Consulting & Assistance

Advantace partners with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their potential. Philosofree’s experience in corporate consulting provides clarity in systems thinking and innovative ways forward.

With Advantace you will be treated as the expert in your life and work.

We believe that every client is creative, resourceful and whole.

  • Discover, clarify, and align with what you want to achieve
  • Encourage self-discovery
  • Elicit client-generated solutions and strategies
  • Hold the client responsible and accountable

This process helps clients dramatically improve their outlook on work and life, while improving their leadership skills and unlocking their potential.

Advantace assists each client towards desired future outcomes, instead of concentrating on past experiences or reasons for present dissatisfaction.

Advantace understands the holistic nature of a client, offering positive strategies to create an alternative, structured positive path forward.

Advantace encourages each client to trust your inner resources and skills, respecting your agenda and future outcomes…

Change is achieved by defining specific, inspired steps that lead to fundamental shifts in attitude, behavior and habit formation.

Types of Clarity

Professional help now offers a wide variety of specialization.

Below are a series of flip boxes which you can hover over to see an overview of the typical types of service offered by Advantace.

Phil Cheney is focused on the client, and Advantace clients are typically those who are looking for clarity in moving towards ethical and appreciative holistic growth for both themselves and society.

Corporate Mindfulness

Corporate Mindfulness

Cultivating mindful habits on an individual and organizational level heightens internal and external awareness allowing for quicker response to changes and challenges. With this increased ability to be reflexive instead of reactive, decision-making is radically improved.

Inspiration & Trust

Inspiration & Trust

Leaders succeed when they guide employee commitment towards achieving business goals.
Advantace aids leaders to:
1. Sharpen their leadership and coaching skills
2. Attract and retain the talent they need to succeed
3. Foster growth
4. Provide effective feedback
5. Create learning opportunities

Transpersonal

Spiritual and holistic

Transpersonal

Spirituality involves the energy center of both the client.
The spiritual person uses their intuition to grow in meaning and self-acceptance.
They try to harness the power of spirit to encourage transformation while urging the client to be in touch with their inner self for guidance.

We focus on the inner workings of the client’s mind, body and soul, and also assist the client to live from a consciousness that embodies a complete life.

Ontological Approach

Neurolinguistic

Ontological Approach

Ontology is defined as the study of being. In our ontological approach, we work with the key aspects of how the client has structured their reality and the nature of their experience. One distinguishing characteristic of our ontologies is that they are based on an Open World Assumption (OWA) which is based on the AAA slogan or Anyone can say Anything about Any topic. Statements that are not included in an ontology are considered unknown as opposed to false.

The client’s perspective is then able to support their team environment and provide tools to develop a more constructive reality that will lead to positive changes in the client’s world.
Ontological coaching works with three areas: language, emotions and body. The coach observes how:
1. The language the client uses
2. Emotional experiences of the client
3. The way language and emotion are configured in the client’s body
The coach respectfully inquires with the client on how to shifts are able to take place in each domain, and how to construct new perspectives that open new doorways of opportunities for the client.

Team Building

Team Building

Team building is about working with the team leader and team members to establish a mission, strategies and rules of engagement with each other. We work with the team to develop goals, plans of actions and identifying and defining the role of each member to achieve the goals. Team leaders and members may be coached individually or collectively to facilitate on how to enhance team effectiveness to achieve the goals.

Executives

Executive Support

Executive support is individualized to each client. It is an experiential development process that build’s an individual’s capability to achieve short and long term organizational goals. This is accomplished through one on one interaction with the help of data compiled from many sources. There is a partnership between the coach, the executive and the organization and the aim is to achieve maximum impact. Executive support encompasses:
1. A partnership between the organization, the executive and the stake holders.
2. The goals of the executive engagement will align with the strategic organization objectives.

Wellness

Health

Wellness

Wellness focuses on areas such as fitness, nutrition, weight, stress, health and areas of life that impact an individual’s wellness.

Our clients are encouraged to change to live a life that is healthy. This includes implementing dietary improvements, changing lifestyles and implementing a fitness routine. Wellness also focus on behavioral change if that is required.

Leadership Courage

Leadership Courage

The purpose of leadership is to clarify roles, inspire, identify what the key responsibilities and deliverables in the first few months are, and to integrate the team they are leading.
We help with the development of leadership competencies, developing and communicating strategic vision and planning, driving cultural change initiatives, ambassadorship and more. This can be initiated for large-scale leadership development interventions, enhancing performance of high-potential managers while aligning organizational goals and targets with that individual.

Personal or Life Development

Personal or Life Coaching

Personal and life direction is where individuals gain clarity about their personal goals and priorities in life. It helps them to better understand their thoughts, feelings and especially the options they have available to themselves. It enables individuals to take appropriate actions to change their lives, accomplish their goals and have a more joyous and fulfilling life. It encompasses clarifying values and visions, setting goals and outlining actions towards achieving them which results in life-transforming experiences.
The client identifies and issue which requires resolving, which can range from relationship issues to tackling significant turning points in their life. The process fosters the self-directed learning and personal growth of the client.

Developmental Direction

Developmental Direction

Developmental Direction helps high-potential managers to develop key competencies. We work with the organization to develop individuals who have been identified as key resources to the organization’s future. An assessment center approach is usually used to identify the competency gap and to develop individual plans based on the assessment results. The client will improve  competencies as structured process.

What we are NOT

Advantace does not set goals for clients.  You are the sole setter of your goals.

Professional corporate consulting does not tell the client what to do, though it does hold the client accountable to their own goals.