About Coaching

What is Co-Active Coaching?

Co-Active coaching is concerned with helping leaders maximize personal performance or produce growth and change in their organizations and in their lives. It’s an interactive relationship where the coach uses advanced listening and asking skills to elicit goals, strategies and solutions from clients. The Co-Active Coaching process is unique: instead of focusing on offering expert advise (consulting), or speaking from the wisdom of broad experience (mentoring), the Co-Active process maximizes buy-in and personal responsibility by acknowledging you as the foremost expert on your company and your life. The Co-Active Model assumes: the client is naturally creative, resourceful and whole; coaching addresses the client's whole life; the agenda comes from the client; the coach dances in the moment with the client. Executive leadership coaching relationship is designed to maximize the abilities of a leader, and provides the professional tools, advocacy and support needed to do so.

Coaches move beyond surface conversation by listening on an entirely different level. They use assessments, tools and sophisticated conversational techniques to help you identify the core leadership or market issues you face, and help you design creative strategies to purposefully address them. Coaching exercises can help you create bold, new ideas, new perspectives, think new thoughts, and develop actionable strategies to pursue them. And we provide structured follow-up to keep you aligned with those important objectives instead of getting mired and lost in the urgency of today's activities.

Who Benefits from a Coach?

Co-Active Coaching is not about fixing people. It’s about taking good leaders and elevating their effectiveness and helping great leaders access and optimize their full abilities. In short, coaching is for people who want to accomplish more, do it better, and strengthen their people in the process. Coaching can be beneficial to any organizational leader who is internally motivated to grow or change.

Leadership for the 21st Century

According to Warren Bennis, “Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future…”

Voices like Jack Welch of GE, Harvard Business Review and others have touted the future of coaching.

Over and over, organizations that have embraced it have discovered it has a high return on investment, increases employee satisfaction, raises performance and lowers turnover.

To see more of the research, click here. If you’d like to find out what coaching can do for your organization, contact me today.

The Impact of Coaching

“For years, CEOs of some of the most successful and largest companies have relied on executive coaches.”

The Business Journal, Nov. 2003

“Coaching’s Bottom Line: It’s real, it works, and the results are spectacular… It elicits people’s best thinking and decision making so they can create results that are important to them, even on their own.”