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REDDjobb: A North Carolina-based communications and training organization established in 2012 by Glenn Proctor, Certified Professional Coach, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, retired newspaper editor, mental health advocate and instructor and Marine Corps gunnery sergeant/Vietnam Veteran.
Our Mission: To provide a menu of strategic communications services, leadership training, confidential coaching and creative writing workshops for all ages and experience levels and events for authors to showcase their work.
What Is Coaching? Coaching is a professional service and an investment. A good relationship is priceless. Good coaches look for measurable results. Coaching is a two-sided commitment. Coaches ask hard questions, but the are not psychologists or psychiatrists. Coaches help design change plans and hold client-partners accountable. Defensive people can't be coached. Coaches provide uncomfortable feedback. Listening is learning. Letting go is change. Understanding change is progress. Friends, partners, spouses and co-workers may be too close to situations and not provide essential information for motivation and change.
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About Glenn Proctor
Glenn Proctor brings a life of raw and relevant experience to writing, coaching and training.
Foster care, alcoholism, prostate cancer, multiple divorces, current 25-year marriage, single parenting, Vietnam veteran, walk-on reporter with no high school or college journalism training to become vice president/news and executive editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Pulitzer Prize winner, five-time Pulitzer Prize judge, journalism/media management professor and mentor to hundreds of journalists, career professionals, veterans and students for more than 30 years.
A creative writing instructor at a private school for learning disabled students, he operates 6-month writing bootcamps for adults, many whom are working on their first book manuscripts. As an entrepreneur, he works with crisis communications professionals, entrepreneurs, senior managers and has coaching and communications services clients nationwide.
In recent years, Glenn became a Mental Health America volunteer and is a certified instructor for Youth Mental Health First Aid and QPR (suicide prevention) and is a North Carolina Peer Support Specialist. As a journalist and author, he has written extensively about suicide, heard the shot as his grandfather took his life and works with groups and individuals who seek help or are in crisis.
Testimonials
With a no-holds barred, no-nonsense approach, Glenn tells it like it is with insight and humor. All of these things make him an ideal executive coach, trainer and mentor.
Kristi D. Plain – Farmington Hills, MI
Executive Vice President/HR, Brasscraft Manufacturing Company, Novi, MI; Vice President, Board of Directors, Spaulding for Children
He is a brilliant journalist, an inspiring leader, and a wise career coach. I am grateful for his wisdom and vision.”
Roberta Oster
Communications Director, Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy Richmond, VA
I enjoyed it. I thought using a few speakers for different panels and keeping things moving was great. Folks naturally exchanged cards, but you might want to encourage it. The other thing that happened naturally was that women moved around the room and talked to different folks, so the introduction at the beginning probably helped us identify folks we wanted to speak with at some length.”
Jackie Jones
Jones Coaching LLC, Washington, DC
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How to Thank a Non-Profit this Thanksgiving
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