What we think and feel impacts how we behave. We may think we're flying under the radar, but a leader's inner world has so much influence on the people around him or her, that neuroscientists consider your brain to be the most important one in the building. Feeling grumpy in the corner office? Well, so does the guy in shipping now, too. Emotions spread like viruses, they're contagious. That's power. And powerful. Because ultimately, it affects the bottom line of your business, It impacts how teams work together--or don't. How you give feedback or receive it from the people who are in the know (at any level). And the quality of the well-being of everyone around you. Happier workers make better employees. They're better problem solvers, have more creative ideas, are more enthusiastic and pleasant to be around, and are better leaders in their own right.
The Great Resignation has uncovered where the cracks are in organizations. Often, it’s with leadership.
It makes smart strategic sense for leaders to be self-aware: of their inner world, their behaviors, and their impact on others. A leader who has self-awareness is more able to lead skillfully and masterfully. To delegate appropriately. Take smart calculated risks. To stretch themselves and inspire others. To even ask for help when they don't have all the answers themselves. (Hint: leaders can’t actually have all the answers themselves.)
Entry points for coaching 1:1, or in groups or teams:
Goal Clarification, Goal Setting, and Goal Prioritizing is a process of clarifying where you are right now and where you want to end up. Many people find the process of goal clarification to be uplifting and energizing as they discover talents, resources, and strengths they hadn't realized are part of who they've been all along.
Leadership Coaching to integrate new hires into the org; help groom and develop high-potentials toward competency and mastery; help leaders at all levels sharpen their skills, gain confidence, work through difficult conversations including offering feedback.
Career Coaching has never been more relevant. 1) One of the best ways to retain real talent is to help them develop into their next role within the organization, and even develop them for the role they will have when they leave you someday. (And can invite them back again.) 2) No one cares more about your career than you. Investing in finding the next job at the next workplace is not just about writing a resume. It’s about finding the right fit based not only on the pay-raise you’ll get, but also your values and other personal needs; investing in your network; and in the case of career change, experimenting with possibilities.
Group or Team Coaching helps bring individuals together from varied teams to move seamlessly across silos on specific projects, or it helps teams discover how they work best together and toward common goals. It’s a way to make effective change at the project level with greater efficiency, energy, and improved communication with all voices represented for greatest productivity, clarity, creativity and ease. Creates more psychological safety, clarifies processes and expectations, puts systems in place for successfully reaching goals.
ShiftPositive 360-Degree Leadership Assessment: 360 assessments have long been used in industry to help develop leaders by getting a landscape portrait of what leaders can improve on. Instead, it's no secret that they often leave the leader or manager wounded and demoralized. The ShiftPositive 360, however, is inspired by the best of what the traditional 360s were meant to do, but it swiftly veers 180 degrees away. Unlike other 360s it focuses on what’s already working and how to help leaders and managers do more of that. Because the questions are designed to uncover the best in the leader, this 360 both cultivates and enhances relationships, while opening channels of communication that may never have existed before. It uplifts everyone involved—including respondents as well as the leader who gets a clear path forward toward positive change.
Culture Audits: Often, leadership is the last to know under what premise their employees are really operating. If you don't all share the same vision and cultural understanding, you're not working effectively--and that's affecting your organization's productivity and bottom line. I conduct interviews with teams (or whole workplaces) to discover what the often hidden and prevailing beliefs are about your organization. From there we can design a program to get everyone rowing together. True teaming.