Leadership Coaching for Managers

Overview

Leadership Coaching for Managers is a unique, holistic, custom coaching program designed to take your career and organization to the next level. It combines proven strategies from leadership, management, project management, customer service, sales, public speaking, career, relationship, and life coaching to help you master valuable skills and overcome obstacles that are holding you back. A wide variety of topics are discussed from these nine categories: communication, customers, leadership, management, people, projects, self, strategy, and teams. It has been proven effective for both new and seasoned managers, in a wide variety of industries, including government and nonprofits.

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The Leadership Gap

Most individuals and organizations suffer from a silent but deadly leadership gap that is costing them plenty. It's a common phenomenon that slows growth, reduces income, and causes problems to multiply. The individual and organizational symptoms and their true costs are only recognized by a trained eye. Leaders often write them off as normal and inevitable, with no serious consequences and no available cure. They let things continue as they are. But the cost of these issues is substantial, and the dysfunction is totally preventable. It's just a matter of time before the debt catches up with them, their options become more limited, the cure becomes more expensive, and their survival rate plummets.

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Individual Outcomes

There are five main goals for individual leaders:

1. Increase your influence, effectiveness, and​ value.

2. Get the raise and promotion you deserve.

3. Build your confidence and learn new skills that will remove the big headaches and problems you have to deal with.

4. Unleash the power of your team.

5. Make Monday your favorite day of the week because you 're excited to go to work.

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Organizational Outcomes

There are five top goals at the organizational or company level:

1. Increase revenue, market share, and customer satisfaction.

2. Reduce costs, problems, and employee turnover.

3. Get to market faster. Deliver projects on time, quality, budget, and scope.

4. Elevate employee satisfaction, engagement, productivity, and ownership.

5. Deliver the maximum possible value to become the vendor of choice. People choose you because you get it done faster, better, and cheaper than everyone else.​

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If you're in government then the outcomes are similar except you want to increase funding levels and improve job security. If you're at a nonprofit, then the goal is to increase fundraising and deliver more impact. In every case, you're delivering so much value that everyone wants more of you.

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Level-Up Your Career

Leadership Coaching for Managers will help you feel more confident, be more assertive, and take more initiative. You'll learn how to unleash the power of your team, add more value to your customers, and have a bigger impact on your organization. It will help you improve your communication, public speaking, negotiation, sales, goal setting, time management, project management, and people skills. It will help you learn to be more effective as you lead and manage in today's challenging times of rapid change.

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Leadership Coaching for Managers includes a unique, holistic life coaching program to help you overcome obstacles that are holding you back. You'll learn how to develop new habits, build stronger relationships, create a better work-life balance, and manage your emotions and stress.

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Level-Up Your Organization

Deliver exceptional organizational results by enrolling your key leaders. Improve financial results, employee engagement, and customer loyalty. The program has been proven effective in public and private companies, nonprofits, and government organizations of all types and sizes, regardless of industry.

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Enroll your top leaders for a unique and powerful experience that will help you transform your entire organization. Schedule individual weekly or monthly coaching sessions for each member of your team for the next 6 to 12 months. Augment this with team sessions. Elevate individual performance by including 360 reviews, incentives, and manager feedback. Make critical knowledge part of your organizational DNA.

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Coach Your New Managers

Leadership Coaching for Managers is a great way to help new managers be great leaders. It is quite common to promote a top performer and individual contributor to a management position without giving them the training they need to be successful. Management and leadership require a completely different set of skills than an individual contributor.

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Coach Your Second-Level Managers

Leadership Coaching for Managers is a great way to help your second-level managers and above to be more successful. First-level managers are usually promoted to second-level managers without additional training. A second-level manager is a manager of managers. They manage everyone reporting to them: individual contributors, managers, and the employees reporting to these managers. This requires a different set of skills than a first-level manager.

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Manage Your Boss

Leadership Coaching for Managers provides the skills and perspective necessary to manager your boss. You'll learn how to improve this critical relationship and become more valuable from your boss's perspective. This in turn helps your boss since they will receive the most important things they want in a timely fashion. It's a win/win solution.

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Training Isn't Enough

Creating a culture of continuous self-improvement and training isn't enough. The most dysfunctional organization we've ever encountered required their employees to attend external seminars to get hired and promoted. It held internal trainings on Saturday mornings every month, weeklong trainings twice a year, and three-day trainings on a quarterly basis. There were extensive internal training programs required for each job category. There was a recommended reading list and books available for purchase at the corporate office.

