EXECUTIVE COACHING

At the most basic level, executive coaches serve as suppliers of candor, providing leaders with the objective feedback they need to nourish their growth. Coaching gets executives to slow down, gain awareness, and notice the effects of their words and actions. It provides a disciplined way for businesses to deepen relationships with their most valued employees while also increasing their effectiveness. On a larger scale, strategic coaching can bring leaders into alignment with organizational aims, while fostering broad cultural change.

SLR Coaches have addressed these types of issues:

• Leaders who need polish in their interpersonal skills
• Provide skills for successful mentoring and protege relationships
• Provide skills and behaviors for a formal mentoring program related to succession planning
• Leaders and high potentials who need skills and tools to advance their career
• Assisting with direction and guidelines to become more effective leaders
• Team construction, team building and team management
• New leader assimilation to quickly assume command and gain trust

Executive Coaching is available for a single session or long-term assignments.

FACILITATING LEADERSHIP ALIGNMENT

Leadership alignment is a universal quality of high performing organizations. It’s what enables them to move forward faster and more effectively than competitors. Alignment is not something leaders take for granted when strategic business initiatives are at stake.

Strategic Leadership Resources professionals prepare leadership teams for success by facilitating alignment behind a strategy, ground rules and processes that are unambiguous and mutually supportive. Our experience, expertise, and our straight-talking approach help leadership teams become high performing behind clear winning strategies.

There is no doubt that experienced team members contribute greatly to team effectiveness, but research on this topic has long revealed an even more significant path to team performance: success is more common for teams that engage in productive team strategies and actions than for teams composed of the most talented members. Engaging in effective team strategies and actions is the key to team success.

• Team success requires partnership and accountability among the team, team leader, and management (key stakeholders; including senior management and governing bodies).
• The best performing teams balance actions between task (what needs to be done) and people (team members and how they work together). While team members are often task experts, they are rarely well-versed in the actions and strategies necessary for smooth team functioning.
• There are key drives that increase trust, ownership, and high performance in cross-functional teams. SLR’s process for leadership team alignment facilitates the key drivers that affect team performance.

MENTORING PROGRAMS

Leaders have always turned to trusted colleagues for counsel, advice, and independent viewpoints. Our “Mentoring in the Moment” program emphasizes developmental networking; a proven best practice in fostering a culture for mentoring. A developmental networking approach uses a broader set of relationships than one mentor to provide mentoring, coaching, and other developmental facilitation to assist in retention, development, and career advancement and broadening activities.

We customize your mentoring program so the process fits the organization culture and business strategy.

Our philosophy regarding mentoring is that the mentees experience developmental networking as:

• Relying on personal responsibility for success… building a base of supportive colleagues who are willing to offer assistance on clear and specific goals.
• Motivational… feel enthusiastic and committed to the pursuit of learning and goals.
• Career-enhancing… the support of a journey of on-going performance and career development.
• Culture building… building a culture for supporting development at all levels within the company.
• Engaging… experiencing the company as an organization dedicated to building leadership competency and personal effectiveness.

At SLR, we custom-design a program that fits the company strategy and culture in partnership with Human Resources and the Executive Leadership Team. Our approach involves:

• Understanding the company strategy and the purpose the developmental network serves in the support of the company’s direction.
• Designing the program to be user-friendly.
• Conducting orientation sessions to develop understanding and excitement.
• Provide training of mentors and mentees to build confidence in developing relationships.
• Conduct “connection” meetings to foster networking.
• Provide on-going supportive training to build mentoring and careering skills and confidence.
• Evaluation of the program to ensure it is meeting its objectives.

PROGRAMS TO BUILD LEADERSHIP STRENGTH

Strategic Leadership Resources offers a number of specialized programs to build leadership strength:

• Building Social Acumen through Emotional Intelligence

The ability to perceive, understand, and manage emotions — a leader’s own and those of others — is central to the leader’s ability to relate better with people and demonstrate overall social acumen. Building Social Acumen through Emotional intelligence is a program that raises the emotional awareness and interpersonal skills of leaders.

• Inquiring Leadership™ for Exceptional Results: The Art of the Question

Leaders know that the ability to access the best thinking of themselves and others is key to mobilizing a strong strategic foundation for growth. Our program uses the methodology of Inquiring Leadership™ to build intellectual curiosity skills by using questions skillfully and strategically in leadership.

• Coaching and Mentoring Training Workshops

We offer workshops such as Coaching for Exceptional Results, Coaching for Human Resource Professionals, and Advanced Coaching to develop skills of inquiry, listening, feedback and acknowledgement – skills that fuel success. Our Mentoring Training equips leaders with skills and approaches for career and leadership development.

• Personal Branding

Personal Branding is a workshop about you, the leader. How are you perceived? How do you wish to be perceived? In this workshop, leaders define and refine a personal brand commitment based on their unique value and talents; and tailor their brand to fit the culture and strategy of the organization.

• Appreciative Leadership Development Program

For executives who are results-oriented leaders seeking to develop skills in positive change — leaders for whom authoritarian and hierarchical ways of doing business and managing people no longer work. You will discover and build upon your Leadership Positive Core: your unique strengths, skills and talents as a leader. Develop your capacities to ask positive yet provocative questions; to solicit input from colleagues and front line employees; to bring out the best in people and organizations; and to design innovative structures for organizing and accomplishing work.