Our approach…

Our approach is to help executives and leaders find effective ways to manage the stressors and conflicting dichotomies that are inherent with high pressure management positions.

Executives often seek our support when financial conditions create internal tension among employees, and emotions in the workplace are threatening to undermine a work team’s effectiveness.

They find themselves in an environment of missed deadlines; broken promises, and their professional lives taking over their personal. Other requests are from executives and leaders who suspect that their style and temperament may be affecting their team’s best efforts. Our results-driven approach offers executives workable solutions that endure well beyond the close of our engagement. We use executive coaching to help leaders find powerful solutions tailored to their unique situations.

Executives and their companies not only learn how to effectively manage current challenges but to develop the skills necessary to handle most management issues going forward.
Our team recognizes that organizations are really individuals, each with unique perceptions, emotional temperaments, work styles and embedded beliefs, yet when working collectively, can achieve extraordinary results. We involve the organization’s executive and their management team as partners at every stage in the process.

Making it happen…

Each session begins with a review of the past session, paying particular attention to any new insights gained.

The Executive reviews the previous week’s activities in order for the coach to identify successes and new challenges, to formulate a plan for more in-depth discussion of specific new or continuing challenges. Together the Executive and coach engage in an interactive discussion to:

• Understand the issues
• Determine the Executive’s role in managing the issues
• Evaluate the options and possible outcomes from each option
• Establish the Executive’s comfort level with each option and outcomes
• Select the options with the highest likelihood of success

If an assignment includes organizational issues, our team will work with staff and management teams to find the “ground truths” in their organizations. Ground truths are those discussions that take place around the water cooler that characterize the real workplace issues. We use individual and group assessments, one-to-one interview sessions, and feedback circles to identify those organizational issues.