Executive Mentoring
What is Executive Mentoring ?
"Mentoring is unlocking a person's potential to maximise their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them."
Working with a Coach/Mentor gives you an opportunity to focus on strategic issues specific to you into the medium and long term.
Topics can range from a self-perception assessment and business diagnostic through to developing ongoing career and personal goals, with appropriate strategies and plans including 'self marketing'.
What makes Executive Mentoring work?
Expertise. The Mentor has knowledge, skills and experience, which makes all the difference. Working together, we can increase your effectiveness in
- making productive decisions;
- setting goals that are both far-reaching and manageable;
- cultivating your willingness to go beyond the 'comfort zone' in accomplishing these goals.
After we have clearly identified where you want to be, we then closely collaborate to keep you on track to achieve your goals.
What makes Executive Mentoring work?
Expertise. The Mentor has knowledge, skills, and experience, which makes all the difference. We can increase your effectiveness in...
- making productive decisions
- setting goals that are both far-reaching and manageable
- cultivating your willingness to go beyond the "comfort zone" in accomplishing these goals.
Quite often in today's fast paced world an external sounding board…a business peer…someone to talk to when the going gets tough, can be an invaluable aid. That’s where the Executive Mentor comes in.
With access to a resource outside your organisation, you can reach optimal growth and a true understanding of your capabilities and potential. We can define your direction with a road map and enhance your personal and professional leadership skills. And then work with you until you get to where you choose to be - and beyond.
Benefits For Your Organisation
- improvement in performance, profits and people development
- ability to see the vision and be part of it to achieve results
- re-energizing as catalyst for action
- retention of the right people
- a well led, happier and more effective team
- succession planning
- helping people to move on and developing new leaders
- growing leaders - growing business
- opportunity to test out and explore ideas before committing within the organisation
- ability to compete collectively - learning faster than competitors
- cost effective outsourcing of a critical business need
- productive work environments
Benefits For the Reporting Team
- clarity of direction
- effectiveness / productivity
- role models
- transferable tools and techniques
- relevant training programs
- improved service delivery
- confidence and openness
Success in business requires active governance, effective leadership and management, as well as optimisation of individual performances within a framework of shared vision and values.
Ensuring that organisational culture is as distinctive and consistent as a suite of well-designed stationery is a challenge most companies have yet to conquer.
Some would say it is the greatest mistake of all to do nothing – because you can only do little. But first you must know to which direction you are headed, so you can catch the right wind to get you there.
choice - however without a plan, are we not just tourists?
When seeking a new position or a change to your present position, you must have an edge over the competition. A Career Mentor & Coach acting as your partner may assist with those challenges –
Consider the value of this relationship assisting you to develop your knowledge and skill sets, clarifying ‘career critical’ decisions and ensuring you keep on track to achieve your goals and reach the target outcome.
If you are an upwardly focused manager who is serious about progressing in your career, you deserve the advantages of career planning and management - tailored to your own situation and needs.
First, you begin to strengthen your focus. You will acquire a clearer view of where you want to head into the future, which will put you in the position you deserve.
But this is only the start. You will also discover how to market yourself successfully with a competitive edge that will
- Maximise your interview strike rate, internally and externally
- Enable you to perform in the interview process
- Effectively access the so-called "hidden market" of professional positions
We will work together until targeted outcomes are achieved. Mentoring with you one-on-one, tackling key issues and keeping you on track to achieve your goals.
Coaching and Mentoring – guidance can include;
- Work/Life balance
- Self/Team Assessment
- Ongoing strategy development and review/action plans
- Presentation Skills
Some would say it is the greatest mistake of all to do nothing – because you can only do little. But first, you must know to which harbour you are headed, so you can catch the right wind to get you there.
Coaching utilising EQi with the “Quantum Key”
The "Quantum Key" process is extremely varied within the coaching model and draws on many years of highly successful profile and communication strategies and may also incorporate Meta Programs, DISC Analysis, Bar-On EQi, Myers Briggs Type Indicator® and NLP (neuro linguistic programming).
Leadership Development
On the way up……
As globalisation and e-commerce create significant change for business, enterprise survival is becoming a national obsession. Organisations want the best - and often ruthlessly dismiss those who do not make the grade.
The ability to adapt to change, empower staff and be global in outlook are just a few of the attributes required of executives and managers in the new millennium.
Success in business requires active governance, effective leadership and management, as well as optimisation of individual performances within a framework of shared vision and values.
Ensuring that organisational culture is as distinctive and consistent as a suite of well-designed stationery is a challenge most companies have yet to conquer.
The skills of a Mentor/Coach will help you with all aspects of Organisational and Leadership Development – from knowing how to empower individuals to achieve their best through to succession planning, recruitment, promotion and career re-direction advice.
Do you have what it takes?
Success in business requires active governance, effective leadership and management, as well as optimisation of individual performances within a framework of shared vision and values.
Ensuring that organisational culture is as distinctive and consistent as a suite of well-designed stationery is a challenge most companies have yet to conquer.
We have a talented pool of advisers with solid experience in all facets of business. As former business leaders and senior executives, we have done the hard yards and lived to tell the tale!
With your Executive Mentor, you will be guided to get to where you want to be. You will:
- gain an understanding of how to take full advantage of the strengths of the individuals within your organisation
- learn valuable insights into managing an organisation in a single-minded and highly focused way that can achieve significant output synergies. Learn how the functioning of an entity as a whole is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
- enhance your skills, knowledge and experience in how to continuously provide improved service to clientsleading to increased benefits for staff and management.
- further enhance your understanding of how to develop a work culture and identity, while encouraging and benefiting from the strengths of the individuals within.
If you want to be a true leader – firstly lead yourself.
An external sounding board…a business peer…someone to talk to when the going gets tough can be of great value.
With access to a resource outside your organisation, you can reach optimal growth and a true understanding of your capabilities and potential. We can define your direction with a road map and enhance your personal and professional leadership skills.
Executive Mentoring supports you to develop and hone the skills you need and gives you the confidence to take on bigger challenges and greater responsibility.
Mentoring is about self-discovery and unleashing as yet unrealised potential. We work with you to establish specific personal and professional outcomes that are aligned with your deepest values and purpose - outcomes that stretch you to realise your potential. We can help you
- uncover your leadership skills
- stay connected to your vision so you can easily walk the path to success - in leadership, in your business, in your community, personally and professionally
- achieve team synergy
- discover and understand "Emotional Intelligence"
- manage cultural/organisational/workplace diversity
- develop a range of effective communication/presentation styles and strategies
- develop long-term career and personal goals for work/life balance
- identify stress factors and develop appropriate stress management strategies
- identify a range of ongoing professional/personal development options
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