Driving Improved Results – The Dance of Business

Our Executive Business Coaching program is a valuable privilege and a powerful tool for star performers who wish to shine more brightly – akin to a world-class athlete who seeks coaching in order to excel at a new, higher level. Sometimes, executive development or decision-making requires a confidential, one-to-one relationship where a wide range of issues can be explored and resolved.  Through systematic assessments and dialog, you can engage in this powerful coaching process that addresses both bottom line and balance of life issues.

What is Executive Business Coaching?

Coaching is a process through which executives are helped to improve their performance and personal effectiveness while reducing stress. Our program offers the rare opportunity to stand back and to take a fresh look at the experience and assumptions of a lifetime.

• Facilitates the identification of inner resources
• Targets growth areas
• Promotes a healthy balance between career and personal life which sustains the vitality necessary for effective leadership
• May reveal the need to learn specific behaviors aimed at enhancing short-term or long-term performance
• May challenge underlying beliefs and values and invite more fundamental changes

Benefits of Executive Business Coaching

While people like to think that their problems are unique, they rarely are, and hearing another perspective can be refreshing and enlightening.  Depending on the precise form and style of the coaching relationship, benefits include:

• Greater clarity and focus
• Improved decision-making skills
• Enhanced creativity
• Improved balance in all aspects of life
• Greater effectiveness and better performance
• Hearing a different perspective
• Better evaluations of opportunities, risks and rewards

The Coaching Decision

The coaching process can take a number of forms depending on who the individual is and who is asking for the coaching.  The executive coaching process can be used to identify what skill-sets the executive needs to develop for the next stage in his or her career.  It can be used to identify resources or actions needed to achieve goals.

• Step 1. The process begins with briefing where coach Jeri Quinn and the executive meet, become acquainted, discuss whether coaching is the best approach to achieve the objectives, and decide matters of confidentiality.
• Step 2. The style of the program is determined, depending on what has been negotiated and the outcomes that have been agreed upon.
• Step 3. The coach questions the executive in depth and may give him/her questionnaires to complete. The coach may watch the client at work and in certain circumstances will interview bosses, peers, and subordinates.
• Step 4. Both executive and coach review and identify key strengths and weaknesses as well as developmental needs and put together a plan.
• Step 5. Jeri works together with the executive on the agreed objectives.  This process generally ebbs once the executive is established in a steady attitude towards continuous improvement of leadership abilities and has developed an organizational support mechanism for ongoing growth.

The Coach

The process of hiring an Executive Coach is highly personal. Your decision must be based on trust and commitment. Only when both are established can the relationship begin to move forward in a positive and successful direction.

While a business coach offers direction and assistance, the choice to change rests with the individual. It is he or she that discovers self-knowledge, which forms the foundation for continued growth.

The coach has no internal links with the company and therefore can be freely confided in. The coach also brings experience of similar situations from other businesses and plays many roles as the relationship progresses. Roles often played include:

Ready to get Started?

Executive coaching is often the best way for an individual and an organization to grasp the nettle of change in today’s demanding atmosphere. To schedule a complimentary mutual evaluation or for further information, contact us at info@drivingimprovedresults.com or call (212) 923-5820.