Executive Coaching

Executive Leadership Coaching

Helping leaders make a difference. Clearly, executives today are caught in times of unprecedented organizational change and complexity. Whether their focus is on bottom-line results, cost reductions, globalization, IT or environmental issues — the pressures are immense. Whole-life issues abound. Today’s executives are dealing with the erosion of employee and public trust, the loss of valuable intellectual capital and all the while are expected to do more with less. In the midst of all this, they are also expected to be proactive in developing their abilities and to recognize the importance of developing the people around them. Leaders don’t seek to change others, but to change themselves. They become models of change for others.

If you are one of the millions of busy and over-extended managers and if dealing with everyday demands leaves you little time to improve your leadership competencies, then I will offer you a solution that will reap results.

Personal Executive Coaching: Personal Executive Coaching has become a popular management tool because it puts the emphasis where it belongs on you. It is my belief that most people want to make a difference but often don’t know how. They desire optimal working relationships and want to meet corporate expectations, but often there is too little time to consider how one might address issues differently. Today many executives are taking it upon themselves to hire their own Personal Executive Coach. Often times their companies will reimburse them. Their reasons vary. Perhaps they have picked up cues that indicate a need for refining their skills, or they may want to confront ineffective attitudes, or build a more effective team — but it is always about improving performance.

Corporate Executive Coaching: My clients call on me to work with both their high potential people and to assist those who need to bridge performance gaps. I will employ a range of diagnostic tools to provide the person being coached with the insight and awareness needed to create a meaningful Personal Development Plan with measurable goals.

Coaching is as close as Your Telephone

Regularly scheduled telephone-coaching sessions are helping executives and aspiring leaders from around the world build a path to success without the high cost of travel or absence from the office. My coaching style will assist in transforming today’s managers into tomorrow’s leaders by working with them individually to resolve daily issues and integrate new behaviors. My clients tell me how great it is to have a knowledgeable and trustworthy coach in their corner.

Create Accountability & Capability

Executive Coaching not only delivers results but it also prevents problems. It integrates practical behavioral change over time. Coaching deepens an awareness of your unique strengths as a foundation for improvement. Insight into how some behaviors can be career limiting motivates individuals to make change. I will support this change in a safe, confidential environment.

As an executive, you will gain new insight into the key capabilities necessary to achieve your desired results. The one-on-one coaching relationship is designed to encourage purposeful dialogue, create new insight, develop new knowledge and skills, and spur personal growth.

By becoming proactive, executives have a newfound and unbiased resource with which to explore their vision, bring projects to completion, or investigate new opportunities. Sharing with someone from outside the organization offers a strictly confidential venue for you to receive an objective perspective. Since coaches have no personal agenda, you gain a true partner in helping you achieve what is most meaningful. Coaching is designed to enhance both individuals and organizations.

I will help you: (what to aspect)

Develop your leadership abilities
Improve interpersonal skills
Move beyond self-imposed limitations
Align yourself with corporate objectives
Manage staff through increased personal effectiveness
Embrace feedback as an improvement tool
Understand the necessity of good communication
Key into gender-based behavior
Improve your decision making skills
Develop a flexible management style
Execute winning business strategies
Develop a talent pool and create loyalty
Cultivate a network that helps you and your organization
Establish priorities and receive exceptional performance reviews
Balance work and life priorities

Same workplace, different realities!

When it comes to business, most executive women suspect that they are at a distinct disadvantage and unfortunately the statistics bear them out. Although women are on the playing field in unprecedented numbers they still find it difficult to be promoted at the same rate as men. Today only a small percentage of women hold high-ranking positions.

My Personal Executive Coaching style will recognize that the glass ceiling will continue to be firmly in place until professional women are given the straight talk about the invisible Rules of Success.

There is an old saying: “Star players don’t become star players on the field, they are merely recognized there.” That is true. If you want to see where someone develops a desire to succeed you need to observe his or her daily preparations. Even if you have natural talent and leadership ability, there is a need to prepare and train. Becoming successful in the corporate world takes special dedication and commitment. Let me be part of your training experience.

