Executive Coaching and Leadership Development
Executive Coaching, Leadership Development, Successor Development, and Successor Recruiting, Portland, OR
Eliciting Executive ExcellenceTM
Executive Coaching provides an environment
to accelerate success.
I help smart, successful executives clarify their thinking, drive stronger engagement, and deliver better results. If you’re striving to enhance the impact of your leadership and looking to bring forth excellence in your organization, working with an experienced Executive Coach can make a notable difference in your results.
Our discussions can help you read people and their behaviors more effectively. And these insights can help you communicate more effectively, have greater influence within the organization, and be better able to manage conflict.
My clients get the results they want because my background is different than most other coaches. Prior to my 20+ years of coaching I held a number of executive positions. I’ve helped senior leaders enhance their effectiveness, helped groom leaders for advancement, and helped struggling leaders to save them.
I bring a variety of perspectives to the coaching relationship after years of working with professionals from around the country and from many different industries. Additionally, I have two important talents that make my coaching invaluable.
I have a highly developed talent for identifying problems and distinguishing them from the symptoms they cause. This allows me to help my clients more rapidly develop practical, effective solutions.
The second unique talent of mine is that I tend to see things from a different perspective than most. This allows me to “see” things others miss (blind spots) and to offer alternate, more insightful perspectives. This, of course, allows us to accelerate our progress even faster.
The Strategic Benefits of Executive Coaching
• STRENGTHEN INTERPERSONAL SKILLS – Strong interpersonal skills allow leaders to be more influential, get buy-in for their ideas, and avoid or resolve conflict. Effective interpersonal skills are the key to bringing out the best in people, which in turn, drives productivity and results.
• ENHANCED STRATEGIC THINKING – The best strategies will leverage strengths, minimize risk, and balance long-term with short-term needs and goals. Executives must carefully think through possibilities, assess and manage risk, and then develop strategies with the best potential. It requires an environment within which an executive’s inklings, ideas, and concerns are brought to light, challenged, and expanded.
• GAIN NEW PERSPECTIVES and OVERCOME BLIND SPOTS – Outside perspective is essential as a catalyst for creative, game-changing strategic thought. It’s also needed to uncover blind spots and move past them.
• HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY – Given the demands placed on executives, it’s critical to improve productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness. Maintaining a high degree of mental acuity, managing stress and emotions, and carving out discretionary time to address the important before it becomes urgent is essential to avoid burnout.
• CONFIDENTIAL SOUNDING BOARD – Often, the evolution of a company is conceived during open discussions of ideas, but most executives don’t have the right “sounding board”. Pretty much everyone around a leader has an agenda. Either they want things to change or they want things to stay the same. Every executive needs an objective, supportive confidant with whom to complain, vent, confide in, and talk things out.
WHO MAKES AN IDEAL CLIENT?
Coaching is an excellent tool for reaching the top of your game. Ideal clients are leaders who are already successful and have a commitment to personal excellence. You’re already working on personal improvement, you’re open to new ideas and perspectives, and you’re willing to take action. Additionally, ideal clients are leaders with high personal integrity. In other words, you do what you say you’re going to do.
If you are someone who fits this profile, you would make an excellent client. You’ll enjoy the coaching relationship and will achieve the results you want.