LEAD™ Executive Coaching
Today’s workplace is changing at tremendous speed. Executives and senior managers are racing to keep up as responsibilities grow and expectations soar. Roles lose definition as shifting organizational structures create new demands. Time pressure is overwhelming and, in the press of immediate needs, the big picture often gets lost. So does the leader. Here’s where one-on-one meetings with a highly skilled executive coach come in.

LEAD™ Executive Coaching encourages clients to take full responsibility, moving from problem, to insight, to action. It’s a supportive yet powerful collaboration empowering the leader to confront and resolve issues with optimal insight, creativity, and integrity.
• Gain perspective;
• Understand your leadership gifts and challenges;
• Define what you truly want;
• Strategize to achieve personal and organizational goals;
• Enhance collaboration and networks of influence;
• Expand your leadership presence and impact.

During one-on-one meetings with the coach, work only on the issues that are most critical to success. Coaching includes but is not limited to
• collection and analysis of 360 degree feedback;
• development of a leadership plan;
• interpersonal and leadership skills;
• coaching to enhance team effectiveness;
• managing diversity and gender differences;
• career mapping and networking to expand influence and visibility;
• strengthening leadership presentation/image;
• problem-solving issues as they arise.

Executive Coaching: Applications for Women
Executive women feel they stand on shifting sands as they cope with a vast array of demands and dilemmas. Recent research finds that women cope best with stress through connection with others. The coaching relationship provides this support, encouraging clients as they decide what they truly want and take effective action to achieve it. Next Level coaches employ a wide array of tools and strategies specifically developed to meet the needs of executive women who
• take on too much responsibility at work and shoulder most of the burden at home;
• need to make special effort to be recognized and accepted as leaders;
• walk a tightrope between being seen as either “too aggressive” or “not assertive enough”;
• say they are “too busy” to cultivate influence and market themselves;
• believe they have to work harder than their male peers to advance.

About Next Level Executive Coaches
Next Level coaches are senior level consultants who bring deep and broad experience working with leaders and teams from across many industries including financial services, pharmaceuticals, insurance, banking, oil and gas, utilities, technology, health care, telecommunications, and research. They bring expertise in systems theory, change management, leadership role consultation, executive development, group facilitation, team effectiveness, diversity management, and women’s leadership.
To learn more see: The Next Level, Inc. Facilitators

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