Gaining The Missing Vantage Perspective
It’s clear running a team or an entire organization effectively over time is rarely, if ever, easy. Yet, in the face of resistance or solutions to improve that don’t stick, you persist.
How you approach work problems matters. You can gain the upper hand by using the vantage points of effective change and by building your skills to navigate those needed areas. Relationships particularly get stressed as groups grapple to confront what’s still missing when results remain elusive. While all groups are subject to the same pitfalls, you can be challenged to isolate the true source of the issues and move through them.
I can be at your side as a coach, consultant, or both, knowing well the path it takes for leaders to get their objectives and hopes aligned with and supported by those they lead. In our work together you will learn to produce shared actionable assessments, goals, and decisions using communication that achieves those needed results.
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Coaching
We begin with understanding and examining what is at the heart of the presenting issues and how you will approach what then gets revealed. We look closely at the leader you are now and the leader you will need to be to effectively address whatever arises. Coaching provides timely insight into how to unleash your potential and the potential of others to effectively align for new action.
We also review your workplace strategy for ensuring the alignment of everyone’s role and actions to the team or organization’s purpose. From this, work strategies can be strengthened or streamlined with the aim for improvements that all agree focus appropriately, and efficiently, toward more satisfying outcomes.
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Consulting
What goes wrong in organizations is often initially diagnosed as technical problems and resource accessibility issues. When approached this way the leader’s response frequently leads to more meetings, developing bigger data bases, etc., though with little return on the investment as these choices alone can be off the mark.
Consulting with me around workplace culture and work processes, when combined with leadership coaching, quickly gets you to the heart of the matter. We assess the group's self-initiative and sense of responsibility along with current work methods. In this way, we will know how best to strengthen commitment and responsibility to achieve the needed outcomes.
“An indicator for the success of [your] coaching me might be the result of the recent workshop we had [with our division]. Our facilitators said that our group had the best results in teamwork they had ever seen in the [World] Bank. Many thanks again, to you, Scott.”
- H. Dirk Koehler, Publisher: Office of the Publisher, The World Bank