What is Leadership Coaching?
• A highly individualized form of learning and development
• A means of helping you achieve extraordinary performance
• A process that promotes reflection, self discovery and an openness to change
• A trusting and collaborative relationship fostering personal development and performance improvement
• A tool for visioning, goal-setting, and maximum achievement

How does Leadership Coaching work?
There are three basic elements to the coaching process:
1. Helping you discover and understand who you are,
2. Helping you identify and clarify what you want,
3. Helping you create and develop strategies for achieving your goals.
Coaching occurs over time, allowing clients to fully integrate learning and take the steps necessary for lasting change and results.

What are the benefits of Leadership Coaching?
• Coaching brings purpose and focus to the development process.
• Coaching heightens personal awareness.
• Coaching provides a safe space in which to examine and act upon limitations, blind spots or challenges.
• Coaching provides accountability that keeps people on track to achieve their goals and objectives.
• Coaching helps people identify and maximize their strengths and talents.

Why is Leadership Coaching becoming so essential to leaders?
• Coaching helps leaders develop a vision, become more effective, manage change in a chaotic environment, and access the support and motivation to be their best.
• The employment contract has changed, and individuals are now more responsible for managing their own development and career advancement.
• Today, technology does not provide a competitive advantage; people do.
• In a time of information overload, coaching keeps leaders focused on the results they want to achieve.
• Leaders can experience overload and burnout; they must find ways of sustaining their energy, balancing their lives, and focusing on what matters most.
• An outstanding leader who is on the fast track as an individual or within an organization and is coached for career development and/or succession planning;
• An individual who is quite talented and valued at his or her current level and is coached to create far greater results at an even higher level of performance;
• A dedicated leader whose passion and commitment are being threatened and is coached for balance, time and energy management, and renewal.

What is the impact of Leadership Coaching
Coaching has a significant impact on the individuals and the organizations within which they work. Coaching:
• Improves performance and results.
• Improves decision-making, communication and time management skills.
• Improves work relationships and motivation.
• Fosters the development of self-confidence and mastery.
• Provides an effective model of leadership development.
• Prepares employees for career advancement.

What does research say about the results of Leadership Coaching?
The results from research on coaching are excellent. Studies and surveys reveal that coaching increases both performance and satisfaction. In a recent poll conducted by the International Coach Federation (www.coachfederation.org), coaching reportedly yielded the following results:
• 529% Return on Investment (ROI)
• 60% increase in productivity
• 53% increase in employee satisfaction
• 40% improvement in work quality
• 57% decrease in stress
• 39.5% enhancement in communication skills