Executive Coaching and Training

It all starts with Foundational Leadership

We provide individualized executive coaching and training to enhance leadership and communication skills. Engaging, informative, and tactical professional development programs tailored to your team.

 

Coaching and Training Options

All organizations and their leaders experience different challenges. If you aren’t sure what kind of executive coaching and training your leaders need, schedule a call to explore options and confidently start in the right direction.

1-1 Leadership Coaching

Elevate your leadership! The right training and support are vital for even the top performers to succeed in leadership positions. Equip your organization leaders with a strong foundation of communication skills, emotional intelligence, and business ingenuity.

Team Training & Workshops

The ability to bring out the best in people elevates a manager from being simply effective to truly exceptional. With a strong understanding of how leadership behavior is a catalyst to team performance, your managers will build trusting relationships and elevate organizational success.

Common Topics and Curriculum

· Leadership Essentials
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Leadership Essentials

Amazing leaders have a well-developed foundation of Communication, Empathy, and Emotional Intelligence. This program focuses on strengthening core leadership essentials so managers can confidently step into their roles as a catalyst for business success.

 

Outcomes:
  • Understand how leadership behavior impacts team performance
  • Define your own style of leadership and clarify value alignment
  • Develop and apply effective approaches to forming trusting, productive relationships with teams and individuals

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· Performance Planning & Management
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Performance Planning & Management

To achieve business objectives, developing a clear, effective performance management process is essential. When company goals are apparent and clarified, employees feel appreciated and heard, leading to higher productivity. It all starts with forming a process for concise, effective performance tracking and goal setting.

 

Outcomes:
  • Learn how to institute a process for having effective performance-tracking conversations
  • Review and refine strategies for goal-setting and measuring success
  • Create a process that stimulates personal development for employees and creates a continuous improvement for the organization 

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· Attract & Retain Talent
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Attract & Retain Top Talent

A well-planned and executed process for hiring strengthens the chances of hiring right the first time. By defining organization needs and opportunities leaders are able to make more calculated and confident hiring decisions. When organizations design an employment brand that provides fulfilling work and performance incentives, they are then able to cultivate collective objective success.

 

Outcomes:
  • Define core leadership actions for creating a workplace environment that retains top performers
  • Understand how to apply current and future business needs to hiring strategies and processes
  • Develop strategies for defining the critical skills, values behaviors, and results required for a position 

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· Workplace Respect
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Workplace Respect

Create a culture where all people, regardless of preferences or background, feel respected and valued. To do this, it starts with celebrating diversity and encouraging employee recognition at all levels.

 

Outcomes:
  • Gain the practical skills to define what desired workplace behavior looks like
  • Understand the legal and company expectations and standards for workplace behavior
  • Develop strategies to prevent workplace discrimination, harassment, and retaliation
  • Create a workplace environment that promotes accountability

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· Conflict Resolution for Productive Collaboration
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Conflict Resolution for Productive Collaboration

Conflict is natural and healthy, while unproductive conflict weighs on productivity, profitability, and culture. Learn to stimulate healthy conflict by building collaborative relationships and leveraging these opportunities to strengthen connection and innovation.

 

Outcomes:
  • Understand the lost opportunities of avoiding conflict altogether
  • Develop techniques for revealing the root of conflict, expectations, and needs
  • Refine leadership strategies for facilitating productive conversations and resolutions to focus on shared objectives 

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· Influential Leadership
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Influential Leadership

When managers lead with influence, employees come to work more inspired, engaged, and productive. By modeling ideal workplace behavior and setting clear goals and expectations, leaders serve as catalysts for productivity and employee accountability. Influential leaders inspire and invigorate their teams, supporting personal development and achieving collective objectives.

 

Outcomes:
  • Learn effective strategies for facilitating employee empowerment, productivity, and accountability
  • Reduce unproductive conflict by stimulating an environment of collaboration and effective teamwork
  • Create respectful, effective relationships to strengthen influence with others 

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· Coaching & Feedback
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Coaching & Feedback

When feedback is seen as a vital function of business success, leaders and employees are able to deliver and receive feedback without fear or hesitation. As a result, a culture that fosters innovation, productivity, and accountability is created.

