Because no successful leader ever figured it all out on their own.
Our coaching helps leaders become the very best versions of themselves – the kind of leaders their teams wants to follow in times of spectacular success and when things aren’t going so well. We take our job of helping leaders strengthen, flex, and stretch their leadership muscles seriously (without losing the fun), through candid, consistent, and caring feedback, laser-focused development plans (of which no two are ever the same), and by supporting our clients as they build the skills necessary to become uncommonly successful People Literate™ leaders.
5 of our most common coaching cases
CEO Coaching
You’re the CEO, and we don’t need to tell you why you need coaching, do we? It’s just what top leaders do these days to up their game – so the key is to find a coach who speaks your language, can push you where you need pushing, and just plain gets it.
Personal Development + Growth
At a certain point, it’s hard to keep going and growing on your upward trajectory without an outside, expert perspective. Leaders with intellectual humility know there are things they still don’t know and want to figure them out fast. Having an executive coach is the best way to bring breadth and depth to your leadership journey.
Team +/or Culture Development
Whether it’s a new team being thrown together or a long-standing group with an “interesting” history, it’s up to the leader to make the people part of the job add up to something spectacular, to develop cultural standards, and to bring people together in a more human way that achieves great things. Coaching can help with that.
Blind Spots
As amazing as you are, you have opportunities for improvement (we all do), and chances are you aren’t self-aware enough to know exactly what they are – let alone what steps to take to level up. Coaching is a trusted and tested way to help you understand where and how you need to develop. Helping leaders be assertive, clear, and direct without sacrificing emotional intelligence is a common focus for us. Typical engagements like this include the executive who is brilliant yet too aggressive, the leader who needs a bit more polish to their executive presence, the leader who needs to learn how to delegate once and for all, and the leader who has been charged with a change agenda yet is challenged to build influential relationships.
Network Building + Navigating Politics
No one has a great career alone. Managing relationships with key stakeholders is an important way to stand out, stay on the high-potential list, and signal that you are ready for the next step. As a senior-level executive, navigating the matrix of direct reports, peers, and board members can feel like a maze. Not everyone loves managing politics, so we help leaders take the inevitability of it in stride and learn to influence others to achieve pretty great things.