The truth is that men and women often approach a broad range of career issues differently. Whether it is conveying competence, facing competition, being heard, understanding corporate politics, participating on a team, building alliances or leading others, many executive women unwittingly make mistakes that undermine their credibility.

In as little as 12 sessions I can help you prepare to break the glass ceiling. You will soon begin to see the organization through a different lens and this will help you to supercharge your career. I also offer corporate workshops specifically tailored to meet the needs of emerging female executives.

Male executives have shaped the culture at most companies over time, and a natural outcome is that business has the tendency to be conducted like a team sport. Today more and more women are playing competitive sports but it is only recently that they are recognizing the need to adapt some of these same skills to the workplace. Whether you are a follower who is just beginning to discover the impact of leadership or you already have followers, learning more about your self and your style will help you achieve your goals and add value to other people.

The game can be allusive. It can be about power, money, control and status. Sometimes it is more subtle than that. Consider the imagery: “Take the ball and run with it.” “Don’t strike out on this one.” “It is time to play hardball.” Terms like these continue to be heard in the hallways of our organizations. This men-at-work/men-at-play mentality serves a number of purposes and women who lack a suitable tutor have a tendency to not only misjudge the players but are also unaware of the rules they are expected to follow. You can’t get it right if you are forced to guess, improvise or bluff your way along.

At NKM CONSULTING GROUP, LLC Executive Coaching have exceptional coaching style which can be dedicated to help Executive Women improve their performance, increase their impact on the organization and find success on their own terms. This is a unique type of coaching, mentoring and leadership development.

What you learn will depend on your position, your needs, your personality, your learning style and your work. The skills that are necessary to function well as a mid-level manager are not the same ones required to be a successful executive. My individualized approach gives women a clearer focus. They begin to see through the clutter and act more clearly and with greater purpose. As a result, they become tuned into the needs of those around them, the needs of the organization and their own personal needs.

If being recognized by the organization for your abilities is important to you, then it is in your best interest to understand what is going on and develop strategies that will allow you to make a difference.

Executive Coaching/Mentor will help you:

Integrate personal and professional goals
Understand the basic rules of success
Identify the core competencies for your position (skills and behaviors)
Recognize the position you are playing on the team
Be acknowledged as a team player and effective leader
Key into gender-based behavior
Identify key relationships both inside and outside the organization
Employ new power moves
Learn to speak so others will listen
Be assertive without being obnoxious
Use your female attributes to your advantage
Embrace your power
Engage in self-promotion
Learn to watch yourself in action
Take losses in stride
Identify common traps
Learn how to ask for what you want

Someone once said that it doesn’t matter if you win or lose; it’s how you play the game that matters. As a coach, I will help executives understand their game and their organization. By tailoring my approach to each individual executive, I can help him or her see, hear and think in ways that were not previously possible. Now they are able to do things they were never able to do before. It’s called strategic executive development.

Executive Mentoring

When one considers mentoring, the image of a seasoned corporate sage conversing with a naïve young recruit comes to mind. Although there is a grain of truth in this statement, real mentoring is simply when someone helps another learn something that he or she would not learn if left alone. Ideally, I will work in conjunction with a senior manager of the firm. In this way corporate leadership traditions and expectations can easily be incorporated throughout the mentoring process.

Through mentoring I can help the client:

Learn to take more than one perspective on issues
Probe to learn more about a situation
Communicate more effectively
Use feedback as a developmental tool
Fulfill corporate expectations
Bolster self-determination
Network creatively
Understand the environment in which they work
Create a personal developmental plan

A mentor creates a safe climate for purposeful dialogue. This is why it is important that the mentor be from outside the organization. Even though there is a senior manager involved in the process, all communications between the mentor and client are kept in strict confidence. A Developmental Plan and a formal reporting structure involving the three parties are established at the outset.

Because the failure rate for newly appointed leaders is high, it is our opinion that every executive who takes on additional responsibilities should be mentored. Some of the statistics are alarming. Over 50 percent lack the capabilities to handle internal politics; 58 percent are unclear about company expectations and a full 82 percent fail to build appropriate networks. Knowing this, are you now ready to increase your company’s success rate? Contact Us Today.

Developing Your People

The age-old adage that a manager’s job is ‘getting superior results through other people’ remains true today. After so many years, organizations continue to espouse this theory without the knowledge or the tools to effectively put it into practice.

