Leadership Coaching

Leadership Coaching Program

Our Leadership Coaching Program is designed to help you develop a Performance Culture through alignment and effective communication. Our firm has worked with more than one hundred companies over the past ten years - Many of these companies are found in INC’s 5000 Fastest-Growing Companies list.  Your leadership team will benefit from the years of experience our coaches bring to the table.

Alignment

Magic happens when your team is aligned around your organization’s purpose. The purpose is defined by your company’s mission, vision, and core values. In our program, we will facilitate a process to create a shared purpose that will help everyone make better decisions through better focus and accountability.

Defining your company’s purpose and using this purpose to guide daily decisions will change how a team member views their employment relationship with the company. For example, do you want employees who show up to work just for their paycheck or do you want employees who work for the company because they believe in its purpose?

Effective Communication

The best leaders adapt their communication style to ways that work best for the person(s) receiving the message. We call this the “Platinum Rule”.  It’s better than the “Golden Rule” because treating others the way you want to be treated, is not always how someone else wants to be treated.

We have learned that people with the highest intellect (IQ) are not always the best communicators.  Breaking through to others requires emotional awareness (EQ). In his book Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, Daniel Goleman defines emotional intelligence as "the capacity for recognizing our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves, and for managing emotions well in ourselves and our relationships."

Leaders with high emotional intelligence will have a greater ability to influence, persuade, and connect with others.  In other words, they are very effective communicators.  While EQ may not come naturally to some people, it is a skill that can be learned and mastered over time. 

To master EQ, you start with Self Awareness.  This means you need to understand your natural behavioral preferences, motivators, competencies, and how you think.  There are several good assessments in the marketplace to help you become more self-aware, but the best we’ve found is offered by TTI Insights. Our firm has been a Value-Added TTI partner for over ten years.

Traction

Sustaining a Performance Culture requires managers to be good coaches. And good coaches use tools to help them continuously develop and engage their team members. In 2014 we developed a web-based application with this in mind. That app, PerformanceCulture.com, became very successful and has since become its own company. We recommend you check it out!