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What We Achieve Together

Coaching is about developing what you already have and optimizing or maximizing your impact. I’m not raising my hand to make you ‘smarter’ and you don’t need that. I’m raising my hand to support your discovery of more confidence, increased effectiveness, and ultimately you feeling like your feet are on a stronger foundation. Maybe you see it yourself or you are getting feedback about how the next step is a challenging one to take or you have some ‘derailers’ surfacing that may keep you from your best success. Maybe, just maybe, you feel like it’s all just harder than it needs to be and want to have confidential and objective support to figure that out.

I’m not here to “fix” you. In fact, I hope you know you aren’t broken!

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What Do We Talk About?

Perhaps you have had a chance to explore what leadership means to you or maybe not. Regardless of where you are on that spectrum, we can work to fine-tune your attitudes and actions about your leadership style and how you manage the context in which you lead. We can explore how that changes as you take on new projects, more teams, or increasingly complex challenges?

For introverted skeptics, this often includes conversations about putting yourself out there with your team members, your peers, your leaders. You may be challenged by team members who are far different from your style and seeking to reap the rewards available among those differences.

Not sure what to say? Or how to say it? Or when to say it? Those questions keeping you from saying anything at all? When you do, it feels like you asked ‘That Question’. You know the one that stops conversation? The silence is deafening and you aren’t entirely certain if that’s good or bad.

Introverted skeptics might be tempted to internalize the worst version of those events. Let’s talk about those questions or critiques that aren’t always welcome that sound like ‘speak up’ or ‘include others more’. We can craft an appropriate message so you aren’t relying on the first words that are coming to mind. The message matters beyond intelligent content. Speaking of content, sometimes it’s easy to keep iterating on which approach is best.

Sometimes it feels as if there’s the choice you ‘should’ make that is in competition with what you believe is the best decision. You want to honor what the organization wants while also doing what’s best for you and your team. Particularly as you rise in the organization, it’s important to look to the horizon and beyond – not just at your feet. We will partner to frame out the direction, the communications and how to influence stakeholders to buy-in to those strategies and plans. The agenda and direction is fully yours with me as your sounding board and ‘devil’s advocate’ challenger so you have a robust plan that gives you confidence and clarity of direction.