Unlock Your Leadership Potential
Average managers let issues go unresolved. Good managers solve problems.
Great leaders prevent them. The best leaders achieve breakthrough success.
Our Services
Leadership Coaching for Managers is a unique, holistic, custom coaching program designed to take your career and organization to the next level. It has been proven effective for both new and seasoned managers, in a wide variety of industries, including government and nonprofits. It is also effective at preparing high potential leaders for being promoted to managers.
Leadership Coaching Areas
It combines proven strategies from the following coaching areas:
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Executive, leadership, management, strategy, culture, and organizational change
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Employee development, motivation, performance, productivity, and satisfaction
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Project management, Agile methods, and Scrum
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Communication and public speaking
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Customer service, sales, and satisfaction
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People, relationships, emotional intelligence, and teams
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Life, personal development, and spirituality
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Career, interview, resume review, and performance improvement
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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 this organizational 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
Here are the top individual outcomes for this program:
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Be a more effective leader and communicator.
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Increase your influence, effectiveness, value, and impact.
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Improve your decision making and problem solving abilities.
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Get the raise and promotion you deserve.
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Build your self-confidence.
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Learn new skills that will remove your big headaches and problems.
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Unleash the power of your team.
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Deliver the Maximum Possible Value to your stakeholders.
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Make Monday your favorite day of the week because you're excited to go to work.
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Organizational Outcomes
Here are the top organizational outcomes for this program:
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Accelerate revenue growth, creativity, and innovation.
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Improve your strategy and increase market leadership.
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Reduce costs, problems, and employee turnover.
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Get to market faster. Deliver projects on time, quality, budget, and scope.
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Elevate employee satisfaction, engagement, productivity, and ownership.
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Convert customers into satisfied partners and become the Vendor of Choice.
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Close the Leadership Gap.
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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 High Potential Leaders
Leadership Coaching for Managers helps your high performing individual contributors improve their leadership skills and prepare for their future role as a manager. It helps them increase their value, productivity, and impact. It helps them be a more effective leader and communicator. It teaches them valuable skills for working with their boss, peers, and stakeholders. It shows them how to increase customer service and satisfaction. It teaches them how to deliver projects on time.
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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 believed they had become the best anyone could 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.
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They need to have real experience working in leadership positions so they can provide real solutions instead of unproven theories.
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They need to listen to you, understand you, understand your organization, and see beyond what you’re saying.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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They need to use just-in-time-coaching to solve your most pressing issue in the moment.
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They need to provide you with new paradigms and help you see things from different perspectives.
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They need to tell you the truth and hold you accountable.
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They need to meet with you over a 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.
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From Overwhelmed to In Control: Learn to navigate the complexities of leadership with confidence, transforming workplace challenges into opportunities for growth.
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From Conflict to Collaboration: Master the art of communication and people skills to foster a collaborative team environment that encourages innovation and creativity.
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From Stagnation to Advancement: Break free from career stagnation with personalized strategies for goal setting, time management, and career development.
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From Frustrated to Reinvigorated: Learn to control your emotions, manage stress, manage your workload, and enjoy a fulfilling career.
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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.​​​​​​​
Leadership Coaching for Managers Program Details
​Learn More About Our Unique Holistic Process.
​Why Choose Us
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Hire Experience
Most coaches teach ideas they learned from someone else. This unfortunately leads to the incorrect conclusion that if you've tried one coach, then you've tried them all. That's what we discovered. We've tried the standard coaching and the common, mainstream ideas they teach. It had minimal impact on us, and in many ways, it made us worse.
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We've created our own way of thinking about leadership, management, career, communication, relationships, and professional transformation. We've found our own wisdom that will help you become a healthier, wiser, happier, and more effective leader and manager, who is living a more meaningful life on purpose.
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Our Coaching Experience
You'll be working with a coach who has a sales and technology background, an MBA, and over 25 years of management and leadership experience in multiple companies in a variety of industries. He has helped managers level up their careers using proven strategies.
Our coaching is designed to transform your life, your career, and your organization. Our clients have achieved amazing results, especially those who have tried everything else without much progress and feel frustrated and stuck.
We have developed a unique, holistic, proven process that addresses the root cause of your challenges and helps you create breakthroughs where other coaching, therapy, training, and self-improvement methods haven't. We avoid their five fundamental flaws. We help you understand why you do what you do, why you are where you are, and why you’re ready to change. We help you turn off your autopilot so you can make positive, permanent, and powerful changes. The end result is that we help you overcome challenges, take your career to the next level, and live a life you love. When all else fails, contact us!
