Executive and Leadership Development
Strategies must be succinct and understood up and down the organization, everyone knows their role in executing against the plan. Organizations that embrace coaching and mentoring as their core people development tools will beat their competition. Empower your leaders and their teams to excel, solve problems, to work as teams and leverage the combined talent and skills of your people. In order to achieve optimal performance, establishing the right leadership, culture and structure of the organization are imperatives.
Leaders require followers, followers only happen if you are worthy of the mantle “leader”, this requires a person who excels at communication, vision, and mastery of the soft skills of business. As with any role within a business, one must achieve mastery of the technical requirements of your job, including those of management, but leadership requires mastery of people skills.
We provide leadership coaching at the individual and team level, management all the way up to executive team. The results have meaningful impact on the culture of organizations, improved team morale, much improved productivity, customer service, and bottom line growth. As the leadership team improves its soft skills, embraces coaching and mentoring, the vision and culture of the organization snaps in behind, with greater trust and buy-in.
“Culture eats Strategy” (Harvard Business Review) - if you don’t have an aligned top down, bottom up culture, your strategies will suffer and struggle. Great leaders drive great alignment through significant influence and communication skills.
These industry numbers support this outcome and how coaching and mentoring programs significantly benefit organizations:
Leaders require followers, followers only happen if you are worthy of the mantle “leader”, this requires a person who excels at communication, vision, and mastery of the soft skills of business. As with any role within a business, one must achieve mastery of the technical requirements of your job, including those of management, but leadership requires mastery of people skills.
We provide leadership coaching at the individual and team level, management all the way up to executive team. The results have meaningful impact on the culture of organizations, improved team morale, much improved productivity, customer service, and bottom line growth. As the leadership team improves its soft skills, embraces coaching and mentoring, the vision and culture of the organization snaps in behind, with greater trust and buy-in.
“Culture eats Strategy” (Harvard Business Review) - if you don’t have an aligned top down, bottom up culture, your strategies will suffer and struggle. Great leaders drive great alignment through significant influence and communication skills.
These industry numbers support this outcome and how coaching and mentoring programs significantly benefit organizations:
- We surveyed 45 CEOs who have formal mentoring arrangements, and 71% said they were certain that company performance had improved as a result. (Harvard Business Review 2015)
- Sun Microsystems 1,000 mentored employees (Gartner 2006) - Mentored employees were promoted 5 times more than those who were not mentored
- 96% of organizations report to have seen individual performance improve since coaching was introduced. Nearly as many (92%) also have seen improvements in leadership and management effectiveness (“Coaching Counts,” 2007). (Korn/Ferry retrospective studies 2009)
- 70.7% to 93.8% positive responses, suggesting that coaching contributes to sustained behavioural change (Genger, 1997) (“Coaching Counts,” 2007). (Korn/Ferry retrospective studies 2009)