Coaching
To most effectively lead others, consider mastering the art of self-leadership. Working with me as your Coach will help you understand who you are and what gives your life value. Coaching will help you to establish your life’s purpose and pursue it with confidence. Know where you’re going and how you’re going to get there.
A leader combines the vision and curiosity of a dreamer, with the practical building skills of an architect. A leader is goal directed, looking forward with anticipation toward the attainment of measureable outcome goals. Goals give an effective leader meaning and purpose and serve as a continuous source of motivation in pursuit of business, career and individual success.
The challenge has never been greater. In today’s business environment of accelerating change and increasing uncertainty, only leaders who know who they are and where they’re going will succeed. Today’s leaders must do more than manage change. They must thrive on it.
My coaching process is a structured, open-ended and pragmatic approach to personal and professional growth. The process is designed to help individuals develop the attitudes, skills and qualities necessary for personal and organizational leadership.
There are three essential elements:
- Attitude Development: In order to create and environment of positive attitudes and possibility thinking, it is important for a leader to understand where and how attitudes can be developed.
- Interpersonal Skills: Much of what a leader is involved in, and therefore accomplishes, involves other people. To be effective in this continuous challenge, it is important to learn, understand and use interpersonal skills effectively.
- Goal Setting/Attainment: Leadership, among other things, is the process of providing organizational direction and accomplishing necessary objectives. The goal accomplishment model provides the tools and process necessary to achieve more goals, more often, in order to maximize results and outcomes.
Critical Issues Covered Within this Process:
- The Role of Your Coach
- Strengthen Your Strengths
- Success Comes from Within
- Authority and Power
- Assessing Your Strengths
- Directing Change
- Behavior and Conditioning
- The Value of Mistakes
- Criteria for Effective Goal Setting
- Obstacles to Your Success
- Overcoming Obstacles to Change
- Courage
- Planning With a Purpose
- Delegation and Management
- Communications and Human Relations
- Motivation
- Decision Making and Problem Solving
The Results are Measureable
- More Control of Your Future
- Increased Revenue
- Increased Profitability
- More Personal Time and Freedom
- A Clear, Focused Direction
- Enhanced Leadership Ability
- Results-Oriented Attitudes
- Developing Your Team
- Creating a Vision for Personal Direction and Decision Making
- Living Your Purpose
Leadership Development
There is an overabundance of managers and a huge lack of leaders. This situation clearly has a negative impact on an organization’s ability to grow and compete.
A leader combines the vision and curiosity of a dreamer with the practical engineering of a builder. A leader is goal-directed, looking forward with anticipation toward the attainment of measurable outcome goals. A leader is a person who sets goals and achieves results. Goals give an effective leader meaning and purpose and serve as a continuous source of motivation in pursuit of organizational success.
While many books have been written about leadership, it remains for many a misunderstood and elusive quality. The capacity for leadership exists in everyone, but most people never take the time to develop it. Leadership is determination, courage, confidence and the ability to get results.
Positive leadership assumes that goals can be accomplished, the job can be done, the problem can be solved and the obstacles will be overcome. A leader creates his or her own future and drives the future success of an organization.
My Leadership Development process is a carefully planned, open and realistic approach to leadership growth. It is a process designed to help individuals develop the attitudes, expertise and characteristics necessary for personal and organizational leadership.
Leadership Development is comprised of three essential elements:
- Attitude Development; To create an atmosphere of affirmative thoughts and actions and a philosophy of pursuing opportunities it is imperative for a leader to comprehend where and how attitudes are formed and how these attitudes can be enhanced.
- Interpersonal Skills: Beyond self-leadership lies the true test of a leader – leading others. To excel at this challenge it is vital to learn, understand and make the most of interpersonal skills.
- Goal Setting: Leadership is the development of the characteristics and traits that initiate organizational direction and the means to achieve the desired results. The goal setting/attainment model provides the ways and means to achieve more goals and maximize the positive outcomes.
Critical Issues Covered Within this Process
- Leadership and You
- Tapping your Hidden Potential
- Motivation
- Behavior and Conditioning
- Attitude Development
- Personal and Organizational Goal Setting
- Roadblocks to Success
- Creative Power and Visualization
- Managing Your Time
- Communication
- Delegation
- Decision Making and Problem Solving
The Results are Measurable
- Being More in Control of Your Future
- Increased Revenue
- Increased Profitability
- More Personal Time and Freedom
- A Clear, Focused Direction
- Enhanced Leadership Ability
- Results-Oriented Attitudes
- Developing Your Team
- Creating a Vision for Personal Direction and Decision Making
Strategic Business Planning
The best way to predict the future is to create it! Strategic Planning is a process that determines the future of the organization and what organizational resources will be needed to ensure that success. The process helps determine business opportunities and resources that are required to convert opportunity into success.
Business owners and leaders today have found that developing a strategy and an implementation plan is far more effective than leaving the future to chance. Developing a strategy, a vision, a mission and a specific plan of action contributes to long-term, sustainable success. If implemented correctly, it will create higher levels on motivation and commitment and fuel continuously higher levels of achievement from everyone in the organization.
My Strategic Planning process provides a format for developing specific strategies, converting those strategies into a business planning process and establishing measurable and attainable organizational goals. It is a process that involves not only determining where an organization wants and needs to go, but also, how it is going to get there.
Steps for Planning an Effective Process
- Basic Foundation
- Business Philosophy
- Vision Statement
- Values and Principles
- External Assessment
- Competitive and Trend Analysis
- Internal Appraisal
- S.L.O.T. Analysis
- Mission Statement
- Critical Goal Categories
- Organizational Goals
- Market and Sales Plan
- Implementation
The Results are Measurable
- Increased Market Share
- Maximized Return on Your Intellectual Capital
- Increased Shareholder Earnings
- Strengthened Focus on Attracting, Servicing and Keeping Customers
- Greater Employee Contributions to Results Realized
- Defined Strategic Direction
- Corporate Values Developed and Sustained
- Motivated Employees
- Resources Allocated
- Success Defined
- Teams Created
- Guidelines for Delegation and Decision Making Provided
- Pro-Active Management Promoted
- Trends and Technologies Identified
- Sense of Purpose Created