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coachingimage"A coach is someone who can help you go where you are unable to go on your own."
-Lou Holtz

Tiger Woods . . . Shaquille O'Neal . . . Olympic Athletes. . . ALL PROFESSIONALS know the value of a good personal coach.  It is truly enabling when you have a competent coach committed to helping you achieve great results.

We provide executive coaching to our clients.

Foundation of Our Coaching

Our coaching methodologies are based on the works, of seminal leaders in various fields of business and education.

"Until you know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you cannot succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to him or herself, knows his or her flaws as well as assets, and deals with them directly. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself."
- Warren Bennis

Your Results Come From Your Behaviors and Thoughts.  Personal Coaching can Significantly Improve Behaviors and Thoughts

TRAINING BREAKS DOWN
We believe effective training is invaluable to change. However, training is only valuable when it leads to improved behavior and improved results. Almost always, most of what is learned in ttraining workshops never makes it back to the workplace. 

Xerox discovered that 87% of the skills acquired through training were lost. Their experience is standard for training results. Across all industries, less than 20% of what is taught usually gets implemented.

TRAINING MUST BE IMPLEMENTED
Most people are over trained and over educated in that they already possess more good knowledge than they currently apply. The biggest challenge is implementation, not training.

COACHING IS KEY TO IMPLEMENTATION
Research at Intel teaches that personal coaching is a key to implementation success.

Intel researched two internal study groups. Leaders who were trained and subsequently coached realized almost 3600% more gain than those who were trained but not coached.

Consider this finding from the training industry:

Percent improvement from coaching
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Source: Public Personnel Management Journal
*See Business Wire Report on Coaching ROI

coachgap2coachgap1YOU HAVE GAPS
Everyone has gaps in life; chasms that create disparity between our present reality and the desired situation. Gaps can exist in any business metric including sales results, cost reduction, profitability, employee morale, and market share.

A good coach can help you identify your gaps and assist you in crossing them.

COACHING IS COMMON
Over 75% of Fortune 500 organizations use coaching. Coaching exists in all industries.

COACHING IS USED BY TOP PERFORMERS
Both Tiger Woods and Olympic athletes have coaches. So does Bill Gates and other successful business executives; especially business leaders at the top. In fact the highest percentage of coaching is done among the most senior level executives—because coaching works.

Successful people not only hire coaches to keep them at the top, coaches helped them reach the top!

Coaching should not be limited to the top of the organizational chart. By using our proprietary coaching process and tools, our coaches can help anyone, at any level, in any department.

COACHING PROCESS OVERVIEW
You will receive personal one-on-one coaching to help you:

1. Accurately define the area(s) to improve.
2. Acquire critical knowledge.
3. Identify specific success criteria.
4. Identify specific steps to success.
5. Commit to take specific actions.
6. Take action and make progress.
7. Be accountable to assess progress and make adjustments.

This process is straightforward, and when followed brings success because success is not determined by what you know, but by what you do with what you know.

COACHING IS CONVENIENT
Busy people do not need another “to-do” item. Traditional training usually requires you to stop working to learn what is mostly theory. You are then expected to “take off” and successfully implement on your own, which can be tough.

Our coaching is delivered real-time, just in time, on real issues so progress is never “grounded”. Consider the metaphor of jet aircraft not having to stop to refuel. Our coaching is delivered “on the fly”, not as another to-do item to slow you down. Coaching is a valuable asset that speeds you up in accomplishing your objectives.

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By refueling on the fly, jets go further, faster.

Your Benefits:

  • A trusting, confidential, committed coaching partnership.
  • The luxury to openly collaborate with a competent professional.
  • Psychometric survey-data of your behavior and leadership traits.
  • Candid 360 degree feedback of strengths and ares to improve.
  • Expanded self-knowledge and awareness.
  • Understanding your talents and interests.
  • Identify your blind spots and reveal your capacities.
  • Passion-driven, clarity of vision, values and purpose.
  • Sustained measurable behavioral change and personal accountability.
  • Increased leadership effectiveness.
  • Powerful contributions to the workplace.
  • Strategies for making a difference.
  • Support, encoragement, and accountability to achieve goals.

Your Outcomes from Successful Coaching:

  • Increased Clarity
  • Increased Competence
  • Increased Confidence

Our Coaching Formats Include:

  • One-on-one
  • In-person and/or Virtual sessions
 
 
 

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