“I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum potential.” —Bob Nardelli, CEO, Chrysler Company

Chart Your Course

According to a study by the Center of Creative Leadership, managing change and business complexity was found to be the number one issue facing business leaders. Executives need to:

Make good decisions fast.
Anticipate rather than react to change.
Focus on opportunities rather than problems.
Focus on being strategic while balancing the tactical aspect of the role.
Prioritize and focus on what is important, delegating secondary tasks to others to develop expertise while achieving their objectives.
Plan for career transitions into and out of the organization.
Develop leaders within the company to fill openings as more mature leaders move up or out of the organization.

What is coaching?

Coaching is a collaborative partnership between a coach and a willing individual that is a generative, ever-evolving relationship that facilitates positive change. The coach’s focus is on connecting with the client in a way that provides an environment of motivation and inspiration, where the client can be totally authentic without concern.

Maintaining a Competitive Edge

Buried in everyone’s brain is untapped potential. The wisdom, abilities, and competencies yet untapped which when discovered can lead to a new level of performance and achievement. To maintain peak performance and a winning edge, athletes such as Tiger Woods hire a coach to rethink strategy, hone skills and finesse talent. They focus on further developing their untapped potential, rethinking how to use their strengths more effectively and build new habits to achieve their desired results—winning. They know what they do well but they also look at their failures—not to criticize their performance—but to learn what they can do better or differently. It gives them a competitive advantage.

Business Leaders need that competitive edge as well because like athletes they are constantly striving to reach higher levels of performance to achieve greater results. In today’s volatile economy, they are facing challenges not seen before. Strategies that worked before don’t necessarily work today, and changing times require a fresh perspective to solve problems and inspire creative thinking. The ultimate question is: Are they using what they already have effectively.
It’s all about how our brains work.

How the Brain Thinks

Change is not our enemy. It just feels like it. Change and complexity is the number one issue leaders are faced with today. (See Chart Your Course above). Technology, business models and the environment we work and live in are always changing. Without change, civilization as we know it would stagnate. Unfortunately, when change occurs as fast as today, we simply can't keep up. The faster and more complex life is, the harder it is to arrive at the new insights needed to handle these new challenges.

The reason for this rests in how our brains process information-how we think. Our conscious mind (working memory) can only hold about seven ideas at one time whereas the unconscious mind (long term memory) can hold millions of ideas. The brain, being highly efficient, tries to hardwire everything we experience into long term memory, and these hardwired maps comprise the mental model of the world we expect to see rather than what we need to see.

Why would I benefit from coaching?

These filters are efficient but not necessarily effective. Your patterns of thinking and behaving are such a part of what you do, when things change, you don’t…or at least not as quickly and capably as you’d like. Our work habits, our “thinking cap” habits, were developed over many years and have made us successful. You may continue to do what you’ve always done, only to find that in today’s dynamic business environment, it no longer works. Your brain needs to make new connections leading to new insights, and develop and utilize your abilities, skills, and strengths more fully—those you are aware of currently and those yet to be discovered.

Change is reflected in almost every dilemma you face from how to prioritize effectively, to delegating and developing leaders, to engaging teams, to growing business profits. It is essential for you to see past those filters and expand your thinking to achieve the personal and business success you want. A coach whose agenda is solely holding your objectives and best interests in focus in a totally confidential, safe environment is critical.

“When I recall our series of sessions, I am continually amazed at two things – 1. How quickly she was able to get me to trust her and 2. How quickly she was able to assess me and know who I am at my core.” —Former client

Why would I hire Executive Potential Plus?

Your success thus far has been dependent on the world view you have. It is only a small part of what is possible because your world view is limited by your experiences and memories.

Chris’ mission is to help you tap into your unused potential, expand your thinking and energy, allowing you to move from good to great while experiencing amazing results in your business and personal life.

Some areas we will explore:

How do others perceive your effectiveness in the specific areas you want to master?
What are your distinctive strengths?
Are you using your strengths powerfully or are you under utilizing them?
What are you over-doing that may be inhibiting your success?
How will you know you have reached your goals? What will be different?

Executive Potential Plus, works with executives, managers, and business leaders using a scientifically based, process-focused, results-driven methodology to help you chip away at complex change, creating new habits of thinking and doing, developing those areas that bring you personal and business success with measurable results.

Check out Chasing the Elephant from the Room for Chris’ response to four common mistakes people make.

As a former client said “Chris is willing to walk through the dark side of change and challenges me so I come out on the other side as a stronger, more enlightened, successful individual.”

What is my next step?

If you are ready to move forward, contact Executive Potential Plus today for a free, no-obligation, introductory coaching session to let you experience, first-hand, how coaching can help you make changes more easily and quickly in order to achieve the results you want.

Is Coaching for You?

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