Executive Coaching

The Executive Development and Coaching Program is a interactive, goal-oriented learning process of building your personal business skills. Designed for the personal growth of entrepreneurs, emerging business leaders, and senior executives, my approach to your customized executive development program is grounded from the leveraging of advanced business skills with applied psychology to bring you a unique, well-rounded offering that is broader in scope than the standard coaching programs practiced today.

With over twenty years of Senior Executive experience coupled with the skills of behavioral psychology, I am uniquely qualified to assist you develop your organizational and business skills. As a highly qualified business leader, I have a distinguished record of success and accomplishments in the service, healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and distribution industries.

My commitment to you is to utilize my experiences, skills, imagination, and inspiration in service to your higher goals.

What is Executive Coaching?

"Executive Coaches, especially in Atlanta, tend to fall into two categories: former business executives without psychological credentials and the psychological credentialed individuals (mostly psychologists) without senior level, practical business experience. I am uniquely positioned in both the business and psychology worlds to offer you a broader depth of service."

Executive coaching generally refers to an interactive, goal-oriented process of building personal business skills that facilitate success for the individual and the organization. With most of the coaching occurring at the workplace, the focus is primarily on personal development through education and real-time application. The process is facilitated by a credentialed "coach" with the purpose of developing the business skills of executives and entrepreneurs, emphasizing people skills development, personal business behaviors, and group leadership skills. Related terms for this service include mentoring, organizational development, leadership development, executive counseling, and business counseling.

Coaching programs are individually tailored for the busy executive or entrepreneur. The essential features of executive coaching are the objectivity of the coach (better results are obtained from coaches outside of the organization), the short-term focus, time flexibility (coaching sessions are tailored to the schedule of the executive), and an emphasis on an interactive learning process utilizing pragmatic educational tools and feedback.

Generally paid by the employer or business, this process is typically engaged through a goal specific, action orientated, and personally tailored agreement enabling a benchmarking of progress.

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My Credentials to Serve You as a Executive Coach

With over twenty years of Senior Management and Executive Consulting experience coupled with the skills of behavioral psychology, I am uniquely qualified to assist you with your with your personal development as a business executive.

Executive Coaches, especially in Atlanta, tend to fall into two categories: former business executives without psychological credentials and psychological credentialed individuals (mostly psychologists) without senior level, practical business experience. I am uniquely positioned in both the business and psychology worlds to offer you a broad depth of service.

"The significant advantage of my Executive Coaching Program is the leveraging of advanced business skills with applied psychology to bring you a unique, well-rounded program that is broader in scope than the standard coaching programs practiced today."

As a highly qualified business leader, I have a distinguished record of success and accomplishments in the service, healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and distribution industries. Like you, I have "been in the trenches" of improving efficiencies, maximizing profits, identifying and minimizing risk, developing and managing budgets, managing human resources, and directing staff. Along the way, I have educated and developed staff, mid-level managers, supervisors, and top executives regarding strategic planning, people skills, leadership, and general business skills - with excellent success.

The significant advantage of my Executive Coaching Program is the leveraging of advanced business skills with applied psychology to bring you a unique, well-rounded program that is broader in scope than the standard coaching programs practiced today. My Coaching program includes the dimensions of addressing your psychological needs (how your career, job pressures, responsibilities, politics, and competition affects you personally), family dynamics (your career demands and your day-to-day battles does affect your home relationships), as well as you development as a business leader.

I am a certified provider of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®), a certified facilitator of the Tri-Method Self-Discovery® (includes advanced MBTI® application, learning styles and group interaction styles), advanced level training in Seven Habits of Highly Effective People® application, and a Licensed Professional Counselor (license number GA LPC4466). Please e-mail or call me for further information or to schedule a free presentation that further explains how this Executive Coaching Program can work for you and your organization.

For Further Discussion: Why Do Employers Use Executive Coaching?

What motivates employers to engage an executive coach? What is the gain or payoff? There are six general motives for organizations to introduce executive coaching:

to support the induction or promotion of a senior person into a more senior or different role
to accelerate the personal development of individuals defined as ‘high potential’
to maximize the effective implementation of organizational change through supporting teams and individuals
as a "critical friend" or objective "sounding board" to a senior executive or entrepreneur
to support senior executive engaged in wider personal effectiveness programs
as a means of rewarding and retaining key staff critical to the business.

There are several reasons for the phenomenal growth in the use of executive coaching by employing organizations, including:

the ongoing effects of the downsizing since 2001, resulting in ‘lonely’ and isolated senior managers who welcome the additional support and challenge from someone external to their immediate work environment
the increasing demand by organizations for senior managers with key ‘soft skills’. MBA's and in-company development programs have failed to develop the kinds of feedback-based approaches necessary for self-insight and the acquisition of soft skills, for managers when they were more junior.
Some senior managers and entrepreneurs might take the attitude that they have 'made it’ and worry that being seen to undergo development may be perceived by others as admitting they have a weakness. The nature of the executive coaching relationship is private and avoids public scrutiny.
Attendance on whole-day courses or regular learning sets can seem an imposition into an already busy schedule. Sessions with executive coaches can be fitted around other diary commitments.
In the case of the Coach who holds a Professional Counseling practice, these skills affords the executive, entrepreneur, or employing organization the opportunity to address psychological and family relational issues that are 'unseen' but yet impacts performance and motivation. Again, this type of Counselor-Coach-Executive relationship is discrete and avoids public scrutiny.

The Generic Executive Coaching Process

Six processes from the executive coaches’ perspective are identified:

entry and contracting with the individual (and organization, if required)
identifying the issues to be addressed and goals to accomplish
collaborative development of the program, including assessments and tools
scheduling and identifying opportunities for interactive development
action-taking, practice, reflection, and feedback
re-assessment of goals or termination of project

Figure 1 is a sample outlines the key phase of collaboration with the coach and executive, focusing on three paths of personal effectiveness, business and job requirements, and career and personal aspirations. The overall goals will determine the emphasis on any particular area.

Figure 1: Collaborative shared analysis sample