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Star Performers Need
Top Coaches
No one would consider
not pairing a top athlete with a winning coach. The best
athletes command huge salaries over the multiple years of
their contracts because they win games and championships.
Successful executives command top salaries
because organizations excel when--and only when--they have the
right leadership.
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Executives Really Need Coaching?
So why is it that top stars in
every sport have regular workouts and practice with a coach every day, but top
executives believe they can do it on their own? Corporate
executives command high salaries, and in most
cases the investment of the organization is justified.
Yet executives often end up isolated and alone at the top, with
their only feedback coming from within the organization--from
people who basically share an insider's perspective.
This can be disastrous in a day when relationships with employees, board
members, customers,
global partners, investors and regulators are as
complex as an ambassadorship to a large country.
More and more
organizations are turning to executive coaches to fill this
void.
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How Do You Find a Top Executive
Coach?
The Delta
Associates has developed a methodology to work with executives
that enables them to achieve their goals. Carol Kallendorf,
Ph.D., and Jack Speer are experienced senior executives who
understand the corporate and organization world at every level.
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Here's How the Program
Works
We Provide Tools.
We begin with assessments such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the
FIR0-B, and the CPI 260 which provide the senior executive with advanced
tools for leadership. These assessments show the executive how they
communicate--and miscommunicate, the strengths and blind spots of their
leadership style, how they interact with others and how they are likely
to impact the people around them.
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We Develop Information. We enable
the senior executive to tap into his or her most important
source for development, the colleagues and constituents who work
with him or her every day. We do that by interviewing the
people who are in the best position to have valuable insights
into the executive's strengths and challenges.
We Identify Themes and Issues.
Usually as we visit with the executive's colleagues, we
"connect the dots" and themes and issues emerge that form the
core of the executive coaching sessions. These are behaviors
and actions that have had winning results and others that have
had negative effects.
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We Discover the Executive's Peak
Performance Patterns. Senior executives are creative
leaders that have behaviors that have allowed them to achieve.
We identify what those success factors are and try to integrate
them into the executive's habits.
We Develop Winning Messages and
Strategies. One of the fundamental roles of the senior
executive is to create the vision and the strategy for the
organization and to keep that vision and strategy alive and
moving forward. We work the executive in creating and
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If you would like to
discuss how executive coaching could help your organization, please
call Carol Kallendorf, Ph.D. or Jack Speer at 512-498-9780 or email
jspeer@delta-associates.com.
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Carol
Kallendorf,
Ph.D.
Many men and
women in organizations have extraordinary talents and track records and
are about to get fired.
A set of
behaviors often unseen by themselves causes reactions so negative that
they jeopardize their organizations and careers.
Several years
ago I knew a young engineer who was in middle management in a
manufacturing plant. He had the looks of a movie star and the
physique of a bodybuilder. He was earnest and hardworking beyond
belief.
And he was
failing.
I talked to
him one day when he was at the point of tears. "I've given my life
for this plant, and people don't trust me and I don't understand why,"
he told me.
"It's really
simple, Joe," I told him.
"When you walk through the plant you don't see anyone--you don't look
to the right or to the left. You do it because you are so focused.
But you make people think you don't think they're important. So
they don't like you, they don't trust you and they'd like to see you
gone."
Joe learned to make eye contact as he went about his job, and the rest
is history. He ended up with a great position at the global level
of the corporation.
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The Delta Associates
1704 Briar Street
Austin, Texas 78704
Voice, 512-498-9780
Email, jspeer@delta-associates.com
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