Leaders and managers need to ask themselves, "Am Iworking in the business or on the business?” Coaching gives that necessary time out to focus on how best to address both of these important issues.

Coaching is typically chosen to help leaders and managers meet a challenge or build on a strength. We can help a manager with a team or organizational challenge with the confidentiality of private coaching sessions in contrast to a very public workshop or team-based consultation.

The coaching format is typically used to help a supervisor or manager meet a challenge or build on a strength. We can help a manager with a team or organizational challenge with the confidentiality of private coaching sessions in contrast to a very public workshop or team-based consultation.

Coaching FAQ's:

Many well known corporations invest in executive coaching programs to increase their competitive business advantage through providing this service to their managers and senior executives.

Some examples of companies who use executive coaching are General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Gap, HP, Sun Microsystems, Cisco, IBM, Oracle, Federal Reserve Bank, and Disney.

What are the benefits?

Some of the benefits you may experience from coaching include:

Clarifying your work goals & developing a concrete strategy
to achieve them

Reducing unintended results particularly with communication and management styles

Eliminating blocks to your success

Maximizing your strengths and abilities

What do I have to do? What is my role?

Agree to a collaborative partnership where you decide what areas you want to work on.

Have a readiness to receive feedback and an openness to explore possibilities.

Our approach is not to fix you or put you through charm school. We do not provide you with the “right answer” but rather work with you to come up with the solutions that fit your unique needs.

What do we talk about in the sessions?

You choose the areas you want to work on. Ideas may come from your multi-source feedback or other sources. Areas covered in executive coaching sessions typically range from issues directly linked to achieving the organization's vision to more finely honing key people skills and aspects of management.

Sessions are 100% confidential-you decide what you want to share with whom.

How do I know if you are the right executive coach?

Executive Coaching is a relationship. Therefore, it is important to work with a coach who is not only experienced and educated in the right areas, but also someone you can connect with. We offer a complimentary coaching session to help you determine this. We use this time to help you experience the process and benefits of executive coaching. We trust your judgment in knowing if the match is right.

What are the steps? What is the process? How many sessions?

Executive coaching becomes strategic in the preparation that precedes the actual coaching process. Before the process begins, the coach gains an understanding of the strategic context.

This involves addressing a number of critical questions:

What are the key business challenges facing the organization?

What business goals are you trying to achieve?

What core values best define a common framework for how business results are achieved in your organization?

What leadership skills, knowledge, and abilities have been critical for success in your organization in the past? What is required in the future?
How does your organization determine whether you have the leadership bench strength to compete effectively in the future?

What is your organization's strategy for developing future leaders? How do you evaluate the success of your approach?

Does your organization have proven methods to attract, develop, and retain required talent?

Once the strategic context has been mapped out, the actual executive coaching process can begin.

From the point of view of the executives being coached, this is the personal component of the coaching process, where their own particular strengths and development needs are benchmarked against the leadership attributes needed to achieve the strategic goals of the business.

The executive coaching process would usually consists of:

Groundwork: Agree on Coaching Goals, Plan, Process & Relationship
Coaching Sessions: Your Goals, Current Reality, Opportunities, & Action Plan
Follow up.

There are typically 6-12 sessions over 4-6 months but it depends on your specific needs.