The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.
- Brian Tracy
Effective coaching to achieve optimal leadership behaviors and achieve high performance is as much about professionally connecting with the coaching client and understanding his or her goals, abilities, personal characteristics, and passions as it is about initiating a formal coaching process and giving sound advice.
To connect and properly assess leadership and performance assets and liabilities, an effective coach must be able to ask good questions, understand the essence and substance of the client, as well as completely identify the performance objectives and desired outcomes of the role he or she occupies or is pursuing.
Early in your program, we will initiate an effective assessment process, starting with clarifying your situation, goals, and timeline. We will further identify your behavior characteristics and natural acumen and ability traits, along with your hard skills, that impact the achievement of key performance outcomes. We will assess your competencies, strengths, weaknesses, skills, career interests, and goals that are foundational to your career and personal success. Based on the assessments and private discussions, we will develop a development plan that addresses your specific needs and goals to achieve optimum growth. We will then engage in a one-on-one coaching and validation process to help you actualize your desired goals.
If you are new to a company or department, we can address how to best assimilate and thrive in these new areas. We can help you align with the company culture and understand your direct boss's management style and the dynamics of the team and systems you will interact with. When you understand each other's work, communication, decision styles, needs, stress drivers and behaviors, pet peeves, and interests, you can better maximize your performance and relationally integrate into the new role, team, and organization.
Whether you are corporately sponsored or choose to invest in your own development, Leadership and Performance Coaching can be the important vehicle and catalyst you need to achieve your full career potential. Cornerstone is outcome driven, and we will help you get results.
Developmental programs are available in 6, 9 and 12 month duration increments.
Our programs are tailored to the professional level of the client and are very affordably priced. Due to our efficient process and robust technology, your investment can be as little as 1/3 to 1/2 of the cost as the standard market rate. If Performance Enhancement is a need or goal you have identified, give us call and let's discuss your thoughts, aspirations and possible solutions.
- For corporate sponsored coaching, meet with coaching client and any corporate sponsor(s) to identify desired outcomes, working guidelines and mutual expectations
- Gather new or acquire existing 360 degree feedback and/or self assessment data when applicable
- Perform self assessments when self sponsored in lieu of corporate 360 degree tools
- Review competencies required of the desired role and compare them to those of client
- Identify performance expectations of the role as both coachee and management sees it
- Identify performance, skills and/or behavior assets and gaps as they relate to the desired role
- Acquire overall culture, team and/or supervisor style data (as available)
- Design a developmental action plan complete with performance expectations and milestones
- Coach to achieve plan objectives
- Topical situation coaching as needed.
- Initiate periodic mid-program feedback sessions to coaching client and sponsor and identify future focus areas and expectations
- Reassess current performance as it relates to desired outcomes
- Provide final feedback and report complete with future recommendations
- Monitor performance and job satisfaction
- Celebrate goal attainment