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DR. SHANNA TEEL Ph.D.
Shanna R. Teel is the Founder and CEO of Dr. Shanna Teel & Company, Inc., a Leadership and Human Capital Management Consulting Firm.
In Dr. Teel’s career, she has been a Partner and Executive for two organization and leadership development consulting firms. She holds a dual Ph.D. in organizational psychology and clinical psychology, coupled with over 14 years as a talent and performance management consultant, executive coach, and facilitator of adult learning. She specializes in the areas of executive and leadership development, executive and management coaching, career development, strategic planning, conflict management, diversity training, team building, group dynamics, communication skill development, negotiation, mediation, and business development.
Skills include:
- Executive Coaching and Development
- Performance Management System Design and Implementation
- Leadership Development
- Team Development
- Performance Management
- Talent Management and Succession Planning
- Strategic Planning
- Negotiation & Mediation
- Diversity and Inclusion
Dr. Teel has provided organization development consulting, team development, and individual coaching for executives and managers in the following organizations: Citigroup; Kodak; Nokia; Fugihunt, USA; Deloitte & Touche; TA Instruments; Eiasi Pharmaceuticals; McDonald’s; St. Luke’s Health Network; Interwoven; ARM; Victoria’s Secret; Barclays Global Investors; Devon Energy; Vitas Hospice; The Braille Institute; University of Oklahoma; Oklahoma Heart Hospital; University of California San Diego Hospital.
Other experience includes:
- Partner and Executive Vice President, Executive Development Associates, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Vice President and Senior Consultant for Jones & Associates Consulting in San Diego, California.
- Senior Consultant for The Organizational Consulting Center at California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego, California.
- Board of Directors for Exceptional Children’s Network in Los Angeles, California.
- Therapist and Coach for Complete Family Services in Los Angeles, California.
- Therapist for Harmonium, Inc. and Vitas Hospice in San Diego, California.
- Merchant and Business Services Associate & Manager for Wells Fargo Bank in Bakersfield, California.
Education:
- Dual Ph.D. in Industrial Organizational Psychology and Clinical Psychology From Alliant International University (Formerly California School of Professional Psychology)
- Masters of Arts in Clinical Psychology From Alliant Int ernational University
- Bachelors of Science in Psychology From California State University Bakersfield with a Minor in Spanish
- Study Abroad Program, Madrid, Spain, with University of California San Diego
Certifications & Qualifications:
- Executive Coach- Executive College of Coaching
- Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI)
- Wonderlic Cognitive Ability Test
- Communication Skills Profile
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®, MBTI® (personality assessment)
California Psychological Inventory™
FIRO-B™ (behavior assessment)
Customized 360-Degree Feedback Assessment Associations:
International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI)
Organizational Development Network (OD Net) Executive College of Coaching (ECC)
Shanna R. Teel, Ph.D.
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FEATURED OCTOBER 2008 GUEST: DR. Shanna Teel Ph.D.
"Making Conscious Choices and Practicing Self Awareness"
"Not in his goals, but in his transitions man is great".
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I am very excited to be a contributor to Mt. Everest Mind Camp. Stephanie Graham’s mission of bringing together like minded, soulful people from different backgrounds to one website is an honorable and exciting mission that I am proud to be a part of. I am also honored to be a guest on this site along with the accomplished athletes, speakers, and professionals featured here, so a virtual thank you to all involved."
As a management consultant, executive coach and speaker I am in a privileged position of helping individuals create more productive, healthy and meaningful work environments for themselves and others. Although each individual, team or organization I work with brings their unique set of challenges and accomplishments, I have noticed some similar themes emerge. This month I would like to share with you the theme of “Making Conscious Choices and Practicing Self Awareness” and how the small daily choices we make influences the quality of our lives.
