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What does The Gardner Institute do?
What is coaching?
What are the results/benefits?
What are some possible speech and workshop subjects?
How would you best describe the coaching process that occurs in the Mindset for Success personal coaching?
What is Mindset for Success and how does it work in a corporate structure?
In what way is The Gardner Institute different?
With what type of companies does The Gardner Institute work?
What services does The Gardner Institute provide?

What does The Gardner Institute do?
The Gardner Institute is a professional coaching and coach training company located in the Dallas – Fort Worth area of Texas. We provide professional development to executives, entrepreneurs, or to any individual striving to reach a challenging personal or professional goal. Mindset for Success provides a structure for the individual and the company to use individually and as a team to improve working relationships and bring executive team functioning to a higher level, enabling the organization to face any challenge and achieve their goals. The Gardner Institute also trains professional coaches. The company’s Mindset for Success Coach Training Program is certified by the ICF for 102 Approved Coach Specific Training Hours (ACSTH).


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What is coaching?
Coaching is an ongoing professional relationship, a partnership, which helps people produce extraordinary results in their lives, careers, businesses or organizations. Through the process of coaching, clients take action to deepen their learning, improve their leadership and performance, and enhance their quality of life.


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What are the results/benefits?
The Individual • Improves leadership effectiveness and job performance • Enhances their creativity and focus • Accelerates their confidence and clarity in decision-making • Learns to identify gifts, strengths and values • Becomes aware of contributions one can make to the company, the customer and the world The Corporation • Accountability for and employee ownership of becoming ‘world class company.' • Recognition and removal of the limiting beliefs that block success in the workplace • Goals of the corporation become part of the employee's personal investment and ownership • Well-rounded executives, who understand their core strengths and can be great leaders in their businesses, and their families.


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What are some possible speech and workshop subjects?
• Mindset For Success: Wired to Win! • Productivity, Performance and Profitability • The Accountability Gap • Fostering Strong Relationships in Family-Owned Businesses • Making Good Teams Great


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How would you best describe the coaching process that occurs in the Mindset for Success personal coaching?
While traveling in Italy, Dr Gardner found a new way to explain the transformational impact of personal coaching. She experienced a true epiphany when viewing "The Captive", a sculpture by Michelangelo. In viewing this unfinished piece, she realized that the subject coming out of the stone was as all of us – struggling to get out of the block that holds us back from our greatness. Michelangelo is said to have told his students when he first saw the large piece of marble that would become the Statue of David, "I can see the angel within the stone. All I have to do, as an artist, is chip away the debris and release the angel." Dr. Gardner believes each of us have that angel inside of us, waiting to be freed, to give the world the best we have. Our coaches are trained in the Mindset for Success process to do just that; help you break through the block and bring forth your best self.


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What is Mindset for Success and how does it work in a corporate structure?
Mindset for Success is a disciplined process of personal dialogue used by people for personal accountability, emotional clarity and internal direction. Mindset for Success is a personal growth process that provides structure for someone to become the best possible version of themselves. Mindset for Success provides the dialogue that leads to becoming a better leader and team member with strong investment and ownership in the success of the company.


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In what way is The Gardner Institute different?
The Gardner Institute coaches use a particular coaching system designed by Dr. Gardner, called Mindset for Success. This personal guidance system works from the inside out. When the top executives use this system in their personal lives and in their business, goals are met. This is reflected — mirrored out, into the company as a whole.


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With what type of companies does The Gardner Institute work?
We specialize in working with family-owned and family-run companies that want to improve - move to the next level - and are willing to invest the required time, energy and focus to realize the benefits derived from experiencing Mindset for Success. The desired changes in corporate culture are attained by integrating Mindset for Success at the highest level.


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What services does The Gardner Institute provide?
• Individual Coaching • Team and Group Coaching • Family Business Coaching • Customized Workshops and Retreats


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