Great leaders move us. They ignite our passion and inspire the best in us. Daniel Goleman Your success as a leader comes not from what you do but from the reflected glory of the people you lead. Jack Welch

Leaders have outsized influence on the results of an organization. Improving your leadership skills can energize your organization and lead to outsized results. Whether you are a high potential person who needs executive polish or a senior leader who needs candid feedback and an unbiased sounding board, effective coaching will help you and your team achieve higher performance.

Leader Transition: Are you a leader in a new role? Learn how to bypass traditional transition performance decline! A study for the Department of the Navy on leadership transitions showed that even high performing organizations with a new leader suffer an initial decline in performance that takes 9 months to overcome. Seemingly simple issues such as how you like to receive bad news and how you make decisions can cause hesitation and indecision among your subordinates. Eliminate those drags with a leader transition process.

Organization Assessment: Is your organization structured and staffed to consistently achieve the bottom line goals? Do you have the right people in the right roles and do they have the right skills? We will assess your structure and people and make recommendations to streamline performance and upgrade execution so your business will be positioned to grow and thrive.

Conflict Resolution: Is conflict costing your organization? Conflict is normal and at its core is simply a disagreement between people. But we all know it is not that simple. We all react emotionally to conflict, and those emotions can become barriers to a reasonable resolution. We provide third party services to facilitate resolution. We also teach listening and communication skills that can avert a disabling conflict.

Decision Making: What is your decision making style? Do you like to decide on your own? Do you like to consult and get input before you decide? Do you like to delegate decisions inside some parameters like budget, time, and expected outcome? How do your subordinates know which style you are using? Each style has its appropriate place. Learn how to intentionally select the right style for the right moment and to tell your team.

Goal Alignment and Deployment: Every leader has bottom line goals for the organization. Whether it is a winning season, making the playoffs or becoming world champions, we all need hard measurable bottom line goals that focus the organization around common objectives. What are your bottom line hard number goals for the year? How do you communicate them? Does everyone know what they are? Do they believe the goals are achievable? How do these goals translate into department goals? How do they translate into the activities necessary to meet the departmental goals? How do you expect people to work together to achieve the goals?

We can help you create organizational goal alignment, buy-in, and focus through a process called cascaded goal alignment. We will take you through a process that makes the bottom line goals clear, gets buy-in from the organization and then translates into departmental and eventually into individual goals. We will help turn those goals into the work processes that support them so everyone is clear on what they need to do in order to achieve the bottom line goals.