 

All of this training looked impressive, but it had the opposite effect. People attended these mandatory trainings only to check the box. They didn't learn anything or make changes to their habits. They talked about how great the training was in public but complained that it was a waste of time in private. They began to view all training as the same. They had attended everything and they had become the best they were going to be. They became more set in their old ways, and this created a toxic work environment.

 

This company made a big mistake. They prescribed medicine for their employees that was the wrong medicine. It had no ability to cure the problem. They measured training activity instead of behavioral changes. They blindly believed training would help them achieve their corporate goals but never bothered to measure the actual results. Unfortunately, the medicine was the poison, and it caused a lot of problems.

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Coaching Is Critical

Leadership training programs deliver knowledge that is quickly forgotten. Coaching is the critical success factor for implementing knowledge, mastering new skills, and achieving excellence. Coaches focus on making behavioral changes that achieve the desired results. 

 

Coaches customize their content to help you meet your highest priority needs in the moment. Instead of delivering standard content, they customize the information. They help you build skills and completely implement knowledge in a way that works best for you. Coaches help you finetune your skills. They help you turn important knowledge into actionable skills that become part of your DNA. 

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Top 10 Things to Look for in a Coach

It’s important that you find a coach who's a good fit for your specific needs. Here are the top ten things to look for when hiring a coach.

1. They need to have real experience working in leadership positions so they can provide real solutions instead of unproven theories.

2. They need to listen to you, understand you, understand your organization, and see beyond what you’re saying.

3. They must get feedback from your supervisor, your peers, your direct reports, and other key stakeholders to hear firsthand what you do well and how you can do better.

4. They need to take a holistic approach that combines proven strategies from leadership, management, project management, customer service, sales, public speaking, career, relationship, and life coaching to help you master valuable skills and overcome obstacles that keep you from delivering your highest potential.

5. They need to have extensive expertise in a wide variety of topics from these nine categories: communication, customers, leadership, management, people, projects, self, strategy, and teams.

6. They need to customize their coaching to address the root cause of the problem and provide solutions that are tailored to meet your specific needs.

7. They need to use just-in-time-coaching to solve your most pressing issue in the moment.

8. They need to provide you with new paradigms and help you see things from different perspectives.

9. They need to tell you the truth and hold you accountable.

10. They need to meet with you over an extended period of time to ensure your knowledge is turned into action and you master the skills completely.

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Personal Challenges

In this fast-paced world, managers face a unique set of challenges. Balancing leadership responsibilities with personal career goals can feel like a tightrope walk. Many find themselves stuck in the cycle of underperformance, miscommunication, and unresolved team conflicts, leading to stagnant career growth and diminished team productivity. The traditional approaches to self-improvement and management training often fail to address the root causes of these challenges, leaving many to wonder if true leadership success is out of reach.

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At some point in their careers, all managers feel frustrated, stuck, and overwhelmed. There are many reasons: they got passed over for a promotion, their team isn't performing, they aren't getting along with their manager, they have no work-life balance, or they aren't doing work that is meaningful and fulfilling. They've tried everything they can think of to improve but haven't made much progress. Some managers choose to give up and check out, and some managers choose to leave in search of a fresh start and new opportunities.

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Solution

You'll learn how to be a better leader and manager, and a better you, which are all required for success. You'll see tangible results.

• From Overwhelmed to In Control: Learn to navigate the complexities of leadership with confidence, transforming workplace challenges into opportunities for growth.

• From Conflict to Collaboration: Master the art of communication and people skills to foster a collaborative team environment that encourages innovation and creativity.

• From Stagnation to Advancement: Break free from career stagnation with personalized strategies for goal setting, time management, and career development.

• From Frustrated to Reinvigorated: Learn to control your emotions, manage stress, manage your workload, and enjoy a fulfilling career.

• From Manager to Leader: Learn to influence, inspire, and empower others by improving your servant leadership, relationship building, and public speaking skills.

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​​Be Your Best

Almost all high-performing athletes have at least one coach so they can be their best. Individuals and organizational leaders are increasingly seeing the benefits of coaching. Coaching converts knowledge into useful skills over time. Coaching is focused on taking your life and organization to the next level. Coaches can help you see things you can’t, master skills completely, and achieve your goals sooner than you could on your own. The best coaches take things to a much higher level: they help you transform your life and achieve things you didn't think were possible for you.

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