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Our Executive and Career Coaching services and expertise are the most helpful to you if:

• You are looking for a coach who provides expert guidance, support, ideas, strategies, resources and the presence that encourages creativity and empowerment.
• You are eager and committed to succeeding in your career and life but are not sure how to begin to make the change.
• You know that you have a treasure trove of gifts within you but are unsure about what those gifts are and how best to use them.
• You want to reach higher levels of self-awareness and manifest your authentic self in the world of work and in your personal life.
• You believe that growth, change and attaining of excellence are not only possible but are an ongoing guiding theme in your life.
• You have many ideas, but aren't sure how to focus your energies and bring them to fruition.

Read below to see which of Wise Leaders' Executive Coaching or Career Development and Coaching services would be most appropriate for you. Click on the links to learn more about our services.

Executive Coaching

• You are unhappy and perhaps feeling that you are failing in your current role and not sure what the reasons are. You are motivated to know - is it the organization's culture, your development needs, your boss' leadership style, diminishing resources, extreme politics, all of the above or other factors? And once you know the reasons, how do you improve your sense of accomplishment and well being? If you have made mistakes, what are they and what do you need to know so you don't repeat them?
  [click here to go to Remedial Coaching]
• You are a leader who wants to grow and develop your mastery by strengthening key leadership competencies and behaviors. You already possess cognitive and technical abilities in your field, and realize that further development of self-awareness and fine-tuning your emotional intelligence is key to making an impact and achieving the desired results.
  [click here to go to Competency Development]
• You have been successful until now by using your fine-tuned tactical skills, a hands-on approach, and perhaps a command and control operation that worked well. Now, in order to go to the next level and thrive you must learn to be strategic, to delegate more, develop talent and successors, and act as an advisor/coach to your reports rather than a "boss". You also need to collaborate and influence when there is no clear authority over others within an increasingly matrixed organizational structure.
  [click here to go to Competency Development]

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• You are seeking support and guidance for effective decision making. You have been reluctant to take some risks, fearing failure or embarrassment. As a result, you over analyze, hesitate to make decisions and unable to execute on time. You procrastinate, change your mind, continue to gather information past deadlines and create confusion and costly delays for reports and other stakeholders that depend on you.
  [click here to go to Remedial Coaching]
• You have been recently promoted or hired into a new organization and know that the early impressions you make and the behaviors you choose are crucial for long term success. You are committed to avoid costly mistakes by establishing powerful alliances with your key stakeholders and potential detractors, identifying unspoken expectations and invisible agendas and thinking through your communications. You want to assure your successful on-boarding from the get go.
  [click here to go to New Leader On-Boarding]
• You are smart and well suited in every way to advance within your organization, but your communication skills and political savvy are keeping you back. How do you speak with your different stakeholders? What is the ideal place and time to introduce a new and potentially controversial idea? Who are the people who wield the most influence in your organization and how do you leverage their formal or informal power? You would like to be a more effective communicator with different types of people.
  [click here to go to Competency Development]

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• You have a hard time controlling your emotions and it affects your success in your role. You may be angry, frustrated, impatient, hostile, an outsider, controlling, politically naïve, too political, a pleaser, overpowering, a bully, too meek, hard to know, gossipy, too quiet, too loud, easy to embarrass, stand-offish, distrustful, self serving, mistrusted, manipulative, exaggerating, knowledgeable yet reticent to participate in meetings, too aggressive, too passionate or emotional, too passive or laid back, tardy, indecisive, a micromanager, touchy feely and too personal, aloof... Almost all of us possess a little bit of some of these attributes at some times, but when these very human behaviors are exaggerated, we may fail even if all else is perfect.
  [click here to go to Remedial Coaching]
• You have not managed people in the past, or the size of your team and organization has been increased and you are no longer confident in your ability to be an effective leader. You are now managing a virtual team perhaps. There may be some issues with your ability to motivate, develop, inspire and get high quality and/or timely results.
  [click here to go to Competency Development]
• Morale on your team is low and you may or may not know why. Is it your leadership? Is it the recent downsizing, the merger or acquisition the company has gone through, the new leadership above you, a potentially disruptive team member? A lingering conflict between team members? A perception of favorable or inequitable treatment of some? Could it be boredom, stretched resources, vague expectations, unclear roles and goals, loss of loyalty, distrust? Morale is the energy source of individuals, teams and whole organizations and we can examine the causes that may affect this essential motivator and work on a plan to create well being and promote peak performance.
  [click here to go to Conflict Resolution/Relationship Building/ Team Coaching]

