BUSINESS OF PEOPLE
DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A TOP EXECUTIVE?
Influencing others, motivating teams, managing conflict and balancing workplace dynamics are only a few of the social competencies that underlie your success as a top professional and executive. Those competencies are an inescapable part of fulfilling your leadership role, and a critical factor in your long-term career success. The following are among the social-competency concerns that are top of mind for today’s executives:
- What steps can I take to transition from executing a function to leading it?
- How can I use my current position to build the skills and experience needed for my next promotion?
- Is there a way to fill the gap between how I am perceived and how I want to be perceived?
- How do I navigate the inevitable workplace politics that can become more prevalent as I progress to higher management levels?
- How do I communicate negative feedback constructively, and in a way that leads to positive change?
- Is it possible to demonstrate leadership without having direct reports?
- What skills are needed to create a culture of engagement and innovation?
EXECUTIVE COACHING BENEFITS
- Knowledge of your executive presence, management style, organizational impact and leadership strengths
- Ability to identify and overcome developmental needs, capability blind spots and counterproductive behavior
- Confidence and skill in serving in formal and informal leadership roles
- Expertise in managing and motivating high-performing teams
- Skill in providing, receiving and acting on meaningful and productive feedback
- Expertise in conflict mediation and prevention
- Understanding of non-verbal communication and its underlying messages
- Ability to sustain new management behavior and practices
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EXPERT GUIDANCE
Your role as an executive team member and respected professional requires the ability to work with people of different backgrounds, positions and temperaments, and your success will depend on how well you fulfill that role.
As your compassionate, honest and trusted ally, I will guide you through a process that helps you develop social competencies and meet your professional goals, creating personalized approaches for managing the human element of leadership.
SELECT SERVICES
- Understand and assess your communication, decision-making, conflict-resolution and leadership skills and style.
- Evaluate your impact on colleagues and others with whom you interact, and their perception of you as a leader.
- Create a personalized, professional-development plan focusing on interpersonal and social-competency goals.
- Build expertise in understanding and applying verbal and non-verbal communication principles that are critical to winning engagement and support.
- Instill confidence in the full range of work and social situations.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS…AND ANSWERS
Today’s new workplace realities unquestionably make for challenging conditions, though they do not diminish the importance of social-competency skills. In fact, we are being called upon to hear the deeper and critical emotional content, and context, of all communications by listening more carefully, and being more sensitive to tone of voice. We need to continue to perfect social competencies in every in-person situation, across all our relationships.
Changing jobs is not your only path to advanced skills development. Your current position can be your best platform for stretch opportunities that can further expand your experience, knowledge and expertise. It can also raise your visibility and build your reputation, not only within your organization but also your industry.
There are proven leadership practices that can enhance team and individual engagement. They include knowing how to recognize and support team members’ strengths, motivations and goals, and providing opportunities that foster their individual growth experiences, competencies and career progress.
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