Personal Development
What We Can Do For Individuals
Are you successfully juggling all your priorities – office, home, career?
How will you handle one or two more balls being tossed into your court?
Are you clear on what it is going to take to build a future that is bigger than your past?
Is it possible to spend as much time as you must at work and not negatively impact your family and your future career?
The answer is YES.
For over 15 years we have coached hundreds of individual clients as they aspire to achieve their professional development and personal goals. It has been a passion of ours to work with clients one-on-one to help them set and achieve these career, business, and personal goals.
Sports is a good example of why coaching is effective. You cannot win a golf game by continuing to select only three or four clubs in your bag. You must be able to use them all with relative ease. Not a trivial task. The secret to the game is ability, focus, clarity of decision-making, and self-knowledge. You must know how and when to use each club but also know yourself and the environment you are in.
There is an old saying: “Star players don’t become star players on the field, they are merely recognized there.” That is true. If you want to see where someone develops a desire to succeed you need to observe their daily preparations. Even if you have natural talent there is a need to prepare and train.
The same in true in business. You may hit the longest drive but what about your finesse around the green? In business terms you may land the big account but do you have the follow-up skills to ensure a satisfied customer. Or, you may have wonderful ideas but do you have the interpersonal skills to gain the support of your people? As in any sport, so many things come into play – your knowledge and skills, your attitude and behaviors. At any given time each of these can have far reaching effects.
Good coaches are good players. They recognize common pitfalls, know proper techniques and will always focus on an individual’s strengths and work around their shortcomings. Best of all, they inspire their clients to keep improving to reach their potential. Good golfers know the value of personalized training and it is an investment they are willing to make.
Coaching is a partnership designed to help you work on the most important issues of your life—business, career and personal. As a partnership, it will enable you to go farther, and faster than you could do alone.
Coaching incorporates the best know-how from sports, business, philosophy, psychology, finance and transformational work. Your coach is your mentor, advocate, sounding board, support, and biggest fan.
A coach listens to every word, and in between words to assure your best, even when you can’t hear it. A coach will help clarify your values, goals, and plans. A coach will present questions as to your dreams and aspirations, what makes you tick, what you value, and what you care most passionately about in your life, all with a refreshing perspective. A coach will tell you the truth; the truth about where you are strong and where you sell yourself short. A coach will hold you accountable on your life journey with reminders to keep you moving forward towards your dreams and goals and will hold you true to them! A coach will endorse you during your journey; holding the flag at the top of the hill and encouraging you to press on. He or she is someone to celebrate your victories and help you learn from your setbacks. A coach can be a resource point for you, providing contacts to help you reach for your goals.
The job of the coach is to give the client every tool, language, awareness and skill, so that the client can accomplish what they most want, as quickly as possible.
Eighty percent of Fortune 500 companies now offer executive coaching. The reason is clear – they know that coaching is the best way to help employees create their own Personalized Development Plan – something that is very much needed in our constantly evolving business environment.
FORTUNE magazine reported that one reader said, “I went into the executive coaching experience kicking and screaming, at the insistence of my then-boss. And what an eye-opener it turned out to be! I won’t even go into the grim details of bad management habits I had unknowingly developed in my 14-year career up to that point. But, I will say that since I was ‘cured’ by 12 weeks of pretty intense coaching, I’ve been promoted three times.”
“Who exactly, seeks out a coach?…Winners who want even more out of life.”
— CHICAGO TRIBUNE
“Part consultant, part motivational speaker, part therapist, and part rent-a-friend, coaches work with executives, entrepreneurs, and just plain folks, helping them define and achieve their goals — career, personal, or most often, both.”
— NEWSWEEK
“’Very Satisfactory’ …This was the way clients most frequently rated the overall effectiveness of their coaching experience on a 5-point scale, where 4 was very satisfactory.”
— ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS
