Business & Executive Coaching

What is Business & Executive Coaching?

Entrepreneurs, business owners, professionals and people in transition use a executive 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, business 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 business executive who has the potential, but for some reason is not delivering what might be expected or the new transitioning business 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 business 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 ?

Supporter

  • Counselor
  • Advisor
  • Listener

Political Confidant

  • Challenger
  • Influencer
  • Decision Facilitator

Creator

  • Problem Solver
  • Idea Generator
  • Opportunity Organizer

Skills Developer

  • Innovator
  • Thought Expander
  • Trainer
  • Mentor

Global Organization Consulting

As the Executive V.P. of Human Resources located in Paris, I had the functional leadership challenge of evolving an existing HR organization into an international team capable of meeting the professional challenges of a changing French global manufacturing business.

Based on the initial geographical challenges we faced, I engaged Norm Gauthier to provide organizational consulting support in the U.S. I knew he was someone I could work with and trust, especially in working remotely with me from Europe. His experience, allowed him to quickly assess what we had, the major challenges we faced, and helped identify step by step what needed to be done. He also helped define the needs in terms of skills and competencies required in building an effective international HR presence.

He used his business consulting experience and knowledge of HR practice to carefully focus on individual and collective development 'gaps' creating conditions that allowed team members to take risks, experience new roles and ...in the end take on more of a leadership position. During this change management process, he took on individual and team coaching assignments in support of several organizational initiatives. He also developed several international train-the-trainer development modules, linking each to the staged development and roll-out of critical management tools.

Results of the work… we now have a worldwide HR organization that uses the same processes and tools despite their location in the world, which is rare for a Global company. Our HR members are recognized by Business Unit management as professionals they involve early in the change process to provide advice and counsel. And, with the focus on developing leadership and accountability at the operational HR management level, the team now exercises a different level of problem solving and collaboration that requires less leadership time and involvement in decision making.

An outstanding work quality that is very effective…Norman respects the fine line between the 'decision maker' and the team - thus creating a challenging environment for the boss and a safe environment for the team to take on initiatives and risk - learning conditions that we needed.

J. Dekker,
Executive V.P., Human Resources Sperian Protection

Executive Coaching & Consulting - Boston, MA

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