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• Your efforts are not being recognized by your key stakeholders. Some people are very humble and remain invisible in an organization. Others may be viewed as self promoters. Neither one of these extremes is beneficial to the individuals or their organization. If you are being overlooked and feel unappreciated you may want to find ways of increasing your visibility without compromising your values of "doing the right thing" and having people know your value and reward your contribution. If you have sought recognition which resulted in overexposure, you may want to learn to let your actions speak for themselves in a more subtle and appropriate fashion. Visibility and talent that add value to the organization go hand in hand. The organization benefits from knowledge sharing of talented and accomplished contributors. We can examine and strengthen your style and approach for being recognized and appropriately visible.
  [click here to go to Competency Development]
• You are stretched and stressed. Work has been the focal point of your life for a while. Your relationships are impacted and you may not even care or care enough to shift your focus. Your health may be poor or somewhat compromised. You are not feeling great. You may feel driven by your own ambition or just can't get away from the rat race and the pressures and expectations for peak performance. Failure is not an option, but your failing spirits don't feel great either. How do you stop this madness without loosing everything that you have worked for? How do you regain a sense of hope and empowerment? What is your ideal balance and how do you regain it along with a rich and well rounded life?
  [click here to go to Remedial Coaching]
• You are a woman or a member of a minority group. Your organization may not be very strong in promoting and advocating Diversity oriented programs and policies. Or, the issue may lie with the culture, which has traditionally been white male biased and hasn't made enough progress to make you feel like an equal. Your potential exceeds your current employer's ability to support your timely growth. You would like to grow and thrive. What are some of the barriers to your success? They may be inner barriers - areas of growth opportunity for you. Or they may be external barriers needing further exploration on how to overcome or by-pass. Most of the time, these barriers are both internal and external. We identify them, examining their reasons and develop strategies for optimal success.
  [click here to go to Women's Leadership Coaching]

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• You are a successful executive with great skills and competencies. Your supervisor who believes in you and would like to see you grow further in the organization. In the competitive and image oriented culture of many of today's organizations there is an expectation that you will also project the image of a leader. It is called Executive Presence. It may be hard to define, but it would include elements of composure, courage, command skills, visibility, integrity, political savvy, presentation and communication skills, physical grooming and body language. The definition may very from company to company and by industry, region, level, role and other factors. Part of possessing Executive Presence is to be able to figure out what it means in one's specific circumstance. It may be a deciding factor when it comes to growth within an organization. Have you figured out what it means in your organization? Do you have it? We examine the meaning of Executive Presence in your particular environment, and think through what you may want to adopt and learn in order to develop expertise in this important area.
  [Click here to go to High-Potential Leadership Development]
• You are inconsistent in the ways you relate to your various stakeholders. Are you best at managing up, sideways or down? Who notices your behaviors and how does it affect your performance and effectiveness? Are you a great team leader but having run- ins with your supervisor and peers? Are you best friends and in one mind with your supervisors but your team feels neglected or compromised and even betrayed by your behaviors? Do you have very close relationships and understanding with your peers, sharing information and enjoying their company in and out of the office, but feel remote towards your boss and out of control with your team and their performance?
  [click here to go to Conflict Resolution/Relationship Building/ Team Coaching]
• You inherited a team where some of the members are grossly underperforming and you have no idea how to turn them around. Your first inclination may be to just find a way to get them off your team or out of the organization. You may have developed a reputation as someone who is hard to please and wants people out rather than developing them. How do you decide what is the optimal course of action with underperforming reports? How do you implement your plan without upsetting the organization or developing a negative reputation? How do you build a strong team when the team you have inherited is not made up of those you would have hired yourself?
  [click here to go to Conflict Resolution/Relationship Building/ Team Coaching]

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• You have a hard time listening deeply to others and, as a result, people are not seeking your advice and input. You hardly ever have meaningful conversations with your colleagues, reports, and supervisor. You are action biased, and like to speak but not listen, execute, but don't involve others in decision making. Your communications are one way instead of a conversation that leads to collaboration and great new ideas. You may know some people who can influence decisions so well just by hearing you out, yet haven't made the connection that it is their listening to you that makes them so effective in influencing your thinking and that of others. Listening is a major competency of leaders. Is it yours?
  [click here to go to Competency Development]
• You feel challenged in managing your time. We are in a time of information overload, back to back meetings, conflicting expectations from different stakeholders in complex matrixed organizations, frequent travel, organization changes that never cease, stretched resources, increasing expectations for strengthening the bottom line, turn over of employees - both voluntary and imposed by head count reductions or the creation of new roles in organizations, constant re-designing of the organization structure aligned with evolving strategies in an ever faster moving world. How do you manage your time resource? What does good prioritizing look like in your circumstance? It is challenging for everyone these days but absolutely a crucial skill for leaders to keep on reassessing and developing further.
  [click here to go to Competency Development]