The idea of Choices and Decision Making has been written about and theorized by many before me and, yet I feel compelled to discuss this idea again. We make thousands of decisions a day and many decisions we make occur in milliseconds. From the moment we wake our brain gets busy on making choices. We choose to hit snooze; we choose what food to eat and what morning beverage to drink; we choose our clothing for the day; we choose which way to drive to work; we choose to exercise or not; we choose to push ourselves through a tough deadline; we choose how to react to the stresses throughout the day; we choose how we will feel after the stresses and challenges of the day creep up on us; and we choose how to react when we make a mistake and the mistake is discovered. I could continue, but you get the point. Although we make a tremendous amount of choices each day, we often lose sight of the fact that with each choice we have an opportunity to create a conscious choice.
Conscious choices result in more productive outcomes and personal accountability. A conscious choice is simply a thoughtful choice or decision where we are prepared to accept full accountability for the outcome(s). We have a tendency to forget that some of things we do and their respective outcomes are the result of our choices, mostly because we were not conscious when we made them! For example, it is easy to accept that I chose to hit the snooze button therefore I was late for work. It becomes increasingly more difficult to accept that when I am having a bad day and I am in a terrible mood, that this bad mood is a choice…that I have chosen to be in a bad mood.
How often do you remind yourself that your mood is a choice?
How often do you remind yourself that your reactions are a choice?
Importantly, the choices about our feelings and responses to life’s’ events help determine the quality of our lives. To make a choice to be stressed-out after you get in a car wreck, might be forgiven by others, yet it is this type of choice that determines the quality of the rest your day. To make a choice to be in a bad mood because your boss yelled at you, this is a choice. The point here is that every life situation requires you to choose your response and it is your response that will determine how your day turns out. At the end of the day if you say, “Boy, I’ve had a lousy day” keep in mind you made it lousy. But at the end of the day, if you say,“that was a great day”---you made it a great a day, you chose to make it a great day. Remind yourself on a regular basis that you have a choice about your reaction. You may not have chosen an event or the outcome, but you have the power to choose your reaction.
Your small daily choices determine the quality of your life.
At times I have wished to find the ONE secret recipe for creating a successful, meaningful, productive life. Although I have not found one recipe, I have discovered two very special ingredients to aid in my quest to create a successful, meaningful, productive life. These two powerful ingredients (aka, actions) include: Choices and Self Awareness. See Figure 1.
In addition to making good choices for yourself and being in control of consciously creating your choices, how often do you sit and reflect on the choices you’ve made and their outcomes? John Maxwell, a leadership development author and speaker, states that, “development happens daily.” Although he refers to this in the context of leaders developing themselves, I believe it is relevant to humans developing themselves.
Are you consciously developing yourself every day?
The average population will typically answer ‘No’ to this question. Below are two simple exercises to help you20focus on your development each day. The exercises below (Exercises A – C) should take no longer than 5 minutes each. I would recommend getting a journal and keeping track of your learning and development.
To combine the powers of consciously creating your choices and bringing more self-awareness into your life allows you to create a more meaningful, productive and peaceful life for yourself and others.
Good Luck and Happy Consciousness!
Exercise A:
In your Learning Journal, take a few minutes to reflect on the following at the end of your day:
1. What choices did I make today that contributed to the quality of my life?
2. What choices did I make today that distracted from the quality of my life?
Exercise B:
Reflect on today’s events/situations. Pick an event that did not have the outcome you desire. Take 5 minutes to reflect and write your responses to these questions in your learning journal.
1. What role did I play in this event or situation?
2. What did I do that was effective, productive or constructive?
3. What did I do that was ineffective, unproductive or destructive?
4. What have I learned?
5. What will I do differently next time?
Exercise C:
Reflect on t oday’s events and situations. Pick an event that had a desirable outcome. Take 5 minutes to reflect and write your responses to these questions in your learning journal.
1. What role did I play in this event or situation?
2. What did I do that was effective, productive or constructive?
3. What did I do that was ineffective, unproductive or destructive?
4. What have I learned?
5. What will I do differently next time?
Daily Choices + Self-Awareness = Quality of Life ²
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