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Leadership - Corporate |
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“People used to think, and some still do, that leadership development can be learned in a single event. It has always been the Center’s view that just the opposite is true. Leadership development is an ongoing and highly personal process, and it must include ongoing support. In truth, few people are lucky enough to get the support and coaching they need. In this vacuum, it is all too easy for executives and managers to lose sight of their goals and to see their momentum to change gradually fade away. For their organizations, it represents an opportunity lost.” CCL |
Leadership - done well has so many facets and one of the foundations is not to become someone else but to become your best expression of self in all aspects of your life.
In becoming fully who we are we must always be growing and learning new behaviors….seeing ourselves as an instrument to our fullest and best expression of self.
"If we did all we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves." Thomas Edison |
My Mission as Leadership Development Coach: is to work with successful leaders to achieve their unrealized potential through self definition, self acceptance, self awareness, and a commitment to grow into new positive behaviors which better align with their personal vision and best expression of themselves.
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” Helen Keller |
"Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal." Vince Lombardi |
Indicators to consider when coaching is right for you
New role assignment which requires you to gain new skills for example, taking a R&D product to market, turning around a business, managing a fast growth product, growing new business in an old market, starting up a new business unit, or downsizing.
Significant increase in the breadth of your responsibilities.
Seasoned leader who is aware enough to know that you have skills to develop and strengths that may be over used.
International leader who needs to be able to create results across and through countries, nationalities, and diverse businesses.
Up and coming professional who wants to stretch their abilities to prepare for an expansion in opportunities.
Technical Manager who needs to hone the ability of presentations, collaboration, negotiation, influencing, and understanding organizational systems/structures/politics.
Directive Manager who wants to move to a team based and collaborative leadership style.
Executive who needs to define a new vision for an organization and cascade the vision so that it takes in all aspects of the organization.
Project manager who needs to develop better team-building skills.
Alone at the top - a confidential sounding board to help you work out turning strategies into action.
Manager who wants to develop team and interpersonal skills.
Commitment to Investment of Developing Your Best Asset….People
Executive and Leadership Assessment and Coaching
is dedicated time set aside in an executive's or leader’s busy schedule where the work is on self. This is neither selfish time nor wasted time. This is an investment on behalf of the organization to ensure that the individual executive or leader is continuing to grow and learn along with the organization. This is the time for the individual to determine:
• How can I best serve this organization?
• What do I need to learn to be my most effective,
contributing self?• How do I handle massive changes influencing our
industry/organization?• What are the barriers that keep me from being all
that I can be for this organization?• How do I ensure that I keep learning and growing
and stay relevant in the future for the customers,
the employees, the shareholders, the market?• What is really important in my life?
Highlights
The art of personalized development Connecting the individual to personal insight, others’ perspectives, thoughtful development planning, and engaging ability to achieve results through new behavior choices are the essentials of our model.
Clarify… The personalized development process starts by understanding the needs of the individual (and organization when applicable) to expand into their unrealized potential.
Connect… New awareness of opportunities for growth of self through connection to new perspectives is the key to the development and growth of more expansive and effective personal leadership development. This connection strengthens professionals and leaders to lead and communicate in new ways which creates better environments and results.
Commit… Professionals and leaders must commit to seeing with new eyes and choosing new behaviors and perspectives which broadens and deepens their professional and leadership effectiveness. This is the fundamental beginning to positive personal and leadership growth.
Change… This defines success in our personalized development model. Positive change becomes a natural extension of the individual. Through thoughtful skill development and new behavior choices positive change becomes achievable and enlightening. Professionals and leaders are motivated by continued self growth and development by the connections and impact of their commitment to forward focused growth.