Business to Business
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• Morning Session — Designed for new businesses in the Existence & Survival Stages. The session runs from 8AM to 11:30AM.
• Afternoon Session — For businesses at the Success-Decision stage and Success-Growth Stages. The main question for business owners is whether to exploit the company's accomplishments and expand or keep the company stable, providing a base for owner alternative activities. This session runs from 1PM to 4:30PM.

$40/session

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Business & Executive Coaching

Entrepreneurs, business owners, professionals and people in transition use a coach to create, plan, or solve challenges in business, personal and professional areas of their lives. There are also times executive development or decision making requires a confidential one-to-one relationship where a wide range of issues can be confidentially explored and resolved. Through systematic assessment and dialog you can engage in this powerful coaching process that tackles both bottom line and work/life balance issues.

Leading at the Speed of Change
Today the growing pressures of business change and global competition fuel the demand for more-effective business leaders. It is their responsibility to set the tone and style for the organization — for effecting cultural shifts to meet changing values and expectations. In order to do that, leaders must themselves change, and be prepared to continue to change.

The coaching program that we offer is a valuable and a powerful tool for performers who wish to shine even brighter — like the world-class athlete who seeks coaching in order to excel and then move to the next level. The program is also applicable to the executive who has the potential, but for some reason is not delivering what might be expected or the new transitioning executive who needs to integrate quickly under the pressures of a new unforgiving culture.

What is Coaching?
Coaching helps improve performance and personal effectiveness while reducing stress. It offers the rare opportunity to stand back and to take a fresh look at the experiences and assumptions of a lifetime. The coaching process enables a person to …

• Become aware of specific behaviors that need to change in order to improve short-term or long-term performance
• Challenge underlying beliefs and values that offer possibilities for fundamental change that will enhance overall quality of life.
• Adopt a healthy balance between career and personal life which sustains the vitality necessary for effective leadership
• Facilitate the identification of inner resources while targeting areas for growth

The Coach
The coach offers direction and assistance but the choice rests with the individual. It is he or she that discovers the self-knowledge which forms the foundation for continued growth. Because the coach brings objectivity to the relationship, they
can be freely confided in. The Coach also offers a variety of skills to the relationship by assuming different roles … supporter, co-creator, political confidant and skills developer…

The Coaching Process
The coaching process can take a number of forms depending on the needs of the individual and the desires of the client who requests the coaching. The process usually takes shape as follows:

• Client and coach meet to discuss the need, and to make a decision about whether coaching is the best approach to achieve the desired outcome.
• The coach and the client meet to become acquainted and decide on how matters of confidentiality will be handled.
• Based on the results of these meetings, coach and client design a process focused on achieving desired objectives.
• The coach conducts an in depth structured interview and may use survey questionnaires to supplement assessment. They may observe the client at work and in certain circumstances will interview bosses, peers and subordinates.
• Both executive and coach review and then identify key strengths and weaknesses as well as developmental needs and put together a plan.  They work together on the agreed objectives using a process intended to evolve to a steady state of continuous improvement with an organizational support system in place to reinforce ongoing growth.

Coaching Outcomes & Effectiveness
A study conducted by International Coaches Federation (ICF) in 1998 reported that individuals who had worked with a Coach experienced the following outcomes:

• Increased self awareness – up 67%
• Improved Self Confidence – up 52%
• Ability to set better goals – up 62%
• Setting stress level – up 57%
• Self Discovery – up 53%
• Improved Balance in all Aspects of Life – up 60%          

Please contact us for more information about our one-to-one, group and remote coaching processes. We welcome the opportunity to help you or your organization translate potential into Performance …
                                                                                              —  Norm Gauthier