Leadership Development Programs
Our Leadership Development Coaching Programs enable managers to close the gap between what they know about leadership and what they actually do as leaders. This includes being fully accountable for results, proactively and creatively addressing business opportunities and issues, balancing priorities, listening, handling conflict, and developing and motivating their team members.
These leadership development coaching engagements enhance your current talent management programs. They reinforce existing training and mentoring programs with one-on-one laser-like focus on issues and challenges that are specific to each of your leaders.
Engagement durations are generally six months, and can be customized to address your specific needs. We leverage performance assessment tools you already have in place, and can augment them with industry-standard tools as necessary. We include unlimited personal email contact and “power coaching” calls upon request.
We also deliver Leadership Team Development Programs that enable “Leaders of Leaders” to enhance their entire organization’s performance. These short programs engage teams of leaders in organizational improvement projects, which deliver short term benefits and long term improvements in leadership team effectiveness.
In addition, we also offer coordinated top-down leadership team coaching for a unique approach to driving sustainable culture change with relatively low risk.
To optimize cost and time management, we are flexible about coaching session locations and the use of audio and video conferencing tools.
Our strength in strategic IT cost and performance optimization further sets us apart from most coaching programs. We’ve worked in the IT service delivery trenches for over 15 years, and have successfully addressed most of the challenges your IT leaders face every day.
Update - We have been helping entrepreneurs increase revenue, introduce new products, build whole new businesses, and reclaim their quality of life. Our coaching services are not just for mid-to-large-sized companies. If you are a solopreneur or entrepreneur who wants to achieve more, we can help.
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Client Feedback:
• “Before I started leadership development coaching with Bob I was concerned that it might be too prescriptive. I didn’t think it was going to be as interactive or as real-life-scenario based as it turned out to be.
The coaching helped me become more organized in my approach to managing and leading my team. I think what worked really well was that while we first worked some
exercises from Bob’s program, we then came up with exercises based on specific and unique challenges that I was dealing with in the workplace.
I would encourage any leader to engage Bob as a coach. In a fast-paced high-pressure environment like financial services, that accelerates your success and reduces your risk. It helps you work on the important things that you might not easily make time for during the normally hectic work day." Manager, Product Development, at a global financial services firm.
• “Bob is easy to talk to and creates a comfortable environment for the discussions. He knows enough about how our company works to understand the issues we bring to the table, but as an "outsider" he brings an open unbiased perspective. Bob is very good at identifying the underlying issues for a concern and seems to have just the right probing question to make you look inside the problem (or yourself) to find a solution. Working with him was a pleasure.” Group Leader, IT, at a global financial services firm.
• “I was cynical about business coaching before I started working with Bob on my photography business. I didn’t see how talking about my challenges would make any real change in my situation.
But… the initial impact on my vision, energy and plans has been huge! I’ve moved from focusing on all the reasons why I couldn’t to a whole new set of “I coulds”. I’ve discovered that the obstacles to realizing my dreams as a professional photographer were not the economy, the market place, or my lack of knowledge or contacts. But instead it was only my set of limiting beliefs.
Bob’s coaching has gone way beyond helping me “feel good”. He’s enabled me to identify several very specific approaches to building a photography business unique to my skills and interests, and that will make great use of resources that I can readily develop.
Bob helps break through a lot of noise that obstructs progress, and cuts right to the essentials. He guides you to identify clear goals and strategies, rather than allow you to hold yourself back with the same tired excuses. Bob pushes you to think beyond a narrow task-oriented scope, to a broader vision of greater success. I highly recommend him to any professional who wants more for themselves or from their business.”
- Ara Kantardjian, Owner, Ara Kantardjian Photography – akantardjian.smugmug.com”
Sample Engagements:
• Delivered leadership development coaching to over 100 IT managers in a culturally diverse $5B global financial services company. Clients reported significant improvements in prioritization, time management, delegation, communication, team effectiveness, performance management, and key stakeholder relationships.
• Provided team development coaching to multiple IT leadership teams. One sponsoring leader reported, “The team building program has brought people together, given them a very clear message that they own the problems their teams face, and own the responsibility to solve them. I've seen a lot more collaboration between team members ranging from hiring to brainstorming about projects and problems. It has had the desired effect when it comes to fostering empowerment and ownership.”
One of the program participants reported, “I enjoyed the Leadership Team Empowerment Program so much that I imitated that with my own team. It turned out to be the secret to put any team in an autopilot mode to a highly functioning team. All my team members actively participated in the event, proposed many excellent action items and acted on these actions without my involvement.”
