Successful leadership bridges the gap between what matters to you and what matters to me – what matters to the individual employee and what matters to the organization. It guides people to align their own strengths and values with the goals of the business.
Why? Because this drives engagement. When people are empowered to show up as their true selves, they gain a strong sense of ownership over what they create, and passion to see things through. That drives productivity, creativity and collaborative problem solving.
Corporate and leadership coaching focuses on strengthening your leadership in order to strengthen your organization. This begins with bringing out the very best in your leaders and executives, and coaching them in relationship management and human emotional intelligence, so that they are fully equipped and empowered to bring out the best in their people as well – to recognize and cultivate strengths at all levels, build collaborative relationships and strengthen engagement.
In today’s market, effective leadership is coaching. Command and control is the management style of the past. It’s a style that keeps people (and the companies they work for) locked into status quo. By coaching leaders and executives to take full authorship of their lives, and to then become coaches within your organization, the people they lead are empowered to grow and progress, which means your business has greater power to grow and progress.
But getting to that place starts with dropping the masks and having the courage to be our true selves, as leaders.
Are you struggling with…
Whether you realize it or not, the core is fear.
When people avoid owning up to mistakes, avoid taking risks, shift blame, shy away from new responsibilities, avoid asking for help, struggle to find creative solutions, talk in circles instead of being clear, don’t speak up in meetings… that’s fear!
You may be experiencing it without even recognizing it. This is when you keep your cards close, avoid difficult conversations, prefer to smooth things over rather than dig down to the heart… How is someone going to share their fears, admit mistakes, work on their own growth when they see you hiding?
I will help you get so comfortable being YOU that it will have a domino effect on your team and others around you.
As leaders, our greatest impact is in creating safe spaces for teams to thrive as their best selves.
As a Master Certified Coach, Certified Co-Active Coach, CPCC, CTPC, best-selling author and motivational speaker, Melissa helps executives and high-level leaders get themselves and their teams from good to great, and from great to masterful. She does this by getting to the heart of the issues – working to solve problems at their core, then highlighting and reinforcing the unique strengths and values of the person, so that they can move forward with courage, compassion and confidence.
Empower the natural leader inside everyone and build their confidence to bring it forward in all that they do.
Melissa’s HR, coaching, leadership skills and positivity were invaluable assets to our company. She hired and trained a great team, gave our employees tools to bring out the best of themselves in their work and helped us co-create an engaging culture. She also helped strengthen team relationships and communication. You can have the best product or service in the world, but if you don’t have a strong team behind it, you aren’t going anywhere. Melissa helped us build that strength.
Melissa was invited to Medtronic as a motivational speaker, where she captivated the audience with her dynamic presentation skills and her ability to both engage and influence a room. Her workshop is well thought out and is complimented with a crisp presentation, the combination makes working with Melissa- impactful, educational and most importantly – fun!
As a follow-up to her workshop, Melissa (a certified Co-Active Coach) also worked 1 on 1 with employees to ensure they were clear on how to implement and sustain the tools she introduced in her talk.
As a motivational speaker with a powerful coaching model, Melissa crafts genuine, inspiring and fun presentations and workshops. Her eye-opening keynotes and transformational programs can catalyze change in you and your organization.
VIP Leadership Coaching
Melissa reserves a limited number of spots each year for one-on-one VIP coaching programs. With Melissa as your personal leadership coach, you will break through your barriers, both internal and external, discover your inner leader, core values and unique strengths, and learn how to bring it all forward with courage and confidence. Melissa takes a holistic approach, addressing all areas of your life (career, health & wellness, finance, relationships and more) so that you are truly fulfilled and not held back by struggles in one area spilling over into others.
As you begin to bring out the best in yourself, you will develop greater leadership and coaching skills of your own, empowering you to bring out the best in your people. Through effective relationship-management skills and stronger emotional intelligence, you will become adept at recognizing and cultivating strengths at all levels, building collaborative relationships and strengthening engagement of those around you.
Connect with Melissa to learn more and see her availabilities.
What does leadership coaching include?
