Executive Coaching: One-on-one leadership development

Executive coaching helps you accomplish more by building the self-knowledge, relationships and skills you need to meet your goals. Leverage your personal strengths and develop latent sources of creativity and accomplishment as you engage in the following leadership development services:

Creative Leadership: Are you a business leader whose success depends on your ability to create and lead new ventures?

Idea management systems, stage gating processes, and other organizational innovation tools can provide more value when you know how your leadership style impacts others' motivations and ability to innovate.

Use the Creative Leadership development process to build a leadership style that encourages and supports creativity in the workplace. This unique executive coaching process includes:

• A customized, in-depth assessment of personal strengths, behaviors and preferences that impact your ability to cultivate creativity and lead innovations.
• Several rounds of targeted feedback enabling you to check your perceptions against the perceptions of others.
• Defining development goals and strategies, and engaging others in supporting your targeted changes.
• Coached implementation of your strategies, with an emphasis upon application and refinement of new insights.
• Sharing successes and defining strategies for extending them.

Increase Effectiveness by Leading with Strengths

Help valued leaders increase the value they provide by developing their strengths and realizing more of their potential. Lead with Your Strengths is an executive coaching process that defines signature strengths and identifies sustainable ways to employ them even more effectively. This generative developmental process helps leaders:

• Increase awareness of personal style, as it relates to leadership, communication and interpersonal effectiveness
• Address behaviors or skill deficits that may inhibit the full use of personal strengths
• Develop a stronger network of relationships
• Translate new insights into individualized, sustainable growth strategies
• Identify and achieve goals that enhance leadership effectiveness
• Reinforce sustained use of individualized growth strategies

Leaders: Jump start new thinking and fresh leadership insights

Busy leaders who need an infusion of fresh thinking about a stubborn challenge receive both immediate and longer term benefits from this focused, short term executive coaching process.

Use the Fresh Insights leadership development process to collect ideas that jump start new thinking, and consider feedback on specific behaviors impacting your ability to develop more creative and effective solutions, as you:

• Define your root challenge; select feedback sources; and approve a customized feedback tool.
• Review your feedback sources' ideas, and observations about your characteristic approaches to similar issues.
• Identify and refine the most promising ideas related to addressing your challenge.
• Consider others' perceptions of your leadership style and identify ways to leverage these insights as you continue to work on your challenge.

Develop your leadership style into an authentic and compelling Leadership Brand

A strong leadership brand reflects the relationship you have with key stakeholders; embodying a clear, consistent and compelling sense of who you are, what you value and how you can be counted upon to act.

Your Leadership Brand is a leadership development process that integrates branding insights with executive development practices in a way that helps highly valued leaders develop the types of relationships that advance their success.

Build the self knowledge and skills needed to lead authentically while moving the organization toward its strategic goals. Outcomes include:

• Defining your personal leadership brand attributes, platform and promise.
• Eliciting feedback that checks the integrity and impact of your current leadership style.
• Identifying goals and strategies that develop the types of relationships that will extend your success; and deliver your leadership brand promise with more consistent choices and behaviors.
• Measuring the impact of your changes you make, and designing long term supports for the ongoing development of your living leadership brand.