Coaching For Leadership:

"Emotional intelligence" has
been the corporate buzz phrase
for a number of years.

Emotional intelligence,
which can actually be learned,
is about many things:

• Being authentic.
  
• Knowing yourself at a deeper level.
  
• Recognizing and dealing effectively with how you think and feel.
  
• Understanding how you are perceived by others and your impact on others.
  
• Showing respect and great empathy for fellow employees.
  
• Having great active listening skills.
  
• Understanding and upholding universal values & walking the talk.

The book, Practice What You Preach by David H. Maister, shows a clear relationship between how you lead and the bottom line of your business. It goes something like this:

1. Quality and client relationships have HUGE and direct causal relationship on financial performance!
   
   
2. The largest single factor that influences Quality & client relationships is Employee Satisfaction.
   
   
3. The three largest factors influencing Employee Satisfaction are empowerment, high standards and coaching!

Coaching skills are emotional intelligence skills! Coaching will not only improve upon your emotional intelligence, it will bring out your full potential to inspire and lead others and bring out the best in them. Coaching will:

• Will help you clarify the vision and values for your team.
  
• Improve your relationships at work.
  
• Improve your productivity and performance.
  
• Improve your decision making.
  
• Help you and your organization move through rapid change.
  
• Realize your goals.
  
• Change lives.
  
• Increase the bottom line of your business dramatically!

Richard Schultz, the founder of WisdomWays has extensive business experience in the area of management, sales, customer account management, and building partnerships and channels. He has familiarity with retail and high-tech business including software, and hardware. However, a coach really doesn't need to know the details of your business because you do. Coaching is not mentoring. It is about asking powerful questions to help you to clarify and take actions on things that you already know. It is about bringing this knowing to the surface and deepening the learning about yourself. It is also about you the taking actions needed in your life and work!

That said, WisdomWays have a number of tools specific to coaching in the corporate environment such as our Leadership Assessment Tool. With a good understanding of the business environment and human resource systems, we can also coach your employees or leaders relative to your processes and measurement systems.

Perhaps you would like to schedule a free "brown bag lunch" coaching session for your employees, which would give them an understanding of how coaching can serve them. It would include a short presentation on coaching and a sample session. You are always welcome to Contact Us for more information or to make arrangements.