Entrepreneurs…Executive Coaching Can Work for You!

Growing the Business – an entrepreneur’s goal

Do you know how successful businesses grow and which leadership skills keep their growth on track?

Ongoing research has determined the stages every successful business passes through as well as the leadership skills necessary to prevent stalling or retrenchment. Does your organization have the talent it needs to grow or reach its five year plan?

Working with an executive coach, you can assess where your business is in the growth cycle, identify which leadership skills are critical to keep your business on track at each stage and help you develop and/or recruit the talent you might need.

Research has identified:

1. the stages of growth for small companies and the talent a company needs at each stage and to keep growing
2. the capabilities needed at the individual, team, and cultural levels to deliver on a company’s strategic plan
3. how successful executives develop and how they differ from those who derail
4. how to accurately assess and develop the necessary leadership talent and organizational capability

By applying what ongoing research is showing us, we can zero in where a company is in its growth cycle. You can identify the talent you need to continue growing and spot where any gaps exist.  Then, you can develop action plans to bridge them.

Executive Coaching

Does your organization have the talent it needs to reach its five year plan?

How does your organization find, select, develop and retain people with the talent it needs?

“What do you need to be good at to succeed?”
Many executives are discovering that coaching improves their leadership impact or that of their high potential leaders. In the process of coaching we ask, “What do you need to be good at to meet the challenges facing you over the next year?” Coaching strengthens the skills that are critical to success. To bring clarity to the process, we provide executive level 360o feedback. These data contribute to an action plan that becomes the basis of coaching conversations. The power of 360 o feedback is more than its information; it’s in the coach’s ability to combine this with other information to have transformational conversations with the client.

A Transformational Experience
An Action Plan is created to promote insight, growth and integration of new thinking and behavior; it drives the transformational experience. It is also used to measure results. Coaches tackle business issues and dilemmas. They challenge assumptions and auto pilot behaviors. Coaches serve as partners in thought leadership, offering new ideas, fresh approaches, and innovative solutions. The coaching relationship is confidential, supportive, stretching and enlightening. Our expertise in human behavior enables us to help people change, improve and achieve their potential. Being external to the organization assures the confidentiality needed to bring about transformation.

Action Planning and Measuring Results
Monthly coaching looks at what’s working and not working, what’s missing, and what’s needed to produce what’s missing, what kind of leader you need to be, and the legacy you want to leave. Each month we assess where you stand against your Action Plan. We assess leadership and business challenges, learnings and accomplishments, what’s missing, and what’s next? The discipline of coaching keeps people focused on their goals and Plans, and encourages them to create new opportunities for action and results.

If Behavior Were Easy to Change, It Would Have Changed By Now
Executive coaching impacts leadership gaps that have been showing up on people’s 360-degree feedback for 15 plus years. Would you like to reach your leadership and business goals as well as advance your career? Would you like to develop the talent in your organization? Would you like to learn how executive coaching can help you achieve these goals? Let us use our advanced training and experience in human behavior to bring about transformation.

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Pamela Corbett is an executive coach, career and outplacement counselor, organizational consultant and psychotherapist with her own practice, Spectrum Psychological Services based in Winston-Salem, NC. Licensed in North Carolina and trained in clinical psychology (Penn State and Indiana University of Pennsylvania), Pam is a certified Master Practitioner of NLP and is certified in the entire suite of Career, Leadership, and Organizational Architect Tools. Pamela has been providing executive assessment, development planning, coaching, and training through her own business and as adjunct faculty with the Center for Creative Leadership since 1986. Pam’s earlier work experience includes a veterinary hospital start-up, television production, insurance claims negotiation, inpatient and outpatient psychotherapy, and teaching at Wake Forest University. Her coaching profile can be found at TheCoachingAssociation.com.