"This is my first experience working with an executive coach and it has far exceeded my expectations. Not only has Jerome helped me to understand my strengths and areas for improvement from a professional perspective...his insight and advice has helped me with my personal life as well. His approach and demeanor are amazing. I am confident that I am a better leader than before I started working with Jerome."
- AT&T Vice President
Executive Coaching is a one-on-one leadership advisory service, enabling decision-makers to obtain high-quality, confidential support in addressing critical challenges.
Advice is plentiful, but good advice is not easy to come by these days. Internal politics, contention for scarce resources, hidden agendas and egos all stand in the way. But when the workshops, executive forums, packaged solutions, mind-mapping sessions and task forces simply won't cut it anymore, Executive Coaching can help you improve performance and make better decisions by:
-Enlisting the outlook of an unbiased outsider with experience in resolving strategic business issues - Re-focusing your energy to examine alternative ways of viewing problems/opportunities - Providing a confidential sounding board, to assist you in exploring critical concerns, strengths, weaknesses, and their implications - Serving as a catalyst for innovation by challenging paradigms and assumptions, then stimulating you to think outside the box Recent Coaching Clients - A COO adjusting to overseas relocation and promotion to head of a country unit - A team of industry-leading telecomm executives struggling to stabilize a new merger while experiencing a sharp decline in customer satisfaction - An accomplished attorney considering a major career change - A high-ranking foreign diplomat balancing re-assignment overseas, excessive travel, a teenage daughter and a hostile circle of "colleagues" betting on her failure - A community leader struggling to focus while multi-tasking at work and at home - A hi-tech product manager facing an aggressive product delivery schedule and the arrival of new team members - The CEO of a hardware company emerging from financial disaster, now trying to re-build the firm and upgrade his leadership skills - A world-renowned scientist attempting to enhance her organizational leadership skills without compromising scientific proficiency - A mid-career broadcast TV executive wondering whether it's time to seek greener pastures elsewhere or fight to rehabilitate a deteriorating work environment
Coaching Outlook Anyone can listen to your challenges, but the experience base of your coach will influence the way in which he or she hears, understands and guides you through those challenges. A good executive coach knows what it feels like to be under fire, yet is not restricted by tactical short-sightedness.
The foundation of our coaching outlook is decades of bottom-line experience with global industry leaders. This experience, combined with extensive formal education and the principles of sound coaching, enables us to provide Executive Coaching with a uniquely attuned ear and sensitivity to your issues.
Why Would I Consider Working with an Executive Coach?
Leaders who have reached an impasse or major obstacle in terms of performance, or who face a strategic challenge, utilize coaching to re-ignite their problem-solving momentum. Others simply seek to recruit a fresh perspective.
Some of the challenges faced by our clients have included:
- Unrealized performance potential - Peer relationship issues - Managing a major change in strategy or direction - Creating a better work/family balance - A decline in employee morale or motive - Career transition ie- transfer or re-assignment - Salvaging a "difficult" employee - Managing priorities better - Merger/Acquisition/Reorganization trauma - "Unexplained" performance decline
How Executive Coaching Works
Executive Coaching entails an ongoing dialogue between client and coach, focusing on no more than 2-3 central opportunities or challenges. The coach/client relationship is defined around a specific set of objectives.
Stage One: Assessment - includes a review of the background, context, current status and long-term implications of the key challenges. This process, aimed at reaching a clear definition of the opportunity, enlists a variety of tools, including 360-Degree assessment, communication/leadership skills assessment, self-assessment and structured interviews with others who interact with the client.
Stage Two: Objective Setting - Client and coach review the results of the assessment process to define overall objectives and desired outcomes.Measurement criteria, as well as expectations and responsibilities of both parties, are jointly defined and agreed upon.
Stage Three: Ongoing Sessions - The process begins with joint commitment to a series of coaching sessions, usually lasting from 1 hour to 1/2 day, depending on client need. Throughout the process, direct observation of the client in action, at key meetings, for example, will be scheduled so as to provide the coach with direct observation of pertinent behavior.
Jewell Consulting Group Washington, DC, USA 202-248-8208
