Leadership As a Way of Life

“In a world that is changing as rapidly as this one, we need to think differently about leadership,” says Susan Collins, author of Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success. “Leading is not done by those few in high places, but by parents and teachers and managers and those governing — all working together to create the world that we want.”

When we dare to stand up for our beliefs or follow through on our big dreams and ideas, when we act as though what we say and do in the world matters — matters greatly — we are leading. In other words, leadership is a way of life, an expression of our fullest and best nature, our unique gifts. And it starts on the inside.

“Everything rises and falls on leadership,” writes John C. Maxwell in his book The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader. “If you can become the leader you ought to be on the inside, you will be able to become the leader you want to be on the outside. People will want to follow you. And when that happens, you’ll be able to tackle anything in this world.”

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Executive Coaching Is Critical To Organizations Today

86 percent of companies say they used coaching to sharpen the skills of individuals who have been identified as future organizational leaders. They also understand the value of an investment in executive coaching.

IBM has more than sixty certified coaches among its ranks. At the executive level, development feedback becomes increasingly important, more infrequent, and more unreliable. Many executives plateau in critical interpersonal and leadership skills.

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Take Charge of Your Career

The workplace has changed. Organizational life has changed and the rules of career success have changed along with them. AND the good news is…You are in charge!

Whether you are in job search now or thinking about making a change, you must prepare yourself for the new world of work. You must learn how to market yourself, know what your skills are and how to go about developing a job search strategy. Don’t wait until you are no longer in charge!

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The Business Results of Coaching

Without a doubt, coaching is the hottest approach to enhancing the performance of the people in an enterprise—whether it’s teams of coaches working with managers in an association, Fortune 500 company, transition coaching for new C-level executive hires, or coaches working with the owners of small businesses or sole proprietorships. It is clear from the increasing acceptance and investment in coaching, among the broad spectrum of business in many countries, that we believe coaching works.

But how well does it work? And how hard is it to measure?

In recent years, there have been a couple of detailed, well-documented studies that put the ROI of major coaching engagements within Fortune 500 companies between 600% and 700%, depending upon how improved retention was calculated.

But studies of this precision—funded by the corporate clients—are generally too costly to be meaningful as a sustained way of assessing the business benefits of coaching even at the level of large corporations.

Moreover, the issue of the benefits of coaching is, if anything, even more relevant to small business. For many firms considering hiring a coach, the notion of funding a major study to assess the results is laughable, yet it is critical that they be able to associate the benefits they are deriving from their investment in coaching.

To a certain extent, the challenge of measuring the benefits of coaching depends upon why the coach has been engaged in the first place. In some cases, the goal of a coaching engagement can be fairly easy to quantify—improving meeting management skills, for example. You can measure how many meetings start on time, how many end on time and survey meeting attendees for their evaluation of the effectiveness of the meeting. With a little imagination, such measures could be converted to hard dollar savings or productivity increases and an actual ROI developed.

Often, however, the connection between the behavior and the result isn’t so clear.

“One of the biggest challenges in measuring coaching is that tangible, behavioral change is usually linked to intangible mindsets and beliefs,” explains researcher Terry Bacon, of Lore International Institute. “Effective measurement strategies require that we make those intangibles measurable.”

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360°Reach Branding Assessment Special

What Do People Think About YOU?

An executive brand is becoming a required business value. Your brand combines personal and business qualities. In today's marketplace senior professionals are beginning to take very seriously the concept of themselves as a brand.

Executives need to understand how they are perceived internally and externally. As well, it is important to constantly review their current brand and modify it.

The most successful leaders use what makes them unique, their brands, to help them succeed. Coaches work with executive clients on brand building activities to enable them to expand their personal fulfillment and professional accomplishments

What is 360°Reach?

360°Reach is the first and leading web-based personal brand assessment that helps you get the real story about how you are viewed by those around you. It gives you the critical feedback you need so you can expand your career or business success. It's an integral part of the personal branding process and an indispensable tool for thriving in today's professional environment.

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How Can a Coach Help Your Career?

Coaching has quickly become one of the leading resources people use to transform their lives from disappointing or merely successful to extraordinary.

From senior executives to up-and-comers, people who hire coaches are learning how to set better goals for themselves, increase self-awareness, improve performance, and develop strategies that improve their overall quality of life.

The relationship between coach and client is based on the premise that nothing is broken or wrong or needs to be fixed - coaches are not therapists. Coaches do help clients discover what is most important in their lives, but they do so primarily by looking at the present and the future, rather than by placing a heavy emphasis on the past. From this discovery, coaches assist in developing action plans to help clients create a better future for themselves. However, while a coach may be able to show the client a window, it's up to the client to look through it. Coaches will try to hold clients accountable, but in the end clients are accountable only to themselves. If a client is willing to work hard and think critically, then a coach can help bring clarity.

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A Move Within Present Organization

When making a move within your organization, it is usually one of two basic options: a) A move that is a step up (a promotion) or b) A move that is across the career ladder and/or the organizational structure (a lateral move). Since people are quite familiar with the concept of moving up or advancing your career and what a promotion implies, no further explanation is needed.

However, not everyone may fully understand what is and why someone wants to make a lateral move. A lateral move involves transferring to a different but equal to the one you presently have. This is a professional shift to consider when you want to remain with your present employer, but want to further develop as a professional and therefore, interested in expanding your skills and experience base. For example, Bill a HR Specialist with some responsibility for writing training materials, develops a growing interest in writing and editing. This results in his request for a lateral move to the In House Publications Department since one future possibility is working for an organization specializing in HR publications.

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