Q: How hard was it to re-focus with such a short time off the medal podium and the next event?

A: I had about five coaches on my rear in the warm-down pool making me re-focus so I didn't have a choice.

Pro-active: An emerging leader is on your radar, you don't want to lose them to the competition while "that position" opens up, you need to send culture message: "We invest in our leaders", and/or you know what got them here won't get them there... some "tweaking" of business behavior is in order

Incentive: Your culture is about the people; this year a few select leaders will not only receive a "job well done" merit raise but the career-impacting investment of a coaching engagement a individualized road map to even greater success.

Re-active: A leader's business behavior is hurting them and costing you with undesired turnover, disengaged direct reports, HR complaints, office conflict, low productivity; it has become a corrective measure you hope to keep the employee.

"People change when they hurt enough that they have to; learn enough that they want to, and receive enough that they are able to."

~ John Maxwell

"If you are selected for coaching, the attitude, as they say, is gratitude.... You have after all, just been handed a customized map of the road to success. And fortunate you are ... in the employ that values you despite your flaws and actually — mirable dictum — wants to invest in you."

~ Harvard Management Update

Client Thoughts

There are two basic rules for hiring a coach. First, make sure that the executive is ready and willing to be coached. Second, allow the executive to choose whom he or she wants to work with, regardless of who in the organization initiated the engagement. The survey data support this emphatically: Willingness and good chemistry were by far the most frequently cited ingredients of a successful coaching relationship.

~ “What Can Coaches Do for You?”
Harvard Business Review, January 2009

In Their Own Words

Next Level Coaching has changed my life for the better. I feel more confident, more focused on others, and more satisfied. I have found a freedom in my professional life that I never had before, and my personal life has also been improved.

~ Medical Doctor

Next Level Coaching is a step by step process that identifies potential development opportunities. The program allowed me to work through specific issues and to formulate a resolute action plan.

My personal background includes over twenty years in management and an MBA. Steve Laswell created a collaborative environment that opened the door for effective commuication. He used this communication pathway to reveal key behavioral drivers and to open new and more effective pathways toward my goals. Steve facilitated an unbiased look at the situation; a degree of enlightenment that was to a great extent like looking in from the outside.

Now I have the confidence that I can go and do whatever it takes in a new assignment in today’s business environment. I highly recommend Steve and Next Level Coaching to those companies that are focused on developing leaders within their management team.

~ VP, Fortune 200 Company

This is called Next Level Coaching for a reason, Steve coached me toward identifying what motivates me to do great work, and we explored ways I could better express it in my work. As a result, I applied for and received a promotion to Senior Marketing Manager, a position in wich I am able to make incredible impact on the business and my own personal career, beyond anything I thought possible before.

~ Sr. Market Research & Analysis Manager, Fortune 100 Company

The coaching engagement that I participated in helped me in more ways than I can explain. On top of teaching me the invaluable lesson of taking the time to reflect and learn from my accomplishments and pitfalls, I can say with complete confidence that this experience changed my life. I was amazed how little about my work and personal life I had taken the time to think clearly about and to discern the best paths to take. Mr. Laswell helped me re-adjust my vision of work, success, and life to a point that I will be forever changed and grateful because of this experience.

~ Director, University Center for Executive & Professional Development

The benefit I received from coaching was directly related to improving my ability to be thoughtful in my approach to my career development.

~ HR Advisor, Oil & Gas Company

I want to express my sincere appreciation of your work with one of our employees whom we are grooming for a “Senior Leadership” position with us. I can honestly say that from the beginning visit, you have been very willing and able to help this person grow in a way that has already increased his abilities in our office. I can easily recommend for others to consider using you as an Executive Coach for emerging leaders.

~ President, Family Owned Company

Thanks to Steve for his willingnes to challenge me when I did really want to be challenged, allowing me to reach the “next level” that I never even thought was there.

~ Senior Market Research and Analysis Manager, Fortune 100 Company

I learned so much from my Next Level Coaching experience. It was very helpful with isolating goals and enacting plans of action. I feel I will keep many of the basic concepts from the coaching in my “toolbox” regarding workplace communications.

I especially benefited from the DiSC analysis of my behavioral style in order to apply the findings to current work situations. I found that it was helpful to clarify both my strengths and limitations.

I appreciate the process of working with Steve Laswell in that it resulted in bringing a crumbling business situation intoa surviving structure that is built on multiple strengths and acknowledged weaknesses. We have gained access to a system of communication that can withstand future stresses.

~ Medical Doctor

I am constantly reminded of how much Next Level Coaching has meant to me. It has truly been life altering. Steve’s expertise and ability to identify processes and methods of doing business which can be improved is so helpful. And the insight into how to create richer, more meaningful and fulfilling relationships outside work has been wonderful. The experience has been outstanding.

~ President, Service Supply Company

The benefit of the coaching sessions and acknowledging (and understanding) my strengths and weaknesses has allowed me to make the adjustments necessary to be a more effective leader. The changes I have been able to make at work have improved my personal time as well…learning how to be more relaxed by being more effective at work has naturally made it easier to wind down at the end of the day to truly enjoy my family when I get home.

~ Manager, PHR – Fortune 500 Company

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