While coaching programs and workshops can be customized to your unique needs, organization and goals, most include a great deal of inner work, building an understanding of what truly motivates others, bringing your whole self forward, and of course, building your toolbox of strategies to create a leadership approach that is highly adaptable.
You should expect to learn – through guidance, discussion and practice – how to have difficult conversations, be authentic in how you lead, look out for (and create) mutually beneficial agreements, develop a growth mindset and inspire one in others, and approach people as humans with unique strengths and inner experiences.
You will also get familiar with mental models and BATNAs (best alternative to a negotiated agreement), practice aligning your personal values with organizational values, and understand how to embody those values through your actions and decisions, and get your team to embody them as well.
A core theme of leadership coaching is emotional mastery. This is something you will have the opportunity to develop at every step of the way. When you achieve emotional mastery, you’re able to focus on the impact you want to have vs. the impact you are having, and embrace unconditional responsibility and full self-acceptance.
Why is leadership coaching important?
A company can only go as far as its leaders, so the stronger your leaders become, the further the company can grow.
Coaching is important because a coach keeps you accountable in moving forward and actually taking the steps you need to take. A coach acts as a soundboard when your head is full of different scenarios, priorities and fires that need putting out. They help you move through chaos – internal and external – to bring your best self forward and inspire those around you to do the same.
Through leadership coaching, you will become adept at bringing out the best in others, and develop full self-awareness, enabling you to approach situations and challenges with empathy and objectivity.
Most significantly, you will become empowered to lead with clarity, calm and courage through times of chaos and uncertainty. You lead by example, so it is critical that you set an example you want others to follow. Leadership coaching will help you get there.
What is coaching leadership?
This is a style of leadership that views the leader’s role as that of a coach – someone whose most critical priority is to guide and support those around them to grow from their strengths, and to cultivate teams that work together seamlessly.
Why is coaching important in leadership?
When you embrace coaching as a leadership style, you become adept at critical skills such as conflict management, leading through uncertainty, employee engagement, active listening, mentoring for success, team building and so much more.
With a coaching leadership style, teams and organizations see measurable increases in productivity, retention and fulfillment at work, all of which lead to greater success for the organization overall.
When using coaching as a leadership development tool, one of the core goals is to guide leaders on how to become coaches within their organization.
Why are coaching and mentoring effective leadership techniques?
These techniques honour the human, focus on personal and professional growth, and hold coachees/mentees accountable for putting their strengths into action and creating their own success.
When you coach someone, you allow space for them to be vulnerable so that they can get to the root of their challenges, break down their own roadblocks, and bring their whole selves forward with courage. When this happens within a team or organization, it sets off a domino effect, inspiring others to break out of their comfort zones and embrace their fullest potential.
Be True to You Series
Ready to take your company or group to the next level? Melissa’s holistic approach delivers unconventional and highly impactful workshops, interactive talks and group coaching sessions that help attendees tap into their core truth, their unique talents and strengths, and their leader within so that they can bring it all forward with confidence.
Be True to You Series
Ready to take your company or group to the next level? Melissa’s holistic approach delivers unconventional and highly impactful workshops, interactive talks and group coaching sessions that get attendees in touch with their core truth so that they can discover what they are meant to do on this earth and bring it forward into the world.
CEO of Your Life has been trusted by several top organizations.
Melissa Dawn guides executives and high-level leaders to step into their full power and become the leaders they know they are meant to be. She is a renowned executive & leadership coach, keynote speaker, workshop leader, bestselling author, master practitioner of energy medicine and the founder of CEO of Your Life. Having transitioned from two decades of corporate experience to building her own business, Melissa has a strong understanding of what it means to truly thrive in our professional lives in a way that not only complements our personal lives, but lifts up our full life experience and that of the people around us. As a Master Certified Coach, Melissa takes a holistic, values-led approach to guiding executives and high-level leaders to become agents of positive change by connecting with their inner leaders. Through innovative workshops & coaching programs, Melissa works with individuals, teams and organizations and has helped thousands become the CEOs of their personal and professional lives with confidence, success and joy.
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