Executive and Business Coaching

By working with a coach, an executive can provide stellar performance, taking their company to new levels of success, and aid business owners in developing a strong business and marketing plan that focuses on the growth and/or sustainability of the business. Other areas to focus on include:

• Service excellence
• Sales management
• High productivity
• Empowered leadership
• Staff management
• Planning and strategies
• High profits
• CEO personal balance

Executive Coaching

We all need someone to talk to. Most executives usually don't have that outlet. It's lonely at the top. Your work load and responsibilities just keep mounting, and they don't leave you enough time or energy to guide the company the way you'd like. You're spending more time putting out fires than making forward-thinking decisions. You know that cultivating your leadership skills is vital, but there always seem to be bigger priorities. You're performing your job effectively, but you're just not growing. You realize you're surrounded by people who have their best interest in mind - board members, accountants, shareholders, family, and employees - but no one is looking out for you. Wouldn't it be nice to have someone to turn to, someone you can talk to when you need to kick around ideas, hash things out, or problem-solve?

Executive coaching is the answer. By forming a one-on-one relationship with a coach, you can get the independent, objective, and fresh outlook and guidance you need. Tap into our years of experience - practical, hands-on, operating experience that will give you the extra guidance and support you need to help you through a difficult business or personal phase. We have a proven track record with references to back it up.

Benefits of Executive Coaching

Increase your value to yourself and your organization, to walk the talk (and deal with those who don't), deal with difficult people and situations, have a sounding board, strategize your personal development, develop a reserve of time, energy and money, to experience fulfillment and success, and much more.

When Business Coaching Helps

There are a number situations that executives and business owners might find themselves In which a coaching relationship may be the difference between success and failure. They include:

• Organizations going through unexpected growth due to economic or marketplace changes
• Companies faced with extended revenue shortfalls that need to make adjustments to short-term objectives to stay in business
• Business owners who are contemplating a change in products and services, evaluating their company's existing place in the market, and determining how they would like their company to be regarded by the industry in the next five years
• Business owners who are trying to balance home-based or privately-owned businesses with their personal life

Executives and business owners seeking to enhance team communication and productivity

Organizations that want to create a strong long-term plan for growth, development, and the ability to change rapidly to cope with market conditions.

Benefits of Business Coaching

By examining and increasing profit streams, positive cash flow, and improving sales efforts you get to work on your business rather than in it.

By going deep to answer questions that are basic and vital to the health and strength of your business, your results will be stronger and more rapid.

Through evaluating procedures to determine whether they are efficient and productive, you reduce wasted or duplicated efforts, improve workflow patterns, and make the most of your employees' talents and time.

By creating systems and structures to shorten long and minimally productive meetings, prevent missed appointments, and review goal setting and time management strategies, your targets are accomplished in shorter time frames with less frustration for all involved.

Through tactical project planning organization, you can ensure projects are handled properly from start to finish through defining goals, delegating responsibility wisely, monitoring progress, and dealing with delays.

By training your staff to control clutter, manage their responsibilities efficiently, and make the most of their time, your company results are boosted, your turnover reduced, and your employee morale strengthened.

How Executive and Business Coaching Works

The coaching format most often uses questions, exercises, and assessment tools to look under the surface of issues to discover the beliefs and motives that govern them. Often, by examining and questioning the underlying beliefs, insights can be drawn that will assist the client in overcoming obstacles to reaching their goals.

Individual coaching sessions are conducted on a one-to-one basis. Every client is a unique and valued person, and is treated with honor, respect, confidentiality, and compassion. Kerul will utilize only those directions, tools, and assessments that fit for that individual, based on their stated objectives, needs, and personalities.

Each coaching appointment is preceded by a Client Weekly Focus prepared by the client and emailed or faxed to Kerul, and interim progress is tracked regularly. In this way, effective and efficient improvement can be ensured.

Generally, coaching appointments are scheduled at regular, agreed upon times once a week for the first three weeks of every month. All appointments are by telephone. The cost for personal coaching depends upon the length and frequency of these coaching sessions.

Currently appointments are set based on the following time intervals:

3 Half-hour appointments per month

3 1-hour appointments per month

2 Half-hour appointments per month

2 1-hour appointments per month

Coaching by phone is remarkably effective. The setting facilitates direct, honest communication without the distractions of face-to-face interaction. Clients find that they are more focused and ready to work in order to use their appointment time most effectively. An incredible amount of progress can be made in a short period of time if clients are dedicated to their goals.

So that we can create a trusting environment, a personal coach does require certain elements to be present in the client-coach relationship:

The whole story. In order for you to get the maximum benefit from our relationship it is important you tell me the whole situation, not just part of it. I can't help you unless I can fully understand your situation or scenario.

Accountability. Because you are in this process to reach personal goals, you must be thoroughly committed to the process. My goal is not to fight or nag, but to hold still hold you accountable in a supportive way.

Forthcomingness. Just as I will continue to ask for shifts and actions that will take you out of your comfort zone, I expect that you will keep me informed if I do anything that doesn't work for you or is that you find offensive or distasteful in any way.

Please email me or call me to set up a complimentary sample coaching session (no obligation, no hard sell, or pressure) to see if we are a fit for each other.

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