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What is jepsentcc?

jepsen is a Seattle-based company focused on enhancing the way you live and work, by helping you understand who you are, what holds you back, and what inspires you. Our passion is the ever-changing field of human development. We know you are creative and resourceful and we invite you to show up that way.  We [...]

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Why Coaching

How does coaching impact individual and corporate performance? Coaches cultivate curiosity, creativity, and consciousness by tapping into the natural learner inside each of us, who grew by experimenting, exploring and adapting. What makes this important? Because we live in a world that grows increasingly complex, changes more rapidly than ever and spews a non-stop flow [...]

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Communication Series – Weak Phrasing

“People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is! Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style.” -  G. W. E. Russell Every person has an instinctive communication style.  I believe strongly that people are most effective when they develop and [...]

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Communication Series – Listening

“Man’s inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.” -   Carl Rogers Active Listening  How well you listen has a tremendous impact on your ability to communicate effectively.  Although it is easy to understand the mechanics of listening, it is difficult to follow through with the tactics that improve the skill.  This can be frustrating.  We sit down [...]

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Personal & Professional Development Series – What are you choosing?

“We have a finite amount of time. Whether it’s short or long doesn’t really matter. Life is to be lived. And I have never met anyone who was pitying themselves or pitying others who was making the best and highest use of anybody’s time.” —- Dr. Randy Pausch Making Choices:   Many people come to coaching [...]

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Personal & Professional Development Series – Limiting Beliefs

    “Inventions rarely come from people within an industry, but, instead come from people on the outside who aren’t under the same limiting beliefs and habitual thinking that forms within any organization or industry.”    Dr. James Asher One of the first questions my coaching clients hear is, “How might that be a limiting belief?”  [...]

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Communication Series – Giving Feedback

I have many clients come to coaching looking for better ways to communicate up and down the management chain. One question I hear often is, “How do I give feedback?” The first thing to remember with both positive and negative feedback is the following: catch someone in the act. The sooner you can give feedback [...]

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