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Complete Solution vs. Single Service
Most coaches specialize in one or two areas of expertise. They only recommend the solutions they provide. They are focused on selling you what they have instead of helping you with what you need. They use their one skill, their 'hammer", to try to fix everything, which only makes things worse. You need to use the right tool for the job. We add much more value than a regular, limited-service vendor can.
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Diagnosing the Real Problem
We diagnose your problem before we recommend a solution. You wouldn't blindly take a prescription from a doctor who never saw you, asked you any questions, or ran any tests. Since we provide a complete set of leadership coaching solutions, we can diagnose the root cause of your problem and prescribe a solution that delivers the results you really need. We identify what keeps you from achieving your goals, and we often help you set bigger and better goals. We provide real-world experience and tell you the truth.
Holistic Process
We take a holistic approach to your leadership transformation. It addresses leadership, management, project management, customer service, sales, public speaking, career, relationship, life coaching, and communication skills. All aspects of you: mind, body, and soul. All eight areas of your life: charitable, emotional, financial, intellectual, physical, professional, relational, and spiritual. Both parts of your mind: conscious and unconscious. Both parts of your brain: left brain and right brain. And all parts of your organization and stakeholders. Everything is connected. Improving one part ends up improving other parts. Improving all parts together and aligning them with your vision is called transformation.
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Root Cause
If you have a bad headache, you typically take aspirin. Aspirin, of course, only alleviates the symptoms of a headache. It temporarily stops the pain but it doesn't prevent headaches from reoccurring. And that’s not what we do. We help you identify the root cause of your headache, heal it, and eliminate it, so headaches don’t occur in the first place. And as a nice side benefit, you don’t need aspirin anymore either.
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Root cause can mean different things. Some coaches define it as your thoughts, and they teach you better time management, goal setting, and willpower techniques. Some therapists define it as your childhood experiences, and they help you heal your inner child. We define root cause as the origin of your challenges, which is far beyond your thoughts and experiences.
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Additional Differentiators
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Quick Results. We help you get results quickly so you can receive the benefits sooner.
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Custom Program. We customize our programs to meet your unique needs.
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No Theory. We provide practical, proven solutions, not theory.
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Specific Information. We don't give you general information, just what you need.
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Small Fee. Pay for one hour at a time. We don't charge you a large $5,000 fee.
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Pay As You Go. We don' t make you pay up front. Pay us at the end of each session.
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Buy One Hour. We don't make you buy a big block of hours. Buy one hour at a time.
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Low Hourly Rate. We don't charge you a high hourly rate.
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Low Risk. Try us out. That's the best way to determine if we can help you. People can make up things that aren't true. References and reviews can be faked.
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MPV. Our goal is to deliver the Maximum Possible Value to you in the shortest amount of time.
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High ROI. We deliver high value at a low cost with gives you a high return on investment.
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Just-In-Time Coaching
We give you the information you need in the order you want to receive it. We don't make you follow a schedule of our choosing. We provide the exact information you need to solve your challenge when you want to solve it. We tailor it further to meet your specific situation. In this way you receive the benefits of the coaching much sooner.
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Will This Work for You?
Is there hope for you? There definitely is if you are humble, open to new ideas, willing to make changes, interested in better understanding yourself, and committed to taking action and owning the results. Our approach is different. It will help you make breakthroughs in those areas of your life you have given up hope of changing. We have helped many clients overcome their challenges, especially for those who have tried everything else, feel frustrated, are getting worse, and have given up hope. When all else fails, contact us.
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This won't work if you think you already know everything, you've tried everything, you've become the best you can be, and that our unique process won't work. This is your fear talking and your autopilot engaged to make sure you keep doing the same things and getting the same results. After all, it's too painful to admit that you're to blame for how your life has turned out.
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Success Stories
Customer reviews can be found on our reviews page. More detailed customer success stories can be found on our blog. Click here to go to our blog page. We especially recommend you read how Bob transformed another organization and Leadership Coaching in Government.
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Free Discovery Call
To better understand your specific request and to determine if there is a good fit between what you are looking for and the value we can deliver, please schedule a free, no-obligation Discovery Call. You can schedule online, or you can contact us. We look forward to learning more about your goals and challenges.
Our unique approach to coaching can make all the difference for you. You deserve to live a life filled with love, peace, joy, freedom, and fulfillment. You deserve to create an organization that is performing at its highest potential. Join the ranks of other successful managers who have transformed their careers and their organizations with this program.
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Coaching is available from 6AM to 8PM Pacific time seven days a week, and by appointment outside these hours. We offer online, phone, and in-person sessions. We accept most forms of payment.​​​
Explore our solutions to learn more about how we can help you transform your organization.