 

Outcomes:
  • Learn and apply strategies for communicating effective feedback fearlessly
  • Understand common communication pitfalls when having feedback conversations and how to avoid them
  • Refine personal leadership values to enhance relationships and trust within teams and departments

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· Lead with Social & Emotional Intelligence
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Lead with Social & Emotional Intelligence

Sometimes referred to as EI or EQ, the topic of Social and Emotional Intelligence is becoming more popular among business leaders. It encompasses many skill areas, including effective conflict management, adapting to change, resilience, building trust, and more. When SE&I is seen as a primary function of leadership, productivity and profits grow, while turnover falls.

 

Outcomes:
  • Develop effective strategies for employing S&EI concepts to strengthen workplace relationships and communication practices
  • Refine personal leadership methods to create applicable strategies to improve effectiveness
  • Understand the contribution of SE&I efforts and organizational objectives and values 

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· HR Basics for Executives
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HR Basics for Executives

Strengthen leadership, communication, and collaboration by understanding and defining how organization leaders can create a fair and positive workplace environment. By understanding current laws and applications, managers help employees to feel respected and strengthen morale.

 

Outcomes:
  • Develop core knowledge and implementation strategies of compliance and organization protection
  • Create a process for responding to employee complaints, documenting employment actions, and managing attendance and accommodations
  • Learn the foundations of confidently and proactively managing employee-issues and workplace respect 

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For educational events, seminars, and conferences, check out our Keynote Programs and Workshops. We also offer Custom HR packages for organizations looking for an in-depth solution.

1-1 Leadership Coaching

Equip organization leaders with the tools needed to excel in leadership roles. We offer comprehensive professional development coaching to provide emerging leaders and executives with the skills necessary to create foundational leadership.

Even top performers require training and support to succeed in leadership positions. Provide your organization leaders with an everlasting understanding of how to leverage their roles to improve employee performance and productivity while elevating company culture.

Team Training and Workshops

To truly be an effective leader, skills must be practiced and reinforced. Team training and workshops are an opportunity to transform employees into effective leaders and address prominent weaknesses preventing growth.

These custom, interactive sessions can take place on-site or virtually and are adapted to your team’s needs and organizational objectives. Leverage these workshops as a way to transform emerging leaders into effective growth drivers, collaboratively build toward collective targets, and enhance employee loyalty.

How it Works:

1. Assessment

From our prior experience in HR, it became apparent that the typical industry approach to executive coaching disregarded the long-term goals and unique needs of individual companies too often.

Share your experiences and ideas with us, and we’ll determine how to overcome the challenges you describe effectively and responsibly.

2. Implementation

Next, we’ll develop actionable steps to eliminate your HR challenges by employing effective HR systems and processes. 

Develop a strong foundation of HR practices that facilitates employee productivity, stimulates a culture of accountability, and empowers your people to perform at their very best. 

3. Execution 

Then, with a plan in place, you can focus on driving business growth while your people experience the positive impacts of being a priority. 

Provide your organization with the confidence, environment, and skills necessary to adapt with change and maintain resilience while pursuing collective objectives and personal development opportunities. 

Testimonials from Real People

Chris is the most effective HR professional I have worked with in my career.

As a result of the HR structure Chris developed, over 50% of the Manufacturing team have earned new roles and are now more inspired than ever to help make Lumencor more successful. His impact has not only affected my department, but he has also orchestrated positive and lasting changes throughout the organization.

Chris is a pleasure to work with and an outstanding Director of HR.

Ron Hughes

Director of Manufacturing, Lumencore, Inc.

I had the privilege of working with Chris and greatly respect his knowledge, opinion, and advice. Chris is very invested in doing the right thing and consistently works with a high level of integrity. He truly “walks the walk” when it comes to trust and accountability.

Chris is an HR Manager with strong business and strategic insight that you can count on to manage change and build a healthy company culture.

Melanie F.

Sr Talent Acquisition Manager, ConnectedWell Talent & Recruitment Advisors

While HR can quickly become overwhelming, it is also an area that serves every sector of business operations. Your people are your strongest leverage point and by supporting them you will in turn be supporting the organization.