Deone Benninghoven

MSM, CPC

Free

Leadership Consultant, Coach, Speaker, and Author Expert

Deone Benninghoven Quick Facts

Main Areas: Coach, Consultant, Author, Speaker
Career Focus: Coach, Consultant, Author, Speaker
Affiliation: Pacific Coaches Network, International Coaches Federation, OD Network, ASTD, Fortune 100 Coaches Network, I-O Practioners Network, Toastmasters

"Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.” (Collier).

Using a pragmatic approach to business and life, Deone Benninghoven, MSM is known as The Be-Clear Gal. She is a sought after coach, speaker, consultant, and author that facilitates the performance development of individuals, teams, and organizations using a strength-based and systemic approach. Her clients consistently indicate that Benninghoven's approach to change management is practical, useful, and sustainable. Individuals, and groups such as Microsoft, Accenture, Symbol Technologies, sovereign nations, local and regional municipalities, leave her Be-Clear keynotes with academically-sound and evidence-based information shared in a fun and easy-to-understand and apply format.

Benninghoven holds a BS and MSM from Antioch University Seattle in Organizational Design & Leadership Development and Management and lives in Seattle, WA. Believing that one step at a time the sculpture, dance, and song of life emerges, she is involved in multiple coaching and organizational-development associations, Toastmasters, the Seattle Writer's Guild, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, City of Seattle Youth Services, and sports, art, dance, and singing groups.

"Be clear on who you are and then be it" (Be True, Be Happy, Hanns-Oskar Porr).

Articles by this expert

SelfGrowth articles and saved writing connected to this expert.

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To Comprehend and Lea

What drives human behavior? There are a few schools of thought about what makes humans tick. I use Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Behavior to better understand why we humans do what we do, which includes five elements with multiple aspects in each element: physical survival, safety & security, belonging, self-esteem, and self-actualization.

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Motivation: The Heart of Peak Performance

There are a myriad of reasons that people change. Pain, joy, and hope are a few reasons. Debts, a friend's tragic story or a great movie, etc., are a few more. These reasons may inspire us to take action. Yet, whatever our reasons to change, how we perceive information relates to our belief in ourselves, and, ultimately, how successful we become.

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Be Motivated

Let's be clear. I have some serious 'tude this week! What follows is a channeling of my inner Andy Rooney. It's well and good to offer suggestions. Yet, a growing group of self-help profiteers do that and more. They claim to actually inspire and motivate as they collect their fees, sign books, and sell even more programs and products. I don't know about you, but how can they know what will or will not inspire and motivate me? Are they mind readers too?

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Effectively Managing Change

Effectively managing change, in all of its various forms, is like working on our roots. Put differently, instead of being whipped about by change, we can use change to develop our minds and hearts. How? Well, through the process of change. That is to say that we can nourish, strengthen, and improve our mental clarity, and, therein, our creativity, wellness, collaboration, performance, happiness, and, yes, success as the seasons of change swirl around us. Thereby nurturing our roots for an abundant harvest year after year.

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Regrouping Financially

I was raised by Grandparents who went through the Great-US Depression in the 1930s. So, I have a unique perspective about finances among my peers. Let me just say it. Getting a rein on our budgets is about common sense, effective stress management, as well as longer-term happiness and wellness.

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What We Don't Say Says

Have you ever observed a conversation from a distance and guessed what was happening from the body posture and gestures of the participants? A childhood friend of mine and I did that for fun. Oh the stories that we'd create. Today I still do it and I could write volumes about this topic: reading faces, socializing, body language, and technology responses. Taking a quick look into what we don't say says is like pulling back the veil on effective communication. Often, there's a bit more going on behind a smiling face than a smiling face.

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Effective Communication

Effective communication is something that I study extensively as I suspect that how we speak and listen to one another makes or breaks our interactions. What I discovered is this. While we humans may not consistently verbalize or say what we mean, we humans seem to have communication patterns and desires. After taking American Sign Language, a herd of writing and communication-design courses, and supporting thousands of clients with behavior modification and mediation (conflict resolution), I finally feel ready to publish my observations about this as a list.

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Adapting To And Reinforcing Change

"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times" (Aeschylus). How can we stick with a preferred outcome the first day, week, month, and on into a year and beyond? While making a change can feel daunting, change can be approached simply. My personal & professional observation about successfully maintaining healthier choices and/or successful outcomes is this. Doing so means comprehending, learning, experiencing, and adapting to a preferred outcome or change before launching into will power.

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Experiencing Success

"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life" (Sandra Carey). So how did I release 6 sizes and about 90 plus pounds in 1.5 years? As difficult as it is for me to make myself this vulnerable, I decided to use this opportunity and share that experience. Literally, I move toward my preferred outcome one choice at a time. What do I mean?

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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Deone Benninghoven

"Satisfaction is characterized by inner peace. It arises from generosity, honesty and what I call ethical conduct, a way of behaving that respects others’ right to be happy" (extracted on 16 July 2010 from HH The Dalai Lama's Facebook wall at http://www.facebook.com/).

Coaching, what is it?

Definition
ICF (http://www.coachfederation.org/) certified coaching is based on the idea that metacognition – or being aware of one’s own thinking processes – fosters independence in learning. By providing personal insights into the learner’s own thinking processes, action-oriented cognitive coaching further encourages flexiblability, confidence, self-efficacy, and pride as meta-cognition expands.

Basic Elements
Action-oriented coaching involves the modeling of self-appraisal and the self-management of cognition by a facilitator. It also involves learner performance and reflection, internalizing, and generalizing.

Dialogue, both on the part of coach and client, is another prominent aspect of coaching. For example, in the scaffolded instruction technique, teachers and students take turns leading dialogues about texts, asking each other to predict, question, clarify, summarize, and self-appraise (Sections extracted from http://www.funderstanding.com/content/cognitive-coaching on 13 August, 2009).

Contacting Deone Benninghoven

info@beclearsuccess.com

How to get started

I'm all about what works! While I won’t do the work for you, I will facilitate you to quickly assess and identify the issue and what barriers are keeping you, your organization, and/or project from being where you want to be. I will support you and your organization in weighing your options and developing realistic next steps so that you have a clear plan to work with. You can be heard and fully listened to! You can be supported and called to action. You can be in a place of expanded possibilities and options to help you make the change that you want to make and/or effectively navigate the change(s) that you are in.

My practice and programs are managed and supervised by an advisory board of professionals with advanced degrees in behavioral science, psychology, nutrition, and business management.So, our program is built on a foundation of evidence-based and contextual model of coaching: systems and complexity theory, adult development theory, cognitive, psychoanalytically-informed, and Action-Oriented coaching, positive psychology, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Open-Space Technology, Appreciative Inquiry, and Smith & Berg Group Facilitation.

Specialties

Performance Development
• Balanced Vision Setting and Attainment
• Sustainable Career and Business Success
• Performance Development
• Behavior Change (smoke/dip cessation, weight management, etc.)
• Change Management (individuals, groups, organizations, municipalities, and governments)

74.7% of my clients maintain their behavior development and support goals for one year or more.

Introductory Offer

*The first 30 minute intake and assessment session is free!

*After the 30+ minute session, you may send a follow-up email detailing any dangling thoughts that I will respond to for free.

*I offer ad hoc and retainer-based fee structures: averaging from $40-55.00 per 1/2 hr by email, phone, and IM chat. Please feel free to contact me for further information.

My Hours
By appointment

I offer assistance in an ethical, confidential, and non-judgmental environment. Please note, however, that I cannot guarantee confidentiality using the internet. Also, if you are thinking of harming yourself or someone else, please instead call emergency assistance in your area immediately.