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PERSONAL COACHING
Leadership onboarding coaching helps the executive adapt to the employer's culture, create rapport with their team and develop productive ways to achieve necessary goals.
SELF ASSESSMENT CENTER
Leadership skills and style testing. Know how you motivate and coach people to gain success at work and in life.
SELF-COACHING RESOURCES
Effective leaders keep up-to-date with effective self-coaching.
WHAT IS LEADERSHIP?
Leadership is an interactive conversation that pulls people toward becoming comfortable with the language of personal responsibility and commitment.
LEADERSHIP TIPS
“The crux of leadership development that works is self-directed learning: intentionally developing or strengthening an aspect of who you are or who you want to be, or both.” Primal Leadership by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis & Annie McKee (Harvard Business School Press)

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New Job Coaching

The new partner, hired from a prestigious strategy firm, looked like the ideal candidate to build a major new practice area.

His new firm, best known for its operations and technology consulting, was delighted to get an experienced leader with a record of revenue generation, publications, and C-level client relationships who could bolster its historically weak strategy brand. From the new partner’s perspective, he would be operating on a broader platform that included stronger implementation capabilities. A win-win combination. And yet, what seemed like a perfect scenario quickly became a perfect storm. Click here for the complete story.

Leaders in new positions often fail for a few common reasons: due to unclear or outsized expectations, a failure to build partnerships with key stakeholders, a failure to learn the company, industry or the job itself fast enough, a failure to determine the process for gaining commitments from direct reports and a failure to recognize and manage the impact of change on people.