this prestigious membership. The company will leverage these connections to continue to provide the highest caliber of leadership development and training.

For more, go to:  www.cdrassessmentgroup.com  or to the press release at:  http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/7/prweb10957126.htm 

Book Review: "Stand Out! Branding Strategies for Business Professionals" by Simon Vetter

"A personal brand is the Essence of YOU, as recognized by others." 

Simon Vetter

I found “Stand Out” by Simon Vetter to be an exceptionally helpful book.  In fact, I found it so useful that I bought it for other members of my team at CDR Assessment Group.  I highly recommend that professionals, consultants, and business owners who struggle with personal branding read this book.  The personal stories, experiences and suggestions from consultants and entrepreneurs such as Marshall Goldsmith, Beverly Kaye, and Jim Kouzes were relevant and practical.  The “Simon Says” tips were also spot on for me.  Branding is something that has been elusive and somewhat uncomfortable for me over the years and Stand Out helped me change my perspective, comfort level, and understanding.

 "We have a choice:  we can either leave the brand-building process to chance, hoping that people will understand the message we express, or we can take charge and consciously craft the message we want to send. Either we choose to develop our own brand, or our brand is developed for us." Stand Out (pg. 33)

I have known Simon Vetter professionally as an executive coach and leadership development expert for over eight years and I am just sorry I did not read Stand Out sooner.  Frankly, I expected it to be quite good, but I did not expect what I got out of it.  This book shifted my mindset, paradigm and my understanding of what personal/professional branding really is.  Since reading Stand Out I have made tremendous progress on professional branding without feeling uneasy.  I would guess that a good number of business owners and consultants lack natural “branding” skills as was my case.   If you are one who finds this essential aspect of your business tough or nebulous, I strongly encourage you to read Stand Out without delay.    

Review Written by:  Nancy Parsons, President, CDR Assessment Group, Inc.

To order and learn more about Simon's services go to:
www.simonvetter.com