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EXECUTIVE COACHING

"As my learning and perception expanded through coaching, I was able to see greater opportunities for my company. My ability to master new leadership competencies and to lead accordingly increased tremendously.
Janice helped me and my team to become even more effective."
VP Quality, General Motors Corporation

If you want to bring about positive changes in your organization, start by changing yourself. Change with the CALNAN GROUP involves learning four simple, but not easy, steps that constitute a plan of action for organizations and their leaders. These steps are:

1. tell the truth,
2. acknowledge what's working,
3. ask for what you want and need,
4. notice positive and tiny changes as they happen.

All change happens as a result of these four steps. Coaching helps you, the leader, master these steps. As a result, you have greater success in your work and your life. As you address your own professional/personal needs; you automatically change how you lead your team – the result is higher functioning and productivity for all. You learn to slow down, notice how your behavior influences others to change (or not) and then move forward in a more purposeful, cost-effective and personally rewarding manner.

Leadership Coaching holds a symbolic mirror for you to see aspects of your thinking and behavior that are otherwise invisible to you. Coaching helps you facilitate change by challenging your own assumptions and beliefs about work and about the people you work with. You change how you communicate and how you act as a leader and in doing so you model the positive traits that you want others to adopt.

Your company grows in direct proportion to the personal and professional growth of its leaders. That may mean you or members of your team. See Return on Investment below for specific benefits.

WITH EXECUTIVE COACHING YOU:

1. ACCESS YOUR STRENGTH!
   
   • Focus on the results you want, not on the problems you have!
   • Stop judging yourself as wrong and start noticing what's working!
   • Examine life/work decisions with a broader and more positive perspective!
   • Access and use your hidden talents and strengths!
   • Build stronger relationships that support your professional growth!
   The benefit - You shift yourself and your team to higher levels of commitment, passion, innovation and success. An increase in profit follows these traits.
   
   
2. BECOME CHALLENGED!
   
   • Identify and let go of beliefs that no longer support you in your work or in your life!
   • Become curious about new ways of thinking!
   • Embrace higher levels of innovation and creativity!
   • Examine and change long-standing organizational beliefs & business practices!
   The benefit - You increase your leadership effectiveness & your team's productivity.
   
   
3. FOCUS ON SUCCESS!
   What you focus on expands; by focusing on positive results you create more and more positive results. The reverse is also true. Your greatest success happens when you, the leader, have the courage to change your language to reflect positive thinking. This alone inspires others to adopt your lead and to improve their leadership behavior. In fact the culture changes to reflect higher productivity, quality, innovation and profit. Everyone benefits. These changes begin with you.
   
   The benefit - You recognize and act on opportunities that you never thought possible.

"Lee has a real knack for asking questions that need answers…skillfully listens, not just to words but what is behind them…knows intuitively what to say or not say next. Lee helped me move through some difficult periods. Navigating change and staying resilient has kept me from feeling overwhelmed and sinking into waves of helplessness with challenging situations. He has helped me be more effective, more balanced and more directed as a businessperson and a human being."
Independent Businesswoman

When your motivation to change is high, Executive Coaching helps you to achieve the following objectives. You can expect to:

1. Define what leadership really means to you.
2. Define goals and first step strategies specific to your learning needs.
3. Decide what constitutes evidence of success for meeting these goals.
4. Develop a stronger understanding of yourself, your skills and your potential.
5. Discover what erodes your confidence and how to turn that around.
6. Begin to expand how you think about leading your team.
7. Use language that reflects your shift in thinking.
8. Expand confidence in yourself as a leader.
9. Take greater risks and learn what stops you.
10. Take on new assignments applicable to your learning needs.
11. Communicate clearly and more authentically.
12. Involve your boss in your changes. This helps you both to grow.
13. Discover and use leadership competencies that you barely knew you had.
14. Identify and deal with difficult conversations.
15. Look at ways to improve work/life balance.
16. Recommit to your company or make plans to move on.
    © CALNAN GROUP – 2006

RETURN ON INVESTMENT (ROI)

Our coaching has served Presidents, Consultants, Vice-Presidents, Managers, Directors, Political Candidates, Labor Leaders, Family Business Owners and other real human beings just like you.

See www.SecretsOfPositiveChange.com for information on Janice Calnan's book SHIFT: Secrets of Positive Change for Organizations and Their Leaders. Use our LeaderSHIFT© Audit, then call us Janice Calnan 613.721.5900 Lee Wallace 613.224.3420 to see where we can be helpful.

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