Leadership Development

“You can’t decide if you are going to be a leader. You can only decide if you will become the type of person people want to follow.”
 
~ Chris Widener
The Art of Influence

 

 

The People Project moves the executive coaching process into group coaching, group leadership development, or workshops tailored to meet your organization’s specific personal growth and professional development goals.

How are you developing your key leaders or management team?

Business growth is supported by great people through-out your organization. 

Great talent expects and appreciates developmental opportunity.  It is win-win as your company saves the high cost of undesired turnover.

Personal growth requires commitment, time and place, and resources available for all employees.

The Process:

Together we develop a specific plan to improve performance by developing your people.

  • Specific topics are presented from an executive coaching perspective
  • The approach is a facilitated group coaching experience
  • Round table training & development coaching/training sessions
  • Content tailored to your objectives and available time

Coaching, training, group think and peer coaching are implemented to guide awareness and discover solutions.  Improved performance in critical areas such as communication, decision making, problem solving, and other people skills can be developed.

The goal is to work with your team on how to implement desired changes, personal action steps, by using simple techniques and tools.  They leave to take it back to the office to integrate the new awareness into their work.

Together we plan an effective learning experience that will support your personal development goals and performance objectives.  Effective for sales teams, management groups or entire organizations.

What about a Coaching Group?

The goal: changed behavior, improved performance, impact on business

Recommended for front line managers, coaching groups provide many of the same benefits of 1on1 executive coaching along coaching skill development.

The format involves enlarges the process by allowing the participants to develop their coaching skills through peer coaching and observing a professional coaching interaction.

The key to sustained success is the ability and willingness to learn and change with consistent reflection on truth from the Story…feedback, experience, success, and failure.

Coaching Groups support leadership development through an effective process, a given time frame, with clear expectations.  Next level performance demands reflection followed by a plan of action.

Great companies encourage their manager’s personal growth granting opportunity and permission to “work on you”.  This sends a strong value message.

Next Level Executive Group Coaching is ideal with 4 to 6 individuals. Coaching is weekly, usually face to face and designed to produce specific, positive changes in business behavior within a fixed time frame.  It is process-driven and designed to allow the individual to achieve their leadership potential and sharpen their coaching skills.

Personal growth is facilitated through the consistent, objective reflection on real time performance (experience, feedback, success, and failure) so the manager can learn and change business behaviors.

Then, their influence and credibility grows as others observe real, sustained change.

The impact on business comes from changed behavior and improved performance at the next level.

What are the top three prompts to engage an executive coach?

  • Enlarged Leadership: Do your emerging leaders know their strengths AND what business behavior or gaps need to be addressed?
  • Emerging LeaderIn your organization who do you want to groom for their next assignment?
  • Intentional Growth: In today’s competitive market, how are you improving your people skills?
  • Retention:  How are you investing in your highly talented employees?

There are several options for group coaching; the first step would be to discuss what your desired outcome looks like.  To start the conversation, drop me a note and I will call you so we can explore possibilities.