At NKM CONSULTING GROUP, LLC Coaching I will support all levels of leader, from front-line staff through top management. I will find ways to positively reinforce good work and I will also encourage regular feedback that helps look at ways to improve or redesign an individual’s contribution in order to meet changing organizational needs. Successful coaching is about closing the gap between where your people are and where you need them to be. Today, we have a new kind of worker doing a new kind of work. In the past few decades people’s attitudes towards work have undergone a drastic change. Not recognizing or acknowledging this change is an invitation to fail. What is needed for today is a new approach, a basic change in management concepts. Each of us perceives the world from a particular point of view. Knowing this, it is also important for managers to understand not only what their own motivators are, but also what motivates their employees. One size does not fit all, and dangling the carrot isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. Let me help you uncover your blind spots in this area. We will equip your people with the skills they need to succeed. Organizations, to their delight, are finding that developing their employees appropriately has a positive impact on the bottom line. The initial cost for training and coaching is modest compared to the benefits received. An added bonus is that coaching has a tremendous trickle-down effect. When people learn new skills they are often anxious to share their insights. Coaching improves both people and organizations. At NKM CONSULTING GROUP, LLC

I will help your employees in these areas:

Get a broader overview of what makes a business successful
Understand their superior’s work needs in order to create value and minimize problems
Understand the dynamics of motivation
Communicate more effectively
Become stronger team players
Work towards a higher level of achievement
Resolve conflict
Contribute ideas and volunteer for projects more readily
To create an enthusiastic and supportive organizational culture
Learn what is required as an ambitious career person

Enjoy an improved quality of work life

Personal Growth (Life Coaching)

Success in life is more than what we do for a living. It encompasses what we value, what we have overcome and the relationships we have nurtured. It is about discovering our life’s purpose and then dedicating ourselves to achieving it.

Not long ago, a researcher asked over two thousand respondents, “What do you want most out of life?” The answer was almost unanimous: happiness. They wanted happiness for themselves, for their children and loved ones. Basically, they wanted to be relieved of worry, anxiety, stress, anger, conflict, poor relationships, feeling overwhelmed or ashamed all the things that rob us of what we call happiness.

During the last 30 or 40 years we have seen an upward spiral in the accumulation of possessions, more people are becoming better educated, there have been marvelous medical advances, our life expectancy has increased, but our search for happiness continues in much the same way it always has.My coaching style provides a powerfully rich learning environment in which you will learn how to enhance your life and find true happiness. I will partner with you help you improve and succeed in a way you’ve always known is possible. Personal Coaching will focus your attention on your passions and help you transform them into achievable goals. You will become proactive instead of reactive. Coaching is designed to help you create a vision for your future, and support you in making the type of changes in your life that you believe are necessary to get you into mental, physical and spiritual balance.

Often business people feel isolated and do not want to share their innermost concerns for fear of being viewed as weak, unprepared or unskilled. In the past, individuals looked to self-help, but self-help today is being compared to old technology. Most acknowledge that coaching is much more effective, faster and more convenient in helping resolve personal issues so they can move forward in their lives. Coaching supports the individual in making lasting changes.

Personal Coaches have one goal. That goal is to help individuals develop as a person. My systematic approach offers an exceptional return-on-investment by encouraging self-discovery and exciting new ways of viewing the world. I help you while you develop the skills you need to handle your specific situation. You will be supported through change and come to understand why inside-out work is necessary to your regain enthusiasm and increase your sense of control. Ultimately you will achieve both balance and fulfillment.

A Personal Growth Coach will help you:

Clarify your situation and focus on what is important to you
Analyze, prioritize and establish personal goals
Establish a vision and set an action plan in motion
Learn valuable information about your personality
Understand how you handle stress and make important decisions
Assess your strengths and acknowledge your limitations
Learn new behaviors
Build strong relationships
Develop your listening and communication skills
Examine spiritual concerns, meditation and prayer
Achieve personal fulfillment and satisfaction

Those who benefit the most from coaching are those who are able to share their confidential issues and are willing to work in concert with their coach to develop satisfactory solutions.

