Business Coaching, Life Coaching Plus!
Most business coaching and life coaching focuses on identifying goals, developing
a personal vision, naming your passion and setting action plans to track progress.
My interest is in understanding:
- how leaders sabotage their own best interests.
- defensive routines that can blind us to our own thinking.
- chronic anxiety that reduces leadership ability over time.
- family processes that shape business interactions.
- personality type as it affects actions and decisions.
Executive coaching and life coaching are about self-mastery, developing the acuity to see how you contribute to the problem instead of always locating it ‘out there’.
I work with executives and others who:
- are tired of being on the treadmill of their own thinking.
- want to maximize their ability to see the whole problem.
- seek needed distance to uncover new solutions by asking new questions.
- value the absolute privacy and detached objectivity of coaching.
- recognize their own growth as organizational leverage for change.
- want expertise and guidance from someone familiar with how systems work.
Business coaching and life coaching:
- provides insight into how to work with people - your most valuable resource.
- helps reduce anxiety that limits the scope of your thinking and creativity.
- shifts the focus from detail-complexity to looking at the whole.
- engages leaders in rigorous, thoughtful conversation.
- offers solid and enduring principles that can be applied to your organization.
Three major, interlocking characteristics common to any relational system that is gridlocked:
1. An unending pre-occupation with trying harder.
2. Looking for answers and not reframing questions.
3. Either/or thinking that creates false dichotomies.
- Edwin H Friedman
I have experience working with CEO’s of multi-million dollar companies, clergy, small business entrepreneurs and other individuals who want to extend the reach of what they know about themselves.
Leadership development and executive coaching are about taking the time to step away to reflect seriously about how I contribute to the problem, what mental models prevent me from altering my course, what new questions could provoke a shift in my thinking and how I operate?
Real leadership development is about taking the time for self-reflection. The result: more lucid and clear approaches to decision-making and action.
“It is almost impossible to solve a problem from within the same consciousness that created it.” - Albert Einstein
“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.” - Unknown
