Leaders increasingly choose executive coaching as a key asset in their careers. Coaching develops leadership agility and skill within the context of day-to-day work life.

Barbra White Coaching & Consulting custom designs coaching packages for individual leaders and for organizations developing the next generation of leaders. Our coaching helps clients address a wide variety of challenges and achieve real results, such as:

We believe leaders are people who “… know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain their cooperation and support.”

        ~   Warren Bennis, On Becoming a Leader, 1994

A range of leadership and organizational Assessment and Survey Instruments are selectively used to support the discovery process with clients.

We help business teams of all types and sizes, including management, cross-functional and virtual teams, to increase operating effectiveness, develop positive dynamics, and meet business challenges. We contribute to team effectiveness by creating engaging and constructive environments that enable teams to communicate directly and productively. We tailor our approach to the specific requirements of each situation. Our clients include established teams seeking to improve results as well as new teams or team leaders that need to accelerate productive working relationships and processes. We help client teams:

• Define new visions and create strategic plans to achieve them

• Integrate new leaders with existing team members to achieve quick results

• Improve communication and resolve conflict

• Maximize individual styles and contributions to facilitate constructive group processes

• Establish clear operating principles

• Step back, assess new business challenges and plan the appropriate course of action

• Run meetings that ensure full participation, focused problem solving, and results

Strategy and Organizational Alignment with Strategy   

Working with management we craft a strategy creation process that optimizes where the organization is and where it wants to be. The process balances the need for input and dialogue and the need for swift decisions and execution. Our experience working with management teams to facilitate strategy creation combines attention to process, people and content issues needed to create a strong and implementable strategy. 

As the strategy is being created we work with clients to consider success factors for implementation. We consider facilitators of strategy implementation and potential barriers (i.e. systems, structure, processes, people) and how to address them to assure the most effective implementation.

Organizational Alignment to Effectively Achieve the Strategy

Our approach to alignment is to identify the behavior the strategy will require; determine whether the current systems and culture support or hinder this behavior and work with the client to design the approach to change, if needed. For example, if the strategy will require more flexibility and cross-divisional collaboration, we determine whether the structure and systems currently support or hinder this behavior and identify any changes needed. We design ways for the leadership team to practice those behaviors consistently as a team and visibly with their staffs to create a model for the way it can be. Organizational culture is created and reinforced by what leaders pay attention to, model, and reward.

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