With NKM CONSULTING GROUP, LLC you have a partner who comes to know you at a deep level and understands and supports your goals. In a non-judgmental way, I will then help guide you to a new level of effectiveness. You may be asked to undertake a variety of assessments or read a particular book or article. But you will always know that I will talk about the things that concern you most and confidentially help you to build your plans on how to proceed. You are always in control. Contact us today.

Organizational Development

Due to our turbulent global economy, pursuing effective corporate change continues to be at the forefront of senior management’s attention and responsibility. Yet incredibly, organizations continue to resort to quick fix, single solution approaches that rarely, if ever, result in long-term success. A more integrated approach is needed.

Organizations must formally define what is important now and in the long term, and also determine the systemic barriers to success. Let me help you learn how to balance the tensions and conflicts that challenge your progress. I will work with your senior management team over a span of 60 to 90 days to create a scope of work designed to begin the change process.

This consultation process will give you:

Itemization of the issues facing the company
A list of the variables that must be considered
A variety of internal, external, financial and developmental implications
The requirements necessary from your organization
The outcomes that will affect stakeholders The parameters of accountability, responsibility and authority

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Focus on what is important to you. I encourage my clients to be results-oriented and I will work to identify actions for your immediate consideration. At the same time, it is important to understand that coaching is more than a quick fix. I want you to get to where you want to be, but by avoiding the big picture. For your personal development it may be necessary to look at a number of variables including how you are perceived by your peers; how you prefer to interact with others; how you make decisions; your strengths and weaknesses; motivating factors; your management and conflict resolution style; and your communications patterns, among others. Our goal is increase your competencies and to do this as expediently as possible.

Give yourself the attention you need and desire. Since most people don’t feel that they are truly heard or understood, I encourage you to talk first and foremost about what matters to you most. This may include your long-term dreams, the ramifications of career and family, or why developmental issues are important to you at this point in your career. DO NOT talk about what you think might be useful or even about what you think you should talk about. Talking about what is important to you will give you the value you seek.

Tell what brings you to coaching. Begin as far back as you like, highlighting significant people and events, both positive and negative that are relative to your issues or concerns. Make sure you feel that we have a real sense of who you are and what your situation is today.

Be punctual and have your assigned tasks complete. In this way, you will be prepared for our sessions. I ask you to take a minimum of 10 minutes prior to the call to reflect on what has previously been discussed. You are encouraged to jot down notes prompting you on the new things you wish to discuss. This allows us to focus on where you want to go. If you are too busy or rushed, you will be wasting valuable time. One of the things you will want to do is learn some personal management techniques ‚ such as how to work smarter not harder. No interruptions are expected while we are in session.

Learn to focus on you. Coaching focuses on what it is that you need to do to facilitate the change you desire. It is about identifying and clarifying your issues, enhancing effective action, building capabilities and practicing new behaviors. It is about eliminating things that are not working and establishing boundaries. It helps clarify personal and professional goals, identify ineffective attitudes or blind spots that may be detracting from otherwise satisfactory performance.

Become self-caring. You regularly put others ahead of yourself, so while you are being coached you are encouraged to put yourself first for a change. By looking after yourself, you will become happier and more relaxed, and the significant people in your life will undoubtedly benefit in the long run.

Be open to learning. Coaching will focus on five key areas: 1) instructing you in understanding your Personality Type; 2) assisting in assessing your core values and life mission (if desired); 3) focusing in on what you want to achieve; 4) taking responsibility for your actions and implementing change; 5) increasing your skill levels.

Come prepared to take action. You will be supported as you learn to make the changes needed to achieve your goals. While therapy looks to the past, coaching addresses where you are today and where you would like to be in the future. It is forward-looking and action-oriented.

Learn to observe more — to see things differently. Although I will be focused directly on your goals, I will also discuss your strategies in order to achieve these goals. In addition, I will be examining your assumptions, expectations, belief systems and your approach to success. Instead of trying harder, you will be encouraged to try to do things differently.

Integrate what you have been learning. By integrating your learning into your daily routine, you will notice yourself evolving. You will grow through a process of self-discovery. Take time to share these experiences with your Coach in order that you feel comfortable with change and the challenges and opportunities being presented to you.

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