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Our Approach to Coaching

  1. Building the coaching relationship: Building a relationship is the first step in having a successful coaching relationship. You will want to know that your coach is someone who you can trust is providing you with sound ideas while at the same time willing to challenge you and offer some “developmental heat” so you are motivated for change.
  2. Assessing key strengths: Assessment tools, interviews, and self-appraisals are all effective way to discern your greatest resources and how you can apply them to even greater levels. At this point in the coaching, you will have a plan of action that spells out the steps that are to be taken to insure success.
  3. Strengths-Based, Competency Focused: Following our coaching assessment, we build a plan around the specific leadership behaviors essential for your success. Great leadership is not about having the right personality but having the right behaviors. Our approach makes that possible.
  4. Engage the Learnings: During this phase, the coaching tools of role playing, career mapping, persuasion exercises, branding strategies, action matrices, resilience modeling, and competency development along with others come into play and can be utilized to address the coaching objectives.
  5. Performance Sustainability: Increasing personal and organizational understanding and strengthening your leadership tools translates to personal ownership of your new skill set. After coaching is completed clients have increased confidence and knowledge about how to better manage their work and career.
How Strong are you?
Watch Richard explain the strength of being an executive.

Top Ten Reasons Executive Seek Coaching and What They Get from Their Coaching Experience

Why Executives Seek Coaching What Executives Get Out of Coaching
1. Leadership Development
  1. Skills in transitioning to new positions
  2. Building an effective team
  3. Strengthening communication with their Boards
2. Self- Management
  1. Use time more effectively
  2. Maintain their mental and physical fitness
  3. Establish and live their priorities
3. Professional Development
  1. Understanding and using their strength resources
  2. Developing new skill sets
  3. Improving technical skills
4. Managing Their Staff
  1. Effectively using power
  2. Delegating skills
  3. Understanding human behavior
5. Targeted Skill Building
  1. Expanding knowledge outside their core area to learn about finance or other content are
  2. Preparation for specific event such as a Board or professional presentation.
  3. Addressing a specific area needing remediation such as communication skills
6. Personal Development
  1. Improving confidence
  2. Career issues
  3. Speaking in public
7. Change Management
  1. Recognizing opportunities for change
  2. Bringing staff along
  3. Creating new branding and identity
8. Strategic Implementation
  1. Putting ideas into action
  2. Using metrics effectively
9. Influence and Persuasion
  1. Developing strategy around influence
  2. Understanding the science and art of persuasion
  3. Giving and receiving feedback constructively
10. Life-Work Balance
  1. Developing stress resilience
  2. Establishing professional boundaries
  3. Setting personal priorities

Richard’s Podcasts on Leadership

The Philosophy Of Leadership
Richard explains what is important in the philosophy of leadership.
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Using Strengths To Improve Weaknesses
Richard speaks on improving weaknesses by building on your leadership strengths.
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Your Leadership Style
Richard speaks on leadership styles and moving the company ahead.
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Why It Is Critical For Leaders To Know Their Strengths
Richard explains why it is critical that leaders know their own strengths.
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