Individual & Group Coaching

Individual Coaching

Results you can Expect from One-on-One Coaching: Coaching will help you grow your capacity as a leader while you are in the heat of the action.  The skills you'll strengthen through our work together will serve you long after our sessions have ended. As a result of the coaching, you will be more able to make adaptations on your own. Coaching is not about advice-giving (mentoring), or healing underlying wounds (counseling). I will be working with you using issues you are facing right now to help you build key skills so that you can create the results you want, become more effective and satisfied in your work and in your life.  Henry Mintzberg and McGill University School of Management refers to this kind of development as the "third wave of management development" (Ottawa, NTL National Meeting, August 2006)-- learning from your own experience while you are living it.

Here's How it Works: You and I will meet in a free introductory session to get a sense of each other and whether you think we can work together and coaching is what you need at this time. Then, we'll proceed with one session for intake and assessment and a follow up meeting during which I will propose a program to you.  The program will outline developmental objectives for you and number of sessions I think we'll need to achieve those objectives. Once we agree on your program, we'll meet (in person or over the phone) every two to three weeks for an hour-long coaching session. Between-session quick consultations are available too - by phone or by e-mail. Between sessions, you will be actively using your day-to-day experiences to strengthen your competencies, related to the topic on which you are focusing. Likely we'll be working together for at least six months - but we can re-contract at any time as circumstances change.