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In
this issue:
Autry
To Speak at Corporate Coaching 2000
Butch
Farley
Moving
Corporations to the Cutting Edge
Susan Corbett,
p. 2
Are
You Driven by Unexamined Values?
Mike Duckett, p. 2
Corporate
Coaching at Cisco
Dottie DeSelle,
p. 3
Today's Technology... Today
Butch
Farley, p. 3
Related
Links:
The
Top 10 Questions To Ask About The Culture of a Corporation
Business
Top Ten Ways to Empower Your Employees
Calendar
of Events...
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March 13-17, 2000
Corporate
Coaching 2000 Conference, Toronto, Canada - for coaches
and organizations interested in corporate coaching. For details or to
register visit www.coachulive.com
June 14-17, 2000 Coaching
2000 2nd Annual Coach U Training Symposium, Atlanta, GA. Details available
soon on www.coachulive.com
December 20 - 24, 1999, Fortune Magazine highlights 8 pages on
Corporate Coaching in America. See how Fortune 500 companies are adopting
coaching skills. Interested in learning more about Corporate Coaching
and Coaching? Visit www.ccui.com and www.coachu.com.
Important
Dates!
December
31st, 1999
CCUI (Corporate Coaching U International), price increase goes
into effect. Price goes from $1,795 to $2,495. If you have questions about
registering call 1-888-391-2740, visit www.ccui.com
for additional details.
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Corporate
Coaches -
Moving Corporations to the Cutting Edge
Susan Corbett
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It
is not news that the corporate environment is very different than
it was ten years ago. Increased global competition, mergers, acquisitions
and buy-outs are driving the economy. The information age is placing
demands on companies and people to move faster, and leverage more.
Changing government regulations are changing the way entire industries
do business. In the midst of this chaos, managers are expected to
get more results, from fewer people, in less time. This can represent
a daunting challenge.
Smart leaders recognize that they need to grow and develop their
people more than ever before. Companies are finding that corporate
coaches deliver tremendous results for leaders and managers committed
to growing and retaining their people. Services corporate coaches
provide include: executive and performance coaching, culture shaping,
manager-as-coach training, communication and relationship skill
building, and employee assessment.
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Insightful managers and CEOs are investing in corporate coaching
to position their organizations on the leading edge of business
innovation. They are training internal coaches and integrating coaching
with Human Resource Departments and leadership development programs.
Corporate coaching is a powerful tool companies are using to attract
the best people in their industry, giving them the edge they need
to stay on top.
Susan Corbett
is a business and corporate coach who coaches owners, managers and
Fortune 1000 executives to have fulfilling, balanced, and successful
lives. Using principles of coaching, she is working toward making
the workplace a fun and "humanized" place to be. Susan is also the
VP of Business Development for Corporate Coaches, Inc., the premier
provider of coaching and coaching services.
You can e-mail Susan at susan@coachcorbett.com
or visit www.coachcorbett.com.
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Are
You Driven by Unexamined Values?
Mike Duckett
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John
was initially skeptical about coaching. Having become Managing Director
of a nationwide building company by age 34, he thought, "who needs
it?"
At his wife's suggestion he agreed to meet me one Saturday afternoon
in a pub for a drink. We quickly established rapport once he realized
we spoke the same language: market growth, revenue and profit targets,
price/earnings ratios, etc. Then we got to the real stuff -- his
battle with the new group CEO (son of the company owner).
While working together, a big breakthrough came when John realized
he could let go of his desire to control the CEO's behavior and
exercise choice about his own responses to that behavior.
John quickly decided he was willing to flex his behavior but only
so far. On examining his values he uncovered three key issues he
wished to remedy:
- Family
- he was missing his daughter growing up and not sharing in his
wife's success.
- Friends
- he was missing the team sports and wasn't relaxed around friends.
- Company
culture - its values conflicted with many of his own (particularly
his desire to support his people's personal development needs).
He now had the
basis for sound decision-making and chose to resign. But to do so
required that he overcome two hurdles: |
money and status.
Where could he match his current earnings and how could he handle
people's perceptions of him without the £60,000 Jaguar?
We unpacked
these issues to expose his real values. Regarding his family for example,
I asked, "If I were selling families, how much would you pay for one!"
He quickly recognized that his striving to maintain status was threatening
the choices he really wanted to make.
Now clear about his values and motives, John resigned and immediately
attracted calls from building companies that heard he was available.
One was the company he started his career with 15 years earlier, a
smaller operation based in a picturesque Oxfordshire village. The
CEO was delighted to offer him more than his old salary.
John now walks his daughter to the village school each morning, his
friends are enjoying his sense of humor again and his wife tells me
she just loves having him back.
Mike Duckett
is a partner at Coaching for Success Ltd. in the U.K. He has 23 years
sales and marketing experience at the senior management level. This
allows him to quickly empathize with career pressures and aspirations
whilst having the expertise to stimulate individuals to break through
their own glass ceilings.
You can e-mail Mike Duckett at Coaching.for.Success
@usa.net
or visit coachingforsuccess.co.uk
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