The life coaching model goes beyond the traditional notions of executive coaching to one based on deeper self-awareness and accountability. Life coaching provides an excellent opportunity for you to go beyond your current performance level. You identify sources of personal power that enable them to go beyond their perceived limitations, carry out strategic plans creatively, and achieve goals with ease. With coaching, you are able to make a more vital contribution to your teams, organizations, and community.
We believe that self-awareness is essential to great leadership and so we use the full spectrum of FIRO® based assessment tools. Equally important is the ability to handle oneself effectively while interacting in the multiplicity of environments and relationships required of an executive. Anything that is deemed necessary to develop the personal and interpersonal skills required of a leader fall in the realm of the coaching relationship.
The High Potential coach collaborates with the executive to design an action plan and strategies for implementation in the agreed upon target areas. The coach provides resources that can enable the executive to:
- Develop greater self-awareness
- Use FIRO instruments to measure and assess behaviors and beliefs.
- Develop a greater capacity to discern and acknowledge blind spots.
- Capitalize on strengths.
- Learn self-coaching strategies to manage emotions and behavior more effectively.
- Discover inner resources that allow for greater clarity, vision, and flexibility.
- Develop greater self-trust and improve internal decision-making process.
- Become more productive.
- Hone Interpersonal Skills
- Improve communication skills: listen well, speak openly, and receive feedback graciously.
- Handle misunderstandings with ease.
- Decrease defensiveness and improve all relationships.
- Ask positive and effective questions.
- Model self-responsibility.
- Collaborate effectively with peers and subordinates at every level of the organization.
- Cultivate executive leadership skills.
- Develop presence.
- Develop a clear vision and articulate it passionately.
- Represent the organization’s values.
- Interact effectively with the public.
- Demonstrate authenticity, flexibility, insight and integrity.
- Synergize people to go beyond perceived limitations and into peak performance.
- Lead leaders gracefully and successfully.
- Plan and strategize with a long and short-range view.
- Regulate the speed, direction and waves of change in the organization.
- Build a legacy of caring, respect, performance and accountability.
- Improve team performance.
- Inspire trust and collaboration.
- Create an environment that supports employees to feel significant, competent and appreciated.
- Improve the decision-making process on the team.
- Manage and resolve conflict.
- Encourage diversity and creativity.
- Facilitate meetings more effectively.
- Develop individual employees.
- Delegate to and empower subordinates.
- Capitalize on each person’s strengths.
- Discern capacities and develop potential.
- Evaluate performance fairly and accurately.
- Deliver performance appraisals effectively.
- Coach employees.
We provide coaching services through tele-conferencing, face-to-face consultation at our offices or yours, observation of meetings and work-life, and facilitation of challenging dialogues in pairs and small groups.
Evaluation is built in throughout the life of the coaching relationship. The client is encouraged to assess and measure his/her progress, to give feedback to the coach regarding the efficacy of the services provided, and to receive feedback from peers, subordinates and the coach.