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Career Development and Coaching

• You feel you have all that it takes to succeed in your role and advance in the organization but instead you are standing still while others, less capable than you seem to make progress.
  [Click here to go to Career Management]
• You believe that success, self-expression, well being, collaboration and high ethical standards are not incompatible. It is important for you to express your authentic self with your unique combination of values, gifts and passions to feel fully alive and well. We can seek together ways of bridging the gap between the organizations' expectations and your unique self. If we find that the gap is too wide, you may want to move on. We will plan together a career road map that will enable you to understand, honor and fulfill your needs.
  [Click here to go to Career Management]
• Your career has not been satisfying and you have come to realize that you have committed to a profession or a role for all the wrong reasons. Or perhaps, it has been fine in the past, but you have outgrown it, changed over time and it feels like the old you. You are searching for something new that would re-ignite your passion and emotional, intellectual and purpose seeking self. Together we'll look at the total picture of who you are, what is important for you, including old aspects of yourself and buried dreams you may have completely forgotten about. Also, we'll examine how you have changed over time, and what are some of the new interests you may have developed or are yet to discover.
  [Click here to go to Career Transition Coaching]

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• You know what you would like to do, but are not sure how to create a strategic plan to get there. We'll talk about finding the right information, organizations, contacts, communicating the most impactful messages about who you are and what you would like to do and why. We'll write the search documents, (such as resume, biography, letters etc.) you may need to get you in front of the right people and help them understand how you may add value to them and their organizations.
  [Click here to go to Career Transition Coaching]
• You need support in negotiating the right compensation package in your next job or you are currently underpaid and would like to negotiate for a more equitable package based on your value on the market and in your company as compared to your peers.
  [Click here to go to Career Transition Coaching]
• You are a parent who feels that no matter what you do you either compromise your family or career. The tension between these two major roles is growing unbearable. You are ready to quit. Is it the right time and thing to do? Are there other creative solutions you may be able to consider and to negotiate with your employer and spouse, partner in life, family? What would be an ideal plan for you with your unique circumstances - how do you plan, communicate and implement it?
  [Click here to go to Career Management]

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• You have been out of a job for a while. You have been raising your children, taking a long sabbatical, retired and became bored or low on funds, tried freelancing and became discouraged. You are planning to return to the world of work soon and confused as to how to overcome your fears, the potential rejection from the marketplace, not being sure whether you "have what it takes" to work, and the barriers to re-entry from organizations that may like to see an uninterrupted work record. Maybe your biggest challenge is figuring out what you would like to do now: continue with the old career, find a new one, start a business, volunteer first then take on a job, go back to school. Together, we'll examine your individual story and design a plan to help ease this transition. My own personal story and those of many others I have helped with re-entry may be very encouraging for you to hear. It is truly doable and easier than one imagines!
  [Click here to go to Career Transition Coaching]
• You have lost your job. You may have been down-sized or let go because of bad economic times for the company, differences with your supervisor, poor performance, or political maneuvers by your detractors. You feel quite upset, losing some of your hope that you will find an equally good position. You may be afraid of what new potential employers will think of you and your worth as a result of your unemployed status. It is a difficult position to be in, and it requires managing your negative emotions so you may be able to present yourself again as a strong candidate for future opportunities. You need expert guidance and help in how to communicate to your contacts, sometimes even to family members and friends. You may want to evaluate new and different career options and life choices with expert guidance at this point. Perhaps this is an opportunity to do something completely new, or to move to a new location that you may like better. Crisis is truly an opportunity and with expert guidance you may be able to design a new life and come to see your initial painful reaction to your loss as a doorway to a better life. I have helped many people undergoing major career transitions and changes to make the most of themselves no matter how painful, challenging and difficult their stories sounded at first. We will assess your particular situation and provide practical and relevant options leveraging your knowledge, experiences, skills and present or latent interests. Using insight, creativity and intuition you may come to see your transition as an adventure and a transformative process that leads you to a higher quality life.
  [Click here to go to Career Transition Coaching]
• You may have enjoyed or endured one or several careers, but you are hardly ready to retire. Even if you feel tired or bored, what you search for is a new vision for yourself accompanied by a plan of action to help you be vibrant and productive. You may want to stay in your chosen profession but in a different way, or transition to something you may find even more satisfying and fulfilling.
  [Click to go to Creative Retirement Coaching]

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Some of the professionals Wise Leaders has worked with include:

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