Relevance & Convenience.

• YOU design the learning experience to suit your needs and schedule. In most cases, you do not have to leave your office: coaching is done over the phone.
• No exams or weeks away from home and work.
• Case studies, homework and practice scenarios are drawn from and applied to your real life and work experiences.
• All coaching is confidential and personalized. You decide what information to share with others, if any.
• You cannot fail at coaching, and it can be enjoyable.

Coaching is results-driven and future-focused.

You’ll know coaching is working as you keep getting closer to and refining your goal. As your coach, I will hold you accountable for steady progress forward, based on jointly agreed factors such as your destination, your pace, and your success indicators. I will be more interested in where you want to go than where you’ve been. This future-focus allows the journey to be rewarding and enjoyable as you reapportion your attention to what really matters.

Coaching is an investment in you.

Leadership coaching is widely considered an employee ‘perk’. (Coaching cannot be “required.”) It provides immediate benefits to both you and your organization. If your organization sponsors coaching for you, it is evidence of confidence in your ability to forge and implement important initiatives, or to grow in some way. Numerous surveys of highly placed executives have documented the cost effectiveness of coaching for over a decade, clearly and consistently demonstrating a positive impact on the bottom line.* If the cost of coaching comes from your pocket, think of it like you would a personal trainer: an optional but wise investment in yourself with tangible results.

Coaching right-sizes your strengths.

Many career problems among technically gifted individuals are’t so much about absent skills; it’s about overusing their strengths. Technical excellence and impeccable credentials can, over time, become liabilities to career success.  Senior leaders, promising executives, and brilliant individual contributors are rarely faulted for their expertise or the quality of their work; it is more likely that their brusque communication styles and unconscious habits trip them up. Coaching is a highly effective methodology for helping busy and proud professionals confront these sensitive issues.         

There are no mistakes, only puzzles to be explored.

You’ll discover blind spots and gaps in your reasoning, unconscious habits and thought patterns, and self-sabotaging tendencies. As your coach, I help you make dilemmas discussible. I shine the light on the disconnection between your leadership intentions and your actions, your impact and the results. I will ask you challenging questions, encourage you to consider alternative perspectives and solutions, brainstorm with you, gently tell you some hard truths, and help you choose a bold course of action. Then we translate your insights into effective action.  Our process is experimentation, reflection and evaluation in order to refine the next experiment.

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